All Posts by Zorvan

It's times like these I wish I was a multi-millionaire. I'd buy stocks until I had controlling interest, do a hostile takeover, and shut it down.

Are you people looking forward to getting screwed? Are you gluttons for punishment? This is why idiot devs get to stay in business. They just shut down and start a new company and the lemmings follow right behind.

Originally posted by BoudahXL

Do companies make the ad banner for this site or is the website owners(market dept.) building the ads?

Was the text added over the banner already in possession of mmorpg.com, or simply sent with a typo from TR marketing dept?

I mean if you're going to shoot down a plane in flight make sure it's the right one no?

Ads / banners / text / marketing write-ups / etc., are all done by the company wishing to advertise. MMORPG.COM only provides a space for the advertisement.

Originally posted by Teala

Think I am just burned out.   End of summer is going to be here soon.   Need to re-evaluate a few things with my life.   Going to be moving soon - before winter comes!   I cannot go through another winter here.   No way, no how.    Anyway...don't worry if you don't hear from me for awhile...I'll be back - love ya all!

Take care of yourself Zorvan....get well soon. 

Story of my life. Beautiful woman seems to care, and then leaves.

Be good, kiddo.

Originally posted by Alekhin

Originally posted by Zorvan

Well, after dumping all the suckers who bought Hellgate in the wind, the idiots did exactly what I figured they would do: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6195738.html?tag=result;title;0

Flagship castaways form Runic

• By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
• Posted Aug 11, 2008 1:59 pm PT

Hellgate's Seattle studio alums and ex-Mythos devs Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer found new shop focused on action MMOGs.

During this year's E3 Media & Business Summit word was widespread that Flagship Studios had shut down. After days of silence, the Hellgate: London studio confirmed that it had indeed given "most employees" the pink slip, but would remain extant as a company.

Now comes word that some of Flagship's castaways have landed a new gig. Over the weekend, several members of the studio's Seattle studio announced they had formed an independent studio, Runic Games. Heading up the studio will be Travis Baldree, director of the forthcoming free online RPG Mythos, and Max Schaefer, a founding member of Flagship and Diablo creator Blizzard North.

In a brief statement posted on the studio's bare-bones Web site, Runic Games' founders announced they "intend to continue to use their expertise in the Action-RPG MMO genre to create the best games in this market." They also promised "announcements about forthcoming projects will be made in the coming days."

 

So now, they'll be suckering a new group of players to pay for their next bullshit. And that part I outlined in green just shows how truly full of shit these guys are.

 

You are not really being fair to the founders of Runic Games. Their game Mythos never was released to the public. Max Schaefer did work in the San Francisco studio when HGL started but for the last three years worked in Seattle on Mythos. Plus it was Max Schaefer who paid the laid off employees one month salary when they were pink slipped. He didn't have to do that since FSS was incorporated, meaning no one could come after the personal assests of the owners. I want to see what Runic Games comes up with, but with a more critical eye.

Being incorporated protected them from investors and customers. It did not, however, protect them from the Department of Labor or from employees. THAT is why money was given to those employees when they were pink-slipped, not because it was the right thing to do. Once again, Flagship was covering it ass, nothing more.

Anybody ever thinks of asking me to fight a mob in a game for 18+ hours, there better be a substantial real life paycheck involved.

Originally posted by scabzy

 

-is it a 18+ adult game ? sex censorship

There' no sex censorship, the GMs have it with everyone who wants it.

-waiting time when you submit a petition (takes between too long, to not today)

Hey, they need alot of foreplay, and that takes hours.

Cons: It's Funcom, enough said.

Pros: It'll be gone soon enough.

Well, after dumping all the suckers who bought Hellgate in the wind, the idiots did exactly what I figured they would do: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6195738.html?tag=result;title;0

Flagship castaways form Runic

So now, they'll be suckering a new group of players to pay for their next bullshit. And that part I outlined in green just shows how truly full of shit these guys are.

Originally posted by levsix

9 month necro. Impressive. Time for a thread lock, methinks.
 

Originally posted by Illius

Maybe you can get some sexy nurses to come and make it all better for you.

Originally posted by mike470

Originally posted by Illius

Maybe you can get some sexy nurses to come and make it all better for you.

 

Sexy nurses make everything better..

 

Yeah, right. You guys have seen what I look like. I'm not exactly a "sexy nurse" magnet. lol

Originally posted by Teala

Ok Elisha Cuthbert as Supergirl I can go with.

But that outfit is going to have to go.   It needs to look like this.

Take your pic of styles over the years:

Well, that's the risk they run taking 7 years to make a game while having all of their features open to exploitation by other companies.If Mortal Online, or any other game, comes out with the same or more features touted by Darkfall before Darkfall hits the streets, Darkfall is dead in the water.

But, since I sincerely doubt Darkfall will ever release within the next 10 years, I'd say they might as well give up now, because they WILL be beaten to the punch.

When AoC completely tanks, it will take AO, and Funcom as a whole, with it. There is a reason they've stopped talking about the new engine: it ain't gonna happen.

Originally posted by CactusmanX

 

 

 

There we go, Nick Nolte as Aquaman is pure genius, though I am not sure if sea creatures would want to talk to Nick Nolte.

There is no Green Lantern better than Jordan.

But I like the Aquaman/Nolte idea.

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by Flem

The next Supergirl...

 

She is cute...a little to voluptuous...and probably some kind of porn actress - right?

Not really.

And here's Elisha Cuthbert, apparently the choice for the new Supergirl movie:

Originally posted by CactusmanX

I have never like Supergirl, I like the concept of Superman being the last of his kind better.  Besides younger sidekick types are annoying, same reason I never liked the Robins, Batgirl, the Teen Titans, and especially the Wonder Twins.

They should make a Green Lantern Movie, starring Morgan Freedman.

Gordon Freeman doesn't look nothing like Hal Jordan . Plus, Gordon already has Lucius Fox down pat.

The problem is the most popular representation if made into a game would be "Cowboys and Indians".

Considering how  ridiculously politically correct society is now, do you think an honest representation could be done? 

Indians would be suing because they were depicted scalping soldiers, smoking peyote (ah, drug use, there's a mature rating now ), raping settlers wives, getting drunk off 'fire water", etc. ( which would all be factual representations of activities during that time ).

The white people would all be suing the devs for depicting them as slave runners, "savage" hunters, taking Indian land, raping and pillaging Indian settlements/camps, spreading disease through blankets in an effort to commit genocide, etc. ( which would all be factual representations of activities during that time ).

99% of all the things which would make a game based on the Native American culture interesting to gamers, and especially mmorpg gamers, would be forbidden due to overbearing censors, idiotic useless parents who want someone else to be responsible for their children, historical "revisionists", and political flunkies.

Originally posted by grunty

Originally posted by frodus

Originally posted by grimweeper

Originally posted by Enigma

Hell, I'd watch it lol

 

i mean hey if you like chicks with dicks then thats your thing but damn does she have a big crotch...

 

I didn't even notice.....YUCK

 

That's so badly photoshopped even I can tell it to be so.

Meh, Brangelina always looked like a tranny to me, anyways.

Originally posted by Fariic

Not to be a party pooper or anything, but a nerve is a series of cells that transmit electric signals.  Can't really bruise them, and they rarely go back to normal when you damage them.

8 years of nerve damage stemming from a neck and back injury with no herniation. 

If you only went to the ER you should seriousely consider seeing a Dr. that specializes in spinal injuries.  Herniated discs don't fix themselves and if you've herniated more then one then you should be in therapy.  Herniated discs can rupture, rupture the wrong one and it won't just be your arm that stops working. 

You have small caveties in your neck that your nerves pass through.  A neck injury can cause them to close up, putting pressure on the nerves.  It can be a slow proccess that eventually leads to multiple nerves being shut down.

Hope everything works out, bad nerves hurt.

I have an appointment with a chiropractor on Wednesday so I can see what kind of therapy I'll need, if any.

And maybe I used the wrong word with"bruise". The doc said I had "shocked ( don't know if that's any better descriptively ) the nerve. She said it basically sends the nerve into a frenzy, constantly sending out pain signals but gradually decreasing in severity until the pain finally goes away.

From what she said, a herniated disc means that the spongy material between the discs and spinal cord is pushed out, like jelly when you squeeze a donut. The brace is supposed to keep my neck stable and relieve the pressure while the material that was squeezed out is replaced.

But I'll know more after I get the full exam Wednesday. Possible spinal injury is what scares me the most about this, but from what the doc said from the x-rays I don't appear to be in any immediate danger as long as I follow insructions.

But hey, thanks for the scare.