Its Halloween!!!!!!!

[Pontius Pilate]

I especially like the fact that it does not coincide with anything else and so gives me another excuse to have a party.

That's the point. It has no point. Just another excuse to "party"

Well maybe it's just me, but I don't like to "party", just seems so uncivilized.

[General Appo]

Well maybe it's just me, but I don't like to "party", just seems so uncivilized.

The problem being?

Seriously, what is your definition of fun? Sitting quietly in a library reading about quantum physics?

[desert]

I was going to dress up as a Roman legionary, but real chain mail, and authentic helmet and swords are really expensive and I didn't want to just buy one of those cheap stereotipical Roman customes you can get at your local store.

So is a full Darth Vader suit with Force FX saber, but that doesn't stop people.

I've seen fiberglass costumes that cost up to $5,000. So whose fanaticism is stronger? Yours or theirs?

PS: Partying isn't fun. All it is is a bunch of people dancing or whatever.

[General Appo]

Partying isn't fun. All it is is a bunch of people dancing or whatever.

A party can be anything you make it. A party can be 3 über-nerds discussing Star Wars vs. Star Trek while listening to the masterpieces of John Williams and drinking root beer.
A party can be 200 people getting totaly wasted and smashing up the place and each other.

You don´t need to dance to have a party. You don´t even need music. Besides, what is this, are you people telling me that only sociopathic bookworms play EB? Surely not.
Neo-conservative catholics the bunch of you. No wait, that was...that other Roman guy who dislikes partying and all music in general. Well, I bet you people are too.

[desert]

Ah! But you just said that a party can be anything you make it to be. So if a party can have three people in it(worst party ever), then surely I can have a party by myself! Therefore I am not antisocial, since I am interacting with myself.

[jabarto]

Besides, what is this, are you people telling me that only sociopathic bookworms play EB? Surely not.

Ah, parties. Perhaps someday I'll have friends and can throw/attend one. For now I'll just settle for playing EB into the night.

Sorry, I just had to reinforce the negative stereotype.

[General Appo]

No no no, if you party by yourself you´re having a 1-man party, which is completely different from a party. Don´t ask me why.
So you´re still an antisocial sociopath. Well, listen to some good, yet half-melancholy music. It would seem to suit you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohns...eature=related

[Zeibek]

I actually thought that most people here had lives before reading this thread. Now I'm not that sure anymore...

Mind you, I haven't played EB in 3 weeks, which would probably drive most of the people here crazy.

[General Appo]

Ah, parties. Perhaps someday I'll have friends and can throw attend one. For now I'll just settle for playing EB into the night.

Ah, but why don´t you attend one of my EB parties? 10-20 people in a cellar full with computers all playing LAN, taking a drink, listening to some good music and just generally having a good time.
I usually hold one every second week, why don´t you fly here to Sweden and attend?

[Cadwalader]

Bah, over here Halloween is just an excuse to sell shitty plastic masks, get candy and do mischief. It seems to have died out somehow, though. Very few kids at our door this year.

[General Appo]

Probably playing EB as all good kids.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I actually thought that most people here had lives before reading this thread. Now I'm not that sure anymore...

Yeah, in general, most Orghas (sp?) do not have lives, unless I am mistaken of course. I myself am an avid bookworm, reading 4-6 250+ pg books every week in addition to all of the schoolwork (which I actually have to do since my parents would skin me for not having the top grades) and of course EB. As one can see I do not have much extra time so most of my social activities are on the Internet.

If you do happen to be one of the oddballs with some semblance of life, then please say so. It would be interesting to find a social person on these forums. Oh, and by social life, I mean socializing with "normal" people. Nerds and geeks don't count.

[desert]

That song is all right I guess, but I couldn't tell if it was in English or some imaginary language.

This is better for my purposes...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk

And for the last time, I'm not antisocial. Parties are for closet antisocials. They just are.

[General Appo]

If you do happen to be one of the oddballs with some semblance of life, then please say so. It would be interesting to find a social arson on these forums. Oh, and by social life, I mean socializing with "normal" people. Nerds and geeks don't count.

I have a real life, socializing with un-nerds. But to be honest, seeing as these people do not play EB, and in fact have never heard of it, I tend to think of them as retarded idiots. But most would consider them non-nerds.

That song is all right I guess, but I couldn't tell if it was in English or some imaginary language.

This is better for my purposes...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLPLO90fSk

You must truly suck at English then. I´ll just post the lyrics to help you out.


Is the music of grove skin rock
Soaked in the diesel of war boys war?
Blood, black gold and the face of a judge
Is the music calling for a river of blood?

Beat the drums tonight, Alphonso
Spread the news all over the grove
The big meeting has decided
That total war must burn on the grove

Does it mean I should take my machete
To chop my way through the path of life?
Does it mean I should run with the dog pack
Is that the way to be the one to survive?

Never need a gun says Tai Chi
Move on up to dragon snaps his tail
Fall back on still waters
Hammer with his eye on the nail

Spread the word tonight please, Sammy
They're searching everyhouse on the grove
Don't go alone now, Sammy!
The wind has blown away the corner soul

Tell the news for me, Sammy
They're searching every place on the grove
But don't go down alone new, Sammy!
The wind has blown away the croner soul

Is the music calling for a river of blood?


Not my absolute favourite song, but it seemed to fit the general mood. Or rather, my general mood. Plus, it mentions TW. Yay!

[desert]

You must truly suck at English then.

Yaaargh!!! THIS IS A GRAVE INSULT!

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Anyway, I know that he was singing in English. I was merely insulting him for his strange accent. Also, he sounds drunk.

[Pontius Pilate]

A party can be anything you make it. A party can be 3 über-nerds discussing Star Wars vs. Star Trek while listening to the masterpieces of John Williams and drinking root beer.
A party can be 200 people getting totaly wasted and smashing up the place and each other.

You don´t need to dance to have a party. You don´t even need music. Besides, what is this, are you people telling me that only sociopathic bookworms play EB? Surely not.
Neo-conservative catholics the bunch of you. No wait, that was...that other Roman guy who dislikes partying and all music in general. Well, I bet you people are too.

HAHAHA. It seems that my little comment on partying has well, just look at the last five posts. As for you Mr. General "I am superior to all of you" Appo, I find your description of me insulting. Yes I am "that other Roman guy" or Pontius Pilate. NO I am not Neo-Conservative Catholic and I DO NOT dislike music in general. I am not a religious person at all and I like lots of types of music. You ever hear of one of those nice shy type of kids?

On the subject of parties I should have been more clear. I do not like parties where everyone is getting drunk, doing drugs, and screwing each other because I just find something wrong with it all and I have some morals, which is something many of you are lacking. Also, many people around the world can not "party" like that because they are dirt poor in poverty. If you want to take a good look at what poverty really is just go to a 3rd World country. It makes me sick when I see children starving to death in Africa and then I see college kids getting wasted, and this is all on TV too. And I am not even poor or from the third world, I'm actually from the U.S.

So General Appo, please keep your insults to yourself.


Now back to Hallowen, although i assume this thread will be closed soon enough.

[Zeibek]

On the subject of parties I should have been more clear. I do not like parties where everyone is getting drunk, doing drugs, and screwing each other because I just find something wrong with it all and I have some morals, which is something many of you are lacking. Also, many people around the world can not "party" like that because they are dirt poor in poverty. If you want to take a good look at what poverty really is just go to a 3rd World country. It makes me sick when I see children starving to death in Africa and then I see college kids getting wasted, and this is all on TV too. And I am not even poor or from the third world, I'm actually from the U.S.

Oh my, aren't you the martyr. Because people in Africa are starving partying is immoral here in the west. And by not partying and just generally living an ascetic life you will help those poor, starving children. Not all of us suffer from white guilt you know, and many of us are annoyed by the trivialization of human suffering e.g. by claiming that their suffering gives your totally unrelated behaviour justification.

And now to pretend to be on topic: no Halloween celebrations here. One guy at school actually brought up the possibility of a Halloween party but the rest of us stared at him like he was a complete retard. That kinda ended all discussion about it.

