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[Draklar]

What a surprise, you missed another one...

Originally posted by Draklar
still printing is typical for the next period (which had completely different culture).

Correct me if I\'m wrong, but recreating medieval world requires recreating its culture.
And if so then references to further cultures would be pretty much ruining it.

Scribes and bards are part of medieval culture.
Newspapers aren\'t.

[Jazeera]

are Elves, Dwarves or Diaboli\'s part of the medieval culture? just wondering

[Draklar]

graceful minstrels, robust tavern-goers and charismatic warlocks?
Sounds like typical medieval fantasy races to me...

Now if we had robots or some kind of fat race eating hamburgers that would be different... but we don\'t have them, do we?

But anyway, elves and dwarves were part of rl medieval culture too. Go read norse mythology.

[Jazeera]

lol, Drak I live in Denmark a part of Scandinavia if you are not aware of that and I know about the norse mythology... and it does not mention the Enkidukais

EDIT: Norse mythology is a part of my country\'s story so I should know it -_-

[Kixie]

In a sentence all I can say is that planeshift isn\'t medieval setting. Things are based upon times similar in planeshift\'s technological advancement. Things are in no way exact, precise or some sort of replica of real life settings and technological items. Planeshift is in Ylakium. Not Europe, or Earth for that setting. Let\'s just leave it at that. This thread is going no where, and I\'m not a mod so I don\'t have any say on it getting closed. But one thing I can say is that we don\'t determine where planeshift goes. The thread is about a player made newspaper, not a discussion on where the newspaper\'s orgins have begun. Although the title \"Forum Legend\" is supposed to have some sort of weight, I do not see any evidence of that in this thread. Let\'s just leave it alone people, I doubt any of these things are going to influence your day beyond 3 minutes.

[Kiern]

Originally posted by Draklar
Kiern:

Is is the literacy part that bugs people? I\'m not sure why people would object to this.

I do not ob-ject... to the li-te-ra-cy... part.
There, I typed it slow so you would understand and not get confused this time

Great, because I didn\'t edit the quote for a reason.  :rolleyes:

Kixie, should it influence us?  That\'d be kind of...odd.

[seperot]

*Seperot meanders in late to the party to find everyone biting eachother and him not involed*

well i personnally think its a great idea there is alot more news floating around planeshift then most people in there generall arrogance notice. all you need is someone dedicated and got the time to spare.

and i would like to say that the mods should go back to there own job and leave the hate posting to me your good at your job im good at mine :P:P

[Kixie]

Originally posted by Kiern
Kixie, should it influence us?  That\'d be kind of...odd.

Yes. It should. Your post count and join date specify how long you have been here. How many threads you have observed. You have been here a while, you should recognize the beginning of an offtopic discussion, one that carries no worth whatsoever. They are not supposed to be here. Coming from someone who carries worth (whether you like it or not) in the forum should set an example, and hold his responsibility as an experienced poster by making insightfull, respectfull and on topic threads and replies.

Your an oldbie. Show some respect for the forum, and hold your responsibilities as one.

[Loran]

This is getting more a history discussion than a discussion with ideas for the newspaper.  Lets see it this way: PlaneShift is a typical Medieval fantasy world. With swords, plate armour, elves, dwarves (and the less typical Enki\'s and deamons, but whatever).

And yes, no newspapers in the typical Medieval fantasy world. But the devs said they want it to be original, not one of the 1000 typical fantasy worlds. Just look at the clothing. So it also doesn\'t have to be a typical newspaper, but something more... Original. In some way.

And as long as it stays an email or a website, I actually so no need for an endless discussion about Medieval printing.


Just my 2 cents.

*Seperot meanders in late to the party to find everyone biting eachother and him not involed*

*gets ready to scratch Seperot*

[Dakhanavar]

Heh..and people wonder why I have under 10 posts, after being here for almost two years..

[Kaseijin]

from wikipedia org
\"Regular publications have been created and distributed by governments for millennia, including Acta Diurna, a listing of events ordered by Julius Caesar in Ancient Rome in 59 B.C., and Mixed News, published in China in A.D. 713.\"
from historic pages
\"The first printed forerunners of the newspaper appeared in Germany in the late 1400\'s in the form of news pamphlets or broadsides, often highly sensationalized in content. Some of the most famous of these report the atrocities against Germans in Transylvania perpetrated by a sadistic veovod named Vlad Tsepes Drakul, who became the Count Dracula of later folklore.\"

by many medieval lasted from 500 - 1450...so newspapers aren\'t so far off...

a printing press is does not need steam engine or electricty to run... so it\'s possible that a dwarf  came up with printing press in Yliakum then we did here. dwarfs as we all know are more technologically inclined then humans that inhibit this Earth.

Discworld had a printing press why can\'t PLaneshift???

[Loran]

a printing press is does not need steam engine or electricty to run... so it\'s possible that a dwarf came up with printing press in Yliakum then we did here. dwarfs as we all know are more technologically inclined then humans that inhibit this Earth.

Yes, and while we\'re at it, why not make some dwarfs run around in a wheel to make the press rotate

Hmm, doesn\'t seem to be a bad idea... Dwarfs could have invented a press, why not.

[Kiern]

Anything can be distorted enough to fit in the setting, I think the point is how far are you willing to go with it?  Next, cars?  If you can shoot fire out of nothing I should be able to invent a car somehow...

Just to make things complicated.

Originally posted by Kixie
Your an oldbie. Show some respect for the forum, and hold your responsibilities as one.

No thanks.  I\'m going to continue posting like I always have.  Sorry if that doesn\'t meet your standards of what is required around here for people with pretty blue stars on their name.

Next I\'ll be seeing Venge quotes in your signature.... :baby:

[Kaseijin]

Originally posted by Kiern
Anything can be distorted enough to fit in the setting, I think the point is how far are you willing to go with it?  Next, cars?  

My factual information proved that newspapers aren\'t such a distortion of a medievel setting. Secondly the setting hasn\'t been described in detail enough to be distorted.  In this case i think printing press would be expending the setting and not distorting it

[Kixie]

Planeshift is NOT a medieval fantasy MMORPG. It says that no where. This is not true in any way. I have no clue where you think this has come from. Planeshift is a free 3d mmorpg. There is no mention of Planshift being Medieval. Some things, like weapons, buildings and flora are based on a Medival setting, yes. But there is nothing saying that it is a Medival MMORPG where everything within it\'s realms are based firmly in the reality of Earth. Get over it people, it\'s an original MMORPG. That\'s what the devs HAVE said. Planeshift is as original as possible. There are no kings, queens, parliment, scribes, or anything that relates to Europe. There are things such as the weapons and the archetecture that refect medieval, but there is no offical say that planeshift is Medieval. In any way.