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Oh my God, you just can't make this **** up. in General | |
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written Sunday, July 16 2006 03:35
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Eh, I can sort of see where he's coming from. Sometimes I've hoped I'd contract a terminal illness so I wouldn't have to worry so much about the future. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
countering freezing? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, July 15 2006 22:46
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quote:I agree that that's the dictionary definition of riposting (I fenced for 5 years, after all; I do know what it is). However, since in Avernum 4 it's possible to riposte while frozen solid and incapable of movement, that can't possibly be what riposting actually is in Avernum 4. Hence my proposed alternative definition. [ Saturday, July 15, 2006 22:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 15 2006 21:06
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Riposting is, uh, the art of holding your sword at such an angle that opponents accidentally run into it while attacking you. Yeah, that's it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
The Signature of Your Dreams in General | |
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written Friday, July 14 2006 02:19
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Wow (G4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, July 13 2006 01:57
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All the same, rebels have come very close to successfully completing two Geneforges, and both only failed due to dumb luck (a remarkably talented apprentice in the right place at the right time). Eventually the Shapers' luck is going to run out. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
weight suggestion for G4 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Wednesday, July 12 2006 03:03
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quote:What makes you say that? An elephant's average walking pace is much faster than a human's, and elephants can carry a decent amount of weight. [ Wednesday, July 12, 2006 03:03: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Wow (G4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, July 12 2006 02:55
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It seems to me that the discussion about possible leadership systems is rather akin to shifting deckchairs on the Titanic. Once the secrets of building a Geneforge become common knowledge (and the way things are going, it's only a matter of time), a few big words from on high aren't going to stop any reasonably well-resourced group from making an army of walking, talking nuclear weapons. [ Wednesday, July 12, 2006 03:06: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 12 2006 02:40
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quote:Hey, speak for yourself. I plan on being cryogenically preserved. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Chop Sockey, Your Favorite Bad Kung Fu Films in General | |
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written Tuesday, July 11 2006 13:39
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Officially, swelling of the brain, possibly related to an allergic reaction to a painkiller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Death_by_.22misadventure.22 [ Tuesday, July 11, 2006 13:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
how to please khoth? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, July 11 2006 13:17
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The best thing to get from Morog is the mushroom charm. You can then steal the scroll from her (but get ready for a fight after Morog sees you on your way out). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Wow (G4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, July 11 2006 01:52
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There's some truth in what you're saying. Remember Trajkov, who was able to stay at least moderately sane even after using the Geneforge? Whatever you may think of his principles, that fact alone made him an exceptional individual -- and the worse things get, the more I'm inclined to think it might have been better to just side with him in G1 after all. All the same, he was just one person, and still mortal even with all his power; there's no guarantee his replacement wouldn't be just as corrupt as the rebels we see today. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Wow (G4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, July 11 2006 00:28
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I doubt it. When all's said and done, the fundamental conflict between the two sides is that both of them want absolute power and only one of them can have it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
What do you think of A4 in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, July 11 2006 00:01
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quote:To use a melee attack on a friendly or neutral target, you need to click the Attack button once you're in combat mode. It's the one with the sword on it, immediately to the left of the Quick Spell slots. [ Tuesday, July 11, 2006 00:02: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
how to please khoth? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 23:52
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After you've already given him one of the items you need in order to pass, you can still give him the other items for some very nice rewards. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Wow (G4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 23:47
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What do you call the current situation if not war? Don't forget, the Shaper empire produced the rebels in the first place; what makes you think they won't keep on producing more? Our argument isn't that peace is a bad thing, or that the rebels are good; it's that the Shaper empire may well have been doomed from the start because its existence relies on power of a kind and magnitude that cannot help but corrupt those who wield it. The Shaper empire cannot refuse to use its power or it will be crushed by those within it who have no such scruples; and it cannot use it to its full potential, or it will become what it fights against. Basically, we're all screwed no matter who wins. For all the high words being said on both sides, the Rebels aren't really fighting against the Shapers' principles; they're the progress of the Shapers' knowledge and power carried to its logical conclusion. [ Monday, July 10, 2006 23:50: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 23:40
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quote:No more so than with a pacifist who plays violent video games. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 23:33
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quote:You mean Baby Got Back? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 23:28
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quote:Well, the short answer is because you're both an evangelical Christian and one of the participants in this debate, while so far nobody in this topic has so vocally used Catholic or Anglican values to inform their position. Oh, and also because your religion is involved in a global conspiracy to rule the world with an iron fist, while the Catholics gave that up decades ago. :P quote:A libertarian, of course, could coherently argue against your position by simply asserting that it's also wrong to force people to pay taxes for foreign aid. But I'm not a libertarian, so I'll have to use a different strategy. The poor in third world countries cannot eliminate the harm caused to them by poverty, so since they can't help themselves, somebody else has to help them by eliminating their poverty. People offended by gay marriage can eliminate the harm caused to them by gay marriage by ceasing to be offended by it, so there's no need for anybody else to help them by eliminating gay marriage. In short, unlike poverty, gay marriage doesn't harm anybody who doesn't choose to be harmed by it. [ Monday, July 10, 2006 23:32: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
What do you think of A4 in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 12:41
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quote:I don't much like the other new monsters-built-around-graphics either, but the eyebeasts have been there since Exile/Avernum 1. [ Monday, July 10, 2006 12:42: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Worst game possible: First round in Richard White Games | |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 12:34
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quote:It's a third-party level. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 10 2006 00:37
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quote:Muehlenberg gets soundbited fairly often on current affairs shows and the like, and also gets the occasional interview. I'd never heard of Brian Houston until now; I'd heard of his church, of course, but the man himself doesn't appear all that often on the 6 o'clock news. quote:Most of the people on your list are Catholics or Anglicans. I was, as my post indicates, referring specifically to evangelical Christians. [ Monday, July 10, 2006 00:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
Naturally, I'm sure this has been proposed before. in General | |
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written Sunday, July 9 2006 13:16
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quote:I dunno. The Dice Man was a pretty good book. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 9 2006 13:14
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quote:In my experience, however popular it may actually be, it's the point of view that's given all the airtime in the mainstream media. Bill Muehlenberg is basically the public voice of evangelical Christianity. If you don't like it, speak up and tell the world most of you don't agree with him. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 9 2006 06:47
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quote:Yes. The intentional irony. Thanks for ruining the joke by pointing it out. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 9 2006 00:43
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quote:Like I should stop looking at this forum. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |