Posts by Sentura

Pretty sure that those money are yours regardless of where you are in the world

I can't brussel sprouts, but broccoli is a fine, almost tasteless veggie.

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Congrats everyone, well done. Mapcore moving up in the world.

Mapcore slowly becoming the industry...

gr8 stuff m8

reminds me I have to take up painting again once I settle in

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Honestly, I think you could build something like that right now in Source no problem, funny enough. Just would require a dedicated artist, same as always.

What if I told you... those were all brushes?

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These are really cool man, wish I could draw/paint.

Never too late to start!

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wtf is going in this thread? Someone makes an artistic observation about something in specific and someone else comes along talking about the negative aspects of fanaticism and how it's used to fill in the gap that in previous generations was filled by the belief of a god? Are you fucking kidding me right now? lmao, talk about reading too deep into something trivial! Also, I want some of whatever you're smoking, shit must be good.

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Actually, I was responding to Kokos' post and the Total War quote he used, so nothing personal HP =) I hope we still cool

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I feel this is getting really touchy, get ready mark and liam, i mean emotionally. Because if fanboys (like this very mean portuguese 3d guy) innocently start to nitpick at stuff like metal reflections...

I assume the alien has the proper number of teeth... if not.. you guys are in deep trouble.

I remember this quote from a fan on totalwar center, where i go when i want to feel bad about myself : "I get comfort in knowing the rome2 dev team are humans after all, and as such, that they will die eventually."

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People forget that the root of fan comes from fanatic, and if nothing else, history has told us that fanaticism of any kind has never been beneficial. It might have been religion before, but today where religion is largely an anachronism, it's been replaced by consumerism, sports, capitalism or social causes. Games are no exception to this, as is evident.by the amount of love/hate in this thread. People need something to fill that hole in their heart/mind with, and for most, it will always be external, materialistic factors because they require little thought or effort.

All of this because people are too lazy or too afraid to think about who they are and what they are doing in this life. If there ever was a god, I'm sure he's laughing his ass off at us all for dancing around like idiots, and at the irony of the whole situation. I know I would.

I'm pretty sure I'll be playing this game when it comes out! But then again I haven't watched any of the Alien movies or anything so for all I know I could be enjoying the game regardless of how wrong the specular map is on that blowtorch and not even realize it. Clearly I'm not worthy.

Watching that video it kind of makes sense why Goldman Sachs are interested in other forms of energy...

I have a fairly good understanding of what's going on, it's just shitty. I don't care for most things, but this just gets to me, even though it'll probably never affect me in any way.

Here's a quote with some decent arguments to kickstart this thing:

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Actually, the power behind the throne is much more extensive than just the employees of one Wall Street bank, no matter how powerful. If the rest of the ruling elite did not approve of Goldman Sach’s antics, the banksters could never get away with them. While Goldman’s employees might rule the financial sphere, there are other spheres within the ruling elite: the US military with nigh 800 bases worldwide, the hi-tech patent holders who now dominate the Forbes 400, and the oil families, like Rockefeller, who founded the banks that, with a few very rich others, became the Federal Reserve.

Further, if you have a job, even if it’s the CEO of Goldman Sachs, you can’t be very powerful. You’re working! The truly powerful don’t work. They just own. They let their more energetic in-laws and employees do the actual work. But those workers (and they are workers despite getting paid millions of dollars each year) never even dream of crossing those who really hold the reins of power, and that is the aristocracy.

America is not supposed to have a class of permanent rich based on birth (it rebelled against such), but it does, and it goes all the way back to the beginning. Even in colonial times, families like Roosevelt were winning state-held auctions of foreclosed land. To get the details and the full story, check out the work of G. William Domhoff .

The problem is bigger than just the rich getting something for nothing. They’re just better at it. Everybody wants something for nothing, everybody wants to sell their home for much more than they paid for it. Real estate is the one way that regular Janes and Joes can pretend to be big-time wheelers-n-dealers -- eventho’ every eighteen years, when the “housing” bubble (actually, land bubble) bursts, many of them get burned badly, not enjoying the insider connections of a Goldman Sachs.

Ironically, everybody should get rich from real estate, or at least the land portion. The value of locations is not generated by the owner but by the surrounding neighbors, by society in general. All the spending for sites in a region should end up in the public treasury -- via land taxes or fees or dues -- and then back out again as an equitable dividend to the citizenry.

If society did share the worth of Mother Earth via dues and dividends, then it could get rid of counterproductive taxes and addictive subsidies. Plus, it’d remove the value of parcels from mortgages. Then mortgages would only be for the value of the buildings, and buildings age and wear out. Once mortgages get shrunken, then the flow of money to Wall Street gets reduced to a trickle. Without that influx of land payments, Goldman Sachs becomes nothing more than another human-scale banker.

So if you want to solve the global problem of marauding banks, solve the local problem of speculation in land. The new policy is called “geonomics”. And every place that has taken even a small step in that direction has benefited.

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It's probably not as doom and gloom as the article would imply, but there's some serious powermongering going on for sure. I kind of wanted a sober discussion here, but I guess that's too much to ask.

I was thinking this is EOT material, and it definitely would be if it was fake, buuuuuuuuuuuut.... it's not.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/1…bal-coup-de-tat

Currently going on in Denmark as well, Goldman Sachs just brought out a large minority share (19%) of the largest energy provider in Denmark.

Yeah... Even getting one right now seems like a waste of money, but both?

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You are now reading the text under my avatar.

... In my voice!

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I'll buy 5 extra copies to make up for everyone here, jokes on you

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Not that I was interested in the first place, but the Origin factor just cemented my decision to never try this.

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In every single Japanese program or whatever, they always say that one phrase: "ASHEEE MARRRRRRRSE!"

WTF DOES IT MEAN

http://japanese.lingualift.com/blog/irasshaimase/

... or any such incantation related to respect/honor/whatever. Although I'd like to think they all just say Arse Mars based on what you wrote

Pls finish The Forgotten first

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My little Antarctic Station themed TF2 map is coming along pretty well. Loads of particle effects and ropes blowing about in the wind. Pretty happy with the results so far.

Still need to do some fog controller magic for inside the major buildings and the deathpit, though.

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Oh man I'd totally add a trigger_hurt outside with minimal damage (0.5-1/sec) just to keep people on their toes.