Falnax

http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=35687.0 Is probably what you had in mind. Though, he's right, it's honestly pretty pointless. Very slow. You should probably consider making a decent game, before you worry about putting it in a browser.

In Ninja-Tech's defense, he wasn't the only one who complained about your signature.

@УvøgêÑ: > I can do full 3d , hand drawn top down maps in less than 15 mins. IF you would like a sample sylexus i will pm you one if you are not happy to wait. I dont want to post it here for his sake. Could you PM me a sample? I see this as being a valuable learning opportunity.

Since I doubt that you made any drastically important INI modifications yet, you could probably just download another copy of Eclipse and switch the defaults to the ones in your current installation…that would do the trick.

@‪‫‬‭‮‪‫Kusy: > ummm… what the Duck? The whole finger thing, as well as the differences in thought referenced in this test, are the direct result of gender determining hormones. Testosterone causes the ring finger to become longer, which actually makes it easier to throw objects over distances, which is probably how it happened. Testosterone also improves three-dimensional reasoning, rotational recognition, the things mentioned in the test. So estrogen makes the finger shorter, just as it improves visual memory and color recognition. The two are directly related, even if it sounds absurd. Also, my punctuation is parsing out of order, and it's really frustrating. Is that happening to anyone else,?

@Zombie0hour: > I have very feminine looking hands. Turns the girls on.. for some strange reason. Maybe they think you understand them better…or I guess they could just like well-groomed appendages. Also, Irhymer, the gigantic pixely backwards banner is seriously distracting - I know you said to be nice about it, but it's really hard.

By the way, just an extension on this…for the people who scored more femininely, look at your fingers. Studies have shown that, odds are, your ring finger will be shorter than, or at least very close in length to, your index finger. The ones who scored masculinely should have longer ring fingers. I know I have a short ring finger, which is why the results weren't the slightest bit surprising. Might be a cool way to gain insight into how those around you think.

When I read the title of this topic, the first thought that came to my mind was "I think like a girl, obviously." Then when I took the test, it told me, for all accounts and purposes, I do indeed have a feminine mind. So at least I'm very aware of the way I think.

Well, as far as I know, StngRye (Dyst) has stopped using Destiny for the name of his game. Still good information for both of them to be aware of…now they both have to back off from that name.

Is Questions really the best forum for this topic? Having seen that video for your carnival, I have absolutely no idea what the theme of the event is, what we will be able to do as part of it, and, most importantly, why we should care.

Marsh has shoes while he goes away from your mom from your plowing the front of Canada. Then, he banned you for double posting about me, which caused a huge scandal between pokemon and yugioh because your father accidentally killed a hippopotamus with a toothbrush. Meanwhile, fireflies were unreal because Eclipse won the fight between various lepers whose pants died. Cancer, unable to sustain proper dehydration, began drooling all over a picture of Ninja-Tech who died because a giant ate god. Kreator stopped pixel art, and the world ended! This topic is neverending. Meanwhile Renzo was returning to Eclipse, and screamed I AM BACK! But mars was inhabited by squares that rofled over their PedoBear overlords, who always raped math with poor long division. Renzo saw this and decided to call Marsh up and demand Millions - blueberry tart tastes like poop because Emblem thinks the cats pants did something illegal like losing the game - again. Meanwhile kreator was merrily skipping school when Sasuke started ****ing Renzo on a giant giraffe

@‡ƒorce‡DDunit‡: > Here amper, name the towns and make the top left dot smaller :S Um…did you mean to put an image in that post?

@SyIexus: > did u get my pm? Yes, I did. Why do you ask? Because, trust me, the map is definitely not done yet. I don't expect to have the first maps requested through this service done until tomorrow.

@‡ƒorce‡DDunit‡: > By accident you actually gave us previews on Lostica and Novalis :P Except that, with those two conflicting maps, it's hard to get a handle on what Novalís really is anyway…no idea as to how the Lostica map will affect things, but since Miguu isn't a secret freak, I don't really see how the Underworld map's release will really hurt. Not to mention that, hopefully, he's going in a different direction with his third region now, seeing as it was really out of tone for the game... Also, if at all possible, I would like people to post their requests here, as Munro did, rather than sending the request as a PM. I'd prefer to keep the requests all in one place, and my inbox is not that place.

Will do. You're second on my list right now (and both my pending requests are dark. How about that.), so hopefully I'll be able to get it to you sometime tomorrow.

@SyIexus: > lol, this why u havent responded to my PM? Yes, yes it is. But I thank you for your prompt response.

So, since I'd like to offer some sort of useful skill to the community, and I enjoy making maps, I decided to create a little shop for this…my mapmaking may not be perfect, but it can easily spice up a young WIP. Note: These are world maps. They are not in-game area maps. Just making that clear. Do not ask me to be the mapper for your game, because it is a completely different proposition. When you ask for a map, either submit a rough drawing of what you want the world to look like, or specify the number and approximate sizes of continents/islands desired. I would prefer to have a name for the world, and names for several pieces of geography, so I can label the map, but this is not required. If there are any exceptional features, which would be important for the plot and must be a certain shape, or shown in a certain way, please communicate this to me. I will not redo maps because they "don't look the way you saw it in your head." You may use maps I have made for you freely, provided that you give me some sort of crediting for it. You may edit maps that I have made, provided the edits are of equal or greater quality than my original product. If you need alterations made to the maps, please feel free to ask me, and I will probably be willing to do them. You may not use maps that I have created for other people. Here's a gallery of maps I've done before; you may use these to get an idea of how you'd like your map to be done, but you may not use any of them, except for the FFVII one. You can do whatever you want with that thing. If your map is here, and you wish it wasn't, please PM me a request to remove it. Destina Archipelago (StngRye's Destiny Online): http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/DestinaS.png Hypothetical World of Shadowwulf's: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/TinyCGMap.png Novalís, as a continent, and Novalís, as a star system: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/NovalisNationss-1.png http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/StarNovalsPresentation.png Lostica; Genesis Island, Rubidoux, Underworld: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/LosticaMap-1.png http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/LosticaMap2.png http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/UnderworldTest2.png Final Fantasy VII World Map: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/FF7WorldMaps.png Zarconia (Setting made by a friend): http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/ZarconiaPresentationCopy.jpg Embra Kaud (Quite Old): http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/Amperglyph/EKXB.jpg

@Lenton: > themanwholooksthroughyourbinsatnighandscaresyourcatsometimes. I love scaring your cat. He wouldn't be out in the bins if you fed him more often, though.

Syl. Take that.

I'm pretty sure the typo was on purpose, to try to get him banned faster. No idea why he wanted to be banned so badly, but, it was in his title, so he must have wanted it.

Sin's Desire.

@Keebler: > Black hoels dotn magicaly disapear. Not true, actually. According to the predictions of Hawking radiation, a black hole can only sustain itself for a finite amount of time, as based on a ratio of its initial mass. At this point, the amount of gamma radiation within the black hole, as generated by supercompacting of the atomic constituents, will exceed the capacity of the hole, and cause it to rapidly expand, simulating the "evaporation" of the gravitational singularity. This property of black holes is why, if we were to manually create a small superdense object, or a tiny black hole, it would only be a threat to the planet if the global consensus of physicists is wrong, or if someone severely underestimates the mass of the singularity. As to the idea of using a real-life object as the replacement for Earth, I would not recommend Pluto, because, even though it is extremely popular with the misinformed youth of America, it lacks an atmosphere, any valuable resources, and has such a peculiar orbit that it can never be reliably terraformed. I would suggest Europa for that purpose, since it's a world made largely of frozen water, sort of like a "frozen dinner" version of Earth - just waiting for someone to heat it up a little.

Decided I'd do a criticism on this in the way that you do criticisms on other people…let's see how this goes. Also, I did some slight grammar editing, particularly relating to Anna's last comment. _Moonfire_ Chapter 1 Raelin Silverstar Gazed in wonder upon his hands. For these were the hands which had destroyed so much, in such a small amount of time. It had been but minutes since he had unleashed one of the druids' greatest powers, sending down a bolt of moon energy to devastate the orc encampment. He had single-handedly wiped all life from the area, leaving nothing but a large blackened crater in the spot that had once held brutish orcs, enslaving the defenseless Moon Elves within their grasps. Ambiguous ordering - until you finish the entire sentence, it is easy to mistake Raelin for the enslaver. Using a past tense, such as "who had enslaved," would help resolve the amiguity. He remembers stories of great druids casting Moonfire, destroying entire cities under their power under a full moon. The double "under" is awkward, because the two uses have different meanings. The first could be changed to "with," the second to "in the light of," the point is, there's more words out there. He also remembers experimenting with the spell himself not a year ago, but never while the moon was full, his old results weren’t nearly as deadly. Separating that into a new sentence would greatly increase tension. This brings back painful memories of his childhood, listening to the stories of old, gazing at the moon with his friends, finding out he is to spend the rest of his life studying, being separated from his friends to learn the ways of the druid, all the long hours practicing under the watch of the stars, strict punishments for even being out during the festival of the moon, which happened once a year, when the moon was closest. There's way too much development here for one sentence. His entire childhood is compressed into a few lines; which is perfectly fine, but would be a great thread to develop if you need length later on. The explanation of the Festival of the Moon should not be in the same sentence, though, because it makes the sentence look very unfocused and wishy-washy. In fact, if this was but a normal day, he would have been celebrating the moon festival, and there he would have taken his final test to become a druid. However, these weren’t normal days, and instead of a rousing day of drinking MeldewIs this explored elsewhere in the setting? If not, it looks weird., listening to talented musicians, and awaiting his final task,This shift comes completely out of nowhere, considering that it goes from hypothetical to what must be the real scenario. Make sure to end the sentence on what could be happening, before you start explaining what is. the small town was ambushed, with a group of orcs killing everyone in sight. He had been lucky, and only knocked unconscious, where he had then been taken prisoner, instead of the nine other druids-to-be, who were all slain, save one besides himself.The hyphens on "druids-to-be" are an optional convention, but enhance clarity. This situation, though, is a little confusing - if the other nine, or apparently eight of the other nine, were killed at once, why is he so lucky? A little detail would easily clear up this miracle. There, the orcs had dragged them off into a small area, cleared of trees, in which a small encampment had been set up. Their hands were then bound together, and they were lain on the ground, as the filthy orcs ate a slain Elf. Who is 'they' in this scenario? Is it Raelin and some other Elves, the nine druids-to-be, someone else? This desecration sickened the elfWhich one?, and, almost screaming with rage, he had summoned a nearby pack of wolves to attack the sickening orcs. There, from the shadows of the forest, a call was heard, and a group of enraged, feral wolves erupted from the forest. There's a lot of redundant sentence structuring here (Starting with "There," and "Then,"). Also, this sentence would appear to describe what was already said; probably, the description of his summoning should avoid mentioning wolves specifically, to reduce the idea that "We've heard it before." Then, with an enraged look in their eyes, the wolves began to tear at the confused brutes, giving him enough time to run back into the forest, to a nearby hill. There, reacting only on instinct, he had casted his greatest weapon in a full moon; a Moonfire spell This is, for many reasons, a bizarre sentence. Not only does it include "casted," which is not a legal verb conjugation, it also uses the phrase "in a full moon." Probably, the intended meaning was that, during the full moon, it is his greatest spell, but the grammar, as written, states that it took the duration of the full moon to cast the spell. Moon is also a part of the spell name, so it looks like you're seriously name-dropping the moon, as though you're paid to say it, or something. Use "cast" instead of "casted," don't worry about the whole "in a full moon" part, people will understand that part to be occurring either way, and use a colon, not a semicolon. A great beam of light headed towards the camp, which stretched up straight to the **moon**. This is where you could easily reintroduce the descriptor "full" without it looking odd. Suddenly, the beam connected with the ground, and a white blast erupted from the spot. Pieces of rock, trees, and what Raelin suspected as orc limbs went flying in all directions. Upon further investigation of the spot, the elf found that all life had been destroyed, and