RavenX

F'Kin AWESOME!!! Downloading now...Initiating Program...WTFPWN on Multi-player :) Who's ready? ;)

Thanks, my friends :) I got it all downloaded. I'll give it a go later this evening some time most likely. As for the Wiki, thanks Bill. I'll take a look at it too....after I try the game a few times on my own first. There hasn't been a game made I couldn't figure out on my own before needing to turn to a instruction manual or Wiki. If for some reason I can't figure it out though I'll have to go check the Wiki. :)

[quote who="Admiral100" reply="38" id="2647831"] Man... EXACTLY!!! I honestly don't understand how people get into DF. Like you said, the game-play and complexity sounds pretty cool, but the graphics are, quite simply, brutal. [/quote] [quote who="alway" reply="39" id="2647836"]Just use the ASCII long enough and your brain actually starts interpreting the objects as making sense and sometimes even looking like the real objects. Take the X grid o

[quote who="Cyrogenic" reply="4" id="2647659"] Speaking of combat, is this a modern screen, or an old one? Reduced 44% Original 1282 x 769 [/quote] Actually, (though Tormy is right that is Old) , that is a "mock-up" , if I'm not mistaken. It's not a "Real" picture of combat. Note: It's " possible " I'm wrong and that is a Real

Bill, what is that "Stonesense" thing? If DF would play with graphics like that I think I could get into it. As we all know graphics aren't important, at least not as important as game-play. I do like the game-play of DF, and the depth of things you can do, it's the ASCII look that kills me. It's not that I don't like looking at it, it's just that it's too hard to figure out what things stand for too me. Even if it had the look of Dom 1 or 2 I could deal with it and most likely get in

[quote who="kryo" reply="2" id="2647673"]"Soon" [/quote] Would that be "Soon" as in a couple more hours or "Soon" as in Later Tonight, probably closer to Midnight :P ? Then again "Soon" could even mean "Things f'ked up, maybe this weekend or next week". It just all depends on what you call "Soon". lol

[quote who="jeffalford" reply="12" id="2647345"]That brings back my childhood!That is cool, I don't remember the songs so much other than I just subconsciously absorbed it after 5 times through the game! Do they say where it was recorded? [/quote] It was a music show at a college some-where. Not sure which one honestly. I'm not registered on the site so I don't see the 94 comments the video has. They might say. If I just kick back and close my eyes and listen to this...I

What the hell are you guys going on about up there with your Amiga graphics? Some kinda multiplayer thing? What's this? Dwarf Fortress right? That's multiplayer? Or are you doing a turn-by-mail thing?

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="5" id="2647024"]Quite impressive. I bet that robocops will kick some asses in 50-60 years. [/quote]Oh yeah, I can see it already....and we think the laws are bad now...wait till they are enforced by machines. "Stop Citizen, You have been caught going 1 mile a hour Over the Speed Limit. Please present your Credit Chip for scanning and verification. *scanning* You have 0.00 credits available. Since you can not pay the fines for your speeding transgressio

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="29" id="2646744"]Link Here is a preview on Deus Ex on IGN. It sounds good. Lets keep hoping that it will deliver the goods! [/quote] That's a good preview. I'm liking the sounds of it. Now lets just hope they don't screw it up.

LoL nice ones Tormy :)

[quote who="SpartanFry" reply="33" id="2646808"] Great idea! But.... "Some of my best friends have been gay." did you kill them after you found out? did you force them to stop. or did they just stop on their own after you beat them up.... "they have been gay".... hmmm doesn't help your case. And who doesn't love lesbians... Just joking.... but the quest idea sounds really awesome! [/quote] <p

[quote who="alway" reply="42" id="2646610"]In addition, that same guy with the microchip also got him and his wife implanted with other neural interfaces, linking together their neurons via the internet. Telepathy. Then there are negative refraction metamaterials which today, only 5 years after negative refraction was first discovered, are on the low end of the visible spectrum. Cloaking. And there are all the fun quantum effects we are just now discovering. Its not science fiction.

[quote who="alway" reply="6" id="2646641"] And now for the tesla coil version! Link for those using non-video-compatible browsers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LudXCEZvn50 [/quote] I don't think you embedded it quite right. I see a box with "x" in the corner. Went to the link and watched it though, very cool. :)

Well, because those are Elemental Monsters, I say Cool!!! But the little dance there...um...yeah...kinda gay :P Put it in somewhere as a "Easter Egg" though. Maybe one of those Ultra Rare Quests :) Quest: Local Monsters in your Kingdom/Empire are holding a Dance Competition, you, my Lord, have been asked to judge this competition. Shall I say you will preside over the event Sire? If you choose "Yes", you watch the monsters dance. You pick a "Winner", but, the o

[quote who="LightStar" reply="3" id="2646375"]Hmmmm, is there supposed to be a video here? Not working. [/quote] Update your drivers, my friend. Have you updated your DivX Web Player? Might be the issue.

[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="67" id="2646195"] Quoting Zozz, reply 47 I know the first beta was supposed to be all paper cuts and lemon juice, so I am just wondering if Beta 2 is supposed to be somewhat fun or just more of the arduous masochism we have been promised up until now. BETA 2 is supposed to be all open wounds and salt, lots of salt. [/quote] Nope. This is where it actually starts to get... Fun .

If you don't like this, there's just something wrong with you... They hit a couple rough spots. It's not perfect, but they do one hell of a job. They run the range from old school game to a few songs that aren't as well known. Watching this was probably the best 6 minutes of my day (night actually).

Man...I did all that work on that kick ass post on the 1st page...now you guys are gonna drift it all off into laalaa land.. :P . I like Sci-Fi as much as the next guy, really. I'm a huge Trekkie. I'd honestly love to see our technology get there some day. I just don't think it's likely. Why? Human greed. Even in the face of a world ending disaster Greed will be a factor. Some people, Presidents, High Up Government Officials, will be spirited away the most remote and best dug-in locat

[quote who="Sanati" reply="24" id="2645995"] Quoting Raven X, reply 20 I would like to think that too, but.... Even if we manage to get off the Earth, if we don't leave our Solar System before the Sun either goes "Super-Nova" or becomes a "Dwarf", we're all still screwed. That will easily happen. Our sun isn't going to become a red giant and consume the Earth for another 5 billion years. We already have a general idea on how to create a wormhole to

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="22" id="2645952"] The desire to see destruction wanes as one grows into our elderly years. As we begin to come to terms with the honest realization that our lives must end, we think more about the creation of new life and the want to know that life will go on after we are gone, and that we will be remembered. Well....someone's life's gonna end.....Remember, dear Raven, after one of my prescriptions...well, one might quoth, "Nevermore". <br

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="3" id="2644679"]I think not...My most fervent hope is that the human condition will improve, that my friends and loved ones will be happy and well. How would that occur if the world were to end? To see the world end would mean the death of my children and grandchildren...why would I want to see such a thing? [/quote] That is the most "Human" response there is to this thread, and I mean that in a good way, my good Doc. This is probably the most c

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="2" id="2645728"]How old is that video? Because Boston Dynamics, the company that made that LittleDog (the robot in that video), also has a much larger version, BigDog, that is designed for military use, specifically carrying heavy stuff over difficult terrain. http://www.youtube.com/BostonDynamics (How do you embed video, by the way?) [/quote] Grab the embed code and then edit out all the parts before AND after the word . Not

I put this in the "Personal Computing" Section because, well, it's got a lot to do with "Computing". Anyway, the next generation of intelligent walking machines has arrived. Check this out. Now This is Impressive. It won't be long before we'll be seeing viable models and military applications. Not too mention space exploration. How sweet is

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="28" id="2645667"]Cool! And now the final stretch! Really hoping for beta! (Friday night please.) [/quote] Thursday. Not Friday. If it comes this week it will most likely be tomorrow. The only thing I've seen them release on Fri and Sat are patches to previously released Beta.