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Displayed name	Dikiyoba
Member number	6600
Title	Councilor
Postcount	4346
Homepage	http://www.freewebs.com/dikiyoba/
Registered	Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, November 4 2007 20:47 Profile Homepage #33 Originally by Nioca: quote: Finally, those worst off probably would want to join the rebellion, simply because it sounds better and seems like a just cause. This is exactly my point. The Shapers sound better and seem more just from your viewpoint, but to poor villagers who pay taxes to the Shapers but are left to starve when a famine hits or to the serviles and drayks who've had to flee their homes and lost the ones they cared about because of the Shapers' policy against "rogue creations", it's exactly the opposite. The Shapers are the villains who cause unjustified death and destruction. The rebels are the heroes who are just doing what they have to do. Neither side has a moral advantage over the other. (Dikiyoba had a longer response typed up, and then Dikiyoba decided Dikiyoba would rather just focus on the main point for now instead of trying to juggle several minor points.) -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, November 4 2007 10:05 Profile Homepage #29 Originally by Nioca quote: No, but overzealous homicidal tyrants rarely do (aside from the serviles, who're merely getting dragged forward by the other races into their doom, brainwashed into thinking that they're fighting for freedom). Okay, so say you're an intelligent servile. You haven't used the Geneforge and you have no real fighting ability. All you want to do is to live your life in peace. Which side looks more appealing? Under the Shapers, you know you're doomed. (Seen any of the Awakened lately? No, because the Shapers wiped them out.) The rebels at least offer the possibility of survival and freedom. (And they initially delivered on that possibility with towns like Khima.) There are also plenty of non-powerhungry human rebels as well who joined up because the Shapers failed them. As Blackrabbit said, "...if a town was small enough or poor enough, no matter how many taxes they paid, the Shapers wouldn't help them." The Shapers have governed so poorly that many humans are willing to take their chances with the drakons. And most of the humans who still support the Shapers don't do so because the Shapers are wonderful, moral people. They do so because they have a certain amount of success (or at least, they're certain they can survive) under Shaper rule but aren't guaranteed that under rebel rule. Dikiyoba's point is, neither side has the moral high ground and both sides are led by overzealous homicidal tyrants. Edit: Fixed quote. [ Sunday, November 04, 2007 10:07: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, November 4 2007 08:18 Profile Homepage #26 Originally by Nioca: quote: Really? The Rebellion has shown that the only creations they're actually concerned about are the Serviles and the Drayks/Drakons. They've also shown that they'll stoop to even lower means than the shapers to achieve their goals. Finally, they've only really struck at innocent bystanders. So yes, the shapers do hold the moral high-ground. The Shapers only have the moral high ground because you're human. If you were an intelligent servile, a drayk, a drakon, or an eyebeast and the Shapers wanted to kill you and all your kind, would you still feel the same way? Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Crsytals souls on A3 in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 2 2007 18:05 Profile Homepage #1 quote: if i remember correctly in exile 3, you could absrob other monsters into crystals and then summon them back, can i do that in avernum 3? Yes. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Name Choice in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 2 2007 13:17 Profile Homepage #57 Dikiyoba's name is either a traditional name for dikiyoras or something Dikiyoba came up with many years ago and promptly forgot the meaning of. You decide. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Creation Armour in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 2 2007 11:56 Profile Homepage #4 Originally by eris: quote: Also, how on earth do they gain experience? I have tried using either one of my creations (or used Greenfang) exclusively to kill things and they doesn't seem to ever gain more than one of two points. What exactly causes them to gain experience and how do I achieve this? Basically, the PC gets the bulk of the experience points and each creation only gets a few, regardless of who made the kill. So your creations will level much slower than the PC. quote: Is this the whole point of creations, that they are the way they are and we're stuck with that? Creations do get a stat boost when they level, and they also get a few skill points that you can use to improve them when they level too. (Unfortunately, improving them ties up more essence.) That's all you can do to make them more powerful, though. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 2 2007 11:44 Profile Homepage #282 Originally by Synergy: quote: Dikiyoba: Okay. Nicely communicated. I am very much onboard with the idea that we are on the brink of ruining our environment and truly need to make dramatic changes to give ourselves a future, at the cost of much personal sacrifice if need be. I am not convinced that changing our climate is one of those things we have much to do with, or the most concerning thing happening to this planet, but we might end up focusing on it to the near exclusion and bankruptcy of more immediately pressing matters. But why are you (since this conversation resumed, at least) displaying so much skepticism for global warming without balancing it with the discussion of environmental problems that you want people to focus on? If global warming isn't important, then tell me what is important. If Al Gore is wrong and global warming isn't real, why shouldn't I go back to business as usual? Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, November 1 2007 18:37 Profile Homepage #276 I recently read Collapse by Jared Diamond, so let me present my thoughts by using one of its ideas. Basically, the book presented case studies of societies that damaged their environment and died out, plus a few examples of societies that halted the damage they were doing to the environment and survived. One of the reasons a society may collapse instead of change is due to an insulated elite. If the privileged have a way to escape from the damage--in the short term only!--then they have no incentive to change their ways. In the long run, they will suffer the consequences along with everyone else. Due to globalization, the entire planet is one virtually one big society and Americans are an insulated elite. We can ship our discarded electronics to China and let the Chinese worry about the heavy metals and toxins inside them. If our water is bad, we can buy bottled water. If we erode our soil, we can afford fertilizer or buy food from elsewhere. But eventually it will catch up to us. Probably not as a total collapse, but in other ways. (Since you probably agree that environmental degradation has an enormous toll on our lives, health, and happiness, I'm not going to list examples unless you ask me to.) Anyway, since we're so insulated, An Inconvenient Truth is meant to be a wake up call, to make (or continue to make) people look at the long-term and not the short-term. The specifics may not be perfect, but the underlying call for change is spot on. And if it scares some people in the process, well, I don't like it, but I'd rather have people be scared in theory than in reality. And that's why your example of someone who moved inland for fear of sea level rising is rather absurd. Yes, it may be tragic. But that person or family had the ability to move. They could find a job inland. They had the money to buy a different house. They are in no risk of hunger or disease. In the scheme of things, they're not losing much. The corrected sea level rise is 40 cm in a century. That's 8 cm every 5 years. That may not seem like much here in America; just a few more houses on the immediate coastline washed out in storms, probably. But what will be the fate of the extremely low-lying and densely populated Bangladesh. I don't know, but if we are to be concerned about the people who move away from the coast for fear of sea level rise, then shouldn't we be concerned for the Bangladeshi too? That's just an example, and nothing we can do about it, but if An Inconvenient Truth or similar activism can change the way we look at the planet, can make us live a little wiser, then we have the potential to avert future disasters. And I think that's the underlying goal--to change people--of this documentary, not whether the ice caps melt or not. PS: Dikiyoba found Dikiyoba's link by reading your second link. You'll note both sources originally gave eleven errors, instead of nine. It seems people aren't capable of getting a single number right 100% of the time. It's certainly not a good thing that Al Gore got some things wrong in his documentary, but out of all the facts and opinions he had to sort through to make it, it's not surprising. For instance, "climate change makes hurricanes worse" was already common speculation before the movie, at least in Dikiyoba's life. So while we do need to be wary, we can't dismiss things so easily. Edit: Typos. [ Thursday, November 01, 2007 18:39: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, November 1 2007 13:05 Profile Homepage #269 Right, this has gone on long enough. I have no plans for a Halloween event. Especially now that it's November. Dikiyoba has no plans for a Thanksgiving Day either, so don't even suggest it. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Left or Right? in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, November 1 2007 07:58 Profile Homepage #17 Originally by Ef: quote: It's strange. As long as I look at the picture she goes clockwise. But when I start reading the text and see her without actually focusing on her, she changes her direction. Me too. While I'm focusing on the picture, she goes clockwise. While I'm focusing on the text, she goes counterclockwise. When I switch what I'm focusing on, she almost immediately switches direction too. It's gotten to the point that Dikiyoba can make the dancer do half-circles. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Boo in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Wednesday, October 31 2007 20:30 Profile Homepage #26 I celebrated with half a bag of Snickers and some soda. Go me. Dikiyoba did briefly consider dressing up as a white blood cell for the sheer absurdity of being able to throw antibodies at people. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
G2 sect simpatising in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, October 30 2007 20:25 Profile Homepage #7 Slightly incompetent? The Shapers botched the Sucia Island clean up badly enough and monitored their colonies poorly enough to let the Awakened, Barzites, and Takers survive, thrive, and produce a sequel. That's not exactly an impressive display of power and control. :P Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Another Poll (Yay!) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, October 30 2007 19:15 Profile Homepage #10 Dikiyoba likes to be the fraction 7/8. :P -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
G2 sect simpatising in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, October 30 2007 18:49 Profile Homepage #5 Originally by Emperor Tullegolar: quote: By the way, I sympathize with the Barzites, which is why I get defensive when they are confused with Trakovite scum. ...and woe betide anyone who confuses the Trakovites and the Tullegolites! Given that the Shapers are incompetent, the Barzites crazy, and the Takers mad, Dikiyoba has to go with the Awakened. Mostly with them, anyway. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Moving Images in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Monday, October 29 2007 19:30 Profile Homepage #40 Originally by Salmon: quote: I do not have that expectation with Iffy, because he has stated that he doesn't want to follow Googled links for fear that he will see boobies. They're really not that scary. See? Boobies! Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
G5 wishlist. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, October 28 2007 10:34 Profile Homepage #237 The fact that the Shapers created and let loose a horde of giant monsters* in the first place makes them greatly responsible, not of great responsibility. Just in case anyone wants to argue that only the rebels do that, Dikiyoba would like to point out that the Shapers created the drayks (then made them angry by killing them off). And the disease that Torsten had in G3. And the poisoned workshop in G1. And the rogues that chased off the farmers near Dillame. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346* \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Rotghroth mk2 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, October 28 2007 07:05 Profile Homepage #1 It's not a bug. A few improved versions are different in G4 than in previous games, like the charged thahd in place of the the thahd shade and the corrupted rotghroth in place of the rotdhizon. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
New scenario / Update to another in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, October 27 2007 14:50 Profile Homepage #21 Did you walk through the pasture to the building (it's a stable or barn) in the northeast corner? There's a box against the far wall (between the windows). What you're looking for is found inside the box. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
New scenario / Update to another in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, October 27 2007 13:38 Profile Homepage #19 First floor, room south of the temple, near the bucket. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
New scenario / Update to another in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, October 27 2007 12:01 Profile Homepage #17 Originally by ginger8445: quote: Plus: I can't find the tool to break the fan in the basement! First floor, northeast corner. Giving the name alone didn't seem like much of a help, and the name and location together was too much of a spoiler, so that's all you'll get from Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Thoughts on Custom Titles. in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, October 25 2007 17:27 Profile Homepage #13 Originally by Randomizer: quote: Other than BANNED and CANNED, the last one I remember was when Aran got "Man of the People" upon his elevation to mod in General about a year and half ago. Dikiyoba thinks Tyranicus' short-lived "Dollop of Whipped Cream" was more recent. Dikiyoba could be wrong, though. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Servile player in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, October 25 2007 16:52 Profile Homepage #9 General Crowley says those lines in the demo-area Shaper Camp. The non-servile version is very similar to it. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
A5 world in Avernum 4
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, October 25 2007 13:22 Profile Homepage #7 The Howling Depths section sounds cool. And so does the gremlin party. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Help, need toget to titan. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, October 23 2007 16:36 Profile Homepage #6 Near the very end of the game. You'll be sent to it eventually. (If you're only in the fens, you've got a long way to go.) Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, October 23 2007 12:29 Profile Homepage #242 Blasphemy! It was a prophetic vision that soon became horrifying reality, I tell you. Repent now, before it's too late! Also, it appears that the nondescript man has a name after all. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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