Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot should be on there if it isn't!
I first played it last weekend and I'm hooked!! Now to get my friends hooked!
It's one of the freshest games I've played in a long time. It's cute and cuddley until you smear the other bunnies over the floor to get the carrot! Muahahahahaha! www.magiccarrot.com for more info.
(No..I do NOT work for the company, but the game is very, very fun. So I'd like more of you to play so I can slaughter your bunnies!)
I'll admit...I love these games. But my most recent problem comes from the fact that I pre-ordered the collectors edition quite some time ago and now the game is coming out...yeah! But I pre-ordered from SOE's Station store. OOPS!!! Big mistake!
Don't let me EVER order form the Station Store again!!! I know I didn't choose the quickest shipping option, but since November 5th my order has been in the "Currently being filled" status and the charge has been sent to my credit card (I think). I still don't have an email confirming shipment, I still don't have a tracking number, I now don't have any hopes of getting this game by the end of the month.
I also noticed that the collector's edition is listed as "out-of-stock" in the Station Store. Hhhhmmmm...did they ship off all of their inventory to Fry's, EB, and Best Buy and leave nothing in their own store? Is my order not filled yet because they don't even have any in stock to send to me?
Meanwhile...some of my friends got their copies yesterday at one of the local stores. The rest are getting theirs today. Me? I'm starting to think of finding a way to cancel my order and just forget this game.
Nah! I'll wait it out...but I'm not happy and I'd like to know WTF is going on with my order.
I'll echo this. I did this about the same way. I know beta is beta, but they had such a buggy system that I couldn't believe they postponed the other improvements they were promising since release just to get this expansion out. I guess $$$ moves the world, but they lost my $$$. It was a fun game for the most part until about March of this year.
I like apples. I like apple cider the best. Can you pick my apples for me? I don't want them to fall.
Back in the slave days, everyone went to church. Since the separation of church and state, slavery has ended. Can I blame the western church or use the analogy of the western church as a hierarchy similar to a king and a kingdom with lords and peasents instead of using the slavery analogy? Is it "Massa" or "Mass"? Either way it's all rather feudal.
I don't like corporations much either, except for the ones that make apple cider. yummy!
Can I be Massa for a while? I gotta pay off a few debts.
Massa protects me, why shouldn't I protect Massa? That's it...I'm moving to the cornfield!
In all seriousness...someone labeled your post insightful. I would say it's rather funny in that Chomsky sort of way.
Better yet, don't come back until they really get finished improving it and making all the changes. I loved playing SWG at first...I even had a blast roleplaying in it. I played one of the tradeskills that was unltimately broken at launch and made it work well...very well...I was pulling in millions of credits a day..then the devs completely revamped my profession and took away my really good things to make and threw in the holocron rampaged that made it really suck. Everyone was grinding holocrons for their Jedi, and then they changed that. It just cheapened the game to basically reveal how to become a jedi. It should have been a huge secret forever and then people could just enjoy playing the game. They should have fixed the skills that needed fixing when they needed it, adding tweaks and pokes when they needed to instead of retooling the whole game engine in cycles that have far outlasted the game's playability. I loved this game and they destroyed and cheapened it.
Now, it's less than a mediocre game that still has more than 80% of the promised improvements just over the horizon of the future. We should not be paying for new races in an expansion. Maybe a new planet or six, but not two new races. Have many MMORPGs made a routine commitment to add new content and new races for free? They keep pushing off the needed improvements to get the expansion out there and they've just made a confused pile of worthless code and content that is about to get thrown into the trash compactor when the game folds next year.
I tried the JTL Beta. I keep trying it every week even though I get nasty-grams every couple days wishing me to come back to beta...I'm there!! I was just on!!! I'm trying to like it!! But I don't.
I was in SWG in beta and I had high hopes for it. October 27, 2004, will be known in throughout the galaxy as the day SWG finally died..it's also the same exact day my subscription runs out.
BTW-I don't think Lucas Arts could do anything to help SOE improve it. Look at the crap GL did to the GL revised editions of the movies. (Let's not open that discussion again, but just say that change can be good, and can be bad). If they improve..and there's a chance, then I might be back, but it will take months for them to improve it, and months for them to prove it to me.
Maybe it will happen like what BMW did with the Mini. Car company was failing, BMW buys it for $1, takes the best brand name from the company a few other small assets maybe, and sells the thing again. BMW makes out big with the Mini name, the new Mini cars and the rest will be history.
Maybe WotC will falter to such a point that Hasbro will sell it off for a very small amount...it's not a manufaturer that would be hurt by closing down plants, so I doubt it will be a $1, but I can dream:)...anyway, someone bys up the relic of WotC and takes the best brands from it, sending the rest of the company into oblivion. I don't think that will ever happen to D&D. It's at the stage now where just the brand name of D&D can command a little green. The owners just need to keep the overhead down.
Cheers and happy birthday to D&D! I'm playing Hackmaster now though! They licensed 1st and 2nd edition D&D rules to make a really fun game that truly hearkens back to the glory days of D&D. Also...long live KODT
Someone mentioned Rodney Dangerfield..well he still gets no respect in death...as for the 'saluting' of Mr. Reeve in game. It was too insane. Lot's of AFK characters saluting the flag with a somewhat shallow tribute. No one was talking about his accomplishments except for in defense to people who thought it was a lame idea to stand there honoring him, which it was, but only because it dragged out so long and people acted like it was Mother Theresa dying. He was an actor who played Superman, a role many other actors have played very well, and he was a human being. What a shallow way to honor a Princeton grad who had better roles than Superman.
I'll admit being a slight hypocrite...I honored him in game with a single salute, then I moved on. I saw players who kept up their salute for hours, probably afk, but a good many who weren't. But what the heck...it's their $15 a month..right?
Maybe I'll start a 'MMOrtuary RPG' for people to log on and pay tribute to dead famous people in the world. I'll even save people money by only charging them $10 a month. I'll have to make big zones for James Dean and Elvis and have random appearances by their avatrars. Who knows..it could work. Remember what P.T. Barnum said...
You've got a point in there I support, meaning, don't needlessyly blame external factors that would have been replaced with another factor if they weren't there.EQ killed him? No, it was just what he was focusing on...it's like blaming Juliet for killing Romeo because they we enthralled with eachother so much.
But sometimes you can't blame the parents. Sometimes it's a combination of the genetics, environment, and the 'mental filters' that develop as a person is in their formative years. 'Mental filters' is a big one too. How else can you have two siblings raised in the exact same manner, environment, and level of love and patience, yet one of them might be quick to anger, one might be more poetic, one might be a deviant, etc... We see the world through various filters and windows (not microsoft) and this is how two people can watch the same debate, yet draw the same conclusions.
I think the best way a parent can handle this is to help their children, as they approach adolescence, to recognize that these filters exist, and they can either ignore the filters, deal with them constructively, or succumb to pain!!
Can I just finish up and say that I'm no buddhist, but attachment is the root of suffering.
NEWSFLASH!!! Linus Torvalds took pictures of himself and pieces of the Linux code back in the early 90's!! Because that code was photographed and printed on Kodak paper, Kodak not only owns the copyrights to Linux, but they also own Linus' soul!!!
Don't use Kodak-anything! Otherwise, dey pwn joo!
All your java are belong to us!
Caffeine has been added to beer before, this isn't really news. See the other posts on here about homebrewed beers with coffee. This may be interesting more as a flavoring than an actual 'pick-me-up'.
Example: Someone I think mentioned rootbeer. Rootbeer generally does not have caffeine in it. Barq's Rootbeer does however have it added, and that's where the "Barq's has bite!" phrase comes from. The bitter character of caffeine is supposed to create this bite! (I can't help but point an exclamation point after that) But the caffeine in Barq's is in no way on par with coke, pepsi, Mt. Dew, Jolt, or do I have to even mention Bawls.
I hope that this caffeinated beer doesn't catched on as a trend because of the 'pick-me-up' effect, but rather as a flavoring (BITE!).
Besides, what really happens when you mix this stimulant and this depressant? You end up right back where you were...only a little clumsier.
What would Joseph Campbell say about the use of myth in these movies? I don't know, but similar to the parent post I would say that they all run a similar theme. SW, Matrix, and the Last Starfighter all show a young man in a coming of age moment trying to figure out the world and realizing, thankfully, that its a bigger place than he thought and that he has an inportant role to play. There is a learning phase, practise/mistake phase. Meet the bad guy phase, and then eventually defeat the bad guy phase. Within all of this you sprinkle in things that bring a human element to the character and let the audience identify with the character.
That's what I think. Or maybe this is just a phase.
Agree, but I think alot of people have a misconception of what Role-Play means. People see a stand-alone RPG game and they start thinking that the way they played the game was role-playing. Then they move on to MMORPGS evetually and still think they are role-playing when 99% of every conversation is an OOC (out of character comment) whether it's on the OOC chat channel or not. I've met role-players and found that it's easier to role-play in some games more than others. But no one really has rules about role-playing on a computer. Call the UN!! Get the Gensec on the phone! I want international role-playing rules!!
I guess we're stuck in the Delta Quadrant with SWG until this game comes out.
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What happens if a nuclear bomb is detonated in Nevada? Will people flee from Las Vegas?
Ever hear of Voyager, Pioneer and etc...they had "radioisotope thermoelectric generators" or RTGs.
Also, China isn't new to the nuclear power scene. They've been doing it for years and years. It's just that they're taking it a step beyond what the US did. Face it, our (the US's) current nuclear power infrastructuce is marginal.
Sims was fun, but I liked Creatures series (1,2,3, etc) better. It always felt really fun to toy with the genetic code of the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and see what sort of weirdness could be created, from creatures that lived only a few minutes, to creatures with silly walks, to creatures that were virtually born pregnant, or even crossbreads of species.
I'm looking forward to toying with the alleged genetic code in Sims2. I think it will be nice to move up to experimenting on pseudo-human subjects.
It's probably better to wait for cell phones to improve to the point that you can play the Sims or even Sims2 on them. Or better yet, just take a laptop with you.
I just want a virtual job and make more money for doing nothing than I do right now. &^)
The world of the future has a lot to look forward too...maybe. Advances in the myriad disciplines of science have and will continue to lead the planet into a future where improved technology will make life easier, but holistically this might not be the utopian life of the future that many science fiction writers, and myopic visionaries foresee. You see, even with all of our hi-tech gadgetry and luxury 'systems' we are undeniably connected to one source of energy--fossil fuel.
Many scientists have predicted that world oil production will be reduced to almost nil by this date or that date, and many are often looked at as quacks by the governments and even the popular media of the world. The fact is that no matter what date these scientists come up with, it doesn't take a mathematician to realize that the supply of fossil fuels is a finite supply, and the demand for these increases every year. There will be a point in the future...whether it is ten years from now or 10 hundred years, that's not the point...the point is that it will run out. The oil crisis in the 1970's is an example of how dependent we are on this stuff and what happens when supply can not meet demand! So, with this in mind, what will the future be like? We can only guess...
Perhaps in the future when because of the decreased production the government controls fossil fuels and only make it available to select groups or organizations, a culture will develop that is somewhat communal. University campuses may become the central local for people to take up residence, and whole communities will develop with the campus as the center. There will be science, learning, a supply of energy and water, young people eager to learn and older people eager to pass on the knowledge. These centers of living will chronicle the past and the memories of the citizens in an intricate web that hopes to preserve our human history. Bicycles and alternate means of transportation will be encouraged, and universities will become more than centers of learning, they will become mega-corporations in control of science, technology, and the last hope of mankind. Already, many scientific universities make money off of discoveries and patents. Already, many universities harbor the hopes and future of mankind. Perhaps a social structure will evolve around universities similar to this.
Perhaps we'll devolve into a Mad Max style of culture on the fringes of society with pockets of "civilization" gathering around agricultural areas or wind/ solar power farms. Perhaps the elite will have the money to move to countries where they still haven't forgotten how to life well without the dependence on petroleum. Maybe those countries will have disappeared by this time. I'm more of an optimistic realist so I'm not going to really believe this is a possibility.
