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Legos Meets Myth II
Noctavis writes "If you are heavily into Legos, then you should take a look at a new TC that'll be released soon. It's called Leggo II: Arena. (Gotta love the name ;-)It's the sequel to Leggo My Myth, which was released awhile ago. The best part? You penguin-heads out there can get Myth II for Linux, and both Mac and Wintel users can grab the Myth Codex (Myth, Myth II and a slew of third-party stuff) for only $15-20 now. " LokiSoft did the porting effort of MythII to Linux - it's a heckuva lotta fun to play. And this just looks cool beyond belief.
When the US was formed, English spelling had not been standardized. We standardized on one set of spellings, the British standardized on another.
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"L'IT c'est moi!"
Now, all we need to do is hook Myth II upto a field of Mindstorm robots, and we can have a grand 'ol time!
I believe the fact that you have to resort to personal insults is an indicator of how many facts you have to support your argument, but on the odd chance that there are a few people still reading this thread after your little tantrum I'll respond further.
I'll assume that by Webster's, you mean the Merriam-Webster dictionary, since Mr. Webster's work predates the toy in question.
You are correct that the Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn't list "legos" as a plural of anything, toy or otherwise.
However, this same dictionary lists "prel-yood" as the preferred pronunciation of "prelude", despite the fact that the VAST majority people in the country whose pronunciation it covers don't pronounce it that way.
This same dictionary refused to recognize "ain't" as a word for decades.
Language is defined by usage, not by dictionaries.
Language is not defined by Trademark. Trademarks are defined by Trademark, nothing else.
If you think I'm wrong, go do a search on your favorite search engine for "lego" and see how many pages use it as a plural without an S, compared to how many use it as a plural with an S.
If you're so convinced you have the facts, put your browser where your mouth is.
I'm so confident that I'm right, I won't even bother to stoop to personal insults and directed cursing.
SCREW the FAQ.
And it's "Hemos".
Language is defined by usage, not fiat.
You and the other three people on this planet who think the plural of "LEGO" is "LEGO" are wrong.
Live with it.
AAARGH! For the umpteenth time, It's LEGO!!! NOT LEGOS!!! And that's according to the manufacturer's own FAQ by the way, Hemo.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Common, everyone knows they don't speak Latin in
Dane-land, only in Latin America.
Sheesh, didn't you people ever listen to Dan Quayle?
I put my archers up on the hill. I had the whole area mined with satchel packs, along with a few dwarves and fetch to set them off. And in case there were any survivors, I had a whole legion of berserkers, along with a few Trow, to mop up.
But when the reports came back, the news was grim: "There's .. just .. too .. many of them! We're getting .. hammered!" and "We're overwhelmed! Send the reserves, I beg you!" Soulblighter had a new weapon, and seemingly inexaustable resources. What possible defense can there be against the dreaded Slashdot Effect?!?
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Anybody else remember the "Blockworld" tileset for the Populous expansion set The Promised Lands? Also, I know I've seen a few different sets of rules for using LEGO figures as miniatures for tabletop wargames.
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Officially, LEGO is a brand name and does not have a plural form. The technically correct term would be "LEGO Toys" or "LEGO Bricks". Of course, I call them "Legos" just like everybody else in the real world.
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There was an effort to port the look and feel of Marathon Infinity over to the Unreal engine, but the last time I went looking for it, there had been no progress made beyond a couple of test screen shots.
After Marathon: Evil, you have no idea how much I was looking forward to this!
Hey! One Google search later, and you get this: Frog Blast Project
I know what I'm doing now!
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
ludo is Latin for "I play", of which the plural is ludimus "we play".
legimus on Perseus
legamus on Perseus
You are thinking of the wrong lego... but I'll stop now, really.
or do i need to buy the game just to find out if i like the lego version?
greetings, eMBee.
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I read an article about the Lego Myth mod in last months issue of Computer Games Magazine. I could swear I remember reading that it was discontinued due to a 'cease and desist' order from Lego.
:)
BTW, these troll posts are getting more hillarious by the day
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Here is the quote from Lego's web site:
The company and its products now take on the name LEGO, which is formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well"). Later, it is realised that in Latin the word means "I study", "I put together".
And here's the link:
http://www.lego.com/info/history/hist3259.asp
I guess this means we are both right, and I lambast you with a pedantic "neener neener nee-ner".
Did you all know that in portugese "Lego my Eggo" means "I bequeath my eggo"? Much confusion at the breakfast table, I must say!
Why choose white shoes?
Ok this is off legos topic, but hopefully interesting none the less.
Here's a cool/interesting idea for a game. A huge networked first person shooter/strategy game. Instead of having stupid units controlled by crappy AI you have smart units run by people that a commander passes orders to via chain of command. Basically you'd have lots of quakers and a couple of commanders who can see the whole battlefield from their command posts.
Think about it, if the enemy knocks out the command post the commander has to stramble and that team loses coordination. The game isn't a predictable strategy since the players skill levels effect how well their units perform. A good weak unit can possibly beat a crappily played strong one.
I looked at some stuff on the new Team Fortress that Valve is putting out and I was wondering if it would be anything like this.
So far I've gotten all my Karma from telling people they are wrong... :)
There is a really funky and huuuge Unreal Tournament map (world?) where you start in a Lego world, you're about one cm high, and you kill the other dudes in a lego world ... and actually you can get out of it and you end up in a giant ... well normal sized house, it's huuuuuge and funky and it's so oh-cool to drive the redeemer around it. Damn it, what's the name of this map again? Last time I played it I fragged the hell of the losers connected there. This map is even funnier than DM-Bathroom.
To carry on the Off-Topic post, when is StarCraft for Linux due? It works well in single player under Wine, but crashes way too often in networked games.
The plural of Lego is Lego.
No S!!!!
George
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