Prometheus

You're a very lovely girl Ember\emby, don't let anyone tell you different . Salutations.

Just a little dialogue from a movie that stands as one of my favorites of all time. I did not hate Bush II before the election... but I do now. That smug self-righteous son of a bitch can take his "armies of compassion" and "faith based initiatives" and everyone that voted for him and shove them straight up his ass. I cant believe there are more backwoods inbred trailer park trash in this country than there are people with common sense...I'm pissed. "Vote Values"????? You got to be shitting me...the sanctity of marriage value? Let me see if I can understand this, you dumb red-necked rural fucks can cheat on your spouses Monday, rape your children in a drunken frenzy on Tuesday, get divorced on Wednesday, remarried to your cousins on Thursday, beat your new wife on Friday, make excuses on Saturday, and be forgiven on Sunday. Now, somewhere between Sunday night and starting your cycle all over again the next Monday you ignorant fucks have the audacity to even imply that you give a damn about the sanctity of marriage? Bullshit. This election was stolen on several invalid issues. People are too damned concerned about the morals of others. I personally work with the “no harm†principal. If your actions do not directly harm another then live and let live. I can’t see where gay marriage harms anyone directly or indirectly for that matter. But maybe it’s just because I don’t give a shit what other consenting adults choose to do with one another, especially when it has absolutely nothing to do with me. I am growing increasingly angry with these high and mighty moralist fucks. They absolutely can’t mind their own damn business, and quit telling other people how to live their lives. AAARRRRRRGGGG!!!!!! BTW, great concession speech Ent, I only wish that were the actual version I heard. Salutations.

Player built cities...very nice, very addictive sounding

This has always been a point of contention that fails to suspend my disbelief; how can a person sit at a flower bush and pick flowers all day? Add this to the fact that 10 or 20 other players are harvesting from the same bush, I imagine that bush would be dead after the first hour or so. Perhaps it is magic that keeps them alive Anyhow, randomly spawning resources with limited duration set either by time limit or amount harvested limit is the sanest idea I have seen posted. Static resources will always invite macro users, whatever the consequences are. The punishment/reward system is an innovative idea, and should be kept regardless of the ultimate changes in the harvesting. I rather enjoy the unexpected surprises but as long as the resources remain static you will have macro users. I had an idea to augment the current punishment/reward system of harvesting which might prove to be more in line with the game and possible future implementation; I was thinking maybe different grades of a harvested resource for instance... "You harvest 1 low grade iron ore" "You harvest 1 fresh vegetables" "You harvest 1 enriched titanium ore" "You harvest 1 wilted blue lupines" "You harvest 1 flawless diamonds" ...you get the idea Another thing; Resource engagement... I was thinking that harvesting could be more like the fighting system with a few differences, you lock on and automatically engage in the activity (this is only a good idea if spawning resources in limited amounts is instated), while engaged you should not be able to perform any other task including drop objects, cast spells, and use potions, until you disengage from the harvesting activity. I think the benefits of this would be tremendous, especially if you limit the number of players that can engage a particular harvest spawn. This also can be random if you make the size of the harvest spawns variable for instance... "You see trace elements of silver!" = 2 players "You see a vein of silver!" = 4 players "You see a load of silver!" = 6 players As a side effect new skills or books could be introduce on the subjects of prospecting, agriculture, and horticulture. No, no, I'm not done yet... lets see we have random bee attacks... Where do they come from? Beehives = new resource... HONEY!!!! Maybe even a new monster... Bee Swarms Back on the subject of random spawning of resources... I think this could be implemented rather painlessly, I'm not thinking in terms of changing the harvest sites per se, however changing the ability to harvest at existing sites and perhaps adding new sites if locations of a particular resource are too few to rotate. Well a few ideas anyways Salutations.

.....AHahahahahahahah!!!!! What a dumm ass. No shit man, that guy deserved everything he got. The syrup and the "owned" sign had me floored. Damn web pervs need a little humililty thrown at them

Mon nom a été volé ! Well, a large part of it was anyway.

Ok fair enough... But please bear in mind that Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is a fictional character concocted by the Brothers Grim and used in Mother Goose's Fairy Tales. Peter's wife, I assure you, came to no actual harm. And if it makes you feel any better, Christ got his M&M's hand fed to him by Marry Magdalene. Sorry, there is nothing that can be done about Kerry's long face... Eeeesh everyone is a critic. <_< Salutations.

No Zuz, I did not suspect you would find them funny. I doubt you share my sense of irreverence for such topics, nor would I expect you to. It is entirely possible that due to our differences in culture, you may not even have a clue as to the base ironies that make such jokes funny, or detested for that matter. Of course it is also possible that you just don’t like the jokes… NAAAAAHHHHHH. Umm, gosh, I feel I must... Salutations.

Damn... I'm American, and I thought the mother-in-law joke was bland and poorly told; does this mean I have no sense of humor? Let’s see... Q: Why can't Jesus Christ eat M&M's? A: Because they always fall through the holes in his hands. Hmmm, I split a gut when I heard this one the first time. Let’s try another... John Kerry walks into a bar. The Bartender takes a long look at him and finally says "Hey buddy, why the long face?†OK, only moderately funny if you follow American politics. Here’s one that a friend told me shortly after 9/11, he couldn’t quite understand why I found it rather distasteful, (perhaps my sense of humor has some limits) Q: How do you get a New Yorker off your back? A: With a Dust-buster. I'm not entirely sure about this but I believe MOST Americans are becoming much more cynical and less able to laugh at things that, when viewed from a distance, may well seem funny to others. Personally, I enjoy all kinds of comedy ranging from subtle irony to blunt and controversial types. Take Andrew Dice Clay for instance... Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Had a wife, and loved to beat her Smacked her twice upside the head F*cked her ass and went to bed! yeah a little twisted, misogynistic, but funny as hell. I enjoy British comedy also; Faulty Towers was a great series (haven’t seen it in ages though). Monty Python...How can anyone not find them funny? John Cleese is one of the funniest and most versatile actors in the world. No, I think my sense of humor is just fine... could it be that crude mother-in- law jokes lack any kind of sophistication, and having been told for as long as there have been mother-in-laws, they are just not funny anymore? As for the Rabbit joke... it got a

Opposite of love? hmmm Indifference I think, but who cares right? Nice warm and fuzzy post

I like the screen shots, man this looks like it's going to be a kick ass game once they get it finished...thanks jjk!!

Did we get warped into the flames section? I wouldn’t go so far as to say my view of world history is very interesting. However, judging from the contents of your post, I'd say my view is more accurate. You obviously have succumbed to one of history's little illusions my friend. The founding fathers of the United States were not selfless sophists who had nothing better to do with their time than make the world a better place by instilling in it the virtues of a burgeoning nation. Infact many of the above quoted, (particularly Jefferson), were notoriously self-interested womanizers and backstabbing polititicians. So in some instance your right... not much changes. As far as their "HOPE" to "COMBINE" successful ideas...this is yet another falsehood perpetrated by fairy tail writers... err I mean historians. Yes the combination of similar types of governments may be the result, but the means to this end was a clash of the founding father's ego's and the need to appease their respective constituents. ( Excuse me? Are you blind? An average 37% of eligible voters vote in the general election for the president of the United States. The statistics fall sharply for local and state wide elections. This seems pretty damn apathetic to me...you are obviously living in the united states of Bush where everything is all damn peachy all the damn time. Infinite wisdom? Do me a favor and bang your head against a nearby wall for no less than five minutes or until you either forget those words or lose the ability to use them in a serious conversation. Then pick up a copy of The Federalist Papers and READ IT!. Ok seeing that this is the only paragraph in which you make a modicum of sense i.e. you've stopped talking out of your ass and actually make some important points. Let’s examine these points. It would take a gargantuan stride in evolution not education to change human nature. However, as individuals we are not so bad. 100%? Personally I can't even make a decent cup of coffee 100% of the time, but my average is certainly better than 37%. And this is quite besides the point I was making about the ELECTORAL COLLEGE which was designed to protect the holdings of wealthy land barons. Not as a failsafe against the fall of Rome, or against our own poor choices, or any other brain fart you can come up with. It takes away the choice of the many and puts it into the hands of the few; therefore it only serves an elite few. A representative republic or rule by law only works if the laws are fair and decided upon by the many. And it seems to me that barring the people from directly electing the person to the highest seat in our government is a crime in and of itself. It cuts against the grain of our entire constitution. As for that last part about paying other people to protect us from our own ignorance. Bullshit... we just need someone to blame when our country does something so screwed up that the rest of the world hates us for it. But that is another story. Still more bullshit... the Electors themselves are only elected by individual vote in TWO of our fifty states, and again (in case you missed this part in my first post) aside from a couple laws riddled with loopholes they have complete discression as to whom they choose to elect. There is no law that states that they must vote for the popular candidate of their respective state. If a slated elector decides to cross party lines after being selected there is no recourse in any court of law. I hate to tell you this but the United States is one of the founding members of the UN, we helped establish its structure and bylaws. It was an American ideal to try to endow the U.N. with authority to enforce the peace without infringing on the sovereignty of other nations, including our own. I only have this to say about ENTERTAINERS who abuse their public stage... If moralists indeed have no place in the art world, then dumbasses like Michael Moore and other liberal/conservative iconic ENTERTAINERS have no business telling me what my f*cking opinion should be.

Sounds like the monarchy patron system in the game Asheron's Call.

I strongly disagree, it is the Electoral College that demeans the value of the individual vote. For some reason you are thinking in terms of states Electoral votes on one side and not general ballot votes on the other, which totaly negates the purpose of your statment. What would it matter which state you happened to be in when you cast your vote as long as your vote truly counted? As it stands, Electors in the Electoral College DO NOT have to represent the majority voters of their respective states even if in theory they should be the Electors slated by the voted majority candidates party after the general election ballot, and it would seem in their best interest to vote accordingly. BUT as long as each Elector votes for at least one candidate who is not a resident (big loop holes) of their respective state, they can vote however they damn well please. James Madison "In a democracy, where a multitude of people exercise in person the legislative functions, and are continually exposed, by their incapacity for regular deliberation and concerted measures, to the ambitious intrigues of their executive magistrates, tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter." What this says to me is that at least one (probably all) of our founding fathers had little or no faith in the ability of the general population to reason and decide for itself. Madison describes the people in mass as being ignorant and paranoid that their leaders are not looking out for their best interest, and that said people might rise up to do something about it, (patriot act? anyone? anyone?). I don't blame Madison, in eighteenth century America most of the common people (citizens) were illiterate, under educated, and had known only the rule of a monarchy. Madison had every reason to believe exactly what he said. However, what about now? The Electoral College is an anachronistic slap in the face to every citizen who votes. Yes, the United States is a representative republic and not a true democracy, though IMO this piece of archaic garbage should be removed from our constitution like a bad appendix.

Kerry...Bush... ummm yeah, wouldnt want to vote for the wrong puppet err I mean canidate. For the people and by the people right? Tell that to the wealthy land barons who concocted the electoral college. Presidential elections are just a side show, our next president has already been elected. Our forefathers, in their infnite wisdom knew that the most powerful seat in the union could not be left in the hands of the well meaning citizen. But by all means vote, exercise you patriotic privlege. (As a side note, for reasons of international relations, I think it has been decided by the PTB's that Bush will not get another four years.)