Gulanzon
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Quote:'Cept on not harping on about problems.Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
And you're ignoring those communities' capabilities to work towards fixing the problems that you're harping on.
I just like the idea of nature devouring civilisation, because I think overgrowth and the decay of the human element is beautiful. I'm in love with it.
I don't have any beef with buildings and people because I think they're in some way flawed, or need destroying, in other words. In the same vein there is no way for humanity to redeem itself... simply because it has done nothing wrong for it to need to have to redeem itself, in my eyes. The problem simply is that it is there, and I think I could make it better. Kill off the humans and have vines and trees take over. -
Quote:Yes, but we're the only greedy species with a global network. Ants are small. Lemmings don't trade.Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
Beaver dams have been known to cause massive damage to their environments. Locusts devour vegetation and hordes of ants have been known to slaughter everything in their paths.
Lemmings, contrary to belief, don't commit mass suicides. They commit mass exoduses because they've devoured their food sources to near total depletion. Whatever cliff or ocean is in their way is only seen as an obstacle in their path, they don't realize they're about to die.
This destruction you're talking about is not restricted only to humanity. We're just one of a great many greedy creatures on the planet.
Locust swarms might well be an anthropogenic problem due to our farming practices.
etc, etc.
You addressed that we are not the only wildly destructive creatures on the planet, but you avoided the issue of our capability to organise ourselves on a massive scale, and create multiple interacting communities on vast and varying scales.
Too much? Ouch, that's harsh.Quote:Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
I think you're just trying to be contrary now. Either that, or you're revealing far too much of a self-destructive mentality and a fatalistic viewpoint.
I don't think t boils down to what sort of a mentality I have. If you'll read back to my opening post: I see nature running wild outside Praetoria, and it fills me with peace. I think it's beautiful.
Civilisation disappoints me.
Of course there is a middle ground: the human race needn't be eradicated. Perhaps we should all just get sent back to the stone age, when we were too fragmented to pose such a large-scale threat to the planet. Unfortunately we as a species would almost certainly recover
Unless you're half-in game mode too, I'm not exactly advocating ecoterrorism in the real world. Just to clarify.Quote:Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
People don't come here to talk about ecoterrorism, and they're less-than-likely to support your opinion that we all need to be destroyed in order for the world to be saved. I rather like humanity in general, I like being alive. I don't feel like giving up just because you're a little disappointed with your species. -
Quote:We're also the first creatures to have the organisational capacity and intellect to go about destroying what we're sitting on.Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
Humans are, thus far, the first creatures to realize that if we destroy what we're sitting on, we'll die too.
Let's see a chimpanzee invent a steamship. -
Actually I hated that series :P
I didn't like the angle it took of "Ohhhh civilisation is important! Oooooooh nature is bad!!!!" It was horrible to watch, sort of like hearing someone call your mother names over and over. -
Who says I would want to enjoy my human-purged Earth?
It's the same reason I've never killed myself, I'd feel too bad about my survivors. -
Actually, that's one point of contention I have with the Hamidon. What makes him the arbiter of what the world should be?
I just want to see the Earth purged of the human race, with nature taking hold again, even if it means a period of upheaval as she runs rampant and unchecked.
^^I love pictures like that.
Take that civilisation!
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Though rereading this post gave me an interesting thought: I'm much like the Hamidon in that I have a vision for how the world ought to be, the only point of contention is that I don't believe in creatures like the Devoured. I just want to annihilate the human element without putting anything in their place.
I mean, honestly, it seems like we as a species are at war with nature, constantly competing with her. Who knows what would happen if we all suddenly disappeared, but I'm sure nothing monumentally bad. -
Does that make me a Hero, a Villain, or something else?
I mean, seriously, I'm chilling on Nova Praetoria's waterfront, looking at the towering jungle at the city outskirts, and thinking to myself "the Hamidon is the bad guy here? What?" -
Guys, can everyone having the "Can't connect to DBserver" problems do me a favour?
I'm not qualified in any way, this is largely for my own curiosity, and this will likely not get you a solution, but...
Can everyone please do a traceroute(* see note below) to the following two IPs:
216.107.240.3
216.107.248.3
These are the data centres where the servers are hosted. If you start seeing 64.14.157.* type IPs in the traceroute, my wholly uneducated guess is that you're on the money.
