The bravest man alive

[brxbrx]

Originally Posted by Peter Ebbesen

It gives him serious bragging rights in the house of just fires.

That made me smile

[Corinthian]

How does you even get morale that high? I mean he only get +4 from experience and he started with 15-20? Is his heroic ability heroic valor or heroic stupidity?

[brxbrx]

Originally Posted by Corinthian

How does you even get morale that high? I mean he only get +4 from experience and he started with 15-20? Is his heroic ability heroic valor or heroic stupidity?

It's valor. You can see a standard.

[Chazar]

Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

Well, if you play the game on a Linux box with the right command line switches, you can turn on the telepathic link that tells you what the hearts mean without your having to click on them. Same thing for figuring out what heroic quality the hall of fame gave a character. It's really cool.

Which command line switches are the right ones for this?

What does it do exactly?

I am playing on a Linux box, but I also have to click the hearts.

[Starbelly Geek]

Originally Posted by Chazar

Which command line switches are the right ones for this?

What does it do exactly?

I am playing on a Linux box, but I also have to click the hearts.

Well, I don't actually use a Linux box, so I'm not familiar with their eerie powers, but do you have up-to-date drivers for your telepathy hardware? It relies on a bluetooth connection to the receptor you should have had inserted behind your ear when you were visited by The Great Penguin, and the latest drivers are much more stable than previous versions.

PS - been to Ulm. Nice cathedral.

[Chazar]

Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

Well, I don't actually use a Linux box, so I'm not familiar with their eerie powers, but do you have up-to-date drivers for your telepathy hardware? It relies on a bluetooth connection ...

Actually, I do use Telepathy (a communications framework), and it does (indirectly) work well with my Plantronics Bluetooth Headpiece already. It all makes sense to me, so I don't think this is a Linux driver issue. I think the interface of Dom3 is to blame here, but this has been a long-standing issue - a well-known problem (don't get me started, there would be so many real simple tweaks to improve the GUI by a lot).

Ok, you were joking. Got it now; although I still don't get the original joke. Thanks for clarifying it anyway, for otherwise I would have kept wondering about it.

Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

PS - been to Ulm. Nice cathedral.

I've never been in Ulm, except for riding through it on a train once or twice. 200km is actually a fairly long distance, although I am travelling 400km twice a week. Incidentally, my travel both starts and ends within 200km of Ulm. Weird, isn't it?

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by Chazar

Ok, you were joking. Got it now; although I still don't get the original joke.

Assuming you mean:

Originally Posted by Starbelly Geek

Well, if you play the game on a Linux box with the right command line switches, you can turn on the telepathic link that tells you what the hearts mean without your having to click on them. Same thing for figuring out what heroic quality the hall of fame gave a character. It's really cool.

I think Starbelly was being ironic from the start Linux or not (despite its mysticism), you're gonna have to click...

I grew up on Unix. For those who know, Kernighan & Ritchie wre clearly divine beings. Never used Linux.

Do you all recall the greatest moment for Unix in cinema history? I keep thinking it's from WarGames, but I think I'm wrong. The person goes "OMG it's a UNIX machine" but they can still crack it, doubtless with typing a lot of "ls -l"s ? Anyone??

[Starbelly Geek]

Originally Posted by JonBrave

Do you all recall the greatest moment for Unix in cinema history? I keep thinking it's from WarGames, but I think I'm wrong. The person goes "OMG it's a UNIX machine" but they can still crack it, doubtless with typing a lot of "ls -l"s ? Anyone??

There's a line in Jurassic Park where the little girl sits down at the Macintosh computer and says "It's a Unix system. I know this!" and proceeds to use the strangest GUI ever to interact with the security system.
At least the interfaces and games in Wargames vaguely resembled what they claimed to be.

[JonBrave]

You're a hero, StarBelly, I'm sure you're right, will look it up in a mo'...!

[JonBrave]

Yes indeedy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

And as I recall, the scene goes on to: she has to arcade-navigate the on-screen UNIX-file-system in order to get to a file... Eat your hearts out, Linux-ers, this was the era of real UNIX GUIs...