Profile for Thuryl

Error message

Deprecated function: implode(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated. Swap the parameters in drupal_get_feeds() (line 394 of /var/www/pied-piper.ermarian.net/includes/common.inc).

Field	Value
Displayed name	Thuryl
Member number	869
Title	...b10010b...
Postcount	9973
Homepage	http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html
Registered	Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

Recent posts

Pages

Author	Recent posts
Drakel and Eraserhead in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 06:10 Profile Homepage #21 TM's recent spamming-up of RWG was apparently a contributing factor. Don't worry; he'll be back in a few weeks. [ Tuesday, June 28, 2005 06:10: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cracker Jack and the Missing Peanuts in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 06:08 Profile Homepage #12 This topic is starting to remind me of a conga line of window treatments. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Eyebeasts in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 03:20 Profile Homepage #5 Canisters. I suppose now you're going to ask for their locations. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
RWG in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 03:19 Profile Homepage #167 Nobody plays the games, so nobody starts serious topics about them. And it'd be a shame to leave a perfectly good forum empty. Hence the spam. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The International Baccalaureate Program in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 03:14 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Drakefyre: You'd be surprised how much you can teach to any test. In school, do English teachers hand out past GAT essays for practice and spend time looking over rubrics used to grade them? Nope. But as I said, there wouldn't be much point doing so because it's such a minor part of assessment. It generally only comes into play if a student has very high GAT scores and very poor results, or vice versa. It's more often used as an index of how well schools are performing (comparing students' subject scores to the results that would be predicted based on their GAT scores) rather than to assess individual students. In theory, schools actually have an incentive to keep their students' GAT scores low. [ Tuesday, June 28, 2005 03:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cracker Jack and the Missing Peanuts in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 03:11 Profile Homepage #3 I don't think they even sell them here, actually. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Avernum or Exile. A question, not a poll. in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 01:31 Profile Homepage #1 The Avernum series is indeed a remake of the Exile series. Plotwise, they're almost identical. In terms of gameplay, they're very different. Play the Exile 3 demo and see how you like the gameplay (Exile 2's engine is slightly simpler, and Exile 1's is significantly more so). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Care in the Community in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 28 2005 01:28 Profile Homepage #2 So that's why topics in this forum get locked all the time. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The International Baccalaureate Program in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 23:19 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Unpleasantness for its Own Sake: If I don't feel that taking a science will benefit me, I shouldn't have to. I think the IB's attempt to make everyone a renaissance man is a waste of time. Please do keep in mind that you don't have to do the IB if you don't want to. You can't very well fault a program for being structured in accordance with its goals and intentions. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 23:16 Profile Homepage #45 Windows scenarios don't have a .cmg file. They do indeed just use a bunch of loose BMP files in the scenario folder. Just make sure they have the right file names, as set out in Section 4.1 of the documentation. EDIT: Kel got in before me. Oh well. It's just as good for my post count anyway. [ Monday, June 27, 2005 23:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 23:16 Profile Homepage #45 Windows scenarios don't have a .cmg file. They do indeed just use a bunch of loose BMP files in the scenario folder. Just make sure they have the right file names, as set out in Section 4.1 of the documentation. EDIT: Kel got in before me. Oh well. It's just as good for my post count anyway. [ Monday, June 27, 2005 23:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cracker Jack and the Missing Peanuts in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 22:26 Profile Homepage #1 This is rather general even for General. Can't you just, you know, buy peanuts separately and add extra? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The International Baccalaureate Program in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 21:10 Profile Homepage #24 So if you're guessing, you don't guess answers that are obviously incorrect. Since no marks are deducted for incorrect answers, it's better to guess than not answer at all. The idea that any of that would need to be actively taught to anyone is baffling to me. (Mind you, maybe this is because the test is just stupidly easy; a typical question would be to present an opinion article on some social change, and then ask whether the writer of the article supported or opposed the change. Anyone who can't work that out needs euthanasia, not coaching.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Drakel and Eraserhead in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 20:58 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Infelice: I think that when you are banned, your account and your IP are banned. That means that you can't log onto that account and you can log onto any account on that computer. Usually only your account is banned the first time, and your IP is banned if you try to evade the ban. quote: Were they other members just trying to be funny, or were they actually people who coincidentally registered near the same time? They did indeed register within a short time of each other. Whether their synchronous registrations were "coincidental" is another matter; EH claimed to have registered purely for the purpose of mocking Drakel. [ Monday, June 27, 2005 21:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Anyone else notice the jokes here? in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 18:38 Profile Homepage #12 They're in the text of the game, but there's no way to actually trigger them in-game -- you have to poke around in the game files using a resource editor. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Supreme Court Ruling on Restraining Order & Ten Commandments in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 18:33 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by VCH: Does one have to swear on the bible in the U.S.? Nope. One can choose to take a non-religious affirmation. I'm not sure whether one can swear on another religious text instead; I think one can. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Drakel and Eraserhead in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 18:12 Profile Homepage #1 I'm pretty sure that this was eventually answered with a "no" at the time. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The International Baccalaureate Program in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:56 Profile Homepage #22 quote: There is a test that is a general achievement/aptitude test on which the tests from consecutive years have no resemblance? I find that hard to believe. How many ways can you keep reinventing the test? SATs in the USA don't reuse questions and nobody knows exactly what will be on them, but the same types of "aptitude" are tested every time. It has a standard form, but it's not the kind of form that lends itself to being taught to answer it. One third of the marks come from two essay questions. In the first, the student has to summarise the content of an article which consists of a mixture of graphical and textual content (the article itself can be just about anything; recent examples have included a page from a first aid manual and a poster on environmental awareness). In the second, about half a dozen related sentences are selected randomly from different newspaper editorials and students are asked to write an essay based on one or more of them. The next two-thirds of the test is a multiple-choice test divided equally into mathematical and verbal sections. The questions from the mathematical section range from estimation to the "how many triangles are in this figure" kind of deal. The verbal section generally consists mostly of a number of short articles along with multiple-choice comprehension questions pertaining to specific passages from them. If someone hasn't learned reading comprehension and basic mathematics by year 12, it's a bit late to teach it -- although really, the questions are the sort of thing I was doing in primary school, so I'd be a bit worried if anyone taking the test didn't do fantastically well anyway. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Doors in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:41 Profile Homepage #5 Just changing the terrain without setting an unlocking flag is a bad solution because if the party manually closes the door, it'll then be locked again. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Doors in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:41 Profile Homepage #5 Just changing the terrain without setting an unlocking flag is a bad solution because if the party manually closes the door, it'll then be locked again. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bahs Error in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:39 Profile Homepage #3 Sounds uncomfortably like a corrupted .bas file. Hope you have a backup. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bahs Error in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:39 Profile Homepage #3 Sounds uncomfortably like a corrupted .bas file. Hope you have a backup. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Dispel a Barrier through the script in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:37 Profile Homepage #4 Yeah, the put_stain_on_space bug has been mentioned before. Sometimes it works for some people, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Fortunately stains are just cosmetic so it's not such a big deal. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Dispel a Barrier through the script in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:37 Profile Homepage #4 Yeah, the put_stain_on_space bug has been mentioned before. Sometimes it works for some people, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Fortunately stains are just cosmetic so it's not such a big deal. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Tools, anyone? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 27 2005 17:26 Profile Homepage #16 Obviously not, since there was no way to use it as a weapon. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

Pages