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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
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Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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The Simplest Path in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, June 1 2007 12:55 Profile Homepage #52 The reason people are asking you what the heck a meme is is that it's pretty hard to free yourself from memes if you can't even figure out what they are. Your dark room analogy doesn't really work here. You've so far posed a positive test case (so to speak), an idea that definitely is a meme. It would be useful to answer Diki's question, though, to explain the negative case: an idea that is not a meme, or perhaps a meme from which one does not need to be freed, or perhaps a meme from which one is freed but one nonetheless obeys (and how this makes sense?), or whatever your response actually is to it. [ Friday, June 01, 2007 13:00: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
The Simplest Path in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, June 1 2007 06:23 Profile Homepage #42 There are too many and too varied references for them all to have been doctored. Yes, Josephus's was almost certainly modified in the form that we have it, but Suetonius and Tacitus also mention Jesus (Life of Claudius, 25.5, and Annals, 15.33, respectively). Tacitus's mention is by no means complimentary, so if it was altered by Christians, it was altered very poorly and incompletely. Tacitus was only a few decades after Jesus's death, so while the exact details of Jesus's life might not have been available to him, he probably would've been able to know whether or not Jesus really lived, and he expresses no doubt. It's hard to know any details for certain from two thousand years ago, but to the extent that we know anything, we can be pretty sure that Jesus existed in some form or other. Four independent sources (the Gospels, Josephus, Suetonius, and Tacitus) is more than we get for most people. -------------------- 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
Avernum 5, May Update in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 18:11 Profile Homepage #54 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: What I'd love is a series of pop-ups about how "You hear a faint scratching noise." Then about the third one says, "Actually, now you can hear that the chitrachs are emerging somewhere far away, and attacking some other poor beggars for a change, instead of you." Aaagh, can't handle it anymore. vanishes -------------------- 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
The Simplest Path in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 18:04 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Bandit Keith: 2. Huh? That last bit doesn't make any sense... You said that imaginary numbers don't exist. I asked you to give a reason why imaginary numbers don't exist, a reason that doesn't apply equally well to negative numbers or irrational numbers. quote: Any number times itself regardless of whether it's positive or negative will yield a positive number in the answer. That's true of the set of so-called "real" numbers. That doesn't have anything to do with whether a number "exists" or not. I could just as easily say that any number that exists, when multiplied by itself, will yield an integer as an answer. Then I could claim that one-half does not exist. Why is your statement any more valid than this? [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 18:07: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
The Simplest Path in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 13:48 Profile Homepage #25 The math for imaginary numbers wouldn't have been invented if it didn't have some use. (Wikipedia lists some of the uses.) Moreover, I dare you to explain to me why the square root of negative one does not exist in a way that does not also apply to the square root of two or to negative one itself. (This can be done, but it's harder than it at first appears.) [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 13:54: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
Regulations in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 09:54 Profile Homepage #32 tries to resist, can't — sorry, Jeff One could equally well say that there was a simple question that you never answered, despite it being posed over and over again for pages and pages. Ask yourself why you never answered SoT's original question. The answer you get will be rather similar to the reason why no one ever presented a logical argument for evolution. It's not that I couldn't answer your question; it's that I chose not to, just as you chose not to answer my question. However, I gave a reason not to answer your question: it's distracting. You may call it smoke-and-mirrors all you want, but that doesn't make it any less true. Nothing in me giving a logical argument for evolution would have any impact on your ability to answer the question posed. If I did gave such an argument, you'd start trying to say that the argument that I gave for evolution was worse than your argument for creationism, and we'd never get anywhere. Previously, whenever anyone pointed out a problem in your argument for creationism, you'd change the subject again. I was trying to make you stop changing the subject whenever someone brought up a difficult point. The attempt failed, but only because you stopped saying anything at all (god only knows why — you never really explained why you couldn't answer my question, only that you really wanted someone else to answer your question first, but why?). Generally, then, I suppose SoT's experiment, trying to focus on a single issue, failed because Stillness simply refused to participate. Stillness, for whatever unexplained reason, didn't want to focus issue-by-issue to make sure that everything that he was trying to say was clear, no matter what incentives I threw at him ("I will concede literally every other point in the discussion"). Still, its failure here, as I have suggested a few times, is not a failure of the method in general. This experiment may be worth trying again with someone who is less stubborn and more willing to try to make the discussion worthwhile. [ Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:07: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
The Simplest Path in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 07:32 Profile Homepage #19 quote: Originally written by Some Slimy Idiot: Yayboo! For once, I think Salmon has hit the nail on the head here. -------------------- 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
Foul Hordes in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 07:24 Profile Homepage #4 Er, unlikely. -------------------- 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
Jeff on programming in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, May 31 2007 07:23 Profile Homepage #6 OH NOES Er, in other news, this article makes me wonder how intelligent my comments on my BoA scripts are. They're usually non-existent, and when they do exist (as in the HLPM), they're pretty much stating the obvious. -------------------- 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
What have you been reading lately? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, May 30 2007 19:35 Profile Homepage #408 quote: Originally written by Yama: English capitalizes them even if they lose noun status, but not if they lose proper status. Case in point: "french fries" are not typically capitalized, as the phrase has lost some of its analyzability. You rabid descriptivist. :P (I'd be inclined to say that some people may write the phrase that way, but they're wrong: it is correctly written "French fries." I suppose it just goes to show that it depends on your point of view.) [ Wednesday, May 30, 2007 19:36: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
Whatever Happened to. . . in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, May 30 2007 19:12 Profile Homepage #7 In other words, what is the purpose of the forum? Does it have any use that can't be fulfilled here or at SV or Desp or Polaris or wherever? -------------------- 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
Game Difficulty in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, May 30 2007 19:09 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: You could always go without using weapons, spells, or magic items to make it more painful. :P Along these lines, several forum-goers have tried arbitrary limitations on themselves to make the games more challenging, exactly as Diki described. So, while she's joking, she's kind of not. Calphrexo's (er, Rakshasi's?) suggestion of some of the harder BoA scenarios (or BoE scenarios) is also a good one. [ Wednesday, May 30, 2007 19:10: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
HLPM updated to 1.2.5 in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, May 30 2007 19:01 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Lazarus.: *I'm fairly sure that ENG was the one influenced by Settlers, not TV. Nikki began ENG to prove that it wasn't* possible to pull off the 1-day-scenario stunt, but wound up proving just the opposite. You are correct. Good catch. New version uploaded: check the read-me to make sure you have v1.2.5.1. -------------------- 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**
Open source project startup in Blades of Exile
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 22:09 Profile Homepage #13 Whew, I think I understand you now. You intend to re-write the code so that it is cross-platform. I think all of us will agree that this would be a good thing to do, if you can do it, but I'm not sure how much help you'll get from anyone else. I'd say, plunge right in. If you can do it yourself, go for it. The only thing you need to do is make sure that the end result functions the same (and, in most cases, malfunctions the same) as the original. What specifically do you need from us before you get started? EDIT: Oh. Reading those last couple of posts, I see the problem. No one right now is adding any new features. No one is even attempting to do so. Probably, no one ever will. Right now, Khoth is working on compatibility with OS X, and that's the only verified work that's actually going on. What you need to understand is that this is a very small community; there's much more of a danger that no work will get done at all than that two people will try to do the same thing and duplicate work accidentally. There's no need to account for what everyone else is doing, because, odds are, no one else is really doing anything. So do whatever it is that you'd like to do. You'll be doing it by yourself, but there's no alternative; if you don't do it yourself, nothing will happen. [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 22:29: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
Open source project startup in Blades of Exile
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 14:42 Profile Homepage #4 Yes, it really would be good for someone to be working on the Windows side, too. There's one thread from people who seem to be doing that, but if you want to start tossing in some help in a useful way immediately, that's where to go. I'm not sure that leadership is really what's needed right now. Leading by example is probably the best way to go. -------------------- 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
Nethergate in Nethergate
