Phoenix-TheRealDeal
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Meanwhile, more than 11,000 images of deep space have been obtained and are available for anyone to see or study... and that has to be very, very good! So, is the glass half full or is it half empty... as time marches on and resources aren't unlimited?
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Ah, youi're doing fine, Loonis... and more power to you for trying.
I am not just anti-psychology or psychologists as a helping profession. There are times when people need a therapist's 'intervention' in order to get themselves 'centered' again. And, as is the case for any 'community', there are good therapists and bad therapists... so getting a good one is often like a 'crapshoot'... a rolling of the dice. However, I DO think that 'traditional Freudian psychoanalysis' is largely 'bunkum' and typically wasteful of patient time and money... therefore impractical and to be avoided.
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Bush stated that all human spaceflight would be directed to support the effort of putting people on the Moon and Mars. The shuttle, which is the only means by which NASA could service Hubble, is to be devoted to finishing construction of the space station.
That's what, I reckon.
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Like...curing cancer. Or HIV.
Yeah, I could go for that, either one but for me preferably the first as I have it.
But, there is no guarantee that throwing any amount of money at a challenge will resolve it in our favor. Ever since the cure for polio was found, more correctly vaccine to immunize against it, the Community Chest 'Red Feather Society' changed their goals from defeating polio to defeating cancer. Since then billions and billions of dollars have been put into that effort by charitable agency and government funding in the USA alone over the past half a century, and we still are not near a cure for cancer.
Meanwhile recently the Y2K bug posed the treat of imminent disaster to our virtual network controls of just about 'everything' and over a period of only a few years a humongous amount of money thrown into fixing that by government and industry worldwide... 99+% effective in the nick of time. *whew!* And business went on as usual.
The challenges facing the world and inherent in the future are far more complicated than would come to the mind of one who has only lived in it for a decade and a half, so it makes no sense to that person that anyone would fight a war, spend money on anything other than for the advancement of science or making of the 'good life' for everyone... things happen contrary to that because human beings are not controlled by a central locus of shared focus having freedom of will to act 'differently' from one-another.
Yet it is the idealism of youth reborn again with every new generation that keeps trying and trying and trying to 'make everything right' though it cannot, will not ever happen that way. I am fond of saying, "In life one should always remain flexible because there are only a few things that are certain: taxation, changes during it, and the end of it." I've lived long enough to have come to believe it as a truism.
A 'middle course' need be found while at the same time ALL challenges sought to be adequately dealt with... an almost impossible task. But, little-by-little, some progress is made.
Although... one has to wonder how that is possible when one thinks back about how the U.N. was supposed to be the solution to the resolution of international affairs and instead has become more of a harbor for political block grandstanding, pilferage and corruption than an ameliorating factor in the affairs of men? The answer is simply that it will not, cannot be, because mankind has certain inherent character traits that won't be changing any time soon... yet most of us who've been around for a while would say that the mere survival of the U.N. since its inception is a matter of some small progress being made in the affairs of men.
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Imagination run amok in the psycho-drama of his own mind coloured by his own sexual inadequacies as a man and limited in his faulty synthesis of psychoanalitical theory by the time, place and circumstances of his time; has had an inordinate amount of influence in development of an industry that enables/keeps people going like forever and ever to see their shrinks paying exhorbitantly for their time suporting them in a style befitting of their professional moniker status of doctor... you can get more out of a group of freinds in a realistic sense at a lot less cost and without exploring the myriad ramifications of Greek mythological persona complexes. Out-of-date and 'overdone' misguidance of contemporary therapists to this day (though suiting their own pecuniary purpose well enough)... thus not really even very helpful to those who seek 'psychological help' and understanding.
Gee, I guess that means that I don't think very highly of him or his work.
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Phoenix Clan IS an 'official' 0ad clan... to the extent that is possible to be at the moment, and has been since it's inception in August of 2003.
What do I mean by to the extent that it is possible to be?
Well, we maintain our own 0ad forum known as the 0ad Centre AND a webpage known as the 0ad Province... although not much is posted there currently as disemination of the News of the game's development is now in the hands of the 0ad PR Department and the 0ad Website 'tells it all' with regard to that. However, you can rest assured that when the time comes to do beta testing and such that Phoenix Clan members will be participating in that, and so forth as things continue on.
In the meantime, Phoenix members continue to be involved in playing a range of games, and in general being a great online 'family' of freinds who treat each other with respect and have a good time, and joining is as easy as following the rules of good behavior online.
Phoenix Clan is located at=> www.phoenixclan.biz
If you go there, you might take a 'stroll' through "Members"... and it may surprise you to find out just who are some of those wearing the Phoenix- prefix name tag on their names.
Tonto Clan at=> www.tontoclan.com is another clan that wants to be a participating official 0ad gaming clan.
Tonto Clan also has or has had some people on staff here at WFG. (The Tonto Clan has been 'reorganised' since I was actively in it, but that's not to say that is bad.)BTW, I don't wear my clan tag in my sig here because normally when I am here I am "all business" wrt the development of this game... so haven;t considered it to be 'appropriate'. OMMV.
Cheers,
Ken Wood aka Phoenix-TheRealDeal, Propraetor of Phoenix Clan (co-founder--Aug 2003, and former Co-Consul) aka tonto_real (Patriarch and co-founder--Mar 2000, and first-former Emperor of the old-original Tonto Clan).
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While the legions met some mild resistance while conquering the eastern and central areas of Iberia,
While I wouldn't necessarily call it to have been "mild" resistance in quite a few instances, this is an excellent history about Viriato... and one can see from it that someone oughta make a Hollywood epic... OR perhaps develop a campaign in 0ad following Viriato's life. ThumbUP, mate.
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I like it, Michael.
It STILL conveys some of the artistic ezpression found in the Tartessian Sanctuary archeological site in Spain... very good! Also, the tops of the two pillars at the front could be used as the mounting bases for statues of Ataecina & Endovelico, eh? -
It is a good idea, Bakayaro. In fact, you can, and I do it, playing RM AoK.
Let's just say a 1v1 or a 2v2, frexs.
If I want a relatively short game I can select the Tiny map (easier to flush or rush on, game over toot sweet). If I want to go with a loooonnnnger game, I select the Giant map.
The larger maps are scripted to have more resources appear on them because there is more 'space', and of course they've been designed to carry more civs playing in balance on them, too. Yes, selecting map size at one extreme or the other does have the net effect of giving you a noticeably different game type to play because both strategy and tactics will have to conform to the chosen mapworld. And, amongst quite a few other things, you'll be able to do that in 0ad.
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Well, you see, the rest of them were hiding in ambush... uh, that's what you do when you set up an ambush... hide.
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Yes, they did.
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In a normal RMS, yes, they would be.
If you are designing a scenario, you could choose whatever of them that you want to place.
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Titus Ultor, there is no job at WFG/0ad that doesn't entail a LOT of work in the process of making an excellent game.
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That it IS... and it's pretty obvious that he has a 'love affair' with Hellenic civilisation, isn't it.
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Actually, in that type of construction the beams or "vigas" as they are called are only placed going 'one way', the the roofing is built up uopn them. So the illustration is absolutely correct in that respect.
As for windows, they would have been kept small... window glazing was not readily available 2,000 year ago.
But furthermore the smaller apertures helped to keep heat in during Winter and heat out during Summer. So a dearth of small narrow windows is also correct... indeed still being built that way in some locales even today.Nice job, Michael. I like it.
I might also mention that the Farm Centre in 0ad (in this case Hacienda) is not only an important structure because it enables both corrals and fields but because it is garrisonable. And though garrisonable, it is not a 'fighting building', so garrisonable only for temproary protection of units within... usually for Female Citizens one would think... and until some fighting guys in the area, Citizen Soldiers, can either do or do not do thier thing. And yeah, it might be wise to build a Torre Iberica somewhere near your 'remote' Haciendas.
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Otherwise, I love the motiff that you have selected to protray these buildings.
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Mike, he's not talking about (though he said "small one") the lanai over the frontdoor entry but the other roof over the 'work' or 'storage' area. the way you have it drawn sloping down toward the front door in a rain itsa gonna cause a flood and mud in the front yard... so if sloped to the 'outside' away from the front of the structure would be more common sensical way to go.
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Nice.
I could live in a house like that. Come to think on it, I HAVE!
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The giant doors/gate is closed... you just can't see it back there in the vestibule.
Yeah, there will be units up there on the turrets.. when the Castro is garrisoned.
I will point out a rather unique feature of the Iberians Castro (all civs have some features that are unique to them alone). You may notice in the concept drawing (though they haven;t been all filled in roundabout the left side, that the structure seems to be setting atop a 'rock pile'.
Well it IS of sorts as Iberian Castros were typically built upon high or higher rocky places. As such, the Iberians' Castro has a larger footprint on the terrain than do the fortresses of other civs and indeed it sets higher above the plane of the surrounding terrain than other will. The ramification of this is that it also accrues to itself a greater elevation bonus and LOS for units garrisoned within. That is keeping in character of the Iberians civ being spec'd as 'the' defensive civ in 0ad.
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And with the addition of a little mercantile eye-candy to it, you shall have complied well.
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I'll betcha that I know.....
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HistoryGuy,
Start now to draft your plan for a Numantine War scenario, or better Campaign... it is a story that 'needs to be told'... and you'll be able to do that with 0ad.
Heck, Caros might even live through the night only to get up and fight again the next day and the outcome be different, too? But perish the thought that Nobilior should do so and the Romans never have had thier dies aster. -
Argalius,
You won't think they be so funny when you come up against one or more of those fully garrisoned bad boyz guarding the way through a critical pass in the mountains... lol.
This is one of two structures designed to be unique to the Iberians civilisation which is also designed to be 'the' defensive civ in 0ad... though others have certain defensive qualities, too. And, as you'll one day see, the Iberians will be apt and well enough disposed to go on the offensive as well... but methinks that 'the turtlers' are gonna LOVE the Iberians as those two structures coupled with some other aspects of the civ are just gonna pester the heck outa aggressors.
HistoryGuy,
It is entirely apt to presume that the Iberians civ would categorically fit into a "Numantine War scenario" like a hand fits into a well made glove. And, it didn't take the Romans more than a century to suppress the peoples of the peninsula just for naught.
Yep, methinks that the Iberians are gonna be pesky... leastwise that's what I designed them to be based upon the historical record.
In fact, the only thing that in thier time kept them from coalescing culturally into a single entity that could have been a conqueroring civ... was the lack of a good commander-in-chief such as yourself. Well, that and a certain naivete when it came to believing that the Romans were honorable men good at thier word.
The great Dr. Sigmund Freud
in Hall of Intellectuals
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Interesting... and interesting about your gf, too.
There's an old axiom that says whom you associate with has a tendency to rub off on you... meaning that over time you become more like the people you are around even though you may be quite the individual personality-wise in your own right. Yoour associations colour your thoughts and actions both internalised and externalised. With regard to this I have learned for myself and counseled my own kids, frex, to be careful about whom they choose as freinds... and would give that advice as a non-medical prescription to anyone.
However, in your girlfreind's case she's had no choice in the matter in choosing whom her mother would be, so the only thing that could help her is to recognize what it is that her mother does to herself and the consequences of that having "rubbed off" on her, too. Finally then, she, your girlfreind needs to come to an understanding that how she reacts to that is merely a matter of making her own choices. Yes, she can CHOOSE not to be like her mother, SHE can CHOOSE to get over her own fear by placing it behind her... and that is the beauty in the fact that huiman beings have "free will". In essence then she is merely 'walking away' from a mental affliction. She CAN do that and make herself 'well'... she just has to know that she can and that it is alright for her to do so.
Kudos to you for helping her along that path.