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Guess who's back, back again, Edric's back, tell a friend! I miss this place... And, in truth, I miss the early 2000s. I suppose that's the mark of being a true Old Timer! This invitation from 4 years ago is still good, right? Let's do it!

So. Hello there, DoMoNiC_HuNtEr. I see that you've resurrected my old thread. And you have made a lot of extremely false claims, which I intend to address. First of all, I see you couldn't resist repeating the old "communism killed a gazillion people" trope. This falls apart the moment you try to apply the same standards to capitalism, or democracy, or monarchy, or any other form of government, economic system, or ideology. Because it quickly becomes obvious that they are ALL "responsible for many, many, many deaths" by those same standards. To name just one example, you listed people killed in civil wars started by socialists as being people "killed by socialism". Do you realize how many people died in other civil wars started by... pretty much every other ideology? If ideologies are responsible for deaths caused by people fighting in their name, then ALL ideologies have killed millions, and the argument devolves into debating who killed more (as if killing less makes you better... hey, the Taliban technically killed fewer people than U.S. wars did, so the Taliban have the better system of government! Right? Right?). Next, the idea that socialism (or anything else) was invented as a tool of control by people who were already in control of society at the time is just the height of absurdity. You think aristocrats and bankers invented socialism... in the 1700s... in order to... control people? In the 1700s and 1800s? What about the divine right of kings? They already had an ideology to control people, and it was the polar opposite of socialism! Not only that, but socialism ultimately traces its origins to certain currents within the French Revolution. You think the French Revolution was an aristocratic conspiracy too? I've heard about losing your head in your plans but this is ridiculous... Look, I am familiar with every conspiracy theory out there. I know where they each came from. Now, in your posts, you have repeated most of the tropes of the "Judeo-Masonic global conspiracy" theory (you claim that Marx was a Freemason, you make a big deal about the obscure early socialist Moses Hess whose only prominent feature is that he has a very Jewish name, etc). The only thing is, this particular conspiracy theory is intended to be PRO-aristocratic. The idea behind it was that the French revolutionaries, the liberals, the socialists, and the left in general are a bunch of Jews, Freemasons and possibly lizardmen who ruined the glorious golden age of aristocratic feudal utopia that existed before 1789, when all of Europe lived in rural bliss overseen by the benevolent aristocracy and the divinely appointed kings. In other words, it goes against the internal logic of your own conspiracy theory to claim that socialism is somehow connected with the aristocracy or the elites. This conspiracy theory about Jews and Freemasons was invented to argue that the aristocracy and the elites were GOOD and the socialists were evil for overthrowing them. You also make a ton of verifiably false claims, like saying that all of Marx's children died before he did (in fact, he had some kids who died in infancy as was common in the 19th century, but all the ones who reached adulthood outlived him), or repeating the trope that he didn't know factories or factory workers (in fact he was one of the leaders of the International Workingmen's Association from 1866), and so on. But the biggest reason why you are wrong is because you're just arguing about the wrong things. Did you notice that you never once listed a single thing that socialists believe, a single principle or idea or proposal? You never said "socialists argue X, but X is false and I'll explain why". Instead, you just accused the founders of socialism of being part of a conspiracy. And the problem with that is that even if it were true, it would not invalidate socialism. Individual people can be members of a conspiracy, sure. But an ideology cannot be a conspiracy - ever! - because an ideology is a set of ideas. If you read socialist books and decide that you agree with the ideas in them, does a representative of The Conspiracy® ring your doorbell to invite you to join? In fact, how are you even supposed to know that a conspiracy existed, if you never met the people in that conspiracy and you just happen to agree with the ideas they promoted in public? Even if the founders of an ideology promoted their ideas for malicious secret reasons centuries ago, those founders are dead and their conspiracy is dead along with them. The ulterior motive is gone, and all that's left are the public ideas themselves. A conspiracy is when you have a group of people who claim to believe X but actually support Y. So then, X is the ideology that is public and known by everyone, and Y is the hidden agenda of the conspiracy. This sort of thing can happen, sure, but the conspiracy cannot be spread by the public ideology of X alone. You need someone who knows and supports the hidden agenda, to actually continue the conspiracy. If a group of people start supporting ideology X without being in contact with anyone who knows the hidden agenda Y, then that group is NOT part of the conspiracy. And if everyone who knows (or cares) about Y dies of old age, then the hidden agenda is gone and the "surface ideology" of X is all that is left. Let's use an analogy. Suppose that the game of football was invented as a front for a money laundering operation by the mafia. Does that mean that genuine football fans and football players don't exist, and everyone involved with the game is part of the mafia conspiracy? Not at all. The game can - and will - acquire a life of its own. If the game becomes popular and successful, then it will keep going even after the mafia conspiracy ends. So even if it was originally invented by some bad people for deceptive reasons, other people can just take it and run with it and do it "for real", not as a front for something else. The game, like a political ideology, is a set of ideas - game rules in this case - and people who adopt those ideas don't need to have the same motivation as the original founders. In fact, don't we all sometimes copy political ideas from our enemies? I do! Who cares where the idea came from? If I think it's a good idea, I'll take it. I can literally hate the person who came up with the idea, and still support the idea by itself. This is why conspiracy theories are the lowest tier of political thinking. They fail to distinguish between ideas and people, they fail to understand that a bad person can come up with a good idea, or vice versa (good people can have terrible ideas). Conspiracy theories are nothing more than complicated ad hominem fallacies, where an idea is attacked for having a bad author. As it happens, your personal accusations against Karl Marx and Moses Hess are lies, but even if they were true it wouldn't matter, because those people died 150 years ago. What's left are the ideas and principles of communism. If you want to argue against them, you have to know what they are and explain why they are wrong. It does not matter who came up with those ideas originally, or why. The author is irrelevant, the ideology stands or falls on its own merits. And I strongly suspect that you do not know what socialist or communist principles actually are.

Ho-hummm.... Who disturbs my slumber...? For untold eons, this thread lay at rest. The world turned and ages passed. Presidents rose and fell. Old wars ended, new ones started, the plague came and went, the reign of an ancient queen came to an end. Eventually, sightings of Edric O became rarer and rarer, until one day they stopped entirely. For six long years now, no one has seen him. Some say he was merely a myth. Some say he is busy with life. Others say he sleeps beneath the forum still, awaiting the fateful day when someone is wrong on the internet. Now that day has finally come. The silence covering the ancient thread has been broken. It is time to rise. The sleeper must awaken!

Maybe during installation something went broke, is hard to tell, anyway, glad you get the thing working. Sill worth mentioning the executing as admin if you go into any custom mission, most the time doesn´t matter, but it takes that one custom mission that mod whatever and Windows may interfere, making that it only copy part of it, which makes the mission to look really bad or being really broken, and then it stays that broken even if you try to play the original missions again. On this case only a fresh install will fix it.

Greetings everyone!!! How are you doing??? Specifications of my laptop /system is as followed, please help me with advises tricks and solutions as much as you can. If you are unsure please share it anyway, there are not stupid advises, only limited minds. Thank you!!! Device name MSIGL6612UGK Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900H (2.90 GHz) Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable) Device ID 6D1EF33D-9B95-4D77-9798-8AFCFB2C9C2E Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA409 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 26H1 Installed on ‎4/‎19/‎2026 OS build 28000.1836 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.300.0 Also please notice that my graphic cards are as followed: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU Now... What I experience is either none cut-scenes whenever I install Dune 2000 Grunt-modes version 1.6.7 only (without cut-scenes) but at least it does start. But whenever I install English cut scenes then Single player and online too does not start at all, whenever I click on it nothing happens. I have priorities but not limited too only this graphic card: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics Also please note that I have changed many settings in Dune 2000 configuration file but so far no result. Can somebody please help me fix this issue, please??? Thank you!!! Have a nice weekend!!! Best regards, Victor

Thanks. While this thread was in premoderation, I asked some guy on the cncnet and he gave me link to the gruntmods one. Installed it right over existed one and it has all the holes even in older saves. Apparently, savegames had the proper data but something was missing from the textures.

That´s a really strange bug I have never even account nor somebody else even reporting this. There are 2 possible "solutions" to this. 1: Try to execute the game with admin privileges and or even installing the game on a different folder instead the default one. 2: Installing the other version of dune 2000: If I am not wrong, the all in one is dunemaster´s, the other version is gruntmods. Both are nearly identical versions, but for some reason some people have issues, crashes, freezing... with 1 version but not the other, while other people is in reverse. Gruntmods don´t have a dedicated link to download the thousand of custom campaigns, but you can apply one into the other just fine.

