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Displayed name | Thuryl |
Member number | 869 |
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Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 21:52
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quote:Used to be. A bunch of statisticians recently derived it by applying statistical laws, as I recall. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 21:53: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Summer jobs anyone? in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 05:41
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Just don't double-post it here again. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
RWG in Richard White Games | |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 05:32
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Yes, but if you take apart the logic of SoT's sentence, it's stating that Jeff's games have positive pressure whilst Richard's have negative pressure. You do make a valid point in that SoT isn't exactly being flattering to Jeff either. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 22:01
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I should hope the last line of my own post clued people in that I didn't expect to be taken too seriously either. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Leaving towns via scripting in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 18:49
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The short answer, by the way, is that there's no way to force a party directly out of town -- the best you can do is put them in a situation where they can't do anything except leave. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Leaving towns via scripting in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 18:49
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The short answer, by the way, is that there's no way to force a party directly out of town -- the best you can do is put them in a situation where they can't do anything except leave. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why ? what did I do ? in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 17:27
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In this case, though, they didn't use his account. They signed up for their own account and just happened to be using his computer. Nothing much one can do to prevent that, except avoid telling relatives about SW. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Do you cheat??? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 17:15
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Please don't make the exact same post in multiple topics. We heard you the first time. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Alwan is a disgrace in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 17:08
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Ever tried an Agent? If you can give up shaping entirely, it might be more your style. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
XP and Creations. in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 17:04
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Actually, you and your creations will all get the same amount of XP awarded to each of you. It's just that that amount is reduced based on the number of creations you have. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
RWG in Richard White Games | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 17:01
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quote:I think that's the most excessively creative way I've ever seen to say that something sucks. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 16:59
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quote:September 11 was not a threat to national security. 3000 people dying is not a threat -- the nation could easily compensate for that many people dying every day just by having more kids. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 05:08
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Yep, although you wouldn't know it from talking to them. For obvious reasons, I won't say who. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Alwan is a disgrace in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 04:26
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Why in God's name were you using a Shaper with no creations? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
monster gone wierd after battle in Blades of Exile | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 04:25
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Sounds freaky, assuming you're correctly interpreting the problem. We're really going to need more details. Are you running Mac or Windows? If Mac, how much memory is allocated to BoE? (Try increasing the allocation by a few megabytes; it can't hurt.) Posting a few screenshots would also be helpful in diagnosing your problem. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
What's your sex? in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 31 2005 02:28
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quote:Kel's been known to do so, and I'd consider it if I didn't live at such a horribly remote location. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Newbie Alert!!! in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 21:55
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The obvious way -- using Edit Placed Object and clicking Contained, in much the way that you'd switch an object's not-property status -- doesn't seem to work. Don't know if this is an editor bug or not. Both the standard editor and the 3D editor exhibit this behaviour -- you might want to ask the 3D editor development team if they could look into it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 21:55
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The obvious way -- using Edit Placed Object and clicking Contained, in much the way that you'd switch an object's not-property status -- doesn't seem to work. Don't know if this is an editor bug or not. Both the standard editor and the 3D editor exhibit this behaviour -- you might want to ask the 3D editor development team if they could look into it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General | |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 20:11
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I find your unthinking blanket opposition to genocide disturbing. When conducted in a sympathetic manner, government-mediated mass killing is one of the most fast-acting, efficient and humane forms of population control. After all, people can't just expect to keep breeding forever without consequences, and being shot in the head sure beats starving to death. [ Monday, May 30, 2005 20:12: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 19:49
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quote:And this doesn't seem like a weakness in the law to you? quote:Official police policy is against killing rioters. I wouldn't be so sure about the police themselves. In any case, whoever dies is just as dead whether they were killed intentionally or not. quote:On the other hand, when half your population is too fat to ride one... quote:Trains can run on electricity, which can be generated by non-fossil-fuel means. The US may be overly reliant on trucks for shipping, but that doesn't mean every country is. [ Monday, May 30, 2005 19:50: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 19:22
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quote:Not me personally -- I've never been in AA -- but I've known people who have. Really, I'm not sure how you can say an organisation that includes "acceptance of a higher power" as a central tenet isn't a religious organisation. If another alcohol diversion program doesn't exist, the government should create one (which is exactly what many countries do). It shouldn't throw its lot in with unregulated and unaccountable private organisations. quote:Well, yes. Governments can do whatever they like. Some of the things they do are even legal. But if we're going to get into the issue of what a political system ought to be and do, there's no avoiding ideology. quote:Mustard gas isn't designed to kill people either. Only a fairly small fraction of people exposed to most chemical weapons under most circumstances die. Mustard gas and tear gas are both designed to disable and demoralise people -- the fact that one tends to have a higher rate of long-term harmful effects is merely a quantitative matter, not a qualitative one. quote:Taken at face value, it wasn't, but if you really believed your own first argument, there was no reason to make your second. Observe: quote:If pollution isn't causing the world any severe harm, the issue of whether first-world or third-world countries pollute more is irrelevant, and you would have had no reason to mention it. quote:Bicycles. There are plenty of places in developed nations where most people don't own cars and don't need them. Most of those places are outside the US. [ Monday, May 30, 2005 19:24: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
PC personalities in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 17:31
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quote:I fail to see a credible alternative being spelled out. The ultimate viewer-defined environment is a pencil and a blank sheet of paper -- in terms of player interactivity, nothing's going to beat that. The very existence of a specific game engine limits the player's options -- limiting options is a good thing, because it creates focus. Without external input, the human mind is incapable of creating anything new. People suffering from total anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories, use exactly the same patterns of speech and action all the time. Ask one to improvise on a musical instrument and he'll always improvise the exact same piece, unaware he's composed it a hundred times before. quote:For people who don't have far too much time on their hands, replay value is basically just annoying, because it means we're missing out on things on the first playthrough and probably won't have time to go through a second time to see what we've missed. quote:Depends on the artist and the artform. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if TM took after Bertolt Brecht a little. quote:The player exercises choice by choosing which scenarios to play. If you know from past experience of a style of scenario design that you won't enjoy a scenario, then don't play it. But recognise that if you don't play it, you have nothing to complain about -- and if you do, is the designer really responsible for the time you wasted playing a scenario you didn't enjoy? quote:Attempting to design what I think others want is patronising at best. Far better to say "This is what I've made; take it or leave it". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 17:16
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Can we just let the topic die instead? It doesn't really have any redeeming value. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 17:13
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Which Russian politician was it who, when accused of being "nothing but a leftist pervert" replied "I am not a leftist"? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 30 2005 16:50
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quote:Then you've never had a court order you into an alcohol treatment program. Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult and there's no two ways about it. quote:Once elected to public office, for public purposes you are no longer a person -- you are the holder of that office. Your job is to base policy on the consensus of your constituents, not your own opinions. quote:I suppose that means the US has never used tear gas against rioters? Under international law, that's classified as a chemical weapon, and people have died from being exposed to it. quote:So the citizens of third world countries don't count as "people"? How telling. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |