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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:33
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That was an odd reply. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:32
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Sort of. In several scenarios, NPCs join your party temporarily, giving you five and sometimes six characters. The largest scenarios so far are Bahssikava and Canopy. Magus of Cattalon is also of a pretty good size and has met with good reviews. There are several other slightly smaller scenarios (A Perfect Forest, Backwater Calls, Druids of Krell, etc.) that you may enjoy, 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 20:19
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Yiff. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 20:08
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Er, there are some parts of the Bible that seem to reflect historical fact, but they are few and far between. It kind of has the same status as the Homeric poems as far as historicity: a lot of people would like it to be true, and there are some tantalizing pieces of evidence, but there just isn't enough to say anything definitive about most of the story. In other words, I'd be careful with your wording, there, not that you've said anything false, but just that you might be misinterpreted as saying more than you actually are. (Actually, the Homeric poems are more likely to reflect actual history, but that's another issue.) [ Monday, April 24, 2006 20:11: 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 19:53
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It is definitely true that, as with any politically controversial issue, there is a lot of misinformation out there about environmental issues. There are facts, though, and they are pretty disturbing at times. But, you know, I don't think that environmental issues will be solved by environmental arguments. I don't think that enough people really give a damn about the spotted owl. I do think that people understand that gas prices are going up right now, and they're only going to get higher, so buying a car that doesn't use a lot of fuel makes good monetary sense. Likewise, it's a pretty big investment to put solar panels on your roof, but energy bills are only getting higher, and PG&E (our local energy provider here in California) is rather dysfunctional. We have blackouts during peak usage from time to time. Buying a few solar panels makes good sense for those who want to save some money and not have to deal with the vagaries of the energy company. Besides, I live in California. SF is a bit different, but our neighbors down south in LA get about 360 sunny days per year. Solar power makes sense. These, I think, are the arguments that will convince people, not OMG TEH WORLD IS LIEK GOIGN 2 DIE!!!!111 [ Monday, April 24, 2006 19:56: 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 18:46
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The rules that Alec quoted apply to exclamation marks and question marks, which is what he used as his examples. This, as I have said, I have on good authority. I can find other books that cite the rule if necessary, but I am sure that this is in fact the rule. I am also in favor of using "Frances's" as the possessive of "Frances," because it is indeed pronounced that way. English orthography follows rules once you remember that we're talking about historical pronunciation, not current-day, and both indicate "Frances's" as the proper form. Also, numerals (like any proper symbol, including individual letters) pluralize with an apostrophe. That is, if you see a 2 written on a wall, and then underneath it, you see another 2, you have seen two 2's. [ Monday, April 24, 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 13:13
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It's from the 1990's. The rule is legitimate. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 12:32
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I am surprised that this has not been corrected yet: in American English, certain punctuation marks always go inside the quote (commas and periods), and certain ones always outside the quote (colons and semi-colons), and the others (question marks and exclamation marks) go inside or outside as in British English. My source for this is the grammar book English Simplified. I cite it because this is an odd rule. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 12:26
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Din: My guess is that your states weren't being called appropriately. I don't recall ever using a negative value for a memory cell, but I'd be surprised if it weren't possible. Thralni: A numeric input script already exists. It's really easy to make one. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 12:26
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Din: My guess is that your states weren't being called appropriately. I don't recall ever using a negative value for a memory cell, but I'd be surprised if it weren't possible. Thralni: A numeric input script already exists. It's really easy to make one. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 07:05
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"Ancient Mesopotamia" is even more vague, because there's no necessary dividing line between the civilizations that began almost ten thousand years ago and the civilization that was colonized and then divided by the British almost a century ago. Do you mean just pre-Islamic Mesopotamia (again, contemporary with the Romans)? Do you mean pre-foreign-conquest Mesopotamia, so maybe pre-Persian, which would be 500 B.C. and before? Do you mean the Sumerians and Akkadians and such? -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 06:57
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I'm about one small town away from having finished all the towns, and then I have to make a handful of individual scripting changes (add a combat here, change a message there) that should take only about a day. I can say that alpha testing will happen after finals (mid-May), and a beta call should come soon after that. -------------------- 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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written Monday, April 24 2006 06:51
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Speaking of being obtuse, "ancient Babylon" is a rather vague term. Babylon was a significant ancient city from the late third millenium B.C. until somewhat after the time of Alexander the Great. If you're going to be snotty about what is included and what isn't, you'd better specify whether you mean older Babylonian stuff, or all the way through Neo-Babylon (which is in fact contemporary with the early Roman Republic in Cato the Elder's time). [ Monday, April 24, 2006 06:52: 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 06:37
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Oh, you meant only Mesopotamian death penalties? I thought you meant only old death penalties. Never mind, then. EDIT: WKS posted something from much, much later. Chastise him, too. :P [ Monday, April 24, 2006 06:38: 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 06:24
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Crucifixion was truly egregiously cruel. Crucifying thousands of slaves in response to a slave revolt was probably the single most gruesome thing the Romans ever 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 |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 06:21
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"Heard" is the past tense of the verb "to hear," as in "I heard the music yesterday." "Heart" is the part of the body that pumps blood. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, April 23 2006 21:30
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quote:Anything can predict real-world events most of the time if one allows for sufficient "percent uncertainty." :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 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 21:24
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My favorite Polish word so far is biznesmenka. It is derived from biznesmen ("businessman"), with a feminine suffix stuck on the end. It just strikes me as a little ridiculous. I'm also fond of parkować ("to park"). Also głupi, which is pronounced GWU-pi, which means "stupid" and sounds like it, too. In German, any monosyllabic word with a long ü in it is great, just because I am so fond of the close front rounded vowel /y/. Also words with five or more syllables. In Spanish, all of my favorite words are dirty. (Thanks, dear.) In Greek, my favorite word is διαφθέρω, which is what Socrates was accused of doing to the youth. It means "I corrupt" (classical verbs were referenced by their first-person singular, rather than their infinitive), but the "dia" prefix is the preposition "through" — it's corrupting something utterly, all the way through it, completely to the core. In Latin, my favorite words are fas and nefas, referring to things that are cosmically right and wrong, respectively. In English, my favorite word is "diagonalizable," because it is excessive. So is "eigenfunction." EDIT: Oh, and I'm fond of the German word doch, a negative answer to a negative statement/question: "Du hast kein Buch." "Doch." ("You don't have a book." "No[, I do].") [ Sunday, April 23, 2006 21:34: 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 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 19:33
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Because I hate you. >8E :mad: -------------------- 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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written Sunday, April 23 2006 17:38
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quote:The problem is with the word "possible." Anselm's proof was the the greatest being of all existing beings does exist. Your statements are true for the greatest conceivable being, which may or may not exist. The greatest being that exists may not be the greatest being that could exist. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, April 23 2006 16:18
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While reading a basic relativity textbook, I once encountered a few paragraphs describing tachyons. The term "tachyon" describes a faster-than-light particle, and many theories over the years have included them. Each theory had a different explanation of what they were and how they came into existence. Then physicists went to the lab and tried to produce them, and they never managed to. No one has ever proven that tachyons don't exist, and it may not be possible to do so, but physicists have demonstrated that they are not created in many situations in which one might predict that they would be. Basically, we can't say that they don't exist, but we can put ever-increasingly strict limits on their existence until they're hardly significant anymore. I feel more or less the same way about a potential god. We can't say that no gods exist, but we can put increasingly strict limits on their existence — "I don't observe a god when I do [x], [y], or [z]" — until they're no longer significant to our lives, except in figurative ways. I should add that such "figurative" ways are non-trivial, and I don't mean to disparage them. I just mean that there's a difference between a god who writes down his instructions on tablets of stone and what we observe in our daily lives. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, April 23 2006 15:46
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I hate it when people describe a scientific theory as "wrong." It's not that a theory is "right" or "wrong": it's that it's to a greater or lesser degree successfully able to make observable predictions that match real-world events. Newton's mechanics are quite successful in this regard; they're just not as successful in certain situations as Einstein's theories. Newton's mechanics are more successful than, say, Aristotle's mechanics, though, and it would be odd to say that Newton's mechanics are "right" when compared to Aristotle's but "wrong" when compared to Einstein's. I also hate it when people describe a scientific principle as "just a theory." In casual conversation, a "theory," a "hypothesis," an "inference," and a "guess" are all basically the same thing, but in formal scientific discourse, a "theory" is a rule underpinning vast amounts of interpretation of data. A "theory" is much more significant than a "fact": a fact can only tell you what happened one time, but a theory can tell you what is going to happen every time, and a theory doesn't become widely accepted (or widely termed a "theory") until there are vast tracts of data supporting it. I think that it's important for people to know these things, but a shockingly low number actually does. I suppose they're not taught very effectively in middle school and high school science classes. EDIT: For the record, this was just a rant in general, not particularly directed at anyone, as should be obvious but may not be. [ Sunday, April 23, 2006 15:50: 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 |
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written Sunday, April 23 2006 15:33
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The simplest and most accurate thing to do as far as storing large numbers in SDFs is simply use two SDFs as the digits of a base-256 number (or base-250 to stay safely away from maximums). Say, flags (250,0) and (250,1): set_flag(250,0,coins_amount() / 250); // tens digit set_flag(250,1,coins_amount() % 250); // ones digit Thus the total numbers of coins stored is (get_flag(250,0) * 250) + get_flag(250,1). [ Sunday, April 23, 2006 15:35: 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 |