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Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Monday, February 27 2006 00:09 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

Okay, I hit Prnt Scrn, now how do I upload it?
Find a free image hosting service. Photobucket is one option.

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E1-Crystal Cave in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 26 2006 20:45 Profile Homepage #5
Please. That language is entirely uncalled-for.

(Anyway, there are actually 7 crystal shards to be found in the game even though you only need 6, since Jeff apparently messed up.)

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 26 2006 19:07 Profile Homepage #60
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Originally written by Alorael, More or Less:

—Alorael, who must ponder whether or not the set of all infinite sets is larger than the set of the largest infinite set that is not the set of all infinite sets (if, in fact, the largest infinite set is also the set of all infinite sets).
I'm pretty sure there is no set of all infinite sets -- there are some classes that can't be defined as sets (at least within ZFC set theory) without introducing paradoxes.

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Request for Chat Logs in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 26 2006 00:07 Profile Homepage #9
Sarachim. He's on these forums very occasionally.

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Hintbook Question in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 22:02 Profile Homepage #1
Not that we want to lose Jeff any sales or anything, but, well, there's not a heck of a lot the hintbook can tell you that we can't.

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General Chat in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 18:44 Profile Homepage #50
BEHOLD

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medieval times or modern times? in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 16:47 Profile Homepage #33
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Originally written by Infernal666hate:

Which makes one wonder, why swords at all? Why not just fall back to the age of maces?
Well, by the time everyone was walking around in plate armour, that's pretty much what happened -- using a sword didn't make a whole lot of sense except in duels. Of course, not too long after that, crossbows were developed and armour became obsolete again.

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 16:44 Profile Homepage #55
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

Is Limbo the same as Purgatory?
No.

I'd elaborate, but you can use Wikipedia just as well as I can.

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dread curse in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 03:11 Profile Homepage #8
An easier way to see if the party's been given Dread Curse might simply be to have every event in the scenario that gives you Dread Curse also set a Stuff Done Flag to 1, and every event in the scenario that removes Dread Curse from your party set the flag back to 0.

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dread curse in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 03:11 Profile Homepage #8
An easier way to see if the party's been given Dread Curse might simply be to have every event in the scenario that gives you Dread Curse also set a Stuff Done Flag to 1, and every event in the scenario that removes Dread Curse from your party set the flag back to 0.

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dread curse in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 03:02 Profile Homepage #6
Premise 1: Every point of Dread Curse you have reduces every statistic by 1.

Premise 2: Dread Curse is a statistic.

Conclusion: Every point of Dread Curse you have reduces the amount of Dread Curse you have by 1.

Therefore, your Dread Curse will always display as 0. It still has the correct effect on your other stats, though.

If you want to use scripts to check whether a party member has any Dread Curse, then you may have a problem. See if the get_stat_levels_bought call works -- it says it ignores bonuses when checking the value of a stat, so maybe it ignores Dread Curse penalties also.

[ Saturday, February 25, 2006 03:08: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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dread curse in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 03:02 Profile Homepage #6
Premise 1: Every point of Dread Curse you have reduces every statistic by 1.

Premise 2: Dread Curse is a statistic.

Conclusion: Every point of Dread Curse you have reduces the amount of Dread Curse you have by 1.

Therefore, your Dread Curse will always display as 0. It still has the correct effect on your other stats, though.

If you want to use scripts to check whether a party member has any Dread Curse, then you may have a problem. See if the get_stat_levels_bought call works -- it says it ignores bonuses when checking the value of a stat, so maybe it ignores Dread Curse penalties also.

[ Saturday, February 25, 2006 03:08: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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General Chat in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 01:42 Profile Homepage #32
I can confirm that the chat existed, although I was only in there for a short time. AIM chats can behave strangely sometimes; apparently such was the case for you, Aran.

If someone will send me a log, I will upload it for the edification of all. Consider that an offer or a threat as you see fit.

[ Saturday, February 25, 2006 02:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Blowing People Up in Blades of Exile
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 25 2006 00:07 Profile Homepage #2
Ash is having a senior moment. You can indeed place ashes, with the "Place sfx" node under the category of Town Mode specials.

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 23:34 Profile Homepage #50
quote:
Originally written by Lady Davida:

Catholics (correct me if I'm wrong) believe (or believed) in limbo, and different stages of hell.
Consider yourself corrected. Limbo was never an official doctrine of the Catholic Church. It's fallen into disfavour in recent times, and it's widely expected that the current Pope will declare that limbo does not exist and that unbaptised infants go to heaven.

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I've been told that a group of mathematicians once tried to determine if there could be infinity inside infinity (and infinitely large part inside another infinitely large part) and, rather than coming to a conclusion, decided that it didn't matter. For the reason above, I disagree, and wish someone else would take on the task...
Were you told this by a mathematician? If not, take it with a grain of salt. "Infinity" is not a single clearly-defined mathematical concept.

[ Friday, February 24, 2006 23:38: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 18:24 Profile Homepage #78
Ideally it'd be something mainly plot-driven, with few or no tactical combat situations and no custom graphics, to minimise the effort of porting.

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 16:40 Profile Homepage #46
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Originally written by the benalizer:

So your body would contain two totally different genetic sequences. That's pretty cool.
Yup. Actually, there was a CSI episode inspired by that once.

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Ain't Gonna Happen in Geneforge... in Geneforge Series
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 04:27 Profile Homepage #42
Actually, it's already copyrighted -- you don't need to go through any official process to copyright an artistic work that you've produced. It's too late at night for me to explain the terms of the Berne Convention, but that's the gist of it.

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Calls and variables - 1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 04:24 Profile Homepage #1
Yes.

You know, you could have checked that for yourself before posting here.

[ Friday, February 24, 2006 04:25: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Calls and variables - 1 in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 04:24 Profile Homepage #1
Yes.

You know, you could have checked that for yourself before posting here.

[ Friday, February 24, 2006 04:25: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Signatures in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 04:19 Profile Homepage #41
It's perfectly okay to post images within a post, you know, even though you can't do it in your sig. Heck, that's what the img tag is for.

And if the image is too big for the page, you can always make a link to it instead.

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General Chat in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 03:34 Profile Homepage #10
Whenever you say that, I imagine a coconut palm growing out of the top of your head.

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cats or dogs? in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, February 24 2006 03:32 Profile Homepage #60
quote:
Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen:

No you're right, I think. multiply it by 7, but that seems even more inaccurate. Is there a scientifical basis for this, actually?
Human ages and cat ages don't really interconvert well on any fixed scale, since humans tend to have much larger periods of childhood and old age in proportion to their total lifespans than cats (or, indeed, any other animals) do.

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medieval times or modern times? in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 21:37 Profile Homepage #15
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

That said, I'll take the modern, because I'd have been burned at the stake in medieval times. Within minutes, probably.
Don't give yourself too much credit. You're not that flammable.

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The nephilim language in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 21:25 Profile Homepage #218
Don't drive yourself crazy trying to find every bug, though. No matter how hard you try, your testers will find bugs you won't even have thought to look for. If you've tried everything you can think of and made it work, your scenario is ready for beta.

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