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by Kingmaker
Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:15 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Let's Design an Underground City
Replies: 19
Views: 10167

Let's Design an Underground City

Because worldbuilding shouldn't be limited to just worlds. This topic was inspired by an attempt early on in the planning stages of a story I was writing about a conflict in an underground city, and by recently reading several articles about massive underground cities in Turkey (the one I stumbled a...
by Kingmaker
Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: THE MUZEEK THREAD!
Replies: 137
Views: 129138

Re: THE MUZEEK THREAD!

Because there's nothing better than corny, hot-blooded power metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0 Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band that mostly sings about war and metal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6oNE2lT8R4 Peter Pan has never been so epic. I can't really explain why, but I r...
by Kingmaker
Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: News Thread
Replies: 557
Views: 280604

Re: News Thread

Crazy man is crazy.

Film at 11.
by Kingmaker
Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:05 am
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: The Major Powers
Replies: 19
Views: 16376

Re: The Major Powers

Oh, they've got a lot of those things and more (they've better, since ordinary necromorphs are pretty mediocre fighters). In particular, salvaging the remains of old necromorphs and corpses and quickly turning them into new necromorphs is a big deal in Lysmer's military. Below is a link to an image ...
by Kingmaker
Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:38 am
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: The Major Powers
Replies: 19
Views: 16376

Re: The Major Powers

How bizarre do the weapons supplied by the Maggot King get, anyways? Imagine the weirdest thing you can think of. Okay, it's weirder than that. :mrgreen: Alright, I'm not that creative. Some examples include self-expanding/repairing zombie giants with integrated firearms, weapons that ignore inorga...
by Kingmaker
Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Fiction that You Hate
Replies: 44
Views: 25947

Re: Good Fiction that You Hate

And here I was always just disappointed that every adaption I've seen of War of the Worlds has left the Thunderchild out.
by Kingmaker
Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!
Replies: 600
Views: 283556

Re: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!

Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's! http://i.ehow.com/images/a02/4g/tq/sharpen-a-knife-200X200.jpg Too soon? But, yeah, lol libertarians. Man, that reminds me of Goddamn Libertopia. :lol: Pfft. Whatever man. When the revolution comes, you're not going to get any drug, guns or whores. :P So my sleep ...
by Kingmaker
Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!
Replies: 600
Views: 283556

Re: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!

I'm just going to tell the hillbilly to shut the fuck up and move to Somalia if he's got a problem with Fascist America and its draconian tax policy. :roll: Come now, this argument is trivially easy to defeat if one possesses a functioning brain. I'd suggest you try again, or, better yet, stop feed...
by Kingmaker
Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:02 am
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: The Major Powers
Replies: 19
Views: 16376

Re: The Major Powers

Kingdom of Lysmer Capital: Carieville (population 6 million) Population: 400 million (10% abhuman, 5% sentient necromorph, 70% slave necromorph) Lysmer is most readily identifiable as one of the successor states to the Lightbringers’ empire. In the wake of the collapse, a young Imperial Archmage br...
by Kingmaker
Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: World Building Game
Replies: 9
Views: 6759

Re: World Building Game

I could be up for this.
by Kingmaker
Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Man Carves Life-sized Big Daddy out of Wood, with Chainsaw
Replies: 6
Views: 6265

Re: Man Carves Life-sized Big Daddy out of Wood, with Chainsaw

I know. I was joking around. This guy has more finesse with a chainsaw than I have with a pencil. I didn't even know it was physically possibly to achieve that level of precision with a chainsaw. I guess what I'm trying to say is :shock: 8-) :D.
by Kingmaker
Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Man Carves Life-sized Big Daddy out of Wood, with Chainsaw
Replies: 6
Views: 6265

Re: Man Carves Life-sized Big Daddy out of Wood, with Chainsaw

I feel betrayed. He didn't just use a winch and chainsaw. He clearly also used a marker and a blowtorch. :cry:
by Kingmaker
Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:45 am
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: Persons of Interest
Replies: 13
Views: 13114

Re: Persons of Interest

Ramses Guerrez The Vox broadcast station was ill-maintained under the best of circumstances, which were never good in a central Megaea nation, even the comparatively peaceful ones like Trozen. The recent firefight that had swept through had riddled the shabby structure with bullet-holes, explosion ...
by Kingmaker
Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Fiction that You Hate
Replies: 44
Views: 25947

Re: Good Fiction that You Hate

Saying one doesn't appreciate anime is in my opinion a perfectly valid opinion to hold. It's similar to saying that one doesn't appreciate American cop shows: a generalized statement about a genre or sub-genre defined by a loose collection of similarities that one can either like or not. It's not u...
by Kingmaker
Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Great Silence: Intelligent Life in Deep Space
Replies: 18
Views: 11407

Re: The Great Silence: Intelligent Life in Deep Space

And here all I thought I was doing was making a Schlock Mercenary joke in between my actual point. :?

I have no problem believing silicon based life forms can't exist. I'm just a math student. What I know about Chemistry can probably fit on one side of a 3x5 note card.
by Kingmaker
Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Great Silence: Intelligent Life in Deep Space
Replies: 18
Views: 11407

Re: The Great Silence: Intelligent Life in Deep Space

I'd think that once you get past the rarity of life in general and the unlikelihood that any intelligent life evolved near enough for us to contact in a reasonable amount of time, you'd run into the problem of communication. It wouldn't shock me if most alien races couldn't communicate simply becaus...
by Kingmaker
Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Fiction that You Hate
Replies: 44
Views: 25947

Re: Good Fiction that You Hate

I'd actually agree with your definition of pretentious, Kingmaker. When someone goes for artsy-fartsy and fails, you go *snort* "what a pretentious pile of crap" but when someone tries something deep and cerebral and succeed you go "woah, that was totally deep!" and shit and you...
by Kingmaker
Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: You are offered the Gifts of Tzeentch
Replies: 12
Views: 8857

Re: You are offered the Gifts of Tzeentch

So the premise of this thread is that a nigh-omnipotent deity has decided to fuck me in the eye, and is asking if I want it rough or gentle rougher?
by Kingmaker
Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Fiction that You Hate
Replies: 44
Views: 25947

Re: Good Fiction that You Hate

I think I mean pretentious differently than you guys do. To my mind, pretentiousness comes when something tries to be deep, or complex, or "challenging" (what the fuck does that even mean? And that's a rhetorical question), and fails. Whether it is wrapped up in opaque symbolism merely for...
by Kingmaker
Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Fiction that You Hate
Replies: 44
Views: 25947

Good Fiction that You Hate

This was prompted by watching the Nostalgia Critic's top villain songs. Specifically, He Had It Coming, from Chicago. While I think that Chicago was probably a good musical movie, I still hate it with the fiery intensity of a thousand flaming milk duds. Why? I'll get into that below. The idea of thi...
by Kingmaker
Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:31 am
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: Persons of Interest
Replies: 13
Views: 13114

Re: Persons of Interest

I'm wondering, though, how she actually builds industry with no outside help? lasers She can control the fauna, some of which has been engineered to function as industrial labor. She also sometimes hires outside help. So she's this all-powerful inhuman demigod thing who is also a place and a countr...
by Kingmaker
Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Beliefs
Replies: 11
Views: 9685

Re: Beliefs

I think I gave up caring about the goofy things people tend to believe around the time I realized a wholly (or even predominantly) rationally constructed belief system is not possible and not very useful in any event. Any serious introspection will reveal that much of what you believe is absurd and ...
by Kingmaker
Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:28 pm
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: Persons of Interest
Replies: 13
Views: 13114

Re: Persons of Interest

Yvolva, Genius Loci History Like all genius loci, Yvolva’s origin is shrouded in mystery. The issue is not helped by her long isolation and often distorted perception of the passage of time, so she has been forced to be content with claiming to be “very old”. Given what little scientists know of ge...
by Kingmaker
Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: Persons of Interest
Replies: 13
Views: 13114

Re: Persons of Interest

Mobius 1 wrote: What happened to their "father", Lord Alexander?
He's still around, though semi-retired.
by Kingmaker
Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:19 pm
Forum: Arcane Steel
Topic: The Culture Forge
Replies: 15
Views: 19357

Re: The Culture Forge

Actually, when reading through this most recent article, I did catch on something that aroused my interest. This Maggot King, what's his deal? Beyond having a nasty name and sounding like he's the last practitioner of a dying (ha) art, how much power does he have? Is the reason as to why Necromorph...