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Elections: The Registration Thread in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, June 27 2005 16:53 Profile Homepage #132
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Originally written by spy.there:

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Originally written by Thuryl:

It strikes me that it might be wiser to list voters by member number.
Umm ... Thuryl, Fifty-Fifty is 5050 and I am 1993.
Maybe it would be good to list voters by IP address :P
I wasn't referring to your situation in particular, just pointing out that people can and will change their names.

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 written Monday, June 27 2005 16:27 Profile Homepage #18
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Originally written by A punchline in the gut:

I don't think anyone tries to defend standardized testing with anyting but the rhetorical query, "What else do we have?" anymore. Sooner or later, someone will come up with an answer and the tests of this year will go the way of the tests of yesteryear. I hope.
While we can't do much better than standardised testing as a general marker of ability, it is possible to make a standardised test where teaching to the test isn't possible. In Victoria, the General Achievement Test is given to all students in the final year of secondary school. Only the people compiling the test know what's going to be on it before the day of the test, and questions aren't reused from year to year.

(Of course, even if it were possible to teach for the test, there wouldn't be much point, since GAT results are given only minor consideration as regards university admission; individual subject results are much more important.)

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Differences between countries, cultural and otherwise. in General
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 written Monday, June 27 2005 05:04 Profile Homepage #71
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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Hmmm; does the number of war dead in Flanders really amount to a large fraction of the peace dead?
Perhaps not. On the other hand, Westminster Abbey doesn't have a very large number of dead people in it in either absolute or relative terms, but it's still famous for them.

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It's the thing I find saddest about WWI, and its great commemoration on Nov 11, is that all our talk of remembrance is utterly vain. All those young dead guys are long gone now, and their impact has long faded even in death statistics. They themselves would mostly have been dead by now anyway. The enduring and enormous loss is all that they might have done, had they lived; but what that might have been, we will never know.
Well, most of the people who lived long and eventful lives and then died have been largely forgotten too. In the long run, it's probably for the best; there comes a point where one has to dedicate one's time to issues of more immediate relevance.

Personally, I don't really care about how I'm remembered, since I won't be around to enjoy it (or in the event that I am, I'll have either much better or much worse ways to occupy my time than hanging around at my own funeral). So I figure that if at least a few people don't attend my funeral purely to defile my grave, I've probably wasted my life.

[ Monday, June 27, 2005 05:07: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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A Large Rebellion help in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, June 27 2005 04:56 Profile Homepage #14
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Originally written by Omikron:

P.S: What does " ^_^ " mean?
It's a stylised textual representation of a smiling face.

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Elections: The Registration Thread in General
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 written Monday, June 27 2005 03:17 Profile Homepage #126
It strikes me that it might be wiser to list voters by member number.

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 written Monday, June 27 2005 03:14 Profile Homepage #69
And of course, it's also internationally famous for having lots of dead people in it.

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Anyone else notice the jokes here? in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 22:20 Profile Homepage #9
Specifically, this bit of the chat:

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SpidWeb : Omigod, I'm glad someone asked that. Everywhere I can. Friends. Books. Movies. Place names I get from atlases. The provinces in Exile III are named after women I've been ... ummmmmm .... intimate with. (Does that violate AOL TOS?) (Or just the bounds of good taste?)
From this, some have inferred that whoever Ms Midori was, Jeff doesn't like her very much any more.

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How did you first see or hear about spiderweb games? in General
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 19:35 Profile Homepage #3
I originally acquired the demo of Exile 1 from a software compilation CD that came free with a computer magazine.

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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 19:18 Profile Homepage #65
I don't consider myself responsible for the actions of other people who happen to share my approximate geographic location, and I'm generally able to find and associate with people who find me mostly inoffensive, so I don't really have any feelings about my "culture" one way or the other.

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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 19:04 Profile Homepage #63
fz is of Chinese descent and intermittently active on these forums. So is Dragyn Bob.

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Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 19:02 Profile Homepage #119
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Originally written by Verelor:

About the item graphics: it's not that they are bad or anything, it's just the exact same ones we've all seen for years.
All of Jeff's games so far have been written in the English language. Does that mean he should start writing his games in Esperanto for the sake of adding a little variety?

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Anyone else notice the jokes here? in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 18:59 Profile Homepage #5
Footracer may not be a common surname but a Google search reveals that it certainly exists.

