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astring for Windows in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 21:58 Profile Homepage #8
That's funny. I just downloaded it and it worked fine for me.

Oh, and Dikiyoba just looked at Dintiradan's site. Dikiyoba is offended by its "uselessness." :P
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I Have A Beef With You All in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 21:22 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Alec:

quote:
Originally written by Lenar Labs:


I can see it now: Alec vs. World.
Place your bets now, ladies and gentlemen!
Unfortunately, Dikiyoba has to place Dikiyoba's bet on the world. You will make the world nervous. You will make the world angry. You will change the world. But in the end, you will die, and that will be that. :P
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1000th in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 18:12 Profile Homepage #13
Three of those four were created after this one. That's something to be concerned about to be sure, but it's not this thread's fault.

And Dikiyoba doesn't think we're celebrating so much as we're reminiscing and teaching GoodCanisters new things.
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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 17:35 Profile Homepage #17
But what will you replace shaping with? Magic? There seems to be a lot of spells available to kill or dominate others, and that's with shaping already available. Technology? Read the newspaper and see what horrendous acts technology has allowed in our world.

The point I'm trying to make is that anything can and will be used for atrocities, because some people (and intelligent creations, in this case) are atrocious. But everything, including shaping, can be used for good too. We see a lot of the horrendous side of shaping because it is a war. We don't see a lot of Shapers quietly modifying plants and animals to live in otherwise inhospitable areas, but they do that sort of stuff too.

Originally by Thuryl:

quote:
You're aware that it was a Tom Waits song before it was in any of Jeff's games, right?
Well, Dikiyoba does now.
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So this is goodbye in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 16:59 Profile Homepage #33
This is the Internet, so the odds are pretty darn good. :P

Dikiyoba.
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GF 3 Tier 4 Creations Overview in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 14:41 Profile Homepage #23
Originally by Lord Macintosh:

quote:
And, out of curiosity and my Shaper's lust for power, has anyone learned of a cheat where you can create canisters?
No, but there are editors that can raise your stats.

Dikiyoba.
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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 14:36 Profile Homepage #11
Originally by Retlaw May:

quote:
I think that healing would be considered shaping since you are "shaping" the person back to health.
Plus, Healing Craft is listed under Shaping Skills on your character's statistics screen. :P

However, that seems like something already developed that the Trakovites would allow, along with pods, batons, etc.

Originally by Nioca:

quote:
You cannot unring a bell.
That's one of Dikiyoba's favorite lines from the series.
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Scenario Grouping Game! in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, December 14 2006 12:56 Profile Homepage #42
Originally by Nioca:

quote:
It has become obvious that I am not good at this. However, I'm going to take one more shot at this:

Retribution of the Apology was considered both A Small and Large Rebellion for the Forest of Beginning Areni when A Gathering Storm faced Wanderers which caused Aftershocks when it destroyed Avalon of Ashen with the Abyss Arachnid and the Valorim Cabbages of which Milk originated via Little Missions.
I thought the point of this was that other people could guess them.

Anyway, scenarios where first letter of the first word of the title is A.

Originally by BainIhrno:

quote:
Defending The Mysterious Portal in the Cave that leads to Gambits Everywhere
Scenarios with "nephil" in the title.

Dikiyoba.

[ Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:58: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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Scenario Grouping Game! in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 20:21 Profile Homepage #37
Jewels: Unrated BoE scenarios.

Originally by Nioca:

quote:
EDIT: Dikiyoba has 2 of 2.

EDIT 2:

quote:
In the Cave of Dying Things, Lord Putidus is Babysitting Dallerdin's Rats. In A Perfect Forest, Chapman's Roses are growing Good on Point B.
*Tries to restrain laughter*
Short BoA Scenarios.
Whereas you are 0 for 2. :P

"The Tutorial for Echoes: Renegade Druids cause A Large Rebellion in Krell that results in an Exodus to Bahssikava was sadly lacking."

Dikiyoba likes this one, even though guessing what this one is will be nearly impossible since it has nothing to do with the scenarios' content or ranking. It's probably the idea of druids in motorboats jeering at the local sliths.
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Scenario Grouping Game! in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 19:27 Profile Homepage #35
Edit: I think I got yours, Jewels. Should I say what it is or leave Nioca in suspense? :P

In the Cave of Dying Things, Lord Putidus is Babysitting Dallerdin's Rats. In A Perfect Forest, Chapman's Roses are growing Good on Point B.

Nioca: they all feature underground caves.

If Dikiyoba's right, it wasn't so difficult. If Dikiyoba's not, then it is. :P

[ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 19:31: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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Scenario Grouping Game! in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 18:52 Profile Homepage #29
Thuryl got mine right.

Dikiyoba has no idea what BainIhrno's is, but Nioca's is scenarios in a series.
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Shaper uniforms? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 17:29 Profile Homepage #9
Originally by Nija_Halycron:

quote:
...and barzel have blue robes.
*checks*

Huh. He does.

