All Posts by hercules

Originally posted by candygirl6

 

Originally posted by DCTitan

 

Originally posted by HYPERI0N

Originally posted by abbaba

If anything, genocide in Africa should be Europe's responsibility...colonialism screwed up Africa (and Iraq, too) to where it is now.

Lol i thin someone needs to read up a bit and reexamin that post.

Why, he is partly right.  Sure, America helped to further screw it up during the Cold War and even now but Belgium, France & England certainly f'ed up Africa well before America got involved. 

WOW,

 

I'm from Belgium, before you make that comment you might want to read up on some things.

We did a lot of good in Congo tons of help went to there, TODAY, tons of money and medical support goes there.

When a conflict broke out in Congo after it's independance, our soldiers went there to make sure there would be no civil war. 10 soldiers of ours were put to the wall and shot dead by Congo militia. Still the country recieves every help and support it can, both people going there helping medically, freeworkers and soldiers to help stabilise it and make sure people are safe.

Before you ever make such an ignorant comment again, look things up.

 

 

Excert from wikipedia because you won't believe me anyway.

"When the Belgian Government took over the Administration from King Leopold II, the situation in the Congo improved dramatically. Economic and social changes transformed the Congo into a "model colony"^{[citation needed]}. Primary and high schools were built as well as hospitals, and many Congolese had access to them. Even the ethnic languages were taught at school, a rare occurrence in colonial education. Doctors and medics achieved great victories against the sleeping disease (they managed to eradicate the disease)^{[citation needed]}. There was a medic post in every village, and in bigger cities, people had access to well equipped hospitals^{[citation needed]}. The Administration continued with the economic reforms with the construction of railways, ports, roads, mines, plantations, industrial areas, etc."

 

Don't ever claim those things again unless you live here and know what you're talking about, it's a disrespect to the thousands of people that helped there, and the people loosing their lives there trying to help. If you said those things here, you would have upset quite a lot of people.

It was the US that wanted uranium from Congo and that's why some people were exploited there actually. Read things before you generalise.

please,listen up i am from the UK and one thing i learnt in my life is to accept the truth of history.

I am not going to say my great great grandfather civilized savages and brought order to 1/2 the world.They invaded and colonized and enjoyed the wealth of other nations.They were not knights in shiny armour.

Even at that belgium despite having very few colonies treated their few colony on a genocidal level.Go educate yourself ,read king leopold's ghost.Here is a portion from wiki of the book.

 "King Léopold takes his place with the great tyrants, having reduced the population of the Congo Free State—which Hochschild describes as being his private fiefdom—from 20 million people to 10 million in 40 years."

"Forced labor was extorted from the natives. The abuses were particularly bad in the rubber industry, including enslavement and mutilation of the native population. Missionary John Harris of Baringa, for example, was so shocked by what he had come across that he felt moved to write a letter to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo: "I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo. The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. I was so moved, Your Excellency, by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit."

And this is from wikipedia too.

Originally posted by HYPERI0N

Well in order for the land of the free [America]to do anything at all about it Africa has to have certain criteria in order to make it worthwhile first.

 

- A leadership that the President has a dislike for.

- A Kooky religion [i.e. not a bible humper].

- MUST have lots of free oil and gas [i.e. free as in doesnt belong to America].

- Must have a plausible sob story to act as justification for an invasion.

 

 

Thats about dead on.The countries that have been killing themselves have one huge problem ,they are all african countries with little or no oil so are worthless in the eyes of the "superpower".

Now if Nigeria ,one of the oil rich countries of africa ,starts a massacre which would halt oil production and sent prices  thru the roof now thats worth "saving".

UO needs and has needed a UO sequel for years.

It has had 3 or so cancelled sequels which makes me think EA have no idea their game is dying and are willing to let the UO franchise die .

The best attempt i think would have been UO2 when lord british was still there.It actually had all the features of UO with real 3D and was a true sequel with few additions such as muskeeters .EA felt it would comrpimise them milking UO and canned it days before beta.

Originally posted by Arndur

 

Originally posted by hercules

 

Originally posted by Arndur

 

Originally posted by hercules

not sure the usa economy can withstand another 4 years of Bush.

As it is the next president will inherit a total mess including one of the worst international relationship the usa has ever seen.

If countries don't trade with the USA and continue to prefer the Euro as the preffered international money the economy will continue to slide badly.

Like Clinton was any better. The stuff that he did was just because of Bush Sr. Ive talked to soldiers from Iraq and i hear what the media doesnt want us to, that their doing good stuff. Building schools getting clean running water and power to people who had never had it before. Also the rate of attacks are droping. Lets see France likes us now becuase of Bush. Our economy was screwed up way before Bush. Its called Unions. Yes at first they were needed but now they are why so many companies out source to compaines where they can play children next to nothing to make the stuff that would cost way more here. We cant mine for oil in Alaska or build refinerys in the south which would help gas prices. We export way more then we import thats been going on before Bush. So really when you look at the big picture alot of stuff people pin on Bush have been building up for years. Id vote for him for a thrid term.

 

Also to whoever had said something bout Regan he was i think the greatest president of the last 50 years. He got our people back from Iran and got rid of comminiusm in Russia. Over all the republicans have done alot for more this country then the democrats have lately. After all what they do want other then higher taxes on the people with jobs to give money to people to lazy to get them. If you watched Bush's speech every time he talked about tax cuts all the democrats did was frown.

1) russians got rid of communism themselves.Nothing Reagan ,Bush or the Queen could have done to them if they wanted to keep it.Face it short of Russians wanting to end communism nothing we in the west could have done.

 

2)let me tell you this if say Germany invades me in the UK and takes control, I do not care if Mr.Brown was a tyrrant or i was drinking mud water and they build me my own personal water hole ,they are invaders.I am pretty sure neither do you.

 

It was Regans star wars system the brought the end of commuinsim as they wasted so much money try to copy it that theirencomny fell apart. Also we are trying to pull out by helping them establish a democratict govt i dont think we do anything but help their military. After all the only ones who hate us are the extermist who are few in number.

 

They never even attempted to build one and rely on rapid spread missles for counteracting enemy ICBM which might i add is the same system they had back in the late 70s and still use that.

If anyone blew money on a star wars project it was the USA .

And it amazes me you cannot grasp what an invasion means to a nation.Like it or not usa is currently at the bottom of the liked list even in europe.Even the UK polls show a vast majority think poorly of the war and that is why the prime minster (and blair before him) refuse to put it to the public to decide.

1m is quite possible for a 4 year old conflict.

Remember most wars death counts are heavily underestimated till the aftermath.

lots are due to sect violence rather then us inflicted  death counts or even sucide bombing.I think the figures of 88k only is not only way too low but actually insulting.

Originally posted by Arndur

 

Originally posted by hercules

not sure the usa economy can withstand another 4 years of Bush.

As it is the next president will inherit a total mess including one of the worst international relationship the usa has ever seen.

If countries don't trade with the USA and continue to prefer the Euro as the preffered international money the economy will continue to slide badly.

Like Clinton was any better. The stuff that he did was just because of Bush Sr. Ive talked to soldiers from Iraq and i hear what the media doesnt want us to, that their doing good stuff. Building schools getting clean running water and power to people who had never had it before. Also the rate of attacks are droping. Lets see France likes us now becuase of Bush. Our economy was screwed up way before Bush. Its called Unions. Yes at first they were needed but now they are why so many companies out source to compaines where they can play children next to nothing to make the stuff that would cost way more here. We cant mine for oil in Alaska or build refinerys in the south which would help gas prices. We export way more then we import thats been going on before Bush. So really when you look at the big picture alot of stuff people pin on Bush have been building up for years. Id vote for him for a thrid term.

 

Also to whoever had said something bout Regan he was i think the greatest president of the last 50 years. He got our people back from Iran and got rid of comminiusm in Russia. Over all the republicans have done alot for more this country then the democrats have lately. After all what they do want other then higher taxes on the people with jobs to give money to people to lazy to get them. If you watched Bush's speech every time he talked about tax cuts all the democrats did was frown.

2)let me tell you this if say Germany invades me in the UK and takes control, I do not care if Mr.Brown was a tyrrant or i was drinking mud water and they build me my own personal water hole ,they are invaders.I am pretty sure neither do you.

not sure the usa economy can withstand another 4 years of Bush.

As it is the next president will inherit a total mess including one of the worst international relationship the usa has ever seen.

If countries don't trade with the USA and continue to prefer the Euro as the preffered international money the economy will continue to slide badly.

got to be the worst movie i have seen in the last few years.

Anyone else agrees?

the license in europe is given to to CM and thus i am pretty sure you will find it hard to use a UK version on a usa server.This is pretty much what happened with DAoC.

Unlike SoE or blizzard who have direct control over the US and european market

Ok here the story.Back in may i decided to take the 6 months account.I got billed twice then for £35 x 2  and phoned in.

