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Dark Age Games / It's good to give the spiders a scare sometimes
« on: August 10, 2019, 11:09:11 AM »
Web and dust covered circuits will calcify from disuse, you know!

It's 2019 and I still think about DAL occasionally. DND takes the place of DAL these days. Good stuff. 

If anyone else sees this, why don't y'all doodle a reply here. As Xorlak said a few years ago, activity's good!

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Dark Age Games / DAL Alumni?
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:34:14 PM »
Well, I don't wonder whether anyone posts here -- this is self-obvious when one presses the "show unread posts since your last visits" button -- but I do wonder, do any DAL alumni still visit these forums? If you do, where are you now? How far have you gone? Has DAL influenced you in any way?

I am a programmer now, the only one in a fairly promising startup, concentrating on web technologies -- javascript, html5, and the like. Alas, not a published writer. I've joined another website, youngwriterssociety.com, where I occasionally post stories and less occasionally critique other people's stories, under the username carbonCore. DAL was the thing that got me writing in the first place, for which I am very thankful. It has given me a way to release all the various darknesses that had plagued me at times -- without that initial push, without DudeMan dragging me over here, and without me getting lost in Gaian, I don't know if I'd be writing as I am today. So, from my heart: thank you, Xorlak, and thank you, everyone who had made DAL the experience that it was. I don't know where you all are now, but I know that in my memory, you will remain forever.

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Dark Age Games / Quick and temporary thread
« on: August 20, 2009, 10:49:51 PM »
The shambler gently rocked, almost lulling me to sleep, but the knowledge of my arrival to the cliff town-outpost of Spondekai kept me stark awake. Besides, I would hate to miss passing over the flaming rivers of Gwely's resident volcano, although most folk say that a mere web of orange-red streaks is only interesting to see once. But something else attracted me to these flows; the knowledge of how far away they are, perhaps, or the barely perceptible pulse they give off, as if from a living creature.

The whine of a badly-oiled hatch behind me heralded a visitor. It seems that I am not alone in my fancy to see Gwely's lava streams, after all.

"It's a good day to spend outside," I engaged the conversation. "Isn't it? I think it was yesterday's Edna VI eruption that stirred the ash against its normal course. "

"Don't remind me," my guest replied. The safety rails groaned in undeserved protest as he propped his small frame against them, taking position beside me. "I made the mistake of going out up-wind once. Even though it was just for a minute, it took me a week to get the smell of sulfur out of my hair."

We stood in silence for a few minutes, watching the insectoid legs of the shambler dive in and out of the bleak ocean of volcanic ash. And there they were - faint, but definitely occurring pulses in the lava's flow. Not unlike veins around a gray, withered heart, I mused.

After a sudden woeful groan from one of the legs, a violent tremor shook the shambler. Hearing the rattling of the machine's gears disengaging themselves from the main flywheel, I fastened my grip on the railing to brace for the upcoming stop. The shambler came to a halt, and rested in contemplative silence for a few seconds before resuming its course.

"Similar problems occurred the last time I traveled through here," I said. "The land below is irregular. Considering what's down there, it really is a wonder that they don't do that more often. Did you read what--"

The distant roar of a fog horn momentarily drowned my voice and the mechanical clashing of the driving apparatus beneath. The dark form emerging from the impenetrable wall of ash ahead soon adopted the shape of another shambler from Spondekai. I could not discern the glowing ring of its generator turbine on the front; the tame winds appeared to lack the strength that the great propeller needed, leaving the machine to depend on its flywheel alone. After catching the sound of the fog horn, our shambler drifted to the side, allowing the larger one to pass by. It's incredible how these machines operated with a degree of intelligence without any sort of pilot. Maybe the world would be different if we knew how they worked.

"Did you read," I continued, "what the expedition to the surface found down there, beneath the ash?"

"Nothing," he answered. "An acquaintance of mine was on the team, he told me before it was even in the papers. Just rocks, fissures, and plains. We've tried looking for them everywhere, and the closest thing anyone has ever found - aside from the shamblers and the hollowed out mountains, of course - are a dozen or such of useless trinkets, each capable of fitting in the palm of your hand."

He paused.

"He didn't say very much, which, if you knew my acquaintance, is rather odd of him - especially since this is the first time anyone has gone to the surface in the last three hundred cycles."

"Maybe there wasn't much to say," I suggested.

"Or maybe he didn't want to talk about it. I don't suppose I can blame him. To know that someone could have built these machines without leaving more of a trace than the mountain reservoirs..."

"...and all those are good for is the fish," I chuckled.

My companion appreciated the joke, and we were quick to make the discovery of mutual interest in grotto fishing. The conversation quickly steered to a discussion of whether Mount Vorbhodsen or Mount Svirkaide yielded the most sizeable catch.

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The warmth of the nearby lava stream kept him safe from the cold hands of the wasteland. Its bubbling granted a relief from the monotonous, homogenous din of the ashen wind. He has seen it happen before: people went deaf from hearing nothing but ash, and blind from seeing nothing but ash. They turned into senseless, mindless husks clinging to a dying seed of life. Fitting, he thought, for people to waste away just like the cities they built to shelter themselves.

A sound came from the wasteland behind him - the faint but unmistakable crash of a Walking Thing's three-fingered foot, followed by other, advancing crashes. The Thing will be here shortly. Maybe it will open up another building, like it did some time ago. Maybe it will just pass through without incident, like every day after that time. The dead structures built by forgotten hands crumbled away as inevitably as anything else - it was just a matter of waiting long enough.

Of course, as soon as the metal appendages of the Walking Thing came close enough for others to hear, the zealots woke up. Just one voice, then two, then three, then more. "All hail the walking god!" People screaming, howling like animals, throwing rocks at the Thing's legs. He wondered sometimes if that kind of adoration was appreciated by any self-respecting god. "Give unto us, Walking Thing!"

He could hear the crashing as if it was right above his head. No point in looking up; the Walking Thing was thus named for a reason - the ash prevented seeing any of its part, except the three pairs of thin stalks with three fingers on each. Then came the new sound that truly caught his interest, warranting him to raise his head - an abrasive squeal, and the dull thunks of falling concrete.

The Thing stepped on an ancient collapsed building, previously sealed by its own rubble. A large part of its front wall shattered into a hail of airborne stone. The Walking Thing paused, its leg standing upon its self-made altar, as if saying, "Look at me! Look at me! I gave unto you, as you asked!" Some zealots writhed on the ground in extasy, while others tried to climb the Thing's leg to be thrown off later or to reach whatever zealot heaven there is - either way, never to be seen again.

As the Thing walked away, he waited for all the other people to finish gathering their supplies - there was no rush, he knew of a hidden basement vault with much well-preserved food - and then came to gather his own. Furniture, dishes, strange things whose name and function were unknown to him - all barely disturbed. Some things sparkled with the glow of the nearby lava river - but he held no interest for those. His wonder was much more humble.

And there they were - two brown rectangular objects, the top one of which crumbled to dust as he touched it. He instinctively drew his hand back in a flinch, but the one beneath it looked sturdier. Hiding it underneath his dust-cloak, he quickly left the building and returned to his hideaway before the lava river.

This one was much different from the rest - instead of the neat black symbols he was so used to, these were hastily scrawled and poorly understandable. Still - his father taught him how to read the neat ones, so maybe he will learn how to read these, as well. Maybe they, too, will speak to him of a world with so many colours.

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General Off-Topic / Front Page Announcement
« on: October 01, 2008, 06:38:02 PM »
Nothing has officially happened at mysticsoftware.net for one whole year.

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General Off-Topic / Your favourite bands
« on: August 30, 2007, 12:37:34 PM »
Come on, you knew this was coming. Every self-respecting internet forum has a topic like this.

Mine are:

Rammstein
See-saw
Frontline Assembly
Atrium Carceri
Dustin O'Halloran

(by the way, solo artists are OK too)

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General Off-Topic / Heed the advice.
« on: June 09, 2007, 10:15:20 PM »

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General Off-Topic / Starcraft quote
« on: April 07, 2007, 06:36:47 PM »
This was too funny to ignore.

Quote
"Who designed this [censored] place? What [censored] "engineer" crawled out from his [censored] hole to inflict this [censored] [censored] upon my people? A [censored] platform split into two [censored] halves?
[CENSORED]!
Why are there no [censored] bridges on this [censored] platform? Are we just supposed to [censored] leap off one [censored] half to the other? And to top it all off, those [censored] don't even provide enough Vespene [censored] gas for operations! [censored] this place! It's just one big [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored]!"
-Edited comments of Colonel Riley "[censored]" Bullhorn, Commander of Terran Orbital Platform G11-F3


Soon, I found more:

Quote
"Ok. I finally asked for a [censored] transfer. For once in their [censored] [censored] lives, High [censored] Command decides to do me a [censored] favor. So I move halfway across the [censored] sector to take command of my new station. What do I [censored] find?
A [censored] [censored] more [censored] [censored] orbital platform then the last [censored] of [censored] that I was on!
Some [censored] out there is just trying to [censored] with me, that HAS to be [censored] it. What [censored], [censored], [censored], [CENSORED] decided to build a [censored] Bull's Eye into the center of the [censored] platform? Can we make possibly things a little less [censored] easy for the [censored] enemy?
[CENSORED]!"
-Edited comments of Colonel Riley "[censored]" Bullhorn, New Commander of Terran Orbital Platform K4-J19

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: October 12, 2006, 09:12:53 PM »
My own invention. So simple yet ... er, not so simple. Smile It's a pretty weak code, actually, but see if you can make it out.

1. HOWD | IDYO | UDEC
2. ODET  | HISM | ESSA
3. GEWI  | THOU | THEL
4. PPER   | IODP | ERHA
5. PSYO  | UCHE | ATED

and the second part:

1. IFYO   | UGET | THES
2. ECOD | ESTH  | ENHA
3. VEAC | OOKI  | EAND
4. AGLA | SSOF  | GREA
5. TMIL  | KAND  | TENB
6. ILIO  | NDOL  | LARS

(the character i used for lines is not significant)

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: October 06, 2006, 09:10:39 PM »
So, as I promised everyone several times now, I will create a separate thread for my spam while I type on this kickass keyboard. damn, the noise from it is making me insanely happy, you know, like when you watch some sort of a thing that you have never seen before and it is like ZOMFG IT R SO CKOL!!!111111

Dudes, there's these wierd pictures armoud me. Umm... they got like people in them. Yeah. And they have more people in them, there's this picutre i'm loking at right now and i am typing while looking at it. it has a spiral staircase leading to some window and it's like in the new yourk slums. i am actually doing this just to see how ong i wil last without looking at the keyboard. DAMN the noise is so dang loud. I love it. do you guys love it? because i ARGH I JUST LOOKED AT THE GODDANG KEYBOARD ARRRRRGGGHHH oh well.

Anyways, who here likes cheese? I LOVE cheese. Cheese is great. There's this variety of cheese, i think made in France, and it's blue. Holy carp!!! Oh yeah, and the French own. FRENCH ARE SO TEH GAY ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE [inside joke]

Yeah. Umm, what was I about to say. Oh, did I mention that this keyboard is very loud? I enjoy listening to the sound of this keyboard. And this screen's pretty dang loud too. Wait, did I say loud? Sorry, I meant bright. Yeah.

Guys, there is ONE last question that I would like to ask you all. Why the hell am I still typing? Also, was there anyone EVER as spammy as me?

Oh yeah, and also, just a comment: i am NOT high, i am NOT (wait, yes, i am high - on cranberry juice. Try that stuff. Strong. Buuurgh!) getting hacked, because if i DID, xorlak would notice because of the IP. Wait, the IP *IS* different, because I'm at friends' place. I can hear them talking downstairs, my parents, that is.

Did I tell you guys about my parents? They own. I got a mom and a dad. Is that amazing or what?

Ok, my fingers are getting to be kinda hurting. And since yesterday I was on a particularly violent nail/finger biting spree, they hurt more than usual, and they got to hurt faster than normal. Yeah. So i'm done. STFUkthxbi. (copyright Trent or Zeros', forget who said it.)

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: September 10, 2006, 01:57:52 PM »
OMFGZORZHAXSHAZBBQWTFBUSH TERRAGEN!!!

I just discovered this pwnsome program thing, called "Terragen". It is THE BEST. In case if someone can't guess, it allows you to create terrains. I downloaded some sort of a "mega pack", with tutorials, addons, etc. MAN OMG THIS THING IS AWESOME. I'll post a short example of what I made using it (this was done in like 2 minutes).



I will post more, if i manage to make any more cool ones. That, again, was done in like two minutes, and still, it is awesome. And the best part is: TERRAGEN IS FREE!!!!!!

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: May 28, 2006, 06:56:20 PM »
I live in Canada, and I only came there about four or five years ago. So, we are not citizens yet. However, June 9th we're going to Toronto for this huge test thing we gotta take. If we pass it (which we will), we become Canada's citizens.

You know what sort of sucks, though? These fascists will make us sing O Canada (national anthem)... Stupids, I don't want to sing the damn thing! I hear it too much in school anyway!!! And now I gotta sing it! Sad

In other news, check it out: there's a new post in the protected forum. Surprised We should celebrate for the occasion.

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: April 12, 2006, 05:26:59 PM »
Here's a tiny riddle that DM reminded me of because of his... wisdom. Yes. Anyway, here it is:

If a 5901 byte file is converted into kb, it only sums up to 5.7 kb. Why?

People who know a lot about computers should be able to easily solve this.

EDIT: I decided to make this a bit more fun... here's a bunch of other riddles I know of. If you get them all, I've got a special prize for you Smile

1.
With thieves I consort
With the vilest, in short
I'm quite at ease in depravity
Yet all divines use me
And savants can't lose me
For I am the centre of gravity.
What am I?

2.
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What is it?

3.
It is above the highest thing, and lower than the lowest. It is better than God, and worse than the Devil. The dead eat it, and if you will eat it, you will die.
What is it?

4. Hard one

My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Careering along, yet always in place
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.
What are you?

5. Another hard one

What is the longest word in the dictionary?

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: March 16, 2006, 01:03:49 AM »
...as though i'm still alive. Although apparently absolutely no one gives a crap. That's quite understandable. But anyway, in a few days (hopefully) internet will be back up, and i will once again be posting regularly.

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: February 04, 2006, 02:19:58 PM »
I'm making a map in Unreal Tournament based on one of the locations in DAL. I want to see if anyone has it here... If so, I might share it once i'm done Very Happy

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General Off-Topic / (no subject)
« on: February 03, 2006, 02:44:09 PM »
Well, mortals, I've been on the Internet for a while. In my time, I've found quite a few interesting\cool\plain wierd sites, so today I come before you with the intent of sharing them. Behold:

<a href='http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php' target='_blank'>Binary code translator\Encoder</a>
This nifty toy translates binary into letters, characters and numbers - if you ever want to cuss an admin and get away with it, use this!

<a href='http://www.gizoogle.com/index.php?translate=false' target='_blank'>Ghetto translator</a>
Hehe, this is a fun one. If you're a wannabe-gansta and you just don't have what it takes to talk like one, this thing should help!

<a href='http://home.no.net/hellshl/main/translate.html' target='_blank'>Leet translator</a>
This one just blasted me away. This babe includes normal text, normal leet and ULTRA-LEET! It's almost better than me in speaking |\|00|3-5|o33|<, which is saying a lot!

<a href='http://www.purple.com/' target='_blank'><span style='color:purple'>Purple</span></a>
Ahh... the smooth, beautiful colour of purple... I enjoy staring at it for hours... Then again, I also enjoy an occasional bath in hydrochloric acid. Bookmark it!

<a href='http://www.lol.com/' target='_blank'>LOL</a>
I can't believe someone wasted $40.00 for a site which only shows "LOL" at the title bar.

<a href='http://www.something.com/' target='_blank'>Something</a>
See above.

<a href='http://www.maddox.xmission.com/' target='_blank'>The best page in the Universe</a>
For those who do not know this site, I pity your ignorance. WARNING: Contains controversial, er, content.

<a href='http://www.mysticsoftware.net/' target='_blank'>The REAL best page in the Universe</a>
See it to believe it!

<a href='http://www.guimp.com/' target='_blank'>Guimp</a>
World's smallest website, thanks #8

<a href='http://www.herzeleid.com/' target='_blank'>Herzeleid</a>
For all your Rammstein needs. Thanks #8

<a href='http://www.steve-terada.com/' target='_blank'>Steve Terada</a>
You have to see it to believe it. Thanks MotD


That's about it... Anyone else know any awesome links?

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