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Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 16:13 Profile Homepage #117
High-technology graphics aren't the same as good graphics. Polygonal graphics, for example, still haven't reached the point where they can look as pretty as 2D art. And frankly, games with plain old 2D tile-based graphics are often a lot more playable than isometric or 3D graphics, which both make navigation confusing at times even when done well.

I'm not entirely sure why you think the item graphics need changing; they look nice enough and you can tell what they're meant to represent.

By the way, JPEG and GIF aren't really appropriate for the sort of graphics Jeff works with. JPEG is bad for small, detailed images, and GIF only supports 256 colours. PNG would be a better choice (although file sizes aren't always as impressively small). Unfortunately, Jeff's probably going to work with what he finds easiest to work with, because he is by his own admission not exactly the world's greatest programmer.

[ Sunday, June 26, 2005 16:16: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Unhandled Exceptions in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:58 Profile Homepage #21
No, that would be a handled exception. :-P

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Unhandled Exceptions in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:58 Profile Homepage #21
No, that would be a handled exception. :-P

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keygens in General
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:43 Profile Homepage #57
Most Web sites that host cracks are located in countries that don't strongly enforce copyright laws. Besides, the easiest place to find cracks isn't necessarily the Web; it's pretty hard to sue every single person who makes a crack publicly available using peer-to-peer software.

But at this point we're getting pretty close to talking about things that the administration would rather we didn't.

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The Ultimate "Favourite Game" Poll in General
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:25 Profile Homepage #24
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Originally written by Eagle, the author soul:

My most hated: Realms III! Just too crude! (Realms III was created by Fantasoft, today known as Spiderweb Software. The realms serie was created before Exile I and looks similiar to Exile I, not surprisingly since it was using an older version of the game motor. Sorry for making this so long.)
Fantasoft is NOT the same company as Spiderweb Software. It's a company that published and marketed Spiderweb's games early on. It still has its own website at http://www.fantasoft.com and its games still aren't very good.

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The best thing about the Internet is... in General
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #23
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Originally written by Manhood Typing Kelandon:

E-mail is done over the Internet but doesn't necessarily involve the World Wide Web.
And telnet, and various peer-to-peer services, and... well, one gets the idea.

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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 15:13 Profile Homepage #2
Lots of people recommend Battle for Wesnoth, although it's not exactly a MMORPG as such.

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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 03:09 Profile Homepage #25
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Originally written by Arctic dreams of...:

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Originally written by Khoth:

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The answer, of course, is that Arctic's Imagination is the greatest Imagination by a large margin. ;)
Post edited for the sake of the children who should not have to face this sort of mental image without strong sunglasses.
(For those wondering what the original content of the post was, think Law and Order, only with the executive producer's given name and surname transposed. Given that Arctic is of the subspecies Canis lupus arctos, the astute reader may fill in the gaps.)

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Unhandled Exceptions in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 01:49 Profile Homepage #19
An unhandled exception basically means that an error occurred, that the application itself didn't respond to the error, and so Windows stepped in to shut the application down. In these cases, the unhandled exception errors are probably mostly attempts to access illegal locations in memory.

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Unhandled Exceptions in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 01:49 Profile Homepage #19
An unhandled exception basically means that an error occurred, that the application itself didn't respond to the error, and so Windows stepped in to shut the application down. In these cases, the unhandled exception errors are probably mostly attempts to access illegal locations in memory.

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Can anyone figure out this riddle? in General
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 written Sunday, June 26 2005 00:22 Profile Homepage #17
Taking a bit of a stab in the dark here, but is it a scissor blade? Not sure how the shovel thing fits in there, though.

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 written Saturday, June 25 2005 23:53 Profile Homepage #17
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Originally written by Venom:

I was wondering why this topic was started in the BoA editor forum? It seems to me the problem is with BoA itself, not the editor.
Any questions related to scenario design are meant to go in the Editor forum. So if a problem you're having is occurring in a scenario you're designing, you probably want the Editor forum.

(Actually, it's probably a good idea to put technical questions in general in the Editor forum, and save the BoA forum for gameplay questions.)

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Thuryl
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 written Saturday, June 25 2005 23:53 Profile Homepage #17
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Originally written by Venom:

I was wondering why this topic was started in the BoA editor forum? It seems to me the problem is with BoA itself, not the editor.
Any questions related to scenario design are meant to go in the Editor forum. So if a problem you're having is occurring in a scenario you're designing, you probably want the Editor forum.

(Actually, it's probably a good idea to put technical questions in general in the Editor forum, and save the BoA forum for gameplay questions.)

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