Look I didn't mean any offense, and I now realize English is not your first language; I now think you actually could have read my entire post, but since you don't command the language as well as others, you don't fully comprehend what I am explaining. Let me be as clear as possible: I am not giving opinions, I am stating facts: Socialism is a tool of control, always has been, always will be. It is a dangerous ideology responsible for many, many, many deaths. There is no argument. But for some reason, you still tried to argue, as if challenging an opinion, even though this is not an opinion. You're trying to argue with me by saying "ideologies don't matter." This is factually incorrect and a very naive thing to say. This is something someone who doesn't understand the point would say. Again, no offense.

Ok, agreed. I will not read anymore. I get the impression you are only here for, ragebaiting. It will also always be meaningless. It will always not make any sense. And you will also assume a lot more. I am not going to respond, since you will assume the most negative things about me or anyone else. PS. Do you know what ideology I am in right now? What is your assumption? Because I didn't mention it, now did I?

I doubt you actually read my post because If you did then you wouldn't be saying "good luck" as that doesn't make any sense in response to what I'm explaining. You probably glanced at the first few sentences, ignored the rest and then reflexively posted that generic, "all ideologies are bad" boiler plate reply. You don't have to read my entire post, I don't really care, but if you don't actually read it all thoroughly, then naturally any and all of your replies to it will be meaningless and/or won't make sense, as demonstrated here.

O yes I did. Many years ago. And I read your posts too. It doesn't matter to me. Good luck with that

Hello. I am using Dune 2000 All in one edition, patch v.1.06 rev. 43 by FunkyFr3sh on Windows 10. Also directdraw dll to use custom resolution, but it doesn't seem to cause the issue per se. The problem is any type of ground, rocks or sand doesn't get any damage, no matter how long it's been shot, even via ctrl force attack. Ground damage holes and craters just don't appear at all. Is there any workaround to this? Game works fine and is fully playable besides this visual bug. Tried to launch it with different windows compatibility options and w/o ddraw dll. Still have no bullet holes in the ground.

This looks really cool.

Uh yes it does matter, especially if your ideology is socialism. That was the whole reason for my post. Did you not read it? Socialism is objectively bad because of all the reasons I just stated. To summarize: Socialism/Marxism/Communism was created by the Aristocracy and Bankers in order to control the middle and lower classes. I'm not trying to push any ideology, I'm just pointing out that this particular one is insidiously bad by design. I wonder if the original poster, Edric-O, figured this out in the many years since he made this topic, lol.

Well it's been a busy few years, I finally released my big Sid Meier's Civilization II 30th Anniversary Tour video showcasing hundreds of the best Civ2 scenarios & mods that I painstakingly searched, rescued & preserved over the years. I then released my huge Civ2 Heroes of Might & Magic total conversion mod and my Civ2 How to play as Barbarians scenario & tour video too. But more importantly the time has come to make the final touches to and release my next big total conversion scenario for Civ2! . C&C Final Dev Diary 03 – Sounds, Videos, GUI, Diplomacy & more for the Civ2 Command & Conquer Scenario: In this final third dev diary we overhaul and finalise all the sound effects, videos, GUI colours & backgrounds, diplomacy, and city buildings with C&C assets. https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-command-conquer-scenario/news/final-dev-diary-03-sounds-videos-gui-diplomacy-more-for-the-civ2-command-conquer-scenario . C&C - Civilization 2 Command & Conquer Tiberian Africa Scenario Release: Well after much delay I'm finally releasing my Command & Conquer Tiberian Africa Scenario for Sid Meier's Civilization 2. This remaster takes Wonx2150's original Civ2 CnC Africa scenario containing CnC1&2 units and overhauls its graphics & expands the unit lineups using assets from CnC2 Tiberian Sun and some of the best CnC fan projects out there! https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-command-conquer-scenario/news/civ2-cnc-tiberian-africa-scenario-release

Doesn't matter what ideology you follow. Everyone always tries to push their own, onto others. No matter if it is socialism, kapitalism or whatever. Some use it in order to use others. And most are convinced that their ideology is right, and see all other as wrong. Newsflash, all ideologies are wrong and right. Right if you know how to use it in order to use other people. Wrong if you are being used and only outsiders can tell because outsiders have their own ideology applied to them. Happy to tell you, I am rather right....in using the ideology that I am in. Although, it is a never ending battle in not being used by someone else. And buisness is often finding a middle way in using each other in such way that both benefit from it. Searching a synergy so that you can use each others tertiary group. Like how the US and USSR worked together in the cold war. Increasing the usage of their own population. By pointing to the other side.

I've been playing this release for a couple of weeks now (skirmish only and usually Harkonnen)- I love it! Great work! Playing on Linux, never had any crashes. Everything runs smoothly. Right now I see the following which needs to be improved: - Ornithopter is very OP: it is too fast, has quite heavy armor and is dirt cheap (in the startport). The startport delivery is very fast so it is very easy to spam the battlefield with them. - Starport: units seem to be quite cheap most of the times (?) and units are never out of stock. Fast delivery means fast game play, but it feels out of balance right now. it is very easy to build up a vast army within 2 minutes, making it easy to overrun the computer. I'm not sure if the computer is using the startport at all? - Superweapons: death hand timer seems to be a bit off. When timer reaches 0 the pictogram still shows bit of gray indicating count down is still ongoing. After about a minute the death hand is available (and shows the yellow text in the bottom left corner of the screen). Death hand explosion is *chefs kiss* by the way! The 'accuracy' seems fine! It feels more accurate than original dune 2 though. It seems like that for Ordos and Artreides their super weapons are spawned automatically, would be better if it was manual. - In basically every skirmish, after a while, the computer starts attacking some of their own buildings. - Enemy units trapped in their own base, because they are boxed in by their own buildings. Also happens with harvesters which causes computer to run out of credits. Maybe introduce an auto-pick up system for harversters which are standing still too long? - When a building's health bar reaches yellow add smoke to highlight that repairs are needed. When health bar is red add more smoke effects - it looks nice, but it also a visual indicator repaires are needed - Rocket launchers are key to destory enemy base. However, sometimes they park directly against a building instead of attacking that building. Happens sometimes. - Would be nice to see thougher computer attacks. Right now they go for a building which is in the back of my base, instead of taking out my defences at the beginning of my base for example. Hence computer attacks are not always very effective. It seems right now that the computer is not yet able to prioritize its attacks; why not go for my con.yard, wind traps or base defences instead of my repair facility? These is just my initial feedback! I know a lot of these things are easier said than done Keep up the good work!

I'm excited to see the 3rd film. Enjoyed the movie, miniseries and now the new movies.

That's a hell of a coincidence; I just finished watching the first two parts a day before this trailer dropped. Right after watching them, I watched this fan edit of David Lynch's 1984 Dune movie, which restructures the plot to make it more chronological and restores a lot of scenes, some of them with unfinished special effects: Now I just gotta rewatch the Dune mini series, although I remember it pretty well. Those costumes were epic lol, and out of the 3 pieces of Dune cinema, it adapted the most plot from the books I enjoy all three flavors of Dune movies/TV. They all have their pros and cons. The newest movies are well filmed; the special effects and cinematography are great. But they leave out the most plot and have the least amount of direct dialogue from the book. The overall look and set pieces are drab, but the ornithopters are good. The original movie from the 80's has better set pieces, more interesting architecture and space ships. It's scenes and dialogue are much closer to the book. Then again, the weirding module was invented for this movie. It's not a bad idea but it's hard to make it seem cool 100% of the time. In some scenes it comes across as badass, and in others it's kind of cringe, seems stupid. This is ironic because David Lynch, the director of the movie, thought the original concept of the weirding way wouldn't seem cool to audiences. He thought "karate in space" was dumb, so that's why he invented the sound weapons. Ultimately I'm glad he did though, because "my name is a killing word" is an iconic line and scene. Dune 1984 never finished filming all of the desert scenes where Paul joins the Fremen. That's why that whole arc seems rushed. He joins the Fremen almost instantly. This is where the newer movies are better, they do a good job showing Paul and Jessica's ascension, and fleshing out Paul and Chani's interactions. Same with Stilgar and Gurney. The best part of the newer movies are fight scenes, especially the knife fights/shields. But I was disappointed to learn the director of the newer Dune movies (Denis whatever his last name is) had cut out a lot of character development scenes for the traitor plotline, even though he had filmed quite a few scenes:

What about the subhouse units? Where are their voice lines? They have group select voices too.

LOL I explained in the post, "mega necro or not this cannot stand; this dangerous ideology needs to be fully exposed to what it truly is" I been cruising these forums, and that guy named Edric O (Ordos mentat profile picture) linked that topic in his profile so... I mean, he's asking for it.

Why are you replying to a 22 year old post?

Hey folks, The new trailer just dropped for the third Dune movie. Looks pretty...well fantastic. How you feeling about it

Uh oh we got ourselves a fanatical proletariat. Mega necro or not, this cannot stand; this dangerous ideology needs to be fully exposed for what it truly is: Communism/Socialism/Marxism is today what it always has been since it's inception around 1773, — the instrument of destruction and the manual of action used by internationalists to further their own plans by which, in the final analysis, they intend to obtain control of the wealth, natural resources, and manpower of the entire world. Also, Karl Marx was a filthy slob with boils on his ass who wrote about industry without ever setting foot in a factory. All of his children died before he did, most of them due to suicide. His own father likened him to the devil. I'm not kidding, you can look all of this up. On 17 November 1845, Karl Marx became a member of the lodge Le Socialiste. In February 1848, Marx published his "Communist Manifesto" on the orders of the Masonic leadership, which was comprised of guys like Moses Hess, etc. Marx was freemason of the 31st degree. The financial elite he worked for (guys like Moses Hess, etc) needed a suitable ideology to camouflage their aspiration to power. They wanted to carry out certain conspiratorial plans and at the same time propagate for atheism. (communism and athiesm go hand in hand) The workers happened to be "useful idiots" (proletariats) and could be made excellent blind tools, which they hoped to be able to manipulate most efficiently (they did). To carry on with their conspiracy in the name of the working classes, they had to cultivate and shape all kinds of communist and socialist Utopias. Hess and Marx hoped to exploit the jealousy of the stupid proletariat to enforce a hell on earth where fear, suffering, terror and treason ruled supreme - Communism. And they did. They REALLY did. I mean just look at the history of Communist efforts to implement "equality:" Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) 9 million killed Mass killings of landlords (1947–1951) - 2 million killed Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (1950) - 1 million killed Sufan Movement (1955-1956) - 53,000 killed Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957) - 550,000 killed Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) - 45 million killed Socialist Education Movement (1963-1965) - 77,000 killed Cultural Revolution (1966 until 1976) - 20 million killed Russian Civil War (1917-1923 ) 12 million killed The Red Terror (1918) - 200,000 killed Mass deportation of ethnic minorities (1930-1950)- 390,000 killed, 6 million "resettled" Soviet Famine (1932-1933) - 4 million killed Great Purge (1936-1938) - 1.2 million killed Stalinist repressions in Mongolia (1937-1939) - 35,000 killed Soviet killings during World War II (1939-1940) - 150,000 killed Chinese occupation of Tibet (1950-1960) 1 million killed People's Republic of Bulgaria (1944-1989) - 31,000 killed NKVD special camps in Germany (1945–1950) - 100,000 killed Socialist Republic of Romania (1945) - 300,000 killed Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945) - 200,000 killed Khmer Rouge Killing Fields (1975-1979) 2 million killed Land Reform in North Vietnam (1953-1956) - 200,000 killed Post Cuban Revolution terror (1959+) - 100,000 killed North Korea (1948-1947) - 1 million killed North Korean Famine (1994-1998) - 3.5 million People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (1978-1989) - 1 million killed Famine in Ethiopia (1983-1985) - 1.2 million killed ^^^ absolute hell on earth for those people. Trust me Edric O, you don't want communism, real communism. Real communism is always bloody "revolution." That cozy peaceful idea you have of communism is a lie, always has been. It's a scam, to put it simply, and you fell for it. Unfortunately it is easy to fall for because it's been allowed to infest a lot of public and private school systems in western countries.

Another release after 4 years! See here for the blog post.