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Physics questions. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, December 5 2005 01:03 Profile Homepage #18 By the way, just to give a biological perspective, the relation between pressure and velocity in a fluid has some important clinical consequences related to the circulatory system. If a region of an artery is narrowed (due to atherosclerosis, for example), fluid will have to travel faster to get through that region, and pressure will drop. This can cause the artery to intermittently collapse and reopen as blood pressure varies throughout the cardiac cycle. Conversely, in an aneurysm, a region of a blood vessel is widened. Blood moves more slowly in this region and is therefore at higher pressure. This pressure on the wall of the blood vessel may cause it to stretch, increasing the size of the aneurysm and therefore further increasing the pressure. As a result, an untreated aneurysm is likely to grow over time until eventually it bursts. And no, my biophysics lecturer couldn't give a good explanation of why pressure was inversely proportional to velocity either. [ Monday, December 05, 2005 01:09: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
If Avernum were real... in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 4 2005 22:53 Profile Homepage #3 I don't buy the argument that the automap indicates what the party can remember -- there's no way they could recall the exact geography of every place they ever visited without actually making a physical map. Therefore, it's most reasonable to assume that the party actually makes a physical map of the places they visit, even though it's not explicitly treated as an inventory item. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
If Avernum were real... in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 4 2005 22:07 Profile Homepage #1 They may not have an automapper, but there's every reason to assume that the player characters make maps as they travel. Presumably, on casting Far Sight, the mage gets a vision of the surrounding area for long enough to sketch it on the map before it fades away. [ Sunday, December 04, 2005 22:10: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Avernum Seasons in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 4 2005 14:20 Profile Homepage #5 Well, "radiance" means "the state of being glowing or shiny". So presumably Radiane is a month where there's a lot of sunshine. Which makes sense, since it's in summer and all. Besides, why does every month's name have to have something to do with the weather? Our months don't. [ Sunday, December 04, 2005 14:23: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Physics questions. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 4 2005 04:45 Profile Homepage #7 Well, sure, if you want to do things the sensible way. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Physics questions. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 4 2005 02:03 Profile Homepage #5 Really? I'd have thought it'd be possible to work it out based on the height of my eye level above the ground, the height of my car's bonnet above the road, the horizontal distance between my eye and the end of my car's bonnet and possibly the size of my eye and the curvature of the Earth. [ Sunday, December 04, 2005 02:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Next Topic To Be Locked By Imban in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 23:35 Profile Homepage #4 Woooo! Tentacle fight! Bring it on! ... er, I mean, bad TM. Stop that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Physics questions. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 23:25 Profile Homepage #3 A question that came to me while driving on a particularly boring stretch of highway: I'm driving along a flat road, and at one point I notice that from where I'm sitting, the vertical distance between the front of my own car's bonnet and the bottom of the wheels of the car in front of me appears to be exactly half the vertical distance between the front of my car's bonnet and the horizon (that is to say, the former subtends half as broad an angle on my retina as the latter). What further information do I need in order to work out the horizontal distance between myself and the car in front, and how would I go about calculating it? [ Sunday, December 04, 2005 00:28: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Musicnames in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 19:07 Profile Homepage #3 The sound of a kazoo. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Old Exiles in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 17:28 Profile Homepage #2 http://alec.desperance.net/e2/ http://alec.desperance.net/TERRAIN-E2.PNG For all the original Exile II graphicy goodness you'll ever need. Editing them into your copy of the game is left as an exercise for the reader. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Harry Potter 4 in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 17:13 Profile Homepage #24 Really, when you think about it, "Herm" is a pretty unfortunate abbreviation for "Hermione". I'm just sayin'. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Presto Change-o Disappear-o in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 16:41 Profile Homepage #50 Wow. 50 replies. That's... probably more than the number of people who bothered to attend the reunion. How depressing. Well, I'm back now, so this topic has well and truly outlived any purpose it may once have had. Play nice, boys and girls. Since this is my special topic, it gets the full-size Pretty Soldier Reverend Doctor Sailor Sun Myung Moon when I lock it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
New Custom Art: Take a peek inside in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 3 2005 16:30 Profile Homepage #70 quote: Originally written by Spring: So you are boycotting GameFAQs forums, not the site itself. I find GameFAQs to be very interesting, and Scorp (?) has done some excellent walkthroughs on there, I think. You're probably thinking of Schrodinger. Scorp doesn't seem like the FAQ-writing type. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Presto Change-o Disappear-o in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 1 2005 16:30 Profile Homepage #0 I'll be away for a few days to attend a high school reunion in the middle of nowhere. I'm likely to have little or no internet access during that time, so if you send me an email or PM, don't be surprised if you have to wait for a response. Hopefully I can trust the rest of you to hold the fort in my absence. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some Irony in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 1 2005 16:10 Profile Homepage #3 That probably isn't a coincidence. These days, advertisements are targeted based on the content of the webpage they're placed on. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Questoins Questoins in Nethergate
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 1 2005 06:11 Profile Homepage #3 Well, they start with a C and they can't wear heavy armour. They're either Celts or centipedes, and there aren't any centipedes in Nethergate. (Why centipedes, you ask? Go ahead, try and get a centipede into plate mail. It just doesn't work. All those legs get in the way.) [ Thursday, December 01, 2005 06:12: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Numbers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 23:12 Profile Homepage #2 And now I'm one post closer to catching up with you. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Questoins Questoins in Nethergate
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 17:03 Profile Homepage #1 0) It's spelled "Celts". Also, "questions". 1) Nope. Body armour and Celts don't mix. If you're having trouble surviving attacks, put some skill points into Hardiness or Defence instead. 2) The curse makes you a little worse at everything. I suspect it's equivalent to a -1 or -2 penalty to all of your stats. It's best to get yourself uncursed as soon as possible. 3) You can't. The only way to get Craft Circle spell levels as Romans is through Rhian or the hags, neither of which is available until later in the game. 4) The best spears do more damage than the best melee weapons. The difference isn't huge, but then again, shields aren't that great either. [ Wednesday, November 30, 2005 20:11: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
graphics editing program ? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 16:00 Profile Homepage #8 GraphicConverter is also worth getting. Apart from being able to open and save pretty much any graphic format under the sun, it has decent editing capabilities -- it's not Photoshop, but it's definitely a step above an average painting program. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
graphics editing program ? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 16:00 Profile Homepage #8 GraphicConverter is also worth getting. Apart from being able to open and save pretty much any graphic format under the sun, it has decent editing capabilities -- it's not Photoshop, but it's definitely a step above an average painting program. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 15:42 Profile Homepage #89 Just so you know, transientluvslave43 is a bot. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Have you ever in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 15:00 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by Eyes Like Blueberry Muffins: Drago Ste Dinte... unsure if that's the correct spelling, but that got stuck in my head and grew on me like an unwanted fungus. The song you are thinking of is "Dragostea din Tei". Its name translates roughly as "Love in the linden trees", and it's by a Romanian band called O-Zone. Don't ask how I know this. [ Wednesday, November 30, 2005 15:01: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 03:00 Profile Homepage #86 It probably would have been easier if you'd written it in English. Finnish has longer words. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Software Piracy! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 02:56 Profile Homepage #1 If you're not averse to online games, I've heard good things about Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Also, Sid Meier's Pirates! What is it with pirate games and exclamation points? I do not know. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How the Heck do you get out of the Giants Castle in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 30 2005 01:00 Profile Homepage #1 It'd help if you told us which Avernum game this was in. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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