Shiroko

Ummm..... Well the pictures are rather useless.... so you can "Save as" a simple text file (.txt) and read it. The only thing ruined will be the tables in the end, which are rather useless anyway and aren't important. -Shiroko

O.K. I give up screw this idea, I'm not that bored I guess.... I'll just wait till Evil Genius or Half Life 2 comes out instead. -Shiroko

I'm just wondering, I'm considering making a small wap/xhtml site for gaming which will have short conclusive reviews and previews as well as general gaming news. Since I couldn't find a good site for it on my phone. So I'd like to hear comments as well on the idea. -Shiroko P.S. Yes I'm bored and out of ideas... when will HL2 come out already...

He's right about the "named" engines, the well known engines are getting less popular and companies prwefer making their own then license the famous ones (Namely Unreal and Quake). Those who still do tailor the engines to their needs. No one could feel that Splinter Cell for example is an unreal based game after all the lighting added in. Same goes for Emperor Generals, this is also because the technology is more familiar if there was a time companies didn't want to build from scrap because a lot of skilled programmers are needed, today more people are familiar with 3D, so like every technology it's much more widespread now. (Hence old games get clones in 3D with no real apparent reason). -Shiroko

You know, when they destroy the house, they get the people out before, and than bring it down with a bulldozer. They don't like bomb it or something...

I liked when the minion interrogating makes his Michael Jackson dance, quite funny. Anyway, in the full game you're supposed to keep your lair a secret from soldiers, so you don' want your minions walking around with weapons, or killing agents right away because they get more suspicious. You also have tourists coming to your island which you should keep busy so they don't find your lair. -Shiroko

Yes, I actually got annoyed by the endless stream of soldiers, but it's not supposed to be like it in the full game. Looks cool though.

Guys, the authority existed in full force prior to the riots. After that it was weakened by terrorists who gotten to much freedom from it and by Israel because we'd rather have it weakened than harm us. Not only Arafat supported terror there, most of them did. Palestinian key people who don't support terror got support and respect from Israel, though this is also limited in order not to make it look for the palestinian people that they're more important to us than to them. The palestinian authority had the power, and responsibility. Acts of lynching, leaving people to die and firing Israelis brought them to there state. I find it to be rather ridiculus to think that Israel is responsible for the terror attacks, especially when the initiative is of the palestinian's from the start. -Shiroko

We should play in Asia, at least there we won a few times, in UEFA we just suck. -Shiroko

While trying to keep trafic in this board I find I have to offer interesting links. So here is the Evil Genius demo, which should be a rather cool game, certainly an original one. ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/vug/evil_genius/demos/evilgenius_demo_en.exe -Shiroko

I don't think Emperor suceeded well enough, but it did profit. Anyway, Generals and Emperor were developed by totally different teams, I'm pretty sure those are totally seperate engines. -Shiroko

Hehe, the title makes it seems like it's goign to be the sequal to Rome: Total War. Though I do not know the Movedian empire. -Shiroko

The "muaddib" map was added in 1.06. only after this paragraph written. All prior maps to 1.06 were empty of decorations. -Shiroko

Yes, BTW Doom 3 engine is not available for licensing as of yet. ID's site says it's not feature complete. There's at least another full year before we'll see anything on that engine that puts it to good use (Aside MODs of course). -Shiroko

I actually liked Max Payne 1&2. It has some distinctive features and gamestyle and a nice storyline which simply sounds awkward because storylines sound awkward when told by talking 3d models. -Shiroko

It's basically the same server if you type any non-existing sub-domain it will forward you to gamelordz. though the site is not operational, a careful reading of the game titles there would reveal it. -Shiroko

religious value...

The murder of Izhak Rabin only encourged peace. And because of it there is much more surveilence on radical rightous groups than before its murder. It stands as a one man did, which no one support to this day. Unlike the terrorist groups of the palestinians. Since the start of the riots several israeli fanatics were arrested for preventing them to act or while they were trying to bomb palestinian sites, though I must admit the legal control on radicals needs improvement, they are still working completely underground and stealthly unlike the palestinian groups who can freely roam the grounds and be ignored by any palestinian authority (At those times and in more peacful times) -Shiroko

How many inkvines will you need to create to do that? + how much micromanagment? I can micromanage my rockets to take out the inkvines I believe, and your inkvines will cost more. You can project inkvines, but that's not a solution but more of a straight out fight between identical tactics. -Shiroko

I'll add something on the "executaion" pictures in the site you forwarded earlier erjin. Here's a link about it: http://www.israelemb.org/articles/2002/March/2002031201.html Basically it was a guy wearing a explosives belt trying to activate it during disarming until he finally got the bullet he deserves. Looks like an executation? it's identical to any criminal holding a gun making a sudden move. You won't even think about giving him the chance, you'll shoot him right away, preferbly to the head to prevent the few seconds he could use to retaliate. -Shiroko

wax on... wax off... There you go: http://faq.dune2k.com/ Should look better now. -Shiroko

damn stupid WYSIWYG editor lemme fix it.

First, I'd have to say you are a very weak minded person to believe most of what is seen in this site. But I'd point off several things. You need to witness a pro-palestinian protester to understand how she died. These guys are evrything but looking for peace. They provoke as much as possible in military and will throw themselves as shield to terrorists as targets. I'm quite amazed how little of them actually die doing all the extremely dangerous things they do like hanging in the middle of fire lines trying to force of fire. Muhammad Al-Dura, his is a famous case it happened in the first few days of the rioting when there were mass rioting everywhere. Many investigations on this subject inclugin a german one in the exact spot came to conclusion that the direction the kid was hit from shows it was not Israeli fire but palestinian fire. But this does not mention if a few dozens of people have a fire fight and civilians are caught in the middle, there's nothing yuo can do. No one will stop shooting when being shot at, even if civilians are in the area (And spotting even if they shout isn't such an easy thing when you're under fire). Needless to say that the "Trying to fool world...." header on the Israeli investigation area shows just how much integrity the site's editor has. I ain't even gonna reply on the donkey issue, though I'm never surprised of how they abuse their poor donkeys. Defintely the guy who did that to donkey deserves something (But I liek animals so....) Can't comment on the guy being shot, could be he tried pulling. The robot afterwards is a sign he was suspected as a suicide bomber. It's a normal prodecure for every body, you can guess what they do with bodies. The last 5 pictures are hilarious, they have nothing in them. As far as I know the first could be any palestinian baby who died. Several times in order to add to bodycount they took sick kids and said these were shot by IDF. In some cases they did fake funerals to actually live people, some of these cases filmed by Israeli air-drones. The second picture as a guy in a bloackade I guess with some IDF soldier pointing his gun at what? Defintely not at the man if you look at the picture. What happens around who knows? The third as a kid hangs on a fence., surprise here, palestinians build fences as well. In fect if it was the seperation fence the kid could never have gotten to the fence. The fourth is even more ridicoulus, how do I even know the kid is palestinian, by the look of the rather new stone it seems more like the jewish quarter of hebron and a settlers kid playing around. On my three years I never seen someone lets his baby crawl around in an area with IDF soldiers. The kid in the last picture is obviously almost crying... since he has that curious stare of seeing a soldier. Luckily the site tells us that unlike what it seems, the kid is very sad because his family just got turned back. But if you're so much into propaganda, here you go: http://israelinsider.com/channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0204.htm - funerals without dead people. http://www.murmurs.com/talk/archive/index.php/t-70533.html - Unlike israeli actions, heres something which hits civilians on purpose. http://truthnews.net/daily/2004080287.htm - When palestinians get shot for a reason. http://www.michaelbernstein.com/weblog/archive/2002_03_27/view - Just another dirty trick. O.K. these are few nice links. With much less dirty propaganda and more facts. -Shiroko

Erjin, you seem to know very little. Although israeli Apaches and occasionally even fighters are used for special missions (Meaning killing high priority targets), the IDF rarely uses collateral weapons aside that in the conflict. We use mostly small arms where our technology advances come as better equipment for soldiers and better intelligence. Civilians dies from getting into crossfire, mistaken identities (Which is something that cannot be prevented entirely) and the likes. Artillery is not used at all, tanks are used mainly for their armor (More as an APC than a tank) and rarely uses their main 122mm (In special cases of palestinians detected setting bombs in open areas in the night). The most collteral weapon is destroying walls with explosives which is used to go through extremly dangerous areas, though still most explosive damages after a mission inside Gaza is from all the palestinian bombs met during one operation (They place them anywhere including inside houses walls and under paved road, so naturally a neighbourhood looks a bit wrecked after IDF moved through, not because IDF did it, because palestinians did it). Israel does have the technological advance here, but it is mostly use to confront the devious tactics of terrorists of using civilians as cover. -Shiroko

Sure we see less attack from the hizzbullah these days. Instead we have an insane terrorist group armed with more than 10000 long range rockets to a range of 120km holding them just for the right cause. What is the right cause who knows? They creating small incidents of shooting soldiers or bombing military outposts in order to drag Israel into something big. Israeli control of the Egypt/Gaza strip borderline currently stops the palestinians from arming with 122mm rockets and the likes and limits them to homemade "kasam" rockets. When we will be out we will have less casualties in the start. But like in Lebanon, the question is what will happen in the long term. The Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear core was a did condoned by the entire world and in retrospective it was important. So I can't tell how will the situtation with the Hizzbulah or the Gaza strip will end later. -Shiroko And on a side note, the fence does not block palestinians from palestinains. palestinain villages that are behind the fence (And those a rare and decreasing in number with changes) have passes to go through, as time will go by their blockades will get better and more efficient. Those palestinains would anyway prefer their current situtation just like the palestinians in Baqa-el-Sharkia who lost from moving the fence and placing them on the palestinian side.