So then where did Dikiyoba get the image of a godlike glowing green Shaper?
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Harmony East Docks in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 17:21 Profile Homepage #2
It's intentional. The crime tolerance coding for that section is more complicated (and higher) than normal.

Dikiyoba doesn't know the reason for it, though.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Scenario Grouping Game! in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 17:10 Profile Homepage #23
Originally by BainIhrno:

quote:
Here. This one's too easy:

The Exodus begins as Putidus raises his Level in the Northern Kingdom of Bahssikava.
Scenarios Kelandon created.

The Magus of Krell faces Roses of Rebellion in the Cave of Dying Things.

Dikiyoba hopes Dikiyoba got them all.

Edit: Typo.

[ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 17:11: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 15:17 Profile Homepage #49
Originally by Nikki:

quote:
Spam. Or hot-dogs. They have no meat in them at all, and they can't be classed as plants either. They just sorta 'exist' :P
Twinkies!

Or more seriously (but only slightly so), stuff that's already dead. We'll become a society of scavengers. There's probably not enough (freshly) dead stuff available to feed everyone in the world, but that won't be a problem once people start starving to death.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Nothing Plus Nothing Equals Nothing in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 15:11 Profile Homepage #60
Originally by Synergy:

quote:
I choose to reject the science requirment bias to dialog here. I find it incredibly tedious, for one thing, mostly soulless for another. It doesn't breathe. It is not inspiring. It is largely cold and sterile. It bogs down endlessly in nitpicky details and loses the bigger wonderings of the nature of life and being human. Meh. For all your brilliance, Alec, you bore me. You don't leave me wanting to know you. I'm not here to be an argument jock. I want to engage dialog with anyone who can engage it in a way that is meaningful and enjoyable for me. I have that right. If no such person is to respond or be found, then I will soon tire of the attempt and let it die. In fairness, a few have offered some dialog that I have enjoyed and appreciated.
I realize it's rather unfair for me to become another person debating against you, but you have to understand that not everything in life can be colorful and vibrant and inspiring just as not everything in life can be scientific and cold and sterile. There's places for both creativity and the scientific method. If this were a discussion on, say, fine art, then subjectivity is totally appropriate and trying to apply the scientific method to it would be out of place. However, healthcare, especially on the widespread scale that most accepted drugs and other treatments take place on, is a place for the scientific method because when it comes down to preventing and curing diseases, positive results are important. An individual choosing to accept or refuse treatment (on whatever grounds, and you're welcome to do so) is one thing, but if 10,000 people get seriously sick from a disease every year, then we'd better be sure that treatment is helping them and helping them to the best of our abilities. That's why science is being so devoutly fought for here.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Shaper uniforms? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, December 13 2006 03:02 Profile Homepage #6
Originally by Mallux:

quote:
And not Zarkary, Barzahl, the wife for the master of Dhonals keep (can't remember either of there names)...
Actually, Dikiyoba thinks Barzahl has green robes.
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Hide your Children: Pseudomovie Extravaganza! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 17:50 Profile Homepage #2
The Matrix Recut isn't bad either.

Dikiyoba.
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Forum tweaking in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 16:13 Profile Homepage #19
Adbots advertising ways to block adbots is Dikiyoba's guess.
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Shaper uniforms? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 13:33 Profile Homepage #3
Originally by Nioca:

quote:
Other than that, though, it is weird that most shapers wear blue.
It's not weird at all. It just means that all the NPC shapers (unless it's someone really important) are the same creature type, and that creature type is set to have blue graphics.

Dikiyoba.
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Keeping items in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 10:59 Profile Homepage #15
Originally by Eater of Pancakes:

quote:
off topic:would using the geneforge reapeatbly make you uber?
Probably not. Once the geneforge changes inferior genes to perfected ones, they can't be changed again.

Dikiyoba.

Edit: Added quote.

[ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:01: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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I'm back in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 10:41 Profile Homepage #15
This one.

Dikiyoba.
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Vahnatai won't get Crystal Souls in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, December 12 2006 07:01 Profile Homepage #5
Okay, calm down (and don't double post). Once you have a Crystal Soul (and you can check your special items to make sure you have one or more):

1. Speak with the Council. They should tell you to go to the shrine.

2. Go to the guarded bridge that leads to the shrine. The vahnatai will get out of your way.

3. In the shrine, wander around until you find the alcove the Crystal Soul belongs in, and you'll put it there.

Dikiyoba.
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Stuck in Exodus in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, December 11 2006 21:38 Profile Homepage #6
Originally by Kelandon:

quote:
Webbing, too, but what am I supposed to do about this? I suppose that I could put something in the START_STATE that checks for party paralysis and then, er, what?
Kill the party? I mean, they're paralyzed already and it's better to reload than to have to force-quit.

Dikiyoba got permanently paralyzed in that combat as well.
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Use Other Message Icons! in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, December 11 2006 21:27 Profile Homepage #11
I think we have some circumstantial evidence now that using more message icons results in more spam, not better posts. Pushpins all the way!

Originally by Lenar:

quote:
The Silent Assassin wishes to get slapped upside the head.
Yes, Dikiyoba had to do that.
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