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:30 Profile Homepage #1 Nethergate is one of the favorites of the community here. It's probably the Spidweb game I've replayed the most. I'd definitely recommend playing through a good chunk of the demo, and if you like it, buy it. And if you like it, be sure to check out the Avernum series (particularly the first three), which use a similar engine. -------------------- 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
Amateur historians in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 11:46 Profile Homepage #16 Depends on what you're including in the discussion, presumably. Plato is an obvious philosopher from very roughly the same time period. His aims are rather different from those of the writers of the Bible, 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
Strategy in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 11:44 Profile Homepage #19 quote: Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust: But there was one battle in Exodus where I depended on luck. The ice hydras were badass. Ice hydras? Do you mean... um... frost lizards? Longfang hydras? -------------------- 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
Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 10:14 Profile Homepage #140 If that's what you need me to say in order to be able to talk about this without dodging anything, consider it said. -------------------- 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
OBoE in Blades of Exile
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 09:38 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by Daniele C: Please let me know more, thank you There are basically four threads here in this forum that discuss this project. Once you've read them, you've pretty much read everything on the subject. (There's also a thread on Shadow Vale, but it doesn't say much yet.) -------------------- 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
Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 09:37 Profile Homepage #138 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: What part of "I'm willing to say that I don't have any reason to believe common descent if that will allow you to answer this very simple question" did you not understand? -------------------- 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
Preaching to the Choir in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 09:00 Profile Homepage #2 quote: Originally written by Lenar: I'd stick with a museum that portrays what we do historically know Apparently people have different concepts of what this is. Of all the forms of Biblical literalism, they seem to have chosen the most extreme. Isn't it more efficient, for such people defending such beliefs, to cast off science entirely and say, "We believe what we believe because it seems true to us and because we want to believe it," than to try to defend it in this way? -------------------- 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
Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 08:51 Profile Homepage #136 It's astonishing how there's really only one vital issue, and you refuse to address it. You'll talk about anything except that one thing. Did you recently develop a blind spot? -------------------- 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
Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 08:15 Profile Homepage #134 quote: Originally written by Stillness: I was pleasantly surprised when Kelandon and Student of Trinity actually responded to me very frankly. They basically said that it would be impossible to convince them of that. You're fortunate that the topic no longer exists, or else you'd be exposed for the liar that you are. I said nothing even resembling that. I don't think SoT did, either. Stareye answered your question (which was not actually what you've written here), but his answer was not what you've said. I told you why I didn't want to bring up the logic for evolution. You've simply ignored me, though, and now you're making things up because you refuse to believe the real reasons. quote: 1) Living organisms have irreducibly complex structures and systems. 2) Irreducibly complex structures and systems are only observed to be made by a purposeful agency. 3) The alternative to purposeful agency is that which occurs in populations of living organisms gradually by means of recombination, mutations, and natural selection. 4) Organisms observed over millions of generations (e.g. bacteria) do not develop irreducibly complex systems. 5) The fossil record does not indicate introduction of irreducibly complex structures by gradual change. 6) Natural processes have not made the irreducibly complex structures and systems in living organisms. 7) Irreducibly complex structures and systems in living organisms are a result of purposeful agency. You're still missing things! 4) and 5) as stated do not lead to 6). In order to get from 4) and 5), as stated, to 6), you need 5.5) If millions of generations of bacteria don't produce irreducibly complex systems and if the fossil record does not indicate gradual development of irreducibly complex structures, then natural processes did not make the irreducibly complex structures. I take issue with 5), because it is misleading, but I take much more issue with your assumption, 5.5), because it simply assumes the point that SoT has been asking about. Why on earth should 5.5) be true, or more generally, why on earth should 4) and 5) lead to 6)? [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 08:20: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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
HLPM updated to 1.2.5 in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, May 28 2007 21:42 Profile Homepage #0 HLPM updated to reflect new releases. Get it here. Check to make sure I haven't said something terribly objectionable about your scenario if it was in the Second 1/10 Contest. :cool: -------------------- 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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