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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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Breeding Pits in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 01:21
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You also can't get into the big audience chamber in the middle and explore; you only go there as part of scripted cutscenes. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why You Suck in General | |
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 00:55
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quote:whut -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General | |
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 00:15
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quote:One could credibly argue that it's wrong to help someone who one knows doesn't want to be helped, no matter how good one's intentions. There's a reason we give patients a right to refuse medical treatment, and no longer lock up the mentally ill unless they pose an immediate danger to somebody's life. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Not Enough Skill Points in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 19:35
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It actually isn't all that hard to open most locked doors and cabinets with Unlock Doors; the difficulty-40 doors can be opened with 15 or so Tool Use and 10 or so Magery and Spellcraft (which is very achievable by the endgame, which is where you find said doors), and anything above 40 is usually so far above 40 that it's unopenable without cheating, and there's nothing behind any of them anyway. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Corrupt graphics A4 Mac 1.1 in Tech Support | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 19:33
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quote:It makes plenty of sense; the Intel Mac version of BoA will choke to death on some graphics that work OK on the regular version. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Breeding Pits in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 18:06
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There's a very well-hidden lever on the north wall of that building. Swing your mouse cursor around a little and eventually you'll find it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Need help: where is Matala's Workshop in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 18:04
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quote:Wingbolts and gazers work better, IMHO; Matala is relatively vulnerable to magical damage. (Of course, they're also more vulnerable to fire than drayks and drakons, but that's what healing is for.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 17:58
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quote:Even if we assume the existence of a creator deity, there's no reason to believe that said deity is benevolent. After all, the only people claiming that God is benevolent are God's own PR team. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 17:50
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quote:This has always struck me as a fairly silly thing to say. How can one choose what one believes? Either one is convinced by the evidence for a particular position or one is not. quote:The problem with this analysis is that it requires a moral philosophy under which one can have a moral obligation to do the impossible. quote:During WWII, at least a third of the German population was made up of "average Nazis", and possibly much more depending on when and how you counted. Is punishing them all a constructive thing to do? quote:The myths of various different cultures don't really have all that much in common besides the fact that they involve belief in entities and events with no personal way of confirming their existence. Given how many things one has to take other people's word for even in modern society, it isn't all that surprising that such beliefs were and still are held. (Where myths do have aspects in common across cultures, it's usually either because they relate to a relatively common event (such as a flood, or a conflict over leadership) or because the two cultures had contact with each other at some point in the past.) [ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 17:53: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why You Suck in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 17:16
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quote:The way I see it, 100 times the amount of communication just means 100 times the capacity for illusion and deception. When communicating online, people at least have more control over what image they're putting out, so if they lie they do so consciously. *shrug* (I should add that I don't believe it's possible for one person to ever really know another person, and so I don't think that's a realistic goal for any kind of relationship to achieve. All personal relationships are built on self-deception and constructing images of people as you wish they were; believing that this isn't so, or that it's even possible for this to not be so, is just a second level of self-deception that helps prop up the first level.) [ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 17:22: 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 Wednesday, February 21 2007 17:07
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quote:Projec][ion comes pretty close, but I have my suspicions about him too. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 17:04
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If it makes you feel any better, I ignore most of the stupid ouroborotic topics and still manage to consistently rank highly in the posting standings, although whatever goodwill the community may once have borne toward me has doubtless evaporated by now as a result. [ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 17:59: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
The Shocking Truth in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 16:59
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quote:"Desperance will cure cancer" is corrected to "cause", though. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Soda in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 16:56
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quote:Ironically, "soda" is derived from an Arabic word for "headache", originally referring to the use of mineral salts from hot springs as a headache remedy. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Corrupt graphics A4 Mac 1.1 in Tech Support | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 16:52
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You're not the first person to report this. Probably a good idea to email Jeff. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
It's a Wonderful Life in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 14:18
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quote:A lot of it is HIV/AIDS. South Africa has severe economic inequality, a major AIDS problem, and an astonishingly high crime rate. Botswana has the second-highest HIV infection rate in the world. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Why You Suck in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 14:10
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quote:In what sense is real communication between real people not a real relationship? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Trakovite ending? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 12:02
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quote:Note that there's a right way and a wrong way to sabotage the machinery. The right way is to turn the power up, not down. quote:It's possible to get the Trakovite ending if you side with the Shapers (unless you give them the Unbound specifications, which cuts off non-Shaper victory endings), but the ending is considerably worse for you. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Jeff, please respond - Magic and Avernum 5 in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 11:58
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Probably not, considering how often he reads these forums. Try email instead. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Not Enough Skill Points in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 11:56
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The specific cabinet you're talking about with 90 tool use required is just a teaser, by the way. You're not meant to be able to open it, and there's nothing in it anyway. [ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:57: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Soda in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 11:50
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quote:Might want to check where that bottled water comes from. Usually it's bore water, sometimes containing industrial effluent. And yes, they're allowed to call bore water "spring water". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 11:43
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I don't, but I don't even remember what my avatar was when we had avatars here. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
The Shocking Truth in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 11:31
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quote:Probably a SomethingAwful banner that showed Google doing the same thing, only instead of "Spiderweb Software games" it was "The Playstation 3". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 21 2007 01:32
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quote:I'm not undertaking intercontinental travel for anything less than an orgy, and SW has nowhere near enough hot chicks to justify that. Not even if Mariann attends. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
SpiderWeb Merchandising! in General | |
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written Tuesday, February 20 2007 22:43
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quote:I cannot, and neither can you. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |