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Episode VI: Return Of The Abominable Photo Thread in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 7 2006 15:24 Profile Homepage #3 This one's in need of perspective correction, but eh. You can see me just fine, and that's what's important. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
"This" Vs. "That"? Min/Max questions in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 7 2006 07:03 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by Peter Principle: How about hand to hand attacks? Does a higher skill with one-handed/pole weapons, or higher skill in Blademaster or Gymnastics or whatever reduce the chance of a parry or riposte? Nope. Ain't no way to reduce an opponent's chance of parrying you. The good news is that the same is true for your chance of parrying an opponent, which is one of the things that makes Parry such a ridiculously good skill. At any rate, there are some things it's just not worth trying to fight in melee. [ Tuesday, November 07, 2006 07:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #6 in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 7 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Sirrus: quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to have a massive program creating a dynamic world. No more 'somebody at the company scripts an event and each PC in the world does the quest several times'. Yay for that. Now if it only sold. Not a new idea. Algorithmically-generated content is the Holy Grail of online game design, and just as unattainable. (Actually, Puzzle Pirates comes pretty close, but that's just because it's relatively easy to randomly generate playable puzzles. Creating a living, breathing game world? Not so much.) [ Tuesday, November 07, 2006 06:56: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Humans Only in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, November 5 2006 21:26 Profile Homepage #143 quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: As for not being good at humor, yeah I already admitted that. Humor is not my thing, but seriously, if this isn't evidence of an incomming joke, then I must be truly hopeless: quote: I don't care, I have an opposable thumb, I get to make the rules. I'm going to be charitable and assume you really aren't aware of just how much real people's opinions can suck. Hell, I can advocate genocide with a straight face and still have people wonder whether I'm serious. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Exile II crash (very repeatable, OS X only) in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, November 5 2006 13:55 Profile Homepage #1 quote: Originally written by Duskwolf: (I can do some more in-depth debugging if necessary. I've actually made several minor code modifications to the game which I might consider releasing with Spiderweb's permission.) Your best bet is to ask them directly by email. Be warned that SW gets mighty touchy about this sort of thing, though. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
New Comp Questions in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, November 4 2006 16:44 Profile Homepage #1 quote: Originally written by Dominator52: I am going to buy an iBook G3, but I am unsure about the software I have now. When I use Migration Assistant to take all of my stuff and put it on the new computer, will G3 revert to its demo format? And, if so, what can I do? If it does, you can just email Spiderweb Software, provide the name and contact details you registered under, and ask for a new registration code. They're really good about that sort of thing. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, November 4 2006 16:31 Profile Homepage #32 And it's a good thing, too -- a buffalo is just no substitute for a bison. For one thing, you can't wash your hands in a buffalo. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, November 4 2006 05:01 Profile Homepage #25 Well, in the long run, we're likely to see periods of warming, ice ages, asteroid impacts and all kinds of wacky things. It doesn't mean they'll be good for us, though. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 19:19 Profile Homepage #112 quote: Originally written by Spammin' Salmon: quote: Originally written by Thuryl: quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: If you are unhappy where you are, you should have chose another path. Image ZOMG!!! They do all lead there. Hey, someone figured out what I meant. I'm pleasantly surprised. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some Games Have Too Many Sequels in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 19:04 Profile Homepage #57 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus.: Actually, I was never able to get DOSbox to perform satisfactorily until I got my MacBook Pro 2GHz. Other machines that I tried it on, including my Sentia 1.8GHz, lagged a bit on some games. It's quite odd how demanding DOSbox is, considering the specs it emulates. :P Emulating a computer is hard. With a console, you can approximate the real system's behaviour and add program-specific hacks and workarounds for where the approximations don't work, because you know there's only a finite number of games that have to run on it. With a computer, that sort of chicanery is impractical, so you have to emulate everything properly. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 19:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:58 Profile Homepage #110 quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: If you are unhappy where you are, you should have chose another path. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 18:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Twist or No Twist? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:50 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Nioca: quote: Originally written by Thuryl: you can't just coldcock the party from out of the blue either. But isn't that what a good twist is supposed to do? There's going to be a few warning signs of it coming, but other then that, it's supposed to be a nice little surprise for the party. The player doesn't need to see it coming in advance, but it's essential that it make sense in hindsight. I can't stress that enough. Having the villain concoct a clever plan offscreen and then implement it at the moment when it will have the greatest possible effect is a good plot twist. Having demons that nobody has mentioned before appear from out of nowhere and start wreaking havoc is a bad plot twist. Basically, if the villain uses resources that the player doesn't know he has, it starts to look as if the designer is pulling things out of his ass. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 18:53: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Twist or No Twist? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:27 Profile Homepage #7 Even "twists" have to follow logically from the situation the party is in. If the player knows how the scenario is going to end as soon as it starts, that's bad, but you can't just coldcock the party from out of the blue either. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some Games Have Too Many Sequels in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:18 Profile Homepage #55 quote: Originally written by Andraste: Is DosBox very stable? There are some games I want to play, but my last emulator really screwed up. I also hear that DosBox is a resource hog. Is that true too? Depends on what you want to run under emulation. Old RPGs shouldn't be problematic. I was able to run DosBox, AIM, and a web browser simultaneously without too many problems, but it did crash occasionally. For more demanding applications you'll need to close other programs and switch to full screen mode for decent performance; System Shock didn't run perfectly but it was playable. My computer is a couple of years old and by no means top-of-the-line even when it was new (1.25 GHz eMac). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:12 Profile Homepage #108 Frankly, my experience is that advising people to fight back is misguided. I was bullied at school and I got into a lot of fights. I won quite a few of them. People got hurt. It didn't help, and it's not a course of action I recommend. What did help was learning to walk away. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 18:14: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Humans Only in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 18:07 Profile Homepage #60 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: Alo: I think there's a ton of gray area with regards to altruism, but I see your point. It's just that it's such a depressing idea... "Everyone ultimately does everything because for some reason they want to" is a depressing idea? Would "people routinely choose to do things without any good reason whatsoever" be less depressing? [ Friday, November 03, 2006 18:07: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Some Games Have Too Many Sequels in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 16:29 Profile Homepage #51 Hmm. Well, if you can get your hands on the IIgs version, there are perfectly good IIgs emulators available as well. I wouldn't go for the NES version; I don't have specific experience with it, but NES ports of computer RPGs tend to be butchered. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Humans Only in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 15:59 Profile Homepage #55 You scored as Miscreant. Congratulations. You are a miscreant. You are typically the person that winds up in and out of jail. You probably believe that violence is always the answer. Add your second result to see what you are. Oh, come on. Don't act all surprised. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 16:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 3 2006 15:34 Profile Homepage #16 There is one bit of good news in all of this: octopus and squid populations are on the rise. Hope you like calamari, because one day it might be the only seafood that's still in fishable quantities. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
"This" Vs. "That"? Min/Max questions in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 15:23 Profile Homepage #2 1) Keep boosting Intelligence whenever you feel you don't have enough spell points for the encounters you're dealing with, and keep your Mage Spells and/or Priest Spells skill at least high enough that you can cast every spell you've found at the point in the game you're in, and preferably a little higher. If you can hold off on boosting Spellcraft and Magery at all until Cotra, do so; there's a trainer there where you can purchase them. 2) Stun resistance. Armor becomes pretty irrelevant once you start putting points in Parry, which you should do as soon as possible. 3) Dexterity for archers, Strength for melee fighters. Melee fighters don't really ever need more Dexterity than is required to qualify for special skills like Quick Strike and Gymnastics, and Strength doesn't help archers at all. 4) The most Arcane Lore you ever need in your party is 15 or so. The most Nature Lore you need is 25. (There's an incredibly powerful bow at the very end of the game that you'll miss out on if your party's Nature Lore isn't high enough, so it's worth putting that many points in it.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 15:05 Profile Homepage #93 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Jame2: I don't think that Liberterianism can work, given our current population, technology and communication ability. Wait... I don't get it. Why would those three things limit the effectiveness of libertarianism? Because even in theory, unregulated markets only produce optimal results when everybody has perfect information about everyone else they transact with. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 15:02 Profile Homepage #79 DV, I apologise for the tone of my previous post; I seriously misjudged you. I know it's important to you to believe that your suffering was meaningful, that it's made you a better person; it's something I see a lot in survivors of abuse. But most of the time suffering doesn't make people better. Most of the time it just hurts and doesn't do any good for anyone. If you think it's okay for people to be hurt so that they'll deal with it better when they get hurt again later, you've already resigned yourself to the fact that they're going to keep getting hurt again and again. That's not acceptable to me. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Humans Only in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 14:56 Profile Homepage #2 -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 03:08 Profile Homepage #55 I've been waiting for a punchline for the last two pages, but it's clearly not forthcoming. quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: The bullies have won. They are the nannies. Your whole life is being plotted out and planned, and your every action is being controlled. The bullies don't even have to beat up your children any more, they have you to do it for them. The fear you live in and carefully instill in your child will cripple them, take away their humanity, and make them worthless and weak. Spineless. They wont make nary a peep out of fear of rocking the boat. And in turn, they will raise children even more cowardly and craven than the previous generation. Control. Conformity. Submission. Salmon gets it. I think he understands the system and how it works. Standard countercultural claptrap. Every human who has ever lived has been indoctrinated with a set of beliefs and ways of dealing with the world, and that's not a bad thing. A blank slate is only useful because it can be written on. quote: Adversity is the key to human existence. It is the only way we gain true strength. To know suffering, to know pain, to struggle, that is the only path to wisdom. Human existence pretty much sucks. The fact that people need strength and wisdom to get by in life is a bug, not a feature. I'm all for fixing human nature by whatever means are at our disposal. quote: We are losing our Hunter S Thompson types, our weirdos and crazies. Our anti establishment non conformists. Some might say the fact that fewer people oppose the establishment is evidence that the establishment is getting better. But no, that wouldn't fit in with your deep psychological need to feel oppressed. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tag backs! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 2 2006 00:36 Profile Homepage #52 quote: Originally written by The Stew Boy: Thuryl, I really hope you don't mean that seriously. Oh, and also, what do all of you mean by 'children'? 3-6 years old? 6-12 years old? We're all somebody's children. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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