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>> ^Entropy001:

It's amazing that the engine doesn't crash. I wonder how they organized it?


it's not the same wimpy engine as 5 years ago
if you listen to the guy, you'll hear he said "that's what you get for randomly rolling the 1st server in the list" or something like that..

@Abel_Prisc there's realism and then there's realism.

Lord of the Rings is obviously not realistic - orcs, giant spiders and so on - but it feels real. A good scifi, fantasy or any genre show that takes you out of the real world, still should feel real, or there is no connection with the audience. Some times, you just accept a given thing - "we have warp drives" - even though it isn't realistic, but you accept it as a suspension of disbelief (or leap of faith, if you will). I think Fringe piles on too much in the suspension of disbelief; new things all the time, weirder and weirder... by the end you can't ignore your doubt of the show.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Nothing to do with Rand, of course, but here is a compelling debate between David Horowitz and Michael Albert: http://www.zmag.org/znet/zdebatehorowitz.htm

^ Maybe if he had he'd have been able to take down that ruddy orc that blew up the wall of Helms Deep.

>> ^nach0s:
I'm guessing those knives are plus 1.


Against everything.


Orcs especially I presume though.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.

The other, of course, involves orcs."

Its a nice promotional video for the MMO: Eve Online. Before you dump your dwarf/orc in World of Warcraft (WoW), and go try being Buck Rogers, just remeber one thing: The Learning Curve. The learning of most MMO's is fairly gradual from being (your a noob) to the end game content (your a noob with shiny gear). Eve does not do things quite that easily, which is unfortunate. Imagine scaling a cliff without any ropes, harness or even chalk. Now, as your climbing, you have to climb, inverted for a length of time, before going vertical once more and reaching the top. THAT, is Eve's learning curve.

And before you think, that such a learning curve rids you of those chowder heads you find in WoW, think again. The ones in Eve are about forty times more unmerciful to deal with. Which largely explains in one regard, why WoW has some 14 million subscribers, and Eve has about 1 million.

http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

Right now its basically sandbox worldcraft using a limited array of textured blocks.


Soon, the developer has planned implementing NPC's, mining for ore to get resources, different gameplay modes, like where you have to build structures during a day cycle and fend off zombie attack at night.

It's only been in dev for two months and its one swedish guy working on it. The simplicity has me hooked.

Oh, also, you can instantly reskin your character however you choose, once you purchase. I guess this is only interesting if you like making up your own fun. You can run your own server easily, public or private, and since it's all java and broswer, your friends can help you build. You can kick people or ban them from your server if they mess around. You can save levels easily.

Im taking screenshots ill see what i can post... ahh here, my buddy made himself a storm trooper skin heh, and he found a cow too.

http://img155.imageshack.us/i/58626847.jpg/
http://img81.imageshack.us/i/sb23.jpg/
http://img155.imageshack.us/i/sb55.jpg/
http://img81.imageshack.us/i/sbchurch.jpg/

I didnt get any shots of what we'd been working on with serious intent.. all this stuff is just experimenting.

I guess you can also import old doom levels somehow?

Also in the pictures, bear in mind.. the world goes just as deep as it does high.. filled with caverns and ore and lava and.. well thats about it at the moment. The maps can generate some really funky stuff! its not all islands beach and water... cities pop up too.

remember ...there are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world (well, once they're implemented ~)

thank you for your time!

>> ^griefer_queafer:
...insaNE.

Yes, Alliance for sure, though possibly possessed by an Orc.

>> ^Arg:
I'd be amazed if this man is capable of tying his own shoelaces.


I meet him and he is an intelligent, funny and likable guy. Of course you can mock and spout something about a person that you don't know instead of dealing with what he says.
Ben Stein was considered one of the smart guys before he decided to make his movie about Evolution. Now (even though he is not a Christian) he is mocked in similar fashion.
I was under the impression that this is a country where people can speak their mind and challenge thought?! Isn't that, an open discusion and reasoning, what makes sience worthwhile and lead to something?
Funny how nobody wants to talk about the things that Darwin said would have to fall into place to prove his theory. Funny how many of the “proof” comes out forged or plain false? If it is so clear and logigal… why the need to forge things? Funny how these known forgeries are still used in school text books today?!

Just to name a few:

Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!


Nebraska Man from the Illustrated London NewsNebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.


Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)


Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)


Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)

The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts that the human fetus goes through various stages of its evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)

I'm with ya', although I'm killing zombies instead of orcs.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Very much so. I feel bad about vanishing off the face of the sift, but it's just temporary.

I'm trying to break my addiction to the day-to-day political news cycle, and right now it's pretty easy to do, seeing how all they have to talk about is speculate on cabinet appointments, last-minute Bush crimes, and watch the conservative wing of the punditocracy claim that Obama is now going to smash "the left"'s dreams, and govern from the center.

I'm finding some amusement in that coming from people who, a month ago, were calling Obama a socialist or a Marxist.

Mostly, I'm trying to retool myself for a political world where I'm not spending so much time angry, horrified, or fearful.

That, and get my Druid to level 80 in World of Warcraft.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Taking a much deserved break?

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I liked War3's orcs a lot better than the previous Orcs. They were a breath of fresh air. "Savage orcs" are present in 99% of fantasy settings so it was a pretty tired formula I was glad to see abandoned.

Still, I find it odd that Blizzard gave the Horde so many traits from real world non-white cultures. The Japanese Samurai Orc Blademaster who speaks Engrish, the Native American Tauren with their totems and such, and the Jamaican Trolls with their voodoo magic are some examples. The "Humans" are all based on white European cultures. I've come to expect a kind of race war element to alotta historically based games, as it makes sense there. But to bring it to a fantasy setting seems odd to me. And then to only give non-white traits to the monsters of the Warcraft setting... it's certainly eye brow raising. Was there some kind of political statement or historical lesson here? My memory is hazey on Warcraft 3's story, but I recall the Humans (ie "white people") unjustly imprisoning a great deal of Orcs (ie "non-whites").

Oh god, couldn't stand the butchering they gave to the lore from the previous two titles. Not to mention angsty Arthas and emo Illidan, and the whole shamanistic mess they for some reason decided to haphazardly turn the previously cool savage orcs into.