Seraphi

Oh really? Is that how you percieved my words? I am not attempting to be insulting here, and if you actually took the time to comprehend my arguments you could probably see that I was simply trying to help. Of course, if trying to help you means that I end up with this sarcastic psuedo-argument bile coming in my direction, then I think I'll just ignore it completely. I'm sorry to say, but I'm done.

Actions cannot speak well through the internet, Earth. I am trying to help you out here, and all you seem to do is spit venom in my direction. As I previously stated, and will state again and again until it is finally hammered into your mind, people WILL judge you based on your spelling and grammar. You cannot change this, and this is cold, hard fact. You have clearly been judged by most people on this forum already, and the results do not seem favorable. If you wish to be taken seriously, and wish for people to keep a better opinion of you, I sincerely recommend using that software. Edit: If you don't care about our opinions, then why even bother causing this argument? If you don't care, then there was never any need for you even start using the program?

I don't particularly like strawmanning people in an argument, but I feel it necessery here. IS IT so hard just to use a voice recognition software to switch a few measly letters around and make a pretty understandable word the way its suposed to be? no. so why shouldn't you use this program if... You get the picture. Fact of the matter is, proper spelling DOES make you seem more mature, and it DOES make people take you seriously, more often than not. This is, for all intents and purposes, a fact. If people see the sentance "i wnet too pick up som mail" next to "I went to pick up some mail" they will instantly assume the latter was posted by a more intelligible person. Right now, you are more or less defending bad spelling and grammar on the grounds that it isn't difficult for everyone else to correct it and that people should stop judging people based on spelling. I'm sorry to say, but those are stupid grounds indeed. It takes a miniscule amount of effort on your part to use that software, compared to the collective effort of everyone who reads your posts and has to correct them. As for the second point, I'm afraid to say that it cannot be helped. People will prejudge based on typing and proper spelling, and people will judge somebody who uses no capitals and who spells every third word wrong to be of lesser intelligence to somebody who does not. The sum of my argument is this; You are essentially degrading yourself to prove a point which neither exists nor makes sense, and I have to question, why? Please, heed my advice. I bear no ill will, no grudge, but I would just much prefer it if people (Myself included) could see you as a more mature/intelligent person (Hell, you might be in real life, I have no idea, but it is fairly clear some people here see you as something of an idiot based solely on the way you type. I have had such thoughts in the past as well.) It may be a hurtful truth, but it is truth nonetheless

Oookay. Your response was as follows: Then, after people repeatedly told you that it was better than before, you come out with this... Are you seriously trying to lower people's impression of you? If that voice thing is easy to do and makes your spelling near-perfect, then why would you not use it just because people told you (Complimented you on it, no less) that it makes you sound better than you did before. I honestly can't comprehend the thought behind this notion. I mean, if it was extensively more difficult than just typing in a regular fashion, I might understand, but if you're using what I think you're using, it's actually EASIER than regular typing, which leaves more or less no reason not to use it, aside from simply being abbhorently petty.

So I built an arena and a ton of cage traps so I can easily train my military against active opponents... I caught a yeti. Apparantly, my commander really does not like yetis. JUST LET HIM DIE! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH.

Find a way to negate the mass of Neutronium temproraly, before launching it and then un-negating the mass? Would be fun to watch, to say the least, even if it does defy physics to the point of becoming soft sci-fi type technobabble.

Okay, let's think of it in a slightly more abstract way. Ten friends get together to play some football. One of the friends decides that he should slide tackle everyone he can and injure 2 or 3 people so they wont be a threat to him in the game. Is it fair that the other friends should want him to stop playing? I'd say yes, but I'm also willing to bet that a lot of people think differently.

I'm interested, for sure, but I don't have time to make a character at this very second. It'll have to wait till tommorow.

I occassionally watch Mock the Week, QI and assorted stand up comedy. Aside from that, I watch most programs (Anime, mainly) online, because there isn't very good anime support here in England. There was one channel which showed FMA on a fairly regular basis, but it was taken down.

Pictures. [hide][/hide] [hide][/hide] I drafted anybody with weapon skills into the military... And they didn't even get to see the fight.

Huh. Double post, but that was rather interesting. A forgotten beast attacked my 22 dwarf fortress before my military had any weapons and armour, and suffice to say, I assumed I would be having a lot of Fun. So I armed my two militia up with some daggers from goblin theives, and sent them at it, but they were miles away. The only one nearby was a single mason. He was trying to build a wall to seal it up and save the fortress, but he was too slow. He ran, terrified at the beast behind him, writhing in flames and breathing fire, until he could run no more; he had reached the end of the mineshaft. Knowing that this was the end, and the military were still at least 2 minutes away from him, he lunged at the monster... And snapped its neck. Instantly, my hope for this dwarfs survival was restored and made all the more intense by the awesomeness of what he'd just done, so I keep watching, as the two exchange blows. The mason takes a hit to his left arm, bruising it, and a flurry of blows against the monster do not even phase it, when he strikes again; a broken leg. He has been hit by around 20 blasts of dragonfire and around 10 fireballs from point blank range, and all he has to show for it is a singed beard and a bruised arm. He strikes once more, smashing the beasts arm. By now, I am fairly amazed at what this dwarf has managed to do, but I'll never forget what happened next: He took a blow to the spine, breaking it, but he was still standing. He took a deep breath, and, to my absolute amazement, tore the beast in half. He was quickly rushed to the hospital zone while I stared at the screen open-jawed. He is rushed to hospital, where I believe he will survive, but will never work again. That said, I believe he has served the fortress more than could ever have been expected, and will be allowed to stay in the finest, gold plated room in honour of what he has done. A lone, untrained mason, with ragged clothes and without a weapon, killed an ancient beast from the depths of hell. What's more, he did it with a broken spine, and he tore the damn creature in two. And he had a singed beard all the way through. Smells sort of... IT SMELLS LIKE DWARF FORTRESS.

Mather, that is stupid. It isn't even worth pointing out what is stupid about it anymore.

Righto Archi. Why the code, though?

So they either need to eat the floor which the replicator is standing on constantly... Or they get the materials from the air.

Mather, the interior is much the same, and they still stretch and move around a lot. Plus, bacteria still respire, and I would imagine those nanites of yours need something to fuel them...

Ookay, here goes. Advantages: Largely temperature resistant Does not breath (Atmosphere doesn't matter) Metal bodied (Harder to kill) Lower moral effects (They weren't created, so were never given anything resembling emotion. I guess it developed to a limited extent, but not much) Purely logic abiding (Efficiency increase I suppose) Semi-Hivemind (A few AIs, but each one controls a lot of individuals as an extension of themselves. I guess each AI would be allocated it's own settlement) Technologically advanced (Better at learning to use technology and any effects which come with that) Disease resistant (Mechanical body) Disadvantages: Higher average colonisation costs (As stated above) Semi-Hivemind (If one AI rebels, the entire settlement does.) Lower moral effects (No glorious war speeches rallying troops to victory) EMP vulnerability New settlements need a new AI If you want to add/take away from that list, go right ahead Archi.

Yeah Archi, I'm the randomly occuring AI race. I assume mechanical races can automatically inhabit high temperature and odd atmosphere planets, but I'm not sure. Also, do I need to post a list of advantages and disadvantages?

Pretty sure I can inhabit both. Is that right, Archi?

Yes, STALKER games are generally regarded as excellent.

>Implying orks wouldn't just charge into the sea so that they have something to fight with >Implying the orks would share/work with another species to take over a planet Yeaaaahhhh...

Why not have them as two different, symbiotic species?

The planet could be really windy, and tiny pieces of metal could end up in the right places at the right time. Chances are nigh impossible, but hey, that's the entire point of the race.

Ork guns only fire because they believe they will. Otherwise, they're just gun-shaped pieces of scrap completely unusable by anyone else. And their vehicles go faster when painted red because they think red is faster.

Alright then... Processes which develop slowly into full AIs which do not fall under control of the original. Multiple personalities, check.

Sort of, but I was thinking that the god-only-knows-what:1 chance of a digital computer capable of running the AI which formed despite [big number]:1 chance formed naturally, without the process of evolution cutting in at all, on a rocky planet, and had nothing to do but improve itself, leading (After a hell of a long time) to a single, supermassive, globe-spanning computer. Would that be reasonably viable as a race? I know it isn't scientifically viable, but game-wise.