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Ever see the NBA Basketball commercials?

Thats how I feel about Dominions 2. I love this game. I don't even want to pick out any one thing I like most.

I just want to let Johan and Kris et al how much I appreciate their effort. Game Rocks.

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I agree 100%. If I didn't love the game I wouldn't have gone to all the effort to create and maintain a website for it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Of course you do. Anyone who says otherwise is a heretic and must be burned at the stake.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Waste of useful flesh. Either feed them to a wyrm, or cut their hearts out ...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes, unless she's a young virgin ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Poor al, he doesn't get appreciated very often.

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I agree. Dom 2 is amazing. It's replayable with so many possible play styles and levels of difficulty that they are hard to count.

The diverse units, diverse magics, wondrous magical sites, strategic depth make Dom 2 a real gem.

It will be on my comp...probably until Dom 3 comes out. It replaced MoM as my favorite fantasy genre game, and that's hard to do.

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"Of course you do. Anyone who says otherwise is a heretic and must be burned at the stake."


The syndrome of playing Marignon too much ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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This game is simply a masterpiece, a symphony of mass murder and destruction! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif And you guys...you know who you are...make it even better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif . A great game with a greater group of talented people who make Dom 2 even better. I salute you!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Poor al, he doesn't get appreciated very often. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What do you mean, he doesn't get appreciated? He's the most often quoted scientist ever!

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Saber Cherry is not referring to Albert Einstein, but "...et AL..." from Ctennyson's original post.

This dwarf has never seen the "al" of Illwinter.
Aikamun

[ March 03, 2004, 07:02: Message edited by: Aikamun ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So am I. It's a standing joke among scientists, that everybody keeps citing papers where this "al" is among the list of co-authors, in each and every field of science... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Standing jokes amoung scientists are a problem. I guess like standing jokes amoung any field. It either works, or the explanation is longer than its worth.

I keep making reference to AI meaning "almost implemented" which is in over half of any paper done on AI. (Its a reference to a long list of projects which were AI until they were implemented then they got new names taking them out of AI leaving only un-achieved projects still referred to.)

Or the Priests of Quantum (quantum chaos theory, 11 dimensions, strings and membranes, all of which moves the scientific theories of how everything began back into line with creationism)

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From love of Dominions 2 to String Theory. An eclectic bunch to be sure. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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That would be what happens when you have a game community that is composed of people sufficiently erudite to actually have heard of and maybe worked with these concepts, as opposed to a game community composed primarily of 12 year olds.

[ March 03, 2004, 23:29: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Some of us, such as myself, actually majored in physics. Astrophysics in my case, rather than particle physics, but string theory bears on cosmology, so I'm fairly well-acquainted with it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

OTOH, I have no idea how Gandalf derives a connection to so-called "intelligent design" (aka creationism) from string theory. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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Where would one find a game community composed of 12 year olds? Is this like...posting on a Playstation 2 board, or something?

LOL.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">XBox plays Online with a net address.
Be afraid, be very afraid

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[quote]Originally posted by Arryn:
Some of us, such as myself, actually majored in physics. Astrophysics in my case,

Reminds me of a system admin we had at our Last ISP who had a degree in astrophysics. The owner used to love to make jokes about "its not like this is rocket science" and "not all of us are rocket scientists"

OTOH, I have no idea how Gandalf derives a connection to so-called "intelligent design" (aka creationism) from string theory. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

I am NOT desiring to open that can of worms here but if you are really interested here are some cliff notes.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've gotten my share of that as well. You may note from my sig that I live in Houston. I *have* worked as a rocket scientist ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Unreal Tournament etc... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I'd say Warcraft 3, but after hearing about how bad those forums are and actually looking...
I don't even know how they manage to use a web browser or feed themselves most of the Posts are so painfully stupid. I'm not sure what age you'd have to be to make Posts like that.

And I'm not quite sure I agree with some of the things in your linked text file there...I won't get into a detailed argument, but I don't think quantum theory has "moved things from understandable provable scientific rules" Now admittedly quantum systems behave in a way very much out of the realm of everyday experience so they cannot be understood by simple analogies. And quantum theory is just as provable as the rest of physics...if it wasn't it wouldn't be a theory. Admittedly we can't know exactly if things work like the theory says they do, but the results we get conform with experiment, and that's how we came up with gravitation and everything else.

[ March 04, 2004, 23:28: Message edited by: LordArioch ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">12, usually. The fact that they're innately stupid doesn't hurt, either. You're only young once, but stupidity is forever. Look at some of those makes my eyes hurt. I really do miss the old days of computing. Back when you had to be smart to use a computer, because the power switch was hidden in the back. Ah....those were the days.

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In the good old days, when you had to make a new config.sys and autoexec.bat for every game, with enough of x free for one, and y free for another. lol. Yeah.

Except that meant I had to do 9 times the work, since I'm the tech support guy in the family http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">12, usually. The fact that they're innately stupid doesn't hurt, either. You're only young once, but stupidity is forever. Look at some of those makes my eyes hurt. I really do miss the old days of computing. Back when you had to be smart to use a computer, because the power switch was hidden in the back. Ah....those were the days. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*Laughs* Well, I know what you mean...Even though I´m not *old* (I´m only 23 for God sake http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) my dad bought me a computer when I was just a little toddler...but still...uhm...*rambling* 'I gotta go get some sleep. And about the Post making your eyes bleed....go to any Counter-Strike or any other First Person Shooter MP forum and you will run away screaming....or even worse...a Ultima Online forum (They are the worst....I played it in the beginning but quit beacuse of the majority of the players mentality)anyway....did see where this was going but.....ugh..

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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my dad bought me a computer when I was just a little toddler...but still...uhm...*rambling

Heehee. toddler? I get asked "did you get into computers right out of High School" and I answer "no... lets see... oh yeah, there werent any!" and Im not even the oldest one here.
(no PC's, just mainframes when I grad'd HS)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hehe. If you were *truly* sharp (joke, no offense meant) you'd've figured out a way to teach at least one of your family members basic competency and stuck them with the role of support ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, tell me about it. That's where I learned "smacktard" from. It so eloquently described the feelings I had about the issue, that I was instantly enamored by the word. Arryn seem to have taken a liking to it also.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, my intro to computers in high school was an IBM 360 mainframe. In those days, you got a *real* feeling of power sitting at the ops console to key in your code, while peons had to use the card reader. And then there were the poor schmucks who had to use paper tape on the PDPs, or worse, the front panel switches (a few years later) on the first IMSAI PCs ...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've taken a liking to all your pithy one-liners. Must be an age-related thing, since I'm much closer to your age than I am the average age on this forum.