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| Displayed name | Thuryl |
| Member number | 869 |
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| Postcount | 9973 |
| Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
| Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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| Perfect Forest in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, October 16 2004 23:09
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Are you trying to deflect the beams from the two projectors just to the north of the machine? You can't do that. You have to use the beam from the projector some distance to the south of the machine, near where you found one of the mirrors. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Nethergate gets no love! in Nethergate | |
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written Saturday, October 16 2004 13:55
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Actually, if you try to gamble with the goblins using Sylak's Dice, they just attack you. The dice are good for winning 100 gold off the gambling soldiers in Hollow Hills, though. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Stem Cell Research in General | |
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written Saturday, October 16 2004 13:42
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The OED says "fetus" is historically the correct spelling and the O was added in the 16th century, probably by doctors with little knowledge of Latin who were trying to sound educated. [ Saturday, October 16, 2004 13:44: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| After all these years, WTF in General | |
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written Saturday, October 16 2004 00:39
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t djur don't try to type "desperance" with your eyes closed FBM, this version of UBB supports remotely linked avatars too. The problem with them was never bandwidth, it was loading time for users. Not that I saw anyone complain about that on the boards. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Morog's Scepter in Za-Khazi Run in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, October 15 2004 18:28
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I think the only disadvantage it has is that you can't unequip it. Unless you make the mistake of equipping it on a fighter, that's not really a problem. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Interesting idea and an also interesting post in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, October 15 2004 13:57
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To elaborate, the dialogue has to be completely rewritten, terrain has to be edited (especially in towns), all monsters and items have to be replaced, and several nodes have to be manually rewritten as scripts. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| How do we perceive fringe groups? in General | |
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written Friday, October 15 2004 13:54
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If Judaism has anything to do with ethnicity, then at most it's several different ethnicities. There are Russian Jews, Ashkenazi Jews and Ethiopian Jews, to name just a few groups, and they don't resemble each other in any particular way. Part of the reason defining Judaism is complicated is that it's a religion that (at least in its orthodox form) considers itself an ethnicity; if your mother is Jewish, then you by definition are Jewish also, regardless of your beliefs or actions. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, October 15 2004 13:45
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You know, the flood control? Where you can't make 2 posts within 1 minute of each other? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| YOU ALL HAD YOUR CHANCE TO LAUGH AT MY CRAZY COMEDY AND YOU BLEW IT in General | |
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written Friday, October 15 2004 13:41
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It's also that he's apparently taken down the outdated developer's log at pygmalion.desperance.net and turned it into a redirect to the Pyg forums. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Different enough to buy? in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:52
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Tedious bludgeoning. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Checking terrain outdoors in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:40
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You won't be using every floor type outdoors, will you? And you can always tag something onto the script for things like lava and swamps to damage/poison the party as well. You can even have Pathfinder reduce the chance of harm occurring, just like BoA does. [ Thursday, October 14, 2004 22:41: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Checking terrain outdoors in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:40
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You won't be using every floor type outdoors, will you? And you can always tag something onto the script for things like lava and swamps to damage/poison the party as well. You can even have Pathfinder reduce the chance of harm occurring, just like BoA does. [ Thursday, October 14, 2004 22:41: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Random Questions in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:36
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The best you can do is give out passwords in the previous scenario that can be entered in the next scenario, or just flat-out ask the party in dialogue or something what they did and didn't do in the previous scenario. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Random Questions in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:36
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The best you can do is give out passwords in the previous scenario that can be entered in the next scenario, or just flat-out ask the party in dialogue or something what they did and didn't do in the previous scenario. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Perfect Forest in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 22:28
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When you do need them, though, they're in the west and the southwest; both are more or less due south of the machine that's keeping the Perfect Spirit trapped. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Checking terrain outdoors in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 12:39
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quote:Why the method is "too ugly for what you're trying to create". You can have a different SDF value for every floor type if you need it. If you need even more specific control than that (what part of what floor), then it might be better to talk about what "feel" you want your spell to have (e.g. what sort of effects you want it to have ingame) rather than exactly how you envision it working from a technical perspective. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Checking terrain outdoors in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 12:39
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quote:Why the method is "too ugly for what you're trying to create". You can have a different SDF value for every floor type if you need it. If you need even more specific control than that (what part of what floor), then it might be better to talk about what "feel" you want your spell to have (e.g. what sort of effects you want it to have ingame) rather than exactly how you envision it working from a technical perspective. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A2 Resolution in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 04:36
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Resolution. Resolves. Your cue to groan. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 04:34
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Boardhost has them too -- Zaloopa's boards moved to that for a while. The trouble is that the ITW-style threaded layout is annoying and inefficient for reading whole threads. Saying post titles on a layout like that are "useful" is like saying a wick is a useful thing to have on candles but not on lightbulbs. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 03:30
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phpBB is apparently pretty bloated. Also, its admin options really, really suck, especially in regard to fine-tuning member privileges. I don't know if the latest version fixes these issues. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Moving carts in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 00:31
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If you're not getting any errors, are you sure the script is being called at all? I find that adding print_str calls in various places is an excellent debugging tool, since it tells you which parts of the script BoA is actually running and when. [ Thursday, October 14, 2004 00:32: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Moving carts in Blades of Avernum | |
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If you're not getting any errors, are you sure the script is being called at all? I find that adding print_str calls in various places is an excellent debugging tool, since it tells you which parts of the script BoA is actually running and when. [ Thursday, October 14, 2004 00:32: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 00:25
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The one thing I don't like about UBB is that it's not very good at keeping track of which topics a user has viewed. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Stem Cell Research in General | |
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written Thursday, October 14 2004 00:24
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Well, it isn't really something clear-cut that can be proven or disproven. As you said in your original post, "more effective" is an ambiguous term with many meanings. Embryonic stem cell treatments have already been used in one trial to treat Parkinson's disease, and while there was some evidence of a benefit early on, there were serious side effects later in the trial. I'm not sure how much use adult stem cells have seen in therapy so far; both embryonic and adult stem cell research are still in the very early stages at the moment. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 13 2004 19:40
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Moving to another board would either cost money, result in security holes or both. Jeff isn't willing to spend a cent more on the forums than he already does, and there have been hack attempts on the boards before, so neither is an option. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |