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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
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Reputation system in BoA? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, June 4 2006 11:02 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Lancer: But if reputation is scripted ourselves, wouldn't it just be shown as comments on the text window? Yes. quote: Can it be scripted so that it shows as a permanent stat on the character sheet just like the Avernum trilogy did? No. Hence the need to create a special ability so that you can see your reputation whenever you want. -------------------- 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, June 2 2006 18:15 Profile Homepage #174 You know, I'd be okay with a reference given for a fact ("[q] gene was duplicated in [x] way and provides [y] benefit, see [website]"). I'd be less okay with, "I agree with the argument given on this website, which I'm going to partially paraphrase because it's hundreds of pages long." I'd be okay with a borrowed argument (or even borrowed definitions) as long as you can give the entire explanation for the argument and the definitions. Quoting must not be mistaken for proof, however. EDIT: Thanks, Thuryl. [ Friday, June 02, 2006 18:17: 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, June 2 2006 10:00 Profile Homepage #166 quote: Originally written by Major: What do you want a website? But the problem with websites is that most of them do the same thing. And are made by very um, stuck in their way people... No, not a website. An argument. A post that actually makes an argument, start to finish. quote: Oh, and I do believe that mutations can be helpful I've told you that dozens of times. Its just that mutations that add genes are not. Can someone just cite an example of how this is wrong and shut him up? quote: Thuryl: The reason we seperate micro and macro evolution is to tell you which part we believe and which part we don't. Good as reason as any I guess. But creationists are the only ones who can tell the difference. Microevolution and macroevolution are different amounts of the same thing. (Unless you say that macroevolution is speciation, but that's been observed in a lab, too.) [ Friday, June 02, 2006 10:02: 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, June 2 2006 05:01 Profile Homepage #159 quote: Originally written by The Creator: An ordered structure is based on simple units repeated numerous times. Life, however, contain specified complexity. To demostrate briefly: "abababab" is an ordered sequence, "tvohdrsd" is a random complex sequence, and, "designed" is a specific complex sequence. It is specific because it is the particular sequence required (in this case for the conveying of a meaning). See this article for some more detail. This is an atrociously bad argument. By this reasoning, "rzadko" is random, and "designed" is specific, provided that we're speaking English. If we're speaking Polish, "designed" is random, and "rzadko" is specific. This differentiation is more based on the observer than on the observed. If you generate enough random groups of letters, you're bound to come up with words ("specific" organization) after a while. Hell, if you generate enough random groups of letters, you'll probably come up with different words from different languages (phylums), and upon so many iterations, you will randomly have generated a whole bunch of nonsense (useless or harmful mutations) and probably a higher percentage of certain languages than other ones (more dinosaurs than mammals or vice-versa). This sounds more like an example in favor of evolution than against it. [ Friday, June 02, 2006 05:05: 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
Upgrading from OS 9 binaries to OS X in Tech Support
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 21:25 Profile Homepage #1 I swear I've read this information before from somewhere not on these boards. Is it on the website or something? I can't find it anywhere else. Maybe I'm wrong and I just read a post here. I presume that must be 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 21:21 Profile Homepage #150 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: Haven't read the whole thread and stuff, but isn't one distinction between ID and Creationism that ID does not necessarily conflict with evolution, and be more concerned with the origin of life in the first place? Not usually, no. Traditionally, ID also denies that evolution beyond the barest gene changes actually takes place, and it also traditionally denies that evolution is responsible for the diversity of life as it appears on the planet today. That is, normally, intelligent design says that life was designed as we see it today. However, there's nothing that prevents someone from saying that the initial spark of life was provided by a designer — the origin of life was designed but the evolutionary process still occurred from there — and calling that "intelligent design" also, as far as I know. It's not what ID advocates usually argue, and I don't think it would really constitute a scientific theory either — unless you could actually find the intelligent designers — but it'd be a little less frustrating. Creator (not Ash): I think you'd better explain the way in which hurricanes are the result of simple patterns in a way that life forms are not. Life forms exhibit complexity, as do hurricanes. Life forms are the manifestations of complex starting states, as are hurricanes. Life forms manifest these complex starting states according to (relatively) simple rules, as do hurricanes. These starting states for life forms develop according to (relatively) simple rules, as do the ones for hurricanes. -------------------- 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 19:16 Profile Homepage #144 Creator: If you think that hurricanes are not organized because their algorithms are not complex enough, then I may have understood the relevance of this to evolution. The algorithms in evolution are simple enough. I think that you're saying that evolution creates a result that looks like a complex plan put into effect, but I would object that it does so with simple patterns. Hurricanes also create a result that looks like a complex plan put into effect, and they do so with simple patterns. EDIT: As far as life arising: we're not talking about the origin of life. That's not established science; work is still being done in that area. We're talking about the progression of life after it began (evolution). [ Thursday, June 01, 2006 19:23: 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
My God can beat up your God! in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 18:19 Profile Homepage #188 quote: Originally written by GremlinJoe: It is not the same god though. Allah has his origin in ancient Mecca. And Dyaus Pita, the Vedic god, has his origin in Indo-European culture, but it would be silly to call him identical to Jupiter or Zeus. quote: It does mean what you've said it means but the ancien Meccan god was supposed to be set above all others, so anyone acknowledging him would have to call him "The god" as in the only one. One could say exactly the same thing about the Jewish God or the Christian God. Try it: "The Jewish God was supposed to be set above all others, so anyone acknowledging him would have to call him 'the god,' that is, the only one." One does in fact refer to "the God of the Jews," not "a god of the Jews." quote: That is a lot of proof in itself that Allah is in fact an opponent of the Jewish god. Um, no, it's evidence that they're the same thing, because they say the same things about themselves. quote: He independantly claims soveriegnty over all things. As does the Jewish God. As does the Christian God. More evidence that they're the same. quote: And by different I mean if you read what the religions say about certain things found in all three. This isn't a sentence, but I think you're trying to say that the religions describe the same aspects of their god in different ways. Cite an example if you want this to count as evidence. Seriously, though, just let it go. Allah is not Satan. There's no good theological connection between the two, and you're making yourself look even more ridiculous than you already do by pretending that there is. -------------------- 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 18:08 Profile Homepage #137 quote: Originally written by The Creator: 'Chaotic' systems, as I understand them, can be said to have complex behavior arising from (relatively) simple algorithims. Complex behavior arising from relatively simple algorithms. How is this different from evolution, again? -------------------- 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 17:04 Profile Homepage #131 The distinction is qualitative, not quantitative, no? I'd call a hurricane "organized" by that definition. There are very clear components that are each complex in themselves. -------------------- 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 16:50 Profile Homepage #129 quote: Originally written by The Creator: You can ignore the complex mechanism part if you like. Just give me an example of organisation arising without the involvement of life or human design. Magnetism comes to mind. Given proper circumstances, the electron spins in a metal (usually a metal, anyway) will line up precisely. This is a highly organized state that, if plopped in a vacuum for an eternity, will eventually cease. Humans make magnets, but planets make magnets, too, without any sort of life or human design necessarily involved. -------------------- 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
Blades vs. Avernum 4 in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:38 Profile Homepage #3 Do Blades. -------------------- 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
Reputation system in BoA? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:36 Profile Homepage #2 It's really easy, though. Use an SDF to keep track of it. If you're really snazzy, give the party a special ability that allows them to check it. Make sure to use print_str to give status updates when the reputation changes, as the Avernum Trilogy did. -------------------- 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
Reputation system in BoA? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:36 Profile Homepage #2 It's really easy, though. Use an SDF to keep track of it. If you're really snazzy, give the party a special ability that allows them to check it. Make sure to use print_str to give status updates when the reputation changes, as the Avernum Trilogy did. -------------------- 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
Clock Design in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:35 Profile Homepage #5 I believe that Avernumscript calculates math right-to-left, so daytick * 36 / 125 = daytick * 0 = 0. Parentheses should fix 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
Clock Design in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:35 Profile Homepage #5 I believe that Avernumscript calculates math right-to-left, so daytick * 36 / 125 = daytick * 0 = 0. Parentheses should fix 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
