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Off Topic / If you were a supervillian...

« on: July 23, 2005, 03:57:59 PM »

Dr Doom, right at the top. "Villain" with a dream and a conscience, dedicated mind, benevolent ruler of Latveria.

Failing that... Magneto perhaps, or Apocalypse. Underneath that, it'd be Batman (not a villain, sue me) or Venom (again not really a villain anymore, rather more a vigilante).

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Off Topic / Terrorism

« on: July 20, 2005, 11:28:01 AM »

Dolphins do it, killer whales do it, various species of chimp do it. Torture is quite popular in the animal kingdom.


On a related note, murder is always "warranted", either because you were hungry, the voice in your head told you to, you always wanted to kill someone, etc etc etc. There's always a motive  

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Off Topic / Terrorism

« on: July 18, 2005, 08:44:08 PM »

humans are the only species to murder eachother

Sadly this is in fact total and utter bs. Moving along...


Statistics are fun. Stalin said "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a
statistic". Hiroshima and Nagasaki were statistics. Bombing Red Cross centres and village marriages are statistics. Lockerbie was a statistic.


Further, Bush was onto a winner when he invaded Iraq, because either he or his "advisors" knew that the populace would be too stubbornminded/"patriotic"/stupid to vote in anyone who would even remotely withdraw the troops from Iraq. Understand that it would not do to be seen to leave a job half done (hello Afghanistan, how are you today?) nor would it be actually admit to a mistake in policy. And for that you deservedly doomed, if not damned.

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Off Topic / Terrorism

« on: July 10, 2005, 07:28:49 AM »

Remember the govt trying to sneak through various acts designed to effectively remove freedoms that you are entitled to enjoy?

Oh, but thats ok, because there's a war on.

Torturing prisoners in a camp, dropping bombs on weddings?

Oh, but thats ok, because there's a war on.

Vitally important election, where the elected President will quite possibly have to choose several new members of the Supreme Court? Lets not forget that the Supreme Court is elected for life, which makes it important to make balanced choices... and not staff it with fundamental extremists.

Ah yes, but we MUST vote Bush, because there's a war on, and to vote anyone else would be to show a lack of conviction, to tell the terrorists "oh we made the wrong choice going to war".


And you don't think its about fear?

Fear makes people malleable, because they will cling to anything that will make them forget their fear, or anything which claims to cure their fear entirely. Fear gives those a power a viable reason to do whatever they like. The scared little sheep will trot along happily, because the government is taking steps to remove their fears.

Fear is employed as an interrogation tool, as an instrument of torture, as a way to BREAK PEOPLE, purely because they will cling to anything that will make them fear less.

You can look all the way back through history for many MANY examples of fear ruling a people.

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General / new patch!

« on: July 10, 2005, 07:07:37 AM »

Shotty sniping back?


Joy.

 <_<

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Off Topic / Terrorism

« on: July 08, 2005, 05:55:15 PM »

Whats that you say Lassie? Old Bushie has crashed his bicycle?? HIT THE ORANGE ALERT!! INCOMING CLOUD, GO TO DEFCON ONE!!!

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 07, 2005, 04:36:25 PM »

Gaping plot hole? The original Matrix had colossal gaping holes in the story, yet it fascinated people far far more than the sequels, where the viewer was spoonfed the plot. In an ideal world the sequels would never have been made, and The Matrix would be truly iconic.

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Off Topic / Terrorism

« on: July 07, 2005, 04:33:53 PM »

Its like 1984, production and wastage of goods, noone questions the government because "there's a war on". Seriously. Imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 06, 2005, 12:03:38 PM »

I think if people cant suspend disbelief, they should be barred from cinemas.

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General / How i LOATHE large pub servers

« on: July 04, 2005, 01:04:35 PM »

Thats true, certainly whenever I manage to get in the chair the only time the whole team is in one spot is when we're toasting a hive.

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General / New server mods! yay!

« on: July 02, 2005, 06:35:51 PM »

Easier to spot vote troublemakers now, and if it scares people then good, all the better, they'll be less quick to hit Vote just because the comm didnt drop them a shotty.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 02, 2005, 02:11:11 PM »

Blood is a pretty universal substance to all living things on Earth, including plants, if you take it at the most basic level.

