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| Displayed name | Kelandon |
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| Title | Off With Their Heads |
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| Registered | Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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| Has Anyone Else Noticed... in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, February 10 2005 12:25
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She's sitting with a bunch of her mage friends, too. :) Given that the HLPM takes place in a sort of "otherworld" out of space and out of time, as Machrone describes, this might just be Erika from before she died or might be some ethereal shade of her after her death. Good eye, though. I was wondering if anyone would notice/care. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Mages in BoA - How do I make them work?! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, February 10 2005 08:47
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Magery apparently does exactly the same thing as Intelligence (the details are in the manual pdf) without increasing your available spell points. It gives you some bonus to your resistances, too. The skill seems far less useful than it was in the Trilogy. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 20:02
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Raise your hand if you think we should rename the RWG forum to "IMBAN." *observes sea of hands* I thought so. EDIT: If for no other reason than that Alorael would have to utter the phrase, "Please stop spamming up IMBAN." [ Wednesday, February 09, 2005 20:03: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 20:01
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I'm pretty sure he's not working on BoA at all right now, though. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Calling all Scenarios in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 16:12
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The download sites for those scenarios are listed on my site, specifically in the Players' FAQ. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 16:12
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The download sites for those scenarios are listed on my site, specifically in the Players' FAQ. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 15:49
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YES. In other news, a work to remake the BoA Scenario Editor is underway. The new editor will be user-friendly and have much better code than the old one. That, at least, is being done. I hope to write some more tutorials, too, and we can work on the Wiki to help fix the documentation. All of this can be (and is being) done. Which reminds me that the developers of the new editor wanted me to do something. I should go do that now, just as soon as I figure out what it was. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 15:46
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Nethergate is quite good. I've been toying with the idea of a Blades of Avernum-Nethergate crossover — since you can make scenarios that would look a lot like Nethergate using BoA — but I never really had any idea how such a thing would work. Maybe someday far down the line. Anyway, Nethergate is worth your money to buy. It's one of the community favorites, even though it didn't sell as well as the others. And, er, welcome. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 15:34
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I know that he doesn't check these boards often lately, so I think I'll wait a little while before pushing farther than I have already. I think I shall perhaps send him a message alerting him to the existence of this thread, however. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Response to Community Suggestion List in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 15:24
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I do think this is kind of sad, though: several months ago, I made a scenario to demonstrate bugs that I had discovered in BoA. I tested it with v1.1 (or possibly v1.0, don't remember) of BoA, and everything checked out: all things malfunctioned just as I described in the in-game pop-up menus and in the in-script commentary. I sent this scenario to Jeff with a list of bugs. He then released v1.1.1 some time after that. I tested this scenario recently with v1.1.1, and everything still malfunctions just as before. I admit that the bugs that I found were minor, but I followed all possible proper procedure, and he ignored them on the subsequent patch. I also find it a bit annoying that he didn't tell us which bugs he thought he fixed for v1.1.1 that we reported from v1.1.0. Now we have to go back and check everything. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 15:24
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I do think this is kind of sad, though: several months ago, I made a scenario to demonstrate bugs that I had discovered in BoA. I tested it with v1.1 (or possibly v1.0, don't remember) of BoA, and everything checked out: all things malfunctioned just as I described in the in-game pop-up menus and in the in-script commentary. I sent this scenario to Jeff with a list of bugs. He then released v1.1.1 some time after that. I tested this scenario recently with v1.1.1, and everything still malfunctions just as before. I admit that the bugs that I found were minor, but I followed all possible proper procedure, and he ignored them on the subsequent patch. I also find it a bit annoying that he didn't tell us which bugs he thought he fixed for v1.1.1 that we reported from v1.1.0. Now we have to go back and check everything. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 9 2005 05:53
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I am a bit bothered by your idea that any concept of a god outside of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent one is too vague to be useful, since it seems to be entirely based on your own desire not to think about such a thing. You have not refuted it; you have simply refused to deal with it. At any rate, I'm bored, so I guess I'm done here. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 20:35
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Specifically, you might want to look at http://www.spidweb.com . -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 18:35
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So yeah, I meant "illegal" as in "technically illegal, even if it probably isn't prosecutable." -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 17:37
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Not directly, but you could just pretend. Have different dialogue options be labled "(to X)" and "(to Y)," where X and Y are the names of the characters that you want to be a part of the conversation. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 17:37
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Not directly, but you could just pretend. Have different dialogue options be labled "(to X)" and "(to Y)," where X and Y are the names of the characters that you want to be a part of the conversation. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 17:35
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To be fair, all sides of this discussion have been molesting all sides with knives. I've been defending points that I don't believe in just for the sake of showing that they're not necessarily wrong. I do kind of suspect that this thread has outlived its usefulness by about eleven pages, though. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 15:50
