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Random Ranting / Great time for an alien invasion
« on: December 30, 2004, 06:00:05 PM »
ok now with the tsunami just passed and the whole of the earth's crust unstable and the populace of the world shaken,

now would be a great time ofr an alienhostile battlefleet to arrive in our stratosphere and demand our surrender!!!!

wacky huh? just wait....

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Random Ranting / Anyone suspect there was no jetliner
« on: December 28, 2004, 04:50:57 AM »
Just wondering.. Anyone here have a sort of suspicion that there was never any jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11/01? The rumours round the web are so widespread because there is just no photograph of debris or wreckage from a jet at the scene.

I have not decided myself. However, Rumsfled just let slip today that the US military actually shot down the jet in Philadelphia to stop it hitting the white House. So now I am not sure if they can be trusted at all.

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Random Ranting / Am downloading Lineage 2 now (80% done)
« on: December 28, 2004, 01:05:51 AM »
I think im going to install L2 and give it a try on a craked server.

I dont know if anyone here has played on the official servers but i had a feew questions.. :-
1)How many people on one official server at one time?
2)Are the wars really big?
3)Do players do anything else besides team pvp?
4)Can I level up to max instantly or will i have to play there for 6 months?
5)Does server admin change the nature of gameplay often? (ie: is it a settled team pvp balance or is it still changing all the time like Anarchy Online...)

I might buy the game if it is really good...
I guess ill soon go asking for some private server lists.

thx!

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Random Ranting / Who will die in next earthquake?
« on: December 26, 2004, 07:19:38 PM »
So we just had 2 8+ richter scale quakes. The 2nd one killed erm 3000+ people...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1227/p01s02-woap.html

The cause of these quakes is clear. Bush's bombing of Iraq is breaking up the stability of the earth's crust!

They say 2 quakes like this signal a whole series of major quakes to occur worldwide.
So if NY or Cali gets swept away in the next 2 months, you know who to blame!!

btw,, anyone in NY or Cali?
Might as well say ur goodbyes now!!!

HAHAHA!!



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Random Ranting / Best Game music list
« on: December 25, 2004, 12:27:12 AM »
By best game music i mean you can just listen to the music just like a CD and it is really nice. Here are my favourites :-

Best Best! :-
Homeworld 1 (Agnes Dei of course!!!!)
Mechwarrior 2
Magic & Mayhem 1
Warlords 3 (turn based one)
CNC RA (this type of music has still not been beaten in any game)

I am sure there must be lots of others. I tend to like anime music a lot so.... i do like anime game music except that they are not always consistent eg: Phantasy Star.

Which ones do you like?


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Random Ranting / Love or hate xmas?
« on: December 24, 2004, 07:46:06 AM »
I don't like xmas much. Meet people i dont want to meet. Who remind me of thingsI dont want to be reminded of. Having to eat stuff I dont want to eat. Having to consider if I need to buy presents. Sometimes I even get phone calls, which is really inconvenient. In the last few years I have managed to discourage this. I hate the weather at xmas. Either too hot or too cold. I get beggars at the gate, they chase my chauffeur, they tap on my limo glass, the paw my estee lauder mink - yeah xmas is a yuck thing.


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Random Ranting / Warzone 2100
« on: December 23, 2004, 03:02:31 AM »
Ok I bet no one here has played Warzone 2100!!

This is one of the biggest rtses i know off. The tech tree spans three generations and each generation is almost like a civ tech tree (ok a bit smaller). You go from tanks and hovercraft all the way up to mecha.

The big thing with this game was that the player could design each unit himself. You were given a whole lot of parts like chassis, weapon and wheels/tracks/hover etc. The game has a really awesome flying fleet.

This is one rts which is almost as big as TA. I have an original box CD set. If you google for "Warzone 2100 fan site" i think you will find that EIDOS has released the game into the public domain! Ther eis a bit of an active modding community.


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Random Ranting / List of free mmorpgs or online games
« on: December 23, 2004, 02:54:04 AM »
Free means :-

1) no monthly fee AND
2) you don't always need a CD key, just an ISO image will do (eg: those on cracked servers).

I think we should note if the absence of a fee is because it is in beta. These are the ones I know for certain to be free :-

NWN
Ragnarok Online
Lineage 2
BF1942 / Vietnam
Starseige Tribes 1 (is 2 free?)
Diablo 1
Guildwars
Phantasy Star Online (i heard this is an incredible game, but max 4 on a server at any time)
Age of Empires 1

List down which one's you know to be free?

