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Internet Explorer Troubles in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 14 2005 14:00 Profile Homepage #3 It's really not that hard to lean on a key so that it repeats a bunch of times, especially if your key repeat rate is at the fastest setting. Of course, I'm assuming these are blank windows. If they were ads, then presumably some really horrible form of spyware would be to blame. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What is yours favuorite in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 14 2005 02:45 Profile Homepage #35 quote: Originally written by SprungSpring: Thuryl: Since you havn't commented (refrains from saying critisizing) on my word use/basic English for a while, I suppose you make the list. Your posts, while insightful, can be quite funny sometimes. Whilst I'd hate to be struck off your list, I feel obliged to point out that there are two spelling errors in the above quote. See if you can find 'em. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Internet Explorer Troubles in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 14 2005 01:32 Profile Homepage #1 IE hates you and wants you to suffer. Alternatively, maybe you leaned on the keyboard and accidentally held down the key combination to open a new window. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Websites for depressed people in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, June 14 2005 00:05 Profile Homepage #14 As you may notice, I already posted a retraction. No need to rub it in. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
requirements for special skills in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 23:57 Profile Homepage #4 At some point, it's actually cheaper to sink points into the requirements for Blademaster rather than keep putting them into your primary weapon skill. This point is about when your chosen weapon skill reaches the mid-teens, which will probably happen when your experience level is somewhere in the high 30s. Sharpshooter is an absolute necessity for any kind of missile-using character. Get it, then pump it up so its cost is equal to your primary missile skill. Never put a point into Dexterity again; you'll get better results from pumping Sharpshooter and your chosen missile skill until ridiculously high levels. Most of the other special skills are questionable. Parry is great if you want a well-rounded fighter, but at higher difficulties it's often almost impossible to dodge attacks without Divine Aid, so you might be better off forgetting about Dexterity and Defence entirely and putting the points into Endurance. Parry is for reducing damage rather than dodging, but the sunk costs for the requirements are excessive if you don't expect to dodge attacks as well. Anatomy requires Intelligence, which a fighter has no use for. It gives you bonus damage against humanoids, but there are plenty of other skills that make you do more damage. It makes your first aid more powerful, but you don't want to use first aid. It's okay if you want Lethal Blow, but you don't really want Lethal Blow either. Gymnastics is a lot like Parry -- at high difficulties, you need to put a LOT of points into dodging-related skills if you want to dodge attacks. The result is lowered offensive abilities and Endurance. Quick Strike is okay for the occasional bonus 2 AP, but you don't get them that often. There's no point getting it just to have better initiative, as being sufficiently hasted works just as well for that purpose. Get a couple of points in Quick Strike if you were investing in Dexterity anyway, but don't invest in Dexterity just so you can get Quick Strike. Pathfinder is a bad joke. Magery is debatable. It's cheaper than Intelligence and does the same thing except for the +3 spell energy, so you have to ask yourself which you need more: strong spells, or lots of spell points. I recommend keeping Magery at least 4 points below Intelligence at all times. Resistance is a bit of a waste of skill points, as by the levels when you can reasonably hope to get it, you'll probably be able to cast Radiant Shield at level 3, which does the same thing. Magical Efficiency is another of those debatable ones. Spellcasters don't really NEED endurance, so you can see the considerable skill point investment as a waste, and you need a large amount of Magical Efficiency. Still, having around 15 Magical Efficiency reduces the average cost of your spells by about half, which is nothing to sneeze at. On the other hand, intelligence gives you spell energy and makes your spells more powerful, so even at fairly high levels intelligence is probably a better place to put your skill points. Lethal Blow lets you do a LOT of damage when it works, but only against certain types of monster, and its success rate is pretty low. Given the high requirements to get it, you're better off putting the points you'd spend into Assassination. Riposte would be a good skill, but it only affects opponents who are wielding melee weapons. Given the number of monsters who have no need for weapons, that kinda sucks. [ Monday, June 13, 2005 23:59: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Getting training as a progressive Shaper in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 23:37 Profile Homepage #1 quote: Originally written by zhuuu: I've destroyed the Creator for Lord Rahul and freed Agatha for Krytyk, yet none of them are willing to train me because "I'm not loyal enough", even though I've done nothing but help the Shaper cause. Do I have to kowtow to the hardline Shaper philosophy every time in my travels to get them to train me? Not every time, but it sure helps. quote: Also, what exactly does taking too many (all) canisters do to me as a side effect? I've been enraged a few times when facing serviles, but seeing Resnick looking a bleeding Count Dracula kind of worries me. The in-game effects aren't huge, especially for a loyalist. It does have some influence on the ending as well. It sounds like you've already taken enough that using more won't make much difference. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Have You Ever Used Alorael's Signature in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 21:00 Profile Homepage #78 The text in the field you use to enter a post generally shows up in a fixed-width font, which obviously means none of the dashes can be much longer than any other. In a variable-width font (such as the fonts most people will be reading the message in once it's actually posted), it's easy to see the difference between the hyphen, endash and emdash if you line them up vertically: - – — In the fixed-width font I'm reading this in right now (some form of Courier, I think), the endash (option-dash) actually does look slightly shorter than the hyphen, whilst the emdash (option-shift-dash) looks slightly longer. Once posted, the endash is longer and the emdash is longest. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Have You Ever Used Alorael's Signature in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 16:07 Profile Homepage #72 On a Mac, you just press option-shift-hyphen. — See? For a slightly less long dash, just press option-hyphen instead: – [ Monday, June 13, 2005 16:07: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What's your sex? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 16:05 Profile Homepage #152 Actually, some computers understand electronics better than we do. An experimental computer chip programmed with the ability to rewire itself in various ways led to the discovery of a new property of semiconductors, which it unexpectedly exploited. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
In only 139 days. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 15:58 Profile Homepage #6 -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
stuck in canopy in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 15:04 Profile Homepage #3 It's just in front of the entrance you came in through (the one that's now obstructed by a wall). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Websites for depressed people in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 15:01 Profile Homepage #10 Wow. Okay, that's what I get for assuming it really was the international version of the Australian site rather than a knockoff by a cybersquatter. Whoops. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Just because :) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 00:55 Profile Homepage #20 Well, yes. For one thing, Switzerland doesn't have a coast. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
requirements for special skills in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 13 2005 00:53 Profile Homepage #1 Kelandon hosts this helpful list of what the special skills do and the requirements to get them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Websites for depressed people in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 21:53 Profile Homepage #8 At the Lyceum I already pointed him to the international version of that initiative at www.beyondblue.org . (See, kiddies, this is why you shouldn't cross-post. It impairs interforum communication.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A4 in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 19:41 Profile Homepage #8 Okay, fess up. You're an old member who made a new account to troll, aren't you? -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 12 2005 19:22 Profile Homepage #156 Note also the use of the quote button. It's the big black set of quote marks just to the right of the Edit button. Use it when you want to quote someone. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Just because :) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 17:51 Profile Homepage #10 Melbourne. Occasionally Geelong. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Greta or Alwan? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 15:57 Profile Homepage #9 Do you play on Torment difficulty, though? On Torment there really isn't all that much you can do to prevent him dying if he's getting attacked. And since he can't do anything except hit things in melee, he's going to get attacked. [ Sunday, June 12, 2005 15:57: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Revisions of BoE scenarios for BoA question in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 03:43 Profile Homepage #4 Items and creatures aren't ported reliably; neither are a few of the terrain and floor types. Some special nodes aren't ported either, and the ones that are ported are converted into pretty clumsy scripting. Dialogue has to be redone manually. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Nethergate Owners in Nethergate
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 12 2005 01:42 Profile Homepage #2 I won a free copy in one of the scenario contests. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The artifacts (SPOILERS) in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, June 11 2005 23:42 Profile Homepage #24 The answer can be found in this post, in the thread you're reading right now. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Anybody do Flash Animation? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, June 11 2005 18:13 Profile Homepage #8 If you're a full-time student with a student ID card and everything, you should be able to. But hell, don't ask me, phone up their enquiries department and find out for yourself. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Mad ambition in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, June 11 2005 17:40 Profile Homepage #5 Okay, here's the deal. The Mac version is fine, but the Windows version inadvertently used an older version of the script. Windows users should redownload from here. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Anybody do Flash Animation? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, June 11 2005 15:54 Profile Homepage #6 I'm pretty sure you get exactly the same product, but with a discount for educational users. (Unless you're actually talking about the difference between Flash and Flash Pro, which is something different again.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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