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written Friday, July 15 2005 09:11
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This is good also. It is a series of short animated cartoons. Secret of Mana Theatre http://www.manatheater.com [ Friday, July 15, 2005 09:12: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 14 2005 16:20
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What is disturbing is that people are beginning to think that we should be serving the political and economic system. It doesn't matter if it is capitalism, socialism, etc. Kind of like we should be serving the machinery that makes the system work. This is basically wrong. The machinery was created to serve us. Never the other way around. First and foremost government and economic systems exist to serve people. Corporations and governments exist to serve peoples needs not the other way around. Raising the corporation or government above the needs of the people creates the kind of environment we are in right now-- rampant pollution and corruption. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| An odd discovery... in Geneforge Series | |
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written Thursday, July 14 2005 13:06
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Maybe serviles are related to dogs. They after all do make barking noises. Thus the long snouts. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 14 2005 11:20
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Sometimes we would like to see the United States as being the most transparent and democratic country in the world. Unfortunately, we have fallen behind in this regard. Switzerland and many of the Scandinavian countries as well as Canada are instituting reforms which make them much more democratic than we are. The first of these is Direct Democracy at all levels of government. This means the right to referenda, initiative, and recall of elected officials. The second is a superior form of voting called "choice voting" which is based on a formula of proportional representation. We like to say we have the highest standard of living and the most democratic government in the United States. Unfortunately we are falling behind the Scandinavian countries in standard of living and also democratic government reforms. What we have is the greatest amount of freedom to own guns, consume, hold strange beliefs, and inundate ourselves with obscene materials. I like this freedom. But it is eroding slowly... -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 14 2005 04:12
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I like reading comics on the web. Two of my favorites are: http://www.file49.com and http://www.schlockmercenary.com . I don't work for these companies but I like them. So there :P What are your favorite web comics. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 13 2005 10:59
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Here goes. I would like to see more outsiders developed into the next game. It is clear that if they survive-- at least the more powerful ones in Geneforge 3, they will be pretty angry. I can imagine some outsiders seeking some kind of revenge on both the shapers and drakons. I can imagine a few different things which could be added to the game-- new spells and units. Two types of magics which were not fully developed in Geneforge 3 were rune magic and chanting and meditation(this is how serviles get their power) also spellsinging magic. Three new outsider units which would be interesting would be runed warrior, chanting mage-- access to battle roar, and spell singer-- access to mass madness. Another thing which is not fully developed is the conflict between magic and shaping. This could be developed further. It would be interesting to get a bit of history on how the shapers gained control over regular magic. I can also see them losing control over the outsiders mages-- this would happen when they started to learn to enhance their mage skills using the meditative and chanting skills of the serviles cultists. It would make outsider mages much more powerful because they do not have limitations built into them like serviles. It might be possible to get some really cool powers in the next game if your character uses the techniques of the servile cultists. (strictly forbidden of course). [ Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:41: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 12 2005 12:47
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I think that the surveyed amount for when most people would stop working was $8 million in U.S. dollars after they owned a house and car. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 12 2005 10:40
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I would like to see a few sneak type quests. Sneak in and steal x item for me without alerting the guards and I will give you x. I was able to sneak into the guarded rebel camp area and steal everything by running from door to door with my character hasted. I got both the swamp maps and the wooden ring doing this. I was also able to slip into Lord Rahul's chambers and side chamber and steal all of his items. Another cool quest would be an area where the initial goal is not to kill everything in the area but get past the guards, killing only the sentries if possible. Wipe out the patrols only. Basically time your characters party to run past guard checkpoints until you finish the area-- either to deliver a message or bring some necessary component to clear an area. You get a much better reward for doing this than if you just went in and killed everything. An idea would be to deliver an item like a piece to fix a summoning platform, etc. [ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:41: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 12 2005 10:28
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A few things. It is easier to kill everything in an area clearing it completely. This way you can walk around and pick up everything in the area without being attacked. There is no weight limit for carrying stuff if you are not in combat mode other than moving really slow. The best thing to do with Lankan's canister is to give it the Purity Agent in Dhonal's keep. This way you can go back and visit the rebel camp without being attacked. A strategy for taking everything in the forbidden area in the rebel camp is to haste your main character and run into the different areas, sealing the doors behind you. Once the door is sealed, you take all the stuff. Run the to the next door enter and close door behind you. If you time it right, you can empty all the rooms without having to fight the rebels. You also can get both the swamp maps and wooden ring this way. Another thing about running for stuff. It is possible to enter both Lord Rahul's chamber to take his stuff, as well as enter the side chamber with a charm of mental focus if you time your characters movement right. [ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:30: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| A question to ponder in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, July 10 2005 17:06
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That is fairly easy. The golems are machines which are resistant to organic poisons. Your characters are living things and get poisoned by the gas. I think the searer spell is magical acid. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 10 2005 17:02
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There are two ways to approach the madness mire. The first is to get Diwaniya to aid you if you have high leadership with some reinforcements. The second is to use speed pods and speed packets and run past the monsters all the way to the exit. Then you run for the twin minds tunnels. Once twin minds is done, go back and kill the spawners. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 10 2005 15:13
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This is ridiculous but you could make the bloodstains as monsters. When you killed them they would disappear. Basically a really slow moving one hp monster. You kill it, it disappears. Ha. :P Or you could make an immobile monster which you would have to kill and it would disappear. Have the picture of a monster-- a door monster. You hit it and it dies no longer blocking the opening. [ Sunday, July 10, 2005 15:16: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 10 2005 15:13
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This is ridiculous but you could make the bloodstains as monsters. When you killed them they would disappear. Basically a really slow moving one hp monster. You kill it, it disappears. Ha. :P Or you could make an immobile monster which you would have to kill and it would disappear. Have the picture of a monster-- a door monster. You hit it and it dies no longer blocking the opening. [ Sunday, July 10, 2005 15:16: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 10 2005 04:08
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Go bungee jumping. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 9 2005 04:13
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Rather a bit wrongheaded on all counts. Muslims believe Muhammed was a messenger of god, not a miracle worker. He laid down how they were supposed to live, he was not the "son of god" as Muslims believe Jesus was. Further, Muslims are supposed to recognize Christianity and Judaism as one of the "three faiths" which believe in God. They are not supposed to persecute anyone of the monotheistic faiths, specifically because they believe in the one god. Whether they follow their own teachings is another matter. It has been a past time of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to kill each other because the faiths are so similar in many ways. It is easier to find fault with things you are familiar with. Of course fundamentalists like to reinterpret this in any way they like so they can kill anyone they don't like. People have a natural ability to reinterpret their religion in strange ways. It is these strange intrepretations that allow evil to flourish in many cases. Twisted intrepretations allow murder and lies to seep in creating the Jim Joneses and suicide bombers in the world. Furthermore, the bible is a very selective document. It leaves out large sections of earlier texts. The dead sea scrolls, the Kebra Nagast, and numerous texts are not part of the "bible". In its early form the church decided which pieces to keep in the bible. This was decided by people, not divine beings. This makes it a fairly fluid document. Translation from the Greek texts changes the content considerably. Also, religious interpretation removes large sections of the bible if some groups don't like it. I think there are several hundred different versions of the "bible". [ Saturday, July 09, 2005 04:31: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 7 2005 15:12
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What is your favorite movie? I happen to like most science fiction movies. I think 2001 A Space Odyssey was one of the best films ever made. Blade Runner The Directors Cut is even better than Blade Runner lots of new material. I think I am going to try Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. [ Friday, July 08, 2005 04:49: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 7 2005 09:09
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This is a short analysis from the London Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1684538,00.html Also, I had read that they had initially disabled the mobile phone network in London. Some of the articles in the paper said they may have set off the explosives with cell phones. So, it may not have been suicide bombers. It looks more likely to be a failure of domestic intelligence than anything else. Looking at the article, it says attacks were expected for four years. Further, it brings something closer to home, the Iraq war where daily suicide bombings happen is coming back to Britain with savagery. Al Zarqawi in Iraq is the new terrorist enemy. How do you contain a hydra where the more the fighting spreads-- the more enemies you have? There really is no such thing as over there any more. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 6 2005 12:53
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Another pick to add. John Crowley, Lord Byron's Novel The Evening Land. Very well written. He also wrote Little Big which is excellent. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 5 2005 16:23
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The point of posting this was not solicitation. If you look at it this is one of those things that runs counter to your standard "game"-- the theme is different. I thought it was interesting because it used a "different" viewpoint than a typical fan boy games. They had a link to another site http://www.socialimpactgames.com -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 5 2005 16:16
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Here goes some thoughts on equipment. 1) There is no agent weapon. A spell sword would be neat -- increases spellcraft +1 and battle magic +1 but does very little damage 2-20. Blade of defense +1 blessing magic +2 parry. 2) Our companions should have the ability to buy defense as well as offense. Alwan would have been better if we could have bought him a breastplate. 3) A shaped pack mule creature would be cool. If it dies all the items would be dropped on the ground. It would have no attack ability. Basically an armored critter. Occasionally as its level of strength and intelligence increased it could carry more and would randomly cast heal or defense spells. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 5 2005 11:39
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I will not read this. I do not like Harry Potter, not because of the content, but because of how he wins every time. At the last minute he makes the super impossible shot every time. He goes instantly from underdog to ultimate winner with very little effort. I like effort in my heroes, Harry has none. He is a simplistic story of instant wish fulfillment. Lets see aw shucks if I bet my last dollar on a lottery ticket, I will win a billion dollars and never live poor again. I find it moronic. There are too many of these moments throughout the stories to make me interested. Three or four cliffhangers are enough in a story. [ Tuesday, July 05, 2005 11:46: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 4 2005 05:10
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I was fishing around the web when I found this thing http://www.spicetrade.org -- it looks like a middle eastern version of civilization. Basically, I was looking for unusual free games. I did not want to download it because it was 190 MB. Thoughts comments. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 3 2005 02:55
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In Spharon's Lands you can get some of the serviles to join you and attack Spharon. You also need to destroy a crystal to kill Spharon. Some strategy points. 1) If you close doors you can steal everything in a room with nobody seeing you. Also creatures which are patrolling will not see you. 2) If you move quickly you can run in and out of areas to get things. I got the golem notes initially without having to fight the golem this way. It is possible to run through the infested pathway enhanced by a speed spell and avoid most of the fights, trick the battle alpha making it run away, then run into the madness mire. Then run for the twin mind tunnels avoiding fights. Once you kill the twin minds-- you can go back and fight everything. 3) In Khor's Deep it is good to disable the charging platform before Hoge can do anything. 4) A good strategy is to channel monsters into doorways or tunnels so you can block being swarmed. [ Sunday, July 03, 2005 03:45: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 2 2005 18:00
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Something which could be an interesting way to modify creations would be to put runes on them. We have runed serviles and runed thads. It would be interesting if you could spend essence to put various runes on the serviles, items, or yourself to give them special effects-- hasted, blessed, healing, etc. Or even your own character. Runes would correspond with the fields of magic and would be a special kind of Sholai magic. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 10:46
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It would be cool if there was instead of a third or fourth faction-- the option of being insanely power mad and blood thirsty, basically self centeredly evil and doing what you think is in your best interest and not the factions. The idea would be to make moves which would ultimately put your character in control by building alliances. You would end up with your own loyal base of shapers and creations and kill everyone else. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |