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Deathmatch Tournament -- Preliminary Nominations in General
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I'd like not to take part, please. Withdraw me.

And Lone Flame is member #2080.

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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.

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Splitting one PC from the party in Blades of Avernum Editor
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I don't think so. Splitting off one character so that three are active and one is inactive has not appeared anywhere that I can remember in the Avernum Trilogy. Splitting off one character so that one is active and three are inactive has been used, but that's available in BoA, too.

[ Tuesday, April 24, 2007 06:45: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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Just one complaint in Avernum 4
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Or remove the Tutorial scenario from the scenario folder, as I eventually did.

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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.

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Learn how it's done. in General
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quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:

I'm not going to make a habit of it. I was watching a toddler and very, very bored. Toddlers are boring.
Fair enough. Most of us are surprised (and pleased) when you even read anything on the boards.

[ Monday, April 23, 2007 05:28: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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Avernum joinable NPC's in The Avernum Trilogy
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There are four in Avernum 1. More description is available here.

There are also four in A2. More description of them is available here, under "Hints."

And there's four in A3, too. You can find out about them via the GameFAQs page linked in the board header.

[ Monday, April 23, 2007 05:30: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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Clearly Marlenny wins at polling, if only because of Jeff's participation.

(1) What's your main goal in life?
I'm still figuring out what mine is, but my mom's goal for me is that I have a house with a driveway.

(2) If you won a million dollars, what would be your first thought?
Sweet! That might almost cover a down payment on a house!

(3) When you are mad; do you usually stay angry or do you yell to release the anger?
Yelling doesn't do me much good, so I try to calm down, usually by myself.

(4) Tell us an anecdote of anything that happened to you today.
Um, nothing really happened today. I worked. But yesterday, I went to my professor's house for a Parilia party! We ate delicious food and talked Romanity.

(5) What's your current Philosophy on life?
Step One: Survive 'til summer.

(6) If you created a deadly disease, what would you call it?
"Oops."

(7) What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

(8) If this were Southpark, what character do you think you'd be?
Stan.

(9) What occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid ?
President.

(10) What happened to those dreams?
Well, I may yet go to law school and try to run for office.

(11) Describe the last dream you can remember.
I can't remember any recent ones.

(12) If you were a supermodel, which supermodel would you be?
Supermodel?

(13) If you had to live in a hole, what kind of creature would you be?
A dwarf? A rabbit? An Almarian Face-Leaping Spider?

(14) If you could have one thing right now, what would it be and why?
A week off with my friends.

(15) Name one thing about you that embarrasses you.
My room is a mess. I've been way too busy to get things organized enough to keep it clean.

(16) Do you usually walk around your house with sandals or barefoot?
Socks.

(17) Have you ever gotten something you really wanted but thought you wouldn't get?
Heh. My job. My girlfriend. Those are the two that come to mind.

(18) Name one thing you are presently excited about or fascinated by.
I'm excited about this summer, I think. I should get a couple of minor promotions in work that should be pretty freakin' awesome.

[ Sunday, April 22, 2007 20:44: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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The Chosen Ending - Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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I see we've just been graced by the presence of the great Atlantean god of... of... deceit!

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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.

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Slowdown problem with Geneforge 1 in Geneforge Series
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Sent to Tech Support.

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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
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Apparently, "shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event (albeit only once, in 1900)."

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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.

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quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

Enacting stricter gun control laws will make things worse. Criminals will still gain possesion of guns, and the law-abiding citizens will often be incapable from defending themselves from a gun-wielding attacker, as it would be difficult for them to obtain one. So stricter gun control laws will give the innocent general public less possibilities to defend themselves, and allow criminals to commit gun related crimes with less difficulty.
"Gun crime is rare in Britain, and handguns are completely illegal. The ban is so strictly enforced that Britain's Olympic pistol shooting team is barred from practicing in its own country.

Britain's 46 homicides involving firearms was the lowest total since the late 1980s. New York City, with 8 million people compared to 53 million in England and Wales, recorded at least 579 homicides last year."

From the San Francisco Chronicle. I'm not saying you're wrong, because there are many complicating factors, here, but it's at least worthy of some thought.

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In my opinion, the government or parents should take responsibility and prevent the youth of America by being corrupted through such forms of media.
If you take "the government or parents" and replace it with "parents," I agree with you. I think it's dangerous to try to make the government responsible for parenting our children, though.

[ Wednesday, April 18, 2007 19:04: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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quote:
Originally written by Spent Salmon:

While I realize that wiki is a crappy resource,
this seems to indicate that your impression of gun related fatalities is a little off.

I don't know why you said this. If you click on "gun violence" and find the United States, you find 3.6 firearm homicides per 100,000 people, which, multiplied by the U.S.'s population of approximately 300,000,000, produces 10,800. That's ten thousand per year, and while it was a few years back, I don't think that gun violence has dropped by orders of magnitude in the past couple of years, although if I'm not mistaken it has declined somewhat. Indeed, according to this article, guns were involved in "68% of the 14,860 homicides in the United States during 2005," which comes out to 8,916 in a year.

As for the rest of it, I don't know if we have any common ground upon which even to begin a conversation, so I think I'm going to leave this one alone.

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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.

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quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

I am wondering aloud why does it not, and what does this say for American values?
And the answer that you received is that it says nothing about American values and much more about the nature of emergency situations. At least one person, maybe more, sacrificed his own life at the Virginia Tech shooting to save many others, as I indicated with the article that I linked, so I would be hesitant to condemn the valor of the thirty-two victims at this shooting.
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Originally written by Spent Salmon:

You seem uniquely qualified to make a statement like that. I assume you have studied this in-depth, conducting numerous interviews with actual gun owners, and have summarily decided that they are all idiots, for they own something that lacks benefit. How gracious of you to take such a parental attitude. :rolleyes:
Don't be a jerk. Having guns may bring benefits. But judged in relation to saving people's lives, those benefits are minimal. That's what I actually said, not whatever you thought you read.

If you disagree, make a real argument and quit trolling.
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Such actions are taken very infrequently, and certainly for greater cause than this.
Greater cause than saving thousands of lives each year? What on earth are you talking about?

[ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 16:16: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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.

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quote:
Originally written by Spent Salmon:

quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

If I could save ten people's lives by forcing a thousand to find a new hobby, I'd do it.

What if instead you concentrated on keeping firearms away from people that are restricted from owning weapons?

That's probably what I'd end up doing in practicality.

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Your proposal to allow human life to serve as a counterbalance to human liberty and pursuit of happiness seems like a slippery slope.
You don't have the right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater. That's a restriction on your liberty, yet you aren't out in the streets protesting it. We already recognize that there is some amount of reasonable restriction on our liberty, and the only real question is how much for what benefit.

The benefits of people having guns seem minimal. The real benefits (self-defense, for example) could be achieved by other means.

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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
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I do have to think that the lives of the thousands of people who die each year to gun violence outweigh the hunting-for-pleasure needs (or target-practice-for-pleasure or whatever) of millions.

If I could save ten people's lives by forcing a thousand to find a new hobby, I'd do it.

There's a terribly thorny problem of enforcement, however.

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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.

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Laz is absolutely right. Blaming the victim is sickening, especially in cases like this, where the victims are clearly innocent, at least as much as anyone can be. Moreover, some people did try to help.

Sarasaphilia is also right, in another sort of way, and it's a point that Salmon made earlier. We talk sometimes about how easy it is to be cruel over the Internet because people are faceless here, but we forget how easy many of us find it to be cruel face-to-face, too. It's worth remembering that no act of kindness is ever wasted, and a small good deed may turn out to have been a much bigger one than we'll ever know.

That's what we, as individuals, can do, but it's hard to know what we, as a society, should do.

[ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 14:21: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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It may well be that our culture glorifies violence, but many other cultures have glorified violence in the past and many do also in the present. We are not by any means unique in this respect.

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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.

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quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Before I get into a battle over technicalities, I'd like to say that I should have said, 'the odds of this happening were much lower 10 or 20 years ago'. You have to admit that this problem has been accelerating recently.
I don't mean to pick a fight here, so please do not interpret my response as belligerent, but I think this point is worth making.

But I don't have to admit any such thing. That's a statistical statement that is either true or false (not a matter of opinion), and I don't think either you or I have done the relevant research to know the frequency of school shootings over the past several decades and whether there has been any increase or not. In other words, I don't think you know this.

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(Ironically, what you linked has a direct link to a new article about this tragedy)
How is that ironic?

[ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 09:37: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

True, but this wouldn't have happened 10 or 20 years ago
Really?

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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.

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B Is For Bye Bye in General
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Was that supposed to be humor? Humor is normally, you know, funny.

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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
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It's worth noting, I suppose, that our culture is not unique in that respect. We have far more data on our culture than on any other, and we have an obligation to try to do something about it, though it's hard to know what to do.

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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
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The number that I read was 33. It was nearly triple the deaths at Columbine.

Awful. Hard to say more than just that it's awful. I wish the friends and families strength and hope in getting through this.

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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
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A3 I think i messed in Rhento's in The Avernum Trilogy
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Go easy on the capitals, please.

Good to hear that you've had success in the Avernum series. If I remember correctly, Jeff has indicated that A5's engine will be a much more polished version of what we saw in A4. The look-and-feel will be a bit different from A1-3, but he makes it sound as though it will be good.

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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
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The 1/10 Contest - Closed and Judging Instructions in Blades of Avernum
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You might want to fix Dintiradan's name on the entries list.

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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.

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Avernumscript Editor in Blades of Avernum Editor
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This would probably be hard, but I'd love to have this script editor sync-ed up to the BoA documentation somehow. That is, have a list of calls in a separate window (closable, of course) on the side, and clicking on a call pulls up the appendix entry for that call, or something more or less to that effect. Maybe a Help feature that goes to the appendices.

Oh! And an astring-like feature, either that runs a spell-check on the text (ignoring the code) or that exports all the text to a text file (ignoring the code) and re-imports it so that the user can run a spell-check with another, separate application. This also might be hard.

If either of those two things are possible, they'd be neat, but even if not, the application sounds pretty neat anyway. Originally, I was using at least eight different applications for BoA scenario designing (Photoshop, Preview, and ResEdit for graphics, Word, BBEdit Lite, and Alint for scripts, and the BoA Editor and the BoA app for drawing towns and outdoors). This application might bring the total down to four (Graphic Adjuster, this, and the BoA Editor and BoA app). That would be a very good thing.

[ Monday, April 16, 2007 12:50: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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