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Before everyone jumps on the sexist bandwagon, I must have missed where I said it did. What I did say was if you don't even know what the sex of your choice is, how well do you know that person? A thousand people you walk by on the street: you don't know anything about these people, but you know what their sex is because you typically notice that first. On an internet forum, you might not find this out as quickly, but it seems to be something you would find out along the way to getting to know someone. Getting to know someone seems to be a reasonable prerequisite to electing them moderator. Similarly, as Nalyd said: I. . . don't even know who Jerakeen is. Sorry, Jerakeen.

I would have thought finding out someone's gender would have been along the way to knowing if they would be a competant moderator...

Well bounce my ballsack, you're right! It's so clear now! Even though Avernum 1 was released a full year before any of the Sandusky events happened, it is entirely plausible that Jeff traveled forward eight years into the future to watch the start of the Sandusky trial on CNN. Or maybe good ol' Jerry's an indie fan and based what he was going to do at his job the next year on the intense, relentless, sexual abuse that occurs in Avernum 1, a game intended to me played by his pray. Or maybe, Jeff himself is mind controlling Sandusky for the publicity. Now that you've noticed the correlation, we can finally get the SW website's sales higher than Steam's. Feel a little ridiculous? Do you regret making this post yet?

Conclusion: Luck does nothing in Geneforge.

Anything else I'd say on this has already been said by someone else before I posted the firs time, so pretend I just quoted everyone just now. Originally Posted By: This space intentionally garbled Guys, this is a pretty simple request. Sylae doesn't like funny characters in PDNs. It's a personal preference, and you can choose to follow it or not. If you don't like ponies, or any other gimmicks, that's another matter. I don't have to be a pony, and Sylae doesn't have to have special characters in her PDN. But we still have to look at each other. So why don't we just get over this silly silly matter.

Quote: Alright. If it annoys people Sylae so much, I'll stop then. fyt. And she's not an admin here. Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith Quote: Thirdly, this usage places a (warranted?) stigma of immaturity on the forum as a whole. You're arguing this while pretending that you're a pony from a cartoon. To be honest, I can't stand MLP or image macros, but it's not worth crying over because it's not anyone's place to dictate how others should behave. I am reasonably certain that PDNs with special characters, uncommon as they might be, are not a slippery slope that ends in 4chan. It can also be a display of variety and personality differentiated from your idea of some sort of unspoken taboo that we must adhere to a display standard or face social "oppression"

Originally Posted By: There are some who call me Erika is better than most, but Jeff has never been one to give characters serious development. Arguably the biggest problem with SW games, overlooking the obvious and irritating drawbacks that come with indie games of this genre. But games like Avernum and Geneforge, etc. play like Choose Your Own Adventure books, with depth. The issue is they rely primarily on scenes, environment descriptions, and how you - the player are supposed to feel rather than other characters with which you can interact. Litalia did go through some development; however, it almost felt like a lie or a trap that I didn't believe at first because that's how unusual it is for Jeff's characters to do things like this.

Although I understand and respect your reasons for doing so, I too am sad to see you go. I wish you find as much happiness and solace as you found here (when things were good) in your next adventure.

Originally Posted By: Excalibur That image up thar transcends poniness. You right.

Originally Posted By: Actaeon Is "Sylae likes ponies" too obvious? Should I go with "Sylae IS a pony"? Originally Posted By: Slarty 3) No statements about anyone's real life identity. Those are not Facts. Quote: Let's see... some facts about me... 1. Is just some old crazy fart! Is that Last of the Summer Wine guy? I'm scared.

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba What Triumph said. It's a compound word. Gene+forge. Therefore it's pronounced the same way the two words normally are. Dikiyoba. It is a compound word, and I recognize that. But words are strange, and it seems like half the words in the English language don't sound like they look. Generally, when it comes to, for example, someone's name in a book, I take a look at it and wing it with what's easiest for me to pronounce or sounds nice (at least in my head). Maybe some time later, I'll revise it with a proper pronunciation. Alternatively, that could be because of names with four consonants in a row and five apostrophes, ie Wheel of Time... Back to the topic, ever since I first saw "Geneforge", probably some time in mid 2006, I've pronounced it "Jen-eh-forge". Consequently, anyone around me who's seen the game, says the same. It's wrong. But how I do it. And probably always will.

