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• • Poll: Elyos or Asmodian

  • Goin Asmodian, myself. Decided I was even before they showed us what they looked like.

  • Posted: 7/05/08 5:58 AM
    Aion
• • Best crafting ever ! check the video

  • Well, the crafting animations look good. As for not being complex enough, I'd rather have it the way it is then have to, say for instance, play a mini game to be successful in a craft. It might be fun for a while, but when you have to make 50 items to make 50 more items to make an actual piece of gear or something, it would probably be a chore. At least with the nice animations they give you something to look at.

  • Posted: 6/27/08 6:38 AM
    Aion
• • Ladies and gentlemen, the balaur.

  • Originally posted by nblitz
    

    Originally posted by kitsunegirl
    
    

    itd be neat to see female Balaur though.

     

    Not that it's much but it's something. The female Balaur is shown as a shadow to the right, tucked behind of the picture.

     

    I don't think that's a female balaur. I think it's his original form before he transforms into the huge one. You probably have to make him angry too, and you wouldn't like him when he's angry...Either that or it's probably one of his little henchmen.

  • Posted: 6/20/08 12:10 AM
    Aion
• • Ladies and gentlemen, the balaur.

  • I'd expect nothing less from the same people who made L2. Their creature designs are in a league of their own.

  • Posted: 6/19/08 3:50 AM
    Aion
• • Where are the Asians?

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    Originally posted by IShootBlanks
    

    Yea as an Asian, sadly I often feel discriminated be it in game or real life.

    Gaming aside.

    I love how people always sterotype us Asians as non-english speaking or  literate. I once had this european tourist couple from another country approach me to ask for directions. They were speaking really slowly as if i was a R.tard. Their first sentances were

    " D-O YOO-O-U-UU S-P-EE-E-AK-KKK EN-NN-GGG-LLLII-SHHHH?"

    Being the good citizen that I am and wanting to leave a good impression of my country, I replied as politely as I could only to be hit by a freight train from the back when they told me they were really surprised that I could converse in their languange.

    Seriously...WTF?!?!??! Times are changing. Aside from being able to converse in our native "Alien" language, most of us have english as our second language, and in some countries, as their first language. We may not excel, but most of us are able to string a coherent sentance.

    I also like how I am automatically related to Kung fu and Martials arts just because I'm chinese. I have had people walk up to me and ask me to display some Kung Fu moves. You know how people like to mimic Kung Fu as "animal fighting style". Keep doing that. You continously think you mock our culture but that is not the case. You are the one being laughed at because its funny to us to see a grown man act like a baboon for the sake gaining a few pitiful laughters from his audience.

    Most Asian feel the discrimination and they want to stop being "Asian". I have had people I know for years and they converse to me in broken-english most of the time. But when they get on vent, they start to fake that aussies accent or try to imitate that American accent so that nobody can tell where they are from. It sounds so weird, so wrong. They are so afraid of being discriminated they would betray their inner self and adopt a fake personna.

    I once went overseas for a holiday. It was more of an eye opener then a relaxation trip because ....... I was eating at a restaurant with a transparent window, and was seated beside the window. Now a group of kids happen to pass by, they started making faces at my direction and then they toppled the trash can, took the newpaper crushing and hurled it at the window. It got worst when I went to watch the rugby match.  You know how common is it for some countries to drink and get high during their games. We happen to run into these bunch of heavy boozers and they started to surround my friend and shove him around while hurling abuses at him. It is said that drunk people tell no lies. Could the abuses they said be counted as what is really felt about my people? Because of those experience, I am afraid to travel overseas. I wouldn't want to be sent home in a body bag with a knife between my spine.

     

     

     

    I know where you're coming from to an extent. My dad is Caucasian and my mom is Thai, and I've had a few negative experiences myself. None to the extent of your overseas trip, mind you, but debilitating none the less. I've been called a ch**k and a g**k a couple of times at least, but oddly enough, those insults didn't come until after I'd diverged that I was part Asian because apparently I don't look Asian, but instead a lot of people think I look more on the Hispanic side, especially if I let my stubble grow out. The point is, it's irritating to me when people label you based not only on your outward appearance but also knowledge of  your ethnicity rather than the culture you're born and raised in. It's weird how often people brand me solely as an Asian like it somehow overrides and negates all the rest of my ethnic background. Hell, I'm also part Irish and people don't stereotype me as some rowdy fowl mouthed drunkard. I acknowledge the fact that I'm part Thai, and I don't regret it either, but I was born and raised in America, and it's the only culture and lifestyle that I truly know how to live in. It's just humiliating to be looked at like you're from another country by none other then your own countryman.

     

     

    On a side note, I thought it was funny that the one experience I had where I truly felt like an American was when I went on vacation to Thailand, lol.

  • Posted: 5/10/08 6:05 AM
    General Discussion