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Technology might advance tenfold in a century, but society needs many to get even the slightest change right.
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:45:08 UTC from web-
@nerthos imagine if the medieval times didnt have stagnated the science
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:48:45 UTC from web-
@kumo Honestly? I think it would have been even worse. We have more science than we need.
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:49:33 UTC from web-
@nerthos in quantity, not quality
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:50:05 UTC from web-
@kumo The issue is that you think science can in any way remove societal stupidity. You could have gravity-negating fields and FTL travel and humanity at large would still be idiotic.
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:51:12 UTC from web-
@nerthos no, i do see those 2 as things that are totally apart
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:51:58 UTC from web-
@kumo I mean, just imagine drunk driving an FTL spaceship. Let's say it weights 4 tons. Now how much damage could a 4 ton projectile cause to the planet if it rammed into it at four times the speed of light?
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:52:49 UTC from web-
@nerthos yeah, i dont really aprove any kind of flying vehicle for the avarage people
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:54:32 UTC from web-
@kumo I don't think either masses nor governments should have any say over potentially devastating technologies.
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:56:22 UTC from web
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@nerthos I look at it this way, yes humanity would still be as dumb as a brick, but we would still have gravity negating fields and FTL travel and all that goodness to spread the idiocity that is humanity across the stars. It will probably just be a matter of time before something really bad happens and the total number of humans drops below 30 billion or something, but hey. It will be a sight to behold nontheless. And I wish death at least came with a spectator-mode, I think it's going to be mind-bogglingly-awesome to behold
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:56:01 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker If we're going for dream tech I'd like something to allow me to reach practical immortality, and then just sidestep humanity and watch most of it crash and die, picking only the best and saving them from the fire.
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:58:41 UTC from web-
@nerthos Wow... you dark... I just would download them, watch the puzzle unfold, re-create them once humanity is gone like a piece of the puzzle at the appropriate time, and keep highscore who can keep a weird species like Humans alive the longest. ... Inb4 bragsters say "I lasted half a galactic rotation before they found out that there is personal gain in destruction of eachother"
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:03:34 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker What I meant was letting them hard-purge themselves. Letting the dumb ones die on their own, and recreate the species from the elite of the old world.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:06:24 UTC from web-
@nerthos That would take too much micromanagement. I figure someone wrote a rule-book or somehting. Like... "You are only allowed to interviene directly untill they write a book about you"
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:07:54 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I am top tier at slow, extended and careful micromanagement.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:08:47 UTC from web-
@nerthos You have no idea howmuch we share on that certain caracteristic then.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:09:42 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker We should play something like Men of War some day then.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:10:15 UTC from web-
@nerthos I don't know that game. I do know I am an avid fan of Supreme Commander.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:11:22 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Never tried Supreme commander. Men of War is amazing, at least Red Tide is. You're given squads of soldiers capable of operating any vehicle in the battlefield, replacing weapons, carrying items, each soldier has their specific bullets on them, they're each specialized in a certain area, and you can at any time take direct control of any particular soldier or vehicle.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:13:39 UTC from web-
@nerthos Sounds like a MMO version of commando's somehow ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Commandos_Behind_Enemy_Lines.jpg ) ... Also it does not sound micro enough, sounds more luck than tactic based almost... We shall see though
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:15:36 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker So far only one mission in the game has seemed to me like luck is important in.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:16:53 UTC from web-
@nerthos I will take a look at it before I call any further.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:19:06 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Honestly the best part of the game for me is commandeering tanks directly, since the scenario is fully destructible and you can flush out enemies from cover in fun ways.
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:20:52 UTC from web
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@nerthos That or Sins of a Solar Empire... I actually know near nothing of that game, but i do know it is awesome... Also... Isn't Stardock working on GalCiv3 ?
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:12:12 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I've played Sins of a Solar Empire, but singleplayer gets boring fast. No idea about GalCiv3
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:14:55 UTC from web-
@nerthos Probably because GalCiv is in Early Access and only has Domination victory panned out
Monday, 27-Oct-14 00:16:11 UTC from web
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@kumo I'd be riding on an ebola-powered hoverboard right now if we never stagnated science...
Sunday, 26-Oct-14 23:53:01 UTC from web
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