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 14:23 Profile Homepage #119 quote: Originally written by Lenar Research Facilites: 2. Physics does trump biology in the mind of a Mathemetician or doctor of Physics, the two fields which oddly enough comprise the majority of the intellectual leaders of the ID movement. The Imperial Wizard of the ID movement is in fact a lawyer, not a scientist, namely Phillip E. Johnson. Physics doesn't trump biology in the mind of any real scientist: evidence trumps lack of evidence. My problem with ID as a scientific theory is that it isn't one. First, the actual science going on (information theory stuff, which appears to be only vaguely legitimate) is only a critique of evolutionary theory. Even if such a critique were completely successful, demonstrating that evolution is wrong doesn't prove that ID is right. Second, ID doesn't actually make any useful predictions that can be tested against evidence. All it actually predicts is a lack of evidence for evolution, which isn't evidence in favor of anything. Quantum mechanics, for example, was one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century because it made testable predications that people verified (repeatedly, because they were odd). ID can't do that. I'm fine with people believing in things in spite of all the evidence. Most of us do this at one time or another. There's nothing terribly wrong with it. There is something terrible wrong, though, with pretending that the evidence supports you when it doesn't. EDIT: Systems do randomly become more complex, and we can see it happen in linguistic evolution. Most of the changes that I can think of are shifts from one complex system to another (cases to prepositions, for example), but the addition of articles is one that is a straightforward increase in complexity. Latin didn't have articles, and it pretty much lacked any grammatical way of specifying the definiteness or indefiniteness of a noun. Spanish, which descends from it, does have articles (they come from the Latin demonstrative ille and the number one unus). This is an increase in complexity that took place randomly — no one person just decided one day that Spanish was going to start having articles — without any directly corresponding decrease in complexity elsewhere in the language. [ Thursday, June 01, 2006 14:31: 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
Ghosts of Stalin in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, June 1 2006 08:42 Profile Homepage #93 quote: Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas: Given that he doesn't notice the hints that he is unwelcome here and only responds when people say it explicitly, I thought it a logical question based on a logical premise. Are you a trained psychologist? If not, don't ever ask questions like this. It's damned insensitive. That's very personal information. Sorry to bring up an old issue, but this rankles me. -------------------- 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
Some interesting questions in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 17:06 Profile Homepage #13 There are no particularly useful rules for the placement of stress in English (or, I think, in Russian), so my reason for marking the stress would be to indicate exactly how to pronounce the word. The point is not to clarify meaning but to make it easier to pronounce unfamiliar words. -------------------- 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
Some interesting questions in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 15:41 Profile Homepage #10 If English writers can't make the shift to a more phonetic spelling system, at least we could start marking accents the way that the Greeks do (and the way that the Russians should). As for an actress to play Marlenny, Selma Hayek is the first person who's coming to mind. -------------------- 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
Ghosts of Stalin in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 10:14 Profile Homepage #79 Good, the bad one is gone. He did say he was leaving after that post, right? Just so everyone else knows: Ed is flat-out lying. He had an extended e-mail conversation with an admin about his ban that ended with Ed cursing at the admin and then admitting that the admin was right. He was given every chance to improve his behavior and he didn't. The rules were enforced properly, and, as soon as Stareye or Drakey gets around to it, they will be enforced properly again. -------------------- 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
Ghosts of Stalin in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 07:44 Profile Homepage #72 quote: Originally written by Keto-san: I was merely displaying the ideological conclusion of what PoD Person had suggested (and what tends to be a very common stock-defense). Why the hell were you responding to PoD person when you were quoting me? -------------------- 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
Calendar Modification in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 07:40 Profile Homepage #1 No. You can turn the whole thing off, but you can't change it much. Check the Appendices under The Passage of Time to see what little you can 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
Calendar Modification in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 07:40 Profile Homepage #1 No. You can turn the whole thing off, but you can't change it much. Check the Appendices under The Passage of Time to see what little you can 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
My God can beat up your God! in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 30 2006 07:38 Profile Homepage #164 quote: Originally written by Ford Prefect: But the main disagreement of mentioned religions is worshipping God's "messiah". For Judaists he hasn't yet come, for christians Christ is a synonym to messiah, and for Muslims it was Mahomet. Judaists deny both. Christians deny one. Muslims do not deny any, but worship the last one. Not only is Muhammed not a messiah for Muslims, but Muslims absolutely do not worship him. They worship God, and God alone. -------------------- 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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