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scenario and its plural in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 1 2006 04:12 Profile Homepage #15 Depends on what you mean by it. A criterion is a standard on which to base a decision. A criterium is a kind of bicycle race. And just so you know, "criterion" is from Greek, not Latin. [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 04:13: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- 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 04:01 Profile Homepage #62 See, I do try to be forgiving, but when Jeff's made three of his games twice and one of his games three times, one can't help but hope for something original. And when that hope seems almost unanimous on these forums, it's hard to see how catering to it would hurt Jeff's sales. (Sure, there are all those players who are, er, "not exactly the forumgoing type", but I doubt they care about plot one way or the other anyway.) Okay, so if you want, you can dismiss me as just another cranky old Exile player who's bitter about the fact that the Avernum series exists at all. I'd hope you'd give me a little more credit than that, though. [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 04:09: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- 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 02:35 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by The Lurker: I guess I just never thought that Gf1, 2 and 3 had the same plot. And technically, they don't. I don't like the 'just look at the big picture' thing too much, because as I said, most of the things that don't change are kinda part of the GF world. Well, no. The things that don't change are all part of one rather narrow view of the GF world, from the perspective of a member of a highly privileged class within it. Really, making the protagonist a shaper apprentice for 3 games in a row was Jeff's biggest mistake -- it means that we've only seen the GF world from one perspective. It's good to hear that the protagonist of GF4 will be a non-Shaper; one can only hope that this is used to good effect. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 23:11 Profile Homepage #13 Be that as it may, as a biologist I cringe a little whenever someone says "a bacteria". [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 23:11: 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 23:07 Profile Homepage #31 Personally, I can't support the view that it's OK for people to die as long as they do so quietly. As for CEOs, well, if they can keep their jobs for centuries without their shareholders voting them out or their company going out of business, they're obviously doing something right. [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 23:09: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 23:02 Profile Homepage #63 quote: Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey: It is? Ah well, at least it's an Alice line I didn't know as opposed to one I did. It's a song from the Disney movie of Alice in Wonderland. It's possibly also a reference to an infamous incident during the rule of Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu in which he ordered that the leaves of dying trees be painted green in order to make the country appear more prosperous. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 21:42 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by the fatman: Note also in the same document that the use of media is singular when used with reference to the press, radio, TV or journalists in general. I'd argue that "media" is treated as a mass noun, rather than as a singular count noun (of course, it was originally a plural count noun). You wouldn't say "a media". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Buried treasures? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, February 28 2006 21:29 Profile Homepage #3 Which you need a party total of about 23 nature lore to dig up, by the way, so if you want a spoiler then you should start saving up skill points in advance. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 21:07 Profile Homepage #54 quote: Originally written by Joined Tomorrow: Lord of the Rings also breaks the RPG mold. Except it's not an RPG. I am aware of at least two RPGs that go by the name of "Lord of the Rings", one released several years before the movies and the other shortly after. I have heard that neither is much good. EDIT: A quick search reveals that there are in fact many different LotR RPGs. I am willing to bet that none are much good. [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 21:10: 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 20:57 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: (note: In this context, I just mean treatments that prolong human life past the point where a person would die of "natural causes," i.e. not a disease. Life extensions for the pure sake of living longer are a bit worthless and unethical... as Dikiyoba said, who wants to live that long anyway?) But what counts as a natural cause? Infections are every bit as natural as old age -- modern medicine and public health measures are no less "unnatural" than whatever methods we may discover in future to extend our life expectancy further. Why would doubling our life expectancy from 80 to 160 (as we may do in the future) be any worse than doubling it from 40 to 80 (as we've already done)? And once we've reached 160, why not 320? 640? 1280? If someone is still enjoying life so much that she wants to live as long as possible, what's so terribly wrong with that? If you, personally, don't want to live forever, I doubt that anybody will force you to. [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 20:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Dumb question? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, February 28 2006 02:17 Profile Homepage #6 Actually, I believe he meant "fighting it and seeing what it does to you", which is indeed a hard way. Besides, talking about what's in the scripts isn't against the Code of Conduct anyway. (Not that looking in the scripts is necessarily helpful, since comments are a little patchy.) [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 02:23: 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 Tuesday, February 28 2006 02:10 Profile Homepage #26 quote: Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey: What the hell is Senor Parapluie? I've heard that name before. Mr. Umbrella, of course. And here I was thinking you were a linguist. -------------------- 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 Monday, February 27 2006 23:05 Profile Homepage #8 I don't see how it could be deliberate. I mean, how can there be 7 crystals that fit onto the broken bits in the crystal cave when only 6 bits were broken off? :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
walkthrough in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 22:24 Profile Homepage #50 quote: Originally written by Schrodinger: One is on the way. It's BIG, though. But is it notorious? [ Monday, February 27, 2006 22:29: 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 Monday, February 27 2006 22:16 Profile Homepage #59 You know, blaming things on "the public" is a sure way to guarantee that they won't get fixed, since nobody considers themselves to be a member of the public when the public is doing something wrong. -------------------- 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 Monday, February 27 2006 21:55 Profile Homepage #56 quote: Originally written by No 2 Methylphenidate: The "shift" in the legislative results only because the "party of nonvoters" is not represented. Are you sure about this? Australia has mandatory voting and yet there's still a perceived rightward shift over here. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Eep! Christians! (Split from Christian Radio) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 21:34 Profile Homepage #172 quote: Originally written by arghhhhhhhhh: do you know that babies don't get painkillers or anything becuase the docters think tey can't feel pain! Funny thing, that. A few decades ago it was actually true -- babies were routinely operated on with only a muscle relaxant and no anaesthetic, since anaesthetising someone is risky and they won't remember the operation once they grow up anyway. It isn't done that way any more, though, partly because placing an infant under intense stress (such as by performing surgery on it without anaesthetic) is likely to be at least as dangerous as the anaesthetic itself. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Census of Spiderweb community in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 20:44 Profile Homepage #64 I'm guessing you meant to use the Edit button, not the Quote button. Please do so in future. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
All the Spidweb Community: Assist Me! (Please) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 05:35 Profile Homepage #6 Yeah, I'm sorry, but this sort of thing isn't allowed here. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 05:23 Profile Homepage #66 "Size" behaves in funny ways when you're talking about transfinite sets. The closest thing that a transfinite set has to size is its cardinality, and a set's cardinality can't be "twice as big" or "half as big" as another set's in any meaningful sense -- it's just bigger, smaller or the same. The set of even numbers has the same cardinality as the set of all natural numbers, but the set of all real numbers has a higher cardinality. [ Monday, February 27, 2006 05:31: 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 Monday, February 27 2006 03:56 Profile Homepage #53 quote: Originally written by Slartucker: In this case, there is nobody arguing that ideally the government shouldn't ever fund any projects, and it's a given that the budget gets split up among many different needs. Well, there are extreme libertarians who argue just that, but it's probably for the best that they tend to be ignored. It seems to me that the basic problem that leads to pork barrelling is that a government that wants to be re-elected has an incentive to spend money at a time and place where it will win the most votes (in an election year in an area with lots of swing voters), instead of where it will do the most good. I can think of a moderate number of relatively impractical ways of fixing this problem. [ Monday, February 27, 2006 03:56: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Spidweb Demographics in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 01:38 Profile Homepage #1 You know, if all you wanted to do was post a description of TM, it wasn't necessary to go to the trouble of conducting a survey first. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
General Chats for This Week in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 01:06 Profile Homepage #7 I may well be able to make it to the second, but the first is in the middle of the day on a weekday for me, so no dice there. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Presents some sites from Vietnam-Do you want to visit them? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, February 27 2006 00:59 Profile Homepage #2 Knock it off already. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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