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

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Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 19 2006 15:33 Profile Homepage #7 Hmm, I guess I'll actually play the demo. -------------------- 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 Bad Get Polling! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 19 2006 07:21 Profile Homepage #50 quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: The point where your evil actions outweigh your good intentions is when the line is crossed into villainhood Well, now we're back to definitions again. Does villain mean "antagonist" or does villain mean "evil character"? The creator of this poll clearly meant the former, and there's no reason to insist that that's a false definition. -------------------- 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 Bad Get Polling! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 19:56 Profile Homepage #33 quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: Your supposed to hate a good villain, not agree with him. Your supposed to fear him, not feel bad when you bathe the people he was tying to save in his blood. It sounds as though you're talking about heroic fantasy, something vaguely akin to Lord of the Rings (although Sauron has his own subtle motivations, lust for power and the like, but that's neither here nor there). I'm not sure that anyone in any Blades scenario (E or A) has pulled off a good Sauron-style villain. In a completely different point: by your definition, Stalker isn't a villain. However, he's included in the poll as a villain. The poll can't be wrong about what it means by a villain. Therefore, your definition isn't applicable to the poll. Thus, the relevant definition for the poll must be "antagonist." :P [ Wednesday, October 18, 2006 21:53: 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
Which game to play? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 14:52 Profile Homepage #30 I'm surprised that we haven't had the usual onslaught of BUY BOE that comes with such topics. BoE has a LOT of third-party scenarios associated with it, including some VERY high-quality ones. If you want to buy one game and play forever, buy BoE. It comes highly recommended. A1/E1 is good for starting out the Avernum/Exile series and playing it all the way through. A2/E2 is probably the best-plotted with the best atmosphere. A3/E3 is by far the largest. Reviews are mixed as to its plot, but the immersive-world aspect is superb. A4 is the newest, but reviews have been very mixed. Nethergate uses a hybrid Avernum/Exile engine, more Avernum (graphics, interface) than Exile (dialogue), with a few of its own touches (spells). It's generally the fan favorite around here. BoA has a fair number of third-party scenarios as well, and it has a more advanced scenario-design engine. There will probably be a steady stream of BoA scenarios for years to come. Others have suggested that you might not like GF as much. And, of course, there's always the system of downloading the demos and seeing which one grabs your interest. I don't think anyone has ever been fooled by SW demos, really. They're all pretty representative of the whole game (except the Blades demos, which vastly under-represent the gaming experience). -------------------- 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 Bad Get Polling! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 14:39 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: Edit: Stalker is now in first place with 35% with Vahkhos in second with 29%! I don't understand how this is happening. Do the twelve that voted for him care to explain? It's probably as I said in another topic recently: the best villains are not just the ones who sit in their towers cackling and ordering innocent children to be slaughtered; the best villains are the ones who have a legitimate point to be made and happen, via circumstance or hubris or whatever, to be on the opposing side of the struggle. -------------------- 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
October BoA Chat in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 19:25 Profile Homepage #11 I can actually make it either way, probably. -------------------- 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
Scripting Category? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 06:55 Profile Homepage #2 My opinion is a distinct "Meh." I don't care either 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
October BoA Chat in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 06:45 Profile Homepage #1 I should actually be able to be there. -------------------- 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
batta Gamma? in Geneforge Series
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 16 2006 20:15 Profile Homepage #13 It's generally good to find old threads that answer a question rather than creating new ones to ask the same question, but it's not necessary to check every single thread every single time you have any confusion in a game — it's just good manners not to ask a question that has been answered lower down on the same page. This question was fine. Lying to a newbie, on the other hand, is generally bad manners and foolish. The question for which this thread existed has been answered, so I think we're done 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
The Ties that Bond... in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, October 15 2006 18:49 Profile Homepage #4 `\|\| ((i + 10 > get_memory_cell(7)) && (get_memory_cell(7) != 0)))) {`There is apparently an extra parenthesis here. Delete the last "close parentheses." [ Sunday, October 15, 2006 18:49: 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
Physics conundrums in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, October 13 2006 07:05 Profile Homepage #37 SoT: You didn't really answer my previous post, so I'm going to re-state and rephrase it. You've already said that specialized and advanced branches of physics diverge from basic branches of physics. It seems obvious, then, that the questions you've posed come from specialized branches of physics, which means that they've diverged from everyone's basic knowledge, which is fine. You've said that these things are basic and fundamental, but you've never really said why you think that they are. Clearly they are not, unless you can provide some reason to believe they are. In that case, why should physicists know them? EDIT: Am I wrong in thinking that the most important thing is that new information be possible to be explained in terms of fundamental principles, not that it actually be explained that way, which is completely different? For it to be possible to explain new information in terms of old information, it's plenty just to know that someone has written a proof somewhere connecting angular momentum and Newton's Laws, although one may never have seen it. [ Friday, October 13, 2006 07:09: 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
batta Gamma? in Geneforge Series
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 12 2006 20:18 Profile Homepage #9 Yes, that was the point. You can't get 6 points in that. Come to think of it, could you with a script edit? -------------------- 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
high arts in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 12 2006 20:17 Profile Homepage #23 The image indicates that there's a time-lapse movie associated with it, a movie of 24 hours. He was asking if you went to the store during the 24 hours that it was filmed. I'm guessing no. -------------------- 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
Physics conundrums in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 12 2006 20:15 Profile Homepage #32 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Specialized and advanced stuff diverges, but everybody shares the same base, and the base stays active. You still use the stuff you learn in freshman year, forever afterwards. Absolutely. But what you're asking doesn't get taught in freshman year. It's not now part of that base. Are you saying that it should be? quote: But it bugs people when they realize this is something they thought they understood, and they realize they don't. And this, I think, is the reason for the disquiet that I'm reading in your posts. I don't think you're really startled by the fact that people ought to know these things and don't; I think you're startled by the fact that people think that they know these things and only realize that they don't when asked to explain them. It's of course unsettling for people to realize that they don't know what they thought that they did, but I think that's all that you've found 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
Physics conundrums in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 12 2006 07:38 Profile Homepage #28 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: We're supposed to be able to explain everything from first principles; we're not a bunch of engineers who turn out working products without necessarily understanding our own tools. But those two statements are entirely unrelated! Unless you work in a field that involves a lot of Newtonian mechanics, relating straight-line motion and angular motion is totally unrelated to the actual products (laws, equations) that you end up turning out. Put another way: you can adequately understand quantum chromodynamics without an advanced knowledge of how a trebuchet works. quote: And the impulse that makes a physicist go, "Hey! Why can't I explain that precessing top?" is precisely the same emotion that makes them try to explain things that no-one can yet explain. That just means that physicists are supposed to want to be able to explain everything, not that they are supposed to be able actually to do it. Having the impulse to know how everything works isn't the same as knowing how everything works. -------------------- 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
Physics conundrums in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 11 2006 20:50 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Richard Feynman pointed out long ago that the ultimate higher level explanation is simply the equation "U=0", where U is the "unreality". This is very compact, but it's obviously a lousy explanation. Just what's lousy about it, though, is sort of hard to state clearly. Let me give it a shot. "U=0" is very compact, but it cannot actually be measured or tested without a very elaborate definition of U. Something like (torque) = (moment of inertia) * (angular acceleration) is slightly less compact, but the definitions of the relevant variables involve many fewer and much shorter statements than U. quote: They just can't actually perform the reduction, though they should be able to and know they should be able to, in the practical case of a spinning top. Why should they be able to? They can just look up the derivation. Being able to solve such problems is only useful insofar as it correlates with being able to solve new, as yet unsolved, problems, which professional physicists ideally should be able to do. Still, the extent to which solving this old problem would be anything like solving new problems is related to the field in which the physicist works; I suspect that many physicists don't work a lot with complex Newtonian mechanics these days, so this would hardly be similar to the new problems that would come up. SoT, I realized that I've been wondering this for a while now and have always forgotten to ask: what research do you do? -------------------- 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
Physics conundrums in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 11 2006 06:01 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Non-physics conundrum: Could the plural really be 'conundra'? That sounds almost too good to be true. This now bugs the heck out of me. I looked this up, and apparently "conundrum" was a word that was invented to sound like Latin (hence an old alternative spelling, "quonundrum"), and the original meaning and usage is now entirely unknown. No writer cited in the OED ever pluralized it as "conundra," though, since it wasn't ever Latin to begin with. My best guess is that it was a play on "unde," which means "whence," or in real English, "from where," and "quo," which means a whole heck of a lot of things, including "by which," "where," "to where," "because," and "in order that." Or maybe it's some sort of play on "undecumque," which means "whencesoever" ("from wherever"), since "cum" was in some Medieval texts spelled "con" (presumably by influence from Spanish). Either way, it wasn't Latin at all, so the plural ought to be "conundrums." As for the physics, well, that's much harder. I'll check back in when I've had time to think a bit more. EDIT: Typo. [ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 20:28: 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
Copyrights?? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 9 2006 05:37 Profile Homepage #4 That said, there have been scenarios that have been re-makes of books, other games, etc. Here I'm thinking of: Nightfall, which was an Asimov book; Proving Grounds, which was Wizardry, a computer game; Hunted!, which was Hunt the Wumpus, a computer game; Redwall, which was a book; Johnny Favourite, which was Angel Heart, a movie; and many others. I don't think that any of these scenarios have had any trouble because of their re-make status, so if you really want to make that 100 Years of Solitude scenario (or whatever), there's probably nothing stopping you. On the other hand, you really shouldn't copy other people's scenarios or use obviously copyrighted images. Controversies in the past have stemmed from some variety of the former. -------------------- 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
Scripting Problems in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, October 8 2006 20:54 Profile Homepage #17 Yeah, post the code. It's just about impossible to debug otherwise. Bear in mind that you have to give the special ability to everyone if you want everyone to be able to use it. -------------------- 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's your opinion... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, October 8 2006 19:20 Profile Homepage #30 I haven't fully read the details of each criticism on this thread, but I think that it's worth mentioning that people trashed Bahssikava so hard in beta that I nearly didn't release it. Some people — most people — in this community need to calm down and be nicer about other people's work. -------------------- 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
Scripting Problems in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, October 8 2006 19:13 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Nemesis: Alright then, if I want to give the ability at the beginning of the scenario, where do I put change_custom_abil_uses? I've tried putting it in LOAD_STATE, START_STATE, and START_SCEN_STATE START_SCEN_STATE is the one you want. Look at Bahssikava (among others) for an example of this. -------------------- 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
Erik Westra in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, October 6 2006 18:01 Profile Homepage #0 ... has apparently vanished off the face of the Earth. I'm hosting DaC and the Cookbook over at my site on an Erik Westra page. Just letting you know. -------------------- 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
Scripting Problems in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, October 6 2006 08:52 Profile Homepage #8 BBEdit Lite is available in an OS9 version. -------------------- 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
Beta Call for Exodus in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 5 2006 18:41 Profile Homepage #123 When you "went to the peninsula," did you actually enter the town that is the peninsula? -------------------- 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
Scripting Problems in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 5 2006 15:02 Profile Homepage #4 By the way, Alint is one helpful addition to your debugging arsenal. I'm hosting it for Khoth. -------------------- 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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