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| 25 MAR 2012 at 3:44pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (25 MAR 2012 1:33pm)
Originally Posted By Traveller (25 MAR 2012 1:29pm)
...but don't you think that the "magic signs" system in Arx might be offputtingly hard? Will your system play Oblivion, Tincip? If not, I almost hesitate to suggest Morrowind, because combat is quite hard in it, but then you can also simply play a lot of it while avoiding combat.
You can "store" up to 3 spells, by holding down the sneak key while inputting them, so you don't need to frantically make magic signs in the middle of combat. I did not realize that until quite late though, and got quite good at drawing the symbols needed for fireball while beign attacked by some of the games most powerful enemies. The game sure got easier when I realized how it was supposed to be done.
We really should move this to other games now, so this will be my last remark on the subject in this thread: I was always afraid of those siens and it was the sole reason i never palyed Arx, tho I own it. Might give it a whirl someday then... (When the EA monopoly kicks ion and i have nothing else to play... ) K, but this is really "other game" chat now - lets make a thread for it in other games, shall we?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 4:50pm |
Ex-JAStaff3Private Detective
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Status : Offline | After reading some of this discussion I was wondering if we had a new moderator here at JA. 
Carry on!
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 5:04pm |
ValGuild Master
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Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (25 MAR 2012 2:18pm)
Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 12:59pm)
Originally Posted By Fien (23 MAR 2012 10:00pm)
Originally Posted By Val (23 MAR 2012 8:51am)
Most of my family is doing great. Kids growing like weeds and have been bigger than me for a couple years now.
Gee, I never knew you had kids! Last time I read your posts you were with Aya.
My kids are from a previous marriage. Who is this? I don't recognize "Fien" as a user name.
Val, look on this as an adventure game clue:
If you read Fien's posts carefully, I Bet you will Not be in doubt for Long.
Is that the entire clue? Or just a portion of a set of clues?
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 5:36pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 5:04pm)
Originally Posted By SirDave (25 MAR 2012 2:18pm)
Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 12:59pm)
Originally Posted By Fien (23 MAR 2012 10:00pm)
Originally Posted By Val (23 MAR 2012 8:51am)
Most of my family is doing great. Kids growing like weeds and have been bigger than me for a couple years now.
Gee, I never knew you had kids! Last time I read your posts you were with Aya.
My kids are from a previous marriage. Who is this? I don't recognize "Fien" as a user name.
Val, look on this as an adventure game clue:
If you read Fien's posts carefully, I Bet you will Not be in doubt for Long.
Is that the entire clue? Or just a portion of a set of clues?
All I can tell you is that it isn't Jean.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 5:49pm |
ValGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (25 MAR 2012 5:36pm)
Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 5:04pm)
Originally Posted By SirDave (25 MAR 2012 2:18pm)
Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 12:59pm)
Originally Posted By Fien (23 MAR 2012 10:00pm)
Originally Posted By Val (23 MAR 2012 8:51am)
Most of my family is doing great. Kids growing like weeds and have been bigger than me for a couple years now.
Gee, I never knew you had kids! Last time I read your posts you were with Aya.
My kids are from a previous marriage. Who is this? I don't recognize "Fien" as a user name.
Val, look on this as an adventure game clue:
If you read Fien's posts carefully, I Bet you will Not be in doubt for Long.
Is that the entire clue? Or just a portion of a set of clues?
All I can tell you is that it isn't Jean.
Then perhaps my first instinct was right?? Betje?
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 6:37pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 6:55pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Well, glad everyone seems to be enjoying the cocktail party....
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 8:11pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I think we are doing just fine, people are busy with things but that does not mean we are not here. I am working on too many games to post much, doing mods fro Skyrim, helping with routes and resources for a bunch of sims, have an article due on games and then my own work..so there is just isnt much time...but adventure games are still alive and well and there are plenty to play, the next one i am looking forward to is the new episodes for Dreamfall which Ragnar has promised once Secret Wrold is out.
so we are fine.
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 8:19pm |
FienIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 12:59pm)
Originally Posted By Fien (23 MAR 2012 10:00pm)
Originally Posted By Val (23 MAR 2012 8:51am)
Most of my family is doing great. Kids growing like weeds and have been bigger than me for a couple years now.
Gee, I never knew you had kids! Last time I read your posts you were with Aya.
My kids are from a previous marriage. Who is this? I don't recognize "Fien" as a user name.
Fien is my oldest nick on the Internet. Many people, including regulars at JA, know I use it at game-related forums. At JA, and one or two other places, I was known as Betje, but I haven't used that nickname anywhere in years.
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| 25 MAR 2012 at 8:44pm |
ValGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fien (25 MAR 2012 8:19pm)
Originally Posted By Val (25 MAR 2012 12:59pm)
Originally Posted By Fien (23 MAR 2012 10:00pm)
Originally Posted By Val (23 MAR 2012 8:51am)
Most of my family is doing great. Kids growing like weeds and have been bigger than me for a couple years now.
Gee, I never knew you had kids! Last time I read your posts you were with Aya.
My kids are from a previous marriage. Who is this? I don't recognize "Fien" as a user name.
Fien is my oldest nick on the Internet. Many people, including regulars at JA, know I use it at game-related forums. At JA, and one or two other places, I was known as Betje, but I haven't used that nickname anywhere in years.
Wow, it is amazing how we associate someone online with whatever name we knew them by at that snapshot in time. Hi Fien!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 1:04am |
Len GreenJourneyman
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Status : Offline | ***** {
Fien is my oldest nick on the Internet. Many people, including regulars at JA, know I use it at game-related forums. At JA, and one or two other places, I was known as Betje, but I haven't used that nickname anywhere in years. " *****
OMG... Fien = Betje,,, OBOY !!
Sweet Caroline is probably about as happy to see you back here as she is to have me - hehehe
As my closest friend used to say (a REALLY WONDERFUL guy - unfortunately died several years ago) "Makes a change" - HA-Ha
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 1:19am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JA-Staff3 (25 MAR 2012 4:50pm)
After reading some of this discussion I was wondering if we had a new moderator here at JA.
Carry on!
Yes, it seems your role has now become devolved to weeding out spam. We have other policemen patrolling, on the sharp lookout for the terrible transgression of thread attrition.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 3:18am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I've got the feeling that around this hour it really is quiet around here, everybody is either at work (Europeans)  or asleep  [Americans]
Except for trav ofcourse, does she ever sleep? 
Last edited by markornikov : 26 MAR 2012 3:19am
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 4:28am |
Len GreenJourneyman
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Location: IL
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By markornikov (26 MAR 2012 3:18am)
I've got the feeling that around this hour it really is quiet around here, everybody is either at work (Europeans) or asleep [Americans]
Except for trav ofcourse, does she ever sleep?
Need to add those who talk "STRINE" & any who live in the Far East !
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 4:59am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Len Green (26 MAR 2012 1:04am)
OMG... Fien = Betje,,, OBOY !!
I have known this for a long time. 
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 7:50am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By markornikov (26 MAR 2012 3:18am)
I've got the feeling that around this hour it really is quiet around here, everybody is either at work (Europeans) or asleep [Americans]
Except for trav ofcourse, does she ever sleep?
You were really just looking for a chance to use those emoticon images, weren't you?
Anyway, most Americans are now one hour earlier because of daylight saving that turned the clock back 1 hour a few weeks ago. ...but yes, that post of mine does appear to be "in the wee hours", doesn't it? I sneak in when I have the place to myself. Just to confuse you.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
Last edited by Traveller : 26 MAR 2012 7:51am
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 9:27am |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | That hour change always messes me up! Especially when we jump ahead...
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 9:34am |
Ex-JAStaff3Private Detective
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Status : Offline | Staff3 never sleeps.   ZZZZZZZZZ
Retired Spam Zapper & Troll Tackler
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 11:21am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I think this entire thread might easliy be moved to the Off Topic now and we might move over to the What are We Playing and get back to the business of talking about games.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 12:14pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | "Last Call" as the bartender turns off the music and flicks the lights on...
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 2:56pm |
Len GreenJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (26 MAR 2012 4:59am)
Originally Posted By Len Green (26 MAR 2012 1:04am)
OMG... Fien = Betje,,, OBOY !!
I have known this for a long time.
It does not surprise me ln the slightest that you knew for a lontime :-
I had no idea whatsoever !!!
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 4:13pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Traveller (26 MAR 2012 7:50am)
Anyway, most Americans are now one hour earlier because of daylight saving that turned the clock back 1 hour a few weeks ago.
Actually, Trav, we (well, most of us Americans) lost an hour a few weeks ago. We had to set our clocks ahead one hour, so there's that, yeah.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 5:18pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Fall back, Spring ahead.
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| 26 MAR 2012 at 5:27pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (22 MAR 2012 11:28pm)
Originally Posted By Val (22 MAR 2012 7:31pm)
Hi Len! Long time, no talk! How are you and your family. I don't know if you remember me but I used to be Valadmin and the JA+ webmistress.
Val? Valadmin?
I remember you, Valadmin. In fact I remember seeing your name back when I first registered here as "K515" back in early January 2008, and I figured that "Val" was really "Valadmin."
Nice seeing you still here - are you still the JA admin?
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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