Erebus the Black

But what if I'm such a bad worker, such a Jynx, that any company hiring me will actually be damaged in the long run. What should I do? Should I deceive the company? Should I ask for social security and get institutionalized in a home(a loony bin)? Should I kill someone and go to prison? Should I go to a war stricken area (such as Sudan was a few years back, or Syria is now) and find my death there?

Personally I think the current BGSFX are great, when you travel along a cave you don't expect to hear much music, and the occasional SFX of stalagmites dripping and of bats screeching is very fitting. However I do feel that some situational music is missing such as next to big boss encounters or new chapters reached; like entering the great cave in A2,4 or the azure cave inA5, or flight music during the chase through the howling depths in A5, or foreboding music while traveling in Bel Shamaroths pit to a climax music while fighting it. So bottom line is: music all the time or music that jumps you all of a sudden for no reason like in morrowwind is bad or at least not fitting, situational music according to the occasion is good. So I haven't added to the poll, if you think my answer fits one of the options tell me which.

Alright, anyway, any copyright infringement reports should go directly to Jeff's eMail box and not on the forums. It makes the post look like a commercial for the web site.

Most big time companies do both at the same time (using the recession as an excuse) in order to refresh the average age of their company's employees and to reneg on the seniority of the older employees before the severance fees become more expensive than they would like to pay and seniority laws kick in.

Now let's say a web site in Kenya or Peru has downloaded the game and is now selling hacked versions as if they belonged to it for 4-5$ each, what can you really do? This is pretty much a forfeit endevour, it's not like the US is going to send a CIA squad to take them out...

(XKCD, but you knew that already )

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Of the three I liked #2 best. The horses (flying unicorn ponies I assume) in #1 look anorexic (it's a pose more generally fitting for snake like creatures) and #3 reminds me of nazis (skulls and lightning motif).

Originally Posted By: Goldenking Civ IV, so nothing too entirely taxing. that feels to me like an oxymoron. My machine can run A4-5 easily, and A6 with a bit of trouble but civ III runs very slowly and civ IV doesn't move an inch. Anyway, would you rather 32 or 64 bit? Also, will you need image processing programs, CAD programs or some other kind of simulator (such as a spice sim)?

Another interesting point is that at the beginning of the book there is a short explanation about the language and runes used in the book, which states (among other things) that the meaning of the word orc is goblin in English (or hobgoblins for the larger specimens) and that orc is what the hobbits call them, however, other than in the name of the sword "Orcrist", the word 'orc' is never used in the book, orcs are always referred to as goblin. Why do you think they needed that explanation then?

Another interesting quote: "They were high up in a narrow place, with a dreadful fall into a dim valley at one side of them. There they were sheltering under a hanging rock for the night, and he lay beneath a blanket and shook from head to toe. When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang." Is there another mentioning of stone giants anywhere else in the other books?

Direct quote (The Hobbit 4th edition, unwin paperbacks 1988 reprint, p. 278): "It was in this way that he learned where Gandalf had been to; for he overheard the words of the wizard to Elrond. It appeared that Gandalf had been to a great council of the whit wizards, masters of lore and good magic; and that they had at last driven the Necromancer from his dark hold in the south of Mirkwood."

As for the sticks reeking as smoking, in the context of the dwarves walking into Rivendell seems odd, but with the talk of bread taken into account might refer to the wood which heats the oven in which the bread was baking. As for the white council, my wording was a direct quote from the book, maybe you can chalk it up to Bilbo not being in the know and misinterpreting Gandalf's conversation with Elrond.

This conversation has prompted me to start reading the Hobbit again. I have noticed three anecdotes: 1. At Rivendell there is a mentioning of Elrond that goes like this: " He comes, into many tales, but his part in the story of Bilbo's great adventure is only a small one, though important, as you will see, if we ever get to the end of it." Which made me think he has a major roll somewhere in the end of the story, yet his only major role in the story is in finding out about the moon runes which appears a few passages later. 2. A verse in the elf song goes like this: "O! What are you seeking, And where are you making? The faggots are reeking, The bannocks are baking! O! tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! " From what I loosely researched faggots are sticks and a bannock is a type of Scottish bread, why would sticks have a bad smell? 3. Near the end of the story Bilbo finds out that Gandalf was at some point at a great council of the white wizards and with them he was able to drive Sauron (then posing as a necromancer) out of the south of Mirkwod. Yet throughout his tales Tolkien only mentions three wizards (four if you consider Sauron) by name or description, which makes me think he hadn't yet thought up the idea that all wizards were in fact Mayar or ring bearers when he told his children this story .

Is this another Lovecraft game? All the talk about losing sanity sure sounds like it.

Maybe they're looking/ working through all the legal issues

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba If you want only metaphorical color, have more Naish on freaky sauropod front feet. (It blew Dikiyoba's mind, at least.) Why do you find them weird? in nature as in nature, anything can form if it can perform its rudimentary function

From what I gather, Tom Bombadil (including old willow and the barrow wight) was not forgotten but rather left out because they felt he didn't advance the plot in any way. That is not to say I am in agreement with the decision, but I do understand it.

Right on spot:(XKCD)

Last time that I did it genuinely here I got my head bitten off and my buttocks flayed, ye have been warned.

Originally Posted By: Lilith Nope, DNA is way too large a molecule to easily pass across the gut wall. The pancreas secretes nucleases which break down DNA into smaller molecules that can be absorbed. So how come some germs can pass the gut wall?

By energy you mean ATP, right? (Or do you mean the combustion process in the mitochondria?) Quote: Or, put another way, cells that are just sitting around don't need much energy, so they don't need oxygen to generate that energy. So fat cells don't require oxygen to make ATP because they have other means of producing it(or because they have another form of energy conveyers)? So do animal/plant cells eaten by me reach my blood stream with their DNA intact? There's a big mix up in my head between fat cells and fat molecules, can you help me clear it up? (muscle cells don't pose such a problem because they break down into proteins and carbohydrates, but from my understanding fat remains fat). Do red blood cells use the oxygen they acquired in the lungs in order to move and exist or are they all one shot cells? And how do blood platelets factor in the oxygen cycle (wiki says they have no DNA)? Don't be afraid to hit me with the chemistry.

Weren't there a dump load of puzzles in the dark waters area (where you had to switch to singleton mode and take on hordes of chits with only one char, or split two members and each open different gates for each other while fighting off shades)?

Avernum doesn't have god mode per se, you can edit your endurance, hardiness, defense and parry to max (40 I think) and keep using the full health cheat to mimic it but I don't know if the death curse won't still kill you. see here (It's in the A5 strategy central, for some reason they didn't link to it from A6's): http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97615#Post97615 To get to anything higher than 40 you need to edit item stat bonuses, which is slightly harder (if you like programing, otherwise it's insanely difficult), and have to equip the item.

If we're already on the subject I would be thankful if you could answer a couple more questions. Is it true that some cell types, such as fat cells and white blood cells, don't require oxygen? Is it true that small bodily bodies, such as enzymes, lizozomes and anti-bodies don't contain DNA (or RNA)?