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Emancipated! in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
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Yes. I don't see any valid reason for voting against this.

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How to raise skills when level. in The Exile Trilogy
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #8
Skills cost the same amount at each trainer - there's no difference.

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Which game to play? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #59
Encumbrance generally only matters for mages - they can't cast spells with encumbrance higher than 1. It can sometimes reduce the AP available in combat, but high Defense skill will diminish that.

As for the resting, you can't rest while in combat mode. If you're still controlling all six characters separately, you're in combat mode and need to exit by pressing 'f' or 'e' (I forget which).

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Don't touch that dial! in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #30
Lost
24
The Office

And lots of ESPN and other sports.

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Annoucements? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Teuz:

quote:
Originally written by Teuz:

"Few weeks"?
Hello? GF4 will be out at the end of this year or sooner?

Yup

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Which game to play? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #32
I'd suggest starting with Blades of Exile or Exile III and then moving on from there, depending on your opinion of the interface and plot(s).

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Annoucements? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #5
The topics have been deleted, it would seem. Other games have definitely been announced in the forum.

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Scripting Category? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #6
My vote is no, and for a separate script contest if at all.

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You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse!
Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #39
Well, I run several processor-intensive programs that do seriously slow down any system (like CM 03/04, a soccer management simulation), but have zipped along on my MacBookPro.

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Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #33
My MacBookPro hasn't crashed and is noticeably faster than my G4 iMac, although that could be a side effect of the 2 GB of RAM (which is noticeably faster than the two weeks I only had 1 GB of RAM).

I can have tons of programs open and not experience slowdown, especially processor-intensive games like CM 03/04, along with web browser, email, and iChat and FTP. It's really great.

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Turgid, fleshy in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #11
It's not new, it came up in the Anaximander thread (which I started) on General on the spidweb ikonboards.

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You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse!
Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #27
iStat Pro - it's great!

And I mainly keep my laptop in my room and running/processing at night, so I prefer to keep it on.

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You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse!
Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #23
http://ryan-thompson.home.comcast.net/dashboard.png

EDIT: Image too huge - made link.

EDIT 2: This picture reveals a lot about me that I am too lazy to censor.

[ Monday, October 16, 2006 09:29: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Turgid, fleshy in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #9
Exile I has something about Catholics, and one of the games has something about Nance and Elspeth.

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Marralis! in Blades of Avernum
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #11
Memory allocation!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malloc

We definitely had this discussion before ... Calloc is a town in Exile III too.

[ Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:25: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Marralis! in Blades of Avernum
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #6
Malloc, Marish, Mernia, Menara? No Marralis.

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Who do you love, baby? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #8
Everyone knows I voted for Mariann, Jeff's gun-toting Hungarian spouse.

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Helpful Scenario Tips... in Blades of Avernum
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #31
Masks? On a Ship to Algiers?

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Name me! in Blades of Avernum
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #10
It doesn't make any sense.

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Name me! in Blades of Avernum
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #1
It looks like a hydra or a shambler.

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Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #138
As impossible as it sounds, TGM's logo looks far too busy and the colors clash.

Just because Monobook has straight lines and few colors doesn't mean it will go with everything. There's a reason you don't wear white after Labor Day.

EDIT: Using persistent cookies I like how Alorael's first one looks (non-comb).

EDIT 2: I just uploaded three adjusted versions of the cave to the encyclopedia:

IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/contest/ados/Caves2.gif) IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/contest/ados/Caves3.gif) IMAGE(http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/contest/ados/Caves4.gif)

The third has messed up transparency.

Edit: Updated images to their new locations.

[ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 20:59: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #134
With the rest of the MonoBook skin.

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #131
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The surface/cave picture by ADoS is both too detailed and too small to show much detail on the details. Too much detail is a bad thing because then you focus on the picture, when the text is your reason for visiting the Encyclopedia. The size of the detail is also a bad thing because despite the number of small details, none are clear and distinct. Play the lottery until you load up that picture on a page with lots of text, look closely at the picture, and you'll probably find yourself leaning closer to the screen. Finally, the number of colors used is very high. This slows down recognition of the picture.
It looks fine to me. I don't have that problem. Once you look at it once you know what it is and then it just looks pretty and fits perfectly in the corner.

The crossed swords look terrible and always have.

TGM's crown and sun graphics are ... interesting. Some are okay and some are hideous, but none look right in context on the page.

Ef's looks okay as a standalone, but it doesn't fit on the page correctly and looks out of place there too.

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Happy Jewish New Year in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #16
I agree, to an extent, but Judaism is very different from other mainstream religions in some fundamental ways. For instance, a child raised as a Christian who decides to be an athiest is no longer Christian, but a child raised Jewish who decides that they don't believe in God will more often than not still identify themselves as Jewish.

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Artwork request - Encyclopedia Logo in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #121
Seeing all of the logos side by side on that page makes it completely obvious that there are only a few choices: Alo's last one with the Vahnatai, the third one with silver crown and silver letters, and the cave/surface one.

The cave/surface one is by far the best. It shows the encyclopedia's mission, it looks really, really good, and is basically perfect.

Those other two are okay, but far behind the cave/surface.

The others are all terrible and I would much rather have that space blank than have one of those logos up there.

Also, from Wichita State's psychology department:
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Studies examining the reading performance of older adults have found that colored text on a colored background typically reduces their reading performance compared to reading black text on a white background (Charness & Bosman, 1990). Moreover, research has shown that dark text on light backgrounds is generally superior to light text on dark backgrounds (Tobas, 1987)
Web design 101: light text on a dark background is sooo 12-year-old's first webpage.

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