This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Messages - BaconShelf
Pages: 1 ... 316317318 319320 ... 358
9511
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:57:28 PM »
I completely forgot you were a mod on there.
Yeah. We didn't quite get off to the best start.
9512
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:56:54 PM »
i remember being a shit mod on WHU years back 
Spoiler being a mod is hard ._.
Yeah. I don't like banning people which was ultinately the cause of the first nuking.
i can't imagine the first offsite having too many people either, that must've made it tougher
It rounded up between 2 and 300 from what I remember. Though as it turned out someone was actively trying to get it shut down, not a lot we could do against that.
was it just some Floodian trying to get it shut down? i was never really clear on that whole thing lol
Apparently it was Comms actually trying to get it shut down for lulz. He was the one stirring a lot of the arguments, to then report us to the team that ran the servers.
9513
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:55:06 PM »
I'm in a similar situation where basically all I do is play video games, read and youtube. I finsihed school, finished extra studies now trying to get a job which is taking a while since I have no prior work experience. So I just sort of sit here and play video games hah. But if I had a job and money then I know what I'd want to do, so maybe having some sort of long term goal would help you too.
I'm the same, except I'm in College studying something I don't even want to do anymore, and I don't even know what I want to do.
I'm applying for multiple jobs a week, but no place has hired me, and it just makes me feel like shit.
What are you studying?
Mechanical Engineering.
I can see why. What do you want to do now?
9514
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:54:37 PM »
tl;dr: OP is facing depression including severe apathy, sociopathic tendencies, social anxiety, fear of his future plans (in the academic/work world), and uses videogame lore as a coping method and he wants advice.
The most important thing it seems that you need is motivation, and maybe something to distract you from your darker thoughts. But then again I don't want to become an armchair psychologist and give bad advice and diagnoses.
That's more or less summing it up.
What do you mean by armchair psychologist?
It means I'm not an expert and you should take what I say with little value and heavy prejudice.
Aah. Spoiler I never really understood why people really hate you. You seem cool to me :3
9515
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:53:26 PM »
I'm in a similar situation where basically all I do is play video games, read and youtube. I finsihed school, finished extra studies now trying to get a job which is taking a while since I have no prior work experience. So I just sort of sit here and play video games hah. But if I had a job and money then I know what I'd want to do, so maybe having some sort of long term goal would help you too.
Yeah. I want to go into computer games as I have clear ideas for a game set in my universe. It's just that the indie market is becoming over saturated and you basically can't set up a AAA studio anymore unless you have a few million from the start.
Yeah I had brief period where I was interested in working in the games industry, but then I remembered I live in Australia and getting a job to do with here that would be nigh impossible haha.
But you're right, it is harder to make an indie game especially recently, what with most games on kickstarter just never getting even close to their advertised product. But then again that does mean ones that do update well and properly to the standard they set, usually do quite well.
I heard the team that did the new Borderlands game (Not TellTale) are Australian.
9516
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:52:29 PM »
I'm in a similar situation where basically all I do is play video games, read and youtube. I finsihed school, finished extra studies now trying to get a job which is taking a while since I have no prior work experience. So I just sort of sit here and play video games hah. But if I had a job and money then I know what I'd want to do, so maybe having some sort of long term goal would help you too.
I'm the same, except I'm in College studying something I don't even want to do anymore, and I don't even know what I want to do.
I'm applying for multiple jobs a week, but no place has hired me, and it just makes me feel like shit.
What are you studying?
9517
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:51:41 PM »
This is just going to be a rant thing, but it something in doing more for myself than anyone else. If you're not going to actually contribute anything then please don't bother, because in seriously not in the mood. I don't expect anyone to read this, but I'll probably be deleting this by tomorrow regardless.
Alright, well I gues one thing people should know about me is that I don't like putting my problems on other people. I don't tell people anything about me because I don't want them worrying for something that doesn't involve them and I get annoyed when people request information on how my day was and etc. I'm that person who doesn't want anything for Christmas or any birthday celebrations because I don't want people wasting their money on me. So the fact I'm doing this is sort of a sign of weakness for me but its something I feel I need to do.
But another thing I sometimes get is these spurts where I just suddenly get all depressive and sad for a while. It tends to happen when I'm in deep thought as I just believe that life in general is shit. Spoiler Read BC's there'd for that. But essentially I just don't see what is worth living for right now. Nothing major is happening in terms of space exploration and my view is that I'm unlikely to be alive when we start making useable fusion reactors and spacecraft and shit, which heavily depresses me. As far as I'm concerne the world is just getting shittier every day
The other thing that constantly occupies my mind more permanently is my resentment of other people, being around other people and the fact that I do not trust anyone. I can name five people I trust outright- two of them friends since as long as I can remember, one because he doesn't really care but he listens to what I say and the other two are people I know from the Internet. And only one of them I have ever trusted with this kind of thing- I was very tempted to make an alt for this but decided not to bother. But I basically have an inherent distrust. I can't accept good things happening, or people wanting to be a friend because I imagine people like I am- and I become friends with most people because it will benefit me later on. Because I can gain an advantage from them, so I view people as doing the same to me, hence why I cannot trust many people. I should also note at this point that I do not trust any of my family with details regarding my personal life. I have little respect for my father, I like my mother but she massively overreacts and I don't know anyone else well enough to trust with stuff, which I believe is why I need to make this thread on the Internet, where I am ultinately just some dude on a keyboard. The anonymity of the Internet means I find it easier to trust with my own stuff than other IRL people. When forced to be in large groups, I become anxious and disoriented as there is too much going on and too many sounds and it ends up overwhelming, and I need to sit down in a quiet empty place to recuperate.
I guess that leads on to writing. Although I enjoy world building, I know that I'll likely never make it as a writer because I'm shit. But for me, it was never about a job or anything. It was simply about creating something to actually work for. Because I am just bored. Of everything. If life in general. To me, it's just a routine. School, eat. Sleep repeat. Nothing interesting is happening. So I make things up. I create this fantasy world where I can tie in my knowledge of real science (This was the only reason I picked A Level physics btw) to something I create. I can-for four or five hours between school and sleep- just immerse myself in this works and forget how shit and boring the real world is. It's the same reason why I poured over 1,000 hours into Skyrim in a few weeks, or why I have 100% completion of both 'new' Fallout games, read every codex entry in Mass Effect and read the books on Halo and joined a website just for talking about the story. It's why I play video games, read books, watch films and TV. Because my world view is that everything you do is just procrastinating until your body gives up and dies. Only thing is that a couple hundred years ago, you could find a side quest fairly easily by wandering out into the wilderness, putting up a fence and building your own house and growing crops. Now it's just spending hours on a job so you can buy basic food and a house so you can do your job and everything you care about eventually is kicked out of the back door and forgotten. It's the reason I don't do any schoolwork at home; I need something to do like writing or I lose motivation for everything. I lose motivation and I just stop and life just becomes a pointless maze that you can't actually escape, and that's when I begin wondering what the point of bothering is anyway, when you can't trust the government or banks to actually make sure what little you have is worth something. I'm just stuck in this endless train of thought as I go from one thought to another. Especially when I constantly add that I likely cannot get into anything I want to do; physics? I'm bad at maths (Teachers keep me on the course because I'm interested. That's it) and writing/ indie games are a slim chance at best, with landing a job at the likes of 343i even lower. I just.. Don't know what to do and I feel that I genuinely need some advice.
You need purpose for life? Get a dog. I got a Shar Pei 6 years ago, my life would mean nothing if I didn't have to take care of him.
Have one, she would probably the only thing that would genuinely upset me is when she goes and she's 11 now. I've had her for 9 years now :3
9518
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:49:58 PM »
tl;dr: OP is facing depression including severe apathy, sociopathic tendencies, social anxiety, fear of his future plans (in the academic/work world), and uses videogame lore as a coping method and he wants advice.
The most important thing it seems that you need is motivation, and maybe something to distract you from your darker thoughts. But then again I don't want to become an armchair psychologist and give bad advice and diagnoses.
That's more or less summing it up. What do you mean by armchair psychologist?
9519
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:48:46 PM »
mfw I was one of the first on the offsite
mfw now all the weebs are better than me
mfw everyone hates me now
mfw this is a colder place now
mfw the cold never bothered me anyways
:[
I still remember saying we should make one as a joke on Bungie. Look where we are now.
9520
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:48:05 PM »
i remember being a shit mod on WHU years back
Spoiler being a mod is hard ._.
Yeah. I don't like banning people which was ultinately the cause of the first nuking.
i can't imagine the first offsite having too many people either, that must've made it tougher
It rounded up between 2 and 300 from what I remember. Though as it turned out someone was actively trying to get it shut down, not a lot we could do against that.
9521
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:46:00 PM »
i remember being a shit mod on WHU years back
Spoiler being a mod is hard ._. Yeah. I don't like banning people which was ultinately the cause of the first nuking.
9522
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:44:51 PM »
I'm in a similar situation where basically all I do is play video games, read and youtube. I finsihed school, finished extra studies now trying to get a job which is taking a while since I have no prior work experience. So I just sort of sit here and play video games hah. But if I had a job and money then I know what I'd want to do, so maybe having some sort of long term goal would help you too.
Yeah. I want to go into computer games as I have clear ideas for a game set in my universe. It's just that the indie market is becoming over saturated and you basically can't set up a AAA studio anymore unless you have a few million from the start.
9523
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:42:31 PM »
I dunno
But I kinda miss that place. I made an avatar and banner and everything for it..
I think it was the fact that it was the buzz of making a successful site and thinking we could end up having our own after bnet went to shit. Then shit happened and we came here :3
Haha yeah, after like, three more tries.
I'm not sure the second one counts. It was up for like 6 hours before nuking.
9524
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:40:33 PM »
Wow...thats a lot how i think like.
Sorry >.>
I dont really have any advice because im much the same.
Yeah. I was trying to sleep but couldn't, so I decided that typing something would help and it did surprisingly.
9525
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:39:29 PM »
I dunno
But I kinda miss that place. I made an avatar and banner and everything for it..
I think it was the fact that it was the buzz of making a successful site and thinking we could end up having our own after bnet went to shit. Then shit happened and we came here :3
9526
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:38:17 PM »
I completely forgot you were mod
A bad one.
9527
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:36:02 PM »
For those who were there on the offsite I was a mod, I made a thread saying I would step down if people wanted me to. However, I never saw what happened because it got nuked.
Anyone remember what the votes were leaning towards? I was wondering.
9528
« on: December 03, 2014, 07:32:59 PM »
This is just going to be a rant thing, but it something in doing more for myself than anyone else. If you're not going to actually contribute anything then please don't bother, because in seriously not in the mood. I don't expect anyone to read this, but I'll probably be deleting this by tomorrow regardless. Alright, well I gues one thing people should know about me is that I don't like putting my problems on other people. I don't tell people anything about me because I don't want them worrying for something that doesn't involve them and I get annoyed when people request information on how my day was and etc. I'm that person who doesn't want anything for Christmas or any birthday celebrations because I don't want people wasting their money on me. So the fact I'm doing this is sort of a sign of weakness for me but its something I feel I need to do. But another thing I sometimes get is these spurts where I just suddenly get all depressive and sad for a while. It tends to happen when I'm in deep thought as I just believe that life in general is shit. Spoiler Read BC's there'd for that. But essentially I just don't see what is worth living for right now. Nothing major is happening in terms of space exploration and my view is that I'm unlikely to be alive when we start making useable fusion reactors and spacecraft and shit, which heavily depresses me. As far as I'm concerne the world is just getting shittier every day In general, I end up thinking dark thoughts and stuff which I realise probably isn't healthy. But I've come to realise that if my family was killed, I wouldn't care. I would be able to take someone's life if it was necessary and that everything dies, so there's no point trying to fight it. But recently these kinds of thoughts are becoming more and more common, until a couple of days ago I accidentally cut my finger on a knife while making a sandwich. Nothing major, just essentially a paper cut but I realised just how sharp the knife was and realised how easy it would be to slit someone's throat with it. Which I recognise is not a healthy mindset, when walking into a room, you're immediately analysing why you could use as a makeshift weapon or what you would do if you were forced to defend yourself. [Yeah. Yeah. Le epic crawling and all that. I know this sounds as fedora as all holy hell.] The other thing that constantly occupies my mind more permanently is my resentment of other people, being around other people and the fact that I do not trust anyone. I can name five people I trust outright- two of them friends since as long as I can remember, one because he doesn't really care but he listens to what I say and the other two are people I know from the Internet. And only one of them I have ever trusted with this kind of thing- I was very tempted to make an alt for this but decided not to bother. But I basically have an inherent distrust. I can't accept good things happening, or people wanting to be a friend because I imagine people like I am- and I become friends with most people because it will benefit me later on. Because I can gain an advantage from them, so I view people as doing the same to me, hence why I cannot trust many people. I should also note at this point that I do not trust any of my family with details regarding my personal life. I have little respect for my father, I like my mother but she massively overreacts and I don't know anyone else well enough to trust with stuff, which I believe is why I need to make this thread on the Internet, where I am ultinately just some dude on a keyboard. The anonymity of the Internet means I find it easier to trust with my own stuff than other IRL people. When forced to be in large groups, I become anxious and disoriented as there is too much going on and too many sounds and it ends up overwhelming, and I need to sit down in a quiet empty place to recuperate. I guess that leads on to writing. Although I enjoy world building, I know that I'll likely never make it as a writer because I'm shit. But for me, it was never about a job or anything. It was simply about creating something to actually work for. Because I am just bored. Of everything. If life in general. To me, it's just a routine. School, eat. Sleep repeat. Nothing interesting is happening. So I make things up. I create this fantasy world where I can tie in my knowledge of real science (This was the only reason I picked A Level physics btw) to something I create. I can-for four or five hours between school and sleep- just immerse myself in this works and forget how shit and boring the real world is. It's the same reason why I poured over 1,000 hours into Skyrim in a few weeks, or why I have 100% completion of both 'new' Fallout games, read every codex entry in Mass Effect and read the books on Halo and joined a website just for talking about the story. It's why I play video games, read books, watch films and TV. Because my world view is that everything you do is just procrastinating until your body gives up and dies. Only thing is that a couple hundred years ago, you could find a side quest fairly easily by wandering out into the wilderness, putting up a fence and building your own house and growing crops. Now it's just spending hours on a job so you can buy basic food and a house so you can do your job and everything you care about eventually is kicked out of the back door and forgotten. It's the reason I don't do any schoolwork at home; I need something to do like writing or I lose motivation for everything. I lose motivation and I just stop and life just becomes a pointless maze that you can't actually escape, and that's when I begin wondering what the point of bothering is anyway, when you can't trust the government or banks to actually make sure what little you have is worth something. I'm just stuck in this endless train of thought as I go from one thought to another. Especially when I constantly add that I likely cannot get into anything I want to do; physics? I'm bad at maths (Teachers keep me on the course because I'm interested. That's it) and writing/ indie games are a slim chance at best, with landing a job at the likes of 343i even lower. I just.. Don't know what to do and I feel that I genuinely need some advice.
9529
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:24:33 PM »
I'm sorry people for making this thing super depressing :c
I'm going off now to sleep anyway.
9530
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:22:56 PM »
It's too boring.
What is?
The world.
 , why
The only stuff that happens is fucking depressing. Terrorists, an incredibly small science breakthrough that likely wont be utilised for decades, shit economy, shitty everything. Idiots sat in positions of power hampering real progress because 'wind farms don't look pretty' and stupid shit like that and just generally a world that isn't interesting. The things I find interesting I don't want to do because I'm forced to do it at school and the only way to get a job or university placement seems to be by doing things that are irrelevant to it. Call me up when we land a human on Mars or we develop Nuclear Fusion as a reliable power source. Fuck, even a nuclear war or zombie virus would be interesting as your concerns aren't menial shit like if your CV looks good, just food and water, just simple.
There's a reason I like writing science fiction. The world I'm creating is a world I want to experience. Because this one isn't.
/rant
We are in that moment in history that bridges in-between science fiction and science reality. It make take us a half a century or a bit more but these times will pass and we will hopefully make our way out of the cradle world and into the stars.
Just give it time.
That's it. The thing that ultinately kills me is knowing that if/when we eventually begin building an interplanetary empire, I will not be around to see it. Or I will be too old to enjoy it.
And as a pessimist at heart, that's a big if in itself. My belief is that idiots holding civilisation back will be the ones that eventually mean overpopulation and the lack of renewable energy mean we eventually go to war and kill each other. That's my view on the world and why I always sound depressed all the time.
Have you ever read a series called Timeriders by Alex Scarrow? Probably not, but I believe they have a realistic vision of the world. Flooding gets rid of a lot of landmass, the survivors are crammed in cities so polluted that you need a gas mask to breathe and the few remaining governments are fitting each other for the last oil drops. In the series, NK ends up releasing a bioweapon virus that wipes out the entire planet.
I'm a glass half full kind of person, but I can see the dangers that humanity can do to itself. But as the Cold War proved, humanity...no matter how dumb it can get sometimes, will never kill itself off. Even if all the bombs in the world were to be set off into all corners of the globe humanity would survive.
We are a persistent species, like roaches, we will find someway to rebuild from ashes. But hopefully that will never happen and we will make our leap.
The Cold War proved we were 20 seconds away from total annihilation were it not for a single ship. If one ship had continued its course, we wouldn't be here right now. And that was when resources were relatively abundant. If that situation happens again, it won't end well. In a twisted way, I hope it happens so that I can have purpose, because I honestly feel like I don't really have a direction right now.
9531
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:17:15 PM »
One thing I pride myself on is that in making everything fit with real physics as best I can, the other being that I'm not blatantly copying other works.
To me, robotic drones called sentinels that go round and shoot stuff is past the copying boundary for me. Hell, I woul t have called my main faction the Imperium if I knew about WH40K at the time, but now it's too much work to change.
You're right that I can't be 100% original, but I can damn well try. I hope to at least get a universe that surpasses Destiny's lore which I believe I'm close to/ have done (The Grimoire stuff which is genuinely interesting) with just the human lore and a bit of the alien culture. I haven't done their detailed timelines weapons and colonies yet. I have over 150 stars named and every single one will have a detailed solar system including sequence and type and atmosphere and history for planets. I love reading the codex in Mass Effect and the detail it goes into, and hope to get that level of complexity at a minimum. I even detail each weapon manufacturer and all their shit.
Good, good. Worldbuilding is fun, isn't it? That's the thing that I have a problem with - I do too much worldbuilding and not enough actual writing.
And, personally, I see taking things from other works as 'inspiration', not 'ripping off'. I see the Space Marines in 40k and I think, 'yeah, I like those. I want to make something with a similar idea, but not quite the same'.
As long as it's not overly similar there's no problem. If it's the exact same thing with a different name, then it's a problem, but if it's done well, nobody cares if it's ripped off.
I try writing characters and get bored. I read what I write and everything a character does is lifeless and doesn't feel like its real. I have an entire actual novel planned out, every chapter and subplot but I try type and it just ends up terrible. So I mainly stick to world building so that I can make a game set in this someday.
9532
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:13:58 PM »
It's too boring.
What is?
The world.
, why
The only stuff that happens is fucking depressing. Terrorists, an incredibly small science breakthrough that likely wont be utilised for decades, shit economy, shitty everything. Idiots sat in positions of power hampering real progress because 'wind farms don't look pretty' and stupid shit like that and just generally a world that isn't interesting. The things I find interesting I don't want to do because I'm forced to do it at school and the only way to get a job or university placement seems to be by doing things that are irrelevant to it. Call me up when we land a human on Mars or we develop Nuclear Fusion as a reliable power source. Fuck, even a nuclear war or zombie virus would be interesting as your concerns aren't menial shit like if your CV looks good, just food and water, just simple.
There's a reason I like writing science fiction. The world I'm creating is a world I want to experience. Because this one isn't.
/rant
There are terrorists, but there is also SAS and Delta Force slaughtering terrorists.
Gas is now $2.65 a gallon. Economy is saved.
Do you follow IFLScience? They typically post about numerous scientific breakthroughs and events every week. Science isn't quick, either.
Windfarms do kill a lot of birds, though.
Yes, that does suck huge dick.
Humans will be on Mars by mid-2030's according to NASA. Shit ain't cheap or quick to build and plan.
Pretty sure someone said they were getting close on Fusion.
If you want to fend for yourself and live in the wilds focusing on the bare necessities, then you can do that right now, believe it or not.
#lifeiswhatyoumakeofit
*flies away on rainbow*
We can do nuclear fusion now. It's just that it's pointless as the amount of energy we put into it is the same as we get out. The fusion we need would be more energy out than in. Also, I doubt about the Mars thing. The only reason NASA got so much funding is because America wanted to beat Russia to the moon. But with an underfunded space program I don't see it happening. I also understand that there are groundbreaking science discoveries all the time. But the nature of science is that we don't make use of such discoveries for many decades afterwords. Even over a century after the lightbulb was invented and most of the planet is dark. It's cool saying we have these discoveries but when you likely won't be around to see them in use its heartbreaking, at least for someone like me who views science as the single most important thing we should be working towards.
9533
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:07:49 PM »
Armies fight on land and are brought in as a first attack force...Marines are transported via ships and are generally better trained than your regular Army grunt. The way that Halo did it was most correct since Marines can be found within Navy vessels while Army Troopers are more of a defensive military branch.
Google is my friend.
Google wasn't my friend. All I found was arguments about which was better trained.
Happens. Marines have longer bootcamp training than average soldiers, meaning that they are mostly better trained.
It was interesting, but not really relevant to what I'm looking for. I'm horrible at research.
Speaking of it, what kind of military is your story trying to resemble? The US Military is pretty easy to copy because how organized it is. If you want to stand out you might want to do something different though.
I'm sort of mixing the US with what I've learned through playing Battlefield (It's not much, but has also been surprisingly a lot) and Halo (Based off the US) crossed with more influence from the Royal Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Same for the rank system. The Naval/ Air Force are based on the US as opposed to the Army/Marines British basing.
9534
« on: December 03, 2014, 06:05:00 PM »
It's too boring.
What is?
The world.
, why
The only stuff that happens is fucking depressing. Terrorists, an incredibly small science breakthrough that likely wont be utilised for decades, shit economy, shitty everything. Idiots sat in positions of power hampering real progress because 'wind farms don't look pretty' and stupid shit like that and just generally a world that isn't interesting. The things I find interesting I don't want to do because I'm forced to do it at school and the only way to get a job or university placement seems to be by doing things that are irrelevant to it. Call me up when we land a human on Mars or we develop Nuclear Fusion as a reliable power source. Fuck, even a nuclear war or zombie virus would be interesting as your concerns aren't menial shit like if your CV looks good, just food and water, just simple.
There's a reason I like writing science fiction. The world I'm creating is a world I want to experience. Because this one isn't.
/rant
We are in that moment in history that bridges in-between science fiction and science reality. It make take us a half a century or a bit more but these times will pass and we will hopefully make our way out of the cradle world and into the stars.
Just give it time.
That's it. The thing that ultinately kills me is knowing that if/when we eventually begin building an interplanetary empire, I will not be around to see it. Or I will be too old to enjoy it. And as a pessimist at heart, that's a big if in itself. My belief is that idiots holding civilisation back will be the ones that eventually mean overpopulation and the lack of renewable energy mean we eventually go to war and kill each other. That's my view on the world and why I always sound depressed all the time. Have you ever read a series called Timeriders by Alex Scarrow? Probably not, but I believe they have a realistic vision of the world. Flooding gets rid of a lot of landmass, the survivors are crammed in cities so polluted that you need a gas mask to breathe and the few remaining governments are fitting each other for the last oil drops. In the series, NK ends up releasing a bioweapon virus that wipes out the entire planet.
9535
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:57:32 PM »
Armies fight on land and are brought in as a first attack force...Marines are transported via ships and are generally better trained than your regular Army grunt. The way that Halo did it was most correct since Marines can be found within Navy vessels while Army Troopers are more of a defensive military branch.
Google is my friend.
Google wasn't my friend. All I found was arguments about which was better trained.
Happens. Marines have longer bootcamp training than average soldiers, meaning that they are mostly better trained.
It was interesting, but not really relevant to what I'm looking for. I'm horrible at research.
9536
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:55:50 PM »
It's too boring.
What is?
The world.
, why
The only stuff that happens is fucking depressing. Terrorists, an incredibly small science breakthrough that likely wont be utilised for decades, shit economy, shitty everything. Idiots sat in positions of power hampering real progress because 'wind farms don't look pretty' and stupid shit like that and just generally a world that isn't interesting. The things I find interesting I don't want to do because I'm forced to do it at school and the only way to get a job or university placement seems to be by doing things that are irrelevant to it. Call me up when we land a human on Mars or we develop Nuclear Fusion as a reliable power source. Fuck, even a nuclear war or zombie virus would be interesting as your concerns aren't menial shit like if your CV looks good, just food and water, just simple. There's a reason I like writing science fiction. The world I'm creating is a world I want to experience. Because this one isn't. /rant
9537
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:49:51 PM »
Armies fight on land and are brought in as a first attack force...Marines are transported via ships and are generally better trained than your regular Army grunt. The way that Halo did it was most correct since Marines can be found within Navy vessels while Army Troopers are more of a defensive military branch.
