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Axeldeath

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  1. Company of Heroes and AOE 2 are my favourite RTSs. I'm yet to try Rise of Nations though.

     

     

    Rise of nations is an incredibly good RTS game if you like command and conquer :)

     

    Heresy I know, but I've only played the Dune games from Westwood. I just remembered Total War: Shogun II, I love that game, I don't know how it compares to others in the series though as it's my first TW game.

  2. This "morality" is just another survival instinct, and it will always be in constant flux as to what those morals might be depending on how the society is structured.

     

    Well, yes, but underneath the flux and fluff there would be the base of "core" morality which is necessary to survive. For example, the notions of fairness and cheating. No matter what the extraneous "values" are at any given moment, these appear to be fundamental to any social group.

     

    Regards

     

    But I believe this falls down when it comes to people's beliefs. For example, I believe that forcefully taxing the rich to give to the poor is morally wrong, yet another might be of the opposite mindset, they might think that not doing so is unfair to the less well off.

  3. This I disagree with. Even higher apes and cetaceans show signs of morality in their social interaction.

     

    Except that morality is defined by how the apes socially interact, intelligent social beings require some sort of "morality" to allow their society to grow and prosper. Lone animals lack any sort of morality and human morals have changed very significantly throughout the last couple thousand years. This "morality" is just another survival instinct, and it will always be in constant flux as to what those morals might be depending on how the society is structured.

  4. People don't really mind being "evil". Humanity was evil for thousands of years. We like violence, we like wars, we like greed and selfishness. Nowadays we just shun it because from the society's point if view it's bad. Though give a random man an uniform and make him think he's not responsible of is actions, he won't really mind pillaging a town.

     

    Good and Evil are just words anyway. In the old Crusades it was good to kill an "unbelieving dog" even if he was a civilian. Or what about a lynch mobs? "Let's murder that nigger because it's a good thing to do". History is filled with auch things. Basicly... it's a thing we're best at

     

    The thing is, these people didn't go out with the express desire to be "evil", they thought what they were doing was right, just even. Moral "rights" and "wrongs" are just what society decides they are. There's no such thing as a universal morality.

  5. I always get messaged in the middle of a game of Tribes then forget to check it, so by the time the round is over I've forgotten it and I end up replying to the message about 2 hours later.

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    Some time ago I read about a CEO of EA (or some other game corporation) that he would be glad if he could get players to pay 1 dollar everytime they run out of ammo in any game.

    That's so ridiculous it's hilarious, I really hope someone at EA said that. I and about a thousand others warned Bioware about working with EA back when I used to frequent their forums and the devs just laughed and said it's really not that big a deal. If CEOs are actually saying crap like that, that's a pretty big deal. :lol: I mean, I think almost every CEO for any game company thinks that, but to announce it so the players know about it? That kind of attitude is just like, "Yeah, we know we're complete jackhats about our games. We don't care, you're still gonna pay for them, anyway." That stuff is what makes piracy seem like a good idea.

     

    I actually left a video of that on the forum.

  7. Yup, it would be like removing rocket jumping from Quake.

     

    Is it supposed to not hurt you? I've been playing some Quake Live and playing hours of the TF2 soldier has trained me to use it sparingly or else lose too much health. Or was that just a server mod?

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