Maybe nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, wind power, solar power, and maybe other alternate methods of storing energy will have developed to the point that a severe decline in world oil production will just not matter much at all and our civilization will react to nothing more than a slight blip on radar but otherwise continue on into the unforeseeable future. Then again, maybe the burgeoning population will nullify these possible advances in technology so that we are ineffective in combating the strain put on the energy supply.
What happens to a world that runs out of oil when it not only depends on petroleum for transporting food and medicine from place to place, but also depends on petroleum for fertilizing food crops? Depends on petroleum for the manufacture of safety equipment, and even depends on petroleum for the manufacture of necessary medical equipment and apparatus? Will the world jump into a huge conservation craze? Recycling every little thing with plastic in it? Will our society implode and fall into anarchy? Will we lynch our leaders or the leaders of the past and blame them until we feel better about ourselves but haven't improv
They just need to make a MOG like Caddyshack. That would solve all of this. You have skill (be the ball...), level progression (want to caddy all your life?), crafting (pranks and making clubs etc...), and a little T&A (need I say more?); same as all the other MOGs (especially the T&A...).
Maybe I'm a bit OT, but too many of these games are sticking to the fantasy/sci-fi duo. CoH was a breath of fresh air, That one car racing game went away so fast I can't remember the name, and Sims online was/is...umm...there, but let's expand the genre a little? please? Who wants to make money anyway, comrade?
We fnord are fnord a fnord universe fnord to fnord ourselves fnord. If fnord the fnord universe fnord is fnord infinite fnord, then fnord with fnord an fnord infinite fnord number fnord all fnord things fnord are fnord possible fnord. If fnord the fnord universe fnord is fnord finite fnord, then fnord nothing fnord is fnord an fnord absolute fnord guarentee fnord.
I think that pretty much sums up what is really meant by this. There is a difference between probability and what actually is. In a finite system, what actually IS, is more important than probability when you have all the data. We don't have all the data, and the universe might just be finite, so I think FNORD.
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Dagnabbit...can't get to the link.
Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot should be on there if it isn't!
I first played it last weekend and I'm hooked!! Now to get my friends hooked!
It's one of the freshest games I've played in a long time. It's cute and cuddley until you smear the other bunnies over the floor to get the carrot! Muahahahahaha! www.magiccarrot.com for more info.
(No..I do NOT work for the company, but the game is very, very fun. So I'd like more of you to play so I can slaughter your bunnies!)
I finally got the email with that explanation. I'm busy most of this week anyway and need to get ahead in school so I can play the game with earnest.
ciao
I'll admit...I love these games. But my most recent problem comes from the fact that I pre-ordered the collectors edition quite some time ago and now the game is coming out...yeah! But I pre-ordered from SOE's Station store. OOPS!!! Big mistake!
Don't let me EVER order form the Station Store again!!! I know I didn't choose the quickest shipping option, but since November 5th my order has been in the "Currently being filled" status and the charge has been sent to my credit card (I think). I still don't have an email confirming shipment, I still don't have a tracking number, I now don't have any hopes of getting this game by the end of the month.
I also noticed that the collector's edition is listed as "out-of-stock" in the Station Store. Hhhhmmmm...did they ship off all of their inventory to Fry's, EB, and Best Buy and leave nothing in their own store? Is my order not filled yet because they don't even have any in stock to send to me?
Meanwhile...some of my friends got their copies yesterday at one of the local stores. The rest are getting theirs today. Me? I'm starting to think of finding a way to cancel my order and just forget this game.
Nah! I'll wait it out...but I'm not happy and I'd like to know WTF is going on with my order.
I'll echo this. I did this about the same way. I know beta is beta, but they had such a buggy system that I couldn't believe they postponed the other improvements they were promising since release just to get this expansion out. I guess $$$ moves the world, but they lost my $$$. It was a fun game for the most part until about March of this year.
I like apples. I like apple cider the best. Can you pick my apples for me? I don't want them to fall.
Back in the slave days, everyone went to church. Since the separation of church and state, slavery has ended. Can I blame the western church or use the analogy of the western church as a hierarchy similar to a king and a kingdom with lords and peasents instead of using the slavery analogy? Is it "Massa" or "Mass"? Either way it's all rather feudal.
