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Displayed name | Thuryl |
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Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
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written Tuesday, November 20 2007 01:34
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quote:Spelling is part of grammar, though! The parts of grammar that aren't spelling are syntax. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
RPG Life.. in General | |
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written Monday, November 19 2007 00:16
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quote:What about in the Dunny Age? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
research notes in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, November 19 2007 00:03
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quote:Still not as common as the one about Lark's scrolls, though. Christ on a bike. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
I'm Curious in General | |
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written Friday, November 16 2007 23:32
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quote:Well, yes. That would, at best, make it Jewish. :P [ Friday, November 16, 2007 23:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 16 2007 16:56
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quote:My dad's a teacher: during exam season, he's up until 2 or 3 in the morning most nights marking papers. There are other professions that have to take work home with them as well. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 15 2007 16:09
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Who else initially read this topic title as "golden showers"? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
For all you physics gurus in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 14 2007 17:16
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You know what a normal force is, right? The frictional force is equal to the normal force multiplied by the coefficient of friction. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 13 2007 06:20
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quote:That was the first thing that came to my mind as well, but I doubt it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 13 2007 02:21
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quote:Per week, not per day. That's only 3 hours a day. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Quest Item Questions in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, November 13 2007 02:17
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I think it was one of the job board quests, maybe in Dharmon. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 19:23
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quote:Clearly someone has never been to an Eye of Argon reading. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 14:53
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quote:Doesn't surprise me too much; I did the same thing with Exile when I was 8, and I'm sure lots of other people did too. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 04:35
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He is indeed Alec. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 11 2007 00:08
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quote:Uh, "or so Brunei claims" was obviously meant to refer to the bit about there not being any drug trafficking in Brunei. In fact, countries with harsh sentences for drug trafficking usually have very high rates of drug trafficking, which is why they instituted such serious penalties in the first place. Regarding the rest of your screed: I assume you shun everyone who wears polyester-cotton blends, then? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 10 2007 05:25
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quote:The way to stop rape is to walk across a desert without food and water. To empty the oceans with a teaspoon. To unmoor the stars from the sky. You may as well suggest banning all sex except for group sex. At least then if someone is raped, there'll be witnesses. I'm laughing now, because I can't do anything else. [ Saturday, November 10, 2007 05:26: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 23:10
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quote:*giggle* Might want to take a look at the source code for BoE or the BoA Editor sometime. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 22:37
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quote:Try implementing this, and watch the conviction rate for rape fall even lower than it already has. There's enough community sympathy for that kind of rapist (especially if he's young, good-looking and rich) that a jury simply isn't going to convict if they know he's going to get the death penalty if they do. The problem in rape cases, by and large, is not sentencing: the problem is getting a conviction in the first place. Harsher sentences are only going to make juries even more reluctant to convict. (And if we managed to get a conviction and hand out a death penalty for every acquaintance rape, we'd have to execute millions of men in America alone.) [ Friday, November 09, 2007 22:39: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 15:51
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quote:And encourage more rapists to kill their victims, since if they're already getting the death penalty they've got nothing more to lose by eliminating the main witness? Yeah, that's gonna work real well. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Across the Universe? in General | |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 01:18
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quote:It can't have anything to do with the mother's body; it happens even in vitro. Problems start as early as the two-cell stage. Ref: Kojima et al. (2000). Effects of simulated microgravity on mammalian fertilization and preimplantation embryonic development in vitro. Fertility and Sterility 74(6), pp. 1142-1147. Further research suggests that impaired embryonic development in microgravity may be a result of disruption to certain signalling pathways, particularly cGMP and nitric oxide synthase. I suppose the good news is that if we can get a handle on what's going wrong, we stand a chance of fixing it. [ Friday, November 09, 2007 01:19: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 00:14
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quote:I know for a fact that there are problems with early embryonic development in microgravity in some species, including mice. Basically, the embryo has to decide which end is going to grow up to be its head and which end is going to grow up to be its butt, and one of the ways it does that is establishing various chemical gradients, some with the assistance of gravity. If it can't decide, it won't develop. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 8 2007 04:49
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Yeah, you gotta watch out for that cheap Chinese Rohypnol. You wouldn't want to be in the middle of oh wait this isn't Desp forget I said anything -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 7 2007 14:21
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quote:The aforementioned Treasure of the Rudras pretty much lets you do this, given the large number of prefixes and suffixes of varying cost that increase the power of a spell. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Some places i could not access.. in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, November 7 2007 04:51
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A couple of the doors on the second floor of the Tower Colony just plain can't be opened (without heavy cheating). There's nothing interesting behind them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 7 2007 04:28
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quote:Well, every game is unique in the sense that no other game is exactly identical to it (if it were, they'd be the same game). But that's not interesting, which is why we're looking for unique mechanics instead of unique games. [ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 04:29: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Fantastical Thoughts On RPG Game Mechanics in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, November 7 2007 03:48
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quote:Well, this is true enough: "RPG" originally meant "D&D-inspired dungeon crawl" and is now basically just a marketing term. Your suggestion isn't really an improvement, though, since it's still misleading (what about RPGs in non-fantasy settings?) and doesn't say anything about the game mechanics (a first-person shooter is a "combat simulator" too). Djur has suggested "turn-based tactical character development games", which would probably include RPGs and most SRPGs. quote:I usually hear Harvest Moon referred to as a simulation game rather than an RPG, although admittedly "simulation" is just as meaningless a descriptor. [ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 03:49: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |