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How about we replace the Vlish's melee attack with a weaker one and use the current one for Clawbugs?

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Well, fixing the link to the graphics archive is pretty easy.

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Notes</a><strong><br> <br> </strong> <strong>At Spiderweb:</strong><br> <a href="http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/blades/scen_review.html">Review a Scenario</a> <br> <a href="http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/blades/scen_stuff/solid.html">Solid Adventures Table</a><br> <a href="http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/blades/scen_stuff/first_efforts.html">First Efforts Table</a></font> </p> <p> <font size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Other Useful Sites<br> </b><a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/b/x/bxb11/boe/alexandriajs/">Alexandria: The BoE Scenario DB</a><br> <a href="http://pub26.ezboard.com/bthelyceum">The Lyceum BBS</a><br> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/tracihedlund/index.html">TrueSite for Blades - Walkthroughs<br> </a></font><font size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Etom_05/">Kelandon's BoE Scenario Archive</a><br> <a 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I don't know HTML, though, so someone else should do the rest.

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You have to find the real one. The best way of doing this is whacking them all. The one that takes the most damage is the real Absynthe. Get her down to 1 health and wait for her turn.

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G3 Dialog options and plot line in Geneforge Series
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I like the tactic described in the rebel no-canister ending. Go to each and every village and give them the choice of surrendering all their shapers to your army and surviving, or being obliterated. All loyalists are killed with minimal innocent life loss.

[ Friday, June 02, 2006 13:14: Message edited by: Little Billy Sue ]

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Trouble is, it's not very interesting. I'm sure a leveled-up Clawbug has slightly different statisitcs than a battle alpha, but they still play the same.

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quote:
Originally written by The Creator:

I belive my senses are reliable. Is this irrational?
No. If you look at at a leaf and see green, then call another person over, have them see green too, then do a scientific study determining that the leaf is green, I would consider that proof.

As Student of Trinity said, after a certain number of times that an experiment is replicated, it establishes a law of nature. This law would be that our senses are generally reliable.

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If you
quote:
Originally written by GremlinJoe:

don't have belief without proof
then please show me some proof of the existence of God (besides the Bible).

EDIT: If there is something you simply "believe", with no proof, can you acknowledge why I think that is irrational?

[ Thursday, June 01, 2006 11:12: Message edited by: Little Billy Sue ]

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www.ebay.com

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quote:
Originally written by GremlinJoe:

Does anyone still have a problem with what I said about Christianity making no sense at all because the wisdom of God is different than the wisdom of man?

Because I can post what it says in the New Testament to show where I got this notion from. 1Cor 1:18-25.

Gremlin, doubtlessly the New Testament proves the New Testament.

What I want to know is why you believe in something that you admitted makes no sense.

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There's been poetry topics before. They generally don't fail.

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Playing on Torment in Geneforge Series
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With Geneforge you can have a different story and a dfferent character each replay.

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Goodbye Thralni and Snafta. I shall forever remember you as the two people who vaguely had something to do with chickens.

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Major: I've outlined my position on this in another thread, but it was lost.

Basically, once we remove all other factors and it comes down to a question of "Does an omnipotent and omniscient being exist?" it's a stalemate. Theren's no proof for or against God existing. Occam's Razor then dictates that god does not exist, because something not existing is simpler than something existing.

It comes down to the individual whether they believe in Occam's Razor or not. Generally, I think that if (to use the spaceworm again) if someone says that a spaceworm does exist, I would put the burden of proof on them, rather than the guy who says it doesn't.

EDIT: And sorry for mistaking your argument. You were defending someone who says that God does exist, which made it look like you were trying to prove that God exists.

[ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:55: Message edited by: Little Billy Sue ]

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Major: That isn't a very good defense. Putting aside all my thoughts about a benign god allowing suffering and other such things, I say that there's no proof that there is not a huge invisible spaceworm living in a galaxy next to us. While there is still a likelihood that there is a huge invisible spaceworm, we don't accept it as irrefutable fact. No proof against something doesn't make it automatically valid.

(And, out of genuine curiosity, what are the instances of divine intervention that you cited?)

EDIT: It always starts a new page, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

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Wow. This is a great idea. Jeff could even release it as a patch. (Yes, Jeff. A patch. Don't be scared. It won't hurt you.)

What's the "Vlish telepathy" thing, though?

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GremlinJoe, you are admitting that there is no proof of God and that the only reason to believe in him is blind faith and circular logic?

Your point that God is meant to be unfathomable is rather like assuming everything a person does is right because they have a higher IQ than you.

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This seems cool. It would certainly add some reason as to why the player can shape in the middle of an enemy fort, but other shapers apparently require labs. Discovering new creations would be awesome and add replay value.

However, a minigame would need to be more than just lining up genes. Bleh.

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Hmmm... I can understand how Jeff would reason Thahd Shades not being posioned or going rogue (they're undead), but Searing Artilas? They're blue worms. Maybe it's typo.

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Broken Vlish: a too long analysis in Geneforge Series
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So, how would we fix the Vlish?

I'm thinking much less damage for both the long-range and melee attacks. Vlish should be specialized hitters, not durable damage dealers.

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You don't need a god to have a religion. It's uncommon, but some Taoists and Wiccans are atheists.

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In GF3, is there any reason to sink points into Fire or Battle Shaping? in Geneforge Series
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If you want to slow a massive amount of things, Vlish win, due to the roamer not having a slowing attack.

In my opinion, the only real reason to choose roamers would be sniping at fat things with acid. It's fun, but Vlish could probably tear that same fat thing apart.

(And asking DV if Vlish are better than roamers is like asking the CEO of Budweiser what kind of beer he prefers).

EDIT: I guess I'm wrong.

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*ahem*

I haven't appeared yet.

*ahem*

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When you take away everything that does fire or ice or magic damage, though, all you can really dodge is turrets and guards.

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I thought the mods do an account ban first, then an IP ban if the person comes back under a different account. I could be wrong, though. But the member numbers are awfully suspicious.

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Of course... discussions on evolutionary biology eventually turn into spam...

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