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Topic: Serious Discussion / Bible

Originally posted by Jabor:

There are records of people dying for believing in what certain radical muslim leaders preach. And not just “being killed by others”, I mean “killing themselves to take a lot of ‘infidels’ with them”. So I guess, if what they preach wasn’t true, we would have much fewer suicide bombers?

Die for a man.. die for 50 virgins.. big difference in motivation.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is this "stealing" or not?

Originally posted by corkscrew_1:

So, my friend and I usually walk by this AT&T electric box thing (not sure of what it does..). The workers that work on it if it malfunctions are usually very sloppy, leaving around spare wires and all the such. We usually see a wire or two at least once a week.

However, my friend seems to think it’s okay to take the wires. For the wires that are lying on the ground, sure. They’re probably not going to come back soon and it’l get blown into the trees, probably sitting there and taking forever to decompose. However, this time, the wire was sticking out this time. My friend just pulled on the wire (which of course, isn’t safe, but that isn’t the point) until it came out. The wire was still connected to or was lying inside. Would this be considering stealing it, and would the first csae also be stealing?

My friend says he has a right to, it’s the workers’ fault.

Is this morally and legally wrong?

Yep and Yep. It wasn’t yours. You didn’t buy it, you don’t own it. It’s not your property and you have no rights to it. It belongs to AT&T.

Topic: Off-topic / Yes or no?

Looking at his games, his ad revenue says no.

Topic: Games / mud and blood 2: worst situations

Originally posted by Vargomad:

Ive had my share of frustration but what really does it for me is after playing the same field with near total invulnerability (4 bunkers, three gunners in each, two medics in each, a few snipers, tanks and aaa’s etc.), I tried to advance my men to the next screen. so sent my tanks followed by all my men and guess what, all i had was a now empty original field easily overrun and no scene change. can anyone tell wtf one has to do to get to the next field? Is the only way to end this game through losing the battle or can one ever win?

also when advancing troops do the little guys on the AAA’s count as units that must be advanced to the red line at the top of the screen as well or what? SO many questions so few answer so far.

Please advise.

There is no win. There is only surrender or being overrun. The only advantage to advancing the screen is to do it early in the game for the extra Tac points if you need them. Leaving a heavily fortified position late in the game is bad, mmk?

Topic: Games / Please! I need a Hands of War walkthrough

Originally posted by Zakal:

I don’t understand if I beat the game yet or not. I did the last alliance cave quest to get the purple gem… and there is nothing else to do now. Does the game just turn into a sandbox after you win? Am I missing some sort of inspirational, “You Won! Now go get a life!” message?

Bloodwars: “so far i’ve killed the 4th cave boss 20 times, no purples yet…”

The cave bosses are not respawning for me. Do you have to farm him before you get the quest or something?

Once you get the last piece of the heart you have to return to the town and complete the quest. Then you’ll be given a last mission to do.

Topic: Games / Chocolate Rain - New Game By billyfred

A 1 is a zero here. No difference in the math, it’s all relative.

Topic: Games / Mud and Blood 2 - Does the mission count when you start when you start a mission or when it ends?

Originally posted by supyonamesjosh:

I had the idea of clicking the start with a random squad, then refreshing the page if it doesn’t give me a good one.

would that count against me for the awards that require survive an average of so and so?

Refreshing does not count as a mission played. Clicking surrender would count that as a game played. Refreshing ftw.

Topic: Games / Anybody know this game?

Originally posted by Yahikko:

Hey, sry for using ur thread, but im also searching for a game i played a while ago.

it was short game, there was only a boss to kill, u had an attack, but it was useless, u only had to jump at something and thats it.

the intro was longer than the game.

thats everything i remeber. :/

need it, it was awsome. :(

Burn the Rope.

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

Originally posted by zen0:

To be honest who comes to the forums to “praise” a game. Most of whom you get here are someone with a problem, bug, or complaint about something and occasionally you’ll get someone who says they like the game what are you talking about. So it’s not fair to say that you hear from the “overwhelming majority” unless they start posting a poll on each game page asking ppl if they like the game on top of rating it.

facepalm that’s why I put “overwhelming majority” in quotes, it was to express that it’s not…

Topic: Games / Please! I need a Hands of War walkthrough

Originally posted by Darth_Sirov:

So, is it possible to make an ally on all factions at the same time? Just wondering… (though I think I already know the answer)

No, not at the same time. You have to start a new game or go back and do all of the quests and super duper farm rep points.

Topic: Games / mud and blood 2: worst situations

Last night I got hit with an arty strike that had 16 shots (probably two in a row), followed by the tank/jeep boss wave, followed by an air drop of 12 ranger enemies… I got owned in less than 30 seconds. Needless to say that was the worst situation I’ve ever seen and I’ve played a LOT of games of MNB2. Kinda wish I had taken a screenshot of it now.

Topic: Games / Greg needs to take some time off or something. . .

Originally posted by mask_and_mirror:

That’s true, but from what I’ve seen it seems that the overwhelming majority dislike them. Though personally I only have a problem with mud and blood 2. If I was running a site, I’d have told the developer to “bring it back when it’s finished”.

You only hear from the “overwhelming majority”. You don’t see too many posts praising Greg for badges.. at least not in comparison to people wanting to complain. People would rather complain than praise. It’s easier for them.

Topic: Kongregate / No one cares about cheaters here?

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

Nobody said you are to be punished. Scores that are not legal or achievable should be deleted, no matter if it was an “accidental” glitch or not. When people find out about a glitch that someone accidentally set off, they will abuse it on their own and get to the highscore list, then say “but it was accidental! Clearly my score doesn’t have to be deleted!”. AioriaRox’s idea is fine. Whenever there’s an obvious maximum score, anything higher than that should be deleted. A whisper should be sent to anyone having higher than it, so that he/she can explain if it was a glitch. See? No punishment involved up until now. If a person does it multiple times, you can substract points from him/her or something, no banning required.

You didn’t read all of Aioria’s post clearly then because any score over the “highest score possible” would be considered a hack/cheat. This is wrong. The part of my post you quoted is in response to Bluefool’s post wherein if you read he/she would like to see the badge removed as well. That is the part I am referring to when I say punished.

Topic: Kongregate / Reemus on the "Highest Rated Games"

I’m complaining that certain people seek out certain games and they get high ratings because people went looking for a game like that and found it fun and interesting. When you add badges to a game EVERYONE goes to play it (badge whores of course). Anyways, a lot more people that wouldn’t necessarily find and play that game play it and down rate it because they don’t like this or that or what have you. This costs the developer percentage points in profit for one and drops the rating on a game for those that might like the genre and want to be able to easily find and play a fun game.

Topic: Games / Please! I need a Hands of War walkthrough

Originally posted by Tasselfoot:

the best stuff you can’t get in the store, actually. there are orange or purple items that are rare drops that are better than the 4th castle sells. also, the final quests for each of the 3 factions you’re part of all give an amazing purple item. You have to gain ally status to get access to it though, so lots of whoring. ally = 3000/3000.

for the alliance, you get access to the 4th quest piece, which gives you an insanely powerful jewel. +50 to all stats and +500hp/eng. Blademaster ally quest gave a sick sword. And the merchant ally quest gave something else. I forget now, but it was much better than what I had before. Maybe gauntlets or a chest piece… does it really matter?

And, the only one that was really a chore to whore was the merchants. I had 2500+ faction for alliance/blademaster from other quests already, so it was quick work to get to 3000. Merchant, on the other hand, has far fewer quests… so I was only at 1700. Took a lot of whoring.

Only super items I’m finding off of drops are indeed items you can likewise get from quests. I have not seen any unique items that I haven’t seen offered in a quest for any of the 3 classes. Anyone think they’ve found something that’s not also from a quest?

Topic: Games / Please! I need a Hands of War walkthrough

Hmm, I’ll have to farm the toughest guys in the game again. I did quite a bit of it and didn’t see any purples drop.. strange. Off to farm.

Topic: Kongregate / No one cares about cheaters here?

Originally posted by bluefool:

This is not a good idea. Coming from someone that does quality assurance on websites I often find glitches in games, etc that would put me over a games possible highscore or number of awards legally without hacking (see the amorphous+ awards glitch for one such example) and am often times accused of hacking when this is most certainly not the case. With this method I would be reported (I don’t care about the high score obviously, but I care about being reported for something that clearly wasn’t hacking).

My opinion is: your glitched scores (and badges related to them) still need to be deleted. A auto-report from games helps this process. Ban should not be issued if there’s no evidence of hacking, though, and I’m sure admins are fully aware of that.

I got the hard badge of Storm the House 3 when the API was still glitchy. I died on day 5 at that time, but the API recorded a mysterious “132” for me and gave me the badge. I beat the campaign mode after that, and the still hanging “132” makes me rather upset and looking bad at front of others, because the score at that place should be a legit 40. I whisper greg and asked him to delete the score (and the badge if possible) for me, but the message must be so buried in his flooded whispers he didn’t see it.

Perhaps I got the required score for the badge but then the game glitched afterwards? I’m still to be penalized? You see the issues with this system of reporting. There’s no human consideration for all of the possible likelihoods.

Topic: Off-topic / Achmad the dead terrorist

He is made of win. I keel you!

Topic: Games / Reemus badges = Easy points?

Originally posted by FinnyTime:

I really enjoy the Reemus series of games, but, in my opinion, badges should not be released for it.

There are always 100 reposted walk-through guides and that’s it; No strategy, no time to appreciate the game or use your brain, just someone else putting the guide up and tons of people getting 15-45 easy points. I may be one of few that would be completely content with the newest chapter not getting badges for that reason.

It’s hard to take pride in my points if everyone else is getting them simply and in a lazy fashion by a walk-through.

Many games that have badges now have walkthroughs or user submitted walkthroughs. No biggie.

Topic: Kongregate / Regarding PAX cards

Originally posted by sgtdroopy:

would a single stamp be enough?

If you don’t live in the U.S. then no.

Topic: Kongregate / What would you do without Kongregate?

It’ll be pretty easy since most of you can’t own guns.

Topic: Kongregate / Reemus on the "Highest Rated Games"

No worries, as soon as Reemus gets badges it’ll get downrated by all of the people that hate that type of game and complain, etc etc (as seems to be happening quite frequently recently). See Mud and Blood 2 for example, it was rated over a 4 until it got badges then the ratings sunk as people that wouldn’t normally played it did and didn’t like it for whatever reason.

Topic: Kongregate / No one cares about cheaters here?

Originally posted by AioriaRox:

There REALLY needs to be a way that the Developers can set a max high-score that can be achieved.

Like in max mesiria 2, if it has like “Highest Level Reached” the max would be 15 [máx level in game], everything above this would be consider as hack/cheat, it would be automatically reported and it would not list in the high-scores.

Of course the cheater would be whispered to give him a chance of explaining if it was a glitch or something like that.

This is not a good idea. Coming from someone that does quality assurance on websites I often find glitches in games, etc that would put me over a games possible highscore or number of awards legally without hacking (see the amorphous+ awards glitch for one such example) and am often times accused of hacking when this is most certainly not the case. With this method I would be reported (I don’t care about the high score obviously, but I care about being reported for something that clearly wasn’t hacking).

Topic: Games / Please! I need a Hands of War walkthrough

Originally posted by 2xMachina:

I prefer if there’s a more detailed walkthrough. Like which merchant faction I should support (by which items they sell). What’s the quest for each group?

The items end up being exactly the same for each merchant faction. Essentially, the choice doesn’t matter. It’s all personal preference.

The best stuff you can buy in the game. The stuff you can’t buy for your character ends up being the last item offered by your class specialization quest line and by either the merchants/merc’s as the last quest item. So, you’ll end up with the best gear as long as you buy it from the last castle and do those last few quest strings.

Topic: Games / Someone please give me an idiot proof Mud and Blood 2 strat

If it’s artillery there is nothing you can do to stop incoming rounds. You must run into a bunker if you have one or hope the shell misses most of your troops and keep them as spread out as possible. If it’s an airplane dropped bomb these can be stopped by having an officer and a signaler and using air superiority. You must use this incredibly fast if you don’t have an antenna and a radar station. If you do have a radar station and/or an antenna you’ll be fine as long as you keep 1 tac point around for calling air superiority. It’ll happen fast enough you’ll never see an enemy plane.