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[MonkeyHead]

Recreating of Victory gate would be way cooler.

[RedKing]

Be careful with that. I remember a cooking competition on TV where somebody tried to model the Taj Mahal in chocolate, and they wound up not even finishing it because it turned out to be far more complicated than they realized at first glance. Lots of geometric ornamentation (which admittedly lends itself to computer modelling better than to labor-intensive chocolate craft.)

[Cthulhu]

Okay, I might have lied a bit about not being able to write something that isn't meaningful, because I have another thing I've been kicking around that I may as well throw out there.  An epyllion-type long poem, kind of a mix of HP Lovecraft and Conan the Barbarian, about human tribes around the time the last empire of Serpent Folk fell.  I don't really have anything about this except the basic idea and a couple embryonic bits of verse, but it'll probably involve a kind of culture hero figure (for a culture that doesn't exist, of course) who makes his name uniting the disparate tribes against remnant Serpent Folk.  I've also got some ideas about some kind of semi-magitech aspects with the serpent folk, specifically I think it would be cool to talk about serpent folk artifacts that the reader can recognize as technology but the characters and the narrator see them as some kind of evil magic (Like, Krom the Barbarian or whatever smashes their blasphemous tablets, which are described in a way that makes it pretty obvious they're some kind of circuit board)

[Euld]

Victory gate would be amazing, but far, far beyond my abilities right now.  I'd either have to re-create it in a less 'falling apart' form (requires imagination and recreation, and really staring at a bunch of references in different lighting to understand da fuq that brickwork is doing) or use an incredible combination of modeling-fu and texturing-fu to make it as is.  I don't have enough fu... for now.

[cerapa]

And then it hit me!  The Disintegration of Doctor Klein, a novella, maybe a novel, maybe even a novelite, I'm only just outlining the skeleton right now.  Near future, maybe even the present, a scientist begins to incorporate cybernetics into his body.  Over the course of the story, he disintegrates.  His personality is subsumed by the technology so that by the end, the man called Doctor Klein is gone, and something completely different is inhabiting his body.  A whole commentary on the nature of the self, transhumanism, specifically the Ship of Theseus aspects of transhumanism, technology's relationship with man, all that shit.

Most works on that subject are incredibly heavy handed. Comparing switching out an arm to sacrificing a piece of your sanity or somesuch, despite people having used glasses for example without having their eyes stolen by technoghosts for a while now.

[Flying Dice]

And then it hit me!  The Disintegration of Doctor Klein, a novella, maybe a novel, maybe even a novelite, I'm only just outlining the skeleton right now.  Near future, maybe even the present, a scientist begins to incorporate cybernetics into his body.  Over the course of the story, he disintegrates.  His personality is subsumed by the technology so that by the end, the man called Doctor Klein is gone, and something completely different is inhabiting his body.  A whole commentary on the nature of the self, transhumanism, specifically the Ship of Theseus aspects of transhumanism, technology's relationship with man, all that shit.

Most works on that subject are incredibly heavy handed. Comparing switching out an arm to sacrificing a piece of your sanity or somesuch, despite people having used glasses for example without having their eyes stolen by technoghosts for a while now.

There are also the unfortunate implications about people with prosthetics and such. It would take a very delicate touch to do it in a way that doesn't come off as technophobic.

[Cthulhu]

Yes, I wasn't planning on that kind of thing.  Replacing his hand with a prosthetic won't change his personality, but it might push him along toward more serious stuff.

I'm thinking the transformation will kind of progress exponentially.  He starts with small stuff that doesn't affect him, that builds his courage, and he starts replacing actual brain tissue, delegating mental processes to the cybernetics.  Things deteriorate much faster at that point, and at some ambiguous point in the process there's not enough of Dr. Klein left to actually resist what's happening to him.

[Graknorke]

And then it hit me!  The Disintegration of Doctor Klein, a novella, maybe a novel, maybe even a novelite, I'm only just outlining the skeleton right now.  Near future, maybe even the present, a scientist begins to incorporate cybernetics into his body.  Over the course of the story, he disintegrates.  His personality is subsumed by the technology so that by the end, the man called Doctor Klein is gone, and something completely different is inhabiting his body.  A whole commentary on the nature of the self, transhumanism, specifically the Ship of Theseus aspects of transhumanism, technology's relationship with man, all that shit.

despite people having used glasses for example without having their eyes stolen by technoghosts for a while now.

Yes, keep telling them that. Soon our power shall be enough to conquer the world's eyes. And then, the true form of our plans may come to fruition.

[Euld]

Be careful with that. I remember a cooking competition on TV where somebody tried to model the Taj Mahal in chocolate, and they wound up not even finishing it because it turned out to be far more complicated than they realized at first glance. Lots of geometric ornamentation (which admittedly lends itself to computer modelling better than to labor-intensive chocolate craft.)

It is very complicated, but if you approach it with a modular mindset it becomes much easier.

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Did a quick job of it, but I color-coded the Taj Mahal.  Each color represents a repeating element that could easily be duplicated then resized/altered slightly and used elsewhere.  And even some of these modular parts have smaller parts within them that could be repeated.

[miauw62]

I  got civ 4 working! I GOT CIV 4 WORKING! On virtualbox on XP wich I had to boot in safe mode to install guest additions with 3d acceleration. It was all worth it. I have it now. Can't install bts tough, i made my virtual HD too small.

[Tellemurius]

I  got civ 4 working! I GOT CIV 4 WORKING! On virtualbox on XP wich I had to boot in safe mode to install guest additions with 3d acceleration. It was all worth it. I have it now. Can't install bts tough, i made my virtual HD too small.

This is why VMware excels over virtualbox, granted what a pain the ass to get win98 working

[Heron TSG]

But is Civ4 really worth playing without Ragnar Lodbrok and his missile cruiser swarm? 

[Bauglir]

...despite people having used glasses for example without having their eyes stolen by technoghosts for a while now.

Maybe your eyes weren't stolen by technoghosts.

[penguinofhonor]

SCP-1173 is brilliant.

[Telgin]

After a week of arguing, fighting and threatening this DSP with violence, I finally got something good out of it.  I managed to improve the performance by a factor of about 35x, which puts me in a good position to actually get some useful research out of it for once.

I may actually get a publication this year!  I can dream!