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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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Some sort of re-hello to spiderweb? in General | |
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written Friday, August 11 2006 17:57
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(Glances at the pencil, then fires Teh Deth Ray.) That'll teach you to mispell my name! :P -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will allow guards to operate under a flexible work schedule. That way if one is feeling sleepy, he can call for a replacement, punch out, take a nap, and come back refreshed and alert to finish out his shift. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General | |
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written Wednesday, August 9 2006 17:51
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From the little of the Homeland demo I played, it seems that the full version would be a formidible weapon indeed... My two bits in Project DikiScen would be that reproducing the script exactly would be very hard. You'd have to script every action of every NPC so they act according to the script. Besides, a direct copy wouldn't be as fun. Maybe if we tried something different? Like every member who's interested submit one town featuring themselves and a minor quest, while several people coordinate a major quest and the outdoors (though outdoors might be scrapped altogether if the scen features the forums). Anyways, I'm tentatively in. Here's hoping I'll be at least moderately evil in it. -------------------- (Turns off auto-misspell-checker.) Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
The Abominable Photo Thread Strikes Back in General | |
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written Wednesday, August 9 2006 17:33
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... and SpidWeb's incredible gravity strikes again. Welcome back, Syn. (Checks on Google) Whadaya mean there ain't no pictures of Legendary Frog's rendition of Melkor? I guess this one will have to do (I'm the jewel-thief on the right). -------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Beta call for "Where the rivers meet" in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, July 30 2006 10:01
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Bump. Again. Thralni, as you've probably read in the MoS thread, I'm going on holidays. To the rest of the beta-testers, in the incredibly unlikely event that someone will send me a copy of the scenario, I will not be able to respond for the rest of the week. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will not locate a base in a volcano, cave, or any other location where it would be ridiculously easy to bypass security by rapelling down from above. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
History in the making... in General | |
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written Sunday, July 30 2006 09:57
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So it seems Dikiyoba is indeed prophetic... -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will be an equal-opportunity despot and make sure that terror and oppression is distributed fairly, not just against one particular group that will form the core of a rebellion. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
THIS CANNOT BE!! YOU MUST CHECK THIS PAGE!! in General | |
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written Sunday, July 30 2006 09:54
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By Crusher: quote:... Please tell me that you have a long, long time to change your mind before you reach the age of majority. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If I have massive computer systems, I will take at least as many precautions as a small business and include things such as virus-scans and firewalls. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Mountain of Shadows RP: the sequel in General | |
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written Sunday, July 30 2006 09:49
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OOC: It's unlikely I'll have time for the Net on Monday, and I'm leaving for vacation on Tuesday. Feel free to keep on using Gnosis in your posts; just don't expect me to respond to anything until next week Monday. -------------------- Hmmm... right. BUMP! Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General | |
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written Friday, July 28 2006 18:08
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Heh. Im remindd of a few Doctor Fun commics... -------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Friday, July 28 2006 17:42
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Bump. After reading the RegEx chapter over and over to find out why I couldn't capture the string under $1, I remembered that $ signifies the end of the pattern, not the beginning. Oops. Anyways, here's the two programs. The intent is to do some spell-checking in between. After extensive testing (cough), the programs appear to function perfectly. Seeing the immense amount of attention this idea has received, I might come back to these programs later and make it possible for use outside of command line usage. :P -------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, July 28 2006 17:42
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Bump. After reading the RegEx chapter over and over to find out why I couldn't capture the string under $1, I remembered that $ signifies the end of the pattern, not the beginning. Oops. Anyways, here's the two programs. The intent is to do some spell-checking in between. After extensive testing (cough), the programs appear to function perfectly. Seeing the immense amount of attention this idea has received, I might come back to these programs later and make it possible for use outside of command line usage. :P -------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Major Error: Expression TOO LONG in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Friday, July 28 2006 17:34
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'i', 'j', and 'k' are the conventional variables to use in summation notation and loops, in my experience. How exactly does BoA decide which rectangle the party is in? You could do the SDF idea, and have 'boundary' rectangles surrounding the first to turn the SDF back to zero, but that might lead to problems when the party occupies more than one rectangle. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If I am recruiting to find someone to run my computer systems, and my choice is between the brilliant programmer who's head of the world's largest international technology conglomerate and an obnoxious 15-year-old dork who's trying to impress his dream girl, I'll take the brat and let the hero get stuck with the genius. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Major Error: Expression TOO LONG in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, July 28 2006 17:34
