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I personally only access the BB using Opera, and I have never had any problems with it. I haven't used Firefox yet with it, though.
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| Thread: Christmas wish list ... |
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Originally posted by -Direhaggis-
Well there are the dynamics of what X threshold has on the gating properties of this or that ion channel, and the dynamics of neurotransmitter release, but the building blocks you mentioned are fundamentally it.
Some might have found it easy. Some people find hierarchical linear modeling or constitutional law straightforward. I'm of the former persuasion, myself, I guess because I'm just wired that way.
Having not had the physics or advanced chemistry, however, I had to handle the basics alongside the material itself. |
True. Luckily for me, I was a Science Major in High School, and a Computer Science Major in my University, so after graduating I'm a Computer SCIENTIST 
For my High School midterms and finals (basically college entrance exams) my tutor was a family member who just happened to be a practicing doctor. So with him reviewing with me all the material -on top of me already being brilliant in Biology among other topics- I aced that topic, even slightly higher than my English scores. I knew everything about the human body from the enzymes in the stomach through neural science and many functions and brain components and enzymes.
After I finished, I easily aced Biology in college, naturally. Like you said, if you like a topic, you'll do well in it.
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| Thread: Yeah, I remember Ultima |
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Originally posted by -Direhaggis-
Basically, he suddenly disappeared one day and deleted everything on the old FTP server. I've been told most of it was "crap," but I'm sure some of it could have been salvaged.
Never did find out why it happened. From what you mentioned, though, it sounds like he just spazzed out. |
First, thanks Corv for the compliment. 
And Direhaggis is sadly correct about the previous team under Avatus. What was done wasn't all good, especially when girlfriends of writers thought they could write and submitted work. 
(To be fair, it was really funny....unintentionally though).
Other work was shallow, and unfortunately Avatus' ideas went far and beyond Ultimas or even UUW1&2, which I didn't like (I like being Orthodox).
But at least I was able to save all of my work (fiction) and the timeline along with descriptions and references from the Ultimas we reference, which is pretty good and better than nothing.
More importantly, with Corv's energy and dedication I'm very confident about this project's prospects. And with that kind of inspiration, of course DH would be this passionate 
along with the rest of the team.
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| Thread: Happy Christmas, Merry Holidays |
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And Merry Christmas to y'all too.
Funny thing, this season really does get to everyone. I tried to call a relative of mine in Australia and it turned out I had the wrong number, but the gentleman who answered was polite and wished me a Happy New Year, and in response I wished him a Merry Christmas.
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| Thread: Christmas wish list ... |
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It sounds like a very interesting class. Like a said, a breeze.
It's basically about designing electrical circuits with + or - charges, and figuring out from the given stimulus what the resulting outputs would come out as. The only difference is that your course uses millivolts and calls the parts really funny names to throw people off the scent and to make it sound really hard. It's really just Phsyics (circuits) and Biology (Physiological science mixed in with neuroscience) with Chemistry thrown in for good measure.
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| Thread: U7 Combat |
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That sounds about right. I never really paid too much attention to how it worked. All I knew, and cared for, was that better weapons caused more damage, while better armor absorbed more damage, and the same thing applied to higher stats. Plus, unlike U6, combat was free-form and you can click and attack anyone (U6 had a very rigid cube targeting system).
Finally, glass swords kill instantly, yipee.
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| Thread: Christmas wish list ... |
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Originally posted by Sir Iceblade
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| Originally posted by -Direhaggis-comprehensive cell and molecular neuroscience final |
Yikes, are those undergrad courses? |
Nah, those are easy but graduate level courses.
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| Thread: Ultima VII - Collapsing Britannia |
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That's strange. I never had a problem like that myself.
Maybe it because I never cheated, I suppose. But I did stack up thousands of gold, hundreds of potions and magic scrolls in one area (around the moongates in p1 and p2).
The only place I remember where it caused a problem was in U9, where I collected all the rare and unique items in my room in Castle Britannia, and because of the number of items, the game would run really slow in that area and it would crash if I tried to load a saved game that I saved within that area.
But I kept hoarding stuff regardless anyway, I had spare gargoyle eggs I placed at the front gate of the castle as pillars. Complete sets of armor. All unique items, keys, maps, glass swords, shields, you name it if it was cool looking and unique, I kept it in my room.
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| Thread: Dirty Ultima Limerics! (parental advisory) |
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Still, it's only 1 letter more that different, versus the other ones that were 1 letter different in rhyming. I prefer the rhyming of the sound of the word and the last letters, or even the very last letter only.
Personally, I prefer writing direct, descriptive, romantic poetry over limericks any day.
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| Thread: Thanksgiving good, I trust? |
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Yeah, I love my spiral ham. 
Heck, a lady at work even gave me a piece of Pumpkin cake! I never had one before and I didn't know that they even made that... it tasted really good though, especially since it was hot out of the oven.
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| Thread: Thanksgiving good, I trust? |
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Thanks bro. May the turkey be strong with you too.
I'm still eating ham and turkey today still, good stuff.
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| Thread: Serpent Isle Transcript? |
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Maybe I can help you out. Let me know what you need.
PM, IM or e-mail me if you want to also.
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| Thread: Dirty Ultima Limerics! (parental advisory) |
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Originally posted by HulkingUnicorn
Very nice guys... |
True, if you consider dirty limerics nice.
Btw Sowser, I doubt you meant that Minax weaved or told stories to Mondain. "Yearned" would've worked better, as well as "wench" instead of "bitch", though I admire your effort to "rhyme".
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| Thread: Virtues |
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Originally posted by Thepal
Not sure about the Justice one... Seems a little too self-related
Anyway, the truly humble thing to do would be to not have posted at all, rather than post to show your humility saying you're being humble 
And the questions at the start of the Ultimas aren't exactly wonderful. I mean, anyone who follows most of the Honour questions has problems
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There you go, you've proven my point and I was right in not posting my deeds, thus, my ruse worked!!
The Justice one was indeed selfish, that was the joke.
Yeah, to be honest I don't think most of the gypsy questions were any good or virtuous for that matter. Having to choose between virtues, some of which were in the wrong context and were evil for that matter, was a terrible design decision. Plus, the system was too rudimentary and you eliminated virtues that you might like simply because they were forced into the wrong situation.
Although, I can't believe no one took my bait on the girlfriendS one!! 
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| Thread: Virtues |
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Originally posted by Thepal
Humility doesn't mean that you can't say good things about yourself. You can be humble and still tell the truth about yourself. In fact, a statement like that I'd say is bordering on being unhumble. |
Actually, some of the questions at char creation in Ultimas had questions with nearly my answer where you do a good deed and not make a big deal of it. In another case, you let someone else take credit for your good deeds, etc. But ok, then, here it goes:
- Honesty would dictate that I be forthcoming with everything...
- Humility would dictate that I not boast...
- Valor would dictate that I go for it...
- Compassion would dictate that I say sweet things to my girlfriends and not just on Valentine's day 
- Justice would dictate that I get all the credit that's due to me...
- Spirituality would dictate that I stay faithful to my beliefs.
- Honor would dictate that I be and act honorably in respect to my parents, duties, promises, and that's what I do.
- Sacrifice would dictate that I forsake all glory for the sake of a humble life without looking for glory.
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| Thread: Virtues |
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Well.....
Humility: But since I'm sincerely myself humble, I can't say why I consider humble, nor can I mention the other virtues that I adhere to so as not to be vain and un-humble.
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| Thread: Where's Corv? |
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I read the whole story, but I still don't get why just WHY a country, no an Empire, like Austria would just give up on its own territory, especially one that repelled the French on their own. Their losses to the French might have had something to do with it, methinks.
The Austrian Emperor gave Napolean his daughter in marriage though... although eventually he betrayed him as well, that's life I guess.
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| Thread: Easter Egg in Serpent Isle? |
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Wow, that's a very interesting easter egg. I've never personally encountered it before.
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