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Posted by: Wounded Ronin Apr 26 2008, 04:12 AM

The search engine won't let me run a search on Deus Ex! It is telling me that the search terms are too short. This is frustrating, though, because I know people have posted about Deus Ex in the past on this forum.

Posted by: Fix-it Apr 26 2008, 04:07 PM

tell me about it. I went through a rather frusterating search for Dumpshock's IRC channel yesterday, because IRC has only 3 letters.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Apr 26 2008, 07:40 PM

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=21756&st=0&gopid=672295&#entry672295

I wanna link to the old thread where we discussed a system for having destructive alcoholism repair bullet holes. But it doesn't wanna search "Deus Ex malt liquor vomit".

Posted by: Kagetenshi Apr 28 2008, 11:27 AM

Not that I don't agree that it's a problem, but "Deus malt liquor vomit" is at most going to introduce a small number of additional threads about particularly strange Arcology runs into your results.

~J

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Apr 28 2008, 08:13 PM

Why won't the search engine treat "Deus Ex", as opposed to "Deus" AND "Ex", as one 7-character string?

Posted by: Kagetenshi Apr 28 2008, 11:32 PM

Because it sucks?

Like I say, I'm not defending the search engine, just saying that your example doesn't actually highlight the drawbacks effectively (well, ok, it does demonstrate a situation in which you need to remove a desired search term from an otherwise-valid search string to get it to not choke) because of how easy it is to make a search string that does work.

~J

Posted by: Cthulhudreams May 7 2008, 04:31 AM

However, trying to find the thread that was about 'Top ten spells' is a total bastard, because searching for spells is a one way track to failtown.

Ps, if someone can tell me how to find that thread, I am actually looking.

Posted by: Kagetenshi May 7 2008, 07:31 AM

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=21512 is a top 5 thread, maybe it's what you were thinking of.

~J

Posted by: Cthulhudreams May 9 2008, 01:02 AM

No, thats not the one, it was definitely top ten lists There were a couple of really great posts about what was the criteria for a great spell for a mage, why it is important for them not to be replaceable with physicl effects etc.

Grr. Thanks anyway though.

Posted by: Fortune May 9 2008, 04:29 AM

I believe the thread entitled http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=17805&hl= is the one you are seeking.

I found it by searching for "Detect Life", because I knew without a doubt that that FrankTrollman listed that spell in the thread, but would get fewer hits than some of the other spells I might have chosen.