I don't like corporations much either, except for the ones that make apple cider. yummy!
Can I be Massa for a while? I gotta pay off a few debts.
Massa protects me, why shouldn't I protect Massa? That's it...I'm moving to the cornfield!
In all seriousness...someone labeled your post insightful. I would say it's rather funny in that Chomsky sort of way.
Better yet, don't come back until they really get finished improving it and making all the changes. I loved playing SWG at first...I even had a blast roleplaying in it. I played one of the tradeskills that was unltimately broken at launch and made it work well...very well...I was pulling in millions of credits a day..then the devs completely revamped my profession and took away my really good things to make and threw in the holocron rampaged that made it really suck. Everyone was grinding holocrons for their Jedi, and then they changed that. It just cheapened the game to basically reveal how to become a jedi. It should have been a huge secret forever and then people could just enjoy playing the game. They should have fixed the skills that needed fixing when they needed it, adding tweaks and pokes when they needed to instead of retooling the whole game engine in cycles that have far outlasted the game's playability. I loved this game and they destroyed and cheapened it.
Now, it's less than a mediocre game that still has more than 80% of the promised improvements just over the horizon of the future. We should not be paying for new races in an expansion. Maybe a new planet or six, but not two new races. Have many MMORPGs made a routine commitment to add new content and new races for free? They keep pushing off the needed improvements to get the expansion out there and they've just made a confused pile of worthless code and content that is about to get thrown into the trash compactor when the game folds next year.
I tried the JTL Beta. I keep trying it every week even though I get nasty-grams every couple days wishing me to come back to beta...I'm there!! I was just on!!! I'm trying to like it!! But I don't.
I was in SWG in beta and I had high hopes for it. October 27, 2004, will be known in throughout the galaxy as the day SWG finally died..it's also the same exact day my subscription runs out.
BTW-I don't think Lucas Arts could do anything to help SOE improve it. Look at the crap GL did to the GL revised editions of the movies. (Let's not open that discussion again, but just say that change can be good, and can be bad). If they improve..and there's a chance, then I might be back, but it will take months for them to improve it, and months for them to prove it to me.
Maybe WotC will falter to such a point that Hasbro will sell it off for a very small amount...it's not a manufaturer that would be hurt by closing down plants, so I doubt it will be a $1, but I can dream :)...anyway, someone bys up the relic of WotC and takes the best brands from it, sending the rest of the company into oblivion. I don't think that will ever happen to D&D. It's at the stage now where just the brand name of D&D can command a little green. The owners just need to keep the overhead down.
Cheers and happy birthday to D&D! I'm playing Hackmaster now though! They licensed 1st and 2nd edition D&D rules to make a really fun game that truly hearkens back to the glory days of D&D. Also...long live KODT
Someone mentioned Rodney Dangerfield..well he still gets no respect in death...as for the 'saluting' of Mr. Reeve in game. It was too insane. Lot's of AFK characters saluting the flag with a somewhat shallow tribute. No one was talking about his accomplishments except for in defense to people who thought it was a lame idea to stand there honoring him, which it was, but only because it dragged out so long and people acted like it was Mother Theresa dying. He was an actor who played Superman, a role many other actors have played very well, and he was a human being. What a shallow way to honor a Princeton grad who had better roles than Superman.
I'll admit being a slight hypocrite...I honored him in game with a single salute, then I moved on. I saw players who kept up their salute for hours, probably afk, but a good many who weren't. But what the heck...it's their $15 a month..right?
Maybe I'll start a 'MMOrtuary RPG' for people to log on and pay tribute to dead famous people in the world. I'll even save people money by only charging them $10 a month. I'll have to make big zones for James Dean and Elvis and have random appearances by their avatrars. Who knows..it could work. Remember what P.T. Barnum said...
You've got a point in there I support, meaning, don't needlessyly blame external factors that would have been replaced with another factor if they weren't there.EQ killed him? No, it was just what he was focusing on...it's like blaming Juliet for killing Romeo because they we enthralled with eachother so much.
