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Quote on charisma. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 04:50 Profile Homepage #1 The one insurmountable problem of relying on charismatic leadership to keep an organisation together is that leaders eventually die. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 04:47 Profile Homepage #5 Since it's not a documented or supported feature, just exploiting a quirk of the way graphics are handled, it won't necessarily work the same way on both platforms. Judging from past experience, if you email Jeff, he's more likely to deliberately take the ability to override default graphics out of the Mac version than put it into the Windows version. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 04:47 Profile Homepage #5 Since it's not a documented or supported feature, just exploiting a quirk of the way graphics are handled, it won't necessarily work the same way on both platforms. Judging from past experience, if you email Jeff, he's more likely to deliberately take the ability to override default graphics out of the Mac version than put it into the Windows version. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 03:09 Profile Homepage #3 Ah, you're using Windows, aren't you? Then you might be out of luck. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 03:09 Profile Homepage #3 Ah, you're using Windows, aren't you? Then you might be out of luck. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Paradox of Technology and Jobs. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 02:49 Profile Homepage #19 quote: Originally written by Eagle, the author soul: I would not be so worried about how robots would take over the service jobs. People like to have a real person taking their money, handling their phone bills and such. After all a robots that looks too like a human would be creepy. You would go around, thinking the rest of the day, "was it a robot or a human?" Oh, there's absolutely no reason to make them look like humans. Really, what you'd want for basic service situations is a kind of vending machine that you can hold a conversation with. Do you really care about human interaction at a supermarket or fast food outlet? quote: No, do not worry about such a future. But if such future would come, the demand for programmers and engineers would increase since the robots needs service and maintaining. Simple robots that can fabricate copies of themselves from smaller components have already been created; there's no reason to suppose that more advanced ones wouldn't be able to conduct maintenance on themselves and others. Anyway, I really don't see how keeping humans working is supposed to be a good thing -- if work were enjoyable enough for most people to do it voluntarily, they wouldn't get paid for it. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 02:31 Profile Homepage #1 It's pretty easy. Every graphic in the standard BoA set has a sheet number attached to it; you can find these numbers by poking around in the graphics files. Just include in your scenario a custom graphic sheet with the same number as the default graphic you want to replace. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Forcing custom graphics in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 02:31 Profile Homepage #1 It's pretty easy. Every graphic in the standard BoA set has a sheet number attached to it; you can find these numbers by poking around in the graphics files. Just include in your scenario a custom graphic sheet with the same number as the default graphic you want to replace. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Paradox of Technology and Jobs. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 24 2005 02:08 Profile Homepage #17 Sure. It'll work just fine until the AIs start campaigning for equal rights. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Woah Crazy!! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 18:56 Profile Homepage #131 Coffee creamer isn't too far from what you're describing, really. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Music in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 18:14 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by N00BEN: Cuss words are any word referring to some durragatory (sp?) concept or thing used in a degrading tone toward any other person or to God. So it's not the word itself, but the way it's used? If I were to say "My computer is a piece of sht", that wouldn't be swearing, but if I were to say "Tony Blair is a piece of sht", that would be? And saying "Tony Blair is a piece of sht" would be exactly the same degree of swearing as "Tony Blair is a piece of crap", since words with identical meanings are being used in identical context? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun!* Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 18:04 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Auri Fitzgerald: What's the reward of going on principle and joining the Awakened or Shapers? I have a hard time joining groups that I'd rather squash- rewards or not... A warm fuzzy feeling. In all seriousness, you get access to decent spells and creations somewhat earlier than you would if you waited until you reached the Takers/Barzites, but in the endgame the Loyalists and Awakened definitely have less to offer. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge 2
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 18:04 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Auri Fitzgerald: What's the reward of going on principle and joining the Awakened or Shapers? I have a hard time joining groups that I'd rather squash- rewards or not... A warm fuzzy feeling. In all seriousness, you get access to decent spells and creations somewhat earlier than you would if you waited until you reached the Takers/Barzites, but in the endgame the Loyalists and Awakened definitely have less to offer. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Challenge- Spell Sword in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 17:59 Profile Homepage #5 Yeah, but the rules of the challenge as Harlequin presented them forbid any sort of spell cast on someone other than yourself (i.e. no Daze). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Music in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 17:15 Profile Homepage #4 If nobody minds, I'm going to seize upon an opportunity to make this topic into something more worthwhile. quote: Some music is good; other music is very degrading to someone's life. Especially if it's chalk full of cuss words. Okay, so tell me, how do you define a "cuss word"? It can't relate to the subject matter; for if that were so, why could one word be worse than another with an identical meaning? Euphemisms would be of no use in such a case; some topics could simply not be discussed. But as euphemisms do exist and are widely used, clearly obscenity can have nothing to do with the semantic content of the words. Is it the sound of the words that offends you, then? The spelling, perhaps? Do the words "funk" and "shift" make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? [ Monday, May 23, 2005 17:16: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Woah Crazy!! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 17:10 Profile Homepage #128 You know, if you wanted to be topical, you could have mentioned olestra. Afraid of lawyers? [ Monday, May 23, 2005 17:12: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Challenge- Spell Sword in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 17:04 Profile Homepage #3 Melee Guardians are tough enough; a melee-only Agent seems kind of crazy, at least at higher difficulties. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Capitalism ho! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 16:57 Profile Homepage #79 Another problem with a gold standard is that it artificially raises the value of gold. This wasn't a problem in the days when gold was used mostly for things like jewellery that were valued largely because they were expensive -- and besides, there was generally enough gold in the world to go around, since there were fewer people to share it among and fewer goods to spend it on. Even so, precious metals were in short enough supply that fiduciary money (basically, money that claims to be able to be exchanged for precious metals that aren't actually kept in sufficient reserves to honour every bank note in circulation) was in wide use by the 19th century. Nowadays, though, significant amounts of gold are now used in the electronics industry and in medical research. I don't know how much returning to a gold standard would increase the cost of your mobile phone, but I'm willing to bet it wouldn't be pretty. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
get_what()? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 16:20 Profile Homepage #4 I've been using get_sdf() for everything. If people are reporting it doesn't work, I may have to go back and change all my scripts. Botheration. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Paradox of Technology and Jobs. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 16:17 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by shell: No worries, society does exactly what it has done before, shorten the workweek. Work used to be a 60-80 hour per week activity, but with the rise in productivity brought about by technology, it was realized that no one needed to work that much, unless they werre driven to be no. 1. Or, you know, if they're interested in keeping their jobs. Most people I know are working close to 60 hours a week and getting paid for 40; the rest is accounted for with "voluntary" unpaid overtime, which is voluntary right up until the company needs to make layoffs and looks at who's recorded the fewest hours. quote: If everyone needs a college degree just to "get by" then the pressure will be on colleges, especially public institutions, to make sure that everyone can get a degree. So rest easy, in the future everyone will have a degree, one that means less than it does today. :cool: This is already happening in some fields. A plain bachelor's degree is not enough to get you a decent job in any of the natural sciences; you need postgraduate education just to get your foot in the door. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Paradox of Technology and Jobs. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 15:41 Profile Homepage #12 Or, alternatively, develop an economic system that doesn't limit people's access to resources based on their ability to produce something of value to others. Once the majority of people are no longer capable of producing anything of value to others better than machines can do it, this will happen more or less naturally. [ Monday, May 23, 2005 15:42: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Woah Crazy!! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 12:46 Profile Homepage #125 I really do hope everyone realises the lard thing was a joke. I don't go around picking up women in supermarkets in the first place. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Two Years and Two Days! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 12:40 Profile Homepage #48 quote: Originally written by 406: Postcount Not Acceptable: These two sentences would have been hilarious with that typo. And both are completely true! Especially with the phone on vibrate mode. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
SpiderWeb Glitch IV in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 12:36 Profile Homepage #18 Er, last I checked, Geocities forbade direct linking to images. Has this changed? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Geneforge 3 for Windows in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 23 2005 03:29 Profile Homepage #1 Around June, just like it says in the forum header. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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