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nimble sandals in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 16:38 Profile Homepage #5 Anything to allay my fears of being pursued by uncommonly agile courgettes. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 16:01 Profile Homepage #28 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: But I'd bet that the first Superman comics had him doing lame little things like foiling bank heists. Still, LOTR was 1954. By then maybe Superman had saved the world a time or two? And what about all the pulp sci fi? Didn't some Flash Gordon (or precursor) save us from bug-eyed monsters before '54? I'd thought of this too. But in most of the old sci-fi I've read, the protagonists don't actually seem to do much (witness, say, John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes, in which the protagonists basically spend most of the book worrying). When they do something, it's generally on a small scale, even if it is as part of a larger, more generalised effort -- and in that case, rebuilding the world is a lot more common than saving it. But maybe the sci-fi I've been reading isn't pulpy enough. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 15:52 Profile Homepage #25 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: I still think Thuryl is exaggerating. Sometimes the truth is too boring to be respectable. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
nimble sandals in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 12:56 Profile Homepage #3 I keep reading this topic title as "Nimble Salads". It's unnerving. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
E3 Group in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 12:54 Profile Homepage #8 It's a Native American language, unless I'm horribly mistaken. -------------------- 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 Monday, May 2 2005 12:50 Profile Homepage #4 Does it count if I finished with a party below the appropriate level? :P (Level 30, non-Divinely-Touched, straight from the HLPM. I've also beaten it with a level-25 party, but that was Divinely Touched so less impressive). Personally, I'm not going to exclude god parties from my scenarios (they're useful for testing and reviewing purposes if nothing else) but I will include a warning message in the START_SCEN_STATE if a significantly overlevelled party is detected. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Trouble Of Times. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 12:45 Profile Homepage #11 Well, P could also stand for "past", although there'd still be no good reason to use two different words to mean the same thing. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 12:39 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by Archmagi Micael: A QUESTION: Which one of you - HONESTLY - would give up your TV or computer, so someone you've never met can eat once a week.??? If a large number of people would do so voluntarily with no incentive, we wouldn't need governments, now would we? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 03:39 Profile Homepage #10 Okay, that's not normal. Sounds like the cutscene stopped halfway through. Do you get any errors? Oooh, hang on. Are you using a God party? Because that might potentially mess you up. The HP-dropping thing drains your HP one by one (Bad TM! There are better ways to drain the party's HP to zero!) and there's a limit on the maximum length a script can run, and it sounds as if you're running into that limit. By the way, if you want to continue with your current party, let the shielded wizards beat you up until you're all down to a couple of hundred HP before triggering the cutscene. [ Monday, May 02, 2005 16:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 01:46 Profile Homepage #8 After your way was blocked, did you go back to the campsite where General Kampf is camped? (Try saying THAT three times fast.) [ Monday, May 02, 2005 01:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 2 2005 01:41 Profile Homepage #15 quote: The other fast money is jewelry (gem merchants) , gun sales, real estate and law. Of course, all of those require considerable investment: the first three in terms of capital, the last in terms of time. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 23:59 Profile Homepage #13 laughs bitterly -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 23:29 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Sprung Spring: A reason why there is far fewer from when we got here is because of back then some would of mated (God it seems like I'm talking about animals here) with the white people that arrived. In turn that child might have a child with another white, therefore getting less and less Aboriginal blood in them. That isn't really a defence, you know. Attempting to get indigenous Australians to breed themselves out of existence by dispersing them throughout society was a deliberate government policy. It might not have been so bad if it hadn't been obvious from the outset that it was doomed to cause more problems than it solved. [ Sunday, May 01, 2005 23:30: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 23:14 Profile Homepage #9 I'm not saying they were all deliberately killed off. But proportionately, there are far fewer of them than there were when we got here -- especially compared to the number of native Americans remaining in the USA. Those indigenous Australians who do remain certainly consitute a severely disadvantaged group, though; I'm sure you yourself are aware of the rather disappointing statistics on indigenous Australian life expectancy, socioeconomic status and so on. I'm not entirely sure we should do anything about it, though. If we just wait a while longer, in a few generations they'll all have died off, while if we try to improve their lives the problem will become a chronic one. (No, that's not what I really believe, but I always feel a little uneasy when I make a political post that doesn't advocate some form of genocide.) [ Sunday, May 01, 2005 23:16: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 22:39 Profile Homepage #6 I'll admit the USA's in a somewhat different situation, in that many of their disadvantaged minority groups were either living there for a few millennia or brought there in chains; in either case, they were disadvantaged through no choice of their own by Anglo-European settlement. Most of our disadvantaged minority groups, by contrast, originally immigrated here on their own (we've killed off pretty much all our indigenous people already). Oh, and if that's what it really comes down to, I'd prefer reparations. A one-off event (or at least one occurring within a predefined scale) has much less chance of becoming a political hot potato, even if it ends up leaving the nation a little more drowned in debt than it already is. [ Sunday, May 01, 2005 22:45: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Whats your fav. senario (so far) in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 22:30 Profile Homepage #20 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: Not that hard. Tomorrow (BoE) is somewhat similar in structure, but handles the issue a heck of a lot better. After all, who says that characters have to sit stuck in one place? To be fair, Tomorrow has the advantage of prequels. The only significant newly-introduced character is the Wickerman, and he's just a stereotypical horror-movie villain. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Affirmative Action in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 22:20 Profile Homepage #4 In my opinion, affirmative action is the wrong solution to the right problem. Robust social welfare and anti-discrimination systems work more fairly in the long run. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Basshikava RoS in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 19:42 Profile Homepage #5 Have one of your characters go near the altar and use the Ritual of Sanctification (with the Use Abilities option). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How about a different kind of game... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 19:25 Profile Homepage #16 There are, of course, turn-based first-person RPGs, such as the early Might and Magic games, but one would hardly call them "shooters". -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How about a different kind of game... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 19:04 Profile Homepage #13 Sir! FPS stands for "first-person shooter". Fallout does not use a first-person perspective. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
New Scenarios in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 12:59 Profile Homepage #10 Well, if the game is Galactic Core, it's more fun to mock than to play. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Whats your fav. senario (so far) in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 12:55 Profile Homepage #15 You've been around long enough to know that posts aren't deleted here. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, May 1 2005 12:48 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by PoD person: Thuryl, the further you go back into literature, the more hard-pressed you are to find ordinary people doing anything, let alone saving the world. Yeah, I'd rather noticed that too. Still, most works of fiction, even stretching back into ancient times, do have human characters who do stuff, even if they get a fair bit of outside assistance. quote: Originally written by imho: this thing of "saving the world" derives from another theme, "good against evil", which is as old as mankind The point I am making is that having the protagonist save the world is a very culturally specific way of telling that kind of story. So stop Junging up the topic already. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Demo stuffs in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 23:15 Profile Homepage #7 No, and Unlock Doors won't help you much anyway. Just put a few more skill points into Tool Use. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 21:16 Profile Homepage #18 Well, yes, and by the same token YHVH booting Lucifer out of heaven might count as saving the world, but I was going for the world being saved by small numbers of (relatively) ordinary people. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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