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Random Ranting / The King is Dead! Long live the King!
« on: December 21, 2004, 08:16:59 AM »
The biggest bittorrent site in the world, suprnova.org,  has closed down :/
That site served about 50% or more of all the world's torrents...

It shut down suddenly overnight. Wish they had given us some warning so we could suck out all the torrents we needed.

Maybe no one here agrees, but I think the IP regime imposed by the western world protects te creater's ownership of the rights to his work either in the wrong way or for too long.

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Random Ranting / Anarchy Online just went free 1 yr trial
« on: December 20, 2004, 09:37:27 AM »
( i still like to chat about spaceship multiplayer games since the other trhead was closed..)

Anyway, I read somewhere that Anrchy Online, that big um space planet sci fi multiplayer game just went free for 1 year trial sign up before end jan 2005 i think... For those who don't know (be unusual fo ryou not to know, they advert a  lot), AO is a huge really complex game base don a single planet with 3(?) factions. U can get skills as computer jhacker etc.. I read somewhere that it is as complex as UO when UO first came out, so it is likely that players who join have to look at a possible 2 year minimum learning curve before their char becomes strong...

Okie ! and now about space games! I still like the idea of a rpg where you are the Admiral/commande rof a star vessel. Here are some alternatives :-

EVE Online - really huge, dark, (a bit like Aliens?) mmorpg - something like er.. 14k? players on at the same time..... each player has their own spaceship - you can trade all the way yp to battlecruisers etc - really huge fleets - clans etc.... i dont like this game because it sounds too clanny and dark for me.... :/ the visuals are incredible of course.. the space battle smust be awesome...

Starfleet Commander (is this the name?) - you know that one with Vols1 and 2 at least - this multiplayer game is pretty awesome! each game runs for about 4 months(?) and involves the traditional star trek factions warring for control of the known universe.... I heard that hte player clans are very good. The best clans all use  that roger wilco voice thing. I also heard it could be a bit imbalanced. One of the races has starships which are used by one clan to dominate the game. Most players start with the Federation and the Federation are always getting beaten.

So.. my idea of a fav  interstellar game would be more - anime or homeworld style graphics... i think each player should start with a pretty massive ship.... and be tasked with cexploring/controlling known space. I think your ship classes should be restricted to what kind of player class u pick. So pirates can only pick up to.. er destroyer? class to start with, though they can try to take over a battlecruiser if they wish... but then they get some sor tof um?.. target priority penalty?

wow lot sof weird ideas...

any sci fi fans here?


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GodSpire General / We should let talon know something is
« on: December 17, 2004, 02:47:48 AM »
I know its been mentioned elsewhere, but just in case someone can let Talon know or if Talon does a quick browse of the forum :-

I keep trying to login to GS but after i get past the character selectin screen, the screen goes blank with the nwn cursor still there and nothing happens... Maybe I can wait for something to happen but it is certainly much longer than before..

thanks!!

There is no rush to deal with the problem because talon has lots of other worries, but I put this post up to help him know.

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Random Ranting / Will a parachute save you?
« on: December 15, 2004, 07:17:36 PM »
http://www.wnbc.com/news/3999360/detail.html

Ok so the US Feds lost a fake bomb they planted in the US airline system to test screeners.
The French also lost a bomb, this time a real one, they planted in their system for the same purpose last week.

Hav eyou bought ur parachute yet?
I'm sure they come in custom colours - Mine has the Microsoft logo on it and when activated, plays the US national anthem on twin 1000 watt bakpak speakers.

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Random Ranting / The US 2004 election was rigged
« on: December 15, 2004, 01:10:38 AM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6714782/

Although some experts say the bias could not have swung the election, the anecdotal account sin that article show that some deeper malicious scheme had been put in place by the Republicans 2 years before the election.

The Republicans :-
1) Told their Ohio State Governor to deny Democratic minorities an easy way to vote
2) Restricted funding for the purchase of adequate numbers of new voting machines to cope with the expected surge in voter turnout. They knew these were all Democrats.
3) Authorised the purchase of black box machines which surreptitiously electronically transferred votes to the Bush camp.
4) Restircted fyunding for new voting outlets in areas with high numbers of minority voters so that the queues lasted 10 hours and up to 40% of the people who arrived just gave up or had to go to work.
5) and so on...

The list of impediments to the Democratic voter rols on and on. And each one has a reliable link the the Republican government in office.

Any American who can say in their heart that their government is sincere and god-fearing knows they will burn in hell for their lies.

The next time you see a Marine or a member of the US Armed forces in the street, make sure you smash it in the face with a handy baseball bat.

* flame away!! *

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Random Ranting / Clearly we are not sports lovers here
« on: December 14, 2004, 09:17:41 AM »
We're all intellectuals on this forum!!

HOORAY!

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Random Ranting / Total Annihilation
« on: December 14, 2004, 06:07:46 AM »
erm i found the link about TA which made me realise TA was getting bigger..

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/rtsc_totala.htm

so i thought id post it here if anyone wanted to discuss TA specifically..
The link shows just how big the custom content community is.

Be fun to play online with others but the only thing is with TA - the raging battles can go on for hours. Maybe if you played with other new players too. The experts in the game are really good.

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Random Ranting / Flu epidemic - who will kick the bucket first
« on: December 14, 2004, 05:19:35 AM »
ok.. the next global flu epidemic is due and this time it isnt going to be the wimpy one like that of the HK 1968 epidemic (a measly few hundred thousand deaths)..

Have you guys watched the movie "Omega Man"? In it - i think its Charleton heston - is the only man left living after a global epidemic turns everyone into er.. zomebies..

Thats what its going to be like this time..!!

So.. who first?

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Random Ranting / Difference between a Geek and a Nerd
« on: December 11, 2004, 09:17:06 AM »
Seeing I am an All Star Football BasketBall and Atheltics Scholarhship holder, National Under 18 rowing sculls champion and National titleholder of the 800 metres freestyle Under 18 record I dont know anything about geeks or nerds.

So.. is there a difference?.. Or are both of them just really weedy guys ?


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Random Ranting / Difference b/w military families in the US.. and
« on: December 09, 2004, 11:43:45 AM »
As i recalled watching all the favourite military/CIA type hollywood movies (top gun,  total recall, true lies, sum of all fears etc), I also remembered perceiving a deep difference between the live sof US families with a long military tradition and those, of the rest of us.

For example, a US military family might have a grandad who was a major general, a father who was a 3 star general, a son who is a west point star cadet, another son who is a marine, and anothe rson who is in the US Secret Service protecting the president etc...

Then there are the rest of us. Thos military types seem to lead very different lives.

Anyone in the US come from or know of such military families? Can you comment on the way they are different? It's just conversation for fun.. but it is an interesting sociological observation to make..

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Script Request / Is it possible -
« on: December 09, 2004, 04:07:25 AM »
Hi

say i wanted to make a mod which was just like late sou age when the divine spells stacked?

can i script to make it do that?

which spells needed to stack?

divine favour?
divine power?
any others?

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Random Ranting / Best movie u watched lately?
« on: December 09, 2004, 04:05:50 AM »
ok i just watched sum of all fears and yeah this is a really good movie . I loved it because it was a bit more realistic and sometimes the good guys lost (fiiinally , i got sick of harrison ford always solvign everything) but then again i didnt like the ending.
btw, ithis was only the 2nd movie i have watche dwith Ben Affleck in it - do you girls like him much?

ok my fav horror movies are mainly asian so : (new ones) RIng (jap verion only), Grudge 1, The EYe (hk) and.. um.. er this other really crepy jap one about a girl who goes to an audition ian dis a murderess...

but my fav horror ones are the oldie ones: Ghost story is really good, and there are old hk/jap ghost flicks from 1980s and 1970s which are waaaay creepier than the new ones. But i dont recall their names :/


so .. which movies did u guys watch recently and like?

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Random Ranting / Hitman 1
« on: December 09, 2004, 03:56:50 AM »
Just how immersive is the storyline?
Is it like reading a book and you can identify with the hitman main character?

or is it just liek say HL or Quake ... wher eu r just a bot running around in fps view shooting things down..

most fps games to me do now have an immersive storyline. they dont make you feel like you are part of a deep and well fleshed story... its just an arcade...

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Random Ranting / Which specops is the best?
« on: December 09, 2004, 03:49:29 AM »
ok here;'s some choices :-

UK MI6 secret service, SBS
Germany GSG9
Israel Mossad
Russia er... not sure if the kGB is still there
US - cheapie - marines, pros: Red Beret, Green Beret who else? i cant remember..
French - u gotta be joking
Australia - u gotta be joking but ok - ASIO

this is kinda a serous question because all these services are boosting employment like crazy so ther eis a good likelihood some of u will end up working for them. Just dont be a techie! Be a field operative and go get some action!

so which one is the best for a career?

i say the MI6 cos its always been know n that the UK specops are the best in the world

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Random Ranting / If u were were in organised crime....
« on: December 09, 2004, 03:44:21 AM »
ok..  say u worked in organised crime

what is needed to make it worth ur while?

some optuons
- private resort hous ein Bahamas
- villa in france
- Florida mansion plus power yacht (no sails just the powr)
- limo server
- helo service
- how many bodyguards? um.. 5 i think (all with Uzis, sniper training ex red beret etc)
- ok how many wives um.. you tell me (average age? - umm u tell me)
- average USD p.a. income needed ? u tell me....

(hehe i bet this is gonna stir de bate)

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Random Ranting / IP Tunnelling
« on: December 09, 2004, 03:38:55 AM »
ok so i heard that to be a good hacker/phreaker u need to know about ip tunnelling - this allows you to mask ur true IP by going through several other IPs whose servers have high levels of secrecy - making it hard for the fbi to track u down.

this is how the top organised crime and terrorist organisations communicate. and if u know how to do it - u have go t it made!!!!! they will pay u heaps to work for them.. good super and lifetime bodyguard serve and villa in france and free mansion in miami florida (plus yacht) and hotel suite in bahamas all included...

so.. anybody know about this stuff?

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Random Ranting / How long have you gone without food for?
« on: December 06, 2004, 07:50:41 PM »
I read somewhere that the human body can go without food for 6 weeks or so.. depending on what ur activity level is.

I usually like not eating for say 48-72 hours straight. Water is fine.

I feel much healthier after that. It's not really for weight loss. Im already featehrweight.

Anyone else do stuff liek that?

I might try for the 6 weeks sometime soon.

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Guild Wars General / when do we have to pay?
« on: December 05, 2004, 11:00:27 PM »
guild wars sounds real good.
is it still in beta stage? what does beta stage mean?..
so in a few months it will go alpha and everyone will have to pay for it?
is it free to download... then later it will be pay pe rmonth? or is it not decided yet?

warcraft is pay for doanload/buy and pay per month.

can guildwars work it out so that they run the whole world on advertising reveue? that way players dont have to pay and they can stick advertising in the citadels in the realms. Like microsoft could have a big area in the mod.

and there could be a JP Morgan bank - where we can desposit our credit card money!

so? can do? cannot do?


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Random Ranting / World of Warcraft
« on: December 04, 2004, 11:13:16 PM »
I read the revie won gamespot which gave it a 9.5 and was almost flawless in its review. This game looks to be a major revolution in online gaming. No surprise i guess.

Seems ot have broken all the barriers in relation to nature of online playing experience, so as to appeal to a much wider audience than ur average camper in EQ1.

The day when everyone will play an mmorpg and live 50% of their life online does not seem far off.

The games graphics are truly outstanding. Just the screenshots alone are quite step eyond what you get in daoc or guildwars :/ ... Hard to go past this one.

ANybody here have any opinions? I know its pay per month, but I really think this game opens the door to the general public to play online all the time.... (there are others which have been mentione din these forums - but the way they built the reward and xp system is very well tuned).

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Random Ranting / What are Suki Yo's other favourite games?
« on: December 03, 2004, 02:36:42 AM »
um let me see...

what kind of computer games would a girl like suki yo like?

ok we know she finished myst, did soul caliber and likes nwn

how about a guess and say she likes erm erm

er.. has she tried magic the gathering?
battlearena tohshinden?
zelda link (she may not like rpgs)?
hrm i cant think of any recent hard adventure puzzle games like myst .. maybe er.. Planescape Torment? surely not as hard as myst....

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Random Ranting / Jade Empire looking so good so far..
« on: December 02, 2004, 12:34:52 AM »
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/jadeempir...ew_6098630.html

shame it is only for xbox so far
but this looks to be my next fav game if it can come to pc

mechassault: lone wolf is also looking very good

but if je can mix the magic in with the combo keyboard moves - wow it will be action packed!

it is just like mega mage battles in nwn with chain casting!

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Random Ranting / What is Gravad lax?
« on: December 02, 2004, 12:17:25 AM »
ok her eis the recipe

it sound slike raw pickled fish - http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/9758/esal07.htm

im thinking of trying it.
anybody eaten it before? what happens to the dill after 2 days?
what should it taste like? (which country dsoes it come from)
and how do i know if the recipe went bad and the stuff is poisonous...

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