To be fair the guy on the phone was nice and refunded my money for the extra billing within a week.

In july i sort of stop playing so in october anticpating a second billing i went to cancel my account and did so getting the usual yes/no and in end it told me i still had about 50 days left.

I never logged in after that again and decided to uninstall LOTRO and be done with it.

Now  today i get a bill saying CM have taken another  £35!

I then went to the billing section of LOTRO EU and bam i have an active account yet again!

So in effect their system is recognizing 2 billings for 1 account for me .

Ofc  i phoned and i am told that there is no CSR till 2nd of january.

Be weary guys.I  have played mmorpg since 1998 and never seen such an issue.

Hopefully they will see that i got doubled billed in past and see its their fault

If not then maybe i will take them to small claims court .

Well you said it .Its like having sex for the first time.

You will meet someone along the way you love much more but that first time is embedded in your memory forever .

Mine was UO and despite the fact i know EQ1 was a better game for me and still respect and love it more,UO has a special place in my heart.

There is no mmorpg i know of that forces people to raid!!

Its your choice .

same jedi freaks who pushed LA/SoE to introduce jedis even when the era had only 1 known one,yoda(luke was in training at this time of history and obi wan was dead)  will probably demand to have 1m Maud'Dibs running around i bet.

Now if the developers can stick to their guns and not fold as LA/SoE did they have a good game.

If they do same ones who whine on the SWG forum here will turn on them in time.

Otherwise an amazing mmo for sure.

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Voig is a website dedicated to online gamers and the new home of MMOGData. If you’re looking for current subscription information or wondering just how many people play a specific MMOG, you’ve come to the right place.

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Well lots of people have used the awesome www.mmogchart.com for information on the MMOG market which was created and maintained by SirBruce for many years, however since 2006 SirBruce has not updated the site.

I thought this was a great shame and I have tried to contact SirBruce many times over the last 2 months to see if I could take over the site and maintain the data, I emailed, put posts on forums, even phone calls and contacted other people within the industry but just could not get hold of SirBruce so I have decided to create a new site (http://www.mmogdata.com) and continue his work.

I cannot stress that I would much prefer SirBruce to get into touch and we work together on this and that I am using the data as at 20th May 2007 to form the basis of www.mmogdata.com

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Well tbh i take this chart to be inaccurate .

Fact- mmorpg companies rarely give out the numbers.Only blizzard does because they are top of it and can boast.Pretty much like SoE could boast in 2001 with EQ.

Rest hide their numbers.Only one chart ever proved its accuracy that was sirbruce original chart because he broke news on 2 game numbers which later got confirmed.After that his own charts went totally inaccurate and even sirbruce posted here he "lost touch" and might be why he stopped publishing numbers not to feed inaccurate information.

Now here is a site which clearly lacks sirbruce old connections (aka inside information),clearly just supped up his last chart and clearly stats  they used his last chart(as i suspected initally) which i can say was not one of his masterpieces.

Nah sorry but until we get someone with a more solid inside scoop like sirbruce once had ,all this charts are bleh

I have to agree with this.

Thing is ,all other mmo who use ingame cash for real give free downloads and are in much better shape then this game.

They rely afterwards on people spending $$$ to buy ingame money.

But when you must buy the software and see the horrible state it is in(at least when i played) you feel cheated.

well can't say if you are a fanboy or not since on this account you have only been registered few weeks and 2/3 posts is a thumbs up for RV.

But really fanboy or not its good you like the game .But for me after 3  installs and re-installs the desire to do it a 4th time is more or less dead now.

Maybe they should make a free trial on a test server or something to get new blood in.They lack money for ads and have gained a horrible reputation ,so its quite unlikely that pure word of mouth will bring new people into the game since they have to buy the software.

And lets face it after the inital phase of fanboys who swept all the problems this game had and painted a eutopia of this game,very few people on this site will get the game on word of mouth without a free trial.

But for those who bought the game and uninstalled it and have more willpower then me then maybe reinstall it and see if its improved.

my wife(yep it happened finally) patched on the first day of RoK in under  30 mins and thats heavy traffic.

Seems to be a problem from your side .

i have a second life account and only once used it so pretty rubbish to count them.

Also again the whole graph looks like a copy and paste of 2-3 years ago from sirbruce.

Sadly without inside information (which i believe sirbruce had early on and lost it -his last ever graph was rubbish) all this is pure speculation+old information+guesswork .

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