Totally uneducated guess would be that if your packet can make it to the servers, the problem lies somewhere between the servers and you on the return trip. This might be a firewall, the servers having a tantrum, or something else entirely.
*NOTE*
To perform a traceroute in windows:
Go to your start menu
Open the "Run..." dialogue
Type in "cmd" and hit enter
This will open the command prompt. In the command prompt:
Type in "tracert" and hit enter
Please tell me if this doesn't work, since it's been quite a while since I was last on windows, and I have no idea how windows 7 or vista work
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Ooh, how'd you stumble upon this gem?
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Quote:I see your Batman, and I raise you a Gray Ghost.Originally Posted by DarkGob
The theme to Superman: TAS.
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Marry me, ketch.
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Wait, what am I saying? You only linked the 10 version.
Here, I turned it up to 11 for you. -
For the Aussies here, do we get faster speeds on the EU or NA patcher?
And if I'm allowed to ask here, if I download the bulk of the data via EU and then swap the NA patcher in and run that, will I be fine? -
Quote:Just wanted to say, a ton of bricks is as heavy as a ton of electrons. Of course, good luck getting electrons to clump together into anything that would weigh a ton. Though I imagine as a superhero, if you could get yourself a ton of electrons, it would probably hit real hard.Originally Posted by Kinrad
Because Ice blast has 2 holds, energy hits like a ton of bricks, and stuns everything trying to hit you... and it's fun.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm nitpicking. -
Locke's Theme too.
I don't know about Supergirl. I think my taste in heroic music is, "Does this make me feel like I can PUNCH OUT CTHULHU?" -
Giant Robo - Rush! Issei & Yohshi
Chrono Trigger - Frog's Theme
GaoGaiGar Final- Genesic Final Fusion
(the above is based on this: GaoGaiGar - Final Fusion
What else? Gogo! -
Okay, so, I did a cursory search around, and I think my problem is a little different from usual...
I've downloaded and installed the mac CoH version (so it's the full game, just presumably a few issues behind, since I can't past server select if I bypass the launcher) I got from client.coh.com.
When I run the updater, I get the updater web page alright, but it sits on "connecting" for some time before moving to "Checking Updater".
I also get 1.0M/0B and a speed that changes intermittently (atm it says 3.4M/sec).
Is everything happening as it's meant to?
Also, this past week, I was seemingly connecting fine, since I was just running the empty Steam version, which was trying to download the whole 4 GB over the updater (lol). This makes me think the firewall on campus here is not a problem. -
I know Anarchy Online had something that let you connect to the chat servers without connecting to the game, and could even connect up an IRC channel with a mod, which was pretty nifty.
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Thanks Long answers are the best. I'll make sure to keep asking short questions as needed :P
I'll keep that in mind. My head is still turning over all the fun things I could do. Like making a character inspired by a certain blue superhero beginning with "Dr." and ending with "McCoy".
Anyway, the community attitude here seems really refreshing coming out of WoW and dabbling in the forums. Can't wait to get in-game. -
Quote:Haha, never say that to an altoholic. I spent my first 2 years of WoW never hitting the level cap, rerolling and rerolling... same with Anarchy Online (because I just had to try every class!!!! (highest I got was with my Fixer, followed by my Engineer... don't judge me as a person, lol))Originally Posted by cybermitheral
Or.... try them all and have fun
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Is Storm Summoning for Controllers still considered group-unfriendly? -
Hey guys, I'm a Gul, from Perth. I'm fresh out of WoW, and needed a new MMO addiction to stave off the boredom of a meaningless existence
I'm actually still downloading the game, lol. Only just found the DMG with all the files after trying to get the game downloaded through the updater. Eheheh
I'll probably be making a Huge dual blades scrapper, just because. (Well okay, so I saw a Huge dual blades character in a video and knew it was the path for me.)
Seems like all the Oceanic peeps hang out on Justice. Is the global chat channel cross-faction?
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Actually, is there an AT that lets me be a jack-of-all-trades kind of hybrid? Something I enjoyed in low-level WoW was that hybrids in group play could jump in and do whatever was needed if the character fulfilling one of the specific roles carked it or was somehow disabled.