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Displayed name | Thuryl |
Member number | 869 |
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Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 22:23
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Well, understanding why Earth is heating up is quite important indeed if we want to know how to fix it. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Canister Poisoning in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 22:10
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quote:If you give the Shapers the Unbound specifications and then release the Unbound at the end, the Shapers actually do something very much like this to fight the Unbound. It works pretty well, unfortunately for you. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 18:58
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Germ warfare isn't a terribly attractive option for the Shapers. The rebels live in lands that the Shapers see as rightfully theirs; they'd really rather there still be people living there when they take them back. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why is Battle shaping unpopular? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 16:18
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You're willing to play through the whole game with nothing but battle creations and yet you think a Shock Trooper is practically unplayable. I don't get you, man. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why is Battle shaping unpopular? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 14:11
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Melee attacks always, always do less damage than ranged attacks. Also, battle creations don't really hit much harder in melee than other creation types do, and they don't have much more HP either. In other words, they're not much better than any other creation at a kind of combat that's inferior in the first place, and they can't do anything else. War Tralls get a ranged attack, but it's not that great considering how expensive they are. [ Thursday, March 08, 2007 14:12: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
100% cpu in Geneforge 1 in Tech Support | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 14:05
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SW games do tend to intentionally hog the CPU. Usually they work okay as long as you close all unnecessary background processes before you play them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 14:00
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quote:That ain't necessarily so. Wind and hydro power convert kinetic energy directly to electrical energy, true enough, but when it gets to the end user, that electricity is going to be converted to heat, or to other forms of energy that eventually end up as heat. Of course, you could argue that in the long run the energy of the wind and falling water would have naturally been converted to heat anyway, and you might be right. [ Thursday, March 08, 2007 14:02: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 13:54
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quote:With all due respect, you don't seem to know Wikipedians very well. There's a reason Ayn Rand's article is one of the longest on the site. quote:Actually, there's a case to be made for this. The popular image of the church as attempting to suppress all science isn't really accurate; it's done so for some viewpoints some of the time, but throughout the mediaeval era it was basically the only institution with any interest in accumulating knowledge about the natural world, even if it didn't place a high priority on it and did it primarily to have another source of rhetorical ammunition. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 13:45
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quote:What's in the interests of credit card companies is for the debtor to max out the card, barely meet the interest payments every month and therefore continually send money their way while never paying off the actual loan. EDIT: Damn you, Alec. :P [ Thursday, March 08, 2007 13:47: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 06:03
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quote:Well, fine if you don't mind living among your own waste and having an infant mortality rate above 50%, anyway. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
The best creations? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 00:21
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quote:... except that drayks and drakons also have a non-energy-draining missile attack that does (oddly enough) physical damage. (I hear that it was changed to fire in the Windows version, though.) [ Thursday, March 08, 2007 00:22: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
My Gripe about Artifacts in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 00:14
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I once made the Sunstone Belt as a singleton servile, since the bonuses to creation skills/stats of the Girdle of Succor and Shapemaster Boots weren't really of any use to me. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 8 2007 00:07
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The only good thing about Conservapedia is the absurdly huge amount of trolling that goes on there. Sometimes it's hard to tell which articles are serious and which ones aren't. [ Thursday, March 08, 2007 02:41: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Canister Poisoning in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, March 7 2007 02:29
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There was a deadly canister in Geneforge 1, too. I'd imagine the amount of essence and raw materials required to make a canister means that using them as tools of destruction generally isn't cost-effective. Better to use the same amount of essence to make a creation and go wreak some havoc with it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 7 2007 02:26
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quote:For what it's worth, I haven't found this to be the case in general. In fact, I'd say your statement itself shows something of a lack of nuanced thinking. :P (Oh, and things that are true in basic science tend to become untrue in advanced science too. Teachers simplifying to the point of out-and-out lying to their students seems pretty universal.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Creation appearances? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, March 7 2007 01:10
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... what does their colour have to do with whether they can fly? They don't have sickle cell anaemia, you know. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Confused... in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, March 6 2007 22:12
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quote:The cloak can be made into either the Impervious Cape (which isn't that great) or the Cloak of the Shadows (which is). The boots can (and should) be made into Shapemaster Boots. The gloves can (and should) be made into Gloves of Savagery. The breastplate can't be made into anything, and neither can a shaped shield. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
help to get new creations (g4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, March 6 2007 22:07
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quote:That used to be true, but it isn't in G4. You can now fill all 7 of your creation slots with different creations if you like. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, March 6 2007 21:48
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We already have the technology to use thorium for nuclear energy, and thorium supplies will last practically forever (thousands of years, at least, which is plenty of time to pave the Sahara with solar panels). The main problem is a political one: breeder reactors happen to have the right characteristics to be very good for secretly making weapons-grade nuclear material, if that's what you want to do. [ Tuesday, March 06, 2007 21:51: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
SYNERGY LIST: GF4?How To Forge Stuff And What It Does in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, March 6 2007 14:00
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Eh? It's already linked from the page that's linked in the forum header. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Really anticipated ideas for A5?? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, March 6 2007 13:26
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The part about it selling better than A3 is certainly false; Jeff has said that the Geneforge series doesn't sell nearly as well as the Avernum series. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Titan's Halls location...? [SPOILER] in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, March 5 2007 23:17
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Actually, it was a bestseller, but for all the wrong reasons. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 5 2007 23:00
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A pandemic could certainly be disastrous, but it's extremely unlikely to wipe out the entire human species. The human immune system is a remarkably adaptive thing; pandemics have wiped out over 90% of human populations in the past, but there are always survivors. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Eliza's power supply in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, March 5 2007 13:20
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In case you hadn't already noticed, you can tell which spirals are about to discharge by the little white "Ssss." text appearing above them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Not Using the Geneforge? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, March 5 2007 05:45
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Even though you've used the Geneforge, canisters will still have further effects on your mind, so you can still refrain from using them if you so choose. In fact, it's a very good idea not to use too many if you intend to work for the Shapers and you care about what ending you get. [ Monday, March 05, 2007 05:46: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |