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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: 9/11 re-opened
« on: March 06, 2007, 03:40:48 am »
But those questions have obvious answers.  It's the difference between love and suffering.  It's the difference between right and wrong.

What makes today so heartbreaking is the fact that given the choice, many people have chosen violence, suffering, exploitation, and murder.  And humanity suffers as a result.

* Xus dabs at his wettened eyes with a hankerchief.

You're a beautiful man, Zanzibar.  A beautiful man.

Addressing Garile's post, though, I, too, don't see any real validity in the argument that pilots that untrained could not crash into the buildings.  Seems easy enough; you just fly straight.  And I know everyone is going to hop on my back, beat my bum with switches and say "It's not THAT easy!" and confessedly I do exaggerate... there is a LOT more to flying an ariplane than just "flying straight," but remember that these were terrorists that were clearly devoted, as they proved by being willing to die for their beliefs in the first place, so learning and practicing enough to have that sort of skill is no particularly large feat.

Plus, I imagine that, at the very least on other flights, there were a lot of testimonies as to the ethnicity of the culprits, and it's not like american pilots would be behind some of the hi-jackings and middle-eastern people behind others, so it's pretty incontrovertible that they were indeed middle-eastern terrorists hi-jacking the planes.

But where does this get us?  Nowhere, really.  For every argument, there is usually an equally compelling counter-argument, such as that the U.S. Government hired the Taliban to perform the attack.  Regardless of whether or not that is even remotely near the truth, it is at least a valid possibility, and it didn't take too much imagination to come up with, so that essentially we're no nearer to discovering what really happened.

This is exactly why the White House needs Hillary Clinton in office!  Men seem to be much too comfortable with not telling the truth.  A woman probably wouldn't stand for it, all the lies, the deception...

P.S.  A tad bit unrelated... but Zanzibar, is your name in reference to Metal Gear Sold???

@ Zanzibar: I wish right meant something again too! The sad thing is that power corrupts the mind. The taliban regimes have never cared about really any life. They strap bombs to men, women, children, and even animals. Life really means nothing to these people, only their selfish goals. I am always just baffled at what many people always do to one another. Dictators, the war pigs, always want a fight, even if it means the sacrificing of many lives. The people suffer, oh yes and their leaders spend more money on bombs and massively destructive weapons than they will ever spend on trying to even raise their coundtry out of the pit it is in. The reasons why these people do these things, well could be disputed for days. Yes your right its what is more important to the person given those choices. I wonder when the RACE! got taken out of the human race equation and many of us have become a species that doesnt focus on the survival and well being of OUR OWN KIND!!! >>. (I'm going on a tangent here so thats all i have on this)

@ Xus: With enough dedication and training yes people can pull off any feats. Just look at what the Nazis did with their propaganda, they snuffed out the lights of several Jews who were only trying to live and let be. Not all Nazis agreed with the sadistic nature of Adolf Hitler, but Hitler successfully brainwashed several germans into comitting crimes that many of them wouldn't have even imagined in the first place. The SS troops of Nazi germany went through the most sadistic training of all the Nazis. They were trained to loose their hearts and respond to every command the fuhrer issued without any questioning of the morality of it. So, It is a possibility that this was indeed a terrorist attack, because propaganda is a very powerful weapon that can influence the weak of mind to do terrible things. But this thread seems to be about questions that have arisen and well it would be great if we could get answers to them.

@ LARAGORN: Your analogy makes sense :). I am going to play with it further, If a doctor tells you something that doesnt sound right you should ask for a second opinion. I think it is a good thing to question, it brings often brings about change. I think much of the reason why countries ran by dictators are in their situation because if you question a dictator you get shot on sight. I also believe that the truth is there for the understanding. I really dont think its a bad thing to question what we are told (I do that alot of the time) It is also a possibility that we could be asking a a dentist his take on a problem with diabetes (analogy again).

@ Xus: *shakes head and rubs eyes* O_o o_O. Can I get an overgeneralization stamp here? So your saying that all men are blatant liers? We have no moral backing? I will have to argue that point in very much detail.... but I will not do that here.

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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: 9/11 re-opened
« on: March 04, 2007, 07:29:21 am »
@ Laragorn: yes sarcasm noted, you knew where to begin.  :thumbdown: Also there are actually people who are trying to cover up for themselves by trying to debunk the Holocaust, insane i know. >> It was necessary for my post because i believe that conspiracy theorists, also have just as much the ability to lie and construe the evidence as the government does.

@ Laragorn: Yes I did have limited knowledge on the layout, the link cleared things up. Also BTW pointy building was for a lack of better words. I have not been there, so the name escapes me. yes I will admit that my points are from limited research, thank you for the further insight on the real layout and what the conspiracy theories are actually saying.(maybe the "revealers of the truth" should be more organized as a group with their information) I am glad that you pointed out where i was wrong, but I am still not picturing the words "government conspiracy" stamped on the falling of the towers and the deaths of many innocents.

actually as i've been thinking about it. there was a conspiracy to destroy the towers...

but it wasn't by any american agency or the like.

for that matter it wasn't aliens either, though they may have been watching.

it was a conspiracy by islamic extremists.

Hey come on, now.  No one likes a smart-aleck.  ;)

The fact that both CNN and BBC reported the collapse early sort of dampens the reek of conspiracy a little bit... but regardless I still am starting to believe more and more that it was a set up thing.  I mean, look how quickly we fat americans dropped the fight in Afghanistan.  And the fact that we pulled out before finding Osama doesn't realli prove that it was all just a show, but it DOES, at least, fit in with the whole idea.

And look at the nature of the attack itself.  Osama realli didn't express all that much of an interest in the U.S. before (not that I know of, anyway; maybe a few attacks here and there, but nothing majour).  And all of a sudden, as if overnight, he decides he's going to hit us up, does so, makes a few more tapes threatening us, and. . .

he slips into the shadows.  I mean, that's got to be the most ADD terrorist I'VE ever seen.  Just takes a brief break from his usual fight to kill a bunch of Americans, only to forget about it shortly thereafter... It just seems weird to me.

I can see that these claims really dont fit the real bill (i made the mistake of not gathering enough information so i have no room to point fingers. I am trying to say that you are not giving Osama and his terrorist lackeys the actual credit.)

Just because something fits with a theory doesn't make it true. Have you seen a pink elephant? No? That means that my theory that they are invisable is true.

Ill second that  :thumbup: :-X

Just because something fits with a theory doesn't make it true. Have you seen a pink elephant? No? That means that my theory that they are invisable is true.

So you believe the 'official' story ?
I haven't come to a conclusion yet. I have yet to gather enough facts.
You had me worried there, for a second ;)

I dont know who did it either, all I know is that the "official" story is a pack of blaitant lies.

Was there an actual point in trying to intimidate the guy by asking him if he believes the "official" story and expecting him to say no? What if he does? What if he doesnt? Does that really matter in this case? This is why i love mythbusters so much, they try to take a myth and either prove it right or "bust" it without too much personal sentiments. When a conspiracy theory arises there are always going to be ones who try to prove the theory and those who try to debunk the theory. People who don't think that the conspiracy theories dont exactly add up either are not exactly brainwashed citizens who "believe what theyre told."

Well there are inconsistencies I will admit, but the problem is the "conspiracy theorists" are making movies that contain simple lies. Like one of the most famous that was even shown on TV here gave examples of the pentagon and how that shape couldn't have been made by a plane and how the rotor that was lying there wasn't even of that plane. Now you don't have to be an expert to then look up how the rotor of that plane looks like and see they are simply lying about that part and in the show after that an expert was allowed to show a computer program to calculate how a hole would look like if it did chrash and it happned just as the hole was on the pentagon.

Also the WTC buildings were said to have had explosives what wasn't the case either. When something like that happens a structure looses it's own structure and to much weight iis put on junctions and then bolts start shooting and then it falls down. Again a computer analyzes shows if you asume this happened that it looks identical to what happened. Now if a TVshow in Holland can get that info from some experts in less then a weeks time I am really wondering how people can make such a movie if you don't have the intention to convince people without caring if it's true or not and it makes the few things that are left really just straws.

I dont know maybe theyre in the public hysteria business >>.  :thumbdown:

(I dislike the government alot, and I do believe they lie to us about many things because of their agendas. But I think that this prison planet thing is like the study group that is trying to deny the Holocaust of World War II

Hey hey hey, an unwilling american after my own taste.  How ya doing?

I don't think anyone is trying to deny that those planes did hit, but the only reason there is mention of explosives is because there are a lot of feelings that the plane crash alone wouldn't be detrimental enough to the building structure to make it collapse.  I, not having any sort of education in demolitions or structural engineering, have no clue about it, but as a common layman I can testify that the collapses do look a bit fishy, but then, like I just said, I don't know anything... But you bring up a good point about the explosives and how anyone could possibly get them up there in the building.  Mind you, it realli wouldn't be necessary (or, indeed, very effective) for the explosives to be high-up in the building, but more likely, if they were involved, they would be placed lower in the structure (thank you Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty for the crash-course in bomb placement strategy :D).  Yet even still, it would be quite near impossible for the explosives to have been placed there in advance (and with the chaos of a quaking, evacuating building, it would indeed have to be in advance) without anyone seeing them during installation, or for the period of time afterward.  Therefore, if explosives were indeed used (and I think someone said earlier in the thread that many people testified to having smelt explosives), then they were likely allowed to be installed, which further points to some kind of deeper premeditation than what we were all told.  (Mind you I's not even CLOSE to stating that as fact, Parallo, just speculatin' :P).

But all in all (and I got a lot of crap for making this claim before, but so be it; I'm gonna say it again), I think that the way little tidbits of information and inconsistencies keep showing up points pretty constantly to a real POSSIBILITY and even likeliness that there is definitely more to this incident than what we were all told, but the depth of that deception is probably somewhere slightly deeper than a mistaken news reporter and slightly shallower than a deep, dark, secret political move from the Illuminati.  Do I think we're all safe sleeping in bed tonight?  Sure, sleep away, weary soul.  But am I still going to keep reading other posts and other sources to try to learn the truth behind all of this, simply to assuage some base, primordial lust for understanding?  You bet I am.

Theres no where else to go  :'(. The news has never told us exactly everything that goes on, half the time they put on THE WORLD IS DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on and expect us to watch it. Explosives being planted and detonated inside the two towers that were hit by airplanes would have taken much more preplanned knowledge of the attacks than just simple demolition work. They would have had to have known the precise day, the precise time, the precise location of the airplane crashes, and that there were going to be plane crashes in the first place. So, if this actually is a government conspiracy then we have the right to take up arms and take down the government! ( which i think Osama would be really happy about)

In this article it names members of government and other agencies who have voiced there concerns of 911.

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The media, in general, tries to scoff at the idea that the events of 9/11 have not been properly investigated, but numerous present and former US government officials are not scoffing.

Senator Max Cleland - Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned in December 2003 "I, as a member of the [9/11] Commission, cannot look any American in the eye... It is a national scandal... this White House wants to cover [9/11] up."


Senator Mark Dayton - Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security "[NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission...the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence"

There are more like these in the article. When people in positions such as mentioned in the article, voice thier outrage at the known lies and cover ups, it makes me wonder how anyone can still believe the 'official' story and not question anything they are told.


Edited to add: In this clip you hear the firefighters saying "theres a building about to blow up". Shouldnt they have said collapse ?

Building 7 is really a slap in the face to me. X-/ I dont know why the government would really want it to be demolished. If they did well that would be the biggest mistake in the history of the US.

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The Hydlaa Plaza / Re: 9/11 re-opened
« on: March 03, 2007, 06:43:29 am »
Now correct me if I am wrong, but there are also inconsistancies in the prison planet screenshots. This is the kind of crap that really gets me ticked off, some of my family could have been victim to this horrendously cruel crime but fortunately they were grounded. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm If you look at the picture right below the youtube video they point at a building and mark it "5:12 pm EST still there" when actually that is not one of the trade tower buildings. It is a building that was near the trade towers. When in actuallity the trade towers were bigger! than that building and even the pointy building that was way across from that phony trade tower. Another thing the smoke from the collapse wouldve covered a much larger area than in that photo. Heres a video from the news, as you can see the same tower that is being labled in prison planet is actually in front of the trade towers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDh_pvv1tUM I love the BBC, but they probably got a bad point of view on the attacks when that news feed was created. The video looks to me like it was taken a very long time after the attacks, not before. Osama wasnt exactly a poor cave rat, he had more cash and more extremists in the palm of his hands than others give him credit for. I do wonder if this is a government conspiracy, how would they get explosives to the top of that level of the trade tower without the employees knowing? I do not think the government would try anything that sadistic against us because we have the right to give them the boot anytime we well want. Also, how do you brainwash a whole city full of citizens to believe that an airplane didnt fly into the trade towers and it was just "explosives?" I am not trying to start a flame war or anything im just trying to point out something about this prison planet's claims that I think are awry and what I have gathered about 9/11 itself. (I dislike the government alot, and I do believe they lie to us about many things because of their agendas. But I think that this prison planet thing is like the study group that is trying to deny the Holocaust of World War II

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Wish list / Re: Remove duels from the game. (This is not a joke.)
« on: February 28, 2007, 03:50:36 am »
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It's a game and the devs can violate realism as much as they want.

Not everyone who duels fits the profile I and others have described.  However, there are far too many players who do fit this profile.


Yep. devs are the modern day planeshift "the man".

When that profile...its ussualy spoiled noobs.

The devs are people also, with real ideas that they can make.
I personally think that the duel system should still be in place because its sometimes fun to duel against a player and not a computer generated mob. The duel system in the game can be alot better than you all might give credit to. Why, in most MMORPGs they dont have a feature that allows you to duel, instead a HIGH level SNOB can come at you when your level 10 and 1 hit kill you. If the system were fixed to stop the duel spamming then I really dont see a problem with the feature itself.
I also like the idea of guards, or some type of law or rule enforcement system.

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Wish list / Re: Remove duels from the game. (This is not a joke.)
« on: February 25, 2007, 07:05:22 pm »
@ Zanzibar: This is far from runescape  :lol: they didnt even have an ask/accept system. If you dont want PVP the simple thing is going for the deny all. Like I said before, an arena would be nice :).

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Wish list / Re: Remove duels from the game. (This is not a joke.)
« on: February 25, 2007, 06:58:18 pm »
*sigh* I hated PVP because it was alot of the times unbalanced but this is a really pushy topic IMO.
Look, almost EVERY! MMORPG has some sort of PVP, It provides players with a challenge from another real life player and not an NPC mob. The spam PVP idiots are really a result of the game being massively multiplayer online, it happens. Removing PVP entirely really would lessen the challenge of the game. The thing is to improve the moderation of features like this, if you remove everything because people abuse it well then the game itself would be removed.

You made the statements that I challenge you on.

Don't think a smiley will save you!!!!

YOU ACCUSED ME OF INSULTING YOU PERSONALLY.. I respond and you post THAT!!!.. don't try ducking this... WHERE did i personally insult you... at least without making a point of something you've said (which is perfectly legitimate in an intelligible argument)

C'mon Zanzi.. your "superior intelligence" can surely do better than that!!

I will NOT stand back and have you misrepresent me because of your childish superiority-complex and your refusal to stand up for things you, yourself have stated.

 :offtopic:


Remove duels because of the PKers

Remove mobs because of the KSers

Remove quests too because some people sell multiple times quest items.

Also remove trade of items and tria between players, this way mule and miner alts won't be exploitable.

Remove the chat window, some people use it for godmodding.

Remove... *large list with all that can be exploited in PS*

After all: Remove Planeshift, as any community will have thorns, thus if you truly wish to get fully rid of them, that's the best choice.

Tis the best and only solution.

Games will always have some sort of annoyance or problems, removing the game will not solve anything.
Yes, removing PVP is an easy way out, but life is not easy i am afraid. The ask/accept PVP option is really a form of moderation in itself that many other MMOs do not have. It basically provides you with the option of avoiding massive random and unexpected attacks on your character. If PVP were balanced and respectfully conducted theres no complaints from me. :lol:  I personally like arenas for that sort of thing

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I am having some problems understanding some of the camera settings in game. (maybe its because I am new, I'm not sure) One thing is that the camera is very slow to move around and I am trying to figure out a way to possibly increase the rotation speed of the 3rd person camera. The camera settings I find rather difficult to understand, because I do not yet know what all these fields mean or do. I would like to suggest perhapse creating more understandable settings or different settings like camera rotation sensitivity, camera angle, or camera position. Can anyone help clarify these settings or provide a link to a guide to it?
Thanks

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