It may just be me, but it seems that, proportionally, there are more Obeyer "operatives" in various places on the map. But I'm not sure that makes it any more advantageous over any others. They all have perks, and it seems like they were made to be essentially comparable to each other so that there is no best. After a certain point in the game, it's almost trivial anyway, it's just for some plot changes. If I were you and wanted to get the most out of the game, I would save my game where you are now, join a sect, and save it in a different slot. Geneforge has multiple endings, so you can save some time by making 3* separate saves so you can play them all if you choose. Personally, I would avoid doing what Randomizer said, although you can....just make sure you get all the shopkeeper's money and valuable stuff before you kill them. If you pick up everything you find and sell it, like I do, all three villages will eventually run out of spending money. XD As far as your skills go, if you picked shaper, then your stats were already set up for creation-based strategies, so it would help to put points into shaping since one stat increase is one more level your creation gets at birth, which is very valuable. Tier 2 creations will let you dominate anything you find, so you'll be thankful for your shaping skills then. I put my spare points into battle magic, but it doesn't matter that much, you could throw them into blessing magic and just cast buffs, so put points into what you like doing...or what you have a tendency to do. Use all the skill canisters you find and the game is pretty easy. That is all.

Originally this topic had a theme. In the effort to remember that theme, I'd say that I live in NC right now, but I'm moving to Denver in five days. So I picked EST, logged in, and picked mountain time. I am nothing if not technical.

Originally Posted By: DANTIUS If there's nothing interesting for you to talk about here, perhaps you should find a forum more suited to things you like to talk about instead of trying to change the subjects discussed at this one. Just my two cents. I remember when SW wasn't being destroyed by unintelligible spam.

Let's bring this back up to shift the topic away from gender. As far as BOINCing goes, I currently only subscribe to World Community Grid, finding it to be the best use of my minuscule processing power. While it would be undeniably nice to have a host of computers dedicated to grid computing in general, something I find to be a particularly nice idea, it's just not something I can afford. But a small donation of idle or otherwise wasted CPU time is better than nothing. BOINC stats WCG specific stats

Originally Posted By: and each wore a bowler hat Yeah, I can absolutely see this reading of it, and mistakes do happen. On the other hand, whilst it could be carelessness/accidental, we still know that he 1) wanted to retaliate... Looks like Trenton wasn't the only one... I see my post on shell-shock and knowing when things are happening has gone on deaf ears, except for Slarty's comments.

Quote: ...exactly what constitutes a safe haven is not going to be obvious to everyone who comes here. Moreover (and to reiterate), what is recognized as a sensitive topic, or a potentially insensitive reply may be subjective as well. Many times it isn't an issue of over-sensitivity as it is misunderstanding. When you live in an environment that is prone to give you shell-shock on certain topics, your mind can easily jump to the conclusion that you are being attacked. Consequently, the response in this situation can be a bit of an outburst especially when it comes from a place you don't expect it. Quote: it really doesn't sound like he said "pretty much the most insulting thing he could think of." Make no mistake, there are people out there who like to milk stereotypes, scorn differences, and be filled with a sense of false-supremacy...but it is important to understand when this is actually occurring. More often, what I see in places like this is people at fault for nothing more than making a bad misunderstood joke or just not understanding because they live in a sheltered environment. I'm sheltered too, for example I have never met someone from Saudi Arabia, despite Arabic being my foreign language. Instead, I am at the direct mercy of the books I read and the courses I take to be accurate and written without a slant and, even then, I have no actual physical experience talking to someone about what it's like to be someone from that part of the world. But what's more troubling is finding a situation where someone does say or otherwise exhibit ignorance and it's over-reacted to instead of calmly educated. That's the part that troubles me because, in the end, no one will be the wiser unless it's handled properly. So then the question becomes "what is proper?", especially when you have so many viewpoints and so many knowledgeable people in the aforementioned "shell shock" mode. The heart of dealing with topics like this is just practicing tolerance with at least the notion that perhaps you have something to learn. I always tell myself that anything is generally at least four times harder than it looks to do and about ten times more complicated than you could possibly expect. At least to get the full picture. Practice tolerance. Practice equality. Walk in someone else's shoes, even when you think you've been wronged.

Originally Posted By: Sylae i dont come into your physics/philosophy threads with the twenty thousand word text wall posts and say snide things do i Looked like nineteen words to me. Anyone get anything different?

Quote: Dantius, for the last.

Originally Posted By: Darth RuPaula @Neb: As opposed to all those live action pony cartoons. I'm all about those. I believe that's called "smut".

Originally Posted By: Sylae Call me silly, but I doubt reading about the love lives of fictional characters will improve my mental/emotional stability any . I watch animated pony cartoons for that. fyt

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Wow, Randomizer irritated someone enough for a picture to be made about him? What next... If you're referring to me, that was actually my way of defending him.

Originally Posted By: Sylae Originally Posted By: Randomizer My eyes! Turn the brightness down.