Profile for Kelandon
Field | Value |
---|---|
Displayed name | Kelandon |
Member number | 4045 |
Title | Off With Their Heads |
Postcount | 7968 |
Homepage | http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/ |
Registered | Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
Recent posts
Pages
Author | Recent posts |
---|---|
State of Chaos in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Saturday, September 23 2006 16:45
Profile
Homepage
quote:You mean you inserted three errors into the script and then asked us to find errors? :P -------------------- 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 |
State of Chaos in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Saturday, September 23 2006 15:54
Profile
Homepage
[ Saturday, September 23, 2006 15:57: 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 |
Happy Beginning of Ramadan in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Saturday, September 23 2006 15:51
Profile
Homepage
That pun works much better if the final syllable of "Ramadan" and the first syllable of "Daniel" are the same in your dialect of English. Or if you utterly butcher the pronunciation of "Ramadan." [ Saturday, September 23, 2006 17:11: 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 |
What do you look for in a scenario? in Blades of Avernum | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Saturday, September 23 2006 10:01
Profile
Homepage
I think I just said that a plot-only scenario would be hard to pull off for very long. The plot is the foundation, but without walls and a roof, you still don't have much of a house. -------------------- 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 |
September BoA Chat in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Thursday, September 21 2006 22:22
Profile
Homepage
I could probably make it on a weekday evening. I could also make it were it to start a little later on Saturday. -------------------- 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 |
help with "The Canterbury Tales" in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 20:06
Profile
Homepage
I also recommend, come to think of it, the Norton Critical Edition. The one for the Canterbury Tales has extensive glosses along the side to make the language more comprehensible. -------------------- 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 |
September BoA Chat in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 20:02
Profile
Homepage
I'll be working 9-5 that day, so I won't be able to get there until it's well over, 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 |
The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 15:40
Profile
Homepage
Alec: I'm surprised that you recognized that I employed the form of the sonnet for a purpose but failed to recognize that I employed mock-archaic language for the same purpose. If your complaint is that you have some sort of visceral revulsion to anything even remotely old, including the second-person singular, then you're just being silly, because that's there for a purpose that you clearly recognize as legitimate in another context. If your complaint is that it's an anti-sonnet in pretty much the same way as every other anti-sonnet ever written (including one or two of Shakespeare's own), well, that's probably true, but the poem exists mostly to get a cheap laugh, and it's usually successful at least in that. [ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 15:41: 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 |
help with "The Canterbury Tales" in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 15:18
Profile
Homepage
This has a not entirely faithful translation side-by-side with the original and hyperlinked definitions for the least familiar words in Middle English. It takes some getting used to, but it's not really that hard after a while. Probably the first barrier to overcome is the fact that editors don't modernize the spelling the way they do with, say, Shakespeare. A word will appear that still exists and is pronounced essentially the same way now ("virtue") but will have an archaic spelling ("virtu"). Reading the text aloud helps with this, and once you get that, the text becomes far easier to 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 08:47
Profile
Homepage
"Industry was also the largest source of R&D funding, paying for 63 percent of all R&D." Need I remind you that there is a difference between "R&D" and "basic research"? Of course industry does most of the R&D. I said that already. That's not what one would call normal science, though. Look, I do some R&D work myself. I work for a test-prep company, and I take the SAT every time it's offered. Then I send in a report about how well the techniques that we teach worked on the test. In response to my reports, the people who write our materials make slight adjustments in order to match the test better. That's R&D, but it'd be hard to call that "science." EDIT: I guess this discussion is over. I win in the end. :P [ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 08:49: 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 |
What do you look for in a scenario? in Blades of Avernum | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 08:25
Profile
Homepage
quote:It was also pretty short. Short plot-only scenarios are possible, definitely. Making it longer, well, no one has tried that 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 07:57
Profile
Homepage
quote:I didn't see that statistic. Could you provide a link to the page on which it appears and a description of where on the page to find it? quote: quote:The traditional interpretation of this rule is that being nasty and unpleasant constitutes an infraction. [ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 08:01: 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 07:09
Profile
Homepage
quote:This is not a statistic that I quoted, and you have not mentioned it before. Where does it come from? The same site? quote:He's an admin. You would do well to treat him with some respect. -------------------- 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 |
Sex! Yay! in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Tuesday, September 19 2006 07:06
Profile
Homepage
I think that we can all agree that it's wrong to try to force someone not to be gay. I don't think that's even in question here. I think we all are also aware that homosexual people experience pressure — whether direct intolerance or just a sense of "societal pressure" — to act more straight. Sometimes this pressure is more self-imposed than not, and sometimes it is very much the result of parental influence or the like. This pressure is generally bad. I'm fairly certain that we can all agree that mature adults should have the right to make their own decisions about their sexuality: how or even if to express it, with whom, etc. If all of these are taken as given (if anyone objects, speak up), then the question that remains is if it is ever healthy or appropriate for a person to want to change from gay to straight or the other way around. (Believe it or not, some girls actually do feel pressure to be bisexual, to do things with other girls.) Clearly it is not healthy if that desire to change stems from external pressure. I'd say that it's also not healthy if that desire to change comes from the belief that being gay is morally wrong, although that may be up for debate. I don't know of any other reason that a person would want to change in that way, although that's not to say that there can't possibly be any. -------------------- 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 Spiderweb Art Movement. in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 21:41
Profile
Homepage
I wrote this six years ago. It's a sonnet. I think I've posted it before. Most people don't get it when they first read it. quote: -------------------- 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 do you look for in a scenario? in Blades of Avernum | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 21:26
Profile
Homepage
The default BoA spells kinda suck when taken in the context of what the engine can do. BoA has an enormous amount of possibility for special spells, which we've just begun to scratch the surface of. Canopy is one interpretation of what one can do with them. Exodus is another. Plot is probably the most important scenario element. Without a decent plot, a scenario can only be mediocre at best. Challenges (puzzles/combat) are probably next. A scenario can survive without them, but it's hard to maintain a pure-plot scenario for very long (and I'm not sure that anyone has ever done it). Dazzle comes next, either outstanding writing or technical trickery. This is the difference between 8-range scenarios and 9-range scenarios, as far as I'm concerned (speaking in CSR terms); 8-range scenarios are good, functional, and fun, but not astonishing, whereas 9-range scenarios make you say "wow" at several points. -------------------- 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 21:07
Profile
Homepage
quote:And government funds the institutions that do most of the research. I'm not sure how I can be more clear than this. Who does the research? Colleges and universities. Where do they get their money? The government. Thus, the government funds the research. [ Monday, September 18, 2006 21:09: 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 17:32
Profile
Homepage
quote:It would help if you finished reading the sentence, you doofus. quote:There is a difference between "R&D" as defined by the NSF and "basic research" as defined by the NSF. Basic research more resembles what one would think of as traditional scientific inquiry. [ Monday, September 18, 2006 17:34: 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 |
Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 14:50
Profile
Homepage
quote:This statement interested me, because I've heard people say this, and I've heard people say the opposite, neither ever providing statistics. This essentially is two statistical statements: first, tax comes mostly from the middle class, and second, most science is funded by the government. Here's the statistics behind the first one. There's a page on irs.gov that has a whole bunch of tax statistics from as recently as 2003. (Click on the first "All Returns" category to get the file I'm talking about. In the left-most column of the spreadsheet, it gives income ranges, and in the right-most column, it gives total taxation from that range.) Apparently, more than half of all tax in the U.S. (a whopping 62%) comes from people between the income levels of $50,000 and $500,000. Indeed, 46% comes from people between the income levels of $50,000 and $200,000, which is pretty much still in the middle class range. The very rich ($1,000,000 or higher) pay a total of around 18% of all tax. Thus, it's pretty fair to say that most tax income comes from the middle class (and another good chunk from the lower end of the upper class). Note here that we're talking about personal income tax alone, not sales tax, business taxes, or anything like that. However, according to this page, the overwhelming share of the tax revenue that the federal government gets comes from individual income tax and only a small chunk from businesses and other things. Next issue: is science largely funded by the government? According to nsf.gov's page on the subject, industry does the majority (68%) of R&D in the U.S., but universities and colleges did 55% of all basic research in the U.S. (which is probably what we're talking about when we talk about "science"). According to this page, 64% of all university and college funding for R&D comes from the federal government, and presumably that applies as much or more to basic research, too. In other words, it is also pretty fair to say that most science in the present-day U.S. is funded by the government, which gets most of its taxes from the middle class and the moderately (not extremely) wealthy. [ Monday, September 18, 2006 14:54: 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 |
NM in Geneforge Series | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 12:43
Profile
Homepage
Apparently he changed his mind and edited out whatever it was that he posted. It's probably better that 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 |
Soon there will be no need to do this in General | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 06:33
Profile
Homepage
Hmm. It's been a while since the release of the last SW game, and it's also been a while since a major Blades event. Both of those are coming up pretty soon (contest in November, GF4 in probably November or December), so the pace will probably pick up. -------------------- 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 |
Graphic Request in Blades of Avernum | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Monday, September 18 2006 06:22
Profile
Homepage
My site has a link to her site (and to every other known BoA site). -------------------- 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 | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Sunday, September 17 2006 19:40
Profile
Homepage
quote:Aha! I unified the character IDs for identical characters in different towns. If he's not showing up at the next camp, either, you must have killed him at some point. How did you pull that off without causing hell? -------------------- 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 |
Graphics please... in Blades of Avernum | |
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
|
written Sunday, September 17 2006 18:59
Profile
Homepage
quote:I have nothing constructive to add. This is just too quotable. -------------------- 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 |