It’s a long shot, but I’m curious if anybody here is familiar enough with the game, and familiar enough with me, to guess which faction in that game I love to play, far and above the rest?
Marines, you are definitely a terra firma type of guy …
I can’t see you plodding around the map with the Avatar of the Eldars.
Aha, someone knows what I’m talking about, at last. I’ll give it another day or so, then let you The Truth of this matter!
I do a fair amount of beta testing outside of work. 
Is that what they call it now? We used to just play the games back in my day.
Thanks for restoring my thread!!
Harbinger, others, it’s up and running, feel free to ask me stuff, or try to answer the question. I’ll give it a while before I give the true answer.
No, no, no. You are misunderstanding. By occupation I am a software tester, and outside of work, I beta test upcoming games.
Warhammer was one that I was a beta tester for, before the game was released. I never play them after that, I just test them.
Ahh, neat. Sometimes I think I’d enjoy that, other times I think that having to write a report or whatever would take all the fun out of playing in the first place. : )
I used to play/collect warhammer as a kid. Fantasy stuff only. Was into Chaos and dark elves. I have no idea about the futureistic stuff so can’t guess.
Actually, Obw, you could have guessed without realizing it.
The Empire seems like a natural choice for me, I admit. But really, all the factions in that game are driven by some complex, fake ideology- it just [i]bugs[/i] me. They've all got some big [i]reason[/i], but they're all doing the same thing. All of them except for one.
So, when the Imperials are surrendering their free-will to the Emporer, the Eldar (space elves, Obw) are whining about times-gone-by, and Chaos is showing off how Evil they are and liking the smell of their own farts, me and Da Boyz like to give 'em a good stompin. There's something simple and admirable about fighting a war just because [i]you love war[/i], or should I say WAAAAGH!?
I’m totally an Ork player, and I’m not sure why. In hindsight, is it completely unlike me, I wonder, or something someone could have predicted? Thanks for letting me self-indulge a little bit!
Hehe, I LOVED that Ork truck spin off game, forget what it was called. You had two teams, kitted out your super ork trucks and got some boyz on the back, running around smashing into one another. Great fun back in the day.
edit: Gorkamorka, I think.
I’ve barely played the table-top stuff, though I’ve given it thought recently because I so enjoy the video game(s).
Ahh… Ive never touched the video games.
Wow!
Based on the information I was going to pick Ork as your choice.
I figured that you would be interested in freedom since you like to post on a philo site, and in that game the orks are the most free.
Maybe this is a dumb first post, but I want to know if there are any good (ethical) factions in the game. I hate playing bad guys in games and it seems that all the factions are kind of bad, from what I gather.
Orks is considered evil, but I think they’re good because at least they’re honest. The others are all slave to some ideology that makes them kill the others- Orks do it because it’s what they love.
Ah, so in a way my prediction was correct!
I ask again, what is the point of the game if no one is what we would call good? Are there different outcomes if different factions win?
US Patents: Meaning?
I’m curious about the patents that you have in your signature area.
When I look at them they make me think of all of the conspiracy theories on the internet, and before it.
Facts that are true and self-evident do not need a patent.
So, are you saying that these ideas are protected because they are money making schemes?
Nope, I have the sig just because of a deal that I’d put whatever Old_Gobbo wanted me to there- it’s his deal, you’d have to ask him the significance of it.
No. “Almost” only counts in horse-shoes and hand grenades.
What you have done is taken “interested in freedom since you like to post on a philo site, and in that game the orks are the most free…”, and tweaked it to mean “is considered evil, but I think they’re good because at least they’re honest. The others are all slave to some ideology that makes them kill the others- Orks do it because it’s what they love…”.
Now, of course it could mean that, but it could also mean several other things. This is due to the initial ambiguity of the statements in general, meaning, one can attribute many other descriptions and make more associations between symbols; posting at a philo site can be an expression of freedom, for example, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that his wanting to play an ork character is a manifestation of that desire to be free. You made that association…it doesn’t come default with what is already ambiguous, anyway.
Using this sleight is complimentary to your attempts to believe yourself psychic.
Here’s a fun one: ask a person to answer quickly and honestly, and assure them that there are no tricks. Ask them these questions in set order, and ask them quickly (don’t give them time to think)-
- What’s five plus two?
- What’s two plus five?
- What’s four plus three?
- What’s three plus four?
Then immediately ask them what color they are thinking of. Now of course they will not be thinking of a color until that question is asked, because they will be thinking of numbers…specifically those mentioned and finally “seven,” the answer to each question.
More than not, (if you do this to several people), they will say “red” when asked the final question. Some speculate that this is because the sound of the terms red and seven are more similiar than any other color/number combination. This is interesting. It tells me that the mind is so efficient that in producing the answer “red” it simply modified the syllabic structure of the term seven, and that it really didn’t have a color in mind at all.
Just speculation, and there are anomalies everywhere. I’ve done this to people while I was wearing a green shirt, and they still answered red. I’ve done it to people who answered with a color that was in their direct view, etc. Every and all possible scenario has taken place, still, more times than not, the answer is “red.”
Where does one even begin deconstructing and accounting for all the possibile variations in each particular setting? Is my theory of the syllables correct? I could never know.
Psychic predicition is a kind of thing that, if indeed real, could never be gotten hold of in such a way to be proven.
You should also remind yourself to count the misses, too, as much as you might want to ignore them.
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Sorry to keep asking, but what about the goals of the game?
I love military strategy games, but only if I feel like I’m defending some ideal.
Give me the rundown!