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| Displayed name | *i |
| Member number | 6 |
| Title | The Establishment |
| Postcount | 3726 |
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| Registered | Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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| A4 Problem in Tech Support | |
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The Establishment
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written Friday, May 12 2006 20:11
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Generally a lot of the newer Spiderweb games ask for the 1024x768 at thousands of colors, although they don't require it necessarily. Try setting your monitor to a different resolution and the color settings to thousands. [ Friday, May 12, 2006 20:14: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| A4 Problem in Tech Support | |
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written Friday, May 12 2006 19:45
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I know this is always said, but did you try fully uninstalling and redownloading. Often times a corrupted file can be cleared up that way. Otherwise, what are the resolution setting on your monitor? [ Friday, May 12, 2006 19:46: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Content ratings in Blades of Exile | |
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written Friday, May 12 2006 19:44
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My take on the R is the level of detail. If there's normal kill the bandits stuff, no harm done. However, if you go into exacting details about how the victim was dismembered, you may want to consider an R rating. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Avernum V in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, May 12 2006 19:42
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He got you good. :P -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| The lost mages under Almaria in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, May 12 2006 18:39
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You don't, per se. Events will cause it to happen after you do a few quests for the Castle. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| The lost mages under Almaria in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, May 12 2006 07:33
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The gates cannot be opened or passed until Almaria is peaceful to you. To get to the mages specifically, while outside, head south of the city along the shore. You should find a tunnel leading north. If you fight a hostile guard, you know you're at the right place. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Anonymous Confessions in General | |
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written Thursday, May 11 2006 20:37
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Swift justice is guaranteed for those who violate the code of conduct. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Rentar's Keep Problem in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, May 11 2006 17:17
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I should have said, you should get the message equal to the number of the shades you killed. If you get more, then there is a bug. If it matches, then there is not one. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Alorael have finally get a Custom Title? in General | |
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written Thursday, May 11 2006 17:15
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Yikes, ~8.5 years... :P -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Rentar's Keep Problem in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, May 11 2006 10:07
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You should report the bug to Jeff. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| BoA for intel macs in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, May 11 2006 07:41
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I would recommend forwarding your concern to Jeff. If enough people start complaining about fairly recent games not being able to run, the chances of him doing something about it increase. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 14:40
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Yes, the service jobs of plumbers and electricians will always, they are service jobs, not production ones. However, their profitability will decline as the more production mode jobs move overseas and fewer could afford them. I'm really concerned about engineers, auto manufacturers, electronics and computing, etc. We're losing these and it is not going to be easy to get them back. Even those things you mention will eventually erode if the value of our goods drops. Also they are all intangibles and will most likely be easier to do in other countries as the expertise moves overseas. We'll still produce them, it's just that we won't be competitive anymore. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 12:13
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I don't have much on plumbers and electricians, but a simple internet search for a decline in science or technical enrollments will show a pretty even trend. As for the market correcting itself, sort of. The problem with the argument is that if the labor force does not exist in the US, it will get outsourced. This is partly due to cheap labor, but also the fact that the skilled labor does not exist here. Those jobs could come back, but in the short term there will be major economic consequences. This means a dependency on foreign labor, never a good thing really. [ Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:13: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| New Playable Race? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 09:45
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Personally I don't want to see any new races in Avernum. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Monir Quests: Portmaster Pirro and Lost Mages. in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 09:43
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Beneath Almaria. Go south of the city along the shore and find a cave leading down. Beat up the guard and head north until you reach some cells. One will have the mages inside. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Stacking tooluse? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 05:19
