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RWG in Richard White Games
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Monday, June 20 2005 20:46 Profile Homepage #149
Better to have a pretzel made for you than of you.

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The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure!
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Does anyone enjoy classic console RPGs? in General
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 written Monday, June 20 2005 20:37 Profile Homepage #13
Well, the ducks weren't actually ducks, just dragons depicted as well as Atari was able to. Which, as you may gather, wasn't very well.

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Does anyone enjoy classic console RPGs? in General
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 written Monday, June 20 2005 19:40 Profile Homepage #11
Unless you count Adventure, which was pretty fun -- how many other games are there in which you get to fight man-eating ducks with a spear?

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Unhandled Exception in Blades of Avernum
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Member # 869
 written Monday, June 20 2005 19:38 Profile Homepage #1
There are quite a few things that can cause this error. The most common are graphical problems (such as using windowed walls with a wallset that doesn't have any windowed walls), or passing illegal arguments to a function (such as trying to modify the status of a character that doesn't exist). Without actually seeing the scenario you've made and knowing the points at which the error occurs, I can't really be more specific.

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GameFAQs in Geneforge Series
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 written Monday, June 20 2005 18:38 Profile Homepage #2
The Geneforge 1 and 2 walkthroughs were made by the gentleman who goes by the name of Schrodinger on these forums.

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Elections? in General
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 written Monday, June 20 2005 16:42 Profile Homepage #135
I suspect from context that the phrase was intended to convey the meaning of non-(human males) rather than (non-human) males.

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Does anyone enjoy classic console RPGs? in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, June 20 2005 16:30 Profile Homepage #2
There's nothing wrong with console RPGs. Sure, gameplay mechanics are generally simpler due to the limitations of the medium, but simplicity is not necessarily a disadvantage. My first introductions to the RPG genre were Phantasy Star and Ultima IV, which are fairly archetypal examples of console and computer RPGs respectively, so I've developed a pretty balanced view of the merits of the two.

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Elections? in General
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Member # 869
 written Monday, June 20 2005 16:19 Profile Homepage #131
Ben, as far as we can tell, is human and male. I wouldn't give him ideas if I were you.

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Your gift or talent in General
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 23:29 Profile Homepage #54
quote:
Originally written by ef:

A diagnose may open much needed space for individual development, as parents tend to stop blaming their offspring for perceived 'misbehaviour' once they hear it, instead start to support their kids.
This, I suppose, is a fair point. If people had a greater ability to distinguish behaviour that's genuinely harmful and needs to be changed from behaviour which is merely unusual, though, it wouldn't be necessary.

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 written Sunday, June 19 2005 17:28 Profile Homepage #51
Yeah, Salmon said it more politely than I. Basically, my contention is that defining people who exhibit a certain set of behaviours as having a "disorder" tends to harm them because they're then perceived as different, separated from the rest of humanity by a biological chasm that cannot be bridged. Considering that most "developmental disorders" and "personality disorders" have no effective treatment, I just don't see any advantage in defining a group of people as having such disorders.

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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 17:03 Profile Homepage #47
A set of personality traits still isn't a mental disorder.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 14:22 Profile Homepage #11
A word of warning: move_to_new_town can ONLY be called by stepping into a special rectangle (the things that show up as blue rectangles in the editor). You can't call it from a terrain script, a creature script, the START_STATE, or anything else.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 14:22 Profile Homepage #11
A word of warning: move_to_new_town can ONLY be called by stepping into a special rectangle (the things that show up as blue rectangles in the editor). You can't call it from a terrain script, a creature script, the START_STATE, or anything else.

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Internet Explorer Troubles in General
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 14:12 Profile Homepage #19
I prefer plain old Mozilla to Firefox. It's more stable, and occasionally I need to use other Mozilla Suite features like Composer (which produces about the cleanest HTML of any HTML editor I know of).

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Put things in containers or on tables? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 01:33 Profile Homepage #3
It's not all bad. In Avernum, unlike Exile, you can drop things on the ground pretty much anywhere and they won't disappear forever when you leave town. You have to admit, that's of much more *practical* value than being able to put things on tables.

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Put things in containers or on tables? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 00:43 Profile Homepage #1
You can't. Sorry.

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Your gift or talent in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 00:42 Profile Homepage #40
Asperger's is a pretty heavily overdiagnosed condition that can be used to refer to a whole range of different behaviours that some psychologist judges as being pathological. Now, I don't want to come across as sounding like some kind of raving Thomas Szasz fanboy, but he makes a fair point when he says that mental illness can't be used as an excuse to escape responsibility for one's actions; regardless of the causes of a behaviour, it still affects others in the same way.

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Elections: The Registration Thread in General
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, June 19 2005 00:06 Profile Homepage #32
I believe he was joking.

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Elections: The Candidacy Thread in General
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 written Saturday, June 18 2005 23:22 Profile Homepage #25
Great. Now all we need is for Gary Coleman to post and we can have a rerun of the California recall election.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, June 18 2005 23:13 Profile Homepage #4
You know, the editor comes with documentation. You can look up any of the calls in the Appendices.

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void move_to_new_town(short new_town,short loc_x,short loc_y) - Immediately takes the party out of combat mode and moves them to town new_town, starting at {loc_x,loc,y}. This call will not work when called outdoors.
So as you can see, it only needs 3 arguments, not 4. The first, as you said, is the town number, and the next two are the X and Y coordinates to move the party to.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, June 18 2005 23:13 Profile Homepage #4
You know, the editor comes with documentation. You can look up any of the calls in the Appendices.

quote:
void move_to_new_town(short new_town,short loc_x,short loc_y) - Immediately takes the party out of combat mode and moves them to town new_town, starting at {loc_x,loc,y}. This call will not work when called outdoors.
So as you can see, it only needs 3 arguments, not 4. The first, as you said, is the town number, and the next two are the X and Y coordinates to move the party to.

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Favorite Weapon in Geneforge Series
Thuryl
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 written Saturday, June 18 2005 20:21 Profile Homepage #9
But with the significant advantage of reusability.

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Fun and weird! in General
Thuryl
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 written Saturday, June 18 2005 18:58 Profile Homepage #14
Actually, I believe the URL you'd be looking for would be "funnyjunk.com". Go take a typing course or something.

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Your gift or talent in General
Thuryl
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 written Saturday, June 18 2005 16:01 Profile Homepage #22
I thought that was TM's talent.

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To find the Drake's Stones in Za-Khazi Run in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, June 18 2005 15:11 Profile Homepage #1
Follow that long, long river all the way back to the south, then take the eastern tributary all the way to the end and wander around. Note that this takes a LOT of time that you don't really have to spare, and the reward isn't worth it.

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