SD on 30/8/2006 at 11:00
Quote Posted by Frikkinjerk
Yea, and you've oversimplified a complex psychiatric disorder to include all categorical instances of insanity, apparently.
Some helpful advice. It is better to not post and have everyone think you are an ignoramus than to post a load of twaddle and confirm the fact. That would include throwing around terms like "psychopath" and "insanity" when you clearly don't know what those terms mean.
themetalian on 30/8/2006 at 16:42
I blame the parents for Karras' upbringing. :p
Goldmoon Dawn on 30/8/2006 at 17:36
I strongly agree with everything theBlackman said. It was imperative that others did the work for Karras.
nicked on 30/8/2006 at 18:25
Quote Posted by theBlackman
It is more like Karras fostered the experiments that resulted in the inventions, or came up with ideas for them. "Could you/we make a XYZ..." is not the same as doing the research, drafting the plans and constructing the device.
Yeah, like people who post in the Fan Mission forum saying "Can someone who knows Dromed make XYZ mission cos I think it would be cool!"
:cheeky:
242 on 30/8/2006 at 20:43
Heretics! How can you dare to mock the Master???
Bow to Karras... and the Builder.
Goldmoon Dawn on 30/8/2006 at 23:15
*cough*
Quote Posted by nicked
Yeah, like people who post in the Fan Mission forum saying "Can someone who knows Dromed make XYZ mission cos I think it would be cool!"
:cheeky:
You are in ways correct.
Karras had no super powers guys... No fireball finale.
The LGS villains were always executed in, unconventional ways.
RavynousHunter on 31/8/2006 at 03:26
I believe that Karras' "insanity" began in, like the others said, his early childhood. However, i believe that he had problems with his father, he might have been a drunk, abusive, or any combination thereof. This led to Karras developing a severe speech impediment, due to the beatings. His hatred and loathing of his father, combined with his innate distrust and hatred of others, most likely due to bullying, caused him to become moderately antisocial. Because he had a lack of a true father figure, he found refuge in the Hammers, where he found the Builder to be a surrogate father to him. However, he was also quite possibly the subject of ridicule in Hammer society, due to his speech impediment and slight insanity. After a long period of supressing his pent-up aggression, he finally suffered true madness, causing a revolt within the Hammer society, and creating the Mechanists. Since his living father figure was such a failure, he felt the need to prove to himself that he was better than his father, creating his "children", but eventually becoming just as abrasive, and even abusive as his forebearer. However, he was very charismatic, and very intelligent, which combined with his insanity, created a very dangerous person, a Hitler type persona, which enabled him to accumulate massive amounts of followers in a very brief amount of time.
Overlord Nexus on 31/8/2006 at 07:17
Karras is a dick. I think some people are just dicks by nature, with no obvious reason for being that way, and Karras is in that category.
What intrigues me though, is how did Karras manage to found the Mechanist order? How did he gain so many loyal followers? He's got no charisma whatsoever. He's smart but not brilliant. And what you hear of his spritual views is such utter drivel no same person could be taken in by it. Plus, he's a dick.
nicked on 31/8/2006 at 08:07
he may not have charisma, but he's smart. All he's got to do is win a few followers based on his genius inventions, and they'll start spreading the word for him. I don't think it would have been hard for him to convert the younger Hammerites - they would feel stifled by the rigid structure of the Hammers and rush to join a seemingly more forward-thinking, positive organisation.
242 on 31/8/2006 at 08:50
I personally think that Karras is a brilliant villain.
He is enigmatic, original, twisted freak, not your usual Uber monster. When I played T2 for the first time I was VERY afraid of him. Perhaps it was because English isn't my native language and his mumblings seemed to me rather sinister than ridiculous.
