TheGreatGodPan on 8/7/2006 at 04:27
Sorry to break the news to you, but atlantis is made up and if you had clicked the second-to-last link in my previous post, you'd know that Herman Goerring admitted that the nazi system was a failure, regardless of the admittedly horrible event that happened at Dresden. I know I'm not a genius, and that is why I do rely on information from other people. Neither you nor I have ever been to Atlantis or met and Cro-magnons, but other people have investigated such things and made their findings public so that other knowledgeable people could read and critique them. That's the way things work in the real world, although in the fantasy land you live in things are much more fun as you can make up whatever you want and ignore whatever anyone calls on your treasured bullshit. I think your only hope is to track down (
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pscindx.htm) Steve Dutch, lock yourself in a room with him and refuse to come out until he's taught you how to be rational.
emg_nerd on 8/7/2006 at 07:17
Actually, the "azilians" were the last of the cro-magnons, which would coincide with plato's writings about the mysterious city of atlantis, where men with large bodies and blue eyes lived 9000 years ago. They were the last wave of cro-magnon invasions to inhabit the island of what is now actually known as the sunken city of atlantis.
The city was discovered under the sea on what used to be part of the minoan island near spain. Theory has it as atlantis was flooded by glacier floods and the majority of the cro-magnons died off.
Shame really. If only they knew what global warming was and survived, the world might be a better place.
AxTng1 on 10/7/2006 at 01:18
Quote Posted by heywood
Can you guys keep the discussion game related or find another forum. Please?
That sounds like an excellent idea. Please keep the Neo-nazi mythology discussion to a more appropriate site, like Combat-18.
RELEVENT DX2 POINT:
Templars are trying to tell me what I can do with my own body. Therefore thay can suck my double-modified Magrail.
Rogue Keeper on 10/7/2006 at 07:39
This IS relevant. Tempies are obvious neo-nazis! And nobody can object discussion about ideologies in the backround of the game world.
AND NUFF SAID!!! :ebil:
Shevers on 10/7/2006 at 16:29
... so, wait, templars are Cro-Magnons?
Me is smart.
trevor the sheep on 10/7/2006 at 17:43
u must be a cro-magnon wiv blue eyes and big penis!
Shevers on 10/7/2006 at 17:49
You're half right. :sly:
trevor the sheep on 10/7/2006 at 17:51
pale blue, average-sized?
heywood on 11/7/2006 at 16:17
Quote Posted by BR796164
This IS relevant. Tempies are obvious neo-nazis! And nobody can object discussion about ideologies in the backround of the game world.
I'm not sure I agree about the Templars being obvious neo-nazis. I don't think purity from augmentation is quite the same thing as racial purity, and the Templars use of JC's machine to achieve purity by unaugmenting the augmented can't really be compared with the Nazi practice of achieving purity by exterminating a race. The Nazis also believed in a master race which was destined to rule the world, whereas the Templars were opposing the creation of a master race through augmentation. Finally, genetic engineering is a current day analogue of nanoaugmentation, and if a group today formed to oppose genetic engineering, we wouldn't call them neo-nazis.
I think the major factions in the game are intended by the designers to roughly represent the following political systems:
Templars -> fascism
Helios/Dentons -> communism
Illuminati -> capitalism
Omar -> anarchism
Of couse, the form of communism represented in game is a rather utopian one whereas the form of global capitalism represented in game is a rather cynical one.
P.S. A discussion of how political ideologies relate to the game is not off topic. But discussions of Atlantis, Cro-Magnons, brain size and IQ, glorifying Nazis, arguing whether regimes were far right or far left, and taunting the newbie with wacky views all seem pretty unrelated to the game.
Dr. Dumb_lunatic on 11/7/2006 at 17:07
But nonetheless funny.
And a sufficient level of funny is normally enough to outweigh offtopicness. In my experience, anyway.
