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| Displayed name | Thuryl |
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| Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
| Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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| Forum 13 in Richard White Games | |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 16:27
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Allegedly it was to free up HD space. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Mathematical Logic... in General | |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 13:18
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Some people in this topic need to read up on Georg Cantor and set theory. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| E2: Oddities and curiosities. in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 12:06
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Just so you know, when people say "BoX", they mean Blades of Exile and Blades of Avernum. The abbreviation for Blades of Exile is BoE. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 11:47
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Without giving away too many spoilers, there really should be a third option for the Continuum Hypothesis question. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 04:11
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Nope. The practice also predates standardised spelling. :P Well, I have a cold and shouldn't be a awake now. I'm off to down a couple of antihistamine tablets and go to sleep. Hey, wouldn't it be ironic if those were later found to have some horrible side effect? [ Thursday, September 08, 2005 04:13: Message edited by: Trephination ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 04:09
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It is also, as I explained in one of the other topics, the nickname of a basketball player, as are several of the other recent titles. [ Thursday, September 08, 2005 04:10: Message edited by: Trephination ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 04:07
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At the time I made that post, the right half of the image was white with a couple of regularly-spaced black bands, while the left half looked relatively random. I reloaded the image a couple of times with similar results. It's not happening at the moment, though. I suspect it's not actually the fault of the random bitmap generator, but rather because my browser sucks at displaying images. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 8 2005 04:04
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It's still 11 pm. I'm not late, just somewhat delayed. :P My new name, Trephination, is the drilling or cutting of a hole in the skull. Not for the sake of performing brain surgery, mind you -- just for the sake of making the skull have a hole in it. Centuries ago, surgeons (or at least, what passed for surgeons in those days) used to perform this procedure to treat mental illness or epilepsy, among other conditions. The fact that this procedure was mostly carried out before the days of aseptic surgery and antibiotics probably didn't have a beneficial effect on the patient survival rate. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 23:41
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That bitmap doesn't look very random. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| If you had 3 wishes... in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 23:39
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quote:An interesting epistemological question I recently stumbled across: Suppose you are omniscient. This means you have knowledge of every fact. Knowledge is generally defined as a justified true belief -- that is, a belief based on some kind of solid evidence rather than merely a guess. Now, if you are omniscient, you must know that you are omniscient, since this is a fact. This means you have a justified true belief that you are omniscient. What kind of justification can there be for the belief that there's absolutely nothing you don't know? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The "High Party" Editor.... in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 21:40
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The problem is almost certainly that you're not using the most recent version of BoA. The HLPM uses string manipulation calls, which version 1.0.0 of BoA doesn't support. Update. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 17:54
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Okay, I think this topic has run its course.  -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Good Avernum 3 party? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 17:26
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It's best to stick with investing skill points in a single weapon type from the start. In Avernum 3, damage is capped at 199, so you'll eventually do 199 damage to everything no matter what weapon you're using. As such, it doesn't actually make a huge difference which weapon type you use. (Pole weapons are somewhat better in terms of damage, but they're mostly two-handed.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Recuperation in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 16:59
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Recuperation is particularly good for walking through swamps. With it, it's fairly difficult to die of poison. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 16:52
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It wouldn't be a very good source of randomness. If you use the digits of pi in order, they're obviously going to be predictable. So you have to use some random method for picking digits, in which case you can just use that as your randomiser and skip the step involving pi. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Editor, again in Blades of Exile | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 13:31
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Nodes and SDFs are completely different. A node is something that performs an action; an SDF just stores information. Some nodes set or check SDFs, but others have nothing to do with SDFs at all. You only need one node to give the party an item, but you'd need another node to set an SDF to store the information that they've been given the item (so that it can't be given twice, for example). [ Wednesday, September 07, 2005 13:33: Message edited by: Laudanum ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 12:56
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Nobody is really happy because there are no hills or weather? Your hypothetical is growing increasingly silly. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 12:52
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Try using the Wait 100 Moves command in a town. Without Recuperation you'll gain the princely sum of 2 HP. With Recuperation you'll gain 20 HP or so. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Good Avernum 3 party? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 12:48
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A custom character has no default skills, but gets 65 skill points that you can spend on anything you want. Experiment a little and see what works best. [ Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:49: Message edited by: Laudanum ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 12:48
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quote:I pronounce it to rhyme with "barn". (I should note that my accent is non-rhotic, so I don't stick an R sound in there.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 7 2005 00:20
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Today's name, Laudanum, is an extract of opium in alcohol, popular in tonics in the 19th century. Laudanum was prescribed to men, women and children alike for all kinds of ailments, and while it undoubtedly granted a certain measure of short-term relief from the stresses of life, its widespread usage would hardly be considered responsible medical practice today. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The 1 Dollar Question in General | |
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written Tuesday, September 6 2005 23:50
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quote:For $10, why even bother? [ Tuesday, September 06, 2005 23:51: Message edited by: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| items and spells in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, September 6 2005 21:24
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That's right. As a result, there are some skills that it just isn't sensible for some classes to buy training in, because they'll need them early on. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| SCENARIO CONTEST RESULTS!!! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, September 6 2005 20:50
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That's TM. It's just that he's in writing-for-an-English-class mode instead of writing-for-the-forums mode. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 6 2005 20:01
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1,000,000+/100,000. I live in a country with only 20 million people in it, so if a million random people from my own country die, chances are that several people I know are going to be among them, and that wouldn't be much fun. 100,000 seems like a reasonable upper limit. On the other hand, if I were able to choose to bump off, say, the entire population of Trinidad and Tobago, I doubt I'd lose anyone who I'd particularly miss. [ Tuesday, September 06, 2005 20:02: Message edited by: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |