Profile for Boots
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| Displayed name | Boots |
| Member number | 455 |
| Title | Shock Trooper |
| Postcount | 265 |
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| Registered | Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
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| 1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, November 9 2006 19:55
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A curious thing about Mussolini: he didn't actually make the trains run on time. He just ruled in a way that appealed to people who liked to be able to say that at least the trains were running on time. These people, apparently, are still with us now. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Ash Got Banned... in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, March 3 2006 22:10
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The old heroes always return at the end. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Regrettable But in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, July 20 2005 13:18
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quote:I had been contently minding my business at desp. Then this futile ramrodery spilled over there. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Beta Call for Mad Ambition in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, May 19 2005 21:34
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I MOCK AND DERIDE NOT ONLY YOUR WORK, BUT THE WORK OF ALL YOUR ENEMIES AND COMPETITORS. TREMBLE BENEATH THE TOWERING DISDAIN THAT QUALIFIES ME TO BETA TEST. IN CONCLUSION, ARENI RAWKS!!!!!!!!! -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| BORK BASELY BETRAYED in Richard White Games | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, May 18 2005 16:41
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FAT AND SASSY IN YOUR WOOKIE COSTUME, BORK, YOU CAMP OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX  GIVING TAIL-DRAGGING ANTHONY  HIS CHANCE  TO DINE ON CHICKEN AND WINE  [ Wednesday, May 18, 2005 16:41: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Rebellion in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 28 2005 15:42
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Well, if we're gonna reason in circles, we could just as easily conclude that because the imperial regime depends for its survival on conditions that cannot but provoke social instability, it, and not the rebels, is the force of disorder. And, anyway, doesn't Vogel's tatty old lesson in ambiguity require that the two sides mirror each other? I don't remember a heck of a lot of anarchy within the ranks of the rebellion or the territory it held. But there you go: anything that claims the name of government must be on the side of order, and whatever is, is right. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| BORK BORK BORK in Richard White Games | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, April 25 2005 21:46
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| canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, April 16 2005 20:52
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Hey, that ain't a bug. GOBLIN PUNCH!!!!! comes in very handy. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Phaedra in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 7 2005 16:22
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quote:I've lost track: who's playing whom in this Spidweb Players reenactment of Spinal Tap? [ Thursday, April 07, 2005 16:23: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Terri Schiavo in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, March 31 2005 11:04
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Reuters is a public company, based in London and traded there and on the NASDAQ (and maybe elsewhere by now). Its corporate structure places severe restrictions on the amount of stock any individual can hold. There was formerly a trust which, beginning in WWII and ending sometime in the 1980s (I think), privately owned the corporation. My sense is that some version or descendent of that trust still exists and exercises a controlling interest in the company. The AP is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by its member newspapers (all in the U.S., I believe). Oh yeah, and Reuters' Oddly Enough page should be your first stop for news of naked Germans, Russian vodka-rescue-and-recovery operations and eunuch pride events. [ Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:23: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| HLPM v1.1.2 released in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, March 8 2005 16:19
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The key word there is "average": the SW scenarios are committed to raising all spells to level 3, but after that, there's a good deal of variance between one spell and the next, depending on scenario design and player preference. My DwtD priest (level 34) has War Blessing and Repel Spirit at level 5 (and could have gotten the latter higher, if I'm remembering right), which is obviously a great advantage in Bahssikava, but perhaps not elsewhere; and, meanwhile, several of the party's other priest spells are at much lower levels. I don't know how you'd reproduce that in the HLPM without scripting some way of giving a player a lump sum of spell levels to apportion as he or she pleased. Perhaps a rough approximation is to make a new level of spells above 3 available every 10 levels after level 30? (So level 4 at 40, 5 at 50, etc.) Needless to say, my level 40 PCs that have gone through A Perfect Forest and Canopy have even higher average spell levels, but Canopy is hardly where you'd go to benchmark sane game balance. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| HLPM v1.1.2 released in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, March 8 2005 14:25
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Increase the spell levels for sale in the shops. The HLPM party I created for Bahssikava had to start with spells that were, on average, less powerful than those thrown around by a party that goes through the Spidweb scenarios. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| bahssikava - windows version in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, February 26 2005 10:13
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Either I misunderstand the hints file (good chance), or one of its solutions is more complicated than it needs to be. To charge the beam emitter in the far NE (power source at 30,8), I didn't have to mess around freeing the mirrors that are trapped behind the beam that bisects that room. Using the lever at 46,44, I fired up the emitter in the "library" in the SE corner of the level and directed its beam to power the emitter in the NE room. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Tatermedallion- Help in Blades of Exile | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, February 16 2005 11:49
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Tarl's passwords. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Favorite Movie. in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, February 11 2005 22:36
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Meantime, High Hopes or Grown Ups. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| What's the diff? in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, January 25 2005 15:34
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BOA HAS TEh NO DAMEDGE KAP!! -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Corruption in Indonesia in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, January 13 2005 23:53
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What do you think of this? A heavily indebted subsidiary of a company formerly run by the Vice President of a certain nation received a no-bid contract worth hundreds of billions of public dollars to clean up after a war started at that Vice President's urging, thus returning the subsidiary to solvency and permitting its parent company to initiate proceedings to sell it, successfully boosting the price of that parent company's stock, in which the Vice President at the time owned 433,000 options. Damn corrupt Third World countries. The lesson is, never waste our virtuous white dollars on them. [ Friday, January 14, 2005 07:26: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Canopy: Manufactured Womb is Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, January 2 2005 20:55
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Head east, not west. There's a gap in the walls. (And you should be able to stay out of range of the wizards as you head there). -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Beta-Call for Bahssikava in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Monday, December 27 2004 20:48
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Name:Boots Email: UUURHRHU HUNGNH AAAUUUGH Beta-testing: TM Scenario 103, TM Scenario 104, TM Scenario 105, TM Scenario 106, Areni, A Perfect Forest -- can't remember if they're others. Mac OS 10.2.8 Whichever party you would like me to use. [ Thursday, January 13, 2005 15:30: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Preventing Weapons in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 21 2004 01:36
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I'm presuming TM counts cursed items as a "workaround," since he and I discussed the idea awhile back. What effect are you trying to reproduce, TM? The absolute inability to wield a weapon -- as in my attempt to reproduce the effects of amputation -- or simply the illegality of walking around with openly brandished choppers? -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Preventing Weapons in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Tuesday, December 21 2004 01:36
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I'm presuming TM counts cursed items as a "workaround," since he and I discussed the idea awhile back. What effect are you trying to reproduce, TM? The absolute inability to wield a weapon -- as in my attempt to reproduce the effects of amputation -- or simply the illegality of walking around with openly brandished choppers? -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Morality question in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, December 18 2004 23:01
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Kiss him. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Favourite Cartoon Series in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, December 1 2004 18:29
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The Tick. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Music?? in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, October 9 2004 08:35
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If by "classic rock" is meant "self-congratulatory pap." -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Jeff's rep and the Perils of Creating a Scenario Editor in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, September 28 2004 22:21
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quote:. . . . provided, of course, that they don't "yell" at or "insult" the company in question. That wouldn't be good manners -- and business, while it may not be about ethics, it sure is about good manners . . . Let's be clear: nobody had been up to much "yelling" at JV on these boards recently until a remarkable number of new visitors took an interest in trolling through the back issues. And if you don't think there's a point to complaining about a product you've purchased, take a look at how much better JV's support for BoA already is than his support for BoE was. If you're telling me he did that out of the goodness of his heart, I refer you to your earlier remarks about business and ethics. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |