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I think you picked the wrong apple of discord to typo-fix into a poorly thought out slur, packratdude.

Forget beta, the original release date floated for the game was November 2008. But yeah, this does sound like it's for real.

In tangential news, Eschalon 2 beta testing starts in 2 weeks, so it sounds like the new release estimate of late April or early May might be accurate. Pretty good timing for both companies, in between SW games.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer Slarty was told to remove the seizure avatar. Mods have to answer to someone. Now admins on the other hand. Just for the record, this is not true. I was not told to remove it. Well, one person asked me to remove it somewhat rudely, but that was a request which I turned down. The "seizure" avatar hasn't been removed, either; it evolved (as planned). Or haven't you noticed? Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity This also means that in Slarty's case, there's a better chance that it actually is wit. Let's see where it goes. Thank you. Even if you consider it spam, and you're welcome to I suppose, it remains spam that was deliberately and painstakingly constructed. Deliberately and painstakingly constructed spam is rare here, but it *doesn't* often get locked, because it's interesting even if it's confusing as well. Some of Scorpius's threads from the past few years are good examples of this. The best is probably the one that asked girls if they would rather lay eggs. Originally Posted By: The Almighty Doer of Stuff omg did drakey give you permission to finish RiB I'm tempted to make a joke about how I'm going to finish Pygmalion, but that would really be cruel.

Well, Phase One is about finishing some famously unfinished projects dating back, in some cases, several years...

Another good question. It may be clear to some people already. The rest of you will just have to wait and find out. Some constructive fallout will occur over the next few days.

Originally Posted By: I will scream this as I explode. In before the lock? —Alorael, who admits to mighty temptation towards locking. It is in no way tempered by the fact that he can satisfy his baser urges and let Slarty clean up the mess by unlocking. This isn't spam, and you know it. *shakes head*

Good question. No, willfall all into RETRIOACTIVITY.

IT'S THE CAPITAL, CAPITAL, TOTALLY DEPRAVIDATED AND INTERNEGATIVE, EXEXUNPECTED AND ANTIANTICIPATED UGLY, UGLY, TOTALLY OVERPLOSIONED BRAINBUT PROJECT: Project SLARTIFICUS FIRST OF THE CAPITAL POSTS / FIRST OF THE MARQUÉES NOIRES: Project SLARTIFICUS has PHASES THREESE: PHASE ONE -- RETRIOACTIVITY PHASE TWO S HDDN N TH MSSNG VRCHRS LK MMRTLR SLS PHASE THREE -- THREESIFORM OFFSETTING of CANTIFERS Within theese thread willfall all ABOUT OR DISCOUVERT Project SLARTIFICUS. Theese post MARQUES the beginning of PHASE ONE. RETRIOACTIVITY is in the air for UBB. Discouvert by maDAME ANNALS, (continuational along its course until such time as it has) STOP RETRIOACTIVITY RETRIOACTIVITY ONE shall be ARENAREAR glands, IF IN PREPARATION OF THE I find you. This MARQUES the end of theese post.

At this point, it would almost make sense to wait until Apple makes another major CPU/OS shift. Between the PowerPC, OS X, and Intel shifts, they've been leaving old programs in the dust about every 5-6 years now.

Desperance is essentially dead, although it does seem to get a single post every couple of months. On the other hand, it is the only option on the poll that still exists. Score, I guess.

I forgot to post much about my game, but it was pretty successful. Maybe I'll pick it up agains someday, who knows. I trickled off playing around Mertis, but my DT EW Slith (the Slith part is actually important for once) did quite well. It felt much less Torment-ing than previous Torment playthroughs I've done, although a large amount of picking-and-choosing quest order was indeed necessary.

Not true -- in the first three games regular Vlish slow. I don't remember what the ancillary effect of Terror Vlish is in G3 -- it's either poison or slow IIRC -- but the really cool thing about them is that their ranged attack is poison elemental, which is totally unique and extremely useful. Since Vlish are so overpowered, I recommend a mix of 5 regular Vlish and 2 Terror Vlish (which are more expensive, which means you don't make them till later which in G3 means they are permanently at a lower level).

DO NOT FEED THE IMPLANTS AND ANIMALS

*nod* We've had this discussion before, and we always discover after much arguing that people are using the word "plot" differently. If you use it in a very broad sense that includes the aforementioned careful detail in world and NPC creation and backstory, A2 has tremendous plot. If you use it in a narrower sense that includes only events that happen as you watch, A2's plot is fairly limited.

I'm going to pre-emptively lock this topic. Between the content pushing the line on "family friendly" and now the resurrection of the (previously endless) arguments from ET, let's put this on pause for a moment. Please hold off on posting about this RP in other topics until the matter is settled. This includes any other proxy posts from ET. Thank you.

Originally Posted By: Rionep Ecnirp Etlevs Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Yes. Vlish are overpowered in G3. Use them. Dikiyoba. Late in the game, I can't imagine them being any good unless you've leveled magic shaping or kept your vlish alive throughout. Wouldn't their Str/Dex be too low to hit-stun much higher level creations? No. In the first three Geneforge games, any creation raised to a high level would have more or less indistinguishable, very very high stats. Due to balance adjustments made in G2 and then G3 that weakened pretty much everything other than Vlish attacks, they are absurdly overpowered in G3. See the Broken Vlish analysis linked from G3 Strategy Central for more details.

I just did several searches of the text dumps for the entire Exile series plus Avernum 1-3. "Eradan" never shows up, and neither does anything when I do wildcard searches for "*r*d*n" and "*rr*d*n". I also checked the Exile III books (the items you can pick up and use to read) by hand and there is nothing there. Is it possible you are remembering a different game?

*facepalm*

NEWBIE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BE-OLDER ISIS IS VEILED BUT HER SKIRT, MY FRIEND, IS BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

MULTIPLE ENDS ARE IN SIGHT WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE TUNNEL MY FINAL DESTINATION DRAWS NEAR ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really? If so, that's changed from earlier games, when you could definitely set the AI on or off for Int>1 creations. That was true at least through G3.

OH NOES; THE DEATH THROES!

I was skeptical, but Thuryl's memory is mostly good, although the question doesn't connect the dots the way Thaluikhain's does. This came from a BoE "letters to Jeff" type thing: Originally Posted By: Jeff Vogel >6. Are there infinitely many gods on which priestly magics of the abundant >different cults can call upon? Or are priest spells simply mage spells in >disguise? Whew. Good question.

I wonder if that parody game is still in the works. That's the one I'd be most excited to see from Jeff, I think.