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Topic: Off-topic / Greatest games you ever played

tough choice…
bellipax was pretty fun…
Dwarf fortress is pretty epic, but has a problem where it slows down unacceptably with the average old fort…
Minecraft is pretty fun, and i’m even revisiting it (preffered server= minecraftsmp.mine.nu), though you need to know what you plan on building or it’s not very much fun…

silent frontier is pretty fun (another rts), though i can see why it didn’t take off as a most-popular-rts (it requires a TON of micromanagement and doesn’t have a pausetogivecommands)…

creeper world. gonna buy creeper world 3 when it shows up.
gemcraft chapter 0: the feeling of power you get when you first learn the r/o trap strategy and can play god with the monsters…oh yeah…(labyrinth is fun too, but you have to be a lot more carefull with your anger.)

Topic: General Gaming / ANY rpg games with NO LEVEL CAP?

Originally posted by thebigbum243:

Originally posted by wecl0me12:

well, if hard-to-reach level caps still count as level caps, then there is no game like that.
Your level is a piece of information, and there is a finite amount of information that can be stored in this universe. It will be huge, but finite. You have decided that hard-to-reach level caps still count.
You will never find a game with no level cap.

not true, Ive played several text based games where the level cap is infinite, people were hitting level 1.0×10^400, and just kept goin. just sayin.

You just failed information theory 101.

Topic: GemCraft Labyrinth / Leveling fast.

non-complicated….fast.

I have to say “pick one”.
The “simple” ways require you to be good at labyrinth’s mechanics or you’ll be overwhelmed…at least the way I play.

Topic: Off-topic / Its true the fact that if you dont have anyone to talk to you die of loniless?

It probably isn’t healthy for you, and there’s a possibility of death via suicideviainsanity, but if you are otherwise healthy, but I don’t expect that loneliness can kill you on its own.
That said, I think the question splinters into “how do we measure ‘loneliness’”, “how do we get a test group that is vastly less self-selected for tolerance than hemits, without treading into the darkside”, and…

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Topic: General Gaming / Games like Caravaneer

Originally posted by

They need to have adequate AP if they are to be able to move at ALL, generally.

The guys with 9-10 str. rarely have enough ap to move first without extensive training. And then if you’re training any sort of weaker unit as well, you have to rotate through your entire caravan to get to them….

So, yeah. I’m hoping for some sort of exp/battle, distributed over all units even if they didn’t move, so that there’s a reason to take on actual bandits rather than running laps around weaklings near the starting town…

Topic: Astroflux / Questions about recruiting crew members

does anybody know?

cause, well, my first three members aren’t able to do anything anymore. there just isn’t enough exp available, no matter how many plantest i visit, to keep them leveling up, and the flux costs for additional members are WAY too much.

Topic: Off-topic / I Thought Something

I would go rewatch the twilight zone. Just in case. if someone hands me a pocketwatch, I ask him how fragile it is BEFORE I start messing with time.

coincidences as massive as “everyone in OT turns out to live in the same town” are, I guess, as easily explained by “we’re in the twilight zone now” as “it’s only coincidence, nothing more”.

So who wants me to ramble about my distinction between “mere coincidence” and “purposed coincidence”?

Topic: Off-topic / 100000th thread belongs to THE CROWS :>>>>>>

I do not accept you as an overlord. I do, however, tip my adamantine tophat to you. I’m not taking off my adamantine full helm, however, as I want to keep my eyes intact.

Topic: Off-topic / So, OT.

orange cats make nifty =socks = and = mittens =
:evil dwarven grin:

Topic: Off-topic / Is true than having a cool avatar does make others respect you more

It helps with first impressions, but first impressions are not everything.

Topic: Off-topic / 2352345234523452345

Originally posted by DMinor:

Originally posted by fractalman:

However, I have begun to wonder if it’s really wise to let relatively random people into an office from which they can launch ww3 with the press of a couple of red buttons every 4 years. well, no, i’m not actually sure about the color, but you get the idea.

