Procurator

I strictly read fiction (and reference books for work, of course). Currently reading: The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko. Intend to read: The entire Discworld series. Maybe some more Dune stuff too - I'm only up to Children of Dune . Fav...

Why is everyone saying they'll farm for them? I've always considered farming to be the random mowing down of NPCs to obtain randomly dropped items (RSI pills, frags etc). You'll mission for these trousers.

*Laughs.*

PS10N wrote: I'm sure Stanford University will be abashed to hear that you take exception to their publication. " /> It's agreed that emotions could be simulated, emulated, synthesized, but they wouldn't be real emotions. Obviously there i...

PS10N wrote: "On the existential view, to understand what a human being is it is not enough to know all the truths that natural science — including the science of psychology — could tell us. The non-reductive dualist is no better off in th...

Chemuel wrote: Procurator wrote: That's not a bad idea, and I've heard something like that elsewhere. If that's the case, I'd love to know what they're computing. But then, I also want to know what the Machine Civilisation actually does ....

That's not a bad idea, and I've heard something like that elsewhere. If that's the case, I'd love to know what they're computing. But then, I also want to know what the Machine Civilisation actually does .

I wouldn't use quantum theory to explain away things (a la magic), as it's not... that big a mystery these days. String theory maybe, but again, there are experts out there who could dismiss a lot of supposed explanations. I think it's bes...

It's the fact that the Machines haven't reverted to the old Cycle that proves they want to give humanity a chance, or at least the more sensible subset of humanity, viz. the Machinists.

stewartdaniels1986 wrote: psilody wrote: To start with, there are laws regarding the behavior of energy in our universe, such as the Laws of Thermodynamics. These laws state, among other things, that energy in our universe can be neither c...

(( *Can't help but laugh.* ))

(( No offense to whoever plays Banshae, but... I know you're trying to portray an accent and I salute you for being creative in that regard. But for pity's sake! No accent uses that many apostrophes to approximate its pronunciation! I've h...

An interesting fact: The model for the player character, Chell, is the same woman who provided the motion capture for MxO's female characters! http://www.alesiaglidewell.com

Good to see Zion is having about as much luck with that oddball as we are.

I present to you the latest madness from Yahtzee. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...-The-Orange-Box He loves it. End of.

*Puts Hook's theme tune on Winamp.*

Zerotolerance wrote: I believe in the closest canonical reference, it's 2199 by the time of the first movie. When Morpheus said 'it's closer to 2199', he did so in the assumption that there had only been one Zion. It's definitely much late...

Just to clear it up for those who haven't grasped as much from the latest intelligence leak - sorry, report - we no longer have a Morpheus simulacrum.

Wait a minute... Was this our simulacrum? Who the hell let him out?! No wonder he didn't work if the Merovingian was futzing with him. Gargh! Someone's going to pay for this. It could have worked.

And it's worth it! It's short, but Portal is absolutely awesome. I won't spoil it, but let's just say that the second half is nothing you could have expected. This is gonna sound odd until you see it for yourself, but the credits sequence...

Karl Jenkins - Cantus - Song Of The Spirit I'm sure I'm not the only one listening to (sort of) New Age.

That's pretty sexy. Using those technologies you could, say, photograph someone, then take them out of the picture by just deleting the background - 'cos the photo knows what the background is! No more faffing about with pixel selections t...

Mere hours remain! What's everyone gonna play first? I'm tempted by Portal. I know Episode 2's gonna be awesome, but it's more of the same, whereas Portal's something new. Pity I've got to go into town for a few hours, right as the games u...

Simulacra. I never use Patchers, 'cos they annoy me. But it really shouldn't be hard to make them only buff their own team, or at least their own org. I get the feeling a couple of lines of code that are present in other NPCs were just lef...

I reckon Sylar's still in an illusion too, which would be funny 'cos that very same trick was pulled in the most recent episode of Stargate Atlantis. Sylar's a cool character, so I'm kinda glad he's back. The reason it's dumb, though, is t...

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: #cd /live/servers ; ls -1 Recursion Syntax Vector-Hostile #mv Syntax At\ least\ it\'s\ a\ nice\ day #ls -1 Recursion At least it's a nice day Vector-Hostile #exit Why did you just rename Syntax?

Dev updates. Thank you Master Bit! That all sounds groovy. Not sure about the black archive rewards, though. I know the areaK is popular, but if even more people start wearing black I'm not going to look even remotely unique. Rarebit wrote...

Cmdr_Dezreki wrote: Wow. I came here to look at the mission Archangel got immortalized in, and learned I'm in *two*?! Two?! You beat me! Well, actually, I could be referenced vaguely in a second mission, but the 'Proc' on one of the comput...

Croesus wrote: Heh, you see Proc.... Self convincing omniscience at it's very best, even if it has gone off in a tangent You got it! That last argument in particular was pretty funny too: equating a simulation with points in a debate. Clas...

PS10N wrote: Continuing to read more astounding ignorance or deliberate deception here, I'll continue to try to educate: Agents with a 100 NKLE don't morph from bluepills like level 255 NKLE Agents do. Asking you to check your facts before...

(( Click the images: there was talking. ))

H'mm. Looks like this Colt guy is a bit of an idiot. Cervacius wrote: Instance? Recon button? Gank? ./highfive?????? (( I think the other terms were breaking the fourth wall a bit, but the three instances are long accepted in MxO's univers...

H'mm.

If you insist...

You are incorrect.

GirlyGurl84 wrote: Everytime a new update is launched ie. 8.1 8.2 8.3 the Cinematic NEVER work what gives Not true. Last update's cinematic was up early.

Okay... Agent Pace has completely flipped. And several people are going to be pretty happy with what that computer output.

GypsyJuggler wrote: Procurator wrote: H'mm. Someone needs to be schooled in the way of timezones. Servers were supposed to go down at 4am PST/12pm GMT, but they're down now - an hour early. In other words 4am PDT/12pm BST. Daylight Savings...

H'mm. Someone needs to be schooled in the way of timezones. Servers were supposed to go down at 4am PST/12pm GMT, but they're down now - an hour early. In other words 4am PDT/12pm BST.

Goodness. I didn't even realise they were making a fourth. Groovy!

The email interface now has a 'Save' button. Press this button to store an email you're writing. You can then close your mail interface, and go do something else, like chat. When you re-open the mail interface and start composing a new mai...

kou_urake wrote: Hmm... wonder if this means I can finally get that severance pay Wright owed me... Tell me about it. John Skeers ain't happy.

Well done Cypherites. You failed again .

Othinn1 wrote: his ship crashed when the Machines' virus hit old Zion's database. The ship was still running off of old Zion's systems. Wait a minute. Zion's mainframe got infected, so the hovercraft crashed? ... Wahahahahahahahahahahah! W...

They wouldn't dare get rid of the good liaisons, surely?

Any time would be good to have new orgs - if it won't mean cutting back on things like critical missions. Which at this point (and until MxO closes, presumably) isn't the case.

Garu wrote: Machinists are exactly thrilled with the Truce being absolved I assume you meant aren't .

Still waiting on evidence to support the following claims: 1. The Machines violated the Truce and Zion never did; 2. The bombs that destroyed the Terra Nova were supplied by the Machines; 3. The 500,000 Sentinels were mobilised because acc...

Maybe they should just start again from scratch. You know, like hire a professional! *Seethes for a few seconds.* It seems to working again now. That is, back to its usual level of mediocrity.

PS10N wrote: The Machines are guilty of premeditated murder with intent to commit genocide. That is an indisputable fact. You're trying to justify wholesale unprovoked murder but you say I fail in the eyes of reason? You fail in the eyes o...

Eh-heheheh. I've seen those MMO logos as well, every now and then. I hope they're not going to be a permanent feature at the top of the forums. Last thing we need is more stuff clogging it up.

I've honestly never seen it do this before, and I'm on the forums every day. Maybe the odd image missing. But right now I'm counting all bar three of the posting GUI images gone, the whole header bar including the MxO logo, the images at t...

Then you fail in the eyes of reason. Simple as that. I'm sure others will back me up on that. Oh yeah, and something I forgot to add (( and couldn't 'cos these forums are really driving me up the wall tonight )): where are you getting your...

Is anyone else getting major problems with the forums? That is, besides the usual ones. I'm getting images vanish at random, missing stylesheets (links turn black on a black background, etc) and even some JavaScript functions stop working...

GoDGiVeR wrote: I didn't think that you would lie to yourself there, Proc. It wasn't said directly, true, but everybody (including you) knows that what was being said by Pace / Gray (can't remember who made the request) indicates this very...

PS10N wrote: The Machines violated the Truce; Zion never did . Proof of this repeated claim, please. PS10N wrote: planted bombs they got from the Machines Proof that they got them from the Machines, please. PS10N wrote: "give us free acces...

GoDGiVeR wrote: Eh? New Zion is considered by many Machines and Machinists a threat, like a weapon. But our "weapon" violates the truth? Ah well, being out of point blank range of their army is not what the Machines prefer, it seems. Human...

(( That's why Rare should use my chat log formatter like I suggested many months ago. Sure, you'd still have to delete the offending OOC text, but deleting text is easier than fiddling with images and re-exporting them. ))

PS10N wrote: Seems to me the purposes and objectives of both sub-orgs are still alive and well, why else would people have such a passionate reaction? I swear, you have to beat the point over the heads of MxO players with a large smelly tr...

PS10N wrote: Overwriting Redpills violated the Truce Debatable. PS10N wrote: Funding a secret undercover sub-org to murder people in their sleep violated the Truce I don't recall the Machines doing that. Oh, yeah, they did create a secret...