Blood is a liquid, easily absorbed, contains water, sugar, protein, fats, all sorts of predigested goodies - normally you need a set of intestines, a lot of acid, and a complicated food mashing system in order to loosen up the nutrients. Blood, however, contains the end result which is easily absorbed into body cells.


The Martians could have been waiting to harvest Earth, have bred humans for the specific purpose of harvesting, been harvesting other worlds, or another case to consider is that perhaps there weren't really many Martians left, hence why the invasion force was pretty small and why the Martians were keen to glut themselves on the foodstuffs.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 01, 2005, 02:17:16 PM »

I still prefer the book, tbh. The book describes that the Martians subsist on blood, for one.

At the same time, I like the imagery of the film, and its a shame the two couldn't have been better combined.

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General / So What's up with everyone

« on: June 17, 2005, 04:32:19 PM »

All hail my new job. Finally an official posting. Cant stay up as late, means only my weekends and free, and right now I'm swamped with all the stuff I used to do on weeknights. Damn models.

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Off Topic / The ban hammer?

« on: June 13, 2005, 12:51:06 PM »

Now thats a hammer you're not likely to escape.

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Off Topic / The ban hammer?

« on: June 12, 2005, 12:08:34 PM »

He has his charm.


Hammer needs to much bigger tho.

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Off Topic / San Andreas for PC

« on: June 10, 2005, 01:43:56 PM »

Personally I like getting a bike, parachute, and going hell for leather down Mt Chiliad. Such raw naked fun.


Failing that its beating up people with a giant dildo. Still makes me laugh.

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General / the problem

« on: June 05, 2005, 04:55:38 PM »

Invul plugin only exacerbates the problem, thats why I hope it is never implemented in such a way that aliens can abuse invul to allow them to sweep a hive clean.

It's just one of those things that has to rely on good player sportsmanship. Like bodycamping in AvP2. You can't outright halt it, so you make a server rule and hope that your regulars are HONEST ENOUGH not to break it.





I think Nec shooting my PC is retarded, stop shooting my PC now. Retarded. Doesn't. Mean. ****. PCcamping owns. Its good thinking and efficient playing. All the top players break up their opponents PCs, etc etc blah blah tired and rather silly standard competitive argument, narf.


Ah, the hilarity.






Slick, you may want to PM me with a clarification of what you just said, thanks.

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General / the problem

« on: June 05, 2005, 10:14:56 AM »

Of course by the same token, me going to your house and putting a few shotgun rounds into you and/or your PC is a brilliant piece of logical reasoning and a master stroke in terms of countering your playing ability.

Mind you, you probably won't be saying that.






In much the same way, CC blocking and spawncamping might be "brilliant" strategies, but they're not really all that fun to be on the receiving end of, and its largely against the spirit of the game. Come in and shoot the hive and its defenders by all means, but dont camp for kills just to pass time waiting for 6 sieges to be built and covered by an elec tfac.


Now, the example of hitting the second hive is perfectly fine, naturally of course assuming the honourable intention of attacking the hive, as opposed to wiping out spawning aliens. Its a fine line, but there we have it. TBH I'd rather have the current method that relies on PLAYER RESPONSIBILITY as opposed to resorting to invulnerable spawn, which will do a fine job of making hives even harder to take.

The example of waiting for a phase gate... depends. If you're rushing into the hive then yelling like a nub for a PG, then camp all round you, then you're spawncamping. If the comm sent you there, then you're on a mission that WILL involve an attempt to drop a PG. Further, should the comm drop a PG, you WILL be trying to build it, and its tricky to build a PG and mow down skulks at the same time. If the comm meds you enough, and you're a good shot, then the PG will go up and all going well 5 more marines will bale in with SGs and it'll be hiveburgers for everyone.

So, in a nutshell, there on official business is good, there because you're going to whine for stuff while camping aliens is BAD.

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General / Dead_Meat is officially awesome

« on: June 04, 2005, 02:34:21 PM »

Dead Meat > Anakin Skywalker