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  1. Originally Posted By: MMXPERT

    Greetings people of Spiderwebia, I have returned!


    Good to have you back; I'd thought you'd left this place forever. tongue

    You know that NW is doing a Geneforge-inspired forum RP now ?

    And I wanted to play a Super Contra multiplayer with you ever since you mentioned that you frequent a russian server, but neither of my NES emulators (fceu and NESten) seem to support games between multiple computers.
  2. Originally Posted By: Dintiradan
    My first algorithms textbook was "Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms" by Anany V. Levitin. Smaller, easier to read, not as much coverage and depth.


    It's the same book (2nd Edition) we're using in this semester, it being recommended by my university as the next step up from Mark Allen Weiss' book "Data Structures and Algorithms" which was prescribed earlier.

    As for C++, my first author was Sumita Arora. I think she's the best. ^_^
  3. Originally Posted By: Thralni
    BMA: Yup, although I have no idea how you managed to remember that. Sooo long ago...


    I didn't know, I just guessed you're Parus major. I was going over the old Shadowvale forums one day when I saw your I'm-back topic where you said you were a Flight Simulator fan.

    I hadn't heard of the HIM series either (must be really long back), but I just downloaded the first part and am going to play it.
  4. Originally Posted By: Dantius & SoT

    Originally Posted By: BMA
    While it's a fact that the colonists did bring with them some technological advancements, it would be unfair to assume that the colonies would otherwise, even now, be backward and leaf-clad.

    Nope. *snip*


    I was looking at it from the Indian perspective. Back when India was a British colony, the only advancements of note that the English introduced were the railways, canals and the telegraph system. Some religious superstitions were banned, but they were part of ordinary Hinduism at the time. And while these factors definitely ushered the Indians in to development, it must be noted that they weren't club-wielding cave dwellers to begin with, and they were reasonably well off, though of course not 'booming'. Will India not even have been a 'developing' country if not for the British invasion ? Maybe.

    But what really riled me was the reference to 'savages' and the apparent implication that the colonies of old should, far from sulking, be actually grateful enough to thank their 'benefactors' for having been colonized, or even that the two were on equal terms and had a mutually beneficial "We give you this (technology) and you give us that (resources, manpower)" agreement which was satisfactory to both parties. Because we know that it wasn't anything like that all; the colonists always had the upper hand and muscled their less luckier counterparts into submission. sterb003.gifsterb042.gif
  5. Originally Posted By: Alex
    Well, even if those noble savages hadn't been the object of colonialism, they would probably have found out at a later date that other people have cars and refrigerators, and wanted to have them, too.


    While it's a fact that the colonists did bring with them some technological advancements, it would be unfair to assume that the colonies would otherwise, even now, be backward and leaf-clad.

    (I hope I understood what you meant, correctly)
  6. If people can even eat each other to survive, they'll probably willingly suffer the inconveniences of living on the moon too.

     

    Besides, even honest hardworking citizens will probably be tempted to commit a crime, just for the novelty of living in outer space.

  7. Originally Posted By: GuItAr ZeRo - PiNk It Up
    First poller laugh


    u want a cookie or something ? tongue

    I've only read about singleton parties in the Avernum's; I usually take all of the four characters. But I did play as an agent in Geneforge once as I got tired of selecting and managing my creations as a shaper.
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