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Miscellaneous => Archives => Archive => Topic started by: Haraldur on December 14, 2003, 08:02:20 AM
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In my opinion Saddam is an asshole, but that is just my opinion. Feel free to post any comments here, no matter what they say.
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I think there should not be a war at all.
Altrough I don't say I like Saddam... He WAS a tyrant, after all...
But the real problems in Iraq will begin now - now that Saddam is gone, people will want US to get the hell out of their country. US will refuse. Religious rule (theocracy) will send their ayatollah to start a duel of minds inside people. Fanatics will burn American flags on streets. Women will get arrested for driving cars and people will get hanged for selling alcohol. US will want to make McDonalds in Iraq - now this will be enough.
In the meantime, our dear friend Kim Dzon Kill will launch several nuclear missiles straight at Washington. George Bush will get radiated and mummified with his own banadages as doctors will see that taking them off will cause skin to get along with them, off the body - so good bye, our poor America. The new president will fund our good George a mausoleum and hire old women to cry for money at it, like it was with Lenin.
People will cause this new doctrine "bushism" and democracy will fall. Bill Gates will see the birth of communism in USA and withdraw all his money from all his banks. This shall cause a global economic disaster. Holandian gays will vote for destruction of termins "sex" & "gender" since all people are equal and should not be divided by this. This will cause the fall of terms "family" and "life" as genetics will think over method of birth sexless children. Soon almost all people on Earth will look the same and think the same. There will be no wars and no starvation since the new mindless generations will not eat at all. There will also be sterile. So nearly entire populaton will DIE! Good God.
The only survivors will be bushmen in RPA who will pray to a bottle from Coca Cola which fell from heaven, thrown by a pilot passing by.
You'd better send us new Messiah for I don't see any other means of survival of so-called "civilisation".
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Even though getting rid of Saddam is a good thing Bush is an idiot eg. counties that opposed the war are barred from entering Iraq, even though they were at the Madrid donors conference. They will be replaced by some corrupt countris and dictatorship.
The war was right, but it was badly handled, and illegal. It was right for it to happen but they should have gone through the UN.
At the same time they should have put tons of pressure on Israel on the issue of their wall and of Jewish settlements, Israel is the reason why everyone hates America's government.
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Hmm... Israel? Wall? What do you mean? The fact that USA is so jewish-maniacal doesn't mean I hate 'em. I hate 'em for their damned capitalistic world seeing, where everyone is equal and only difference is between poor and rich. And that's why they'll DESTROY Iraqi tradition, the Shariat, etc...
I have nothing against Israel beside the fact they support the USA and their System (altrough System is a thing which was born from itself, System is above all measure for it IS measure, hmm... USA just supports the System), altrough I think they should allow Palestinians to have their country.
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*corrests himself* The Americans are hated by Arabs because they support Israel.
The Palestinians should have a free state. Also the Kurds.
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America taking sides with Israel over the Arabs...Goddamn. If the Israeli really were fighting for their religion, then they wouldn't be fighting at all! Same for the Arabs. 10 commandments, people. Nobody gives a shit if they were crushed into a fine powder by Moses, they are still in effect!
What a world we live in...America taking sides with people who are betraying their religion...that's (Editor: Censored)ed up.
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Yay! the topic is revived!
There are several big American mistakes, including Israel. Others include Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, the overthrow of the democratic Iranian government and replacing it with the brutal Shah, who was then overthrown by Muslim fundamentalists, supporting Osama bin-Laden in Afganistan against the USSR, supporting Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti against Iran for years, and in my opinion the worst: The overthrow of the democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende by a military coup arranged by General Augusto Pinochet and suported by the USA Government, most visibly Kissinger.
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There are so many assholes in this world. Somebody should get rid of them. I might try in my GAP year. Although I probably will not have much affect. Will I be a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Depends on your point of view really.
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I forgot Nicaragua, sorry.
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Actually, EVERY religion today is sort of betrayed by officials...
The only religion which wasn't ever betrayed was the aztec/mayan - they were sacrificing people alive by ripping their hearts and ritually eating them, but they weren't telling shit about not killing their bretheren!
Hmmm. I already have list of assholes in my general vicinity, I even had one action when I tried to killed one guy (he terrorized my pal with knife to give him cell phone, f***er) but he didn't show up when I waited for him preppared with knife... Eeeeh. Actually I try to become more peaceful. But there are still 7-8 people which make me mad.
I believe time will come that the world will cleanse itself from the error plague... And I am a part of the world indeed!
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I am actually more pessimistic. The world will not cleanse itself. It needs to be cleansed.
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And THAT was my point! Everyone of us is connected to the world! Ha ha ha, ha ha!
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We are not connected to the world! If we jump we are not touching it! Or at least for a small while...
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World is the Universe, not Earth... eeeeh...
When you jump, you are affected by the so-called "gravitons" which are transferable micropieces of the gravity force which I don't believe, because gravity is an insubstentional force in my sight of the world, it is the force that forged mobility and time, so the substentionality of the gravital transfer would make time and mobility impossible to appear...
Eeeeh, to think that for several years I didn't even believe in time!
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In that case we are not connected to the world but actually inside it! Got you again!
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Nah! You'll never get me!
Due to a teory which I formed as a basic fundament of my game, there is a bond between spiritual and material world. The worlds are melted each with another, when one is more connected to the other the other is further from the second one, for example the more spiritual things in physical world there are, the less of physics appear on spiritual world.
As the worlds are one, creating a 2-sided universe, it is possible to use spiritual bond in any place of the material world.
The material world requires the spiritual world to exist, as the wonder of Creation is in itself a spiritual process of making material world work. Because of that, the strength of material world depends on spiritual world. None of them can exists without another.
Let's say the balance between spirituality/materiality in world is 1:256. So the material world is a very strong one, where only sometimes strange things happen. Strange things? Right. But let's make it 256:1 instead, the other side of the 2-sided universe. Here, the strange things are material things - let's say you hurl Earth into the blazes of Sun in anger, what's strange about it? The fact that Earth and Sun are built from substancious things and cannot be transformed by the force of thought, quintessence, will, life or divinity - call it as you like it!
So... basicaly... with the spiritual/material link... we are connected to the world!
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Is this the real world or the one in the game that you are talking about?
I am confused! And so is Mr. Flibble! Heeheehee!
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It doesn't matter! In the end all shall fall before the System! Mwahahaha!
(that was, too, from my game, such words come spoken by the leader of the Gnosis... the true enemy is the one you can't destroy)
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Stop talking about your game! It makes me want to play it! Please stop! When will the first demo be out?
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Hmm... 2027?
Actually, I have almost everything preppared for the game... I have quest list, magic list, battle system, menu system and magic system plan, even some dialogues, map, location names, existing world fractions and factions... except the game itself!
I've only done 1 location - the starting town, 1 mobile player model (several static npcs only shown from front), some dialogues and basics of BS... This ain't much, isn't it? Aaaah, and some item "cameos" (in short, icons or 32x32 gif pics).
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...and how about YOUR game, huh?
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Which one? Well ... has a full story, with an opener for a possible sequel, but which does not demand a sequel. It has 2 completed boards and 1 incomplete. Many tiles. Oh and a battle system design. And an animation for traffic lights.
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I see you work hard Smile Hmmm, traffic lights... Good thing. Most games lack one thing, CONSEQUENCE. For example, when all those characters buy clothes? Are they born in them? Since there are no cloth shops at all... etc...
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Well, at first Haraldur is wearing a camouflaged radiation suit, because he put that on in the bunker, then he takes it off in an animation and wears normal camouflaged clothes, because he was issued them before you see him in the game, the opening animation for a new game shows him wearing army clothing because he has joined the army. Oh, and sometimes he steals clothing from people he has killed, if he needs it.
