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Final Castle barracks storeroom in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 17:53 Profile Homepage #3
It's not a bug. He tells you he unlocked the final locker (in the room that's already been unlocked). He doesn't say anything about unlocking the other storeroom.

On the bright side, if you max out your Tool Use, Mage Spells, Spellcraft and Magery at 30, you'll have just barely enough skill to cast Unlock Doors and unlock that last level-90 door yourself. Unfortunately, there's nothing in that room anyway.

[ Tuesday, January 17, 2006 18:03: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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training and creation question in Geneforge Series
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 16:57 Profile Homepage #10
felix, please don't revive old topics unless you have something useful to say.

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Dispel Barriers in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 16:48 Profile Homepage #5
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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

At least three of them do. Use piercing crystals and shattering crystals wisely because there aren't enough of them in the scenario to open all the spots.
There are, however, enough to break every barrier that actually has something worthwhile behind it. Some just open into an empty room.

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Yarrr... Linux! in General
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 16:41 Profile Homepage #74
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

However, the good news is that it is likely that eventually mechanization will make menial labor jobs less and less useful and a high standard of living more and more accessible, with the result being that eventually everyone will be able to be a part of some sort of working class at least (rather than being desperately poor).
This has been promised for the last 200 years or so. We don't seem to be particularly closer to it than we were back then.

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Help with new scenario in Blades of Exile
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 13:19 Profile Homepage #9
So plan a scenario that's only half as big, and then you'll finish it.

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Key to inner Rentar Fortress in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 13:17 Profile Homepage #4
It's not a door anyway; it's a portcullis. You can't even try to open it.

[ Tuesday, January 17, 2006 13:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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where is the control rod? in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 13:16 Profile Homepage #2
It's in a box in the southwest corner of that room, if I recall correctly.

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Annatolia or Crewl? (possible spoilers) in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 13:14 Profile Homepage #24
I just checked the scripts. If the secret passage isn't already open, pulling that lever should open it. Go into the house and see if there's a passage in the north wall.

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Free games.. exile series? in General
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 03:18 Profile Homepage #10
Schro's still a mod; he's just no longer a mod of General.

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Free games.. exile series? in General
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 02:14 Profile Homepage #7
Any post which may or may not have existed would have been posted by TM. The poster's intent must therefore be taken into consideration.

For the record, I'm not the one who may or may not have deleted any post which TM may or may not have made.

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Free games.. exile series? in General
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, January 17 2006 01:28 Profile Homepage #4
TM didn't post anything. Move along; there's nothing to see here.

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Annatolia or Crewl? (possible spoilers) in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 22:55 Profile Homepage #19
If so, then that someone is Jeff, because I'm pretty sure Imelda is her name. :P

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E3: Tomb of Vahkohs in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 22:51 Profile Homepage #5
You'll keep getting diseased and stuff every so often until you go back and break the crystal.

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Annatolia or Crewl? (possible spoilers) in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 22:46 Profile Homepage #17
It's worth noting that I found the passage wouldn't open for me again after I'd already killed Imelda and left. So you might want to check your map and make sure the secret passage isn't already on there.

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Best way to kill damned slimes!! in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 22:42 Profile Homepage #4
Some slimes, like the ones guarding the Oozing Blade, are just obnoxiously tough. Fortunately, they still don't pose any real danger, and the reward for killing them in that particular case is definitely worth it.

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Dorikas trouble in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 22:37 Profile Homepage #10
It's fairly common to use questioning intonation when relating the details of information somebody has given you back to them.

(Mind you, I say that as a native-born citizen of the country which invented questioning intonation. :P )

[ Monday, January 16, 2006 22:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Bassikhava glitch in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 13:00 Profile Homepage #6
Maybe the Fly-Retreat script is even buggier than we thought.

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I don't find the wheel to open the grate in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 12:57 Profile Homepage #4
The Tower of Magi's librarian gives you a quest to collect research notes, in case you didn't already know.

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Stop me before I murder Lark in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Monday, January 16 2006 12:56 Profile Homepage #5
Actually, you only make a copy of a small portion of the text on the scrolls. I suppose your point still stands, in that that portion could still be translated in front of her.

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Will Exile ever be carbonized? in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 21:28 Profile Homepage #1
Jeff has said that if support for Classic mode is ever completely dropped from newer Macs, he'll do what's necessary to update all his older games so they still run.

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Yarrr... Linux! in General
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 20:58 Profile Homepage #51
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Originally written by SNM:

Where do you work? (Or, perhaps less freakily, what kind of research institution?) I know several professors, and all of them are making a good bit more than public-school teachers. Though it's entirely possible there's a large disparity between various classes of college/university?
At a university in Australia (I'm still studying at the moment; I'm not actually going to be working there until next year, assuming things go well). Universities here are mostly publicly-funded rather than privately-funded, so I imagine that makes a fair bit of difference to the salaries of those who work there.

(Mind you, my family members are/were fairly senior teachers -- heads of department and so on -- so they're earning considerably more than an entry-level teacher's salary. One teaches at a private school, one teaches at a Catholic school and one taught at a public school and is now retired. Not sure about the ex-public school teacher, but the other two both earn more than I'm ever likely to.)

As I said, this isn't really a problem for me. Since I'm relatively frugal and despise children, I'm never likely to have much to spend money on anyway.

[ Sunday, January 15, 2006 21:05: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 20:22 Profile Homepage #48
Academic research is another field with high contributions to society for really, really low financial reward. As a medical researcher, unless I start my own biotech company or win a Nobel Prize or something, I'm likely to earn even less than a teacher for similar hours of work. (I have several family members who are teachers, so I know how much they make.)

Frankly, this doesn't bother me. I'm not in it for the money anyway.

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No, but do you really think it's fair to take away a person's wealth when they did work harder to get it?
In what sense is it "your" wealth anyway? Money only has value because it can be exchanged for goods and services within a society. In other words, money exists only as a part of the society in which it's being spent, and as such can't really belong to any one individual except to the extent that that society decides it does.

To put it another way, the government creates the conditions of political and social stability which allow you to earn money and maintain an expectation that your money will still be worth something to others. In exchange, it gets a degree of control over how that money is spent. If you don't like that arrangement, there are still plenty of uninhabited islands in the world.

[ Sunday, January 15, 2006 20:28: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 20:11 Profile Homepage #45
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No, by working (well, of course they'll have to behave, but not only when I'm looking). If they want to get that new toy or videogame, they'll have to do chores to earn it. When they turn 16 and want a new car, they'll get a job and pay for it. That way, they'll know the value of money, and they won't get a free ride. Then, when I die, they will evenly split whatever is left of my fortune with all the other members of my family.
Sounds like a good way to encourage patricide...

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So If I happen to work hard, spending my own free time inventing something that revolutionizes the world, and I get rich off of it (this is assuming I'm not already wealthy), then I didn't earn it? How is that right?
It's entirely possible under our current economic system for a wealthy person to earn over a thousand times more in a lifetime than someone on an average income (and that's just in developed countries; in poorer countries, income disparities can be even greater). Do you really think anyone works one thousand times harder than average?

Also, I'd be very surprised if you could find even one example of an actual inventor who worked primarily for material gain. The desire to make something that revolutionises the world is almost invariably sufficient motivation in itself.

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Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 18:49 Profile Homepage #38
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Originally written by Goldenking:

Ummm, I'm not one for politics, but wouldn't the world be... better, if it took up it's old habits of bartering?
Probably not. How's an automobile factory supposed to pay its employees? In cars? How the heck are you going to barter a couple of cars per year for all the goods and services you need that year?

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help with brigan's hideout in valley of dying things in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, January 15 2006 14:35 Profile Homepage #4
Those are X and Y coordinates. If you're using a Mac and playing in a window instead of full screen, there's a menu option to display your party's current location.

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