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Just say no in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 17:07 Profile Homepage #67 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Anyone see any similarities between War on Bigail and Ocean Bound? I don't, but I haven't played either. :P Well, if you haven't played either, that's one thing they have in common, isn't it? Also, both involve an island. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How evil is too evil> in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 17:05 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by The Almighty Doer of Stuff: I haven't played the scenario yet, but I read somewhere that someone was raped in Quintessence as well. Almost, but not quite. I recall Masks pretty strongly implying something of the sort as well. It'd be uncharitable to say that this suggests Brett Bixler has some unresolved issues, but all the same it makes one wonder. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Regrettable But in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 05:30 Profile Homepage #55 Alec sure wasn't complaining when TM transferred all 77 of his votes Alec's way. Alec's beef with Kel's vote appears to be that he sees it specifically as a vote against himself rather than for the other candidates. [ Saturday, July 16, 2005 05:32: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Unhandled Exception Error in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 05:27 Profile Homepage #9 As it turns out the problem wasn't the .bas file after all; it was an obscure bug in BoA. But if it doesn't crash any more, well, that's the important thing. [ Saturday, July 16, 2005 05:28: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Add Item with Script? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 03:35 Profile Homepage #10 The original scripts do have indentations (the "strange spacings" at the start of the line). They're not important for the function of the script, but they make it easier to read. It's probable that whatever text editor you're opening the scripts in is ignoring the indentation for some reason. [ Saturday, July 16, 2005 03:38: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What do YOU want to see in G4? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 02:48 Profile Homepage #250 Heavens above. Why don't you just ask Jeff to put Pikachu in the next Geneforge game and be done with it? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Harry Potter in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 02:44 Profile Homepage #159 You do realise that didn't actually happen, right? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
If You Had A Billion Dollars... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 01:22 Profile Homepage #46 I haven't actually done the figures, but investing every year instead of just making a one-off investment might leave you with 10 billion or 100 billion at the end of the same time period. This sounds impressive, but in reality it means a difference of no more than a couple of decades in the time it takes to make your first billion. Working with exponentials is fun because it means that even if your initial assumptions are an order of magnitude or two off, it doesn't make much difference in the end. (Fiddling with the interest rate will make a big difference, though. Fortunately, if you're looking for long-term gains you can safely invest in a high-risk portfolio, which will on average produce considerably higher real interest than 4%. Well, probably.) [ Saturday, July 16, 2005 01:25: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
If You Had A Billion Dollars... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 01:03 Profile Homepage #44 quote: Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon: Okay this is frustrating the hell out of me. Someone out there must have formulas for computing compound interest rates on savings. I found an online calculator, but that only allowed me to accumulate 25 million. I want to know how many years of savings it would take to save a billion dollars. To be honest, the amount saved per year shouldn't make that much difference. My rough guess, based on the arc of a baseball as it clears the left field bleachers, is about 10,000 years. http://www.moneychimp.com/articles/finworks/continuous_compounding.htm The above has the formulas you want. Continuous compounding is the simplest case (and the most favourable), but it's pretty hard to find any real-world method of saving money that offers continuous compounding. As a simplifying assumption, my advice is to just plain ignore any amounts you put into savings per year after the initial amount, as after the first few years it won't make much difference anyway. The time it'll take to save up $1,000,000,000 depends on the initial amount you save and (much more importantly) on the interest rate you're getting (after tax, and after inflation if you want to factor that in). [ Saturday, July 16, 2005 01:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
guestion in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, July 16 2005 00:31 Profile Homepage #1 Jeff pays an artist for every graphic he orders. Two sexes means twice as many graphics and animations for the player characters, which means paying the artist more. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Lucien 'Thuryl' McMahon Is Naked in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, July 15 2005 00:01 Profile Homepage #152 Check the website link in his profile. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Regrettable But in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 23:43 Profile Homepage #35 I was about to join in on this little feeding frenzy, but it occurred to me that there's something to be said for not kicking a man when he's down. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Human nature in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 22:13 Profile Homepage #57 Never underestimate the willingness of ordinary people to fail to enforce bad laws. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Regrettable But in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 19:55 Profile Homepage #26 The primaries are over; the finals have begun, and it's too late to change who's in them now. Please, let's put an end to this futile dispute before anyone's feelings are further wounded. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Regrettable But in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 19:23 Profile Homepage #21 Only 3 candidates could get into the finals. For someone to get in, someone else had to be left out. Kel wanted the current finalists in more than he wanted you in, so he spread his votes among them instead of giving them to you. How is there anything wrong with that? [ Thursday, July 14, 2005 19:28: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Election in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 18:59 Profile Homepage #36 Chances are the problem is that it's in BMP format. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How evil is too evil> in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 18:53 Profile Homepage #2 I don't think it's necessary to prescribe a hard limit on the sort of actions a villain should be allowed to take. Having said that, the villain should at least have reasonable motivations for their actions. (What constitutes a reasonable motivation will depend on the nature of the character, of course. A mindless monster that can survive only by devouring everything around it is plausible and sufficiently motivated, even if it's not a very compelling character. The same motivation obviously doesn't work at all for a human villain.) The question you really seem to want to know the answer to, though, is how much detail you should go into in describing the villain's actions. In general, I'd advise no more than is necessary for the narrative and/or dramatic purposes you're attempting to serve. As a word of advice, unpleasantness looks more gratuitous if you use more detail to describe unpleasant things than neutral things -- in other words, if you want graphic violence, keep your descriptive writing up to par for the rest of the scenario. (Having seen what you've done with terrain, I trust in your ability to do this). [ Thursday, July 14, 2005 19:02: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How many hours of sleep do you get per 24 hours, on average? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 17:17 Profile Homepage #44 quote: Originally written by Garrison: I do not think that sleep deprivation will kill a person because I doubt that the vital autonomic functions of the brain need sleep to function. Well, when you deprive rats of sleep, they lose the ability to regulate their body temperature and develop hypothermia, which is what kills them. Temperature regulation is easier in larger mammals such as humans, so it's at least plausible that a human could survive total sleep deprivation indefinitely. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Human nature in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 16:34 Profile Homepage #53 quote: Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast: What is disturbing is that people are beginning to think that we should be serving the political and economic system. It doesn't matter if it is capitalism, socialism, etc. Kind of like we should be serving the machinery that makes the system work. This is basically wrong. The machinery was created to serve us. Never the other way around. First and foremost government and economic systems exist to serve people. In practice, it'd probably be more accurate to say that government exists to make the people serve the people. A government in itself is only as good as the people who work in, with and under it. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Official Election Final Round Voting in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 14:56 Profile Homepage #20 Hmm... I wonder who I'm going to vote for. Oh, wait, I know. Thuryl. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Have you ever... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 05:35 Profile Homepage #11 As far as I can tell, the only "cursed" items you can sell in BoA are the ones that aren't properly cursed due to that weird bug. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What do YOU want to see in G4? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, July 14 2005 04:33 Profile Homepage #224 quote: Originally written by Hellbringer195: What would be really cool is if the battles werent turn-based but more like the real-time battles in games like Baldur's Gate weeps -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How many hours of sleep do you get per 24 hours, on average? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, July 13 2005 23:36 Profile Homepage #38 Sounds about right. Most of the research I've seen indicates that total sleep deprivation causes a steady loss of functioning at first, but after the first couple of days people generally adapt and improve to levels of functioning that are almost normal. (Of course, the same pattern is seen in long-term starvation, so it doesn't prove that you wouldn't do yourself serious harm if you went completely without any sleep at all for long enough, but it's still interesting.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
(Av 3) Upper Avernum Murder Cave in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, July 13 2005 23:28 Profile Homepage #9 Gluten is a protein that associates with starch in grains such as wheat and rye. It's responsible for a lot of the structural properties of dough and bread, which is why you can't make rice bread with quite the same texture as wheat bread. Unfortunately, some people's digestive systems don't react very well to it. [ Wednesday, July 13, 2005 23:32: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Druids of Krell question: New Post! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, July 13 2005 23:20 Profile Homepage #1 This is a bug. I think the latest version of the scenario fixes it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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