But sometimes you can't blame the parents. Sometimes it's a combination of the genetics, environment, and the 'mental filters' that develop as a person is in their formative years. 'Mental filters' is a big one too. How else can you have two siblings raised in the exact same manner, environment, and level of love and patience, yet one of them might be quick to anger, one might be more poetic, one might be a deviant, etc... We see the world through various filters and windows (not microsoft) and this is how two people can watch the same debate, yet draw the same conclusions.
I think the best way a parent can handle this is to help their children, as they approach adolescence, to recognize that these filters exist, and they can either ignore the filters, deal with them constructively, or succumb to pain!!
Can I just finish up and say that I'm no buddhist, but attachment is the root of suffering.
NEWSFLASH!!! Linus Torvalds took pictures of himself and pieces of the Linux code back in the early 90's!! Because that code was photographed and printed on Kodak paper, Kodak not only owns the copyrights to Linux, but they also own Linus' soul!!! Don't use Kodak-anything! Otherwise, dey pwn joo! All your java are belong to us!
Caffeine has been added to beer before, this isn't really news. See the other posts on here about homebrewed beers with coffee. This may be interesting more as a flavoring than an actual 'pick-me-up'.
Example: Someone I think mentioned rootbeer. Rootbeer generally does not have caffeine in it. Barq's Rootbeer does however have it added, and that's where the "Barq's has bite!" phrase comes from. The bitter character of caffeine is supposed to create this bite! (I can't help but point an exclamation point after that) But the caffeine in Barq's is in no way on par with coke, pepsi, Mt. Dew, Jolt, or do I have to even mention Bawls.
I hope that this caffeinated beer doesn't catched on as a trend because of the 'pick-me-up' effect, but rather as a flavoring (BITE!).
Besides, what really happens when you mix this stimulant and this depressant? You end up right back where you were...only a little clumsier.
Does this mean he's going to digitally remaster the first Spaceballs? Will we see that never before seen footage of Pizza the Hutt at the spaceport?
Hurry and buy the original Spaceballs before you can't get anything but the remastered version!
Cast the die! Let the die decide what you do and what will happen. Bring dice living to a new level!
What would Joseph Campbell say about the use of myth in these movies? I don't know, but similar to the parent post I would say that they all run a similar theme. SW, Matrix, and the Last Starfighter all show a young man in a coming of age moment trying to figure out the world and realizing, thankfully, that its a bigger place than he thought and that he has an inportant role to play. There is a learning phase, practise/mistake phase. Meet the bad guy phase, and then eventually defeat the bad guy phase. Within all of this you sprinkle in things that bring a human element to the character and let the audience identify with the character. That's what I think. Or maybe this is just a phase.
Agree, but I think alot of people have a misconception of what Role-Play means. People see a stand-alone RPG game and they start thinking that the way they played the game was role-playing. Then they move on to MMORPGS evetually and still think they are role-playing when 99% of every conversation is an OOC (out of character comment) whether it's on the OOC chat channel or not. I've met role-players and found that it's easier to role-play in some games more than others. But no one really has rules about role-playing on a computer. Call the UN!! Get the Gensec on the phone! I want international role-playing rules!!
I guess we're stuck in the Delta Quadrant with SWG until this game comes out.
What happens if a nuclear bomb is detonated in Nevada? Will people flee from Las Vegas? Ever hear of Voyager, Pioneer and etc...they had "radioisotope thermoelectric generators" or RTGs. Also, China isn't new to the nuclear power scene. They've been doing it for years and years. It's just that they're taking it a step beyond what the US did. Face it, our (the US's) current nuclear power infrastructuce is marginal.
Sims was fun, but I liked Creatures series (1,2,3, etc) better. It always felt really fun to toy with the genetic code of the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and see what sort of weirdness could be created, from creatures that lived only a few minutes, to creatures with silly walks, to creatures that were virtually born pregnant, or even crossbreads of species.
I'm looking forward to toying with the alleged genetic code in Sims2. I think it will be nice to move up to experimenting on pseudo-human subjects.
It's probably better to wait for cell phones to improve to the point that you can play the Sims or even Sims2 on them. Or better yet, just take a laptop with you.
I just want a virtual job and make more money for doing nothing than I do right now. &^)
World of the future...