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'i', 'j', and 'k' are the conventional variables to use in summation notation and loops, in my experience. How exactly does BoA decide which rectangle the party is in? You could do the SDF idea, and have 'boundary' rectangles surrounding the first to turn the SDF back to zero, but that might lead to problems when the party occupies more than one rectangle. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If I am recruiting to find someone to run my computer systems, and my choice is between the brilliant programmer who's head of the world's largest international technology conglomerate and an obnoxious 15-year-old dork who's trying to impress his dream girl, I'll take the brat and let the hero get stuck with the genius. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Beta call for "Where the rivers meet" in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, July 25 2006 19:21
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Um... hello? Nikki? Any Windows user? EDIT: Fixed brackets. -------------------- I'm all alone... [ Tuesday, July 25, 2006 19:23: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Avernum Tactics in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, July 24 2006 17:39
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One thing I've thought of is giving the PCs the special ability "Command NPC". They could give commands like "Attack with Bow", "Heal/Bless PCs", "Defend PC #4", etc. to NPCs following the party. Then just have different versions of START_STATE to choose from depending on the value of a SDF set by the ability. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If the rebels manage to trick me, I will make a note of what they did so that I do not keep falling for the same trick over and over again. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, July 24 2006 17:29
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Placing random walls in BoA (and presumably A5) is easy enough. The problem with it arises in trying to make sure the maze has at least one true passage, enough false passages, and is fairly difficult. I might take a whack at it myself after I brush up on graph theory a bit... yeah, like THAT'S going to happen... This reminds me of one tower my DM made for my group. It was a teleportation maze, with glowing blue portals set inside each doorway. Of course, said DM neglected to mention the obviousness of said portals until I commented on how the tower seemed to ignore all rules of space and time. Grrr. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: As an equal-opportunity employer, I will have several hearing-impaired body-guards. That way if I wish to speak confidentially with someone, I'll just turn my back so the guards can't read my lips instead of sending all of them out of the room. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 19:33
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Couldn't Google astring either. Even if I could find it, I'd still like to know what I was doing wrong. This should be a relatively easy task. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will hire one hopelessly stupid and incompetent lieutenant, but make sure that he is full of misinformation when I send him to capture the hero. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 19:33
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Couldn't Google astring either. Even if I could find it, I'd still like to know what I was doing wrong. This should be a relatively easy task. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will hire one hopelessly stupid and incompetent lieutenant, but make sure that he is full of misinformation when I send him to capture the hero. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 15:40
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I started working on a Perl program to remove strings from a BoA script (the idea is to do a spell check on the strings, then use a diffent program to merge the corrected strings back in again). It's been a few months since I've used Perl, and I was never formally taught how to write data to a file. So predictably, I've gotten errors I don't know how to solve. I've tried explicitly setting a variable to the result of <IN> instead of relying on $_, to no luck. After trying several different ways of coding it and inserting debug print statements, I get the feeling that the problem arises with: print OUT "$1\n"; When I removed OUT (getting print to go to STDOUT), I got:Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string Anyways, any help would be appreciated; Word doesn't catch all the errors when the strings are surrounded by code.-------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Perl Script to Remove Strings in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 15:40
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I started working on a Perl program to remove strings from a BoA script (the idea is to do a spell check on the strings, then use a diffent program to merge the corrected strings back in again). It's been a few months since I've used Perl, and I was never formally taught how to write data to a file. So predictably, I've gotten errors I don't know how to solve. I've tried explicitly setting a variable to the result of <IN> instead of relying on $_, to no luck. After trying several different ways of coding it and inserting debug print statements, I get the feeling that the problem arises with: print OUT "$1\n"; When I removed OUT (getting print to go to STDOUT), I got:Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string Anyways, any help would be appreciated; Word doesn't catch all the errors when the strings are surrounded by code.-------------------- Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Beta call for "Where the rivers meet" in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 18:53
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I don't know what's worse... the fact that Nikki gave me version 1.0.0 of the scenario, or that I played it for a week, building up inward resentment towards Thralni for not fixing the bugs in the scenario, before I discovered that I was playing the old version. Sigh... I'll need a Windows user to send me version 1.1.0 to me. Again. Hopefully I can use the same save file. If not, I'll zip through it with a god party. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: When planning an expedition, I will choose a route for my forces that does not go through thick, leafy terrain conveniently located near the rebel camp. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Code of Community in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 19 2006 22:08
