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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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| Lucien 'Thuryl' McMahon Is Naked in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 30 2004 22:12
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Victoria, actually. I'm in Geelong until the end of the month, when I move back to Melbourne for uni. Have failed two driving tests today, each by 1 mark out of 28. Am determined to turn this topic into my personal blog. :P Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| "Wut do u look like 2" in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 30 2004 22:02
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You forgot Detta. I'm also pretty sure URP is female, unless Aran's right and it's really Scorp after all. I do get hit on by gay men more often than by women, though. -_- Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Lucien 'Thuryl' McMahon Is Naked in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 30 2004 16:05
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Sorry, Rosy. I knew you'd be at least 13 by now, and thought it would be better to risk overestimating your age than underestimating it. :P Speaking of which, I'm 18 today, and this may well be my best birthday ever. I don't believe I've ever gotten a fan club as a present before. :P Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 30 2004 00:17
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I must say that I find all of this sudden attention flattering, if not a little bewildering. spy.there: Alec is full of lies. I haven't been officially taken for over a year, and have been available for at least the past few months. Rosy: If it weren't for the fact that you are about 14 years old and live very nearly as far away from me as humanly possible, your sentiments might be less utterly futile. They are appreciated anyway. Milla: I notice that you live in Australia. Watch out. :P unidentified random person: Uh, thanks for the nice words. It's not every day someone apparently joins a forum just to pay me compliments. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| small rebellion.... in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, June 29 2004 02:11
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You have to talk to Eric the blacksmith first. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 29 2004 02:03
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Well, I rarely look quite as good in real life as I do in that photo; several factors were working in my favour when that picture was taken. Even so, I'm suddenly rather disappointed that I live on the opposite side of the world from most of you.  Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, June 28 2004 17:06
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My picture's on Desp somewhere also. My current browser and internet connection are too slow and unreliable for me to bother finding it right now. I'd be grateful if someone else could do it, though. And we all know how I show my gratitude. ^_^ Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General | |
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written Monday, June 28 2004 16:42
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Kelandon's right about sex change operations: they're pretty good nowadays about constructing a convincing anatomy and even retaining sexual function, but it still isn't possible to change a person's biological sex. Kelandon's comment does raise an interesting side point, though: what about intersex people? Who are they supposed to be having sex with? About 1 in every 1000 people is born with some degree of ambiguous genitalia. A story made the news in Australia a couple of years ago, for example, about a happily married man who went to a fertility clinic and was told that he was unable to conceive children because genetically, he was 100 per cent female, despite the fact that his external genitalia were 100 per cent male. What position is this person in? From a religious perspective, is he male or female? Is his marriage valid? Should he be having sex with men, women, or nobody at all? Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, June 28 2004 04:46
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quote:This just isn't true. Opinion polls in the USA before the war began consistently showed more people opposed to the war than in favour of it. And even GWB never claimed Iraq had functional nuclear weapons. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Quarantine in General | |
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written Monday, June 28 2004 04:42
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None of you need apologise for a lack of knowledge on the subject. My own sparse knowledge of economics and history hasn't stopped me from chiming in when I had something to say on more conventional political topics. And really, how much does any of us here know about that sort of thing anyway? At best, we can't hope to know better than professional historians and economists, and they all seem to disagree with each other. Anyway, using restrictive quarantine policies to prevent epidemics is a nice idea in theory, but there have to be limits or we'd have to lock up everyone who comes down with the flu. Then again, even influenza epidemics can kill millions. In some ways, the problem isn't so much with the unfortunate individuals who happen to transmit infections as it is with the way our social interactions are organised, but who would be willing to change that and how would we go about doing it anyway? If I may make a general point, it seems to me that only a naive idealist could genuinely think we should never trade freedom for security. The real question, and a far more difficult and complex one than those found in the rhetoric of ideologues on all sides, is what exchange rate is acceptable. Politicians make decisions like this every day; it's no wonder that all but the very worst ones seem indecisive. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, June 28 2004 00:13
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Well, bits of the OT, especially Job, sort of hint at a worldview in which God and Satan are seen as being in league with each other, in a sense. Mainstream Christian theology does generally recognise Satan as being ultimately subservient to God's will. Now when you start asking why God would want/allow sinners to be tortured, things really get complicated. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 23:55
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The WTO's argument is basically that the risk of diseases being passed on to Australian crops is negligible and that Australia is using quarantine as an excuse to close its markets to imports. The Australian fishing industry is facing similar problems over salmon imports. Quite frankly, as far as the spread of disease is concerned, I don't buy arguments about the risks being negligible. It only takes one careless or unscrupulous gardener somewhere in Australia to mix a blighted apple in with their compost and the whole nation could be at risk. EDIT: Regarding SARS, I believe the compromise reached in Australia was to ban anyone with SARS-like symptoms from using international airports. Of course, SARS hardly ended up touching us, so it didn't really protect anyone and inconvenienced a lot of people who just had colds. But it's better to be safe than sorry, right? [ Sunday, June 27, 2004 23:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 21:11
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You raise some good points, BSC. But most potential disease hazards have little to do with genetic experiments or dubious farming practices, and much more to do with simple traffic between countries. For example, the World Trade Organisation is currently trying to force Australia to accept imports of apples and pears which may carry exotic diseases such as fire blight. An outbreak of fire blight could cause billions of dollars' worth of damage to the Australian farming industry; if this were to happen, the company that imported the infected fruit might well be completely unable to absorb the cost to Australian farmers. And that's assuming the fruit could even be traced back to the importer at all. There's probably not much we could have done in advance to stop mad cow disease, since nobody knew of the danger and it's not transmitted from person to person, but there are plenty of other diseases where major dilemmas in management arise. For example, China and Vietnam locked up people with suspected cases of SARS. Their actions probably helped contain the epidemic and saved lives, but is it justifiable to knowingly confine innocent people for any reason? Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 20:06
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Sir David, have you ever discussed religion with a Catholic priest? For quite a while now I've thought that your views sound a lot like those of most of the Catholics I know. The Catholic Church, of course, has written a lot about theology; picking up a catechism some time may help you to refine your own views. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 19:50
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Since the political and religious discussion topics currently on the boards are doomed to split the community along political lines and have been done to death anyway, I thought I might try something a little more thought-provoking and less polarising. What's your opinion on quarantine laws? For example, is the risk of introducing exotic diseases a sufficient reason to keep foreign farm produce out of a country, or does this amount to unjustifiable protectionism? What degree of risk and how much potential damage is acceptable? Who should be responsible for drafting quarantine regulations: the state, or industry organisations? Who should be responsible if regulation fails and a disease or exotic species gets in and causes havoc anyway? If private citizens and corporations are to be held responsible for any harm caused by products they import, what happens when the introduction of a disease or species causes far more harm than the parties responsible can compensate for? And to what extent, if any, should the movements and activities of people with infectious diseases, or those who have recently contacted people with infectious diseases, be restricted? [ Sunday, June 27, 2004 20:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 27 2004 01:32
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You might want to take note of RC's responses to Alec's other topics before you WTF him.  Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:45
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Note: a portal that takes them to a TOWN far away. Basically, it's used so the party ends up in the correct place when they step *out* of town. Remember, although an outdoor location can be associated with a town, the town isn't specifically associated with that outdoor location (if that makes sense). To put it another way, BoA doesn't intrinsically know where a town is supposed to be located, and you have to tell it. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:45
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Note: a portal that takes them to a TOWN far away. Basically, it's used so the party ends up in the correct place when they step *out* of town. Remember, although an outdoor location can be associated with a town, the town isn't specifically associated with that outdoor location (if that makes sense). To put it another way, BoA doesn't intrinsically know where a town is supposed to be located, and you have to tell it. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A thought about the line number "bug". in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:37
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The "*2 -1" bug (as in the example discussed in this thread) makes it sound a lot like BoA is counting a carriage return immediately followed by a line feed (the standard format on Windows) as two line breaks when it should count as one. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A thought about the line number "bug". in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:37
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The "*2 -1" bug (as in the example discussed in this thread) makes it sound a lot like BoA is counting a carriage return immediately followed by a line feed (the standard format on Windows) as two line breaks when it should count as one. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| DwtD, question about rebels. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:20
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Probably the best ending you can get is if you kill Vahkohs, get Maynard's reward and just leave. I preferred killing them both, though, even if it does end in you fleeing town in shame. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Ordering BoA in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:16
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If you order by phone or email and ask for an emailed registration key only, SW will probably be quite happy to accommodate and waive the S&H fee. (This is an international order we're talking about, right? As far as I remember, SW doesn't quote S&H for domestic orders.) Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| ZKR: How long from Crytp to finish? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:05
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That chest contains the dragon history scroll, if you didn't get it already. The best strategy is to take the shroom charm as a reward from Morog, and then steal the scroll. As for the time, you have until the start of day 15. From where you are now, you may have *just* enough time to win. Back up your save file now. You can still finish the scenario if you lose, but you'll miss out on a fairly nice reward. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, June 26 2004 02:00
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I believe the correct prefix would be "fructo", which is suitably evocative. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| War, war, war! in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Friday, June 25 2004 04:27
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quote:As Alec once pointed out, if the number of times the average player reloads is anything to go by, Exile is littered with the bodies of would-be heroes. :P Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |