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 Thread: Diary: 2021-09-21 Moonglow development part 1 (Spyder) |
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If the game runs well on hardware that is current at its time of release, then it is not a true Ultima game.
Also, it must have an isometric perspective. Nice hut BTW, I find the things people can do with computers just amazing. Me, what can I do? TYPE, that's all.
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| Thread: Sailing |
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 14-05-2021 15:24 |
Forum: News |
If there's a magic carpet, please don't put seats on it. That was the stupidest looking thing ever. Or if you have to do it, go totally overboard and put a coffee table and television on it too.
So long as the ship can go down a whirlpool and the skiffs into a secret underground river accessible via waterfall, the game will be perfection.
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| Thread: Anyone at all paying attention to... |
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No offense? Calling Bush a retard is offensive to retarded people. I don't think America has had a worse President at a more crucial time in history. It's interesting that you talk about pulling out/staying the course in Afghanistan instead of Iraq (wtf indeed) but what seems to be the current trend in "conservative" seems to be using a bit of bullshit to send people to their own pointless deaths. Through the Iraq war, Bush has succeeded in killing more Americans than 9/11.
The only smart thing I've ever heard him say was his recent speech regarding why he vetoed the bill for a phased withdrawal. The question is not about pulling out or staying the course, it's still and forever will be about going in in the first place. There is no solution to what they have done. Either a whole lot more people will die, or a whole lot more people will die. It's nice that they killed Saddam, just a shame that they had to destablise an entire region, bring about a civil war, reveal the character of America's political leaders, stain the reputation of their armed forces though the absolute shambles of Abu Grahib and ensure a fresh and unquenchable spring of people excited about fighting the US to the death.
That anyone can examine the US's policy in recent years and label it something as polite as "conservative" beggars reason. Their policy has been radical - radically stupid.
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| Thread: Anyone at all paying attention to... |
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I doubt that Bush will win a third term, so if the Republicans shave a monkey and glue a crucifix to it, they will stand their best chance of winning.
What's interesting is that the Democrat's may wind up using the most winnable election ever to do the traditionally impossible: have a black or female president. I'd sooner see a black female president, if it were Beyonce and not Oprah. I think I'd rather see Obama win the toss than Clinton though. Mainly for varieties sake but also because she seems to be more ambition than human.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Just to make sure; I'm not remotely anti-science - that stuff is great! I grew up reading Asimov's essays, and in fact one of the earliest books I can remember reading was his "How did we Find out about Germs?" which is where the reference to "Spontaneous Generation" I used earlier came from.
I do love irony however, irony like a fundamentalist anti-science group which has a website promoting Creationism.
Someone on another site had a sig which read "Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church." I think that's a pretty good line, but also that stuff like that and some of what I read in the Skeptics Magazine often doesn't help itself by being smug.
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| Thread: Corv - some map questions |
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It's a pity that Ultima Online has been a success, in a way. Imagine if EA gave up the Ultima rights and Bethseda decided to continue or even just port the series to the Oblivion or similar engine.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Perhaps the major difference is that what I'm talking about is not trying to describe in any way what exists, but rather look at why it has to. Because I believe that people get bogged down in deciphering the precise nature of what exists (which includes whether it inflates or not, virtually anything that can be described about it) and that relating observable features to some kind of creation theory is fallacious, hence I don't think gravity, relativity and so on are remotely related, in this context they are a distraction . "what exists" and "why does it exist" are totally separate studies. This is in disagreement with quite a few people of course, but it continues to add up in my mind.
It's also convenient because I got sick of reading about physics and theories a long time ago. I just don't think there's any end to it, like that story Asimov quoted about a woman at a conference who challenged the speaker, saying that the world rests on the back of a turtle. When the speaker asked what was holding the turtle up, she apparently said "You think you're clever; it's turtles all the way down!" This idea of reality being propped up on infinite turtles is actually very much like how I started to feel about aspects of physics - eg what if there are ever-smaller particles of atoms - atoms of atoms, and their atoms - which would leave looking to atoms for answers as following an infinite trail of breadcrumbs - there's no end to it.
The why of existence is a philosophical question I think, not a physical one, though logic and (through logic) mathematics have to play a part, given that you can't structure an argument without them.
Another point required I guess is that while observable science does not contain the answer to the "why" question, it can disprove an answer to it, or aspects of an answer. If you consider that the account of Creation in Genesis is actually rather remarkable, and it hasn't really been so long that science has shown the theory to be incorrect. Logic could have disproven it much sooner, but I expect that before the protective distance of the Internet most anti-creationist speakers probably had short lifespans.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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My memory of inflation theory is very vague - unless it is just the theory that the universe is getting larger - in which case it doesn't really have a bearing on what I'm talking about.
Essentially this whole universe would exist as it's own thing on it's own plane, and other universes could exist on their own entirely separate ones, any of which can be infinite in size and scope. When I mentioned a fraction 1/infinity in a sense it is a joke, a fraction of infinity can in fact be infinite itself, but it does provide an opportunity to label definite items within that endless range - eg "Me", "my house", "the human race" "the entire universe", "a bowl of fruit with 5 pieces in it" each of which is equal to 1/infinity.
You can't mathematically work with the stuff, but you can think about it for fun. Which is why I don't think it will ever result in a new kind of bomb.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Originally posted by Thanatloc
Those are my propositions!
I think that Aubergine tried to use - even if it is not clear for everyone - a rather logical consideration procedure:
1) Putting a postulate: “nothingness” is non-“existence” and “ non-existence” is non-“existence” (-> start with a duality principle)
2) Elaborating deductions from postulate. With mathematical notation, the results are put as:
“nothingness”=0, “existence”=1 with not(1)=0 and see that 1+0=1.
IMHO, the problem we see here is when Aubergine expresses with difficulty that the “non-existence” is ‘exiting’ within the “existence”: 1+0=1. He also says: all that is possible exists; thus, if “non-existence” is possible, it should exist.
There is some forthcoming circle-thinking that pains us because the contrary of “existence” is “nothingness” here, and we realize that “non-existence” does exist and doesn’t at the same time.
For me, the “non-existence” of Aubergine does not correspond to what he sometimes thinks it should be (sounds like Inigo, isn’t it?) because, here, “non-existence” must be what is not possible! In fact, the starting duality principle reduces to a ubiquity principle: 1=1 and that’s all. 0 is apart and, moreover, it doesn’t have to be taken into account!
With those rectifications, the considerations of Aubergine become acceptable.
(@Aubergine: Nonetheless its a nice try: How old were you when you wrote this ?)
But that does not mean that the general thinking of contradictor is false. Actually, another logical refection way is:
1) Putting the postulate: “nothingness” isn’t “non-existence” and non-‘’existence” is “non-existence” (-> start with trinity principle)
2) Elaborating deductions from postulate. With mathematical notation one puts the results as
“nothingness”=0, “existence”=1 and “non-existence”=-1 seeing that 1-1=0, 1+0=1, -1+0=-1 and -0=0 (not(0)=0.)
I’m not a specialist but the two way of thinking might be equivalent in describing our reality (or what we call reality.) For what we know, both may also be false.
Remember you all, this is the strength of the Reason (and thus Science) to make us doubt rationally. That is to give us a good explanation of things until a better one is found.
As for the existence of a God (or more?), it is not a matter or Reason but Faith. And often, one can feel it is not possible to prove nor to deny its existence. |
Thank God for you.
I thought about all this stuff all the time (I did Logic in school BTW) at the expense of life, mainly because I was profoundly disturbed by the question. I was 19 when I figured something out, then spent many more years attempting to communicate it on paper. Eventually I just agreed to be satisfied that I'm satisfied. Every now and then though I'd have another go at it, trying to whittle it down to the easiest nuts and bolts. Many attempts at writing it went on for a hundred pages!
Essenitally though I no longer care. I used to think that if a mainstream of people could understand why we exist and some of the greater implications of that, then many of the world's problems will basically dry up. What I ultimately found though is that I'd thought of something that is basically impossible to communicate. The "something can't come from nothing" bit is just to try and set people in the right direction.
Since Break Man won't even take the first idea seriously, there's really not much point taking it further with him. It would be great for some other person to look at the 5 fruit debacle and tell me if I'm fucking mad or not. There is no discussion when even a basic hypothetical example meant to illustrate some point is disrupted by questioning the nature of the example itself in a way which is completly arbitrary.
What I would add to what you've posted Thanatloc is that (I think) the important part of the whole deal is thinkinig on what "Existance" is based on it being the polar oppossite of "non-existance". I believe that the "1" is really equal to infinity and that our universe is a fraction of that, one over infinity.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Given that I made the first post well over a year ago, I am not really following it any more. The fact that you can't grasp a simple example renders "argument" impossible. You keep bringing up science that applies to this universe as some kind of means of backing up your position, except that your position is that "spontaneous generation" (a long disproved concept that was vital in all knowledge of biology and medicine) is possible with your fruity fumbling, which also interferes with some other thing - what was it? - about how energy can't be created or destroyed?
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| Of course you can say: "There are 5 pieces of fruit." I could easily just say you're wrong and matter did in-fact, pop out of absolutely nothing. |
Whatever dude. Go back to your intelligent design classes.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Originally posted by Break Man
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Originally posted by aubergine
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jesus dude, five pieces of fruit are five pieces of fruit, regardless of whether they are being looked at by some kind of perspectively challenged person or not. I'm not looking at the pieces of fruit right now, I'm just telling you that there's five pieces of f*cking fruit. |
I think you've proven exactly what I have been saying as to your presumptuous behaviour, buddy. 
Just saying "there are 5 pieces of fruit" proves absolutely nothing on your regard. Because you're tossing the theory of relativity and the limited scope of this debate completely out the window, and assuming a position of pure omniscience. And unless you're the almight "Q", then you have absolutely no validity in that regard, and your point is meaningless.
I would suggest doing some research into astronomy. You would be surprised exactly how much star maps have changed over the years merely due to the perspective caused in respect to the movement of our planet to the rest of the universe. I would not be surprised if our constellations eventually lost shape completely, though I'm sure that won't happen in any of our lifetimes. Bottom line: You are not going to be able to tell how many stars there are, nor how far away they are, unless you fly out there to see. The best we can do is observe their movements compared to the movement of our planet (and solar system, if you want to get more complex. Since the entire solar system is also moving in of itself, quite constantly.) and thusly theorize the location. It wasn't until methods were developed regarding the light sources of stars, that we were eventually able to "guess" how far away the closest stars are. (I emphasize "guess" because, just like a lot of things, we still aren't 100% sure that the closest star to use is 60 light years away.)
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| The point was and still remains that any philosophy or argument based on the idea that something had to come from nothing is fallacious, if you prefer that to "preposterous." |
Yes, that's a much better word. Since it's no longer making you sound like you percieve yourself as an all-knowing creature of the universe, capable of trumping decades of scientific study into relativity by getting high about twelve years ago.
EDIT: Elaborated better in regards to astronomy. Tried to make it more readable in lamen's terms. >_< |
I'm glad that you think my swapping one word for a synonymous one somehow alters the nature of what I'm saying. Your mode of argument isn't to argue but simply to change the subject into some other thing. I think you were suggesting circumstances wherin an altered reality could transform five fruits into some other number of fruits, or that human perspective is what creates fruitive numerity, and I was saying that maths is an absolute and that five pieces of fruit are five pieces of damn fruit.
You haven't explained in your latest post how these interesting points on astronomy actually relate to anything. You are also discarding the very physics that you claim to know anything about : " Bottom line: You are not going to be able to tell how many stars there are, nor how far away they are, unless you fly out there to see." Um, what? So you think that all these calculations about the mass of the earth or it's distance from the sun (to which no one has ever flown) are incorrect?
I'm glad you downgraded your post into "Layman's terms" because it must have made even less sense than it does now. I know it may seem like I am omniscient, but that it just an illusion created by your perspective. I am only very intelligent.
Also, I have some free time..
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| Thread: Which style do you prefer? |
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Sorry to go off topic, but does anyone else have an issue where there is no option to log in? There's an option to log out, which if I click on tells me I'm not authorised to do that action unless I log in, and redirects me to a log in page. Charmingly eccentric perhaps.
Also, where it should say "post reply" it instead says "Antworten", which must be some foreign language, what could it possibly mean?
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| Thread: Which style do you prefer? |
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Hey, cool piccie in the the post-box. Please don't bring back that white serpent medalliion that was impossible to see text over, it drove me nuts a few times.
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| Thread: The existence of all things explained at last. |
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Original von Break Man
That's why I feel nobody can truly say "5 pieces of fruit will always be 5 pieces of fruit". You have no idea what's behind, inside, or just plain out of sight of them. At best we can say that we've "observed and noted" 5 pieces of fruit. |
jesus dude, five pieces of fruit are five pieces of fruit, regardless of whether they are being looked at by some kind of perspectively challenged person or not. I'm not looking at the pieces of fruit right now, I'm just telling you that there's five pieces of f*cking fruit.
This is the part of the conversation where it gets quotable on humour sites.
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| And that's why I feel that simply saying oblivion = 0 and nothing can come from that is presumptuous. It's probably a much better idea to say: "If nothing can come from 0, then maybe oblivion isn't 0 after all." Although that would certainly be redefining our perspective of "oblivion", it's still a matter of relativity. |
The point at which oblivion ceases to be empty is the point at which it ceases to be oblivion. You can't just change the definition of it on the fly to argue a point.
I don't think it (oblivion) exists - it neatly ties in that non-existence should not actually exist anyway. The point was and still remains that any philosophy or argument based on the idea that something had to come from nothing is fallacious, if you prefer that to "preposterous."
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| Thread: Spam/board problem - new forum software |
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Ironic that an anti-spam announcement is followed up by a spam-fest of birthday-boosting, but happy birthday anyway.
I kind of wonder if the board wasn't such a freakin' drama all the time whether the game would have been finished months ago!
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| Thread: Diary: 2021.08.03 - Project officially started! |
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Will the final build have as many bots at the site has been getting lately?
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| Thread: Compatibility Question |
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I've bought the Asus. The first thing I did was get Dungeon Seige. It seems to run pretty well with everything maxed, although the frame-rate detecting thing it has reckons it's only getting 12-15 fps.
I made a movie with the laptop and the only issue it seemed to have (that I've yet found) was not frame-dropping but actually sound dropping. I put the Star Wars theme in over some footage and found that in the final version it drops out for a moment during scene transitions in the final render (especially if I've used an effect on the transition).
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| Thread: Diary: 2021.10.04 |
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"Wiggleth the analogue sticks to sheath thy sword!"
So how about a developers diary? Discussion invigorated by a spambot? Inconceivable!
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| Thread: explicit content? |
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Original von Enderandrew
Are you suggesting we need nude Jews in the game?
I nominate Natalie Portman. |
Second! I'd like to Leia.
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