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Argh! I'm out! in General
Dikiyoba
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 written Friday, August 4 2006 03:44 Profile Homepage #13
Schools do weird stuff like that, unfortunately.

Once, Dikiyoba's school blocked students from having access to Microsoft Word, even though the computers' primary reason for existance is type up papers.
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Shaper hypocrisy vs. Shaper tragedy (SPOILERS) in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 21:07 Profile Homepage #92
I suppose you would just have to make peace with the ones that are capable and willing to be peaceful, and then start the long, slow, messy process of hunting down the ones that cause problems.

It's probable that fewer drakons would be dangerous if they were treated as equals to Shapers and not as banned creations, but that would be difficult to convince them of (and even harder to maintain once troublesome drakons started getting hunted down). Of course, that's not taking the possible treachery and arrogant attitude of some Shapers towards drakons into account.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 20:00 Profile Homepage #454
Act 10, Scene 4. It grew to be a little longer than I originally planned, but, hopefully, that's a good thing.

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Translations:

291|)35\/\/38 12 3\/11 = Spiderweb is evil.

4|-||-||-||-|!!1 |\|07 4|\|07|-|35 0|\|3!!1 = Ahhhh! Not another one!!!

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Dikiyoba also put up a little illustration. Dikiyoba hopes it's not too dark to see who's in it.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Love in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 16:46 Profile Homepage #27
Heh. Dikiyoba knows someone who comes close to that description.

"I love it! It's so beautiful!"

"It's some sort of weedy river plant."

"I know, but it's still beautiful!"

"It feels slimy and itchy."

"It's still beautiful!"

"You're terrifed that your feet will get tangled in it and you will drown."

"I know, but I love it anyway!"

[ Thursday, August 03, 2006 16:47: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
SW & ST Fusion! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 14:39 Profile Homepage #6
Dikiyoba's looks like...wait. Never mind. Speaking of which, has Spring ever made it onto one of these comparisons?
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
The Great SW Photo Captioning Contest in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 08:50 Profile Homepage #42
"Having decided to play a trick on a creature of lesser intelligence, the first squirrel kept the human distracted while the second made off with a bag of nuts."

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Hitchhiker Media Poll in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, August 3 2006 04:47 Profile Homepage #19
Originally by Tyranicus:

quote:
Elves at Helm's Deep rankle me. :P
Dikiyoba used to think that as well. Then Dikiyoba read Eldest (by Christopher Paolini) and Dikiyoba realized that traditional, stuffy, boring elves getting killed is a good thing.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 19:58 Profile Homepage #452
Originally by Jewels:

quote:
Love it, even though it seems my PM didn't make it to you in time.
I saw the PM in time to give Thuryl nobelium, though. And I linked to the table on my site.

Originally by Nikki:

quote:
And Dikiyoba: are any more Episodes planned anytime soon?
I've said it before: I don't start thinking about Episode 3 until after I finish Episode 2. I've still got a short scene, a long scene, and possibly an illustration to go.

Originally by Jewels:

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Somebody (or many of you) take the script and work on dialogues. Plan a chat for discussing direction and for working out 'the party'. Somebody's gotta take charge and push it or it'll never be finished.
It would be interesting if the party were a group of "new arrivals". And the beggar graphic modified to have a sniper rifle and a bottle of skribbane would probably make a good Alorael.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 09:06 Profile Homepage #9
You want to start small, so leave it at 0 and 0. This will give you one outdoor section to mess around with. If you have the 3D Editor, you can add more later.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 09:06 Profile Homepage #9
You want to start small, so leave it at 0 and 0. This will give you one outdoor section to mess around with. If you have the 3D Editor, you can add more later.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
AV2 and Coffin Caves in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 09:03 Profile Homepage #1
The two pieces of scroll give the order that the wheel, lever, and button are supposed to be used in. The little drawings on the scroll are supposed to represent the wheel, lever, and button.

Dikiyoba hopes that is enough information for you to solve the problem.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Shaper hypocrisy vs. Shaper tragedy (SPOILERS) in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 08:49 Profile Homepage #85
Originally by Savage Ed Walcott:

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I don't do AI research nor am I a computer engineer. However, I'm certain that if the breakthrough in both hard and software allowed a sufficiently advanced and complicated series of algorithms to emulate an independent intelligence or personality, then that same program could be copied and stored in a variety of duplicates, databanks, or massive storage disks. I'm not going to spell out all of the technical aspects mainly because the required technology would all be theoretical and I wouldn't be qualified to give explicit step by step instructions regardless. Use your imagination.
But if you're only talking about an emulation, then that's not the same as actual personality or intelligence. Imitation of personality or intelligence is different than really having personality and intelligence. Something that resembles sentience is very different from something that actually has sentience.

An emulation could be easily backed up. Real intelligence couldn't, because it would always be learning, developing, and changing.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Hitchhiker Media Poll in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, August 2 2006 08:27 Profile Homepage #5
I haven't seen the TV series and I've only seen part of the movie. I have read the books, and they are way better than the movie.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Just a little question in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, August 1 2006 21:10 Profile Homepage #8
Can you imagine the public outcry that will occur if Alec decides not to throw that fit?

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, August 1 2006 16:36 Profile Homepage #4
On the plus side, it doesn't involve Rentar-Ihrno creating a bunch of monster plagues to destroy the Empire, or any close variation on that theme.

Um. Wow. Um.

Since you don't have much, if any, experience, I'd suggest starting off very, very small. Practice designing towns and writing dialogue first so that you know what you're doing.

Dikiyoba.

Edit: Typo.

[ Tuesday, August 01, 2006 16:37: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, August 1 2006 16:36 Profile Homepage #4
On the plus side, it doesn't involve Rentar-Ihrno creating a bunch of monster plagues to destroy the Empire, or any close variation on that theme.

Um. Wow. Um.

Since you don't have much, if any, experience, I'd suggest starting off very, very small. Practice designing towns and writing dialogue first so that you know what you're doing.

Dikiyoba.

Edit: Typo.

[ Tuesday, August 01, 2006 16:37: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, August 1 2006 04:21 Profile Homepage #439
Originally by MagmaDragoon:

quote:
But the tale is finished now?
Nope. There's still at least one scene left. Unlike Episode 1, Episode 2 gets a resolution.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 21:11 Profile Homepage #203
Originally by Alorael:

quote:
I'm pretty sure getting drunk was possible in previous Spiderweb games. As recently as A3/BoA?
Yes, to both of them.

Dikiyoba kind of misses the ability to get drunk. Not because Dikiyoba ever used it, but just because it was there.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 20:10 Profile Homepage #435
Act 10, Scene 3. It's a long one.

MagmaDragoon, if you read closely, you will see why you no longer have the flaming sword.

Dikiyoba knew that Slartucker couldn't stay away forever.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
DoK - The Sanctum in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 16:31 Profile Homepage #5
I've never had a crash there. Have you tried reloading the game and trying again to make sure it wasn't a one time thing? And if it always happens, try redownloading the scenario to see if that fixes it.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
DoK - The Sanctum in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 15:56 Profile Homepage #3
Pre-edit: UBB won't let Dikiyoba see TM's post.
Edit: Fixed.

[ Monday, July 31, 2006 15:58: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Shaper hypocrisy vs. Shaper tragedy (SPOILERS) in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 15:23 Profile Homepage #74
Originally by ginger8445:

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I don't really know if this relates to the topic but it's in the right forum. ok in G2 when you are talking th the women who runs the servile slave in the "desert" right after or two places after the tutorial, She asks you to find a "smart" servile who is "infecting" the other serviles. You finder her and tell her to come with you because she is in trouble. Than you continue your journey for a few places and don't return. Then when you return and talk to the woman and she says you did the right thing, was this really the right thing to do? I mean you got experience for it and that's nice but to me the dees just seems wrong! What do you think?
P.S. sry I can remember the name of the women I know it would be helpful but I just can't.
Forgive me if someone already answered this and I missed it. You're talking about Thossila (the woman) and Sencia (the intelligent servile) in Drypeak. There are too options. Tell Thossila about Sencia, or lie to Thossila about Sencia. Either way, you get experience. If you tell the truth (which is sounds like you did), Sencia is killed. Telling the truth is pro-Shaper and lying is pro-servile. The correct choice to make depends on which sect you want to join, but there are so many other ways to increase your favor with one side or the other that it hardly matters what you choose.

Dikiyoba.

Edit: Fixed quote.

[ Monday, July 31, 2006 15:26: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Geneforge 2 canister question - how much is too much? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 15:13 Profile Homepage #13
Originally by Anarhiztok:

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If you'd not be powerful enough, you can always return for the canisters, they won't go away unless for the first one you see just before freegate.
That one doesn't go away either. I know I've left it and come back for it a while later.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Delcia help in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 14:26 Profile Homepage #6
The sniper puzzle was fun, though.

Well, except for the fact that the "use ability" button and the "enter combat" buttons are right next to each other, and Dikiyoba was playing while too tired to hit the right one.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Avernum 2 and River Fort in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 31 2006 14:14 Profile Homepage #3
Originally by Alorael:

quote:
—Alorael, who now can't remember if A2 has special item bars or bars that are regular items.
They're regular items.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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