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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 01:47 Profile Homepage #35
I pronounced the U in Stughalf as a short oo, as in "book". Then again, I pronounce things strangely.

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Bahssikava released! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 15:07 Profile Homepage #37
There's a small room full of corpses on the east side of (I think) Mt Galthrax L2, where you'll be prompted to use the egg if you try to enter while you have the egg.
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Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 14:00 Profile Homepage #21
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Originally written by DreamGuy:

Simple rule: You can't just take other people's things, and you can't just assume they don;t have a problem with it if you do, even if you give them credit. Theft is theft, and claiming that nobody cares is nothing but a lie you tell yourself to try to rationalize something that's clearly wrong.

And now since TM has admitted that his scenarios violate these laws, his stuff needs to be pulled.
Our sense of right and wrong derives mostly from fear of punishment, whether ingrained by early conditioning or justified by actual enforcement of the rules. Since nobody here (including, apparently, the maintainers of the SW scenario tables) actually cares enough about whether TM has infringed against certain laws to pull his scenarios, your pontificating doesn't do much for us.

When God Almighty and His angels descend from on high to smite TM for his sins, maybe you'll have good cause to say "I told you so". Until then, keep your crusading to where it's appreciated.
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Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 13:18 Profile Homepage #16
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Originally written by Lynkfox:

Googling images to take them apart and use them as a combination of other images... is perfectly legal. 50% rule. If over 50% of the image i changed then its no longer the same image.
I'm fairly sure that no such rule is recognised by law. As long as any of your work is based on another person's, your new work is legally a derivative work and requires the copyright holder's permission. The fact that it's unlikely you'll get caught, and even more unlikely the person you're caught by will take any action against you, is another issue entirely.
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Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 01:44 Profile Homepage #10
Oh, DreamGuy, be serious. Nobody cares about ethics except in matters that directly affect someone they care about. Even the BoAC issue was decided as much by forum politics as by legal rightness -- it was only the hard line Overwhelming took, and his consequent loss of community support, that encouraged us to take advantage of our legal position.

Legally, we all slip sometimes. We all break the speed limit occasionally if we drive, 90% of us have used pirated software at some point, and a majority of us have used or will use illicit substances at some point in our lives. Ethically, we're even further from perfection, at least under most people's ethical systems.
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is there any body know auto translation tool in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 01:10 Profile Homepage #4
Another difference is that words that in American English end in -ize (such as "organize"), usually end in -ise in Commonwealth English (and therefore probably in Canadian English as well).
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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 01:04 Profile Homepage #29
Cav, funny you should mention that -- I don't know if you heard about the guy who claimed a few months ago that he'd shot the dingo that killed Azaria, but was too scared to go to police at the time because he'd been shooting dingoes in a national park. His story turned out to be full of holes, though, and I think he ended up being charged with filing a false police report.

(I know we're straying off topic, but the only way for me to stay on topic would be to crassly brag about being the forum celebrity again and turn this topic into an instrument for personal gain, and I don't think there are any young ladies from the Melbourne or Geelong area on these forums for me to impress anyway.)
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I Am The Lac Insect in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Tuesday, February 22 2005 16:29 Profile Homepage #0
... okay, not really. But I am lacking.

Due to an HD crash, my internet access has been severely curtailed for an indefinite period of time. I'm posting here because just about everyone who needs to know why I've disappeared reads this forum, and it's a real pain to visit multiple forums on my substitute computer. For those who don't know me or don't care, apologies for the inconvenience. Carry on.

[ Tuesday, February 22, 2005 16:31: Message edited by: Thuryl ]
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my website in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 20:34 Profile Homepage #34
There seems to be a mentality in some circles that if it's on the Internet, it's free. I doubt the misappropriation in this case was malicious.

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Let's Play A Game! in General
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 19:47 Profile Homepage #16
No limit on number of guesses, but since you lose a point for every wrong guess, you'd better have at least a 20% chance of being right.

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Really Really Weird Downloading Bug in Tech Support
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 16:15 Profile Homepage #1
Someone else recently experienced the same bug; apparently for him it went all the way up to 300 MB!

I suggest you email Jeff and see what's going on.

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The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure!
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First Aid skill: anything good about it? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:14 Profile Homepage #11
Uh, TM? Use code tags. :P

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Root of all evil in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:11 Profile Homepage #334
You're a nut.

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Getting my butt kicked, advice needed in Blades of Exile
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:03 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by Imban:

go into a fight without saving beforehand
Why would you ever want to do a thing like that?

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some custom gfx questions in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:00 Profile Homepage #7
Yeah, I was probably thinking of terrains. Whoops. Sorry.

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Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
some custom gfx questions in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:00 Profile Homepage #7
Yeah, I was probably thinking of terrains. Whoops. Sorry.

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Online Ordering in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 14:42 Profile Homepage #1
Shouldn't be. Are you sure you correctly entered the entire number, along with any other information requested?

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some custom gfx questions in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 03:40 Profile Homepage #1
Yep, no more monster graphics taking up more than 1 tile. Sorry. (It's possible to have graphics that are up to 3 tiles high, though.)

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some custom gfx questions in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 03:40 Profile Homepage #1
Yep, no more monster graphics taking up more than 1 tile. Sorry. (It's possible to have graphics that are up to 3 tiles high, though.)

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Favorite Plauge? in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 23:46 Profile Homepage #16
Troglodytes being fish-like or lizard-like probably came from D&D, possibly through Tolkien (Gollum, after all, was both troglodytic and ichthyous).

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A Question of Realmz?? in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 21:40 Profile Homepage #3
Fantasoft originally distributed Spiderweb's games when Jeff was just starting out, and I believe they also accepted the registrations for SW games.

[ Saturday, February 19, 2005 21:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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First Aid skill: anything good about it? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 18:43 Profile Homepage #5
The only way to make First Aid more useful would be by specifically building features of the scenario around it. A powerful weapon with damage that depends on First Aid skill, for example. (Beware -- remember that Strength and Blademaster will also affect its damage, so don't make it *too* powerful.)

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Favorite Movie. in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 17:11 Profile Homepage #91
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

So, like, a genetic defect? He was a mutant?
Hey, good point! If t_g is the same way, we don't have to count him as human. Our species is spared from a great blot upon its reputation.

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Favorite Movie. in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 17:09 Profile Homepage #86
Your behaviour reminds me increasingly of someone I used to know. He had a chromosomal abnormality. What's your excuse?

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Favorite Movie. in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, February 19 2005 17:03 Profile Homepage #79
Wow, so you're an idiot and a kleptomaniac? So many remarkable qualities in one person.

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