Hamidon Sighting in Praetoria?
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Acemace,
Posted on: 2010-12-21 09:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Can I "like" this post?
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
*squints* The hami-tentical isn't casting a reflection in the water.
OMG, Praet-Hami is a vampire! |
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
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Eiko - at least the Mastermind version of her - is a Primal and not subject to Cole's laws. Nor much interested in them at all, for that matter. What happens to Praetorians is no concern of hers. One of the benefits of villainy - we don't have to give a damn.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I hope you were only testing the barrier and not trying to escape, citizen?
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Tyrant has certainly shown that to be true |
Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
One of the benefits of villainy - we don't have to give a damn.
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@Golden Girl
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I knew the elusive Hamidon tentacle existed!
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This.Is.AWESOME!
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
I immediately thought of Alan Moore's variation on Captain Britain, Captain Airstrip 1, particularly since Hero 1 distinctly resembles another version of Captain Britain.
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Haha - you assume a "normal society" is a non-totalitarian one? I think history may not support that position; "free" societies are relatively new. |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Supporting freedom is only a crime in a dictatorship, not a normal society
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Arrr... no gods, no masters! Hoist yer colors and strike down those who'd control yer fate!
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That's because we're progressing |
Originally Posted by JollyRoger
Haha - you assume a "normal society" is a non-totalitarian one? I think history may not support that position; "free" societies are relatively new.
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@Golden Girl
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Actually they are relatively old. Civilizations had to build up to a significant size before relative anarchy stopped working.| Haha - you assume a "normal society" is a non-totalitarian one? I think history may not support that position; "free" societies are relatively new. |
The earliest society I know that I would call "totalitarian" would be the Chinese Legalists, c. 400 CE (IIRC). That would put them at about the halfway point in recorded history. The kind of modern fascism portrayed in Praetoria is very new, as it's almost right out of Mussolini.
As for what a "natural society" is, some dead white European male once noted that "man is born free but everywhere is in chains"; he also observed that even if someone gives away their own freedom they can't give away their childrens', and to renounce liberty is to give up being human.
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"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
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Odd. My mastermind got it with no trouble at all and shrugged off the damage.
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Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Uh, that's very much not true. My level 50 Mastermind hit debt cap trying to pierce the sonic barrier for the Denial of Service badge.
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Well, he'd know. Dead white European males forged most of those chains.
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Originally Posted by Venture
some dead white European male once noted that "man is born free but everywhere is in chains";
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i hate to poke your bubble with a dead cat, but the evolving egyptian theocracies might have beat them too it around 3k-5k bc. cults of personality leaning towards authoritarianism were long earlier than that. loose gangs with strict regard toward ostracism as a death sentence also enforced a particular regime of 'security' to ensure certain minimum standards are met. |
Originally Posted by Venture
Actually they are relatively old. Civilizations had to build up to a significant size before relative anarchy stopped working.
The earliest society I know that I would call "totalitarian" would be the Chinese Legalists, c. 400 CE (IIRC). That would put them at about the halfway point in recorded history. |
i imagine no one wants to be on the other side of the sonic fence.
Kittens give Morbo gas.
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Apart from the people the Resistance helps to smuggle out of Praetoria |
Originally Posted by spice_weasel
i imagine no one wants to be on the other side of the sonic fence.
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Apparently, Tyrant's "utopia" is so great that people are prepared to live in a monster filled wasteland just to be free rather than live as slaves under his rule
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False, but we can't have that conversation here.
| Well, he'd know. Dead white European males forged most of those chains. |
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You're not supposed to be posting anyway.
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Originally Posted by Venture
False, but we can't have that conversation here.
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Only in the last several centuries, and were hardly the only ones to be forging chains even then. And before that they were far, far more likely to be in the chains than the ones forging them. Well, the live European males. Most of the time the chains are removed from the dead ones. They also do a lousy job at forging them when dead. Dead people, regardless of origin or gender, are terrible workers.|
Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Well, he'd know. Dead white European males forged most of those chains.
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Just sayin'...
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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Oh. |
Originally Posted by Noble Savage
FINALLY. Congrats. As you've now seen, Hamidon is indeed out there, lurking in the forests. Spotting the beast should be a reminder to all citizens about the constant, immediate, and overwhelming threat faced by Praetoria, and a firm reminder not to venture past the sonic pylons.
This small taste of the Praetorian Hamidon has been in the game since GR launched, and internally, we've all been wondering and guessing how long it might be before one of you guys caught a glimpse or better yet, a photo. And now you have--bravo! Depictions of Hamidon that you see scattered around Praetoria are merely a charicature of the real thing: artists' renderings of something seen only from a distance and poorly understood. Hamidon has changed since players last confronted the creature in Primal Earth, but the story here is just beginning to unfold... |
I think I spotted that at least a half-dozen times so far. I didn't think it was anything extraordinary, so I never commented on it, lol.
While the statement was meant to largely be a joke, many of you seem to be forgetting that Romans are dead white European males.
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| If they overthrow him, and if the process of overthrowing him destroys the Sonic Fences, do you feel that the Resistance would share some responsibility in any of the repercussions of that? |
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Originally Posted by Venture
No. Fiat justita ruat caelum.
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You may argue that the price is worth it, but those responsible for bringing deaths to others, inadvertent or not, in the pursuit of a "righteous cause" or not, still bear responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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That's because people are utter idiots, which is why we need our beloved leader in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Apart from the people the Resistance helps to smuggle out of Praetoria
Apparently, Tyrant's "utopia" is so great that people are prepared to live in a monster filled wasteland just to be free rather than live as slaves under his rule |
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.
People should stop thinking of Praetoria in terms of White and Black,and see more Shades of Gray on it.
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But that'd be too sensible and not annoying enough to other forum posters.
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.
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Tyrant makes it impossible to view him and his stiff-armed thugs as anything other than evil |
Originally Posted by Pedro Schwartz
People should stop thinking of Praetoria in terms of White and Black,and see more Shades of Gray on it.
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@Golden Girl
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One people, one empire, one leader?
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Originally Posted by Vanden
That's because people are utter idiots, which is why we need our beloved leader in the first place.
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ive either attempted to get or gotten this one on about half a dozen toons so far, from what i seen, there are some spots that the barriers either dont start heavily affecting you until your already near the map border, or they start affecting you before you get anywhere near the border|
Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Odd. My mastermind got it with no trouble at all and shrugged off the damage.
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basically for this you just need to find a spot where the barrier doesnt kick in until your pretty close to the barrier
*squints* The hami-tentical isn't casting a reflection in the water.
OMG, Praet-Hami is a vampire!
-STEELE =)
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