The world of the future has a lot to look forward too...maybe. Advances in the myriad disciplines of science have and will continue to lead the planet into a future where improved technology will make life easier, but holistically this might not be the utopian life of the future that many science fiction writers, and myopic visionaries foresee. You see, even with all of our hi-tech gadgetry and luxury 'systems' we are undeniably connected to one source of energy--fossil fuel.
Many scientists have predicted that world oil production will be reduced to almost nil by this date or that date, and many are often looked at as quacks by the governments and even the popular media of the world. The fact is that no matter what date these scientists come up with, it doesn't take a mathematician to realize that the supply of fossil fuels is a finite supply, and the demand for these increases every year. There will be a point in the future...whether it is ten years from now or 10 hundred years, that's not the point...the point is that it will run out. The oil crisis in the 1970's is an example of how dependent we are on this stuff and what happens when supply can not meet demand! So, with this in mind, what will the future be like? We can only guess...
Perhaps in the future when because of the decreased production the government controls fossil fuels and only make it available to select groups or organizations, a culture will develop that is somewhat communal. University campuses may become the central local for people to take up residence, and whole communities will develop with the campus as the center. There will be science, learning, a supply of energy and water, young people eager to learn and older people eager to pass on the knowledge. These centers of living will chronicle the past and the memories of the citizens in an intricate web that hopes to preserve our human history. Bicycles and alternate means of transportation will be encouraged, and universities will become more than centers of learning, they will become mega-corporations in control of science, technology, and the last hope of mankind. Already, many scientific universities make money off of discoveries and patents. Already, many universities harbor the hopes and future of mankind. Perhaps a social structure will evolve around universities similar to this.
Perhaps we'll devolve into a Mad Max style of culture on the fringes of society with pockets of "civilization" gathering around agricultural areas or wind/ solar power farms. Perhaps the elite will have the money to move to countries where they still haven't forgotten how to life well without the dependence on petroleum. Maybe those countries will have disappeared by this time. I'm more of an optimistic realist so I'm not going to really believe this is a possibility.
Maybe nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, wind power, solar power, and maybe other alternate methods of storing energy will have developed to the point that a severe decline in world oil production will just not matter much at all and our civilization will react to nothing more than a slight blip on radar but otherwise continue on into the unforeseeable future. Then again, maybe the burgeoning population will nullify these possible advances in technology so that we are ineffective in combating the strain put on the energy supply.
What happens to a world that runs out of oil when it not only depends on petroleum for transporting food and medicine from place to place, but also depends on petroleum for fertilizing food crops? Depends on petroleum for the manufacture of safety equipment, and even depends on petroleum for the manufacture of necessary medical equipment and apparatus? Will the world jump into a huge conservation craze? Recycling every little thing with plastic in it? Will our society implode and fall into anarchy? Will we lynch our leaders or the leaders of the past and blame them until we feel better about ourselves but haven't improv
They just need to make a MOG like Caddyshack. That would solve all of this. You have skill (be the ball...), level progression (want to caddy all your life?), crafting (pranks and making clubs etc...), and a little T&A (need I say more?); same as all the other MOGs (especially the T&A...).
Maybe I'm a bit OT, but too many of these games are sticking to the fantasy/sci-fi duo. CoH was a breath of fresh air, That one car racing game went away so fast I can't remember the name, and Sims online was/is...umm...there, but let's expand the genre a little? please? Who wants to make money anyway, comrade?
Citizen, report to sector D for a vigorous brain scrubbing!
We fnord are fnord a fnord universe fnord to fnord ourselves fnord. If fnord the fnord universe fnord is fnord infinite fnord, then fnord with fnord an fnord infinite fnord number fnord all fnord things fnord are fnord possible fnord. If fnord the fnord universe fnord is fnord finite fnord, then fnord nothing fnord is fnord an fnord absolute fnord guarentee fnord.
I think that pretty much sums up what is really meant by this. There is a difference between probability and what actually is. In a finite system, what actually IS, is more important than probability when you have all the data. We don't have all the data, and the universe might just be finite, so I think FNORD.
Yes...buy the Hare grow formula...guarenteed to grow hare! umm..hair...umm..nevermind...