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Having food by putting the spoon into your mouth after taking it all the way around the back of your neck.

I had a script editor change my walking speed once while playing G3. It had my creations and character instantly zooming towards the clicked point, with impossible speed. A little more fps, and it would have been teleportation (which wouldn't've been bad, but it doesn't give you that kind of speed).

I may actually play Avernum II to the end, I'm bored of massive aaa's and desperate for something spiderwebby.

Poser, that's it ! And I managed to dig up that old article.

Does anyone remember the name of the program used to make the Geneforge characters ? I'd seen it a couple of years ago in one of Jeff's old posts but I can't find it now. As I recall anyone can set it up very easily to create characters at a 45-degree perspective (like Geneforge). It is a 4-5 letter word, and probably rhymes with "fraps". Right now I'm thinking of downloading Game Character Hub but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort.

You could try adapting the Geneforge Dxwnd tutorial to run in a window. Google Suggest autocompleted "Homeland the sto" into "Homeland the stone of night". Not bad eh.

I've such a crippling lack of RAM that my laptop can't even afford a background Game Booster. Before playing an intensive game I manually open up the task manager and kill all non-system processes Doing this doesn't get you past any unsatisfied minimum requirements though, it's just a couple of extra fps that's only noticeable on lighter systems.

How is it that all of the Geneforge's in the bundle come free but the older N:R doesn't ?

I usually make it a point to check with Maslow's pyramid. Can the new planet, and the aliens within, satisfy me in all aspects ? Can I do that thing, the doing of which will make me feel that this was the thing that I was born to do ? It's hard enough even without the lack of humans from the opposite sex.

Are the questions objective, ie with options as answers, and having negative points for wrong answers ? If so, ours was like a 100 questions on OMR's, each with four selectable answers, and like -25% of the points awarded to a correct answer as the penalty for a wrong one. I'd say get to know the probabilities, eliminate the obviously wrong answers and use intelligent guessing and shade the circle when you're reasonably sure that you can get away with it. That's of course if you, like me, are a lateral creative thinker who never bothered about time management (that's important though, if you already are time-based then you're lucky). You say that they don't care about your solutions (I guess you're referring to the method of obtaining them) so the shortcuts are important as traditional solving takes up too much time, so keep a list of numeric shortcuts for arithmetic problems as a reference. Good luck !

Touhpads are ohk for turn-based point-and-click adventures like Geneforge and Avadon. But if you're on Windows with a game that requires a lot of right-clicking (FPS scope-zooming), the touchpads becomes rather inconvenient. As for Avernum and Nethergate, heh, the keyboard is all you need.

Our variant was "Just Showed Us Nine Planets" (prolly coz we don't make pies).

Annd more of these I can't withstannd, for they tickle my saneness glannd.

That should be ok I think, quotes in the Pied Piper era went by "written by: User" which are counted only in pied-piper.ermarian, and IPB's quotes are "User, on [date]" and are counted only in spiderwebforums.ipbhost to avoid conflict. That's a problem (this post for example), but if it's too small a percentage it can be neglected. The quote-score is only a number which is indicative of your total number of posts; however, its possible that some more digging could reveal more complex crawler filters with a better precision (nearer to actual quote-count). The variation of quote-score per sub-forum including General and each of the gaming forums should be interesting.

It's just 'all matches' :> Your score is incomplete since you've used other names too beginning with Lepus (like Lepus Temperamentalis).

There doesn't seem to be any method of finding out how many times somebody has quoted one your posts, so here's one. Your SW quote-score is a Google-based number which is indicative of how many times your posts have been quoted, and you get it by adding together the individual quote-scores of every forum that SW has had so far. 1) Ancient Piper : http://www.google.c...er.ermarian.net (9900 results) 2) UBB Threads : http://www.google.c...ums.ipbhost.com (1440 results) 3) IP Board : http://www.google.c...ums.ipbhost.com (115 results) Total Score : 9900+1440+115 = 11455 SoT is a good example of someone who's been around for all of those three forum incarnations, though I'm sure there are quite a few people for whom that's true. Edit : Having too much free time, I automated the process in C# and put in a few names that I could think of. Your results are : Cairo Jim : 160, Triumph : 829, Lilith+Thuryl : 19204, Dikiyoba : 12275, Tyranicus : 4588, Mosquito---Slayer : 114, Harehunter(not Lepus*): 217, Edgwyn : 41, Upon Mars : 225, Randomizer : 9401, House of S : 1089, Jerakeen(not Turtle) : 135, Earth Empires : 279, Excalibur : 3774, Actaeon : 463, Goldenking : 697, Ishad Nha : 190, Scorpius : 27. As expected, Lilith rules. All non-lurkers who aren't on this list are notorious name-changers (you used frequently varying names or with-special-character names for significant durations) and it's two steps below impossible (except Alorael, for whom it really is impossible) to find your scores.

Asking something about the game and being answered wouldn't contribute to the making of a community (more of a knowledge base rather); you've got to have something to discuss and participate in, and there's got to be a lot of variation. Blades must have been great as it supported custom scenarios and Geneforge was terrific about having different creations and factions. Oh, yes. Such a forum could give a chance for the quasi-oldbies to boss around the newcomers, without having postcounts of the order of several thousands towering over you *evil grin* I would also suggest putting in a Welcome's and Introductions. The sanity welcome is fine, but a new user who introduces self with a 'Hello' topic is more likely to stay long-term.

A hostile Kyshakk and War Trall are among the first creations that you encounter in G4, in the very beginning of the game where you have to run from them and escape into the rebel stronghold. Has anyone ever been killed by any of these creations, say maybe because you didn't escape in the required number of turns ?

There could be lots of women who prefer men with muscles or uniforms or money, but such a sweeping generalization is obviously not valid as there is no universal truth that determines sexual attraction. But what you say could be considered acceptable (remotely, for some people) if you can provide sufficiently trustworthy statistics/surveys participated by women from all locations, economic divisions, age groups etc. which state women's preferences, and if the said reports claim that almost all of these women agreed that the said traits were all that they look for in a man.

Must be a sneak-peek; Jeff wanted to tell the first-time players that this game is not all about killing fyoras and thahds; there are a lot more interesting things further on

You could make a backup of your 'scripts' folder and then try fiddling around with the gforscen file. I think the file formats themselves are different though, so in addition to what Randomizer said you may need to convert them too.

Ghostly. I've played Geneforge (1) on Windows lots of times and have never seen any shade or roamer in the starting area. Where exactly do they appear ?

I'd say any colour that doesn't glow like that, maybe the same shade of blue used for the hints' X markers. Note : I felt this when I was browsing through the entire list, deciding what scenario to download. It probably isn't an issue when you come to the site to download just those scenarios you wanted.

The site looks good, it has an old-school look about it which fits in nicely. But you could change the high contrast (sky_blue against purple) of un-clicked links maybe ?

+1 : Common phrases taken literally always turn up some amusingly silly ideas. Here's a cartoon I found off a blog. There are two cases of 'literal' usage, one where the word's application is merely redundant and unamusing, and another where it would be ridiculous and funny. It's of course far better to say that one literally ate a sandwich (it's true; after all, he did eat it) than to say that a person literally drove his car into the ground or that he literally has no backbone.