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| Displayed name | Dintiradan |
| Member number | 6670 |
| Title | Guardian |
| Postcount | 1509 |
| Homepage | http://dintiradan.ermarian.net/ |
| Registered | Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 24 2007 11:09
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Just make sure that the white background is really white, and not off-white. Pretty easy to fix, just use MSPaint or the Mac equivilent. -------------------- I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 23 2007 09:10
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By Diki: quote:http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=002846 -------------------- Or is it that Banjo is a puppet? Don't make me call the Puppet Civil Liberties Union! - Elan (OotS #137) Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, April 19 2007 08:30
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Alright. I still like Maddox's the best, though. -------------------- Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. and i'm steve Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 16 2007 18:40
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Posted. I realize finals are upon us, and I expect it to be slow going for the next couple weeks, but who's still in? -------------------- Do not use as ice cream topping. - On a hair colouring bottle Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 16 2007 18:36
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It cannot be stated with certainty what percentage of gods were mortal before they rose in power. Most deities are secretive of their origins, unwilling to elaborate on their rise to power. A few, however, do share their experiences. The road to divine ascendancy is a varied one, to be sure; not one is the same. This makes locating these new gods problematic: there is no one criterion to search for, so discovery of these beings often only happens when they make themselves known by their initial blunderings with their newfound might. Should the current pantheon seek these new gods out? At times in history, they did not. The current system is hardly an improvement. Contact with new deities only occurs when the established gods are willing to take time away from their projects, unlikely when often there is nothing to gain from such contacts. I maintain nonetheless that efforts to contact newly ascended mortals should be made. The established gods know far too little of restraint, but the new know naught of it. They are far too often drunk on divine power that is strange to them, and all to often willing to shape Kalandha to their rash ideals. - Ashataro, Treatise on Divinity -------------------- The bone dice made a clattering sound as they were tossed atop the cards lain in the previous round. The gamblers held their breath for a moment, and then broke out into a raucous din as they divvied the pile of small coins in the centre of the table amongst themselves. Ashataro hadn't heard of or seen the game before; it must have been invented in the last century. Surely the gamblers knew the rules, but to Ashataro it seemed the rounds switched from rolling dice to tossing coins to laying cards at random. He took a sip from his flagon, and immediately scowled. It wasn't bad enough he had to sup with gamblers in this damp inn along the forsaken road. The wine had to be vinegary as well. He could have continued walking the Kirwood Road, but surely a middle-aged man walking unconcerned in a night of pouring rain through brigand infested country would have attracted notice. Dealing with felons would be no problem of course, but he never liked drawing attention to himself. When the time came to stop for the night, Realloc's Arms was the only tavern near, so Ashataro put up with it. The redistribution of coins didn't seem to favour a narrow faced man sitting alone at one end of the table. He grimaced to himself a moment before sliding over half of his remaining pile to the middle of the table. A few of the other gamblers chuckled at him, and one began dealing out a pack of worn out playing cards. He was getting closer to the new gods, Ashataro could tell. At least, he assumed that the cause of the itch at the back of his neck was some new deity. The last time he had such an itch, Saluc had just begun his bloody rampage. Five years after the fact, it still troubled him that he ignored the itch back then. How would things have changed, had he sought out the bloodthirsty deity, tried to express to him the futility of dabbling in the dealings of mortals? Likely nothing. From what Ashataro knew of the god, he would never have listened to reason. Still, he had not tried. "You going to buy the roll, or walk away?" a gap-toothed gambler asked the narrow faced one. The cards had been dealt out and were now arranged atop the table. Narrow Face man stared down at the cards, sweat beading on his pale face, then slowly, reluctantly, pushed all that was left of his coin to the centre of the table. Gap-Tooth chortled as he passed along the wooden dice cup. Ashataro had ignored the itch five years past, ignored it with an uneasy feeling in his gut. The same feeling he had now, as he tracked down the itch's origin. He remembered all too well what happened centuries ago the last time he had heeded the strange feelings call. The outlying buildings already consumed, the Academy itself wreathed in flame... Ashataro had not wanted to involve himself in mortal affairs, but neither did he want another Saluc unleashed on Kalandha. "Ha!" Gap-Tooth exclaimed, exultant. "You lose!" A few of those around the gambling table laughed with him, and at Narrow Face, whose eyes were wide and staring at the dice on the table. Gap-Tooth was already shovelling the heap of coins over to his side of the table with grimy hands when Narrow Face breathlessly said, "Hold. I get another toss." The gamblers on either side of him began arguing with him, but he vehemently shook his head and pointed at a die, lying atop one of the cards. "See, my lowest one landed on the Emperor of Coins. I'm entitled to buying a five flip." Gap-Tooth froze a moment, and then chuckled. "True, friend, but you have no coin left to buy a flip," he stated, making a show glancing around the tabletop quizzically. He continued laughing until Narrow Face produced a gold coin from his boot. He stared at it, torn between fear of losing his hoard and greed at gaining the gold, and then began rooting through his stash. "So anxious to lose again, friend? Let's find you your silvers for the five flip. I can feel your gold in my hand already." Half the inn, Ashataro included, watched as Narrow Face placed the five silvers atop his thumb with trembling fingers. He paused, lips moving silently, and then flicked his thumb. The silvers caught the firelight as they soared for a moment in the air, before crashing down again on the table. The gamblers were silent long after the last of the coins had stopped rolling, until Narrow Face spoke, his pallor replaced by a red flush. "All heads." "Fortune favours the bold, it would seem," stated a voice in Ashataro's ear. He turned. "You." "Me," replied Fallian, a smile on his face. It didn't seem that the other patrons had noticed him, although Ashataro wondered how long that would last. "I'm sure they serve better than that swill. Let's see what they can find for the likes of us." Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 16 2007 09:17
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Bah. I have a light switch hooked up to my processor. I prefer handling I/O on my own, thank you. And I hunt down and kill processes myself. On a more serious note, I make regular use of Windows 98, Windows XP, and Unix (mostly good ol' bash). -------------------- I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 16 2007 09:11
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Neither rain nor shine, sleet nor hail will stop the celebratory champagne! --------------------  Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 16 2007 08:53