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I think what Thuryl is getting at is that since our experience of things that exist is inherently sensory (you can't know that a rock is in front of you unless you see it or touch or something like that), we might as well go one step further and define the existence of things as being sense-dependent. A rock exists only insofar as we can measure it. If we can't sense it in any way, it might as well not exist, so it doesn't exist. If it may have existed in the past but we can't measure it, then it doesn't exist, but the moment that we measure it in the present, then it begins existing in the past. You could think of this as being kind of like quantum physics: if you have an electron floating around in a box, it's not really floating there in the box; it's a probability wave that could put it anywhere in the box at any given time, and it really won't be in any one place until you compress the wave function by measuring it. (I apologize to physicists if I've mangled this somewhat; we won't get to this for a couple of months yet in my class.) Until you reduce the wave function of a rock in the past existing or not existing by measuring the rock's effect on the present, it's in a probability wave, neither existing nor not existing, but somewhere between the two. This is a wacky analogy, but it's a pretty wacky idea. It's not any worse than any other philosophy of existence that I've ever heard, though. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 13:21
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Sigh. As many of you know, I am not particularly fond of the self-proclaimed "Blades of Avernum Center." I have a number of issues with it and its admin, Overwhelming, the most important of which is that I do not have direct control over the manner in which my work is published there. I release my scenarios and articles via my web site, which means that I can edit them whenever I want. I release scripts via the Lyceum's Codex, which means that I can edit those whenever I want, too. I can fix any problems as soon as they crop up or at my own leisure. But at the BoAC, I would have to wait for Overwhelming to update whatever of mine is posted there. For this reason and many others, I asked Overwhelming to remove my work from his site. I did this via PM when the BoAC returned to operation almost a month ago. I used PM because I wanted to be discreet about this and not cause a stir. He flatly refused. I have asked him again repeatedly, and he has ignored me, citing his own personal dislike for me as his sole stated reason for refusing to comply with my request. This is both immoral and illegal. I own the copyright to my scripts and articles, which are text documents that I personally created, and he is distributing these documents without my consent. He refuses to deal with this issue in private, so I must now make it public. I do ask for your support in helping me gain control over how and where my material is distributed. I do not know what we should do about this, except perhaps to declare Overwhelming a persona non grata until he ceases his illicit, unlawful behavior. I did not wish to make a fuss about this, but he has had nearly a month to comply, and despite repeated messages, he has refused. Overwhelming, please stop this now. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 12:55
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This was his response. He has done nothing since releasing v1.1.1, as far as I know, and someone (Stareye, I think) suggested bringing this up again right after GF3 comes out. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 12:51
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SkeleTony, not all brain activity is consciousness, unless you have a really odd definition of consciousness. Some brain activity is involved in sight, or smells, or movement of the limbs, or whatever. In fact, I am pretty sure that we don't know which activities within the brain create consciousness. That is, we can't point to a particular section and say, "That's the consciousness center of the brain." Therefore it is not particularly useful to define consciousness in terms of its physical manifestations in the brain. Certainly there is reason to think that consciousness is a manifestation of activity in the brain, but that's going backwards: we're observing a phenomenon and then finding the cause. Defining the phenomenon in terms of the cause is a bit odd. That would be like defining gravity as a property of mass, rather than saying that gravity is the principle that all objects with mass attract each other. The alternative, of course, is to define consciousness in the normal way, with words like "awareness" and "reasoning ability" and that sort of thing. EDIT: SkeleTony, I wasn't going to bring this up, but you keep dropping my name as if I were an example of something. I note that you ignored my last post on the "god" issue. Our discussion was not yet finished. I am not an example of anything yet. [ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 13:23: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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quote:No. Those are statuses, listed in the Status Types in the Appendices. Light is not related to those. quote:Apparently he changed his mind. I don't think he ever gave a reason why. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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quote:No. Those are statuses, listed in the Status Types in the Appendices. Light is not related to those. quote:Apparently he changed his mind. I don't think he ever gave a reason why. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 09:12
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Drassk, you might want to point out your points of disagreement with Alec, since your posts look pretty darn identical to me. EDIT: For the purpose of giving clear advice, rather than starting an argument, of course. :P [ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 09:17: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 8 2005 09:04
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The only way you could get the second sentence to follow from the first would be to phrase it like this: consciousness = thoughts = brain activity. Thus, things without brains have no consciousness. Or, in formal logical terms: 1) All consciousness is brain activity. 2) If an entity does not have a brain, then it cannot have brain activity. 3) Therefore, entities that do not have brains cannot have consciousness. This argument is valid in general: all A is B. If not C, then not B. Therefore, all not C is not A. I would take issue with 1 (all consciousness is brain activity), since 2 is pretty reasonable and 3 follows from 1 and 2. 1 is an empirical observation and inherently a generalization, not a deductive fact, unless you reverse-define consciousness as being only brain activity, which I think is weird. After all, the idea of consciousness existed before anyone knew that it was linked to brain activity. EDIT: I think what Thuryl was pointing out is that your statement looked too much like the logical operation, "All consciousness is thought OR brain activity" (which would not lead to the second statement), not "All consciousness is thought AND all thought is brain activity" (which would). EDIT 2: SkeleTony, you made a procedure for the scientific method with ordered steps (many posts back). Observation was the first one. Thuryl has just pointed out that observation is not necessarily the first step. Your list was, to that extent, wrong. [ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 09:10: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |