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Thread Games / Re: The rhyming picture game
« on: November 16, 2009, 03:31:01 am »
I see your wide open mouth...
apparently it's been to the deep south.
apparently it's been to the deep south.
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Thread Games / Re: The corrupt a wish game
« on: November 16, 2009, 03:27:50 am »
Your lineage is traced, and it turns out you are indeed the current king of Hungary. Unfortunately, as Hungary is a republic, that gets you a fancy title and that's about it.
I wish there were less extinct species.
I wish there were less extinct species.
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Off Topic / No matter what this guy thinks... you can't stop the meep. :P
« on: November 14, 2009, 03:58:00 am »
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Word_%91meep%92_banned_from_US_school&in_article_id=769726&in_page_id=2
Who would try to ban that... seriously?
Who would try to ban that... seriously?
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CC General Discussion / Re: Dycyn
« on: November 13, 2009, 03:50:40 am »
Heh, thought he actually posted for a second.
I think me and Aamer are the only ones that know his age. We both agreed to secrecy though.
I think me and Aamer are the only ones that know his age. We both agreed to secrecy though.
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Off Topic / Re: Happy birthday Galeesa!
« on: November 12, 2009, 08:03:17 am »
Happy birthday Gal!
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Other Games / Re: KOB thread,7 days till start let's pick a side
« on: November 11, 2009, 10:17:24 pm »
I honestly don't care where we go, as long as we all pick the same one.
There's one thing I'm worried about with this game though. From what I've read, you can be banished from your realm for getting strong enough to threaten the leadership. If the RA actually gets anywhere, aren't they going to toss us so we don't end up owning the realm?
There's one thing I'm worried about with this game though. From what I've read, you can be banished from your realm for getting strong enough to threaten the leadership. If the RA actually gets anywhere, aren't they going to toss us so we don't end up owning the realm?
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Other Games / Re: Got a browser game?
« on: November 11, 2009, 02:59:41 am »
One of my RL friends played Mabinogi for a while, and said that much in Atlantica, be prepared to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars if you want to get anywhere in the game, ever.
The graphical stuff may purely be a look cool thing, but they have a rebirth system, and you have to use to actually get stats that matter. Using something like a $20 item, you can get stats every few days, or you can do it naturally... every few MONTHS. Additionally, you have to keep paying for stuff like inventory expansion, and yes, it will lock your items out, including blocking you from finishing quests if you don't pay to reopen the slots.
I haven't personally tried it, so he may have just not given it a full chance... but to say the least, that doesn't sound good.
The graphical stuff may purely be a look cool thing, but they have a rebirth system, and you have to use to actually get stats that matter. Using something like a $20 item, you can get stats every few days, or you can do it naturally... every few MONTHS. Additionally, you have to keep paying for stuff like inventory expansion, and yes, it will lock your items out, including blocking you from finishing quests if you don't pay to reopen the slots.
I haven't personally tried it, so he may have just not given it a full chance... but to say the least, that doesn't sound good.
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Feedback & Bug Reports / Re: Announcements
« on: November 10, 2009, 01:43:14 am »
Fixed, thanks. 
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Thread Games / Re: The what would you do game.
« on: November 09, 2009, 12:29:46 am »
It's on a road trip where no one's going to have a clue who the hell I am, so sure, why not.
A comet is about to smack into the planet and kill all life on it. A friendly alien race decides to save us, but can't get a large enough weapon in position in time to stop the comet. They select a few people at random to be provided with dropships. You're one of the lucky ones, and are provided with one of the ships.
You can take any 5 people with you before you leave the planet. Whoever you DON'T choose is doomed.
A comet is about to smack into the planet and kill all life on it. A friendly alien race decides to save us, but can't get a large enough weapon in position in time to stop the comet. They select a few people at random to be provided with dropships. You're one of the lucky ones, and are provided with one of the ships.
You can take any 5 people with you before you leave the planet. Whoever you DON'T choose is doomed.
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Introductions / Re: umm
« on: November 08, 2009, 09:10:39 pm »
Welcome back.
IPB became a pay service, which caused all the people writing mods for it to flee en masse, which left us with a forum that we couldn't add anything at all to unless we coded it ourselves - and IPB's code is a nightmare to work with. Add a screwy server to the mix, and it was time to move on.
The old forums DO still exist, and we're going to have an archive up soon, but this is where all the new stuff goes.
IPB became a pay service, which caused all the people writing mods for it to flee en masse, which left us with a forum that we couldn't add anything at all to unless we coded it ourselves - and IPB's code is a nightmare to work with. Add a screwy server to the mix, and it was time to move on.
The old forums DO still exist, and we're going to have an archive up soon, but this is where all the new stuff goes.
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Other Games / Re: Got a browser game?
« on: November 07, 2009, 09:16:19 pm »
I think I have around 1.5 billion gold in Atlantica... and that's chump change. They seriously farked the economy that badly.
If you want +0 phoenix gear on all characters, it costs roughly 0.25 TRILLION gold, and the end game monsters pretty much assume you're you're in +3-5 phoenix. If you're not willing to spend thousands in the cash shop, you aren't ever going to have functional characters end game.
If you want +0 phoenix gear on all characters, it costs roughly 0.25 TRILLION gold, and the end game monsters pretty much assume you're you're in +3-5 phoenix. If you're not willing to spend thousands in the cash shop, you aren't ever going to have functional characters end game.
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Other Games / Re: Got a browser game?
« on: November 07, 2009, 06:48:40 am »
Okie, let us know about the non-RS one.
Also, you may want to give RO a shot - we restarted our guild in that.
Also, you may want to give RO a shot - we restarted our guild in that.
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Thread Games / Re: The corrupt a wish game
« on: November 04, 2009, 02:45:10 am »
He has worms instead.
I wish affordable civilian spacecraft existed.
I wish affordable civilian spacecraft existed.
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Other Games / Re: Got a browser game?
« on: November 03, 2009, 11:22:51 pm »
The game is resetting in a week anyway, so I don't think it matters who is where right now. When the new one opens though, let's try to all be in the same place.
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Off Topic / Re: Just in case you thought the 4th ammendment was still in tact...
« on: November 03, 2009, 09:27:53 pm »
The only thing that's going to stop this is them being forced - legally - to actually respect the citizens of this country again, and that's not going to happen until this gets coverage outside of tech sites, and the general public actually starts to care again. It's the same crap that happened with McCarthyism, just with more modern technology driving it. The other key difference though is that in the 60s, there were ENORMOUS protests and activist movements, and the government was forced to listen to the people. Here, we've got plenty of website coverage and people writing posts about it, but no real organized protests, and virtually no attention being paid at all to this outside of the internet. That needs to change, but the problem of course, is figuring out how to change it. What finally got the people to care last time was the huge body count in Vietnam, and there's nothing like that this time around.
The "overload the system with crap" approach SOUNDS great, and HAS been tried before, but with limited success. The 2600 guys tried to crash Carnivore (one of the older systems for this) by chain forwarding an email with a huge pile of flag words in it. I THINK it actually worked, but sadly, they've improved their code since then so that won't work in the future - or at least that exact approach. Of course, the activists can then improve their algorithm so it's less obviously fake, forcing the NSA to improve theirs, and so on. The result is an arms race of competing code. The problem is that the people trying to stop this are a small group of activist hackers working in their spare time, while the NSA making the system has a multibillion dollar programming team. There's also the obvious problem that building a system that's knowingly designed to interfere with this is - to say the least - rather questionable legally. Normally this wouldn't be a problem - every activist movement has those few willing to go to jail for a few years to stand up for what they believe in. The problem here is that the general public doesn't understand the concept of an activist hacker, and they aren't going to see an activist getting locked up for defending civil rights. They're going to see a "dangerous criminal" being caught for "the good of society", and actually believe that.
The "overload the system with crap" approach SOUNDS great, and HAS been tried before, but with limited success. The 2600 guys tried to crash Carnivore (one of the older systems for this) by chain forwarding an email with a huge pile of flag words in it. I THINK it actually worked, but sadly, they've improved their code since then so that won't work in the future - or at least that exact approach. Of course, the activists can then improve their algorithm so it's less obviously fake, forcing the NSA to improve theirs, and so on. The result is an arms race of competing code. The problem is that the people trying to stop this are a small group of activist hackers working in their spare time, while the NSA making the system has a multibillion dollar programming team. There's also the obvious problem that building a system that's knowingly designed to interfere with this is - to say the least - rather questionable legally. Normally this wouldn't be a problem - every activist movement has those few willing to go to jail for a few years to stand up for what they believe in. The problem here is that the general public doesn't understand the concept of an activist hacker, and they aren't going to see an activist getting locked up for defending civil rights. They're going to see a "dangerous criminal" being caught for "the good of society", and actually believe that.