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By Aran: quote:It is summer vacation. Please, please, don't post RegEx. -------------------- By Ephesos: quote:FYT. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Mountain of Shadows RP: the sequel in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 19 2006 21:58
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Gnosis… revels. Thanks to the unknowing efforts of the strange firstborn who had carried one of the tomes across the runed line, the smaller fragment of Gnosis has finally rejoined with a larger portion. Or is it that the larger fragment has received a smaller portion? No matter, the two fragments of Gnosis’ awareness have merged, and it is content with the greater amount of information available to it. Not completely content, however. Merging with the fragment on the Guardian’s side of the runed line comes with knowledge of dealings with the creature since Gnosis was first fragmented and the Tainted ice and runed lines were put in place. Gnosis is pleased with the achievement of reclaiming more of its tomes to itself, but such efforts would be nothing compared to finally regaining contact with the vast library that the Curator hinted at in their last conversation. A library that lies completely beyond this fragment of Gnosis’ reach, until now. Now that this Melora holds one of the tomes, there is a good probability that contact with the rest of the books could finally happen. Gnosis had brooded over the best way to entice the physical to aid it in bringing the books together, and now it has a plan. Gnosis is about to send its awareness to the tome of spells that the firstborn hold in its possession when it notices something. Another physical is holding a book. Considering for a moment, Gnosis decides to contact the newcomer first. Before, with the knowledge available to the sole book now held by this Melora, trying to attract the attention of physical holding a closed book would have been impossible. Now, being in contact with more books, Gnosis knows a different way. Gnosis causes the held book to heat up slightly. Unless this physical is a simpleton, it will realize that it held a magical tome and would begin reading it. Sure enough, Gnosis senses that the physical has begun reading the words on the book’s pages, and opens contact. I am Gnosis. Who are you? A moment’s pause, then the physical responds back. “The book… the book is speaking in my mind? Hello? Who… what are you?” Confusion is strongly present in this thought, and Gnosis is frustrated. Using the combined memories of contacting physicals contained in the tome held by this Melora and the books on this side of the line, it had hoped that it had found a way to introduce itself to physicals without the initial confusion. I am Gnosis. I serve as a means to collect information for these books, and as a means to offer information to those who read them. Gnosis still does not know why it was created for this purpose; none of the books it is in contact with had any information on the matter, and the Curator certainly had not been forthcoming. All the more reason to regain contact with the rest of the books. “You can tell me what is contained in all the books in the Mountain? What about this one? By the cover, it seems to deal with this black ice. Does it talk about the relationship between Orloki and the Death Hawks?” Gnosis brushes aside the periphery thoughts that accompany this, some memory with this physical lying on a floor of ice in mortal pain. This book does not mention the Death Hawks, although another might. Gnosis cannot know for certain, but the possibility exists. I am no longer in contact with all the books. The Guardian… Orloki… has blocked me from contacting all of the books I once could with this ice and runed lines. Gnosis begins to form a plan. I have reason to believe that a vast number of books lie beyond my reach, guarded by Orloki. If you can get past him, and bring this book into that library, I will be able to tell you all I know of these Death Hawks.Which might be no more than Gnosis already knows. Bringing this book into the library is not strictly necessary either, but otherwise Gnosis wouldn’t be able to get in contact with the fragment of itself residing in the library. Gnosis feels more questions forming in the physical’s mind, and quickly sends another thought before one forms and it would be compelled to answer. Undoubtedly much information can be gained in conversing with this physical, but the possibility of being in contact with every single book in the Mountain is the greater goal by far. Let me see what you see. Allow me to examine your surroundings through your senses, and I will do what I can to direct you to Orloki. -------------------- Hooray for writing your IC in Word so accidently hitting the Back button on your mouse isn't the end of the world! FF, if this isn't what you had in mind, let me know and I can edit it out. Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Code of Community in General | |
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written Tuesday, July 18 2006 19:04
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By Jewels: quote:A moment of temporary insanity. Actually, according to Rule #1, every moment on these boards is a moment of insanity. Oh well. EDIT: Pesky grammar. -------------------- #41: Causing a Mac versus PC war or an Exile versus Avernum war is not expressly forbidden. However, doing so will cause a poor, fluffy kitty (already overwhelmed by comparisons between TM and Kel and Aran locking topics) to spontaneously combust. [ Tuesday, July 18, 2006 19:06: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Beta check on aisle three in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, July 17 2006 18:51
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Congrats and good work! EDIT: Did you make the changes you mentioned in the BTC (re: spreading out the plot exposition)? -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If I steal something very important to the hero, I will not put it on public display. [ Monday, July 17, 2006 18:58: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
Just payed through the celts and wondering... in Nethergate | |
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written Monday, July 17 2006 18:49
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Did you know that today is Random Acts of Necromancy Day? -------------------- (The newest oldest topic.) Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |