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General / Best Commanders

« on: April 20, 2004, 02:26:36 PM »

I'm seeing it a lot as well. I think as long as the marines get an upgrade or two off the bat, the aliens have a hard time killing them.

Oh, and I've been working out a JP rush strat the last few days. Works beautifully, but you need to hold about 4-5 res nodes to get it to work, upgrade the armory as soon as it's built, and get an arms lab in there somewhere as well.

If it works though, you'll have shotgun-toting jetpackers versus a team of skulks, a fade, and a building hive. Absolutely devastating.

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General / Shields

« on: April 19, 2004, 05:01:51 PM »

Scouts for LIEF!

Nothing more satisfying than a scout kill, or four.

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General / Maps Request

« on: April 18, 2004, 07:42:22 AM »

de_cpl_fire.

Overlapping fields of fire, interlocking rooms, and many an opportunity to come around behind people and school them with your knife.

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Off Topic / The Truth

« on: March 11, 2004, 01:29:27 PM »

Depends, I think its rather narrow minded of you to assume that a different numerical system, in which 1+1 = pi is unworkable. Who knows - maybe its the solution to being able to quantify circular shapes without rounding (hehe, thats silly as a circular shape is just an abstraction and can never be truely without rounding error by its very definition - but still).

Furthermore, the only good argument you can make against someone killing themselves is that mankind wouldn't really survive with his train of thought - wether you consider it everyones responsibility to contribute to that survival and to what extent or not is just personal bias. No other argument you can possibly make for any sort of behaviour does not negate itself - but usually when discussing truths, we take self-preservance for granted. If we're already going to talk about the abstract that is supposedly the truth, then we'd also have to remove that last bit of unfounded assumption.

And, to top the irony off, that line of thinking has a small benefit in itself : Too often we presume because one way has preserved within reason, there is no other way or other ways are entirely untrue. The least controversial example being a numerical system of your own - any fellow geek here would realize how utterly stupid "1+1 cannot equal 3.14" sounds when I tell them "1+1 = 11", and I doubt they will contest that

We create truths, because its a tool to perceive and manipulate our reality - we make it a truth that things will fall to the ground, we call it gravity. We expand on that - but its still important to realize its just a method of comprehension, not an un-alterable absolute. Hence yes, truth is entirely bendable :p

Bored yet?

I most certainly have the right to tell you not to kill yourself, don't I? To try and coax you out of self-destructive behavior?

Once we ignore legal systems, as much right as you'd have to kill me yourself. All the right in the world :p

Hmm, if that's the definition you choose to attach to truth, our comprehension, then yes, it is alterable and still might be correct.

However, there is one and only one reality, and there can be only one of those.

And, as I said before, If my view of reality more logically fits the evidence of that reality than yours, why should I not attempt to change your perception of reality?

For example, I know for a fact that a ceramic pot is hot. You don't see it as being hot, so you assume you can pick it up with your bare hands. Would it not be sadistic of me to allow you to try and pick it up?

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Mapping / Ns_thorstation

« on: March 10, 2004, 08:15:32 PM »

Great architecture, but maybe a little more contrast?

I love the formations of the walls, very un-flat is very good. Great work.

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Off Topic / The Truth

« on: March 10, 2004, 07:42:54 PM »

A bad example, on the other hand, is maths. I may be of the opinion that 1+1=3.14 , but such a belief is based on ignorance, not thought, and can be clearly and certainly defined as false.

To me it indicates that you use a different numeric system, nothing else. There is no one "right" way of counting. For the sake of this argument, you should be able to see the difference between what is a norm for the functioning of our society and what is absolute truth.

Contrary to common perception, there is at any one time only one absolute truth - ironically the most subjective thing, your thoughts and feelings. These cannot be altered directly, and are the only reality you have. What you do with that is absolutely up to you, and noone can say that any one approach is incorrect simply because its less useful (to them). :p

Agreed. There is a single absolute truth, we only have our own impressions of it.

If we have logically more basis or evidence for our supposition of that absolute truth, I see no reason why that supposition cannot be shared. For example, if I know that 1 +1 is in fact equal to 2, there is no harm in attempting to correct someone who thinks that 1+1=3. In fact, I think this should be encouraged.

I have no right to tell you what you can or cannot do, that doesnt affect me, therefore, you should be free to do anything that doesnt affect me

I most certainly have the right to tell you not to kill yourself, don't I? To try and coax you out of self-destructive behavior?

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Off Topic / Starcraft

« on: March 01, 2004, 02:42:53 PM »

But those 20 archers all use up food supply, which is already much lower in WC3 than in Starcraft, and you have to pay the upkeep cost. And aside from the fact that Heros aren't meant to be their own armies, they're used in conjunction with your army to get a bit of an edge.

So what you're saying is that sophisticated, advanced units don't matter. All that matters is mass. Couldn't agree more. The good ol' "kekeke zerg rush ^____________^" is alive and well. He who wins is he who has the bigger army in shorter time. That may be strategy, but not tactics. And frankly, tactics are more fun. Gimme Myth any day.

Take my semi-bro: Unbeatable in Starcraft, which is why I rarely played against him. He didn't go for early rushes, but climbed the tech tree as fast as he could, then set up unbeatable unit combos. Until I did a kekeke zerg rush ^________________^ on him. He had no chance at all. Give me Myth with its fixed amount of units, the lack of a base and the comfortably paced, extra-tactical gameplay any day. If I want to play "economy management", I'll take Sim City instead.

Gotta run, it's full of Daewoos outside.

YUS!

Mech Commander, and the Total War series did this too. Tactical control of units wins the game, and the smarter man prevails. Death to the tank rush.

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Off Topic / Starcraft

« on: February 28, 2004, 09:52:33 PM »

I now officially hate starcraft in every respect.

When, oh when, will someone make an RTS that's not about mass, but about tactics and strategy?

Oh wait, they have..

http://www.totalwar.com/

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Off Topic / Starcraft

« on: February 28, 2004, 10:01:27 AM »

I've got Star wars and BR installed, I'm ready to go!

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Off Topic / I Took My Blood Pressure Yesterday At Work...

« on: February 27, 2004, 06:10:18 PM »

Yes I'm sure we'd all rise up in a rage and take him down, if we could actually get up out of our computer chairs without having to rest for five minutes from the exertion.

You know what? YOU KNOW WHAT? LAST FALL, I ACTUALLY WENT JOGGING ONCE! OH YEAH! In the RAIN! While it was FREAKIN' FREEZING! And I HUFFED and I PUFFED and I BLEW MY LUNGS OUT, yet I KEPT GOING! Uh-huh! DAMN STRAIGHT! And then I started BREATHING LIKE A NINJA LIKE MY SISTER SHOWED ME, and you know what? It pretty damn WORKED and I could've KEPT RUNNING FOREVER if the cold and rain hadn't MADE MY EARS, NOSE and FINGERS NUMB! HELL YEAH!

Remember I told you about that Gem?

Ninja breating? Explain, oh fighter of the laughter!

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General / The Big *** THANK YOU LB! *** Thread

« on: February 21, 2004, 10:15:53 PM »

my thanx

WINNAR!

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General / Favorite Vehicles

« on: February 17, 2004, 08:30:45 PM »

I can't wait for modders to get a hold of this...

TAC:UT! WOO HOO!

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General / 3.0 Balance Ideas And Suggestions

« on: February 17, 2004, 04:24:04 PM »

So what's the plan? Everyone get together on a server sometime and talk about what sucks and what doesn't?

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General / 3.0 Balance Ideas And Suggestions

« on: February 17, 2004, 02:55:31 PM »

Great Idea, I'd certainly help out.

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General / Favorite Vehicles

« on: February 17, 2004, 02:32:12 PM »

I think it's the Leviathan that can be deployed, not the tank.

The Leviathan is a 5 man death machine that is described as "being able to level entire cities."

OMG BAALANCE!

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Off Topic / Dreamweaver Question

« on: February 16, 2004, 06:20:02 PM »

Go into word, to a search for RK010, hit replace as RK020.

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Off Topic / Binary Conversions

« on: February 15, 2004, 11:37:22 AM »

All number systems work as follows:

n^6 n^5 n^4 n^3 n^2 n^1 n^0

Where n equals the base of the number system. You can convert it to base 10 so you can understand it, then back to whatever you need it to be.

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General / Friedpenguins Ut2k4!

« on: February 14, 2004, 10:37:38 PM »

I shot down three redeemers today. Winnar .

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General / Favorite Vehicles

« on: February 13, 2004, 09:33:45 PM »

The only thing that would make the scorpian sexyer is if it hovared without flapping.

:p .

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Off Topic / The Meaning Of Life

« on: February 10, 2004, 02:10:30 PM »

no, a fair and compassionate god would not allow everyone to not KNOW him.

btw, you don't need to tell me the doctrine of christianity, i know it pretty well

naw, your post is fine. i got sucked into this discussion, i can't expect ppl to not reply in kind. this is, tbh, one of my more favorite topics of discussion.

Ahh. I misread the code then .

If you look at early church history though, you really see how God has moved in amazing ways to see to it that everyone at least has the choice to know him, or at least, have knowledge that He is out there somewhere.

If you start talking to missionaries, you really see how a lot of culture's local traditions and legends have something in them that mimics a biblical story, be it the flood, or in some cases, a god that has come to earth to die, only to raise again.

We're also told in the Great Commission, Mt 28:18-20, that He will be with us as we do go out and 'spread the word,' and He will act in some amazing ways to get his message out. Everywhere that a person would respond, someone is there to act upon them. (The eunich in Acts 8? for example.)