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Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 15:44 Profile Homepage #22 To put it another way, if God can miraculously make a menopausal woman pregnant, he can miraculously make a man pregnant too. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Beta NDA question in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Archmagi Micael: *BTW - what was* this topic about? And you can't have posted before closing, cause the last time LlamaGod edited it was nearly a day before you posted. He meant before the topic was locked. As you'll notice, it's not locked yet, as we can still post in it. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00**
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Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 15:13 Profile Homepage #20 quote: Originally written by Jewels of the Forest: Also, if being gay is soley from hormone imbalances or a psychological disposition then it has to be classified as a 'treatable disease' because both suggest something wrong with what shold be. The only way for it not to be treatable is if it is truly genetic and part of the DNA makeup one is born with. Any other underlying cause makes is treatable. Not necessarily. Having a limb amputated isn't a genetic disorder, but it isn't treatable either. In any case, even if it could be treated, should it be? There are plenty of medical conditions which could be considered abnormalities in the strict sense of the word, but aren't routinely treated (even if treatment is available) because they don't cause any particular harm. [ Saturday, May 07, 2005 15:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How do you say it? in Nethergate
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 03:12 Profile Homepage #11 Please edit that out and replace it with a link. It's somewhat interesting, but frigging huge and 90% irrelevant. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
E3: Ruined World -- Room in Sulfras's Cave in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 03:07 Profile Homepage #9 The "how did you get in here?" sign is a literal sign. A hidden area in one of Jeff Vogel's BoE scenarios, completely inaccessible except through the use of the scenario editor, contains a signpost saying "How did you get in here?" -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
dialogue problem in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 03:03 Profile Homepage #1 For the last time, it's spelled Rentar-Ihrno. I-H-R-N-O, not I-H-N-R-O. Anyway, your first problem is that there's no begintalkscript; and variables; lines at the start of the script. [ Saturday, May 07, 2005 03:05: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
dialogue problem in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, May 7 2005 03:03 Profile Homepage #1 For the last time, it's spelled Rentar-Ihrno. I-H-R-N-O, not I-H-N-R-O. Anyway, your first problem is that there's no begintalkscript; and variables; lines at the start of the script. [ Saturday, May 07, 2005 03:05: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
From AOL News in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 23:50 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: Edit: On topic, there's also the possibility that homosexuality can be caused by different, unrelated factors. I feel confident that at least some cases are psychological, but that's not to say others aren't caused by a hormone imbalance or something. The line between "psychological" and "hormonal" isn't one that can be cleanly drawn. Psychosocial events cause changes in biochemical functioning and vice versa. It's probably never going to be possible to look at particular cases and say whether they were caused originally by a psychosocial event, a biochemical idiosyncrasy, or some combination of the two. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
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Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 21:28 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Sprung Spring: If you are gay and oyu contracted HIV from some-one, you are not able to donate sperm for five years. Wouldn't it of left your system in that time? And wouldn't you of not got it if you wore a condom? Whoa. The prohibition is not if you contracted HIV in the past five years, it's if you had gay sex in the past five years (even if you used protection). If you test positive for HIV, you can't donate at all -- HIV is not something that "leaves your system", ever. The virus just keeps multiplying and your immune system weakens until in 10 years or so you die of an opportunistic infection. The problem they're trying to address is that in some cases, it can take as many as 6 months after you actually contract HIV before HIV tests return positive results. So they're trying to eliminate groups who are supposedly at high risk for sexually transmissible infections. [ Friday, May 06, 2005 21:29: 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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Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 21:01 Profile Homepage #13 Yes, I've heard of the "stressed rat" study, although I wasn't aware of the details. It's not implausible. There's plenty of evidence that whatever the major factors influencing sexual orientation are, they start acting in early childhood if not sooner. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How do you say it? in Nethergate
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 20:56 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Kirk Johnson: This is an old topic, but apparently (we're doing Yeats' Cuchulain plays in English) Sidhe is pronounced "she." Fomorians is pronounced exactly as it looks- O as in "no". And of course, "banshee" comes from "bean sidhe" -- meaning "Sidhe woman". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
From AOL News in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 20:09 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Sic transit mundus.: For a better example, look at cystic fibrosis. It's extraordinarily prevalent for a lethal phenotype. What makes it so common? I don't know, but I would bet that it, like the sickle-cell anemia allele, has some benefit to heterozygous carriers that evolutionarily outweighs the disadvantage. Current thinking is that being heterozygous for cystic fibrosis provides partial protection against certain bacterial infections, such as typhoid fever and cholera, which take advantage of the CFTR protein (encoded by the gene for cystic fibrosis) in various ways to cause disease. Now, moving back on topic, I should add that twin concordance studies (comparing how often pairs of identical twins are both homosexual relative to pairs of non-identical twins) have had mixed results and generally suggested a fairly modest genetic contribution to homosexuality. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Gremlins in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 16:23 Profile Homepage #1 Well, the BoA corescendata file classifies them as a humanoid species, if that helps. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ocean Bound in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 14:34 Profile Homepage #33 That sounded uncomfortably like a rebuke. Did I say something I shouldn't have? I meant no offence (well, not to you, anyway). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, May 6 2005 03:59 Profile Homepage #499 Depends where exactly he lives. There's a distinct lack of hills in the eastern half of Montana. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bon-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 23:46 Profile Homepage #1 For Bon-Ihrno to be willing to speak to you, you have to deal with the crystal souls in some way other than by killing them. (There are a couple of different ways to do this.) If you've already killed one, there's no way to get Bon back on speaking terms with you. Don't worry; he's not very important in A3 anyway. [ Friday, May 06, 2005 17:01: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Combat in Canopy Poll in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 17:34 Profile Homepage #25 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: And one quirk that just doesn' seem quite right (and I'm not sure if this was fixed after I downloaded it), is that the non-player spells don't use up your AP! Sounds like you're not using the most recent version of BoA. The deduct_ap() call didn't work on player characters in older versions. EDIT: Bah. TM got in before me. [ Thursday, May 05, 2005 17:35: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The single most annoying part of (Spidweb) RPGs in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 17:26 Profile Homepage #28 quote: Originally written by Gizmo: And cghauss, as far as I know you are only encumbered by the armor you have equipped, not by everything you are carring. It's why when I want my mostly priest to cast a mage spell or two I have him unequip his shield during battle. That's true in the Exiles and Avernums, but in the Geneforges encumbrance is based on total weight being carried. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Scenarios in Development in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 07:59 Profile Homepage #89 quote: Originally written by Archmagi Micael: How long do you think I should put the players through a Maze for? 1 town, 2 town, 3 town ... and so on...? That is not entirely unlike asking "After I stick sharp knives into your various bodily organs, how many hours would you like me to wait before removing them?" -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
RWG needs more spam. in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 06:40 Profile Homepage #1 Well, that didn't work. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Music Preference in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 02:50 Profile Homepage #32 I'm currently listening to Wagner's Ring cycle in its entirety whilst committing acts of self-abuse. (Come to think of it, I suppose the former already implies the latter.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy v1.0.4 in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 01:22 Profile Homepage #2 Minor bug: beamer.txt isn't quite right. A couple of times, a call affects the whole party where it obviously should be targeted at a single character. Just search through the script for the number 1000; every time it's there, it shouldn't be. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ocean Bound in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 00:19 Profile Homepage #31 When your favourite thing about a game is that you can literally watch grass grow in it, it's obviously not much fun. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Biomass Future-- Will It Replace Oil in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 00:08 Profile Homepage #53 Anyone know anything about the feasibility of mining methane clathrates? There sure is a lot of energy down there if only we can get at it. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, May 5 2005 00:06 Profile Homepage #490 Not entirely sure most homosexuals wouldn't be freaked out by goatse too. I mean, as a heterosexual, I don't really want to see... well, I think you can see where I'm going with this sentence without my having to finish it. (HINT: speculum.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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