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Summer jobs anyone? in General
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It's winter for me, and I will continue doing the same job I do all the time.

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
What's your sex? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Hawk King:

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

I'm only about 20-30 minutes away from another Spiderwebber. Who is a guy, and who I still haven't met in person.
Who ?

Flamefiend. Posts on the Lyceum more than here. I think he goes by Crunchy Frog on these boards.

Measle came up here for Tropfest a while back. I'd have liked to meet up with him there, but I had to go back to SA for a wedding.

I'll be going to Newcastle at some point in the year, probably won't bother looking up Milla while I'm there, but it's a possibility. I may also run into Thuryl down in Geelong, depending on who's where when.

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
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Originally written by Custer XVI:

Fame is fleeting.
In case you didn't get it, I was poking fun at the whole oneupmanship thing going on in this thread. Maybe it would have been more obvious if I had bragged about the size of my penis.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General
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Originally written by Dervish Malachai:

Your shouting is irritating. If you want to retort extra-well against something, respond to it in a clever way. Furthermore, your prevalence of sequential exclamation points is profoundly degrading to the points you're trying to make!!!!!!
I'm not interested in getting involved in this argument, but I found this quote deeply amusing.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
What's your sex? in General
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Profile Homepage #21
I'm only about 20-30 minutes away from another Spiderwebber. Who is a guy, and who I still haven't met in person.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Most Popular/Favorite Moderator in General
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There's no real distinction between Mods and regular members around here.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
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Profile Homepage #69
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Originally written by Thuryl:

My real name and picture can be found in my profile.

I'm an 18-year-old Australian university student who's about six months away from graduating with a degree in biomedical science.

My IQ places me in the top 0.00003% of the world's population.

I said my first words at the age of five months and was speaking in complete sentences by one year.

I am an accomplished scholar of all the natural sciences, and also of psychology.

My favourite book throughout my early childhood was a 1400-page catalogue of common human diseases, which I began reading at the age of 3 and stopped only once I had memorised it. This had a number of interesting effects on my development, including causing me to use the phrase "pain in the groin or lower abdomen" at inappropriate times.

I know a vast assortment of quotations, anecdotes, jokes and other miscellaneous bons mots for every conceivable social occasion.

I am a distinguished public speaker.

My picture has appeared on the front page of a popular magazine.

Women find me irresistible. So do a surprising number of men.

Some people have accused me of being slightly arrogant at times.

Big deal.

Were you shearing sheep at the age of ten?

No?

Have you ever been given gifts by fans?

No?

Held a live, vicious, poisonous snake in your bare hands?

No?

Has a date with you ever been given away as a prize on a radio station?

No?

Then it's settled. I'm cooler.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Recommended Reading in General
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Spring, movies are often released on different dates in different countries.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Part of a New Scenario in Blades of Exile
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I guarantee you there will be hundreds of bugs, and no one will be interested in doing your work for you. Beta testers are there to give design advice and pick up obscure bugs. It's your job to take care of the many obvious ones.

Pay the cash. It's very, very worth it.

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SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Pick up lines in General
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According to Japanese scientists, and we all know that they are never wrong, the best pick up line in the world is "This time next year, let's be laughing together."

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Why do you like BoE but not BoA? in Blades of Exile
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Originally written by Kelandon:

You know, it occurs to me that it may have been exactly this lack of dialog pics that made me balk at the idea of switching some of the cut scenes in Bahs into dialog boxes. A text bubble creates a similar effect to that of a dialog box with a pic, but the problem is that text bubbles are much slower.
Agreed. However, there are two drawbacks to this.

First, as you pointed out, cutscene text is too slow to really work for medium or long speeches of any sort. It only works well, in my view, with short, snappy lines. Not a big problem, I think. It is awkward, but I don't think I've ever seen a scenario hurt by too little text. The shorter and terser, usually the better. I would like to be able to write somewhat longer passages before running into the 'talking heads' problem, though.

Secondly, and I think more importantly, a BoA NPC graphic has nowhere near the personality of a BoE Dialog graphic at this stage. If some talented artists were to change this, I may well make the switch to BoA.

[ Wednesday, May 25, 2005 21:49: Message edited by: Ash Lael ]

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SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Music in General
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Profile Homepage #50
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Originally written by Dervish Malachai:

Oh, please. This is THE topic where it's relevant and topical. Why not convince me to stop using my manurey lovemaking language? ^_-

(Really, though. Are you jealous that I can break the nonsensical rules, or are you genuinely offended by the words?)

Jealous? Good grief, no.

And 'offended' is probably not the right word either. More like 'irritated and annoyed'.

Imagine a guy who pulls his pants down and waves his old fellow around like no one's business and yells "Hey look at me!". Now, I've seen penises before. I have a penis. It's not like I'm going to cover my eyes and scream. But I really would prefer not to see some guy waving his sausage around. It's impolite, it's distracting and it's certainly not conductive to rational discussion.

In short, yes, I would genuinely appreciate it if you put your salami away.

