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    My first thought was that this would be a very dangerous yard for clumsy people. Very jealous of the collection, lovely garden you have there.

    The focus shifting shots gave me a bit of a headache, as my eyes were trying to bring the wrong bits into focus at times.

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    and demonstrates your own failure to understand what it is that I am trying to create.
    you fail to understand.
    just to remind people not to think they actually understand what I mean to communicate.
    It is obvious that in attempting to explain my philosophy, I have not been successful and that as a result, you have not understood what it is that I seek to create.

    You are doing a remarkable job of sounding like a holier than thou. If you believe your understandings and paths aren't important, why are you trying to spread these mysterious understandings couched in unusual phrasing and idiotic paradoxes. Either through your lacking ability to communicate your ideas, or the lack of this community's understanding of your words, it is fairly apparent that we do not see what you have to say in the same manner that you do.

    As far as I can see, the cult leader attitude of Bretloth isn't too far off the mark.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Sheather

    I think people with above opinions should go to a compulsory reeducation camps. They're abhorrent. That said, Christmas is indeed Christian, but dated to coincide with pagan events (winter/summer solstice, depending on hemisphere) so isn't even a celebration of Jesus' birth, which many suppose actually happened between July and September.

    All the immigrants should be let in, terrorist threat is a bullshit excuse to incarcerate anyone the government doesn't like, and people with "anti-boat-people" attitudes should be sent to Gaza or given a visit to the Tamil Tigers. (to see what it's like)

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    No, I do not agree with your opinion that love has been commodatised. Living with someone/marrying someone for their wealth isn't selling your love to them for it. That too has been happening for centuries. I don't see how love can be commodatised at all, unless you think someone can be paid enough for them to feel in love with the payer, then they aren't selling their love, just their time. There are many loveless relationships of figure vs wealth, I don't see how your opinion is even possible, much less feasible.

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    Can you please include your definition for the comoditisation of sex? As in: in what way is sex commoditised and how do you think it affects love.

    I think love is just as prevalent these days as it has been in the past, but that there are more people going out looking for one night stands and hookups rather than longer term relationships, which could lead to it not being as easily noticed by those people. I don't understand your meaning of sex as a commodity. That would just imply that it can be bought or sold, and prostitution has been around for aeons. (if you use another definition of commodity, it would mean sex is valuable or useful, which I also agree with)

    Do you mean that it's become prevalent, and "sex sells" (i.e. sexy advertisements and movies to grab attention) or that it's becoming more common in hookups etc, or that there is more prostitution etc etc.

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    I think if your screen is too small to read directions from the journal it would be too small to play Skyrim. I really liked how a lot of the time in Morrowind it was like "Head south of Balmora down the path, when the road forks, take the left path past Fort Moonmoth, the ruins will be on your right"

    Rather than "Here I'll put this dot on your map - toodles"

    I found it much more immersive, and realistic. I liked that you could get lost if you didn't follow everything right, it opened up a lot of exploring.

    Oblivion was only fun for a couple of minutes, then for ages once I'd modded the crap out of it. Looking forward to Skyrim mods that will give - spellmaking, spears (and assorted other [balanced] weapons), darker caves (so you actually need torches or light spells), harder dragons, killable essential NPCs and children, remove the human status from animals (kill a pet dog and you get 1000 bounty - same as murder), more spell effects and more spells (like Midas magic did for oblivion), and possibly more that I can't think of right now.

  9. Posted · Edited by Sheather

    Shroom there are a few references you won't get, but otherwise the game will be just as good. When I found M'aiq the Liar I was like "OMG, Ben! (brother) Look look look look! I found M'aiq!" But most of the game doesn't have that kind of thing.

    I fully agree with all of the points put forward by McTeeth. I'm hoping mods will be quick to release and will fix up a lot of that. I heard there is going to be a patch released on or after the 25th of Nov too which may improve a couple of things, though I think it will just be bug fixes.

    EDIT: ESPECIALLY the spears! I created an Argonian and was like "What the SHIT? Where's my goddamned spears buddy?!"

  11. Posted · Edited by Sheather

    It is very different to both morrowind and oblivion. There are no stats like strength and willpower, instead you increase either health, magicka or stamina each level. And only 18 skills, no athletics or acrobatics, archery is considered a warrior skill and alchemy is considered a stealth skill - not that it matters, because you have no agi and such for it to impact on.

    Edit: It is more like Morrowind in that it is amazing, and not awful like Oblivion

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    I think a few of us think there are those that could use it better than us. I know if I made an offer it would just sit around, potentially never being fixed up and operational. Though it would be great for roadtrips. Perhaps some were waiting for someone to start a bidding war too haha, though it does get down to hillbilly's discretion.

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    This is such an amazingly generous offer. When I read the thread title I started thinking "What the heck kind of plant is a 'van'?"

    Unexpected, brilliant, loving it. I hope it goes to a good home. :)

    Hillbilly you're a champion.

  15. Posted · Edited by Sheather

    Age it is then - 21 (still feels weird to be an adult... I don't think I'll ever get over it...)

    I think kill children will be among the first and most popular of mods. I hope someone changes it up so that it's similar to the way it was in Morrowind - you can kill the important guys, but it gives you a message saying "You gone done fucked up, son."

    It kinda ruins the fun if you're clearing out a town and the children just sit saying "I'm not afraid of you, even if you are older than me!"

    Bloody kids, and dogs.

    In the list of mods I linked to there's already a good many optimisation and aesthetics mods. I think Skyrim using the same engine as Oblivion will make it much easier for the modmakers to churn them out.

    Also I am really looking forward to a mod that makes dragons harder. They should be among the hardest opponents in the game in my opinion, but they have absolutely nothing on a mammoth... A couple of guards can dispatch one, without me even pitching in. They're pathetic.

    For a game oriented around dragons... They should be more like this :P

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    10/M/Solitude (if by "age" you mean level)

    I'm loving it. High elf mage atm, but thinking I'd quite enjoy a stealthier character as well. I want to finish a playthrough and then check out the mods that will be coming out all over the place. Would be nice to change the UI, patch some of the bugs that can be a bit annoying (mages dual wielding spells can't unequip the right hand one until equipping a weapon over it - pissed me off when I had some weak spells and a dragon came down, went to casting menu and can't change to my stronger stuff 'coz I had no weapons on me... FFFUUUUU)

    Finding it a little bit unchallenging, but then, that's because I'm playing sensibly. No point attacking a mammoth or giant when they can 1 hit you.

    I think there's a quite real replayability factor in this. I just looked through the restoration tree and wanted to max it so I could get 50% mana regen and assorted other goodies, but too far into destruction and conjuration to bother with this character.

    I'll just leave this here...

    http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/14/the-10-best-skyrim-mods-so-far/

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    We only use 20% of our brain so why not blast the other 80% to buggery with drugs ?
    It is true that many organs have more capacity than we actually need on a day-to-day basis...

    But that's not true of the brain. Brain scans, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET) show that humans regularly use all of the brain. Some parts may be more active at any given time or during a particular activity. Some parts of the brain may be less critical than others for vital functions, such as breathing, speaking, understanding or walking. But no part of the brain is known to be completely unused or unnecessary.

    I don't really agree with this report; I've met a huge number of complete idiots that are into drugs, with relatively few of them very intelligent. That said, I don't know that I'd say either way which group drug use leans towards, just that this is my observation.

    I think the IQ system is a bullshit method of testing "intelligence". I don't think that's measurable by a test involving simple logic puzzles and a stopwatch. I'm sure there are many intelligent people out there who get terrible IQ scores.

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    Your attitude, to me, is potentially incriminating of lawful members, and dangerous, as well as your use of fear and intimidation to get your viewpoint across.

    No it isn't. How is that attitude incriminating to anyone? He said to you that if you open up your own forum and allow illegal discussion then you may end up in a cell. He is well within his rights to close a thread to be on the safe side, and you are being a complete tool for; not only disregarding the rules of this forum, which you appear to have joined very recently, but you're going to start a fight with a mod? When they're in the right? Golly you might be offended at apparent suggestions that you possess drugs in traffickable quantities (which wasn't suggested by the way) but you can be a mite dense.

    the thread ... was definitely incriminating

    Read the rules, and be more careful with your posts. The actions of EG here aren't those that endanger others of the forum, but yours just might if you keep down this path.

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    Slybacon I was of the opinion that the group was going to deface the pyramid's interior with some kind of graffiti, which is why it was closed. In this article it's not really mentioned except here.

    a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said.

  23. Posted · Edited by Sheather

    I share the fingers opinion. Base 12 always seemed superior to me. Divisible by 1,2,3,4,6 and partially divisible by 8,9 (2/3 and 3/4). I tried explaining it to my dad and he never really understood the point I was trying to get across, going on about how finances and currencies would be ruined etc.

    A non-linear counting system sounds like it would require an algorithm to determine the number sequence, and as such, would be enourmously difficult to use on a day-to-day basis.

    EDIT: also and forms of manipulation (+-/*) would result in weird figures

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    It seems funny to me that 11 is important only because our numbering system is base-10 (meaning we increase denomination by multiples of 10). If we had a base-12 system the number that would appear to be 11 would in fact be 13, and this would hold special meaning to lots of people, and 11 would just be another single digit number. If we had a base-8 system, it would instead be 9. It seems illogical to me to put any special significance into a number just because of its appearance. 11 isn't really special, it has no properties that are interesting that other numbers don't have.

     

     

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