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Sounds good...
In my game, there propably won't be this far going cloth thing (that you can wear enemy clothes), but I plan to make a specific look for character in some clothes (like plate mail etc), what can be hard, as now I plan adding... 14 character classes. Maybe I'll change that... dunno.
The thing I try to add in the game... Perhaps to counter the general overwhelming feeling of the coming of System... is personification of almost every single villager. You see, regular game looks like this, villager says 1-2 quotes. Only few characters, like bosses or specific NPCs have their history, their character...
In my game, dialogues will take almost as big part as fighting... Almost every character will have something personal, like a wagon taxi-man which talks to his horse and curses railroads because trains offer threat to his work place, a priest which has amnesia, an always drunken drunk, a duke which is fanaticaly supporting his king, an opium-addicted artistocrate etc...
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Cool! I will do that too, thanks! However I will not use the same examples, as that would be plagiarism.
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Hehehe... I don't believe in plagerims Smile Along with renaissance motto of free artistry, I think that using someone else ideas is nothing wrong, as long as you include the notice whose these were, hehehe Very Happy
No, really. If my game ever comes out, you can use tiles, concept, everything, just put my name somewhere Smile
(uh... it's kind of hard to create a good dialogue system in tk not using branches but whiles...) The best thing would be something like this
1. "Wanna dance?"
Yes - go to 2
No - go to 3
2. "Fine."
3. "Scram!"
Etc... But whiles are more complicated, they can only have contests inside them, not outside (as I see) so you can direct answer into something out of questions (sounds stupid? it looks stupid, too). I'll have to think over it...
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I like to create something unique, or at least something that I have not seen bvefore as nothing is unique.
Besides, is the fun not doing everything, or almost everything yourself?
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Hell yes! You see, it is basing. Basing is what differs Lord of the Rings from Harry Potter.
Lord of the Ring is based. It's based on norse mythologies. Elven and dwarven runes and alphabet are based on real alhabets. It's inspired by many cultures and so it is somehow wise in itself... You see author spent time to search through lore of ages to write it.
Harry Potter is not based. The authress (I know there is no such word, but it sounds funny anyway) works like this: "Let's take 2 words, dog and cat, and make a new word - doat. Oh mein Gott let's make a creature called Doat, will will have 7 heads and 9 horns and a great diadem on it's forehead." This is it. That's why I hate Harry Potter. It is a monument of the authress herself - it is truly her creation, only her. Her state of mind on the paper. Same thing Lewis Caroll done, but he was great at it, mixed perfection of mathematics with freedom of literacy, but was a pedophiliac anyway...
Same thing in FF4, for example... Ever read Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy? All the fiend names are taken from it. Rubicante, Cagnazzio, etc... Other names are also took from some films, books etc... Not to mention summoned creatures/espers/GFs...
This is what makes things cool - basing. You play game and realise 90% of the game is took from outside word. It's funny to find those things yourself. Another example here, StarCraft. Most non-campaign hero names are from books or movies. Tom Kazansky from Top Gun. Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451. Alan Schezar from some manga...
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Aaah, pardon me, I forgot the bad sides!
On eeggs come, in StarCraft there is an overlord unit called Yggdrasil. People debate what is Yggdrasil from. And yes, of course, some kiddo comes and claims it's from the manga "o my goodness" where God had a computer Yggdrasil. Sure, yes, I'm absolutely sure, he believes norse religion took the conception of the universe from XX century anime. Funny where, those vikings...
Unmainly one, cease, or the mighty hammer
Mjollnir shall (I don't remember but something like "leave you mouth shut.")
- Lokasenna, Elder Edda
(yeah, and my God damn school teachress (another funny word) claims Elder Edda is norse version of history of a brave knight like about Cid or Roland but about Odin... idiot!)
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Hahaha! Yes Harry potter is crap and insignificant compared to LotR.
Which Edda do you prefer? The "Elder" ("poetic") Edda or the "Younger" ("prose") Edda?
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Poetic... Through I've never ever read the prose one Smile
"Oh my God, no rhymes! I don't read it!"
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The prose one is the one by Snorri Sturlason.
Here are 2 websites:
Poetic Edda: www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre)
These are basically the Eddas online.
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Yeah... I believe I got elder one from this site Smile
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Oh, right...
Anyway, I want to be doing most of the gamemaking myself, to make the game truly mine...
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It can be seen as a good thing... As for me... My comp propably is going to repair soon (it's still on guarance time) so I hope format won't wipe my game... it's third time I make it! With each fall it get's stronger... better... faster... harder... scooter!!! Eeh, nevermind. Smile
I run into real details now... I've made pretty funny beggar in the first town, a beggar that smiles when you throw him money! Aaah, this is so funny that it really motivates to throw him money! A smiling beggar, so rare in those modern times... (he reverts to normal after he says his thanks, through, to motivate to throw him cash again).
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Are we look ing at a 5 star rating here? I think so! Seriously, if your game is as good as you are leading me to believe, it is amazing!
For a look at the screenshots for mine checkout the website. Look at the corresponding topic for more details.
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Hmmm... I hate making good games... I remember times where I used default BS and default menu... You could focus on making quests and lots of dialogue using only #mwin. And now? No! You have to spend at least 5 minutes to write dialogue lines for one person, finishing 1 full board (not counting interiors of houses or other things) takes loooots of time, as I make first town (only exterior area and only the center town square) for about a week!
The worst thing is that I will have to finish the BS one day...
I believ I'll finish this game in 2077, but now I see I won't live long enough to do so :blink:
Btw what is the files' and site's size limit on freewebs? For in around 2010 I plan to put a short demo...
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I do not know, as I have not reached these limits. What I do know is that the maximum image size you can have 700kb. The largest image you can have has to be 699kb.
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Damn, if I'll ever finish this game I'm gonna send it for free to folks on CD Very Happy But don't expect it to have professionaly done cover like this of Dark Age (the CD, not the game).
I just hope there will be enough place for just a damn demo.
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That was just the image uploading, I have no idea what the limit for downloads is. Try looking through the help files on freewebs.
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i cant figure out how to allow a download on my site at all....ahh!
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Well, you could look at the help files your host has, if the host has help files.
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Hmmm, if you use HTML, just put link into a file instead of a site, using
<A HREF="some zip file.zip">Click to download</A>
etc...
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Yeah. Ok. O did not understand that one bit. I just wanted it to look like I was paying attention...
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Nah, attentions costs to much, I never pay it Wink
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I am so rich because I never pay attention, I steal it! B)
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:blink:
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Exactly, you stare at me, I steal all the attention. I steal attention, sekk attention, live off attention.
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More to the right, dude - you pressed k n'stead of l! Mwahahaha i r teh gosu.
I might consider opening a firm for keeping peoples' attention in case they fear it can be stolen...
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I am a quick typist, but I sometimes get confused with double letters.
If you keep their attention then you are stealing it are you not?
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No, I'm only renting it.
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What happens if you are evicted?
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Nah, I have anti-eviction security!
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How do you do that? Mafia gang? Bribe government?
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Both, mixed with that angry old lady from the neighbours.
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Scary, that old lady, very scary. But would she not steal the attention by doing that?
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Okay, okay. I like idiotic topics but this is enough for me Very Happy
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What? This thread has started to become iteresting!
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Sure, sure... Razz
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Then, please, continue.
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If you want to spam and go off-topic, the find a good topic to go off-topic to it!
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It is a good topic! It is a philosophical conundrum or paradox or something. I mean are renting, stealing or paying atention? Do you buy it, give it, recieve it or waste it?