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Other Games / Re: Fief: the Medieval Manor Simulation
« on: March 22, 2014, 08:16:51 pm »
Aw, is this dead? I've always wanted to own a medieval mansion simulator 
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Other Games / Re: UnReal World - Free to play! Donate! (3.18-Beta4, 3rd Jan. 2014)
« on: January 26, 2014, 12:20:51 am »
Okay so either I'm the luckiest person ever, or the Njerpez in my save are particularly dumb. I was out hunting chasing elk across the map when I saw a Njerpez warrior off in the distance. Knowing their penchant for pain-filled savagery, I surprisingly decided not to wander in his direction, and promptly turned around to head back home. I turned around and walked right into a second Njerpez warrior filled with piss and vinegar, ready to murder. I'm hungry and tired, my dog is barking in hunger, limping, and wounded all over. I can't find my punt to get back to my home island. My character who has been successful so far is about to meet his untimely end.
I zoom in to the guy standing at the other end of my screen, shortbow at the ready. I order my dog to attack just as he looses his first shot, which plunks directly in the tree next to me. I heft a javelin and toss it in his direction, hitting him in the shoulder and knocking the bow out of his hands. By now, my dog Palo has caught up to him, dodges his spear attack and bites him in the leg, causing him to fall prone. From all the way across the map because I know that I don't have time to save my dog, I throw another javelin, which lands a solid hit, piercing him in the eye and killing him instantly. Ready to drop, I pump my kaumolais spear above my head in victory like a tusken raider, loot him and cut him up and feed him to my dog. I figure now is a good time to find my pump and head home before I pass out.
I finally find my punt on the wilderness map and walk on top of it, only to find Asshole #2 from before on the same tile. At this point, I'm ready to drop, hunger bar full, thirst bar full, Palo is injured even more than before. I order Palo to attack and before I even have time to react, an arrow from Njerpy hits me dead in the shoulder. Luckily Palo manages to knock the bow from his hands, forcing him to switch to melee. For some reason, he rushes over to me, completely ignoring Palo as he nips at him all the way. Just as he reaches my tile and is about to kill me, I hit him square in the face with my kaumolais spear, knocking him over, where Palo rips his throat out. At this very moment, exhaustion kicks in and I pass out.
I have no idea how I survived this much attempted murder in one day with no prior experience in person-to-person combat. It seems like spearmaster Starvarad Kauomolainen is a much better roll than I thought he was.
I zoom in to the guy standing at the other end of my screen, shortbow at the ready. I order my dog to attack just as he looses his first shot, which plunks directly in the tree next to me. I heft a javelin and toss it in his direction, hitting him in the shoulder and knocking the bow out of his hands. By now, my dog Palo has caught up to him, dodges his spear attack and bites him in the leg, causing him to fall prone. From all the way across the map because I know that I don't have time to save my dog, I throw another javelin, which lands a solid hit, piercing him in the eye and killing him instantly. Ready to drop, I pump my kaumolais spear above my head in victory like a tusken raider, loot him and cut him up and feed him to my dog. I figure now is a good time to find my pump and head home before I pass out.
I finally find my punt on the wilderness map and walk on top of it, only to find Asshole #2 from before on the same tile. At this point, I'm ready to drop, hunger bar full, thirst bar full, Palo is injured even more than before. I order Palo to attack and before I even have time to react, an arrow from Njerpy hits me dead in the shoulder. Luckily Palo manages to knock the bow from his hands, forcing him to switch to melee. For some reason, he rushes over to me, completely ignoring Palo as he nips at him all the way. Just as he reaches my tile and is about to kill me, I hit him square in the face with my kaumolais spear, knocking him over, where Palo rips his throat out. At this very moment, exhaustion kicks in and I pass out.
I have no idea how I survived this much attempted murder in one day with no prior experience in person-to-person combat. It seems like spearmaster Starvarad Kauomolainen is a much better roll than I thought he was.
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Other Games / Re: Dota 2 - Three spirits update!
« on: November 26, 2013, 04:18:58 pm »Man, Earth Spirit is so donkey balls strong. He reminds me of Lee Sin except... 2x better and 2x more complicated.That's the first thing I thought of, to be honest. His mobility and crazy amount of CC, as well as that kick, it's just all so Lee Sin-esque, which is awesome because Lee Sin is probably the only League champ I can stand to play. The skill ceiling on him is so much higher than on any other champion, it's nuts. Earth Spirit feels like him on steroids. Plus, it's nice to have some more skillshot heroes in Dota, I kinda felt disappointed that there were so few in comparison to League.
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Other Games / Re: Cookie Clicker!
« on: November 14, 2013, 04:18:44 pm »
That being said, I feel no compulsion to play cookie clicker. I have very little active participation in the game. Clicking gives me so little that it's not worth it, and it's not like I have anything else to do. I leave it on in the background and rack up the cookies, but I really don't let it affect me.
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Other Games / Re: Dota 2 - NEW PATCH 6.79 - Supersonic speed edition!
« on: November 14, 2013, 11:08:21 am »http://www.dota2.com/threespirits
It's happening!!!
Triple hero update!
Diretide!
Crafting!
I have been waiting for the other two spirits for so long now, this is the best! I had thought Legion Commander would be next, considering that more of her was finished, but this is so much better than LC. Ember Spirit is by far my favorite design out of any hero.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are an evil entity (suggestion game)
« on: November 01, 2013, 01:14:15 pm »
ptw. epic
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Life Advice / Re: Anti-Intellectualism
« on: October 30, 2013, 09:53:12 am »Edit: I think my post would make the topic creator cry... I'll save it somewhere... but I don't think I am ready for the responsibility if it puts anyone under emotional distress.
Mostly it was saying that the TC is incorrect in his assumption.
Go head and post it, I've got thick skin. The general opinion of this forum seems to be that I'm wrong in my assumption anyways, so it's not like I haven't heard it before. If I can't learn to take criticism, no matter how harsh, then I'll never improve my faulty reasoning.
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Life Advice / Re: Anti-Intellectualism
« on: October 18, 2013, 09:03:31 pm »
I have to say, that essay did a pretty good job of reframing a lot of the poorly formed conclusions I'd reached from my own observations, as well as bring up some insights I could have never reached on my own. I actually don't typically stress a lot about being popular, or even liked, to be quite honest. I've long ago recognized that different people are good at different things, based on their interests, and being popular is just something I'm not interested in. Though I never really thought of being popular as being a skill, I can see the rationale behind treating it as such. I never really considered the idea it was the system that was creating the harsh environment of middle/high school, I had always bought into the whole "hormones" crap. There are a few gems of optimism in there, though and I appreciated the analysis. I think illuminating is the right word. I especially like the bit at the end, where it contrasts the dynamic between adults and teenagers in the Renaissance versus modern day. Never really imagined that there ever could be a world where teenagers respected adults and vice versa. Perhaps it's just the lack of perspective that comes with youth.
Oh, and I am 17, so there's always that. Explains the insecurity in my previous posts. And the inability to phrase my thoughts and frustrations in a coherent manner.
Okay, you are awesome. Both of those books sound incredibly interesting. I'll have to shop around and see if I can get a copy of Principles of Real Analysis on the cheap or at the library. As for Phaedrus, I'd figure something that old would be available on the internet for free. Very cool. Thanks again.
Oh, and I am 17, so there's always that. Explains the insecurity in my previous posts. And the inability to phrase my thoughts and frustrations in a coherent manner.
Yes--I'm sorry I wasn't specific enough, Jelle. I wasn't thinking clearly...
OP, here are your first two assignments.
1. Read Phaedrus. Report back if you want to discuss.
2. Read, and do all exercises in, Principles of Real Analysis by Walter Rudin.
That should keep you pleasantly occupied for a while =]
Okay, you are awesome. Both of those books sound incredibly interesting. I'll have to shop around and see if I can get a copy of Principles of Real Analysis on the cheap or at the library. As for Phaedrus, I'd figure something that old would be available on the internet for free. Very cool. Thanks again.
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Life Advice / Re: Anti-Intellectualism
« on: October 18, 2013, 11:24:27 am »The world fascinates me, I can't think of a single subject that doesn't interest me on some level.
Well, I can. Obviously, the subject of average people doesn't interest you much. People and their social dynamics can be fascinating, but you choose to disregard this fruitful garden of intellectual growth.
Ha, actually average people interest me quite a great deal. They confuse me greatly. I often find myself fascinated by the way that people maintain different self-images in different environments and different people. Being an "average" person myself, I find it fun to compare other's behaviors to my own, to see where potential flaws in my personality lie.
But I get your point, there are obviously a lot of things that I'm not particularly interested in. I suppose I just find it difficult to find meaningful, intelligent conversations with my peers in high school. I wish there were somewhere other than here where I could have those kinds of discussions because right now I feel really cooped up in my own head. At least I'm graduating and, finances allowing, going to college where I'll be able to have that kind of discourse. Everything at this level is so dumbed down and mind-numbingly simple that I just can't take it anymore.
Does anyone know of any forums or something like that where I can talk about maths and the sciences? Especially math. I love math so much, and I've hit a roadblock in my mathematical studies. I've made my way through most of Calculus I-III in my own studies, but I'm stuck in Calc I in high school. I feel like there's a whole world of knowledge out there I'm missing, being stuck here in this drab, uninspiring high school where everything is catered to a standardized test.
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Life Advice / Re: Anti-Intellectualism
« on: October 17, 2013, 10:12:52 pm »
I did not make this thread with a clear head, and it shows in the original post. I kinda wish I could just make it go away. It's embarrassing and upon rereading comes off as a bit pretentious.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think everyone is stupid, or even that the large majority of people are stupid. I just feel like there's a lack of wonder in the world nowadays. People take the world for granted, without even stopping to wonder how things works or why. When you ask someone to describe anything beyond the scope of their everyday life, like how a light bulb works or why the seasons change, they don't know. And that's not the part that I take issue with. I'm not mad at that person for not knowing something. What confuses me is the fact that they don't care at all.
I get that's not necessarily a bad thing, and people typically have more to do with their life than figure things out. A large amount of very intelligent, great, successful people probably don't know the answers to those questions, and probably don't care either. Me, I can't understand that mindset. I can't think of a world where I see something I don't understand and don't wonder how it works, or try and figure it out somehow. I try to live a life constantly wondering about one thing or another, trying to figure things out. The world fascinates me, I can't think of a single subject that doesn't interest me on some level.
God, I probably come off as some kind of elitist "at least I still wonder" asshole who's trying to make himself sound superior to everyone else. I feel like that's a problem I have. I don't want to come off as elitist or superior, and I don't feel like one of those people, but I get this feeling like I really am. Before I stopped talking to people about non-superficial matters, I would consistently get classified as an intellectual snob. It hurts to come to that realization. I just really wish I could talk to people about these sorts of things and actually get a response other than "I don't care." I love being fascinated by everything. Because then when I finally understand it, there's this feeling of pleasure unparalleled by all other experience. Being able to look at a mathematical proof of something like Euler's identity and understand it gives me this feeling of bliss that I wish I could share, but no one I know honestly cares.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think everyone is stupid, or even that the large majority of people are stupid. I just feel like there's a lack of wonder in the world nowadays. People take the world for granted, without even stopping to wonder how things works or why. When you ask someone to describe anything beyond the scope of their everyday life, like how a light bulb works or why the seasons change, they don't know. And that's not the part that I take issue with. I'm not mad at that person for not knowing something. What confuses me is the fact that they don't care at all.
I get that's not necessarily a bad thing, and people typically have more to do with their life than figure things out. A large amount of very intelligent, great, successful people probably don't know the answers to those questions, and probably don't care either. Me, I can't understand that mindset. I can't think of a world where I see something I don't understand and don't wonder how it works, or try and figure it out somehow. I try to live a life constantly wondering about one thing or another, trying to figure things out. The world fascinates me, I can't think of a single subject that doesn't interest me on some level.
God, I probably come off as some kind of elitist "at least I still wonder" asshole who's trying to make himself sound superior to everyone else. I feel like that's a problem I have. I don't want to come off as elitist or superior, and I don't feel like one of those people, but I get this feeling like I really am. Before I stopped talking to people about non-superficial matters, I would consistently get classified as an intellectual snob. It hurts to come to that realization. I just really wish I could talk to people about these sorts of things and actually get a response other than "I don't care." I love being fascinated by everything. Because then when I finally understand it, there's this feeling of pleasure unparalleled by all other experience. Being able to look at a mathematical proof of something like Euler's identity and understand it gives me this feeling of bliss that I wish I could share, but no one I know honestly cares.
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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: October 16, 2013, 10:32:55 am »
Just heard this in class today, completely out of the blue. "When God created the human, it was for babies."
I have no idea the sentences before or after that sentence, just that sentence.
What were they even trying to say?
I have no idea the sentences before or after that sentence, just that sentence.
What were they even trying to say?
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Other Games / Re: Dota 2 - Sign up for 1v1 tournament!
« on: October 14, 2013, 09:05:36 pm »You really need to change the title to better indicate that the thread isn't just for a tournament.I thought that this was just for the tournament at first as well. Not sure why we had to abandon the old thread anyways. It seemed healthy enough.
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Life Advice / Re: Anti-Intellectualism
« on: October 12, 2013, 11:49:16 am »
Yeah, sorry. I'm terrible at conveying what I want to get across. This was more of a vent-y thing anyways. I've often considered it's just me and the way I approach things. At any rate, sorry to kind of fluctuate between ranting about myself and my intent which was anti-intellectualism in general. I just felt like being angry and getting validation from my peers, which is not really what this board is about, really. I'll have to reexamine my behaviors and see where potential misunderstandings in intent may lie. Or where I'm just being completely irrelevant to other's discussions and interjecting my own random musings that have nothing to do with what they're conversing about. I try not to come off as being all "superior" because I really don't want to assert some kind of dominance over others, not consciously. I just really like being able to share the awe I feel about understanding the world around us. This does not usually work.