Wintersong

[quote who="Raven X" reply="17" id="2645243"]I do how-ever think it's quite....annoying...that new users and people who barely ever post anything have made it to "elite" or "expert" while some of our Most Active Forum Members like Wintersong, Me, Tormy-, and a few others have no rank at all. Makes it feel kinda cheap to me...sorry. [/quote]I can't and won't talk for others but in my case I have 10 tiny cute points because I signed for that 1 in a million chance of winning something (no g

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="20" id="2645274"] I just hope Bobby Kotick dies first. [/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

[quote who="Myles" reply="69" id="2645287"] Life created itself with a purpose, to reproduce and survive.[/quote]That sounds quite weird (at least how my brain interprets it). I'd say that survival is consequence of being alive.

[quote who="caross73" reply="52" id="2645233"]Destiny is also an invented construct. Unless the future is real in some sort of physical way other than unrealized potential collapsing of probabilities, destiny doesn't exist any more than purpose does. To put it another way, plenty of other species have gone extinct. Just because we haven't yet and can actually think about it, try to infer some greater meaning into it, doesn't mean we are marked for specialness or t

[quote who="caross73" reply="48" id="2645217"] If the purpose of humankind is survival Zuh? Purpose was invented by humankind. How can it bootstrap itself with a purpose that would have had to exist before humans were around to think about it? Purpose is a construct. The fact that humans survive is a transient condition of nature, a fact, that at this time and place they survive and like to invent purposes for things. [/quote]Purpose as "biological ""dest

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="8" id="2645163"] Valve wouldn't put their games on Impulse in the first place because they control significantly more DD market share. [/quote]Which is silly, they only control the 70% so they should try to maximize their exposure by selling those games in other plat... er... Yeah, right.

[quote who="PoSmedley" reply="43" id="2645137"]We broke the ocean. Do we really wanna see how badly we can f**k up cloning? [/quote]I'd not mind an army of Grace Parks (from BSG show, not the golfist).[e digicons] [quote who="Demiansky" reply="39" id="2645114"] As for Wintersong, I would advocate harvesting babies under certain circumstances (I'm not sure what you mean by "baby" though. The question would, of course, be how the harvesting was done, what benefits

[quote who="Fardeil" reply="27" id="2645138"]Off-topic question. Can I use my beta to make vids and use screens from it and show it to public? [/quote]I'd say: "yes". It'd be weird if not.

I knew I should have gamed those digg thingies.[e digicons]X([/e] :P

[quote quoting="post"]*ducks from flying objects* But, seriously...steam (as per Stardock CEO) has 70% of the digital distribution market. That's a lot of players. There is also a LOT of steam-only people out there. So by not publishing, even to a rival, means potential loss of a lot of players. I'll even volunteer to run the Elemental official group and assist moderate the forums. I just would like as many people as possible for multiplayer games.<br /

For the record, I may be in favour of human extinction but not of harvesting babies.[e digicons]:X[/e]

[quote who="caross73" reply="17" id="2644955"]The ethical questions are important,[/quote] "Ok, Mr Intelligent Neanderthal. We just cloned you and you know what? That's right? Direct to the disect table! Don't worry, the other clones may take some more time to die but will follow shortly and if they don't, don't hold your breath for them getting the proper treatment and respect that an intelligent lifeform should get." Why cannot we harvest babies to experiment? They only

You cannot get frustrated for "the chances to win" if you don't actually care if you win or not. *cuddles the 10 points*

Around 30 days? (send, make copies, get boxes/stuff, have Stardock personnel putting disks into the boxes during a weekend, send to retail stores...)

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="14" id="2644931"]The problem is the intelligence of the humans that want to do the cloning.[/quote]It's not a problem of intelligence but of how it is applied.

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="11" id="2644898"] Digg linking is going to be revamped, most likely points will only be rewarded for digging Digg stories we link to. More info later.[/quote]With retroactive effect? Just in case I suddenly decide to go beyond the 10 points mark.

[quote who="Demiansky" reply="8" id="2644850"] So actually, I posit that cloning a neanderthal would produce an immense amount of very valuable knowledge.[/quote]Although true, negatives could overwhelm positives too easily. If people gets segregated because of colour of skin, weight, ideology or even country, I don't want to imagine what neanderthal would get (if they were to go ever above the "lab rat" stage).

It'd serve no real purpose except doing it for the sake of curiosity (and the Juras... Neanderthal Park). And he/she/they would be Neanderthal only in genetic code (unless there is actually genetic memory and we can trigger it).

I do remember that scenario from All The Flesh Must Be Eaten where dead bodies were infestated (or altered) by mutant plants (due to some short of human chemical) and raised as zombies.

[quote who="Anomander" reply="89" id="2644661"] Agreed, its called attention to detail... [/quote]Unless it was chosen to be in that way on purpose (creative license?)... detail which I don't know. Just saying, not trying to take sides or anything.

[quote who="Rath3130" reply="77" id="2644358"] The map looks plenty original to me. I mean, lets be honest..There are only so many ways you can get "creative" with a world map. You have land, and water, toss into a sphere and shake, let sit for a few billion years. Ta-dah! And yeah, no need to get scientifically literal about the processes. [/quote] When I used to write my own fantasy, I liked to draw the maps and it was nice to give them some realistic touchs if possibl

Tsk tsk tsk. These new generations... Relax people. You weren't here in the just-announced-the-game stages when we only had some mockup screens and even plans for AI personlities in multiplayer (before the Demigod apocalypse). That was hard, having only our imagination to entertain ourselves while waiting for some mana from Stardock, while you now you only have to wait a few Caturdays for new beta builds. :p

[quote who="ThreeKings" reply="6" id="2643960"]Download firefox or chrome and your problem should be fixed as well. [/quote]Not sure if it's fixed but you cannot Quote with Chrome and I hate that little tiny fact. Not sure with Firefox as I only use it at work (because it's neat for web development). [quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="7" id="2643978"]Thanks, that worked. [/quote]You are welcome. :)

Oh noes! Whatever they spend in prizes ("salaries" for the winners) will be a joke compared to all the free publicity and extra revenue that this tactic will provide!!![e digicons]8O[/e] Which is good because after paying for Frogboy's Jet Fuel, expansion packs doesn't fund themselves.[e digicons]}:)[/e]

[quote who="TucoBenedicto" reply="169" id="2643923"] No need to apologize, I think it's pretty funny. Even if it's a huge bullshit. [/quote]Fun for fun is (hopefully) fun, no message for anyone there. But I supposed it wasn't out of place to apologize just in case.