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No. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 10 2006 05:15
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A service economy is one where the primary source of jobs are things such as retail, finance, restaurants, taxi drivers, etc. In other words, they provide services to the populace rather than create exportable goods per se. These are jobs that do not generally provide exports. Things like manufacturing, mining, and farming are production based jobs as they create an outflow of goods that can be exported. A society needs goods, it can either make them itself or import them. Just importing everything does not work because it creates a net outflow of resources; since you have to pay the producers for imports, eventually you run out of goods to exchange. Of course, there are many jobs that do not fall cleanly into the two categories. The Swiss banking, or international banking in general is one such example. In that case, the service acts more as an exportable good as people external to the Swiss economy are willing to pay for the service. I'd consider software developer, book writer, and pharmacy researcher to be a production jobs as they are part of the creation of goods. I guess another way to look at a particular job is to say if they are a net producer or a net consumer. Exports are on the producer side and imports are on the consumer balance. Way back when, everyone for the most part had a zero balance as they sustained themselves. Civilization has allowed this balance to shift such that people were allowed to be on either side just so that overall the balance worked out to be zero or slightly positive on the producer side. Even this way has its flaws as one could argue about what belongs in the balance. Either way, economies that have a negative balance must import. This, in the long run, makes these economies poorer. So when I say that the current US economy is not sustainable in the long term, I mean that eventually the drain on resources to other economies will cause problems. [ Wednesday, May 10, 2006 05:17: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 9 2006 21:11
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quote:Agreed. We are very short on the certain skilled labor aspects because the US has become a service economy, something that I feel to be unsustainable in the long term. Add to this that the demand for technical skills is increasing and the amount of people going into these fields is decreasing. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| SpidWeb Champions in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 9 2006 09:04
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I've finished them all. I started playing about the time E3 was released and beta tested the rest. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Sentinel Pyrowyrms in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, May 9 2006 05:46
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Been there, done that. Yeah, I know what you mean that they didn't have anything good. Well, what can one do... -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Monday, May 8 2006 16:54
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I really don't care how it is in one little isolated part of Oklahoma, it's nice, but irrelevant to the big picture. Sure, maybe where you live Native Americans are doing fine, but everywhere else things are horrible and that's what matters. They are far behind. For statistics, go to the US census bureau or do a literature search on the social sciences. See for yourself where people are outside of your bubble. There's a major problem, you may not see it day to day, but it's there and denying it does not help. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, May 8 2006 14:09
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quote:"could be right" is an understatement. You are basing your statements on observation alone. Realize that observation is not the best way to ascertain knowledge as you have a very limited sample size. I have a few questions: How much time have you spent on the reservations with the real people there? How many Native Americans do you know personally that would agree with your statements? quote:I'm afraid you have a very naive view of the world. Poverty cannot be solved by money alone, it requires a complete change in their society -- crime, drugs, alcoholism, poor education, lack of role models, depression, poor health, etc. These are all things that need to be solved before they have a chance of being back. quote:Really? How many Native Americans or other minorities you know share that view? You come off as a person who has a very black and white outlook. One has to realize that they don't have every opportunity. Your average person in poverty has: 1) A dysfunctional family 2) Parents (if they even are around) have addictions 3) Grave family financial troubles, can't afford nice internet and educational software 4) Poor schools, public education lets them down and even if they excel there, they still cannot compete with everyone else 5) Broken communities littered with crime, drugs 6) No positive outlook, you are taught to be cynical from the start Item number 4 has personally become very apparent to me. When I spent a few years helping out incoming engineering students, those that came from poor areas would be the most difficult. Statistically most would fail. Is it because they don't work or are not smart? Definitely not. They were at the top of their class, took the most advanced classes they had, but their school could not prepare them for college. An example is that most incoming engineers come in with some calculus. A lot of the students from poor areas didn't even learn trig yet because their school didn't even teach it. From what I've seen this thing is typical and only a small part of the problem. So how can you say that Native Americans, the worst off of all minorities has EVERY opportunity white males have? Virtually every statistic says otherwise. quote:I never brought up the issue about whether or not they should or should not be assimilated, that's a different discussion. All I was saying is that Native Americans are so far behind the rest of America and comparatively little has been done. Oh, also, your posts are somewhat hard to understand, please use a grammar checker. quote:Let's suppose we did as you say, make them full US citizens then what? Well, we're back to the same standing as African Americans but worse. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |