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[IndonesiaWarMinister]

What game is PKVII?

Pirate|Knight|Viking
 
I want 1!

[Kagus]

The original game was a modification for the first Half-Life.  Seeing as I don't have the first Half-Life, I can't play the first PVK.

Interestingly enough, most people seem to share your sentiment of wanting the first game.

[Torak]

As for the archers, I have no idea...  The graphics and camera angle make it look like a cutscene, but the wonky way the arrows are shown makes it seem more like in-game play...  And that can't possibly be Savage.  Can you imagine that many people performing a coordinated effort?  The only time you can get folks together like that is when it's a behemoth rush.

It's just something about the way those archers are standing that reminds me of the Beast Grunts, but they didn't use Bows, so..

[nerdpride]

I'm not so sure if games are good for something anymore (I once decided that I'll manage my academic studies like a dwarven fortress striking the earth...).  Experiencing the subtleties of economy in Starcraft inspired me to think that becoming competent is worthwhile.

But other people who play games don't seem that great.  I mean, I've only been to a few internet communities.  I occasionally get a glimpse of other places though, like PVKII I guess, and it isn't very impressive.  The problem with the Internet is that I'm meeting the same people over and over again;  they keep following me around like some plague, wherever my browser goes.

Maybe there's nothing special about games, it could have been something else that I ran into that made me interested in studying things suddenly.  Or maybe it was actually something about me, responding differently (along with some others) to the same stimulation that everyone gets.


Perhaps the problem here is that I'm using reason alone and not being empirical.  Maybe there's also some empirical evidence out there that would restore your "faith in humanity".  But statistics seem to say that people are dumb.

Would it be enough if you met a bunch of smart people?  If 50 million geniuses could convince you that humans are still good for something, then why can't 50 geniuses do the same?

[Asheron]

Well, humanity is the most suicidal and destructive species on the planet. And yes, we tend to be sadistic and back-stabbing ( seriously, I nearly throw up when I think about the Saw series... sick people! ).
But on the other hand, humanity has produced things such as Monty Python and Sam and Max, so things can't be that bad.
Can they?
Squeak?

[Cthulhu]

Please, ants are much more suicidal and destructive.  I've seen them go after one of those inch-long black crickets by the hundreds.  It was just rolling around  crushing them.

[Kagus]

How many minutes, approximately, had passed before the first wave of ants hit?

[Cthulhu]

It was like three years ago, I don't remember, all I remember is I lifted up a rock and the entrance to the colony was there, they were all out with the larva, and the cricket was there.  It was literally coated in ants, rolling around in what must've been horrible agony, assuming the ants could've even stung it,  There were dead ants all around it, and some of them were still clinging to it with their jaws.

[McDoomhammer]

Some ants protect the hive from attcking termites/other colonies by literally exploding in a mess of formic acid.  Which is one reason I kind of like the theory that ants are more like cells in one great organism, the colony.

[Cthulhu]

My favorite insects are antlion larva(The real ones, not Half Life ones).  I remember, it must've been at least 10 years ago when I first noticed this, but there were like five of them in the dust right along the foundation of my grandmother's house.  I saw them, and I immediately knew I had found a new sick pastime.  I started getting pillbugs from her garden and tossing them into the pits.  Crazy stuff, they'd toss sand at the pillbugs until they lost their footing, then you'd just see these jaws come out of the sand and drag them under.

[Kagus]

I remember seeing something about those ants on TV one time...  Kamikaze supersoldiers.  I haven't been able to find any more documentation on the subject however...  Pity.

Ants are amazing...  That program also included a little bit about ant military tactics (sounds weird, but apparently they flank and use deceptive maneuvers against enemy hives), and how the soldier caste have mandibles that are so big they can't feed themselves.

[Cthulhu]

I read somewhere that some form of seed-eating ants have a specialized ant that turns the seeds into a bread-like substance, it's supposed to be so big that worker ants can't turn their heads high enough to see it all the way.

Then there's those honeypot ants.

[Dragooble]

my faith is slowly dwindling away as well

mostly due to how stupid some people can be

and how pointless are reasons for fighting are

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