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

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Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, April 14 2005 00:01 Profile Homepage #108 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: Dressing to look sexy does send a message out. It tells people "I don't mind that I'm encouraging every other guy to have dirty thoughts about me". Whether you want them to think those things or simply don't care, it does show that you aren't adverse to being thought of as a sex object. And why should anyone care what others think about them? As long as people don't act on their thoughts, they can't harm anyone. And if they do act on those thoughts in a way that causes harm or discomfort, that's their own decision and their own responsibility. There's a good reason why provocation is no longer a valid legal defence in most places. Mind you, this is coming from someone who hardly even notices what other people are wearing anyway. I'd walk around naked fairly often if it were legal, purely for reasons of comfort. (Well, okay, I'd probably be wearing something most of the time, just so I'd have pockets to keep things in.) [ Thursday, April 14, 2005 00:02: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 23:57 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by VCH: Can you not make monsters resistant to missile weapon damage? Not without making them resistant to melee weapon damage as well. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Two years to the day. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 23:27 Profile Homepage #112 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: In practice, speciation does not occur. :P That is, I don't think we've ever actually seen it occur anywhere. So we're talking pure theory here. True, we haven't actually seen it occur within recorded history, but we can see likely transitional forms, such as ring species (groups of subspecies throughout a geographical area, which are cross-fertile with species living nearby but sterile with species living farther away). As for the mechanism, the consensus is that different mechanisms apply in different cases. A few probable candidates have been identified: changes in responsiveness to pheromones, changes in mating rituals, physical changes to the genital organs (particularly relevant in insects, which often have oddly-shaped genitals), genetic or chromosomal changes that lead to non-viability of hybrids, etc. [ Wednesday, April 13, 2005 23:31: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Nooooo! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 23:14 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Frozen feet: I can't believe it! I just can't believe it! Mozilla Firefox has just that none of the other forums I'm member to can be found. So I'm stuck here. It's driving me insane! (Well, MORE insane anyway." I doubt your browser is the trouble. Sounds more like DNS problems at your ISP's end. Nothing to do but wait for it to clear up and maybe write an angry letter. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Favorite Author in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 23:06 Profile Homepage #36 Actually, I know several people who read scripts from TV shows that aren't on TV where they live. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 04:02 Profile Homepage #71 Mocking you would be entirely superfluous at this point. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Favorite Author in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 03:59 Profile Homepage #10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Alexie -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 03:53 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Le Martyre de la Terreur: Technically, the next best thrown weapon is a Rough Diamond (1-8 + 1-8/level). :P Apples to oranges. I was comparing it to the next best weapon that didn't require any ammunition. (Actually, that might be Morog's Sceptre, depending on your stats. Oh well.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 01:40 Profile Homepage #3 quote: Originally written by Rebel without a Cause: I use Adlerauge in Bahssikava. I don't see how it is cheating; it's powerful but not a McGuffin... or am I not using it correctly? Then again, I'm also using Dämonzerstörer, which does make things a little too easy. 1-9 damage per level, no ammunition required. Compare that to slings, which do 1-4 per level. When a weapon does more than twice the damage of the next best weapon of its type, something's not right. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 19:28 Profile Homepage #69 TM, I think at this point we would all be better served if you were to just go off and do unspeakable things whilst reading the SCUM Manifesto. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
I want to play but the there is no time in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 19:06 Profile Homepage #3 If you already know exactly what you have to do in order to finish, it's apparently possible to win Avernum 3 in under 20 days, but that's not really normal. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
rom in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 18:56 Profile Homepage #10 That's a different kind of .bin. It's a poor choice of file extension, really. :P But I don't know why Expander shouldn't be working. Is it giving an error message? EDIT: Hmm. Seems as if Expander for Windows can't decompress MacBinary. This actually isn't entirely surprising, considering that MacBinary is usually used to store Mac files, which have resource forks, which Windows can't handle anyway. Try downloading Stuffit Expander for Mac and using it within your Mac emulator to decompress the file. [ Tuesday, April 12, 2005 19:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Where can I find the new version? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 18:31 Profile Homepage #1 Redownloading doesn't require a new registration code; the registration information is stored separately from the application. Anyway, you can get upgrades to the latest versions for both Mac and Windows below: http://www.avernum.com/blades/techsupp.html -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 18:23 Profile Homepage #1 How would you even go about doing that? There's no way to check for items that were brought in from other scenarios. Frankly, my advice is to target your scenario toward a party going in below level 30. Combat is best-balanced below that level anyway, and that way if the player goes into it with a post-Canopy party, they're cheating with or without the use of Adlerauge. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Two years to the day. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 18:20 Profile Homepage #110 In practice there's seldom a well-defined point at which speciation occurs; different populations just get increasingly incompatible over time. Dogs are all considered members of the same species even though it's physically impossible for some breeds to mate with some other breeds except by artificial insemination. quote: Humanity is such a versatile species that at the moment we are under no real selective pressures. I highly doubt that the situation on Earth will ever turn so dire as to exert substantial selective pressures on human populations. Not true. As long as people with some alleles are reproducing better than people with others, selection's going on. Selective pressures may have changed a lot, but that doesn't mean everything is selectively neutral. [ Tuesday, April 12, 2005 18:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Goal or Rushed Behind? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 18:18 Profile Homepage #5 Nope, we're talking about Australian Rules Football, which is something different again. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Nine Variations Port Released! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 13:02 Profile Homepage #14 quote: EDIT: For the record, this weekend I'm going to add in a new variation, so that Nine Vars actually has, you know, nine variations. :P Well, Town 0 was technically the ninth, although it doesn't really have anything to do with the others. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
rom in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 12:46 Profile Homepage #7 To decompress .bin (MacBinary) files, use Stuffit Expander: http://www.stuffit.com/ -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Two years to the day. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 03:13 Profile Homepage #97 Of course, your argument assumes that intelligent life arising isn't a very rare event in the first place. If humanity is a unique or nearly unique example in the universe's history of intelligent life arising (as it may well be), then we can't really make any predictions about our future from the absence of other detectable civilisations. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What Movies Are You Looking Forward To? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, April 12 2005 01:40 Profile Homepage #28 No, you didn't, and I'd rather you hadn't. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
science, philosophy or religion? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 11 2005 21:39 Profile Homepage #23 Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but isn't it somewhat inconsiderate to single out the Vodou religion for mockery? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
SOS kelandon BAHSSIKAVA emergency! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 11 2005 21:35 Profile Homepage #19 Unfortunately, in BoA scenarios it isn't even obvious there is a readme or walkthrough, because they're usually buried inside the scenario folder along with all the scripts. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
rom in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 11 2005 16:11 Profile Homepage #5 giggles Sorry, but Mini vMac emulates a Mac Plus, which is a Mac that was made over a decade ago. Geneforge won't run on it. I'd tell you how to decompress the file anyway, but there wouldn't be much point. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Make your shaper/agent/guardian glow in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 11 2005 16:03 Profile Homepage #12 quote: I don't think it would work for Windows, because the 2 systems work differently. Actually, it should. The GF scripts work the same way on both, and this is just a script change. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Geneforge 3 for Windows is out (sort of...) in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 11 2005 16:00 Profile Homepage #4 Google is your friend: http://www.students.uni-mainz.de/bauec002/SheepShaver.html The above is for BeOS and Linux only, though. The Windows port can be found below: http://gwenole.beauchesne.free.fr/sheepshaver/index.html -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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