Google is my friend.
Google wasn't my friend. All I found was arguments about which was better trained.
9538
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:49:05 PM »
Oh, I had to do a lot of research on this for my own novel.
The US Marines are a rapid response force typically seen as more 'elite' and better trained (and that's not an unfounded idea). The army is a much less selective military branch, with a much higher passing rate. The American marines are typically used as shock forces (that is, the first ones on the frontline) while the army typically, though not always, arrives later. Soldiers are in the army; this might not be true in your story, but in real life you never refer to a marine as a soldier. The US Marines are primarily riflemen; every one of them is trained to use one, regardless of what their actual job is within their group. The army, on the other hand, tends to specialize their recruits to a specific task, though they all receive at least rudimentary training in infantry combat.
The marines in your story seem more like the British Royal Marines, though. American marines focus more on turning people into marines; the Royal Marines are much more exclusive in their pickings, much like in your story. You have to already be among the best and the toughest to join the Royal Marines. Unlike the US Marines, they are commandos, more akin to the Navy SEALs.
Both are considered underequipped and undermanned when compared to their respective armies. Neither has any combat medics, as they are all supplied by their respective navies.
Well the marines are seperated into some main groups; ExoWar, responsible for 0G ops and boarding/ defending capital ships, DPT soldiers (Drop Pod Troop) or colloquially knwon as Stormtroopers are much like ODST's, the CENTURION takes the best of the maries as the personal guard for the HVTs and the Sentinel program (temp nameuntil I think of a better one after realising the similarities to Halo) is robotic drones like Titanfall's spectres. Marines are more heavily armoured and heavily equipped, and trained in the use of all weapons as well as encouranged to create a custom loadout of weapons and armour upgrades to suit their preferences. In battle, they drop as a squad in a single pd or ship and take the fight as a shock force against the enemy before additional reinfocrements arrive.
The army is more standardised, having designated squad roles. They don't use power ssisted armour (They still have genetic upgrades though) and are a long occupant force for combat in seigeworks or other long operations. They also make more use of vehicles and artillery and also have another small branch for policing operations (The Colonial Police are a direct part of the military) alongside setting up bases for permanent defence. Both have their own dropships and helicopters, and the Air Force is relegated to mainly dogfights, escorts and bombing runs. there is a separate branch of Combat Aid including Resupply Corps, Medical Corps and Engineering corps which all aid in combat zones by brining ammo and supplies, medevac and vehcile repair, respectively. This services all branches of the military.
Overall, the rank system and roles of soldiers are both based off the royal army, marines, navy and air force, with the additonal branches of SpecWar and NonCom. The SAS/ SEAL type black ops stuff is done by the Dragonfires, a subbranch of Special Warfare.
Very interesting stuff. And you're considering posting what you write every week?
By the way, I wouldn't care about similarities to Halo or anything else if I were you. Anything anybody thinks up will invariably be similar to something somebody else already made, and nobody really minds, so why worry about it?
One thing I pride myself on is that in making everything fit with real physics as best I can, the other being that I'm not blatantly copying other works. To me, robotic drones called sentinels that go round and shoot stuff is past the copying boundary for me. Hell, I woul t have called my main faction the Imperium if I knew about WH40K at the time, but now it's too much work to change. You're right that I can't be 100% original, but I can damn well try. I hope to at least get a universe that surpasses Destiny's lore which I believe I'm close to/ have done (The Grimoire stuff which is genuinely interesting) with just the human lore and a bit of the alien culture. I haven't done their detailed timelines weapons and colonies yet. I have over 150 stars named and every single one will have a detailed solar system including sequence and type and atmosphere and history for planets. I love reading the codex in Mass Effect and the detail it goes into, and hope to get that level of complexity at a minimum. I even detail each weapon manufacturer and all their shit.
9539
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:43:25 PM »
It's too boring.
What is?
The world.
9540
« on: December 03, 2014, 05:41:36 PM »
It's too boring. Spoiler You're okay. Trying to be really happy and joyful about everything annoys me though, so eh. That is no matter who it is though.
Pages: 1 ... 316317318 319320 ... 358
|
Show Posts