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    Life eternal.

    (English is not my first language so my choose of words and sentance structure are not very good.) I ran across this guy Aubrey de Grey today, heres his bio of sorts. http://confusion.stilyagi.org/content/science-goh-aubrey-de-grey I have thought a lot about this stuff since I took biology in "high school" (It's called differently where I live, but no matter.) I realize there must be a great multitude of factors that need to be taken into consideration, but are there any known factors that cannot possibly be changed? What interests me more is how this would effect our society? If most normal people could expect to live for centuries, it would make education and other such investments in the individual so much more "profitable".(Not the best word, but I hope it conveys my meaning.) I'm very curious what other people think about this subject.
  2. I got this book Freakonomics as a christmas present. It's not a very good book. Also reading The Principles Of Methematics(or somesuch) by G. Frege. A bit heavy reading, but interesting.
  3. So American comservatives are in effect voting for more debt, and some seem to claim(rightfully or not, I do not know) that this debt will make things better by increasing consumption?
  4. Originally Posted By: Randomizer Jeff will eventually remake all the games so they will run on newer computers. The remade Avernum 1 to 3 will have some features from the A6 game engine, but it will return to older dungeons aren't seamless part of the outdoors that you have in Avernum 4 to 6. I simply do not understand. Is there a word missing? If so what/where?
  5. The fact that using DosBox is probably piracy has not crossed my mind before reading The Mystics post. I generally don't approve of piracy, but I'm not sure I can find a way to oppose this case.
  6. I'm currently reading very big books about chemistry, physics, math et cetera.(I have always been bad at math, so why I ended up picking a math heavy course in University I have no idea. But I'm actually doing much better than I ever dared hope!) In relations to SoT's post earlier, I will be taking a Quantum Mechanics class next autumn, and I have heard the bar is set insanely high there.(Up to 90% fail on the final test.) I doubt I would manage to be in the top 10% if the test were so difficult again, but I don't expect it will be. Either way I think I should start studying the subject at least next summer. So my questin is, where to start?
  7. Some proeminent people in US politics seem like they would not mind dragging their nation down a path similar to the one a certain European nation took, starting circa 1930. But then again I am a very pessimistic personality, and furthermore I don't in reality know much about American politics, expect what little I read in US medias on the internet.
  8. On a somewhat related note, anyone have an opinion on Dwarf Fortress? Is it worth getting into for a person who has little time to dedicate to gaming?
  9. The only game that I can think of that has not seen any spiritual remakes is Myth. The second game was more of an expansion, and the third one was just plain bad. My vision of Myth in the world of modern computers is that you could actually have whole armies clashing, rather than small groups at a time. But I don't see it happening.
  10. Planescape: Torment is a masterpiece, as almost all the other Infinity Engine games are. What I like the most is that it's great story and content far outshine(overshine?) it's not so good combat. (Combat looks good, but it's hardly up to the standard of the other IE games.)
  11. Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Originally Posted By: Droid I hate PDN's. People should use their real names online! Aw, where's the fun in that? Besides, Dikiyoba can easily see that you aren't even following your own advice. Yes, I guess I am being conformist, or I think that is what It's called.
  12. Most threads don't have a topic as specific as this one, and I found it a bit funny, even if not surprising, to see poeple not even address the threads topic before they posted about other things altogether.
  13. You guys have horrible attention spans. 1. What is your name? Ingvar. 2. How old are you? 23. 3. Where do you live? Iceland. 4. What is your favorite color? White and red and green. 5. How many phones do you own? I own some broken ones. I´m using a very nice cell phone my sister lent me. 7. Wait, what happened to question six? Twice, daily. 8. Someone has just loaned you a time machine that can take you to any location on the planet during any time period. Where/when do you go? A random pick from: Chicago, 1920's. Waterloo, Belgium, June 18th, 1815. Athen, 399 BC. Egypt, 3000 BC. Or actually I want to go back and tell my old self to give the ones I love and care for the time they deserve and need, before they are gone, one way or the other. 9. If you were forced to change your PDN to something completely unrelated to its current form and your original username, what would it be? I hate PDN's. People should use their real names online! I guess people living in America feel different since the country breeds insane murderers likely to use such information more than other nations. I once thought it was because the US media like hype that America comes so badly off, but this does sadly not explain this phenomena. 10. If you could transform at will into any living animal, what animal would it be? Fox. 11. It's ninja sliths versus pirate nephilim. Who should win? Pirate Nephilim. I hope someone makes a scenario. My Aim: novisionary. I´m almost never online but when I am it would be fun to have someone to talk to, so add me!
  14. I hope you work some more on Exodus! It is one of the most memorable BoA scenarios I have played, probably second only to Mad Ambition. That's not to say it's not as good as MA, Exodus needs more balance and a bit would need to be a bit clearer. (WTF was it with that temple/tent thing?) The combat was not the best, but that's perhaps bound to the level limit thing, I doubt it's possible to properly balance things when the game itself can´t handle them. The demon pit was a bit gonzo, did not like it particularly. Also, it felt a bit like being in Alices shoes, you get through all these caverns and they are all open and big, then you go into this Pit and at the bottom there is a trapdoor or somesuch where you go through and end up in another really big open cavern. Yeah, I think thats how it was. I also remember this abandoned fort, it was awesome even for an abandoned fort. Abandoned forts are always awesome. I remember vast stretches of empty caverns, those were a bit off-putting.(Would have thunk these Slithzerikai would have put more thought to the decor.........:Þ) Maybe I should go back and play it again, did not realise it was so long ago I played this.
  15. I recall so many people had names from Marathon for "special" name, then later(much later maybe,I think) Alice in Wonderland took over for Marathon. Who was Nuke & Pave? Fire!Fire!Fire! ? By Comittee? And more, but my mind is blank now. I had an account in 2002, then went away for two years, I think some people on these lists had already left when I got back. Never seen them around since, which is very normal I guess, some people don't stick around to things like these for a decade.
  16. I find Avernum 2 to be the best Avernum game, all around. While I have only played the demos of his most recent games they are clearly superior, in some areas, to his first games. Graphics are very nice for one thing! In others they are not, personally I get claustrophobia playing the new ones, which stops me from getting very interested in the games, so even if I were not too broke to play the full games I´m not sure I would do so. I also find combat to be very streamlined at times, which I do not like. But then, I have only played the demos so perhaps it is not.
  17. Impressive. Is some of that information from games the later game(4 and up)? I have only played the first three, maybe seven or eight years ago, and my memory of these things is not so good. I seemed to remember that Thralni was the only named character, and the leader of the group, don´t know how I missed those others.
  18. I guess making a prequel, as he talks about could mean two things, both of them very interesting. First, the unlikely one, to be part of Thralnis expedition. It´s quite possible he has a far clearer image of the this era of Avernum than the he has ever given up in the games. Thralni disappeared in the waterfall area didnt he? The rest of his team died in the spiral crypt? I think a game about this could be very interesting. So long since I played these games. The other would be what you talk about, after the Empire starts using Avernum as a prison. More or less in line with his earlier work, just A minus 1 or something. Edit: Less than a week between posts! I have to stop myself off, before I lose control.
  19. Whoa! Someones talking about remakes! I dunno where to start to look for credible referances so I´m just going to ask here! Is JV planning to remake more games?
  20. Edit: As is pointed out below I was not quite fair in my opinion. Will try to look better into this matter.
  21. I'm usually a bit disappointed when fighting dragons, seems to me that most of them are underpowered. I don't level madly or anything like that, just play it casually. I've always felt that killing ancient dragons shouldnt be something a band of adventurers is capable of.
  22. Only played the first two encounter on cause of all dialogue going way too fast. I am talking about the text that appears above units. My settings were all at normal.
  23. Very few games have music worth listening to. Most of the time I turn it down and listen to my iTunes playlist instead. Come to think of it, the only games I remember to have outstanding music are some Square games.
  24. I just got the demo, and went to install it and found out I could not. For some reason I deleted the windows installer service a while ago, and I can not re-install it. Is there any way to get around this?
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