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To build upon that, how difficult would it be to do that for all the BoA calls? It could be similar to the argument prompting in Eclipse. -------------------- I got up one morning, couldn't find my socks, so I called Information. She said, "Hello, Information." I said, "I can't find my socks." She said, "They're behind the couch." And they were! - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:57
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I've been thinking about picking up Ender's Game. Worth the read? -------------------- I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:54
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Half the class didn't know about the calculus assignment due yesterday. It was assignment eleven (the syllabus said there would be eight to ten assignments), and U policy says that there shouldn't be any assignments due the last week of lectures. It's 'optional' now. Which doesn't mean much with curved grades. Still didn't do it. Yeah, that's me, sticking it to THE MAN. -------------------- I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one — it wasn't doing what I was doing. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:41
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Bubbly for Ephesos and his merry band of vengeful undead! --------------------  Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, April 13 2007 05:50
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It's been a while since I discovered this, but the maximum string limit is 254 characters, not 255 characters (at least with string literals; don't know about the buffer). -------------------- Roy: So you, a complete stranger, are telling me that I need to venture into dangerous territory and bring back some of this "starmetal" for you, and then you can fix my sword? Dwarven Smith: Aye. Roy: I hate sidequests. (OotS #134) Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, April 12 2007 09:15
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Hmmm... the last real board game I've played was Shadows Over Camelot. Settlers of Catan had its glory days, but most people in my circles got tired of it and were too lazy to learn the expansions (C&K FTW!). I've been playing a lot of Bang! games lately. EDIT: quote:Dintiradan 'accidently' brushes against the table, scattering all of the SA's units away from Alberta. EDIT: Forgot Go. Don't play it nearly as much as I used to, and haven't picked up the KPA for ages, but still... -------------------- I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. - Steven Wright [ Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:25: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 10 2007 09:11
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I have played D&D for a number of years, and I'm going to start playing AGOT d20 in two weeks. A few people in my gaming group used to play in a RIFTS campaign, and one of them is working on a GURPS setting. A couple have dabbled in the Tri-Stat system. And I like to delude myself into thinking that I have a life. -------------------- Hey, I was carrying around d20s in my velvet Crown Royal bag before you were a Will Save that your dad had to make about whether or not to pull out on time! - THunt Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 13:56
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Give me a moment, and I'll whip up a Perl script to do that. :) -------------------- EDIT: Well, I just put states 150-999 into a town script with no complaint. However, they were all empty. I'm going to try something more devious: get every one to call the next one in succession, until #999 just prints out a message_dialog. EDIT: Huh. I take it all back. It took nearly a half second before message_dialog("Hello World!","") was run after travelling through 950 states, but it did come up. EDIT: Maybe it's dialog scripts that have the limit for the number of nodes. I remember something like that being the reason for Smoo putting all the merchants in Rats Aplenty in a separate town. [ Monday, April 09, 2007 14:19: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 13:48
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In your town's script, you need to have an EXIT_STATE, even if it's justThis, along with START_STATE and INIT_STATE, is needed for all scripts; BoA automatically calls them at certain times and they need to be there. -------------------- First pants, THEN shoes. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 11:52
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By Thuryl: quote:Eh, worth a shot to ask; in Avernum they were ostensibly immune to magic too, but that didn't stop stoning or Cloud of Blades... -------------------- Warning: Cape does not enable user to fly. - Label on a Batman costume Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 11:47
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Did you have 1000 states in total, or just a state numbered 1000? -------------------- The One Ring Theory Assignment to RULE THEM ALL! Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 11:36
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box1_10_2 (at) yahoo (dot) com -------------------- (a) = (b) <==?==> a ~ b Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 08:56
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By Excalibur: quote:Heh. My parents didn't think I was serious when I said that Santa Claus and the Holiday Tree were the modern day equivilent of Baal and Asherah. Imagine their surprise when they woke up Chrismas Day to find the Holiday Tree cut down and Santa Claus sitting in the middle of the raging inferno I created with the branches. I think most of their surprise was due to the fact that the Holiday Tree was made of plastic and metal. -------------------- Do not use to pick up anything that is currently burning. - Label on a vacuum cleaner Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 08:42
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I take it that Rick Moranis was unable to play the part? ;) --------------------  Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 9 2007 08:14
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Niemand, we have ways of making you do a Windows port. :P This has renewed my interest in learning XML so I can write a .scheme file for AvernumScript in PN2. Won't be able to do all the fancy code-generation, but at least PN2 already highlights mismatched brackets and does line numbers. -------------------- Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows. - Label on an air conditioner Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Sunday, April 8 2007 14:45
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I've never fought Exile doomguards, but in Avernum I beat them easily with a Simulacrum'd basilisk. Maybe the Exile doomguards have the same weakness. -------------------- I don't have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, April 6 2007 18:18
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Three of my grandparents are/were from Groningen (one was part German), and one was from Friesland. If that counts. ;) But it doesn't affect me that much, other than being a convenient excuse for being frugal. ;) -------------------- I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, April 6 2007 18:08
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By Nikki: quote:There's gotta be some connection with Luke losing his hand as his conversion from an annoying farmboy to a kick-ass knight who destroys pleasure barges. I'm convinced that Anakin would have been a better character had Qui-Gon dismembered him when he first laid eyes on the brat. -------------------- I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. - Steven Wright Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |