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You have to remember some people might not have English as their first tounge... although they usually don't spell phonetically as they wouldn't be learning that way so these people are probably just morons.
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Anyone remember Alicia Carmen ? She had terrible spelling but once you deciphered what she was writing, it was (most of the time) intelligent.
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I'm not a Saint, too
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>Anyone remember Alicia Carmen ? She
>had terrible spelling but once
>you deciphered what she was
>writing, it was (most of
>the time) intelligent.
If I remember right, Alicia Carmen went out in a blaze of idiocy, never to return.
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>had terrible spelling but once
>you deciphered what she was
>writing, it was (most of
>the time) intelligent.
If I remember right, Alicia Carmen went out in a blaze of idiocy, never to return.
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>You have to remember some people
>might not have English as
>their first tounge... although they
>usually don't spell phonetically as
>they wouldn't be learning that
>way so these people are
>probably just morons.
I find more often than not, people with English not as their first language have better English writing skills than many Americans. People without English as their first language, for instance, do not replace "you" with "u," "are" with "r," or in combination "ur" in place of "your."
Yes I can understand that people mispell words and screw up their grammar every once and a while, but it is those idiots who think they're really shaving off time by omiting two or three letters per word that are really annoying.
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>might not have English as
>their first tounge... although they
>usually don't spell phonetically as
>they wouldn't be learning that
>way so these people are
>probably just morons.
I find more often than not, people with English not as their first language have better English writing skills than many Americans. People without English as their first language, for instance, do not replace "you" with "u," "are" with "r," or in combination "ur" in place of "your."
Yes I can understand that people mispell words and screw up their grammar every once and a while, but it is those idiots who think they're really shaving off time by omiting two or three letters per word that are really annoying.
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>>Anyone remember Alicia Carmen ? She
>>had terrible spelling but once
>>you deciphered what she was
>>writing, it was (most of
>>the time) intelligent.
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>If I remember right, Alicia Carmen
>went out in a blaze
>of idiocy, never to return.
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I think you have the blaze of idiocy part wrong. She just left, no reason whatsoever.
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>>had terrible spelling but once
>>you deciphered what she was
>>writing, it was (most of
>>the time) intelligent.
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>If I remember right, Alicia Carmen
>went out in a blaze
>of idiocy, never to return.
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I think you have the blaze of idiocy part wrong. She just left, no reason whatsoever.
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>I think you have the blaze
>of idiocy part wrong. She
>just left, no reason whatsoever.
If I recall, she left right after a huge FOOL debate, in which she was on the side of the FOOLs.
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>of idiocy part wrong. She
>just left, no reason whatsoever.
If I recall, she left right after a huge FOOL debate, in which she was on the side of the FOOLs.
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I almost always cut and paste my post into Word before it hit the post button. Spelling is hardly my strong point so I don't want my ideas taken for random stupidity. It only takes a minute or two more but the effect it has on those reading the post is immeasurable. Heh, I just did it and found two mistakes. See kiddies, extra work does pay off!
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>I almost always cut and paste
>my post into Word before
>it hit the post button.
>Spelling is hardly my strong
>point so I don't want
>my ideas taken for random
>stupidity. It only takes a
>minute or two more but
>the effect it has on
>those reading the post is
>immeasurable. Heh, I just did
>it and found two mistakes.
>See kiddies, extra work does
>pay off!
I often find myself pasting my messages into a text file, not to spell check, but in case my damned computer freezes and I lose a message I spent ten minutes composing. It has happened more than once.
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>my post into Word before
>it hit the post button.
>Spelling is hardly my strong
>point so I don't want
>my ideas taken for random
>stupidity. It only takes a
>minute or two more but
>the effect it has on
>those reading the post is
>immeasurable. Heh, I just did
>it and found two mistakes.
>See kiddies, extra work does
>pay off!
I often find myself pasting my messages into a text file, not to spell check, but in case my damned computer freezes and I lose a message I spent ten minutes composing. It has happened more than once.
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>>I often find myself pasting my messages into a text file, not to spell check, but in case my damned computer freezes and I lose a message I spent ten minutes composing. It has happened more than once.<<
Is it just me or do PCs become more fickle as they become "more powerful?"
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Is it just me or do PCs become more fickle as they become "more powerful?"
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>>>I often find myself pasting my messages into a text file, not to spell check, but in case my damned computer freezes and I lose a message I spent ten minutes composing. It has happened more than once.<<
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>Is it just me or do
>PCs become more fickle as
>they become "more powerful?"
Nah, I think I've just got a bad motherboard + CPU + Video card combo, combined with a huge array of programs that contribute to the overall instability of my system.
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>Is it just me or do
>PCs become more fickle as
>they become "more powerful?"
Nah, I think I've just got a bad motherboard + CPU + Video card combo, combined with a huge array of programs that contribute to the overall instability of my system.
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If you digged that up you'll probably find that I was the starter of that debate. In a way, I chased Alicia away. And siding with the FOOLs might be considered a blaze of idiocity on this board.
Come to think of it, I'm one of the few people here who weren't banned after starting a FOOL discussion.
Come to think of it, I'm one of the few people here who weren't banned after starting a FOOL discussion.
True, but I also think it was because you had a grasp of the spirit of a game being the reason behind the game, rather than the features being the excuse for the game.
On a side note: After playing a bit of full Arcanum, I can safely say that compared to it, in a CRPG standpoint, Baldur's Gate (all of them) REALLY suck ass.
On a side note: After playing a bit of full Arcanum, I can safely say that compared to it, in a CRPG standpoint, Baldur's Gate (all of them) REALLY suck ass.
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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Sep-28-01 AT 05:15AM (GMT)[p]I thought I noticed that when you do that your comma's end up the wrong way, but in the end, the board corrects it.
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Heh. Baldur's Gate is one of the games I atually bought instead of having it copied for me (I have no CD-writer). Big mistake. When I was near finishing the game I uninstalled it because I was utterly bored with it.
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>I thought I noticed that when
>you do that your comma's
>end up the wrong way,
>but in the end, the
>board corrects it.
I copy it plain-text into a text editor called UltraEdit-32. Like Notepad, it only uses plain ASCII characters so I don't get any wierd font-face specific stuff.
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>I thought I noticed that when
>you do that your comma's
>end up the wrong way,
>but in the end, the
>board corrects it.
I copy it plain-text into a text editor called UltraEdit-32. Like Notepad, it only uses plain ASCII characters so I don't get any wierd font-face specific stuff.
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>I've got my own Perl::Tk text
>editor, just plain ASCII as
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>It also has various format options,
>like ruling so that if
>you're going to be using
>a MUD's standard columns...
Yeah Ultraedit supports that too, it comes in handy at times, especially when making lists.
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>well.
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>It also has various format options,
>like ruling so that if
>you're going to be using
>a MUD's standard columns...
Yeah Ultraedit supports that too, it comes in handy at times, especially when making lists.
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RE: FO3(Turnbased vs Realtime I reckon was the original topi
I am sure this guy will never see my wonderful reply, but I have
to agree, that real-time just doesn't do it for me either. I like turn based, anyone else remeber the Dark Ages of RPG's pen paper dice? You spent more time blathering at each other and making a fun story than you did fighting mass battles and figuring "to-hit" rolls and "reaction modifiers" etc... It WAS about the story, the mission, trying to find the tricks and traps. Don't get me wrong, I am not lamenting the advent of the computer, but it just seems that with the advent of it (specific to RPG's anyhow) that the story part, the creative free-formity of it (to bastardize the language a bit) has suffered. It seems that we have lost the characters and gained a giant list of ITEMS. Less is sometimes more. The computer has freed us from the monotony of dice rolling and all that, but it seems that now that we don't have to keep track of the HP's and to-hits etc that we are suddenly addicted to the battles. It's fun to fight sure, but the story element is suffering... it's almost like a book right? Who wants to read a book where all that EVER happens is fight, fight, fight, kill more baddies.... You need mysteries to solve, and neat people to talk to. I guess I am getting away from my turn-based arguement, but coming from the old pen and paper days, it gave you a bit more time to think, and ROLE-PLAY.
If your main character is about to die in real time, you have to do what you know you have to to keep him/her alive, that pause between turns is vital to a RPG I think. Real-time takes to much away from that.
Anyhow, I am sure no one will read this as this discussion seems to have turned into a comic insider laugh fest. I got my fair share of chuckles out of it I must admit. Why do I waste my time?
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I am sure this guy will never see my wonderful reply, but I have
to agree, that real-time just doesn't do it for me either. I like turn based, anyone else remeber the Dark Ages of RPG's pen paper dice? You spent more time blathering at each other and making a fun story than you did fighting mass battles and figuring "to-hit" rolls and "reaction modifiers" etc... It WAS about the story, the mission, trying to find the tricks and traps. Don't get me wrong, I am not lamenting the advent of the computer, but it just seems that with the advent of it (specific to RPG's anyhow) that the story part, the creative free-formity of it (to bastardize the language a bit) has suffered. It seems that we have lost the characters and gained a giant list of ITEMS. Less is sometimes more. The computer has freed us from the monotony of dice rolling and all that, but it seems that now that we don't have to keep track of the HP's and to-hits etc that we are suddenly addicted to the battles. It's fun to fight sure, but the story element is suffering... it's almost like a book right? Who wants to read a book where all that EVER happens is fight, fight, fight, kill more baddies.... You need mysteries to solve, and neat people to talk to. I guess I am getting away from my turn-based arguement, but coming from the old pen and paper days, it gave you a bit more time to think, and ROLE-PLAY.
If your main character is about to die in real time, you have to do what you know you have to to keep him/her alive, that pause between turns is vital to a RPG I think. Real-time takes to much away from that.
Anyhow, I am sure no one will read this as this discussion seems to have turned into a comic insider laugh fest. I got my fair share of chuckles out of it I must admit. Why do I waste my time?
--pate
RE: FO3(Turnbased vs Realtime I reckon was the original topi
Why you little é"'uié'(('é"'é§"è§(§'è§!çè(ç(é(§"§(§ùè^è!$§"ù("ùµ$(§" $"§^("$§^"$§^"'$µµ"é"é'"§!. LOL
Seriously. I was in a war myself just a couple days ago to explain to someone why real time isn't so kewl as he thought. So hurray for the good guys.
And besides he got banned because he basically asked for it and i don't think it's a shame he can't read your post. We don't need people like that. They make life over here so much harder for people like yourself who want to discuss and not fling insults.
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Why you little é"'uié'(('é"'é§"è§(§'è§!çè(ç(é(§"§(§ùè^è!$§"ù("ùµ$(§" $"§^("$§^"$§^"'$µµ"é"é'"§!. LOL
Seriously. I was in a war myself just a couple days ago to explain to someone why real time isn't so kewl as he thought. So hurray for the good guys.
And besides he got banned because he basically asked for it and i don't think it's a shame he can't read your post. We don't need people like that. They make life over here so much harder for people like yourself who want to discuss and not fling insults.
JR
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