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[quote who="Shurdus" reply="69" id="2522041"] Quoting RisingLegend, reply 22 P.s- Shurdus, you will never be able to use that rain of fire spell if you don't change your avatar What is more scary, a wizard that looks evil and makes everybody think 'better prepare for a rain of fire spell' or a fluffy, laughing kitty that suddenly, without any warning, is able to cast rain if fire on his flabbergasted enemies? Be afraid of the kitty... Be very afraid![/quote]

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Kinetic Barriers and Warp Fields. We just need more power to do it. Somehow.

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[quote who="HorseStrangler" reply="32" id="2521935"]Don't get me wrong, I'm as interested in a cloud city on Venus as the next guy, but I don't think we're going to leave our own solar system in the next century. I seriously doubt we'll ever make it out of the Milky Way. There's no evidence to suggest that any other race has ever made it out of their own near space , on some level you've gotta admit the odds are against us being the first. [...]

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Phew. I was afraid we'd get an Americommunistic Moon Base there for a while. Good thing Obama keeps the wheel of history turning in the right direction. The more we follow the path of cyclical time, the sooner we'll get back to something worthwhile.

Reply to PC reset & upgrade time! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="2519993"]Why anyone would ruin a new machine/OS with a Torrent is beyond me. I spent ages with an InLaw's machine which had LimeWire on it.....removing all the porn and virii. You won't get me paying for hosting someone else's downloads....[/quote]" A torrent"? Kind sir, I had over 200 torrents running that I now regrettably had to disengage due to the reset! If he's running Limewire, it's his own fault. [e digico

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Excellent suggestions, thanks for the help, all. Suffering from a killer headache and I have a lot of work to do tomorrow before I get started on actually formatting the computer and installing Windows 7 on it. [quote who="kryo" reply="8" id="2519543"] [...] Win7 has all the video codecs--it only really lacks a Matroska splitter and means to process embedded subtitles nicely. But as you can get FFDShow and the splitter alone without using CCCP, I'd reccommend aga

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What Anti-virus/Anti-Spyware/Anti-Malware/Firewall would you recommend? Preferably one that can be completely turned off. I used to use AVG, but it conflicted with some programs/games and it had to be uninstalled to be turned completely off. So unless things have changed, AVG is out - which means that I need a new favourite. Preferably freeware, but I'm open for suggestions.

PC reset & upgrade time! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

So, it's one of THOSE threads again. I'm tired of Vista now, and a recent upgrade seem to have solved some of my issues, but not all of them. New ones have cropped up and I'm no longer sure if it's a hardware or software issue. The natural thing to do is a reformat. Might aswell upgrade to Win7 in the process. Currently backing up everything and downloading "the essentials". So far, apart from (the latest) graphic and motherboard chipset drivers, I've (re-)downloaded Open Offi

Reply to Some thoughts on succession in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="90" id="2512033"]I think there can be a First Born bonus, so that if the first born is the leader he gets a certain bonus for being first born. But others can become the leader.[/quote]I'd prefer to have a "pit fight" system of succession. The first-born isn't favoured. The one to win the glory of the cage is! Edit: Sorry for double-post, but quoting is screwy as usual.

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[quote quoting="post"] [...] Sovereigns will get the opportunity to get married. Once married, they will, for a period of time, be able to have children. [...] [/quote]When the female is no longer able to produce offspring, will we be able to discard her and take a new wife? Will we be able to have several wives, thus siring several offsprings at any one time?

Reply to Ugly children in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Can we, in a misguided effort to keep the ruling bloodline pure, practice inbreeding? Because that'd be awesome and disturbing at once. Awesomely disturbing.

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Will we be able to practice postive and/or negative eugenics? Actually, that question shouldn't just be a matter of the dynasties, but on your society at large.

Reply to Personalized flag in 3d map in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="8" id="2513702"]Assuming your "that" is about US free speech and not Aussie rowdiness, Aryeh Neir did it in 1977 in 'the Skokie affair.'[/quote]Now that you mention it, I'd probably like to see both. But that'll do, thanks. [quote who="Wintersong" reply="9" id="2513749"]Well, Boogiebac said (for those who didn't know but read this): "We'll have custom and dynamic coats of arms, but it'll be a visual thing for the Dynasty system instead of some

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[quote who="Wintersong" reply="6" id="2513609"]The Australia part was for all that thing about blood and violence, as Luckmann said. Let's not get started on the USA and nipples. Especially during public TV events (doesn't beat porn during the Super Bowl though [e digicons]:P[/e] ).[/quote]In the U.S, you can have SAW-like scenes with zombies eating the eyes out of unsuspecting victims, but you can't show a little skin. In Germany, you can have full frontal nudity or basicly hardcore porn,

Reply to [Functionality] Civilization Coats of Arms in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I'm going to go ahead and bump this thread right now, since a similar discussion just cropped up. December 10th, 2008? Wow, it has really been that long?

Reply to Personalized flag in 3d map in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2512963"]Does Australia also have some sort of ban on marketing Nazi memorabilia or exceptions to free speech rules that let cops shut down neo-Nazi marches and rallys?[/quote]No, but they (just like Germany also have) have some serious laws about blood and sex in videogames, afaik. As far as I know, they have no political censorship laws. But on the other hand, I'm not an Aussie. [quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2512963"]I've always tended t

Reply to Tiny coincidences in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I'm going to assume that this guy (Michiel van den Bos) is the guy (it even says so in the article, but I never fully trust wikipedia). If that is so, just let me go WOW . Whilst Unreal/Unreal Tournament soundtracks never really stuck in my head, and I haven't played Overlord enough (and never player Overlord II), Age of Wonders stands out as an amazing soundtrack. In particular, h

Reply to Personalized flag in 3d map in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

As much fun as that would be, that'd quickly make the game illegal in Germany whenever you played with me. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

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And you.. just noticed that? Wasn't that in a list of "This is the notable stuff I've worked on" or discussed when you hired him? Isn't it, like, your job to know this stuff? [e digicons];P[/e]

Reply to What Will Photoshop CS5 Bring? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

That paintbrush option could persuade me to get one of those boards, since I'm actually absolutely horrible at free-form with a mouse. Edit: And by "those boards" i meant to say "One of those painter-computer-board things". I honestly have no idea what they're called.

Reply to If they brought Joss Whedon's Firefly back and started making new episodes, would you watch? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="pacov" reply="26" id="2512610"]battlestar doesn't count?[/quote]I found Battlestar Galactica absolutely horrible past it's 2nd season. It was eye-gougingly terribad.

Reply to If they brought Joss Whedon's Firefly back and started making new episodes, would you watch? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

It's extremely crappy on the Sci-Fi side of things these days, unfortunately.

Reply to Anyone else getting just a LITTLE tired of people comparing this to Homeworld? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I wouldn't consider Elemental a ripoff of Homeworld, no. I haven't seen the comparison before, either - so no, I can't say that I'm tired of it.

Reply to What Will Photoshop CS5 Bring? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Looking over some of the other vids that CS5ORG (the Youtube User) has up, I'm hesitant as to wheter or not this is real. It's just too good to be true . If it is true, I may actually try to buy Photoshop this time around. Because this is just amazing. I remain hesitant, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg (On an unrelated note, what are

Reply to Cities or provinces? in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

I kinda liked ICS, and would've probably loved to see enormous super-cities that build into eachother in Elemental, but alas, all things such and such. C'est la vie.