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Breeding Pits in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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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.

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Why You Suck in General
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Originally written by Thralni:

Look, and this has been said already, if you want intelectual stuff, then post it. make a topic! The fact that nobody has done so, is for me proof that people don't need or want it, or just don't have the patience to deal with it (which I can fully understand).
whut

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Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General
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Originally written by Commodore Redmark:

Since you said this person is your friend, I will boldly make the assumption he/she is concerned with the well being of your soul. He's your friend and is simply doing what he believes is best for you. I do not personally view this as annoying or wrong; it's simply human compassion.
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.

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Not Enough Skill Points in Avernum 4
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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.

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Corrupt graphics A4 Mac 1.1 in Tech Support
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Originally written by Tyran:

That makes no sense. They use the same graphics file.
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.

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Breeding Pits in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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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.

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Need help: where is Matala's Workshop in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by Joeaverage:

I just killed that golem. It's an incredibly long fight but since it only uses aura of flames to attack drayks and drakons will wear it down.
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.)

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Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General
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Originally written by Kyrek:

Also, how can there be a god when there is so much pain, cruelty and unfairness in the world. Couldn't he/she change things for the better? Think of all the poverty in Africa. The gods of religions haven't done anything about that. What about Hitler and George Bush? "God" hasn't done anything about that.
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.

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Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General
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Originally written by Ephesos:

Belief isn't a bad thing, and the ability to believe is a blessing. It's merely what people choose to believe in that matters.
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.

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Originally written by Imban:

Even with the point of view that human actions are entirely deterministic, they are still determined by external forces. Therefore, society still has an obligation (the success or failure of attempts at it is predetermined, but the obligation still exists!), under that worldview, to make it so that less people are predestined to do wrong.
The problem with this analysis is that it requires a moral philosophy under which one can have a moral obligation to do the impossible.

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Originally written by Lenar_Labs:

Personally, I put the "I'm not responsible" response on par with that of the average Nazi.
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?

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Originally written by Alorael:

Why is it that humans across the globe have believed in spiritual forces and beings since long before such beliefs could be recorded?
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 ]

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Why You Suck in General
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Originally written by Synergy:

Online communication is fraught with illusory qualities galore, because it involves perhaps one-tenth to one-one-hundredth of the communication that in-person communication affords.
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 ]

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Epitaph in General
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Originally written by Zeviz:

I have a strong suspicion that this "lurker" is actually an alternate account of some bitter oldbie (I've never seen such high ratio of sarcastic posts from real lurkers)
Projec][ion comes pretty close, but I have my suspicions about him too.

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Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
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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 ]

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The Shocking Truth in General
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Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

It works for: "politics, games, computers, microsoft, linux, bush, france, canada, us" It doesn't work for "politicians, spiderweb, usenet, scorpius, arancaytar, polaris, desperance".
"Desperance will cure cancer" is corrected to "cause", though.

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Soda in General
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Originally written by macdude22:

I know a couple three people(ok three st8 up) that have that same allergic type reaction to the artificial sweeteners used in most Diet drinks. Major headaches, luckly I don't suffer from such ailments.
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.

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Corrupt graphics A4 Mac 1.1 in Tech Support
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You're not the first person to report this. Probably a good idea to email Jeff.

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It's a Wonderful Life in General
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Originally written by Zeviz:

On that note, what happened to Botswana and South Africa? They fell from being some of the most prosperous countries on the continent to having smallest life expectancy, but maintaining high income.
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.

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Why You Suck in General
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Originally written by Synergy:

It's an online forum. It's fleeting. It hopefully is one little part of a well-rounded existence for a person and little more. It's certainly nothing to get precious about. It's not actual community or real relationship.
In what sense is real communication between real people not a real relationship?

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Trakovite ending? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by Joeaverage:

You can't really join them since it's not much of an organization. But if you do what shorass(in kelekee bridges area in burwood) suggests you get their ending. Basically just sabotage the machinery in the final area a bit before you finish the game as a rebel.
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.

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It's probably doable if you come there with the shapers too but I haven't tested since I'd have to load pretty far back to change one thing I did :)
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.

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Jeff, please respond - Magic and Avernum 5 in Avernum 4
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Probably not, considering how often he reads these forums. Try email instead.

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Not Enough Skill Points in Avernum 4
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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 ]

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Soda in General
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Originally written by Lenar_Labs:

Out here, the soda is healthier than most of the water, alas.
Which is why I buy my water bottled.

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".

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Oldbiehood in General
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I don't, but I don't even remember what my avatar was when we had avatars here. :P

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The Shocking Truth in General
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Originally written by Nioca:

By the way, what made you think to type that into google?
Probably a SomethingAwful banner that showed Google doing the same thing, only instead of "Spiderweb Software games" it was "The Playstation 3".

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Spiderweb IRL in General
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Originally written by Ephesos:

As for what would happen there... erm, that is a tough one. See who can beat A4 with a one-armed singleton the fastest?* :P

(* - Probably Imban or Thuryl)

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.

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SpiderWeb Merchandising! in General
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Originally written by The Sorcerer:

Can you move diagonally with boats?
I cannot, and neither can you.

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