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Also, since Avernum is becoming more like Geneforge, there could be an expensive Magic Craft skill that costs about 14-16 skill points, and boosts all four aspects.

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Also, can you augment weapons in Avernum? Because you should do that if you can.

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"Desperance will cure cancer" is corrected to "cause", though.

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Same for A4. This was a breeze - the "town gate insta-resurrection and insta-healing" is like the editor. And bows with infinite arrows?

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I like the idea of advertising Mac vs. PC. Show the world how wonderful those fruitless debates can be!

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If all that matters is what God wants us to do, and it's impossible in principle for us to know the mind of God, then there's absolutely no way of knowing that any one course of action is better than any other. We can try to do what God has supposedly told us to do, but since we don't understand the mind of God, for all we know God may actively want us to disobey him.

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Yeah, that pretty much sums up how I feel about it all. No self-respecting God would care about things like professional athletes' careers, or rappers getting awards... as SoT mentioned with the Job example, (s)he's got better things to do.

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Since you seem to remember, is the small pit with Terella's body also where you eventuall end up after fighting Nociduas?

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So you have got to 200 posts.
(achoo)
Isn't this topic spam?

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I'd say the concept of not harming (and supporting, where possible) fellow beings of our species can be established as an absolute - not an absolute everyone will follow, but at least one that is separate from all religions and states, and we can therefore all relate to as members of the same species.

(As for aliens, let's not get sucked into hypothetical debates and for now assume that humans have the monopoly on complex articulate intelligence.)

The opposite concept to the one above is to support, above all, yourself. This doesn't necessarily involve being a jerkwad to others; it means to behave appropriately for the current situation to get the maximum possible benefit for oneself.

Now all we need to do is show that one of these concepts should, ultimately, be followed. Arguments that support one over the other, and that can actually be applied to everyone.

Personally, this is where I'm stuck... It's like a giant, complex game of Prisoner's Dilemma.

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This is one of those age-old questions that bugs me, because it seems nonsensical under the usual constraints. An omniscient and omnipotent god in a deterministic universe would know enough at the moment of creation to be certain how things were going to work out, so free will is a cop-out for evil in the world: this god created everything knowing full well what we were going to do and could've created things differently if he didn't want evil to exist.

In order for free will to matter, God has to be not omniscient (which I think is how people tacitly used to reconcile this long ago) or not omnipotent (there's Satan, struggling against him), or the world has to be probabilistic, not deterministic (at the moment of creation, there was a finite probability of some evil arising, and God just minimized the expectation value of the evil function over the lifetime of the universe).

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Now, the real question is: do Spiderweb Software games cure cancer in Canada?

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I wouldn't mind that. I'm really kind of tired of the H.R. Puffenstuff crap. Nobody ever died from invective.

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I don't think the stats should be shut down yet. After the early surge of posts, I think it will slow down again for this month.

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Part of why I make a periodic habit of quitting and rejoining, except when I left for the first time, being a youth and in a huff - the biggest part of it is that there's an air of celebrity. I've never much cared for the discourse of celebrity, and it strikes a resentful chord somewhere deep down when there's a topic where people discuss me that I've never even read. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want people to talk about me. I want people to talk about what I have to say.

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There seem to be 3 types of opinions expressed in this thread:

1. "You suck." - This implies that the poster doesn't consider himself a part of these forums and has low opinion about them. In that case, what are you [the poster] doing here anyway? Go hang out with somebody who doesn't "suck".

2. "We suck." - This implies that the poster thinks there is a problem and he is part of it. In that case, stop wasting your time here and become part of the solution. Go and make those great, fun, engaging, and informative threads you've been longing for.

3. "We are fine." - The poster thinks there is no problem. In this case, why are you wasting your time reading this thread?

Conclusion: Everybody posting here is wasting time that could be more productively spent elsewhere.

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