Dantius

Hm. The only mentions of Avadon I've heard on other sites were mainly people faking having a hissy fit over "OMGWTFBBQ THIS GAEM SUX" so they could justify pirating it instead of having to pay like $30. Size is a very good reason to buy Jeff's games, and the 40-60+ hours (or 25ish in the case of Avadon) you can get playing them are absolutely worth the price. Especially when you consider replay value compared to other AAA games- Jeff's games are many times more replayable than, say, Dragon Age, which was billed as six games in one, when really it as just six 1-2 hour "origin stories" before you got to the main game that was the same for everyone. In Geneforge 1, playing as the Takers as opposed to the Obeyers meant that the last more-or-less half of the game was radically different, which basically packed in a second game- well worth the price of admission.

#53 is Leads the Underworld to you. Charon, the figure in Greek mythology who shepards souls to the Underworld, is a "psychopomp", someone who leads souls to the afterlife. Therefore, a pompopsych would be someone who leads the afterlife to you. Clever, that one.

Is #21 Britannian Seer? Perhaps it's in reference to Cormac from Nethergate, who IIRC wears an orange robe, and is the "head" seer of the tribe...

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S EDIT: Also, there are now only 5 left, so I'm going to require more direct linkages before I respond. "It's the only one left" will not count, although it is a darn good clue that you should look stuff up. Wait, we can Google on these? Sweet!

No fair! I got that one first, and I even justified it too!

Originally Posted By: Jeff Ghhhhahhhhh! Make it go away! Make it go AWAYYYYYYYY!

Well, now that Nikki's banged a few more off the list, I'll just try and guess the remaining two. #5 is "Your goal is to eat spinning SunSoft mascots", based solely of the fact that QWERTY keyboards are often used to control terrible flash games. #53 is "Britannian Seer", since it's the only one left.

Hmm. I should be able to get the rest, there's so few. Is #2 Tip's Lazy Son? I mean, "playboy" is practically a synonym for "lazy", so there's that. "Enki" sounds like some sort of Norse god, and Hawkwind also sounds like some mythological figure, so is #42 Servant of Enki?

Oh, duh. Ashoka the Great was a Buddhist emperor of India, not a Hindu or Muslim. He's the only person on the list who would have conceivably had anything to do with stupas. No idea about that 84K, but whatever. So that makes #14 Ashoka's Legacy. #59 probably has something to do with linguistics, so I'll say that's the State of Letters. Based solely on the prefix poly-, I'll say that #47 is Who Receives Many. Gaarder was the writer of Sophie's World, which BTW is a terrible book, and Ingebritsens sounds Scandinavian as well, so let's pair #13 with Gaarder distraction device. Hmm, it's kind of like a crossword where you're provided with a word bank. Still prefer chess puzzles, though. EDIT: Wait, what if you're using Britannian Seer in reference to Code Geass? I don't recall any seers other than C.C. and V.V, though, so I'm kind of at a loss there.

I'll take a stab at this. #1 is Murasaki nickname, since Murasaki is the author of the Tales of Genji, arguable the first novel, which records the "annals" or tales of life in the imperial court. I'll also take a WAG and say that #3 is Goethe heroine, since 1) you capitalized the letters implying it's a name, and 2) that sounds like more like a character that would be used in a Goethe allegory or story than any of the others. I'm not sure if that's good enough justification, but whatever. Yeah, that's enough for now.

Keep in mind, when people complain about G3, they are complaining relative to the quality of the other games produced in the series. It's actually quite a good game, annoying quirks aside, but the main reason people don't like it is simply because it falls short when compared to the first two games in the series. It's the same problem that Dragon Age 2 ran into- a decent game that had the misfortune to be a direct sequel to a fantastic game, and was subsequently judged more on its failure to measure up to its predecessor than its merits.

tl;dr- These quizzes should be kept to a maximum of like 20 items. Nobody wants to cross-reference 60 PDN's and clues to figure out who's who. Also, use more linebreaks. And number the second list.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan On-topic short story. Relevant article

Originally Posted By: Sarachim Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Sarachim Well, you're assuming that the plateau occurs somewhere in the 30s, which I don't think was implied by anything I said. I would argue that, if nobody says "first post" within the first thousand posts, then it will never be said at all. Prove me wrong. There is a nonzeo probability that someone, possibly me, will simply spam "first post!" into very old and very long threads to disprove you and win the argument. Hence, you cannot say for certain that it will plateau at all, simply because you cannot predict the behavior of individual humans with any certitude, and it only takes one counterexample to disprove your assertion. Do we actually have any threads 1000 posts long? If not, you would have to extend the thread past that point before you said "first post!" if you wanted to prove me wrong. And if I saw you doing it, I could jump in and say "first post!" myself before you got there, and you would have to start over. No, then you'd have proved yourself wrong and all I'd have to do is lean back and feel vaguely superior that I manipulated you into proving yourself wrong to spite me.

Originally Posted By: Sarachim Well, you're assuming that the plateau occurs somewhere in the 30s, which I don't think was implied by anything I said. I would argue that, if nobody says "first post" within the first thousand posts, then it will never be said at all. Prove me wrong. There is a nonzeo probability that someone, possibly me, will simply spam "first post!" into very old and very long threads to disprove you and win the argument. Hence, you cannot say for certain that it will plateau at all, simply because you cannot predict the behavior of individual humans with any certitude, and it only takes one counterexample to disprove your assertion.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan To you two or I, perhaps. But these are philosophers we're talking about. Y'know, the people who have difficulty understanding how arrows move. Thing is, we'd be happy to explain the concept to them, but people with math backgrounds keep getting banned from their conferences. Oh, it's philosophers we're dealing with? Well, I rescind my statement, then.

Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: Dantius But infinite geometric series by themselves aren't so hard. Many people consider calculus to be hard, and as infinite series are taught in Calc II, I find that the general population would differ with your above-quoted statement. I was discussing the act of computing the sum of a geometric series itself, which is just plugging numbers into a simple formula (a/[1-r]), which I would think even the mathematical illiterati would be capable of doing without too much trouble.

first post!!!11!!!!!

Originally Posted By: Triumph Originally Posted By: Dintiradan See, Slarty, the issue is this: we've got a classic case of Achilles vs. Tortoise on our hands here. Calculus to the rescue!!! Of course, that may not enhance comprehensibility of Slarty's histories for the common layman. a/(1-r) can hardly be considered advanced mathematics by any stretch of the imagination. Deriving it, perhaps. But infinite geometric series by themselves aren't so hard.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith godwins law, dag nabbit Well, I could have reference Pol Pot, Charles Manson, Rasputin, or Genghis Khan if you'd prefer those to Hitler. They were all vegetarians, too.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith I couldn't kill, this made me a hypocrite, so I stopped eating meat. There's other reasons too, but that was the deciding factor. Yeah, well, just because you're a vegetarian doesn't mean you can't kill...

Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: Ephesos 12. Explain why sandwiches are better than wraps. Less pointless bread product to get through to reach the delectable filling that is the promised land! So how do people here feel about those sandwich thins. I find them to be excellent - they hold a decent amount, aren't too thick or bready, have good structural integrity, and can double as a burger bun in a pinch. So... pita bread by another name?

Originally Posted By: Nicothodes Okay, so now I've gone and officially joined the Takers. My real life reason is to make myself be not nice in a game, since I've gotten to the point where I don't steal even if there are no consequences(though I'm not sure that doesn't just mean I have messed up priorities, since I have no qualms about killing in-game). My in-game reason for joining is because my character didn't feel like fighting or sneaking into the research labs and joining meant she could walk through the front gate and get free stuff. She's undecided over whether to kill everyone at some point or not. This whole ordeal has been a bit wearing on her sanity. Oh god, I just realised that I had to say that my character was lazy and mentally unstable in order to justify my actions. Well, t least with the canisters it makes sense... It gets easier to justify if you use the Geneforge. You literally can't not kill everyone you meet!

Originally Posted By: Nioca Also, there's something I'm starting to wonder about our tactics; thusfar, we've been having difficulty whenever we try to scavenge from or enter a city. No surprises, after all, there's zombies. But here's what I'm thinking: Right now, zombies tend to spot us either by hearing us or by seeing us. Which brings me to my point: if they're using vision to find us, why make a scavenging run in broad daylight, when we're most easily spotted? Why not wait until dark to try it? Obviously, we don't want to try and find a safe house in an unknown city after dark, and we'd probably want to do a bit of scouting on the outskirts of the city before trying anything (we need some binoculars), but for just simple scavenging runs, it might make more sense to do it at night when the zombies are less likely to see us (And also use melee to keep noise down). Thoughts? Wait, you're seriously suggesting that we attempt to navigate the zombie-infested city at night with no special equipment and slightly over three dozen rounds of small arms ammo? dude have you ever even seen a zombie movie

Toucheé, Nalyd. Toucheé.