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'Course, you could always just sit there for like, 200,000 turns and let yourself heal.

No, it takes only 173298 turns.

*sigh*

I was wondering, why is just this thread shown as having 0 views and no replies ?

The movies I liked best from the ones I saw last year were The Avengers and Rango (2011-Animated).

Especially Rango, I think, it's worth another see.

I'm even later, but what is time, anyway ? Happy New Year

Wow.

Now decoys, what next ? Makes you wonder how much more the spiders are capable of evolving.

Merry Christmas to All !!!

TT

the times people have been posting (including me) in all the forums are like 6 hours off from my time zone. Is there a way I can change this, so I may have accurate information?

Yep. Click on your name in the top-right corner of this page and click 'My Settings'. The option to change the time zone is second in the list.

that's not the issue, the issue is finding out about the illness and taking measures to ensure that that person can't unload on a schoolhouse.

Yes, but we're not all in agreement about whether he's 'mentally ill' or not in the first place which I thought was an underlying issue. Analyzing and classifying his problem (mental or not) into a category can help detect other troubled individuals and help them get treated before they have to take it out on others.

Just because you, and indeed most people, cannot understand the action, doesn't mean that the action was a result of mental illness or anything of the sort.

That depends on what you mean by a mental illness. A person (even as a child) is expected to have a general idea of how to behave in a society, and while not coming up to these standards doesn't necessarily make you 'mentally disabled', going so far from the normal line of thinking as to go around shooting others certainly does.

meme idea

Again with the kids! Honestly, what's with all the caterwauling? Kids die in droves all over the world from easily preventable causes (abuse, neglect, conscription, starvation, accident, disease, etc.), and yet on this one particular issue everyone gets on their high horse.

Both of those statements are perfectly true. I'd say BT is looking at the big picture (but maybe you could have worded it better ?) The reason for this, I'd say, is that the sources of the easily-preventable causes you've mentioned are widely distributed all over the world. You can't just point a location out and say "Here is the problem. The solution is a law. And here is that law which ought to be passed". Besides, in the case of the shooting, the very image of a killer going around shooting children has a higher 'horror-level' than the same children dying of malnutrition or disease. And if you don't think so, you're just a monster in the mainstream eye.

it's the 22nd here and the world still exists, sorry to disappoint you

But that's the thing, Google says it's only early Dec 21 in Mexico/Guatemala.

I apologize for being a bad influence on you.

Not at all, just joking. I found the fowl scent of fried foul particularly inspiring.

Isn't it at 11 pm ?

Best to wait a while though, until the apocalyptic date gets across all the time-zones.

I am trying to get into Nethergate and Blades ,but it's a struggle really, I can't even click on things!!!

I know what you mean. Thats like me and the Geneforge series. The original Avernum games would get boring because moving around was more grinding. The good thing is that we have Avernum-Eftp.

I'm too much a fan of the old BoA system that I never use the mouse even on Aeftp; I prefer bumping into things.

You can use the mouse though, just not directly; you have to press the respective keyboard letter first.

I thought we could continue with the RP if that's okay with you all (Actaeon ?). I mean, why not ? We're not obliged to put a full stop or anything (Also, I was curious about how the end-story was going to be when it was all planned out).

Never the one to take the initiative, a little poke in the back was all that the Big Man had been waiting for. He whips his wand out, closes his eyes and begins preparing a very complex incantation, but one of the intelligent raptors suddenly lunges forward and clings onto the tip of his wand with it's jaws. And, as everyone knows, it's impossible to cast a wand-spell if there's something blocking the path at the other end.

The Big Man curses in a foreign language as he twirls his wand around trying to get the blasted thing off his wand. He stumbles on a fallen branch, sending both the wand and the squealing raptor flying in different directions. The raptor falls with a squishy splat on top of Excalibur and the wand falls near Upon Mars. But the Big Man is now helpless, as he has no other weapons and he doesn't fancy using any means of attack which will bring him in physical contact with those raptors.

Big Man : Hey, Harehunter, can you lend me a firearm of any kind ? A rifle, maybe, or at least a pistol ?

Harehunter : Why, certainly, you can have my shod-off shoe-gun. Here, catch. (ooc : i'll never try to pun again i swear)

The Big Man grabs a couple of birdies which were still flying around, stuffs them into his shoe-gun and shoots bam-bam-bam at the raptors. But we are vastly outnumbered. There's far too many of them and they just keep coming. The Big Man looks helplessly towards Jewels, SoT and Dikiyoba for they can always set things right.

It'd be a pretty good idea if everyone is ready to use this code as part of their signatures.

Avernum 4-6 remakes?....My Life is a lie.

I hate to to break it to you, but

..karma and Hell are mutually exclusive..

I haven't understood what all this talk of 'Karma' on the internet is about. As a Hindu, I know it as "sum of a person's actions that can determine said person's future events". It is a counter of all the good's and bad's that you have done, which will finally (upon death) be considered by Ishwara (God) when the ultimate question arises - Do you attain Moksha or do you just continue indefinitely in this cycle of birth and rebirth ?

This view is apparently similar to the term as known in Buddhism/Sikhism. But all of the Christians/Muslims I've asked have only a vague idea of it having to do with a person's 'deeds'. So why is Karma talked about as if it is a seperate concept that is independent of religion ? If you are not a Hindu/Buddhist/Sikh, then there is no reason for you to believe in the concept all, is there ?

The reason the RP died was because there were eight billion things going on and no direction. It was like having twelve drivers on one bus all trying to steer.

I still think the RP should be controlled by a single storyteller who knows exactly where we are going and how to get there. Or risk one of the short-sighted RP participants creating a big twist (however interesting it may be) which makes the story ricochet off in a totally different direction than what was intended. And then we are standing in the middle of nowhere wearing a Santa Claus costume, holding a fluffy turtle, totally out of ideas and wondering what to do next. Posts once made in the RP can't be undone either, so every about-to-make-plot-twister-poster will have to first ask permission in a 'discussion' thread first, which makes the entire thing too boring and 'work'-like.

Reading the Discussion Thread before posting in the RP shouldn't be a requirement, as it had turned out to be. I mean, the idea never was to get together and create a perfect story, was it ?

I'd have bought a Voodoo doll if only they weren't so highly priced.

I wonder: If I change the level to 31, will the cap be broken and allow you to level further?

Maybe. That depends on the type of condition check Jeff used. But since you'll have to hack it all up to get to level 31 at all, you might just as well hack it all the way and make it level 50 or any number you like.

I dunno, I'm generally inclined to be sceptical about anything that looks too fantastic and sensational.

But who knows ?

I'm curious about how the members of this community are divided into the different platforms Avernum runs on. So Poll Time!!