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Whee in General
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Profile Homepage #24
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Originally written by Jewels of the Forest:

Congratulations, Thuryl! I have been fortunate to have read even a small percentage of all your insight.
While it has been scientifically proven that Thuryl's buttocks are very kissable, this is taking things entirely too far.

[ Wednesday, May 25, 2005 18:11: Message edited by: Ash Lael ]

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Music in General
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Profile Homepage #46
Mods, could you PLEASE do SOMETHING about TM? I for one am getting quite sick of his profanity, and he has gotten away with it far too many times. It's gone beyond isolated incidents.

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Originally written by N00BEN:

The point I made in the beginning was that music could be a lot better without the excessive cussing that can be seen in some kinds (certainly not all; notice I said some). Listening to that music has the same consequences as constantly listening to people that cuss in the world around you. Why would you want to voluntarily subscribe to such a thing?
Well, to answer directly, some people would do so because they enjoy the music, and couldn't care less about the swearing. The artist may like to use swear words because they state his feelings more strongly, or possibly for a laugh (ala The Real Slim Shady).

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Why do you like BoE but not BoA? in Blades of Exile
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Originally written by Ahbleza:

I don't doubt that from an Author's stand point, the technical aspect of the two systems is important. But, it seems to me that even if BoA is technically "better" than the BoE, if the 95% who actually play the games prefer the BoE, then the efforts of those Authors is being expended on each other, rather than the "consuming" public.
The only reason I'm even writing here is to point out that many of the scenarios have been written by the 5% for the 5%. There are very few "major" scenarios that are playable by the 95%. This seems like an inherent "flaw" in the perspective of those who have the artistic ability to be the Authors.
I realize that many of the 95% will only "pass through" and be gone, but I do believe that a good percentage who come into the Community find the games satisfying and will stay with them for a reasonably long time.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't get so deep into the woods where there are so many trees that the journey isn't enjoyable. Unless, of course, the 95% doesn't matter. Then this post was of no consequence. ;)

I don't know if it's 95% or some other figure. I don't know how many of the best scenarios are indeed inaccessible to most players (though I don't dispute that some would be). I don't know what the 95% actually want in a scenario. I don't even know what the 5% want. I don't design for this group or that group, I just make scenarios that I myself enjoy. It's my opinion that this is the only really practical option.

Edit: While BoA has many more capabilities on a technical level, I think it fails at immersing the player properly, which is more important than cutscenes or 3D terrain. Thus, while I might have more freedom designing in BoA, I'd prefer to play in BoE, and so any scenarios I design in the future will most likely be in BoE.

[ Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:48: Message edited by: Ash Lael ]

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SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
questions? in General
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Profile Homepage #7
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Originally written by Dolphin:

SW needs upgrade anyways, and I would be interested to see what TM would use to symbolize himself.
Sweetums.

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Music in General
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Profile Homepage #34
Simple courtesy and respect to your fellow man is a good thing. Swearing is pretty impolite by its nature. I really see no need to make the issue more complicated than that, Ben.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Awfully Quiet in General
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Originally written by N00BEN:

The crap is what makes it all fun. I mean, who wants a message board where all you can do is serious discussion? Would you just like to talk about politics, religion, and environmental problems all the time? It would get boring after a while.
You can talk about less serious topics without saying things that have no reason to be said.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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Originally written by The Almighty Doer of Stuff:

It is thoroughly impossible to post a dependent clause without a dependent clause.
It is thoroughly impossible to post a dependent clause without posting a dependent clause.

It is not thoroughly impossible to post a dependent clause without a second dependent clause.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Music in General
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Originally written by Thuryl:

And saying "Tony Blair is a piece of sh*t" would be exactly the same degree of swearing as "Tony Blair is a piece of crap", since words with identical meanings are being used in identical context?
I see no difference. Do most people consider 'sh!t' to be worse than 'crap'? Well, since UBB masks one and not the other, I guess they must...

I think it's silly to get legalistic about swearing. After all, it's perfectly possible for a song to be obscene and offensive without using swear words.

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Sex is easier than love.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Why do you like BoE but not BoA? in Blades of Exile
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I think you can get a much stronger sense of character in BoE. Diolog pics, clearer and more distinctive NPC graphics, etc. The atmosphere is a lot better as well, I think.

I don't know. There's just something about it that 'works' a lot better on a subconscious level for me.

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SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
THE GREAT DEBATE PART II in General
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I am a thing that goes bump in the night.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Woah Crazy!! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Dolphin:

An intelligent, well spoken, kind man is much sexier than an Adonis.
:cool:

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
The 7th Contest is upon us! in Blades of Exile
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quote:
Originally written by dreamqueen:

We always need more :P

especially as boa is taking sooo long to get new scenerios onto the board (no offence Archmagi M)
plus i have just finished ac3 part 1 and can't wait for part 2 :D

Part 2 was finished quite some time ago. Spiderweb has just been incredibly slack in putting it up on their site.

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SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice.
Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Capitalism ho! in General
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I'm either the Program Director, Music Director, or Operations Manager, or possibly a combination of the three. I'm not really sure. Either way, being a 'personality' is only part of what my job is. I'm very close to the end of a 13 hour work day at the moment, and only 4 of those hours were on air.

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Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00

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