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Displayed name	Thuryl
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Postcount	9973
Homepage	http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html
Registered	Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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1,000 in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, April 23 2003 02:17 Profile Homepage #21 Congratulations, X! Does this mean you'll be changing your name to M? -------------------- I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 105 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons. -- Sir Arthur Eddington Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Happy Easter. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 21 2003 01:41 Profile Homepage #21 The seven deadly sins are a Catholic thing, I think. Puritans tend to believe that all sins will damn you equally. -------------------- I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,105,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons. -- Sir Arthur Eddington Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Exile 2 code problems in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 19 2003 15:58 Profile Homepage #7 If you'll notice, Jeff has actually decreased the price a bit since it came out. In fact, you can buy the whole Exile trilogy on a CD for something like $40 now. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The meaning of life. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 14 2003 22:56 Profile Homepage #38 6 * 9 = 54 in base ten therefore 6 * 9 = 4 * 13 + 2 * 1 therefore 6 * 9 = 42 in base thirteen (On a slightly related note, I just figured out what the phrase "All bases are base 10" really means.) [ Monday, April 14, 2003 22:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The meaning of life. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 14 2003 14:28 Profile Homepage #30 On the other hand, it seems unlikely that a search for some "deeper meaning" to life is inherent in human nature. There are plenty of other cultures that got along and continue to get along just fine without constant soul-searching, and anyway, it's a little hard to ponder philosophy when you're busy worrying about where your next meal's going to come from. Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 13 2003 02:07 Profile Homepage #41 So why were there Nepharim in Nephil forts? Are they enslaved by the Nephilim? That Nephar chief seemed pretty rich and important for a slave. -------------------- I'd be tender, I'd be gentle And awful sentimental Regarding love and art I'd be friends with the sparrows And the boy who shoots the arrows, If I only had a heart. Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What kind of designer are you and how serious are you about designing? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, April 7 2003 14:58 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally posted by Desert Plah: Throws pen at Drakefyre WHAT THE HECK IS CM4?! Unless I am terribly mistaken, it is Championship Manager 4, a soccer management simulation. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What kind of designer are you and how serious are you about designing? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 6 2003 03:36 Profile Homepage #7 Started five scenarios, finished two, released none. Gave up on the three unfinished ones within days of starting due to loss of interest and/or finding out BoE couldn't do what I wanted it to do. The other two could technically be regarded as "finished", I suppose, but both were buggy, plotless and generally an embarrassment. I lost most of my work on one of them in a HD crash, and was not exactly motivated to redo it. I later deleted the other in a fit of sanity. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 5 2003 22:21 Profile Homepage #13 Heh heh heh. TM, do you even know anything about the depiction of Rakshasi in traditional mythology? -------------------- I'd be tender, I'd be gentle And awful sentimental Regarding love and art I'd be friends with the sparrows And the boy who shoots the arrows, If I only had a heart. Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 5 2003 15:26 Profile Homepage #5 Or for food. We know they eat people, after all. -------------------- I'd be tender, I'd be gentle And awful sentimental Regarding love and art I'd be friends with the sparrows And the boy who shoots the arrows, If I only had a heart. Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Louvre Q&A in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, March 29 2003 18:13 Profile Homepage #44 PNGs can actually be much more efficient than GIFs and JPGs; less so for smaller, more detailed graphics such as those in Avernum, though. Also, they can't display properly in everyone's browser. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some ideas Jeff will never look at.... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 27 2003 02:45 Profile Homepage #30 From what Djur's told us so far, it's going pretty well. Check the forum or come to a Pygchat (#pygmalion at dream.esper.net, 12:00 PM and 8:00 PM Sundays) if you want to find out more. [ Thursday, March 27, 2003 02:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some ideas Jeff will never look at.... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, March 26 2003 01:51 Profile Homepage #18 SDFs wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't keep forgetting which number went up to 10 and which went up to 300. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
POLL: how did you like my scenario? in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, March 24 2003 22:08 Profile Homepage #15 I rather suspect him of being TM, personally. Of course, if anyone knows for sure, Drakey does. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Is it possible? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, March 24 2003 13:44 Profile Homepage #23 It started out as Medium-level, you mean... Even then, it's pushing it. Remember that bit rather near the start where one fought 20 haakai? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some ideas Jeff will never look at.... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 20 2003 22:52 Profile Homepage #5 You don't. ... Well, you could have the monster drop an item with a special class and check for the location of the item on monster death, I suppose, but that would be a scandalous waste of nodes - the number of spaces you could check would be severely limited. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
POLL: how did you like my scenario? in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 13 2003 23:01 Profile Homepage #2 Indeed. Your writing recalls the works of such literary greats as William McGonagall. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Sequel Support in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, March 6 2003 22:11 Profile Homepage #6 This works just fine as long as the original scenario didn't have multiple significantly different endings. Anyway, it seems unlikely that Jeff will explicitly code in the ability to check what scenarios a player has been in - we may not even get a text-response node. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Concerning Custom Graphics and Macs... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 20 2003 13:39 Profile Homepage #40 Well, that's what Jeff did with BoE (a separate folder for scenarios). There's no reason he wouldn't do it for BoA as well. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some Other Things About BoA in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 19 2003 13:57 Profile Homepage #34 You can't choose where to drop items because Jeff doesn't think it would be worth the extra click needed to determine where the item is dropped. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Concerning Custom Graphics and Macs... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, January 10 2003 16:19 Profile Homepage #22 Well, .txt does get munged a little from PC to Mac. A PC text file needs a linefeed character followed by a carriage-return character to signify a new line; a Mac just needs the carriage-return. As a result, these linefeeds appear as a little box-shaped character on the start of every line. Harmless, but annoying. (Fortunately, some text editors can automatically strip linefeeds.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
"Hack attempt logged" in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 20 2002 15:16 Profile Homepage #3 Actually, there are still ways to get into Misc. Getting in by typing the address into the location bar, however, will register as a hack attempt. This, I believe, is a general security feature and does not relate specifically to Misc. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Who? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 15 2002 14:26 Profile Homepage #6 It's also entirely possible that a shear genius is actually a master, not of scissors, but of sideways distortion. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Stand-alone? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 15 2002 14:18 Profile Homepage #4 One other problem with standalones is download size. I have a relatively slow connection, and one of the attractions of BoE for me has been that even the largest scenarios are no more than 1 MB or so zipped. Now, the BoE program file alone is 1.2 MB (on the Mac version); add in all the graphics, sounds and what-have-you and you've easily got 4 MB of runtime and resources to be downloaded along with the game itself (admittedly, that'll compress down a bit when zipped, but it'll still make downloads of even small scenarios unpleasantly large). And BoA will probably have more space-consuming resources than BoE did. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Special spells in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 14 2002 12:53 Profile Homepage #13 He could, but why would he bother? In BoE scenarios, when an item is given a custom graphic, it's often because the designer doesn't want it to carry over into other scenarios. If you want the party to keep an item outside a scenario, just don't give it a custom graphic. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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