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Registered	Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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Exile 1: Escape from the Pit - 7.39 (9.0/6.0) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, March 4 2006 23:21 Profile Homepage #4 Well, it lacks the immersive plot of E2, and the engine is a little awkward. On the other hand, it's the first introduction to an interesting setting, and while there isn't much to be said for the combat, the towns and dialogue were clearly designed by someone who put a lot of thought into them. 8 -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Exile 2: Crystal Souls - 9.03 (10.0/6.5) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, March 4 2006 22:05 Profile Homepage #5 Definitely the best game in the Exile trilogy. Its plot is far and away the strongest of the three games, and the Vahnatai are generally presented as a lifelike and complex species rather than a set of caricatures. Tactical combat and technical whizzbangs are unremarkable compared to many later-generation BoE scenarios, but you can't have everything. 8.5 -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
50 years from now, 50 years ago in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 13:17 Profile Homepage #49 Eh. I'd make a reply to TM, but my depressive phase is ending. Since I'm no longer able to preach despair effectively now that I'm relatively content again, I'm bowing out of this discussion. I'll be away for the next couple of days anyway, so I wouldn't be able to continue it for a while even if I were inclined to do so. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Brings back good memories in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 01:16 Profile Homepage #1 Good to hear it. Be sure to rate any scenarios you play on the Lyceum's Comprehensive Scenario Rankings forum! -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
G2: training in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 01:05 Profile Homepage #2 That's right; you can only train a given skill twice regardless of how many different trainers are capable of training you in it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rate Avernum 4. in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:59 Profile Homepage #6 Huh. Perhaps UBB doesn't like it when polls are moved from one forum to another. Sorry about that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Items to save in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:56 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: On the subject of smithing items, here's something I never figured out. When one of the smiths asks for "a length of cavewood" to make a wand, do they mean a stick? Yes. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Request for Chat Logs in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:22 Profile Homepage #48 quote: Originally written by Left Outer Join: The thing is, getting IE, Opera and Firefox to display a page exactly the same way is practically impossible. Well, you could make every single page on your website a single gigantic image map containing all the text and graphics on the page, thus guaranteeing that it displays exactly as you want it to. But please don't do that. [ Friday, March 03, 2006 00:23: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Conservative Shift in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:14 Profile Homepage #65 Three-letter names ending in H are easily confused with each other. And if you try to pronounce "VCH", it sounds a lot like "Ash". Well, sort of. A little. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
On this day in 1844 in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:07 Profile Homepage #13 sherbiebaby, I take it you're an acquaintance of Nicothodes? What with the artificial language and the propensity for stabbing and all, I mean. [ Friday, March 03, 2006 00:10: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Request for Chat Logs in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, March 3 2006 00:01 Profile Homepage #46 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus: The fact that Firefox is able see past a stupid error like that and Internet Explorer cannot shows which browser is superior. That's a pretty bad argument, actually. Internet Explorer parses all kinds of malformed HTML, usually displaying it more or less as the page's designer intended, which only encourages more people to write bad HTML that won't work on other browsers instead of taking the time to do it properly. The reason that browsers have to have a "quirks" mode has a lot to do with the fact that a lot of pages have been written to display acceptably in IE without any concern for correctness. [ Friday, March 03, 2006 00:02: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
50 years from now, 50 years ago in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 2 2006 23:30 Profile Homepage #44 TM, believing that the world sucks and isn't going to get much better in the foreseeable future is only "defeatism" if you care about making the world a better place. If that's not your goal, then you haven't been defeated if it turns out to be unachievable. We may therefore conclude that making the world a better place is a poor goal to pick for oneself. As always, Is is strong and Should is weak, and even to say that Should should be stronger is to show weakness. quote: Originally written by Alex: If almost all productive work is handled by machines, many arguments against equally distributed wealth - such as the motivational force of greed - become irrelevant, since the rich won't work anyway. Problems keep getting worse until they solve themselves, and then new problems arise. Such is the course of all human history. I can't wait to see what new and wonderful things are keeping everybody miserable 50 years from now. [ Thursday, March 02, 2006 23:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rate Avernum 4. in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 2 2006 23:17 Profile Homepage #3 Ehh. It's an 8 based on size and technical merit alone, even if it doesn't have a whole lot else going for it. Now, off to Avernum 4 this topic goes! ... Damn it, if only I'd had the foresight to prepare a humourous image for moved topics. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rate Avernum 4. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 2 2006 23:17 Profile Homepage #3 Ehh. It's an 8 based on size and technical merit alone, even if it doesn't have a whole lot else going for it. Now, off to Avernum 4 this topic goes! ... Damn it, if only I'd had the foresight to prepare a humourous image for moved topics. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Magus of Cattalon loophole (spoiler?) in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 22:58 Profile Homepage #2 No, it sounds like this is a different trick, exploiting the fact that beams take a round to turn on. [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 23:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
50 years from now, 50 years ago in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 22:47 Profile Homepage #37 quote: Originally written by Prometheus: If you're arguing that people shouldn't be given any gov't assistance, then the scenario of classism plays itself out- the rich nuptualize their sons into positions of power and usurp everyone else. Okay, so this sucks. Has anything else actually worked better so far? It's necessary for you to seriously consider and address the possibility that humanity is in fact inherently and irreparably horrible, and that the best anyone can hope for is to stay at the top of the heap instead of the bottom. [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 22:55: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
scenario and its plural in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 19:48 Profile Homepage #20 Well, I suppose I shouldn't talk. Until a distressingly late age, I pronounced the word "misled" to rhyme with "rivalled". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Exile 3: Ruined World - 7.50 (9.2/5.5) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 18:54 Profile Homepage #2 Oh, come on. It's practically the definition of a 7 -- big, technically sound, nothing ridiculously annoying, but nothing remarkable. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
E1-Crystal Cave in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 16:03 Profile Homepage #12 The hintbook only lists 6 of the crystals, though. It therefore seems to me that it's most likely that he just forgot about one of the crystals he'd already put in, and consequently added an extra one. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
scenario and its plural in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:54 Profile Homepage #18 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: And I cringe whenever someone says, "a matrice." O_o Who are these people who say these things? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Matchmaker, Matchmaker in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:44 Profile Homepage #78 When someone repeatedly asks you to stop doing something, it's considered polite to stop. I'm really losing patience with the culture of harassment on these forums that some people seem to have decided is acceptable. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ideas Refreshment in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:33 Profile Homepage #65 I was actually using "not exactly the forumgoing type" as a polite euphemism for "8-year-olds who only care about killing stuff". So much for politeness. Anyway, my main point is that I don't think there are many people who actively want the plot of the GF series to stagnate. I'm also not convinced that it'd be any extra work for him to write more original plots. Ideas don't take that long to think up. [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 15:38: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Mac mini in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:27 Profile Homepage #15 By the way, one major reason why Apple is switching to Intel chips is that Motorola has been very unreliable with meeting production deadlines, to the point of delaying new product releases and hurting sales. This is also why AMD isn't a realistic option -- Intel produces chips in large volumes to tight schedules, which is what Apple wants. A faster chip isn't better if it's not available when it's needed. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
ViRus files in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:17 Profile Homepage #9 The original poster asked an honest, polite question with the expectation of receiving an honest, polite answer. Stop harassing him. I'm going to leave this topic open on the off chance that someone has some more advice to contribute. Don't reply if you just want to pick a fight. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Return of the "Post Your Desktop" Topic in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 15:14 Profile Homepage #47 quote: Originally written by Milu: Here's an old screenshot, but the picture hasn't changed. Mac OS 9. Woo. At the Carnival? Now there's a blast from the past. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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