all of the Elves, though their bodies remain intact, have had their souls leave this world. "Have had" is in a terrible spot here, because it makes the actor the bodies, taking the poetry out of an otherwise appealing descriptor. Move the verb over so that the souls are the ones doing something, i.e. "their souls having already left this world. Among the wreckage, he found but one item; a small, weak soul gem, which had the symbol of the old elfish word for ‘Animal’ on it. He knew it must have belonged to the other druid they had captured, and as such he clenched it in his arms, and said an vow in the Elfish language, swearing revenge for the fallen Elves. What is a soul gem? Also, this paragraph twice makes reference to the Elfish language, attempting to make use of it as a tool for diversity, without having to establish an actual language. If the gem's inscription really does have Elfish on it, we need to know how it reads in Elfish, not just to be told that it can be. His heart filled heavily for the fellow Elves he had slain with the spell, but deep inside, he knew it was necessary.This sort of inner conflict resolution often falls very flat in critical appraisals; it looks good in paper, but if you imagine how you're actually characterizing your star, you'll realize you have created a psychopath. The character of Eragon, for example, is often considered to be distressingly soulless, as a result of passages like that. Be a good writer and give him some good inner torment later on, rather than just a few seconds of "heart filling." But he could never let an Orc walk freely, after such damage they have done to his life. His mind brought up a picture of an orc. He could clearly remember the horrid stench it had about it, the rows of jagged, sharp teeth within the monsters mouth, which he had last seen it in an evil grin, eating a leg of his brethrenStrong imagery, but the shift is very sudden, and almost contrived. Should probably have a clearer boundary between reality, and Raelin's mind “I mean” Raelin said, attempting to convince himself that his actions were just. “Orcs deserve to die, even if it means sacrificing an Elf.”This argument is just hard to understand. Orcs killed Elves, so he's now committed to killing Orcs to solve that debt to him, even if it means killing more Elves? I mean, with that logic, he might as well kill himself. Motive needs to be a lot clearer, and less hypocritical; unless, of course, another character later on will exploit this key shortcoming. Suddenly, it hit him. Orcs are in Sonrye! From his knowledge, it was almost unheard of to have orcs even close to the forest. The forest is protected by the wood elves to the east, in which they had cast many magical barriers around the forest. As long as they held any sort of respect for the forest, they would never willingly let orcs into the forest. In fact, Orcs haven’t been seen in the forest for many years. If this was the case, his immediate understanding of the Orc situation seems a little odd - if you're in an emotionally crippling situation, like he was, and the answer is something that doesn't normally make sense, that really shouldn't be your first conclusion. Might want to put in a bit more surprise on his part, if that's the case. He knew he had to be the one to tell the grand council. His mind showed images of him reporting the attack, of the orcs within the forests borders, the rewards they would give him, the fame he would gain. And so the young Elf took one last look at the charred area in which once held orcs, and headed off toward his village to alert any survivors there and to gain the needed provisions for the journey, fore the land was treacherous, and it would take many weeks to arrive at the capital, Sylventis. Nothing much to say on this part. It's a pretty normal setup for a quest story; nothing too original, but completely adequate for the story to come. So, I mostly just had grammatical things to say, but I suppose there were a number of those. Overall, I'd say it's better than most stories written by people on this forum, but I'd like to see a little more clarity in how you reference characters, since we don't all have the benefit of your unique insight into the story, and some deeper psychological ramifications, to prove your characters have souls. My wish list for the next few chapters consists largely of ideas that are outside the LotR-Eragon range, but I'll compromise for the other things, first.

Zero Post.

My guess? I see this as being one of the many fictional realities inspired by the whole Large Hadron Collider thing…I heard a number of speculative stories about using the LHC to create a miniature black hole, which could escape predictions by physicists and become much larger than expected. I assume that this story, then, must be one of them. But, I would enjoy seeing a lot more explanation in this story. So far, it seems like they're using more stuff than actual answers - many of the plot points used, such as space marines, brainless people, and the lack of a core, are completely unnecessary, and only distract from the matter at hand. For example, the reason why the planet has no core is probably based on the idea that, if the core is the hottest part of the planet, then a planet without a core must be really cold. Which is reasonable science - if you're in sixth grade. Better ideas would include a smaller star, a greater orbital distance, or a geologically dead planet, which would be a version of the "no core" argument that doesn't fall apart in the existence of gravity.