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Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 17:41 Profile Homepage #16
The dock is a bar of icons on the bottom of the screen in Mac OS X. It includes the icons of all currently running applications at any given time, so that you can click on an icon to easily switch applications. You can also put applications that aren't currently running in the Dock on a full-time basis, allowing you to easily launch those applications from the Dock.

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Your Favorite Source of Energy in General
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 17:34 Profile Homepage #49
Bubble fusion isn't *really* cold fusion, because it's occurring at temperatures of millions of Kelvin. But it's not traditional "hot" fusion either, because the regions in which those temperatures are achieved are very small.

Basically, it works on the principle that under certain conditions, the collapse of small bubbles in a liquid can produce localised regions of extremely high temperature. I don't think anyone's definitively proven that you can get fusion that way yet, but there have been some very suggestive results.

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Lighting Outdoors??? in Blades of Avernum
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 17:30 Profile Homepage #12
The problem with that is that if you made it light enough to look right at night, it'd look wrong during the day.

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Icon adjust help! in Blades of Avernum
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 17:27 Profile Homepage #1
Icon adjustment is a bit of an art. You can't always get every colour you want with a particular graphic. If you can't get the results you want with icon adjustment but have access to a decent graphics editing program, try making a custom graphic with edited colours instead.

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Your Favorite Source of Energy in General
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 04:33 Profile Homepage #44
"Abnormal accumulation of jellyfish" is quite possibly the best phrase ever.

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Finals Fever in General
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 04:31 Profile Homepage #25
Actually, the All Blacks is the name of their rugby team. The New Zealand cricket team, so far as I am aware, doesn't have any particular name -- cricket teams don't traditionally have names.

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3rd annual RWG slogan contest in Richard White Games
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 02:01 Profile Homepage #4
RWG: Still legal in 5 municipalities, including R'lyeh!

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JV and Change in General
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 written Tuesday, August 30 2005 01:58 Profile Homepage #23
Better now?

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Avernum 4? in General
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 23:29 Profile Homepage #151
See how the new formulation implies that you're open to re-evaluating your preconceptions in a way that the original formulation didn't? (The fact that you personally prefer the Exile interface to the Geneforge interface despite thinking the Geneforge interface is objectively better is interesting new information as well, actually.)

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 written Monday, August 29 2005 23:26 Profile Homepage #21
Actually, I'm pretty sure that UBB, being UBB, doesn't allow you to check no options at all.

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 written Monday, August 29 2005 20:12 Profile Homepage #19
Collingwood is the default team for people who don't actually like football but feel compelled to support a team anyway.

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Do you like school? in General
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 19:07 Profile Homepage #85
quote:
Originally written by Eldibs:

History
*mutters incoherently*

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 written Monday, August 29 2005 17:54 Profile Homepage #83
Eww, creative writing. I can't remember the last time I wrote anything I'd want a teacher to read. :P

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Lord Putidus in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 17:48 Profile Homepage #2
Well, there is magic in LP. It's just that the party can't use it. :P

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E2: Test of Mind in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:26 Profile Homepage #1
I'm not entirely sure you're meant to get that open.

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Weird Vahnatai in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:22 Profile Homepage #17
http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=001735#000010

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Vahnatai don't become pregnant. They bud. However, genders are more than just cosmetic. You see, males only produce left sides and females only produce right sides. A pair of opposite genders can work together to make one whole vahnatai, although the process isn't pretty and involves many crystals.
Note that all of this is made up. We're generally an incredibly poor source of straight, canonical answers to questions like this, but then, you weren't expecting any, were you? :P

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Name Issue in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #6
It's just a name. It serves pretty much the same purpose as a real person's name: to make the creature a little more special and recognisable. Keep in mind that the name you set with set_name will appear in dialogue, in combat and when looking at the creature.

[ Monday, August 29, 2005 15:20: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Name Issue in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #6
It's just a name. It serves pretty much the same purpose as a real person's name: to make the creature a little more special and recognisable. Keep in mind that the name you set with set_name will appear in dialogue, in combat and when looking at the creature.

[ Monday, August 29, 2005 15:20: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:15 Profile Homepage #245
You include the entire wallset as a single resource number in the cmg file. Look at the graphics file for, say, Lord Putidus to see how custom wall and floor sets are done.

[ Monday, August 29, 2005 15:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:15 Profile Homepage #245
You include the entire wallset as a single resource number in the cmg file. Look at the graphics file for, say, Lord Putidus to see how custom wall and floor sets are done.

[ Monday, August 29, 2005 15:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Lighting Outdoors??? in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 15:08 Profile Homepage #6
Light spells work (albeit poorly) outdoors, but light-emitting terrains don't.

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4 years? in General
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 14:47 Profile Homepage #14
You know, the first speech bubble taken alone gives rather the wrong impression.

Or actually, perhaps the right impression after all.

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Do you like school? in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 04:50 Profile Homepage #73
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Originally written by Eldibs:

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Also, no matter how much money you may make, your supervisor will always make more, and what gives your supervisor the edge? Communication skills.
Or it could be butt-kissing ability that got him there
That's a communication skill. It may not be the kind of communication skill you approve of, but it's still a communication skill. :P

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I believe they have to go through safety checks every now and then, and I'm pretty sure they have a safety test they have to pass if they learned welding in college.
And how do you expect anyone to pass a safety test without a reasonable ability to read and write?

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 written Monday, August 29 2005 04:27 Profile Homepage #70
Maybe a self-employed programmer or one working for fun doesn't need great communication skills. But a programmer working as part of a team needs to be able to summarise and comment on their code so that it can be understood and maintained by others. They may also need to take an active role in the design of software projects. To do all of that, they need to be able to communicate effectively.

And sure, a welder may not need language skills in order to do his job from day to day. But suppose that welder is in a workplace where he believes unsafe working practices are taking place. He talks to his boss about it but can't convince him to change his practices. To take the matter further, he has to fill out a written complaint. Whether he's taken seriously or not will depend on how well he's able to express himself -- and his very life could depend on it.

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What's your most embarassing moment? in General
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 written Monday, August 29 2005 04:05 Profile Homepage #95
Ow. Your mother sounds accident-prone; I'm glad to hear she was alright.

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Originally written by Marlenny:

I can top that story. When my mom was 8 years old she had this crazy thing for Quenepas (not sure if this is the right translation).
I hadn't heard of quenepas before -- it took me a Google search to find out they were a fruit. Wikipedia says quenepas are sometimes called Spanish limes. Despite the name, they're actually more closely related to lychees (which are better-known over here).

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