For the next FAQ, I'd like to respond to questions from the forums.
Do you guys have any questions?
really I gave them away at a "Friday Night Downtown" summer event where my band was playing..!
And to put this back on topic,
Will there be cats with freakish mutations in this game?
It would be awesome to have a cat with en extra paw per leg. Just imagine how cool they would fight!
I can see them infront of me fighting like a Minion of Destruction
I think you should put that minion in the "draw your desired mount" thread.
All the pokey things would hurt!
It's all about the right sort of harness with that crowd.
ever saw the machine Mr. Garrison from south park invented to replace airplanes? yeah... yeah, that crowd would do just fine I'm sure.
But seriously, metal butt-plate (and not sitting on the sharpest parts) would fix the pointy bits I hope.
see, totally works.
That's awesome.
1/500 of less than 7 billion is more like 14 million people, not 1 billion... Still, 14 million 6-fingered people is more than I'd have guessed even if most of them have had them removed.
WOAH! you're right pigeonx2. What a GROSS brain fart there. (I did 1/5 remind me to give you karma for correcting me when the karma cannon is working again.
it was like 2 am or something... uh... uh.... I was distracted and busy losing my wacom stylus or something (must include an excuse) The sun got in my... math eyes yeah thats it.
14 million, hey! that's like 7 times as many people who can speak esperanto worldwide (and probebly exactly how many people actually knew what that was prior to playing katamari and/or reading this post and looking it up). And I knew a guy at my church back in Alton IL who spoke fluent esperanto, so likely everybody has met one 6-fingered person, right?
(I'd imagine esperanto is better known in europe or some place that wasn't so American,.. er.... I mean pig-headed about merging into a united world, they still refuse to switch to the standard measuring system of every country on the planet but 3)
I'm all for becoming a more unified world, but why must we use a constructed language to do it?
And if we are using constructed languages why not Elvish or Klingon?
Yes Esperanto is equivalent to Klingon in my way of thinking.
*I didn't go look it up and I've never played katamari*
I totally agree. Why use a constructed language when we have hundreds of languages already in use, some by significant portions of the world already (spanish, english, hindi and mandarin in particular). Although it would be awesome if Elvish became the global language
And I also have never played Katamari and didn't look it up. In fact, pretty much everyone I know is aware of esperanto's existence. I think you severely underestimate how many people have heard of it.
Yes Esperanto is equivalent to Klingon in my way of thinking
awesome. (many people I know never heard of it until I brought it up. And the only pop-culture reference to it I know is Katamari which holds many Esperanto jokes)
The whole "unified world" thing was a shot at the fact that here in the US we still use feet, furlongs, miles, oz... oz again (I really don't understand why we have two different measurement units with the same name. I find it very confusing) They use seemly random intervals which requires you to go out of your way to remember the different measurements. So if you want to find how big your home's yard is, you measure by feet... 3 feet to a yard, 22 yards to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, and 1 furlong squared is an acre. So you've got to go down a bizzar conversion equation of seemingly random numbers to figure out how many acres of land you own. And even then, how many square miles is that? I call Bull S**T!
Communication is much more understandable to not-change. Unlike measurements, there is a lot of culture inbedded in the way people talk, and language has no standard yet. I don't believe any culture loss would happen if we changed to the metric system.
The point of Esperanto is to have have a simple language that does not break its own rules. The reason you "must use a constructed language" is because languages that formed 'naturally' develop in a way that makes no sense and therefor are prone to communication errors. Heck, nobody speaks proper english, and the reason is becaues english is a stupid mutant of a language. English is so unnessisarily complex that we have invented the term "grammar nazi" to describe people who actually understand it and try to teach others. Other languages are no better. Why use something that is flawed in its very construction? But thats a discussion for another time.
sorry, I'm having trouble staying on-topic
There was a topic????? In any event, another reason for an artificial language: there are no "owners": think about it: say we were planning on unifying the world. We would have to chose one existing language for the government to run in. Which one? Well, if we picked English, all the non-English-speaking countries would say that they were being treated as second-class nations. If you picked Mandarin, then all the non-Mandarin-speaking counteries would do the same thing, asnd so on.
I'm for having a single official global language, but I am not at all for having a single global government. Honestly for that to happen I think we'd literally need to be invaded by aliens.
And creating a new language that no one speaks natively, forcing everyone to learn it from scratch in my opinion is even worse than choosing a language that a large portion of the world already speaks. Choosing a new language just inconveniences more people. Yeah, those who already speak the international language natively have something of a heads up, but life isn't fair. Honestly I'd rather have the world decide to use Hindi as the official international language than esperanto. For one, Hindi was chosen as the official language of India because it was the easiest to learn of all the Indian languages. And secondly, because I'm opposed to inconveniencing billions of people for the sake of fairness.
Really for me, the biggest concern is the difficulty of learning the language, not whether or not it it'll make some people feel disenfranchised.
It's a bit more complicated than that. English is their 'secondary' national language, and states are able to legislate in their own languages.
But, yes, I agree that an artificial language is more hassle than its worth, especially given the extreme liklihood that it would 'go natural' within less than a generation of being adopted by billions of people. I fight jaron for a living. Humans evolved to play with words as part of learning languages and in-groups of all sorts have a strong tendency to create their own vernaculars both to simplify internal communication and to clearly set themselves apart from outsiders.
I actually like your India reference a lot because I dislike the idea of a single official language for a number of muddly, changing reasons (this is actually an already years-long discussion for me & a couple of friends). The efficiency thing holds the most weight for me in favor of One Language, but I balk because no single language can enable the range of thinking that an overlapping set of languages can (I still pretty much buy the idea of linguistic relativity).
p.s. Why are you US guys typing around here on a holiday? I'm just ignoring my work for a spot here and there. Go out and play! Watch some fireworks if your local gov't can still afford them (mine can't).
Mine can.... sort of. Our "Red White & Boom" thingy yesterday was cut a bit short, and the local display is supposedly only ten minutes long. Besides, it's drizzeling outside.
I've snuck a few minutes here and there to check the forums Mostly, though, I was tasked with the job to find and burn a movie for the kids to watch and that's when I did most of my posting. There are no local fireworks where I live, but we did just watch the NYC fireworks on TV. Everyone's left now (except the people from far away who are staying the night) so the party's over now.
Partly right about Swedish. My langauge when pronounced makes use of all the letters but a bit south where they eat "pölse" and "smörrebröd" it has mutated into some corrupted version that maybe can be charactized as a language.
http://www.livevideo.com/media/playvideo_fs.aspx?fs=1&cid=C05D896BA4A74291B0C0D5CA5B5E4528 <-- Typical dane
Our western neighbors on the other hand are pretty civilized and sound so funny when they talk so they're alright
Really though. You can get the whole world to accept english but never to surrender their original languages.
PS. How the hell do I get videoclips to show up like someone did to my StarCraft 2 Battlereport?? (Embed it's called I guess but how do I do it??)
Well, here in the States we have at least three different "Englishes" for different regions.... and I understand Germany has it even worse!
I found a question to ask that hasn't been asked!
I would like to know about The legal status of mods developed by us, evaluated and distributed by you guys.
Do they then become property of stardock?
A simple clarification of the terms for the modding community would be darn helpful.
Yeah, and I forget: did the copyright run out on LOTR? Does it matter for stuff like mods?
because I have no life and fireworks are illegal the state in which I currently live. And there is no way I could compete with the fireworks I'd watch as a kid over the mississippi from my church. (our church were among some of the best seats, and we didn't have to compete with crowds because only us, the members of the church, could sit there)
So I'm not allowed to blow stuff my myself.... I'd have to compete with huge throngs of people to get a good view of other people blowing stuff up.... leaves my best alternative to be *troll the elemental forum*
(as a kid, me and some school buddies used to go and buy a bunch of fireworks after the 4th of July when they went on sale, and we'd throw our annual "pyrofest" in my back pasture where we'd build a HUGE bonfire and play with our aquired explosives. In hindsight, it was likely very dangerous for children, but man it was fun. So in a state I can't do anything of the sort because its so dry the entire valley might as well be combustable, 4th of July celebrations have been ruined for me)
Faith-Based Initiative .
Yeah, I saw our display last night.... Mom threw away our chairs because she thought they looked ugly, and Dad wanted us to sit on the ground because he was too cheap to buy new ones..... but then it started to rain pretty hard stopped well before the actual fireworks, but the ground was still soaked) so he finally went to CVS to buy new chairs.
Do you plan on spell research being linear like a tech tree that will be static from one game to another, or will spell research and spells available for research be different between games, and will there be any randomization involved in what is available to be researched?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_Estate
Also, if you are making a game based on the movie, that's owned by New Line *EA's license just now expired*
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