Fear, desire, affectivity are manifestations of the pseudo-entity which constitutes pseudo-bondage. It is the entity, rather than the manifestations thereof, which has to be eliminated.
"The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei
The pseudo entity is the false self. Only it knows fear,desire, and aversion.
The true self exists only as pure love or as no thing.
If you experience either of the latter 2, you act from your true core.
Ralph Skinner
B :-) d0c
Here is a great video of some otters holding hands. Why did I put it? Because it entertained me.
It's a pretty decent video, but only about 10 to 15 seconds need to be watched to get the idea. And the audio of "awww" and "oh look at that" was a bit too vocal for me.
Now I saw this little video browsing through the net, and just had to show you how good it was.
Basically, its a specially breed of penguins. And these penguins fly!
Here is the original link to the youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4
Most installations will then tell you to check your phone for any other necessary steps to be taken. Do this on your phone!
The program should have now installed itself. You may need to browse to the program folder and click on it to start it, but it should be there and it should now work.
Congratulations, and now go have fun.
Now to use your phone!
The program should have now installed itself. You may need to browse to the program folder and click on it to start it, but it should be there and it should now work.
Congratulations, and now go have fun.
Here is another rant from Doc, including a quote from Wei Wu Wei.
Fear, desire, affectivity are manifestations of the pseudo-entity which constitutes pseudo-bondage. It is the entity, rather than the manifestations thereof, which has to be eliminated.
"The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei
The pseudo entity is the false self. Only it knows fear,desire, and aversion.
The true self exists only as pure love or as no thing.
If you experience either of the latter 2, you act from your true core.
Ralph Skinner
There are two emails about spiders, circulating on the net.
Both contain misinformation.
The first email shows a spider and the supposed effects of its bite.
1/ The spider shown looks to be the Brown Recluse spider. This does not occur in
Australia, but inhabits America.
2/ The wounds shown might result from spider bite, but they also could be the result of
other medical conditions including Necrotizing Fasciitis, caused by a type of streptococcus.
3/ In Australia, the White Tailed spider has come under scrutiny for its possible role in
causing nasty skin lesions, but the jury is still out on that one, because:
(a) Not everyone bitten by the White Tailed spider develops skin lesions.
(b) Not everyone bitten by a spider collects it and has it identified. Even if they did, there is
a scarcity of experts.
(c) The skin is limited in the ways in which it can react to any noxious insult, thus a
reaction to a bite can resemble infection, and vice versa. Even finding a bacteria in a
wound is not proof of cause, since bacteria often colonize wounds that they did not
cause.
The second email claims that Funnel Web spiders are new to Qld. They are not. They
have always been here. Sydney just gets all the glamor. The Qld Funnel Webs are slightly
different from the Sydney ones.
If you want further information, key into Google, either, of the names of the spiders or key
in “Robert Raven” and search pages in Australia.
Or just delete the emails.
They promote arachnophobia, present misinformation, or are just hoaxes.
Ralph Skinner
B :-) doc
As you read in the title, this is a review/rant of the mobile company 3.
I must say I have never talked to a customer support service that is more clueless. The whole process was entirely fucked up. Let me explain why I say this:
I believe this is the European version of Planet 3. Unfortunately its one of the best pictures I could get of it. Notice how its the same brand as my phone...
Bad:
This is looking at it from above. Pretty cool, huh?
Year Made: October 2005
Console: PC
Company: Ensemble Studios
Graphics: 5
Story-line: 7
Controls: 8
Overall: 8
- Details -
However, again to the detail, your characters no longer need to return to the town center or designated building to drop off resources. Somehow they have infinite pockets that go straight to the resource holding center.
I should point out I was shocked at part of the graphics. When I first installed the program, the very first screen you see is the Home City screen. Which graphics were amazing for this style of game. I was so excited, thinking these were the sort of graphics you would be dealing with in actual game play. But reality is so much harsher.
- Story line -
As most people know this style of game does not really have any true set story line. It has been designed more so for quick games and gaining points per account.
However, there are several campaigns for you to follow if you wish. These campaigns will base around a character (or a number of characters) who will generally lead your armies into battle. You still have full control over them, and your armies, as they end up acting more like Generals than anything else.
Again, the basic story line will follow for these. Something has been stolen from them, and they are trying to retrieve it. Or an invading army is threating the peace at home, and you must defend your country and culture. Throughout the campaigns smaller stories are thrown in that you must deal with to reach the overall outcome.
The gameplay works the same throught each and every game however, which I found was a fair bit of disappointment. You create your home base, send your villagers to collect your resources such as food, gold and wood. And from those resources you purchase and build more buildings, purchase building and army upgrades, or train fighters. And once you have enough resources behind you to support you through a war (which will provide a strain on the resources as you train more and more fighters) you send your army off into the distance and slaughter everything and anything in your path.
Going back to the point system for a while. You gain your experiance points according to buildings built, upgrades, and enemy units killed. You get your overall level points, which accounts for your home city level. These are slow to level up, and often require a number of games/battles before your level goes up. You then also have your home shipments, which require far less experience points and are used during in game play, where you get to select from a number of cards bonuses and extra resources to use throughout the game. You cards can be unlocked at your Home City screen, with a number of cards available per city level. You can also customise your city with flags, lights, different types of people, etc. But once they are out and about in your home city, apart from removing them, that's about all the interaction with them your gonna get. A nice pretty background for your menu structure really.
-Controls -
So this game can work entirely off point and click mouse controls, but it also supports many keyboard commands that often will create, select or destroy various objects and units within your city. So far with my experience, the controls have functioned pretty much flawlessly. You click on a unit, and it almost always select it, no need to be extremely precise and try and click them on their head a few hundred times (like a hammer).
One feature I did like, and which many new games do include now-a-days, is the drag and select military. Even if your armies are in the middle of the town surrounded by livestock and villagers, you can easily select them now. I hated the older games where you had to individually select them (a pain in the butt for when you were getting seriously attacked by enemies).
- Overall -
So what do I think overall? It's a very decent game, particularly for the year produced. It's about time Ensemble Studios released another game like it (which I believe Halo Wars will be the next similar game). However there are aspects to this game that many serious RTS players may not like. None the less, this game is DEFINITELY worth trying. Many people really enjoy it.
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