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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
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Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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US and Sudan in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 16:44 Profile Homepage #49 quote: Originally written by Zeviz: Israel tried to negotiate after every single war. Arabs refused peace in 1948. Arabs refused peace in 1956. Arabs refused peace in 1967. Only after 1973, when Arabs gave up on destroying Israel did Egypt accept peace. In 1973, Arabs had the advantage of a surprize attack during the day of the year when almost all Jewish soldiers were in sinagogues, but still lost. Only after that did Egypt accept peace. As I recall, Israelis refused peace, too. Both sides had offers that the other side refused. Arabs blame Israelis for not accepting the terms that Arabs wanted, and Israelis blame Arabs for not accepting the terms that Israelis wanted. It's clearly the fault of both sides for not finding a compromise. quote: The talks with the Palestinians in late 1990s were the classic example: whenever Israel agreed to Palestinian demands, new demands arose. The problem was that Israeli leaders didn't really just "agree" to any given Palestinian demand, nor did Palestinian leaders just "agree" to any given Israeli demand. There was always much more give and take: "Okay, we'll accept less of this land in this spot for more land over here in this other spot." But really, anyone who expected Netanyahu and Arafat to agree on anything was idealistic. With the assassination of Rabin, the peace process was set back about twenty or thirty years. quote: And after this people still have the audacity to say that Israelis are the ones refusing to negotiate and trying to wipe the other side off the map? "Refusing to negotiate" is addressed above, but concerning wiping the other side off the map: Ben-Gurion did start a program of relocation, as far as scholars can tell. He can't be blamed for every last one of the million refugees created after the 1948 war, but he also doesn't stand blameless. Some Muslims have sworn to drive out the "Zionists" — as they are fond of calling the Israelis — but some Israeli political leaders, including Netanyahu, have not sounded terribly more reasonable when talking about the Palestinians. EDIT: My point here is that there's plenty of blame to go around, and Israel definitely should get a healthy share. It's not the most constructive way to think, but denying all wrongdoing is a good way to start a fight and not bring people to the table to negotiate. [ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 16:45: 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
a4 is the best game yet in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 14:34 Profile Homepage #49 quote: Originally written by Red_Sage: Alot of people are comparing A4 to prior offerings with rose tinted glass, making them unable to judge objectively. Well, it's good to know that your personal preferences are objective. You list a lot of "improvements" that I don't like. "What makes a good game" is about as subjective as it gets. EDIT: As far as BG goes, this may be heretical, but I could never get into it. I think I'm really not fond of how D&D handles magic, and I never played for long enough to get good with BG's rules. [ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 14:36: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
US and Sudan in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 06:47 Profile Homepage #46 You know what really bothers me about the Israel-Palestine conflict? The way it manages to take over every other issue. At every demonstration I've ever seen at U.C. Berkeley, no matter on what topic, there's always somebody with an "End the Occupation of Palestine" sign. Here, when we began talking about an actual in-progress genocide, we got derailed into talking about Israel. This is not the only important issue in the world, dammit. Other people live in circumstances that are more dire. EDIT: That said, the Israelis have all the political and economic power in Israel, and the Palestinians have none. As long as that remains true, peace between unequals is impossible. [ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 06:48: 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
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, May 1 2006 06:59 Profile Homepage #79 What you were saying in this thread was no more trolling than what you normally say in issue threads... wait, I get it now! :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
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, May 1 2006 06:38 Profile Homepage #77 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Tackling global poverty is perhaps like job retraining for entire societies. European countries mostly have youth unemployment rates that would be considered screaming national catastrophes in the US. In support of a form of reinstitutionalization, I was impressed by a recent New Yorker article. I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about or how it is relevant to what I said. Are you agreeing with me? Disagreeing with me? Providing additional evidence that complicates and problematizes what I said? EDIT: Having read the article now, I kind of get it. Yes, this is what I'm talking about: the hardcore homeless are almost invariably seriously addicted to drugs, mentally ill, or both. They need treatment much more than they need anything else. Thuryl, did you just say, in effect, "I may have just said something really stupid, and you may have just called me on it, but WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!" [ Monday, May 01, 2006 06:51: 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
Writter's Block in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, April 30 2006 08:57 Profile Homepage #46 Phrase that question in the past tense. Apple already ported iTunes to Windows and made iPods compatible with it. I think it's fairly safe to say that it did help Apple's business, given how much money they've made off of selling iPods to Windows-users without an appreciable decline in Mac sales. In fact, I think that, statistically, buying an iPod makes a person more likely to buy a Mac, not less. -------------------- 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
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, April 29 2006 19:16 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by Ohe, vo stetto.: Am I detecting a hint of Ishmael? Do we focus too much on food today and birth control tomorrow? That seems like a good question, because while I disagree with a number of points in that book, I think we've already seen that increasing the amount of food increases the number of people, not the standard of living. The problem with that book is that it stems from demographic knowledge up to about fifty or a hundred years ago. There's a far better understanding of the demographic transition now. If we could just get the whole world through the bottleneck — to stage four — rising population would not be an issue. The natural growth rate in developed countries is negative. That's what Daniel Quinn fails to notice. [ Saturday, April 29, 2006 19:24: 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
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, April 29 2006 06:04 Profile Homepage #28 I think the first step is to reduce greatly the amount of poverty in the world, which can be done right now. I'd like to start, as far as the U.S.'s policies go, with reducing the amount of poverty in the U.S. We talk about people starving in Africa, but there are people starving here, and we often don't notice. As always, there isn't going to be any one answer to poverty in the United States. Part of the answer is a renewed investment in our schools in order to give people more general skills and an ability to do work that requires literacy and basic mathematical skills, because an overwhelming number of professions do. Part of the answer, at least in California, is re-opening the mental institutions that Reagan shut down forty years ago: he just tossed these people out on the street, and they (and those like them) have been homeless and dirt-poor ever since. Part of the answer is better advertisement in schools of the broad range of professions out there. Vocational school is somewhat stigmatized compared to university education, but a career in the trades is often as worthwhile as anything else (and pays pretty well, too), and there's a large shortage in apprentices right now. Part of the answer, I think, is a better social safety net. Social welfare of any kind is not popular in the U.S., but we need to look to various European models and design something new: the simple fact of the present-day economy is that people will change jobs several times in their lives, and we need to have a better system of getting unemployed people back to work. I know less about this than other issues, so I can't specify exactly what (and, to be honest, it's likely that this would require something complicated), but I know that we can do more. I may be missing vital pieces of the puzzle, but I really think that our aim has to be, at first, to end destitution in our own country. Foreign aid is important, too, and I'm not saying that we should stop; I'm just saying that we can have an immediate positive impact 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
im new -help me with Bahssikava in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, April 29 2006 05:27 Profile Homepage #2 Or at least name the town you're in. -------------------- 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
Pronunciation in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, April 29 2006 05:25 Profile Homepage #21 It helps if you can, you know, spell the words, because both of your pronunciations of "rakshasa" are horribly wrong. That is also a real word, borrowed into English from Sanskrit, and the correct pronunciation is RAHK-shah-sah (the A's are pronounced as in "father"). Chitrach, on the other hand, is not a real English word, but your pronunciations are still pretty blatantly wrong, because "chi" never says "si" in English. I've always pronounced it as naturally as I could: CHIT-ratch. Jeff may have had "chitin" in mind when he made up the word, though, and if so, it would be pronounced entirely differently. (It would sound like "kite-rack.") [ Saturday, April 29, 2006 05:27: 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
Yom HaShoa in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 20:19 Profile Homepage #67 I said they behaved like normal people, not ideally virtuous people. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Writter's Block in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 17:19 Profile Homepage #23 Do you also find the idea of Microsoft Word (and the rest of Office) or Windows Media Player on Macs odd? These programs all exist in Mac versions, too. -------------------- 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
Yom HaShoa in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 15:12 Profile Homepage #63 That was my point: the Germans, after the Nazis took power, behaved as any normal human beings would (following orders because they had to). Therefore, the key is preventing anyone like Hitler from taking power again. Once Hitler is in charge, disaster is already inevitable (if not already in progress). [ Friday, April 28, 2006 15:14: 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
Yom HaShoa in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 13:15 Profile Homepage #61 Um, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to order the execution of an entire race of people. I thought that the main point of studying the Holocaust was to learn how to prevent others from committing genocide (that is, how to recognize and stop a Hitler early on so that things never reach the point that they reached in Nazi Germany). -------------------- 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
April Chat Times in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 13:04 Profile Homepage #2 I won't be home until something like 9 p.m. EST. Have fun without 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
Languages in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 12:48 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Dolphin.: I was able to speak Macedonian/Greek as a child, but I don’t remember most of it. Well, which one was it, Macedonian or Greek? They're two completely different languages, after all. -------------------- 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
Languages in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 07:08 Profile Homepage #12 I'm not Polish (or even Slavic) at all. I started taking it because it is a living language with very similar features to the dead ones that I've been studying. The grammar is a lot like Latin's. -------------------- 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
Yom HaShoa in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 06:56 Profile Homepage #58 I think the Holocaust may have been exceptional even among genocides because of its scale and speed. Six million Jews and five million others in about six years is quite a lot quite rapidly. The Armenian Genocide, for instance, killed around 1.5 million in about three or four years (as far as I can tell — it looks as though records are not completely clear on the subject). The elimination of the Native Americans killed more people, but it happened over the course of about four hundred years. One million per year for six years is pretty well unparalleled as far as I 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
Languages in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 28 2006 06:29 Profile Homepage #10 I speak English and some Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish, Polish, and German. -------------------- 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
Difficulty of Bahssikava in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 21:10 Profile Homepage #16 Which cave? Which town are you in? The Deeps, perhaps? -------------------- 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 H.E.R. and P.F.W. do? in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 17:30 Profile Homepage #4 In BoA, it protects against missile attacks, too. Does it not do this in A4? Er, I should say that the creature immunity against melee protects against missile attacks, which I think is more or less the comparable protection. [ Thursday, April 27, 2006 17:31: 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
Ungrateful and hostile almarians in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 17:27 Profile Homepage #4 As Ephesos said in the other thread, you're not missing much if you skip Almaria entirely. -------------------- 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 H.E.R. and P.F.W. do? in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 17:03 Profile Homepage #2 That is, Hostile Effect Resistance resists hostile effects, and Protection From Weapons protects from weapons. :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
Ungrateful and hostile almarians in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 16:18 Profile Homepage #1 You have to free Ghall-Ihrno under Almaria. Talk to Houghton in the Castle and eventually he'll give you this mission. There is some chance that you have triggered this bug. -------------------- 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
a4 is the best game yet in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 27 2006 14:07 Profile Homepage #34 A1 was cool for me because it was a new world, and the exploration was fun because I was always finding out more about the place. It didn't need a lot of involved plot, because the setting was so new. (I guess Exile players must've been pretty frustrated, though.) A4 is different: it not only lacks an involved plot, but it also has no new setting. I think that's why I felt the way I did about it — and don't get me wrong: I had fun playing it, just not as much as with any other Spiderweb game — and I suspect that other long-time players felt the same way. I hope that you at least understand where this portion of your fan base is coming from, even if you don't exactly feel apologetic for making a game that sells well. -------------------- 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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