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  1. quote: What I find disconcerting is that people try and turn Creation into a science in an attempt to get it taught in schools as an alternative to evolution theory. Creation is purely a religious concept. Therefore, is it a devious plan to introduce religion into the curriculum disguised as a science? Actually, my point earlier (Before I got sidetracked, hehehe) was that Evolutionism is no less a religion than Creationism. Evolution was introduced to the school system under the argument that either possibility was equally likely. Either viewpoint requires faith to believe, because, currently niether can be conclusively proven. So why, then, has creationism been selectively removed? Evolutionary science, as it stands today, dosn't work. It's impossible. Creationism, though, still stands as unproven. While, according to todays infinitesimal understanding of the universe, Creation seems illogical; it nevertheless has no damning evidence against it: Mathematical or otherwise. The Cannon, however (Upon which doctrine creation is based), has been an astoundingly reliable tool for historical research. There's really no reason not to trust what it claims (At least untill/unless some part of it can be disproven). And IF so much of it is true, it's history just as much as it is religion. If that dosn't give creation the advantage, it at least sets both beliefs on equal grounds of possibility. Again, both require faith, and both are religions. One suggests a supreme being as god, the other suggests chance as god. Why should both not be taught?
  2. *sigh* Jaguar, I've read extensively on many contradictory topics. The difference between a person like me (Of which there are very few, indeed) and someone like Eclipse or yourself, is that I don't give a damn about either side of the debate. I read EVERYTHING, consider EVERYTHING, and my stance on issues changes as my knowledge grows. I'm willing to concede to any hard-held belief to adequate proof. Books like the one I mentioned help break up the arguments into camps. I've read books like Darwin's "Origin of Species", "The Voyage of the Beagle". I've read "Alien Encounters" and "The Case for Creation." I've just started a book called "Darwin's God" which is excellent reading so far (Another book I'd recommend you look into). Stop choosing sides and discover the world for yourself. I point out a resource and you say "Bah! I do not even need to look at it, because it is OBVIOUSLY wrong." You point out a resource and I absorb it, assimilate it into my own knowledge and ideals. Science is a quest for truth and you cannot pick and choose which truths and evidences apply to you and which do not. I ask only that you read the book. The point of all this was: 1) To point out that niether argument can prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are true. 2) Both Creationism and Evolutionism are religious faiths. 3) Evolution is a mathematical, biological, and geneological impossibility. 4) Evolution is based COMPLETELY on theory and guess with no evidence in support of it that cannot be explained from a Creationists POV as well. 5) Absolutely NO PART of the Cannon has been proved false or errant; and has been, in fact, used to locate historical locations, artifacts, and perephenelia. If all this is true, then perhaps the whole Cannon could be. Again, READ THE BOOK. Ignoring this request would simply be stubborness, an attitude which contributes nothing.
  3. Very well put neutral insight Tyrn. Ok. What I've noticed (And something I've adressed once before) is that this is just degrading to a shouting match. Calling each other wrong isn't going to do any good. NOW, to adress everyone points in a lengthy thread: First, to everyone posting web links (And completely read what I'm about to say before you go jumping to conclusions)... don't believe everything you read. havn't I already stated that? There is "evidence" there, but it's surrounded, drowned, and buried in speculation and theorizing written as if it were fact, and many people take it jast as such without asking any questions; like sheep! Thats the basis of evolution scientific teaching, and thats what creationists have been arguing for years. You ALL (Both Creationists AND Evolutionists) need to look at all the information from a new synical perspective. More specifically: The eye experiment: Essentially what these scientists did was disect the eyes of numerous animals and note all their individual characteristics. THEN, they organized them on a computer by differences in their characteristics and played it through just like a morphing program. Neat, but all I see is a catalogue of differences in eyes. I see nothing telling me how the creatures those eyes came from are linked together. It "proves" nothing except that different animals have different eyes. Next, the lucy skull -- There are plenty of simple explanations. Much simpler that the complex unsuported assumptions that scientists attached to the physical evidence. 1) Mistaken identity - actually a gorilla, ape, chimpanze skull etc. 2) Previously undiscovered species of gorilla, ape, chimpanze, etc. 3) Deformed gorilla, ape, cimpanze, or even human child. Such deformations happen often in places like Congo and the Amazon, among tribal peoples. I could even go into WHY, but I don't think any of you are ready for that yet. And it's definately not evolution. Birth and malformation defects happen even in America. The problem with both camps is that you do not understand your opposition. Creationists are usually more familiar with evolution than evolutionists are with creation. In truth, evolutionists have already written it off without studying, researching, or looking into it for themselves. They know NOTHING about creation other than what their evolutionist professors/teachers/parents/etc have told them, especially when those role models got all their views the same way. The truth is, you just not paying attention. Stop and consider that what we are telling you is merely our oppinion... and might be wrong. But consider that theres also a possibility thats parts of it may be true. Independantly do the research to attempt to separate the true parts from the fiction. If you would like to acquaint yourselves better with the concept of creation, I would recommend the book "A Case for Creation" by Wayne Friar. When you've read that, then come back and start over telling me how wrong I am. Change dosn't happen over night, but that book's a good start. Eclipse, that was the WRONG thing to say. If you can't support your beliefs, they are unfounded and you following a blind faith. I recommend you read that book as well. I have others you may also be interested in, just let me know. All of you, don't believe a WORD those books say without holding it up to insense personal scrutiny. Follow their leads, look at their evidence, make phone calls, take trips, whatever you have to do. If you are TRUELY devoted to finding the unbiased truth, you'll eventually start finding it. Just keep an open mind and you won't end up like H.P. Lovecrafts heros =)
  4. Well, lets look at the bright side. That will give me a chance to play a little Civ3 or Myth3 before the big, bad game takes over my life.
  5. www.mwave.com has the card listed for $182.95 but won't be getting stock until about 11-15. Anyhoo, I buy lots of hardware from them and they're pretty reputable. Even took back a processor I incompetantly blew up once (Forgot to put thermal compound on it). Good buju!
  6. I used to worship Creative and still use the Annihilator 2 Ultra. Good card, and I don't plan on upgrading until it begins showing its age (About the time Doom 3 is released... or possibly sooner when I compare Aquanox on both my friends GF3 box and my then my own). Anyhoo, all the GF3 boards you find out there are pretty much just the same reference boards Nvidia sent to them, so manufacturer, in the case, dosn't matter. Nvidia factory drivers are more trustowrthy anyway. SO, if your looking for cheap, check out the Visiontek Xtasy 6564 GF3 Ti200. Retail is less than $200 (The cheapest your likely to find) and it even has TV /S-Video Out. Visiontek has been proving that they're a pretty reasonable mfgr, so I'd recommend that card.
  7. Yeah, I really want to get back to WinXP and STILL use those glasses. WinXP is the ultimate LAN party OS!
  8. *sigh* I just spent the last two hours reading various editorials at http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/. Even the pages that both Melcar and Jaguar pointed out. But I really didn't find anything that advanced either argument in either direction. What I see happen a lot in this debate (Talking about the debate on Creation vs. Evolution in general) is that it will often degrade to "You're wrong!" "No! You're wrong!" With niether side offering any arguments for or against the previously offered arguments. Each participant in the debate eventually hides behind their own faiths, unwilling to give leeway to an opponent who made an unresputable point. What you all need to realize is that there are no absolute absolutes. Sometimes there is a shred of truth in the most terrible of lies. You each need to look for the possibility of truth in each others arguments and compromise your own beliefs. That's the basis for having an open mind. Now, back to my own arguments: Archeopteryx - Your website claims that its been a problem for Creationists. I don't see how. It's a completely independant species, just like an Emu or Vulture... or Duckbilled Platypus. It's that simple. The website also spreads a fair ammount of disinformation (Scuh as the above mentioned claim that Archeopteryx is a problem for creationists). It's also very good at constantly reminding the reader that "Creationists are uneducated ninnywits", a perfect example of the probaganda I explained in an earlier post. If you say something enough, people will believe it. And Creationists are just as guilty of this as anyone else. There's lots of scientific evidence out... and many times you'll hear it said that such an experiment helps to prove this or that. The experiment yielded a result, yes; but speculation is being assigned to the result. As for the genetic mutation point. YES, we are slowly being mutated. Absolutely correct. Smog, UV radiation, water contamination, smoking... that is why we are dealing with an ever-increasing number of illnesses - such as cancer and birth defects. It's not natural, and it's killing us. As I previously stated, species can only adapt so far (Since people and animals are meant to adapt to changing climates and conditions)... then they die. They don't continue to adapt (ie: evolve). Jaguar, by your own support of the science, we are more closely related to rabbits than monkeys. That's why cosmetic labs use (Or at least USED to use, before Peta got involved) primarily rabbits for testing their new products, they got more accurate results. Off the top of my head (May not be dead on numbers, but close enough) humans have 46 chromosome layers, rabbits have 42, and chimpanzes have 38.