You’re also obviously not sure on how the entire process works. For somebody who tries so hard to be spr srs bsns, you’re really bad at gathering information.

Mostly, I’m lazy. c:

Topic: Off-topic / 2352345234523452345

I doubt very much he’s a communist…socialist, maybe, but not an extreme communist. it’s hard to get into the presidency with truly extreme views, regardless of whether they’re extreme left or extreme right. extreme stupidity is another question (cough bush cough). however, I have yet to see anything from obama indicitive of truly extreme views. He’s…kinda the most lukewarm president we’ve had in a long time.

However, I have begun to wonder if it’s really wise to let relatively random people into an office from which they can launch ww3 with the press of a couple of red buttons every 4 years. well, no, i’m not actually sure about the color, but you get the idea.

Topic: Off-topic / What's the longest consecutive amount of time you've stayed awake for?

Originally posted by TheInternetRules:

Originally posted by spoofdebris:

What do you stay up for at night?

Whatever I feel like.

Events, friends, KKK rallies…

i think there’s a trope for that. I don’t think it’s “bread, eggs, milk, squick”, but that one does come to mind.

Topic: Off-topic / You can remove one thing from the world.

me: i wish stupidity were removed from the timeline!.
genie: Are you sure? The only way I could do that would be to erase humanity with it…
me: oh, nevermind then…

Topic: General Gaming / Games like Caravaneer

cool.

I wonder if we’ll have a better way to grind towards the end-game…after the first dozen times or so, the malicious glee from running laps around a crippled bandit wears off as you have to click a couple thousand times per hired hand, if you want them to be able to toss a couple grenades BEFORE they get killed by the final battles…

Topic: Off-topic / Favorite Pokemon...

Originally posted by Ninjitsu_Pirate:

^ Isn’t there a Crow Pokemon?

that would be murkrow.

Topic: Off-topic / What if half of OT is undercover mods?

…
error: failiure in SOD matrix. Disbelief is no longer suspended.
details: conflict with RTFHSCCT matrix. Headbanging over a really dumb conspiracy theory has been engaged.

Topic: Off-topic / Solve my problem

simple:
Play dwarf fortress.

You can slaughter all the cats you want.
and then you can make socks out of their hides.

Topic: Off-topic / The biggest number in the universe

Nah, there’s also e, sqrt(2), and the golden ratio, if you’re looking for irrationals and transcendentals with no end on their decimal.

Topic: Off-topic / One day u get pecked by A CROW :>>>>

Spend the first few weeks eating worms…From the compost pile…

Then realize, in horror, that I’ve been eating worms like a robin when, as a crow, I can eat lucky charms in reasonable safety.

then I buy stock in lucky charms.

Topic: Off-topic / The biggest number in the universe

the MOSER!

And if you know about that monstrosity, you’ve probably pondered sticking it into the ackerman function. (hello XKCD!)

p.s. the rest of you are slowpokes in comparison to the method for creating the moser!. :P

Topic: Off-topic / You are poor and ugly and you meet this cat

I’ve been playing too much dwarf fortress. I’d be too afraid the cats would try to kill me.

so no.

Topic: Serious Discussion / alien life

Originally posted by thecartm:

Originally posted by vikaTae:

Originally posted by thecartm:

Originally posted by thecartm:

Infinite Space * Infinite time before humanity = Infinite chance of alien life ²

Alien life is inevitable.

Where do you get the “infinite time before humanity” bit from, please? That does not mesh with the expanding universe models we have.

There is infinite time before humanity. There is no way to prove this is wrong or right. There is also infinite space, meaning if there was a 1 * 10 ^{-9999999999999999999999999999999} percent chance of life times infinity space, there is infinite chance of life. Chance > 100% = Inevitable

no, no, no.

unless you’re going to refer to something cabable of surviving/creating big bangs, or inter-dimensional travell…
though art restricted to the time since the big bang, and the observable universe from our planet.

If you’re trying to use the multi-versal version of the anthorpic principle, well, you’re going to need to be VERY carefull with your infinities. Very, VERY carefull indeed, or you’ll “prove” that 1+1=234 by mistake. and you’ll need to learn about multi-dimensional spaces in probability.
Yeah…

So. Restricted to OBSERVABLE universe, post big bang. Unless you feel like doing things with infinity that would make your calculus teacher queasy and Cantor proud.

Topic: Serious Discussion / What makes a Human Life Important?

…Conservation groups aren’t about saving animal’s from their natural behavior. They’re about saving animals from the results of HUMAN activity. so moot point at best, fail strawman at worst.

Now. As for what’s so special about humans… let’s look at where we’ve been, and where we might just wind up.
At one point, we started scratching the dirt with copper tools, eeking out a bit of surplus. Maybe not as much surplus as we could get from hunting everything in site, cause we can do that pretty well, but it had the definite advantage of being a reliable source of food.

No change for a long time, save for a more or less steady increase in population. and if one were to ONLY observe the ratio of labor spent farming to labor spent doing other things, well, one would be in for a shock when that ratio plummeted to almost nothing somewhere between 1800 and 2000.

but with even a little bit of historical background, you can realize what happened was:
1. somewhere between 1400 and 1700, the scientific method began to take hold as the main means by which new knowledge could be gained. Someone, at some point, built a water mill so they don’t have to mill their flour by hand. (could have been a LOT earlier, I suppose).
2. someone then put together a generalizable method for making stuff more efficiently: the industrial revolution.
3. motorized farming equipment.

this may not seem like much.
but #1 in that list is the most important.

now, well…now we can look into the future in ways that no other lifeform on the planet can hope to do so. except, possibly, lab rats and dolphins, for reasons that have very little to do with this discussion at hand.

future:
Need more helium for party ballons? just increase the throughput on your fusion reactor, and deal with the heat-generation fines later.

phase 2:
Sun getting too hot? easy. park a giant, variable-silvered mirror between the sun and the planet. sun starting to melt the mirror? Move the entire planet away. get a beurocratic headache as the mars-dwellers lob complaints about how you ruined their delicate, artistic rearrangement of the asteroid belt. gape as the kuiper belters fling ever comet, EVER, within two inches of every major space station without even a single casualty. Fume as you realize that there will never, ever, be another natural comet. get caught up in the synthetic-comets stock market bubble.

phase3: favorite star cooling down? just one gram of our phlebotium will turn your helium star into a low-temp iron factory! just 17252 payments of 19.99 each, payable over…
smirk as suckers buy it up. gape as you realize that the stuff actually works, reviving sol itself.

phase4: worried about the hole at the center of the galaxy? one call to galactineering on your tachyphone is all you need, and we’ll spin those stars around to double the lifespan of your galaxy.

phase5:
preparing for arrivals…
dowloading…
download complete.
welcome to candyland. we are glad to welcome you to the original home of humanity, the milky way itself. please remember that anyone caught bypassing the singularity virtualization routines will be evicted on the next available hawking beam. the availability of a recieving station is NOT guaranteed.

phase 6:
commencing calculations.
preparing for big bang mark2/end of universe transendence/big smack 2.
preperations complete…

phase 7:
Want to play god, but still can’t figure out the unfreindly user interface of the creation machine? tired of your universes fizzling out two plank time after creation? we at Dreamarm facilities can help make your dreams come true. OK? just 1 million easy installments of 1 dollar every century is all it will take!

…ok so maybe I got a little too speculative towards the end.

My point still stands: barring divine intervention or a premature detonation of a nuke? we humans will be moving planets with a twitch of our fingers.

Arrogant?
Maybe.

but would a person from year 300 believe you if you said humans could MAKE buildings out of steel? could MAKE their own flying carriages? probably not. now? now we take it for granted. I predict that planet-moving will one day be taken for granted-and surrounded with ever worse advertising.

Insignificant? HARDLY!