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Homepage	http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html
Registered	Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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Juicy stuff on SpiderWeb’s firsts in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 17:18 Profile Homepage #15 You never know. Maybe Imban will develop an appetite for positrons. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! 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 Monday, June 6 2005 17:03 Profile Homepage #131 quote: Originally written by Ald: But how come Mac only supports only one mouse button? Isn't it a lot more convinient to have four mouse buttons plus a wheel? Nowadays you can usually plug any multi-button USB mouse into a Mac and have it more or less work. But since the Mac OS is designed around a single-button mouse, most people don't really have any reason to do so. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
could eny one be my friend in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 16:18 Profile Homepage #1 I diagnose a carbon-based failure. Please report to your local Soylent Corporation administrative office for recycling. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Drakey, Darling... I have a favor to ask in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 15:53 Profile Homepage #21 The impression I get is that Drakey doesn't have full access to the board's inner workings. It's quite likely he needed to enlist Mariann's help to bring back MM's account. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Worst Game EVER! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 15:49 Profile Homepage #88 The topic title says "game", not "dame". -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Idea - Scenario Storyboard Contest in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 04:09 Profile Homepage #1 I thought the consensus was that story ideas were the one thing no designer had a shortage of. -------------------- 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 Monday, June 6 2005 04:06 Profile Homepage #125 quote: Originally written by Ald: Tell me, does anyone that is responsible for development read the forum, or should I send them email with the ideas? They don't. Send email if you want. Interface ideas have a better chance of being listened to than plot ideas, but in general Jeff Vogel does his own thing anyway. quote: Scroll the screen with right mouse button. Probably not going to happen -- Jeff designs on a Mac, Mac users make up half his audience, and most Mac users are still using a one-button mouse. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 03:43 Profile Homepage #194 I don't think anyone here is suggesting that there ought to be some "easy way" to make people wise. But SoT here seems essentially to be suggesting universities could offer intensive courses in critical thinking, and I'm not convinced that it's possible to teach that in isolation. Now if he means that it ought to be taught by means of a broad range of instructive examples from various disciplines, that would be another matter -- but I think there are humanities courses that offer something fairly close to that already. [ Monday, June 06, 2005 03:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Lord Putidus help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 01:53 Profile Homepage #5 It is, but you can still haste and bless with potions. And enemies' magic works just fine, so the statues are quite capable of summoning things that will kill you. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Maps in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 01:14 Profile Homepage #1 Riibu's Geneforge page has a few of the maps, although it's far from complete. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Maps in Geneforge
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 01:14 Profile Homepage #1 Riibu's Geneforge page has a few of the maps, although it's far from complete. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! 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 Monday, June 6 2005 01:10 Profile Homepage #122 From what I recall of Jeff Vogel's very early plans for a game that sounded vaguely like Geneforge (I believe he mentioned an idea for a game where the player could create monsters even before the release of Avernum 1), it seems as if it may even have been Jeff's original intention to allow a much greater degree of fluidity in the sorts of creations that could be made. [ Monday, June 06, 2005 01:10: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Lord Putidus help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 00:55 Profile Homepage #3 Also, in case you didn't know it already, there's a trick that's useful in a lot of preset encounters in BoA; enter combat mode, bless and haste and all of that, then have your entire party use the Wait command once ("w" on the keyboard) before triggering the encounter. That way, you get at least one full turn in on your opponents before they can act. (If you're sufficiently hasted, this probably becomes two full turns.) After that, well, just pray your party can kill off the statues before they can summon anything. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, June 6 2005 00:37 Profile Homepage #191 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Most people do not actually have any idea how many ways there are to be wrong; they do need to study physics, or perhaps something else, in order to begin to get an idea. This is an example of something valuable to learn in college. It certainly isn't to be learned just by hearing somebody tell you it in so many words. But that doesn't mean that it couldn't be learned faster and by more people, if colleges made deliberate efforts to teach it, instead of simply patting themselves on the back when people pick it up along the way. Is there any way to teach this more directly than an understanding of the sources of experimental error in your field (which requires a fairly deep and specific understanding of the field itself) combined with a statistics subject that covers the various kinds of bias (which doesn't really merit an entire course for its own sake)? -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 5 2005 18:18 Profile Homepage #82 quote: Originally written by Archmage Alex: By the way, crazy or not, I swear there was some one who was going to Russia for two years. He used to post on the Arena during the short period I semi-participated. What was his name? It was somehow similar to Zeviz. The use of 'z' perhaps? You'd be thinking of Drazuv. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Karma? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 18:10 Profile Homepage #29 Debates aren't designed to change the minds of the people participating. If there's an attempt to influence anyone at all, it's onlookers who may not previously have thought at all about the issue. More often, though, we debate because it's fun to show off what clever arguments you can construct for your position. As far as I know, I've only ever changed one person's mind on a major political issue within the space of a single argument. [ Sunday, June 05, 2005 18:10: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Setting in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 16:17 Profile Homepage #1 There's no "official" map of the surface (other than Valorim, of course). Some members of the Blades community have made unofficial maps that are reasonably well-accepted among the community, if you want to use one of those for inspiration. They're only based fairly loosely on canon; the names of the continents and their general properties are known, but everything else has to be made up. [ Sunday, June 05, 2005 16:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A lil help please about item numeration. in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 15:35 Profile Homepage #6 Cheating can be useful if you've already finished once and want to see how different decisions affect the plot without going through the trouble of replaying the whole game properly. Quite apart from that, though, people play the way they prefer. I'm not entirely sure how attacking them for doing so is justified or helpful. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ephesos' Scenario - Druids of Krell... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 15:21 Profile Homepage #4 Mariann said she'd allow minor updates after the deadline. You might still have a chance of getting any changes you need to make in if you work fast. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Karma? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 15:09 Profile Homepage #23 You say that as if it's a good thing. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Happa Tai - Yatta! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 15:03 Profile Homepage #10 The Flash movie is shorter and better anyway. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 01:27 Profile Homepage #173 Well, it does depend on what one is studying. Frankly, I'm not entirely convinced that anyone learns anything of value from an Arts degree that they couldn't learn in a less stressful manner by reading a bunch of books in their spare time. Nor am I convinced that having read a bunch of books qualifies one for any particular form of employment. [ Sunday, June 05, 2005 02:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Karma? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 01:25 Profile Homepage #20 Eh, you're not particularly right-wing, inasmuch as you don't believe in replacing taxation with tithing. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Weird G3 script glitch (Windows) in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 01:22 Profile Homepage #1 Litalia's a nut; even as a rebel, you can pretty much kill her without repercussions anyway. Still, this does seem like a bug, and apparently it's been mentioned before. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
I just had to post this - it's awesome in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, June 5 2005 01:11 Profile Homepage #20 quote: a script that changes every post that member #x makes into "AGHUAHUHAUGUAHUHLBB" For some members, that script might be redundant. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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