  9. Gomez, what you pointed out, about the ancient light source is VERY interesting to me. I will definately look into it further. But here are my immediate responses to this information. IMO, this adds to the logical arguments against the Big Bang theory. The first problem with the Big Bang theory is that thing's just don't explode without some kind trigger/catalyst/etc. Things don't just explode for no reason. SO, if there was a Big Bang, then your view that a diety (Or other outside source) MUST have triggered it. IMO, it is much more likely an argument that the universe always was. That also dosn't work, though, thanks to the understood laws of physics (BTW, we havn't even begun to scratch the surface of physics). The universe must eventually run itself out. SO, if it's been around forever, it would have burnt out and run down forever ago (If you get that meaning). SO, it must have had a beginning. Now think in what dimensions things may have exploded as well as how far they may have been flung. NOW, we are saying that this light is OLDER than any other light, because of the distance that light has to travel. It is also farther away than any other. How is it that this older, farther star had the same origin as other newer, closer stars? Ugh! My head is hurting! Think also about reality. I, personally, can identify four dimensions by name: Length, width, height, and time. Scientists have identified at least eleven. What did those dimensions do? Where did they come from? How do they work? Did that merely happen? They are structures, foundations... architecture! This is a slowly broadening field that intrigues me (Largely due to other interests) and I try to stay up-to-date. Paddy- On the subject of the whale. First, I should like to read the material referred to for myself. Second, I would suggest that you look further into the events, persons, and objects referred to in the paper. Articles assume, suggest, and claim things that are mere speculation. For all I know they may have found such a creature. That tells me we have found the remains of a new creature that noone has yet discovered. I have some more issues I will adress in a moment. Gomez, you asked "What about Neanderthals, Australopithicus, Cro-Magnon, etc?" And I ask "What about them?" Do we have any evidence such things exsisted? I've seen fossil skulls of creatures that fairly respectable people have claimed come from such primitive humans. The thing is, it looks exactly like the skull of a gorilla! Every instance to date where scientists have found a "missing link", it has turned up to be the remains of some other creature entirely. Heres the can of worms: Evolution. You used frogs as an example for your argument for evolution. Perhaps you could also use mice, butterflys/caterpillars, dogs, platypus... etc. To first understand what I'm talking about, let me define a species (Something Darwin was unable to do at the time of his death): A species is a category of living thing that is able to procreate. My first example. There is a mouse with the ability to produce eight different types of glucose. BUT, the one type of glucose the mouse is able to produce its entire life is determined before birth based on altitude and other, more minor, environmental factors. If you took a mouse born at sea level and moved her to 14,000 feet, she would have a much more difficult time than if she were back at her own altitude. However, if that mouse had a baby mouse at 14,000 feet, she would produce the proper glucose for that elevation. She has adapted. Now, if you took her down to sea level, she would have a hard time. But if she had a baby mouse there, that mouse would produce the exact same glucose as the first I mentioned. Even though they have adapted, they can still procreate to produce another mouse which can procreate. That is a species, and what it is capeable of is defined in its DNA genetic makeup. It is able to adapt only so far. And if you move it out of its range of versatility, regardless of how gradually (Thousands or Millions of generations) it will die out, because its "blueprint" will NEVER change. Dogs are another good example. We have so many types of dogs that its almost obscene. And yet, they can still mate and produce offspring with any dog of another type. Dogs are bred accordng to traits. The more you breed a certain trait the stronger it becomes. Again, its genetics. It's a versatile thing, but regardless of traits, a dog will still be a dog. Now, not considering sterility, if a dog could not mate with another dog-like creature, they would be different species entirely. Species cannot intermingle, because then they would be the same species. Back to frogs: It is in a frogs genetic makeup (It's "blueprints") that is grow from a tadpole into a frog. Frogs are very fickle about their environment too. Rather than adapt, many will simply die out. In any case, frogs are only capeable of what their genetics say they are capeable of. And they are "programmed" and built just perfectly to transform so. What I encourage you all to do is: 1) Never accept anything as correct. 2) Examine the evidence provided, look at the arguments for and against the information provided. 3) Compare the new information against what you already [think you] know. 4) Keep an open mind, realizing that we know nothing for certain but weigh the liklihoods. 5) Look at the big picture. The big picture is infinite and impossible to grasp. Nevertheless, strive to look at every issue from the greatest possible perspective, comparing to EVERYTHING equally (Methematical, biological, physical, logical, etc, etc, etc). Knowledge is an ever-growing puzzle that can never be finished -- you never have all the pieces and some are from other puzzles. *Sigh* Time to do something productive, like play some more Ultima 9.
  10. If gradual evolution had occured, the land would be littered with transitory/transitional forms. We have yet to find a single one. The truth is, we have nothing that has been or can be considered a transitory form/fossil/etc. That's why they came up with the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium, which states that there are no transitory forms because species just jump from one to the next. BTW, what is this supposed to mean? quote:And where did you hear this? News to me!! [ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  11. Ok, Paddy, Eclipse, and Melcar: What you are doing is insulting one anothers fundamental beliefs, NOT debating. If you would like to contribute to the debate, then add logic and evidence to your argument that either supports your own argument or helps to debunk the other persons. You should also anticipate any counter-arguments your opponent might have and add supplements to prevent them before they happen. Now, Paddy. You quoted: "As a Christian and a scientist, the way i see it is this: there is enough, fossil, geological, Paeleobiological astronomical and astrophysical evidence to support evolution as we know it beyond the shadow of a doubt." The first thing I wonder is what you mean by "as we know it." The term evolution can mean a number of things. Some more true than others. Now if, by saying "evolution", you mean that man or any other living "thing" evolved from another form, then we really have two options: Gradual evolution and punctuated equilibrium. Gradual evolution is pretty much a moot point due to the complete and utter lack of transitional species. So these days almost no self-respecting scientist supports the notion. So might you be refering to punctuated equilibrium? Since it's almost midnight and I have a huge paper to write before school in six hours, I'll give you some time to further elaborate, and we can continure from there if you'd like.
  12. It IS pretty hypocritcal to burn a U.S. flag in the U.S., but you know what? I fully support their right to burn it... so long as it was done safely and the flag they burned was legally theirs. I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. I forget, who was it that said that?
  13. Paddy, those things go pretty much hand-in-hand. Seperation of church and state, in context, was an argument used to keep the government from regulating religion. Nothing more, nothing less. Some prior arguments have already mentioned the "legalistic twisting of definition," and that is exactly what has happened in this case. The argument was, in laymans terms, that since everyone has their own set of beliefs and ideals they have also their own independant religions, regardless of what they label it as. No two people can have exactly the same religion, either, since no two people share the exact same thoughts, beliefs, exposures, or experiences. Each and every person has a right to their own individual beliefs as well as right, under the freedoms given in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to express those beliefs. In truth, "churches" are simply collectives of individuals with *similar* beliefs, ideals, and goals, protected by the right to peaceably assemble. In this modern age, we feel the need to fit everything we encounter into neat little categories. People put themselves into categories just as much as others are forced into them. This is how such insitutions come about. But one does not need an institution to join or be forced into any of the available categories. --Edited to further elaborate-- The point of my mentioning both Creationism and Evolutionism is this: If a person choses not to believe in God, or a god, then must still have to decide what they DO believe. You may chose to believe that aliens planted us on earth thousands or millions or billions of years ago; whatever suits your fancy. But regardless of what anyone believes, there is no room for alternate and opposing truths. As I already stated, there is more evidence in support of the Cannon (Christian Bible) than there is in support of Evolution. In fact, evolution isn't just sorely lacking in evidence, it has a fair bit of evidence stacked against it. As we advance further in science (Especially medical science and the study of DNA) many scientists are coming to the conclusion that there MUST have been some greater creator. And yet we still teach Evolution in schools, because in theory, it is not supposed to support any particular religion. Well, aside from the fact that what is being taught is, itself, a religion... it is simply VERY unlikely. Also (Knowing that so much of the Cannon HAS been proven, and that none it has, or can be, disproven) if what the Cannon says is true, then that would make it history, not merely religion. In any case, at the moment, some ammount of relgious faith IS required for either viewpoint. [ 10-22-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  14. Ech! Two days after getting my EE beta CD, I was cancelling my pre-order. VERY unimpressed. Maybe I was expecting too much. BTW, did anyone else notice that in proportion to the buildings people are, like, 12-feet tall? Second, I'd like a little more camera control. Like Myth. That's only going to hurt the game come the reviews. Other than that... it's really just AoE in 3D. Moon Project remains my pick for greatest RTS available. Free games? Hmm. Try Discworld. Great oldie. Its available at the Underdogs. Or Subwar 2050, great memories there, too. SkyNET might be another good pick. But I think this one should just about hit the spot, if you havn't played it yet: ORBITER. http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Orbiter+2001
  15. I've more or less skipped over the last third of this thread, as I can see that this thread is going nowhere pretty quickly. Let me first declare my bias. I DO believe there is a God and I DO believe he sent Jesus as a final sacrifice for anyone willing to accept it. NEXT, I believe that ALL PEOPLE have the absolute inalienable right to their own beliefs and opinions, as well as the absolute and inalienable right to EXPRESS those beliefs and opinions. One of the things that makes America great is the freedom to share ideas. THAT is what sets us apart from countries like Afghanistan. If everyone has a voice, people can make up their own minds. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE DOES ANY PERSON OR ENTITY HAVE THE RIGHT TO SILENCE ANOTHER PERSON OR ENTITY DUE TO AN OPPOSING OPINION OR BELIEF. The idea behind democracy is that everyone has an equal say. NEXT, the government is a group of people run for the people by the people. The larger entity does not support any religion or ideal because it does not exist. The people do, however, and have their own ideals and beliefs. Each and every one of those people should have the right to express those ideals and beliefs regardless of any approval or dissapproval of the majority or minority. NEXT, the fundamental laws of the United States are based the moral codes outlined in the Cannon (You will never hear me refer to it as "The Bible" since that is a general term that can be used many different ways). IE: The Ten Commandments. For reference, here they are (Not an exact translation. More on that later): 1) You shall have no other gods than me. 2) You shall niether make nor worship any idol (Or other created thing). 3) You shall not take the name of you Lord in vain. 4) Remember the Sabbath (The day of rest) and keep it holy. 5) Honor your father and mother. 6) You shall not MURDER (Frequently translated KILL, but incorrectly). 7) You shall not commit adultery. 8) You shall not steal. 9) You shall not bear false witness about your neighbor. 10) You shall not covet [anything that is someone else's). Now, other than the first three, even the most liberal person shouldn't have too much to argue about. 1-3) That's a whole 'nuther can of worms. 4) Do you think that everyone should work seven days a week. God has ordained that you should take at least one day a week off, just to relax and take a load off. 5) Truth be told, MOST parents DO care about their children. In this day and age its a sad thing that that parents and children don't respect or love one another more. I could go off on a tangent about the decay of societiel values, but it's a global issues as much as an American or religious one. But seriously, why are Maternal insults always so effective? 6) Do you REALLY have to think about this one? How would you feel if someone close to you got shot because somebody wanted their shoes or credit cards? There is a difference between "kill" and "murder" as well. As you already know, even God ordained the deaths of entire civilizations. And that just for breaking the first two commandments (Or should I say, rather, principles -- for those will argue what happened BEFORE the Commandments were given). 7) There have been more movies made than one could comprehend JUST on this ONE subject. It breaks hearts and ruins lives. Disobeying any of these Commandments may achieve no less. 8) Surely you must have had something stolen at one time or another. Whether is be some change you kept in your car or perhaps your car itself. You how does this make you feel? Again, this hurts people. Thats why God commands that it not be done. 9) Again, I should not have to explain. 10) Why should you not covet? Because it may make it that much easier to slip and break one of the other commandments. Rather than wish you had your friends new computer, aspire for one LIKE it, or better than it. As an analogy, I think that works well. NOW, Atheism. Secularism. Whatever you wish to call it... isn't that a religion as well? It requires faith dosn't it? As much as you'll hear high profile people telling you that "this is true" or "that is false", they often have no evidence that can withstand reasonable scrutiny. As has been mentioned already in this thread, if you tell somebody something enough, they will believe it. And that is one of the most effective tactics used by liberals and atheists. Generations have grown up exposed to only one viewpoint -- evolution. A secular belief. Since that is the what they grew up being told, and what is constantly beng reinforced, they refuse to believe any other ideal--because that would make numerous role models of thers LIARS. They aren't willing to accept that. And so, we get generations of narrow minded people who have been raised to believe that any other possibilities are simply false. Does this argument sound familiar to you at all? It should. It was the same argument first used to get Evolution INTO our schools. Teach the ideas side by side with their strengths and weaknesses. The problem here is that there is more historical evidence in support of the Cannon than there is in support of evolution. I have heard it constantly said that the "Bible" (Cannon) is "full of errors." The simple and most damning response is "Would you care to point one out to me?" Now for a new bit of personal info. I do not trust english translations of the Cannonical Books. But since I am no Greek/Aramaic/Hebrew scholar, I instead cross reference a litteral "Bible" with several more widely used translations. The literal takes precedence over any of the others, since translation has such a tendancy to change the meanings of things. Atheism is the religion of godlessness. As far as I am concerned, any atheist is welcome to his own beliefs. Just as I may attempt to convince an atheist that his beliefs are incorrect, he may also attempt convince me that mine are. He does not, however, have the right to tape my mouth. I will more than happy to participate in any further discussion, but I think I've written enough tonight.
  16. Wow, really? I never had any of those problems. I think the only quibble I have with the game is that it's just so friggin hard. I played one mission for 45 minutes missing part of my wing (I scraped another ship. I could feel the drag. Very cool) until, while fighting an enemy ship..... I just couldnt pull up fast enough and smashed into the ground. Game over. Aigh! [ 10-17-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  17. I like the freedom that Infrared gives. There's nothing more annoying than having to deal with that nasty cord hanging off your face. I think I'm going to go with the H3D wireless glasses from I-O. After e-mailing them with some questions, they said I could always return them in 30 days for a full refund. Of course, I'd have to pay shipping, I'm sure; but $10 is much less a loss than $100. You know what would REALLY be cool? Microsoft Shutter Glasses for the X-Box. Yeah!
  18. OMG, I just discovered this: http://www.dti3d.com/ Stereo3D flat-panel monitor WITHOUT GLASSES. The 15" version is only about $2k, while the 18" version is $7k. Shoot, who needs a new car, I want one of THOSE!
  19. Which glasses are you using? I sort of have this fetish for Stereo 3D, but have yet to try out a REALLY good pair. The last set I bought was a VRJoy2000 that my local EB carries (Where I will be working as of next Thursday! Woot!). They SUCK. After thorough pacing, I discovered that the lenses just werent darkening enough to completely block out an eye, SO each eye was getting one clear image and one greyed-out image, essentially creating this terrible "ghosting" effect. Had the glasses been working correctly, you should get the feeling that you're crossing your eyes when they're out of adjustment. With the VRJoy2000, the image just gets blurry. Ech. I've been considering picking up a pair of ELSA 3D Revelator Infrared glasses now that Nvidia has released their universal Stereo3D drivers. But Stereo3D is really still in its infancy (Even though I was using a VRSurfer from VRex when Descent 2 came out) thanks to manufacturers requiring their own damn video cards and drivers for them to work. Nvidia deserves some MASSIVE kudos and congratulations for making some decent drivers. Anyhoo, back to the topic. Which glasses are you currently using? Do you notice any "ghosting" effects whatsoever when using the glasses? What video card and monitor are you using and what resolutions do you play at? If you really want to gauge ghosting on your glasses, try them with Deus Ex. P.S. For the layman: Ghosting is essentially "seeing double". Rather than each eye getting a seperate image, each eye is getting both images or "one-and-a-half" images.
  20. Ok, so I'm really, really, really bored (Maybe I should do some homework? ....naw). Yesterday I was going through some of my older games and came across a couple that I never really finished playing: 1) Sea Dogs 2) Echelon 3) Ultima 9: Ascension So after a couple coin tosses and a roll of my pewter d20, I decided to give Ascension another chance at life. It ran BAD, even on my modern-day, cutting-edge, super-computer. However, in a suddens stroke of genious (Inspired by the game's not-so-elegant MIP-mapping) I unchecked the MIP-mapping support box. Huzzah! The answer to my problems. It ran smooth as a babies bum. At least for three hours (At which point it filled my HD with massive ammounts of swap file information, dropping the game to sub-8fps), a quick exit, 10-minute wait (While my HD thrashed about like a beached fish as the swap file emptied), and I was back in the game running smooth as glass. And you know what? It's really not that bad. Even after 2 years of sitting on a shelf collecting dust, it's still one of the prettiest games I've ever seen (IMHO, it actually looks better with MIP mapping disabled), and the story aint half bad either. Maybe I'll actually finish it this time. [ 10-16-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  21. Oh no! Why did you haved to go remind my of Dreamland Chronicles!!! Damn you!!! Thats one grudge I'm going to hold until I have a finished product in my grubby greedy hands! See other grudges: 1) StarCraft (Half a story, second half in expansion) 2) Diablo 2 (Shytty gameplay but good story - see above reason) 3) WarCraft Adventures (*sob*) 4) ANYTHING made by Blizzard (Has a habit of shipping half-games to get you to spend more on an expansion pack. Cancelled their most ambitious and conpelling game ever (See above); and, AS I PREDICTED WHEN THE GAME WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED, ruined the somewhat interesting Role-Playing-Strategy concept behind WarCraft 3. Expect it to be just another RTS (Most comparable to Emperor, IMHO). I will NEVER buy another Blizzard game... EVER. 5) Secret of Vulcan Fury (*weep* *sob* *wail* *screams*) 6) Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge (I have never anticipated a game like I anticipated DC:FR. *weeps* I was going to be the modern *sobs* X-Com killer. OMG, what-have-they-DONE!!! *Wails* *Beats chest* *tears clothing* *throws a heavy object through his window*...) [ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  22. You can thank the media for every last one of those Anthrax incidents. As soon as ratings started dropping off (People just got sick of perpetually hearing "It was a terrible tragedy") they shifted focus to "They could still get us with... Anthrax! Its cheap and easy to make!" THEN, little more than a week later, some guy in Florida gets it... Coincidence? Not a chance. You can diffinately thank the media for any anthrax outbreaks that occur. [ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: Scrivener ]
  23. Check your computer for files named Scam.exe, scam32.exe, or Sirc32.exe. This worm seems to be getting around a lot lately and I've already had two friends infected. The worm quadruples in size every day, sucking up disk space. If your virus programs are up-to-date, they should have cought the virus and at least isolated it. Thats when you can't run any more applications and end up with strange error messages, since it alters the Windows registry. It's pretty nasty, but dosn't do any real permanent or reversible damage.
  24. quote: It's Cthulhu. Now try to pronounce it correctly. D'oh! As for games, I forgot to mention: 0) Disciples 2 0) Galactic Command Online 0) Lost Souls 0) Longest Journey 2 (It has to happen eventually) 0) Team Fortress 2 0) NEVERWINTER NIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!! 0) Myth 3: The Wolf Age ------------------------------------------- As for games that are currently available, between OpFlashpoint fixes, I've been playing Arcanum. If you loved any of the Fallout games, Arcanum was made for you. Oy, the way the game shapes around your character is unprecidented. BG2 dosn't even come close to this level of fine detail (And the ToB expansion was really just KILL-KILL-KILL). I think next time I'm at a lack for games, I'll retry Ultima 9 and Echelon.
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