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I've got 14 pages, 5,413 words.

Native Expansion might be what you're looking for. It's what I'm using, and it switches up all the upgrade trees, adds more quests, lets you form your own nation, etc. etc.

EDIT: It also lets you brace your spear to pwnzorate cavalry when you're on foot. This makes fight the Rhodoks hard, because they have so many spear troops. I've been fighting with them for at least 4 or 5 game months now (pushed them back to just Jelkala, Jeriche Castle, and Veluca), and find that skirting around them and plowing through their archers is useful. It only takes one spearman to drop you, though. I actually spend a lot of time on my feet, meleeing dudes.

In my opinion, we should have the option for the edge of the map to be a sheer drop into infinity. An endlessly vast chasm that surrounds the world.

Flat world ftw.

Would I be right in assuming that Dwarven Economy still amounts to the Dwarves tossing coins all over the floors?

I find that decimating King Ragnar in a tournament right before becoming his vassal has a certain quality to it.

Quote from: Grakelin on March 31, 2010, 09:49:14 pm

Quote from: MagmaDeath on March 31, 2010, 08:39:33 pm

Who is Dwarf Driven...
Ive been griefed two rounds in a row by him, and the admins completely ignore it...

One game, you handcuffed me, dragged me around the station, turned me into a monkey, dragged me around more, turned me back into a disfigured human, and then killed me with plasma because you saw me picking a lock.

Wait what.

One round I did tests on you, I think you agreed to it. I was wonderng what injecting chemicals would do, accidently killed you by injecting the wrong thing, then revived you and let you go.

Dragging around as a monkey was because you tried to run before I could rehuman you.

You're right, I did agree to it.

After you gave me the choice between that and death.

Alright, I'm going to sound pretty insane, sorry. But this has bothered me for a long time, and I just finished crying to my parents about it, as pathetic as it sounds.
Look, as crazy as I sound, please try to support me or whatever it calls for. I don't know how to handle this.

Alright, first of all, I'm fourteen, but generally regarded as highly intelligent. However, my past is a bit troubled. Regardless, however, I've tried to stand up against the odds. I've tried to run forward through the thick of it. I want to make it by regardless of my past. And, when I'm done with school, I want to make my father proud before he dies.

Sounds good. You seem especially concerned your father is going to die. Is he terribly old or terminally ill? I would avoid putting too much thought into your father's mortality, though it might be hard since you have already lost a parent. My father is in the Canadian Armed Forces, and he's been sent overseas thrice so far (Once to Golan Heights, which was actually pretty tame, like a resort posting, once to Afghanistan, and just last month to Haiti, with a potential fourth to Afghanistan at some point in the future). He could be rocketed at any moment, especially since his role as a carpenter involved constructing pillars of Western Imperialism (Wendy's and Tim Hortons) on Afghan soil. It can be hard not to think about your father dying sometimes, but if you just push that out of your mind and focus primarily on how cool he is, you'll win points at life.

My mother died when I was in third grade. I never cried at the funeral, but the entire year I did horribly. All I did was eat junk food, drink soda, play video games, and watch TV. My grades were horrible. Looking back, I guess I was suppressing the depression and using those distractions to get by.

That's one theory, I guess, but this is exactly what I did in third grade, and I was not depressed.

 

But in fourth grade, I developed thoughts that scare me, as ludicrous as that sounds.
These thoughts are basically over life itself. I think of existence, my life, the life of those around me, afterlives, everything. I don't know why I think these thoughts, but I do, and I wish I could just forget them. I've thought that if I think these thoughts, that something bad could happen. Like I could just be sitting here, think about existence, and suddenly everything will end. I know these are crazed thoughts, but I can't help them. They scare me to no end. These thoughts themselves make me afraid of what they are about. An hour ago I attempted to sleep them off, fear stopped me for thoughts of dreams.

I hate to sound like a lunatic, but I'm at the road where I just don't know what to do. I talked to my parents and cried while they tried to comfort me. I'm afraid of myself, believing I'm crazy. I'm at a point where I'm worried about what these thoughts may do, and if I'm crazy.
I know I may be sounding insane, which I've said a few times before, but I need advice. I need help. I need some sort of guidance or anything, because I'm lost at what to do.

When I was sixteen, I became convinced that I had the power to stop time. Instead of working in my French class (read: Instead of playing my gameboy), I would just stare at the clock and try to train my power so that I could do it for longer than a few seconds. Eventually, when I realized that I only stopped the clock, I started to thinking it might be telekinesis. When I realized that the clock only stopped when the seconds hand passed the '4', it dawned on me that maybe I didn't have super powers after all (except my ultra handsomeness). Man, that was embarrassing

Also, even to this day, I sometimes grow paranoid that people around me can read my mind, and I focus very strongly on telling them to get out of my head by thought-shouting (does this make sense?) at them, even though this is completely ridiculous. This is only with strangers, though, and when I'm not with a group, so it hasn't actually affected my life in any way other than being an amusing distraction which prevents me from contemplating genius.

When I was 12 or 13, I started to wonder if the world was actually real, or if I was actually in a simulation, and everything was a computer game that I was playing in the future. I eschewed this idea when I realized what a shitty game it is, where you have to actively go out and seek additional forms of entertainment just to enjoy yourself, and misfortunes befall you that cause suffering. Then again, maybe my sick, twisted future-self enjoys those kinds of games, and everybody I am talking to right now really is a simulation. I will never know for sure.

When I was 9 or 10, I saw a trailer for the Brenden Fraser movie where he sells his soul to the devil, and I was so afraid of being tempted myself that I promised God I would worship him forever if he prevented me from doing so. Of course, I didn't follow through on this promise.

What I'm saying is that it's really common for these existentialist pseudo-philosophical things to occur to people, but they're just really silly. The sooner you admit to yourself that you aren't a god, the better off you'll be. There is no point worrying about it. There's also nothing we can do to help you, because it's entirely in your head. Try focusing on something that is mentally taxing. I've found that the more challenging the things I do are, the less idle time I get to think of silly ideas.

It's a double-edged sword, though, and you will subsequently have severe writer's block and have to actually work to write creatively for the rest of your life. Ironic how this happens just when you get old enough to actually be capable of producing fine literature, right?

So, apparently from what I'm reading from this forum, and from what I've experienced in life:

I should use girls and not focus at a long-term relationship at all during high-school.

Is this the gist of it?

No. Not every girl wants to be in a long-term relationship. It is all well and good to take a strong moral stand about something, but this one in particular actually demeans women as two-dimensional figures who all want the same sort of relationship. Trust me when I say that you will not have a great deal of trouble finding girls who are interested in having a fun, laid-back relationship. This is something you should be clear about.

Nobody is telling anybody to go rape women or emotionally abuse them. If you are a woman who feels as though dating a man who likes to experience a variety of relationships is something you don't want to go through (not to single out anybody in this thread in particular), then you don't really have anything to worry about: A mature, responsible man will make it clear to you what he's looking for in a relationship, and you don't have to date him if you don't want to.

Again, let me agree wholeheartedly with what Bandages said: It takes two to tango. Pretending that the man gets to walk in, scoop up the woman, and have his way with her is a bad idea, and does not lend a healthy atmosphere to anybody. If the woman is not receptive to a relationship, then the couple is not actually dating. This is the same if the man is not receptive to a relationship. In both cases, it's just a little sad. If you're really so unaware of your partner's personality that it shocks you to find out what they're looking for in a relationship, you were either blinding yourself (I've done that before) or you're not actually their partner, and you're just getting ahead of yourself.

I also disagree with Chutney's statement that '2 months' is how long a relationship should last. The relationship should last until the couple isn't into it anymore. My last relationship lasted for a year, and it was a pretty good time. Two months is actually a very small amount of time. If the couple never gets to the point where they're unsatisfied with the relationship, then that's great. They win the love game.