[Pontius Pilate]

Oh my, aren't you the martyr. Because people in Africa are starving partying is immoral here in the west. And by not partying and just generally living an ascetic life you will help those poor, starving children. Not all of us suffer from white guilt you know, and many of us are annoyed by the trivialization of human suffering e.g. by claiming that their suffering gives your totally unrelated behaviour justification.

And now to pretend to be on topic: no Halloween celebrations here. One guy at school actually brought up the possibility of a Halloween party but the rest of us stared at him like he was a complete retard. That kinda ended all discussion about it.

So now I'm a martyr too? Wow, you really have no compassion at all. Fine then, fuck the topic. Let's all start talking about how much 3rd world suffering is funny and how nobody should give a rats ass about it, right?

[Maion Maroneios]

Hey, I think this is starting to get a little out of hand here boys. Anyway, I might be an EB player, but at the same time I'm also a student. I do a lot of things, I like music and partying, but also long talks of supernatural things or reasoning/philosophising and such under a starry night. Actually, I think that most of us aren't the ''nerdy'' type of guys sitting behind a screen all day for some reasons, but most importantly due to the fact that we play a mod based on an antique (for today's standards) engine, while there are so many other (seemingly) better games with great graphics and such. And we are happy for playing EB, for what we have. I, for one, don't play any other games at all with only some minor exceptions.

Maion

[desert]

Speak for yourself. My wishlist on Gamespot contains over 600 games.

[Aemilius Paulus]

My wishlist on Gamespot contains over 600 games.

Really, what kind?

[General Appo]

Pontius: No, you´re not "that other Roman guy" at all. Aemilius Paulus is, I just remebered his name. There are so many new guys these days I´m having trouble keeping up.
He´s the guy who despises all music and is those other stuff I said that admitedly don´t really have anything to do with this topic.

I too find your whole "people are starving, stop having fun!" pretty ridiculous. Let me ask you, what do you do? All those books you read, musn´t they cost lots and lots of money? Think of the Africann children for Christs sake! They´re starving and there you are blowing hundreds of dollars on books every year, dollars that could save lifes!! YOU LACK ALL MORALS!!!!

See how ridiculous it gets?

Btw, I don´t drink, do drugs and...well, don´t really screw as much as I´d like.

[desert]

All kinds.

[Maion Maroneios]

All kinds.

Maion

[NeoSpartan]

I was going to dress up as a Roman legionary, but real chain mail, and authentic helmet and swords are really expensive and I didn't want to just buy one of those cheap stereotipical Roman customes you can get at your local store. Anyway, Halloween is one of the best holidays here in America. You get to dress up as anything you want and get lots of candy. This whole Carnaval thing you guys are talking about doesn't seem too good to me. You Europeans are surely missing out on alot of stuff. Hey I never realized how many people there are, on these forums that aren't from U.S.

I feel you mean. Good accurate costumes are hard and expensive. When I started doing mines they were just a few black rags with black jeans and cloack (no hood), black face paint and I went as a type of Sweboz unit. Last year I upped the anti by going as a Botroa, I had to make a shield. Now I upped it once more by making a sword, small armor plate, tunic, and helmet (and another shield).

For a Roman with mail, you have major 2 issues. 1st finding mail, or something that passes as mail (like a thick shiny shirt), or you could take a shirt and glue/sowe a thin layer of metal mesh of somekind. The shield is the hardest part because it has to be curved. And making that takes some time, there are instructions on how to do it in the RomanArmy.com forums (Romanarmytalk). It thats too much work then just leave it straight.

Another big issue with shields that avoid is making a real handle. Normally shilds (not the hoplite, aspis, shield) like the Roman, Gallic, etc, type have a whole in the center and the handle is IN that whole. The shield boss covers the whole. This gives the user greater control.
--I don't do this, too much work. I just make a handle with wood and screw it to the shield, the boss is just aluminum foil held in place by glue/nails/push-pins.

I'll post a pic of the handle when I get home.
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Carnivals, I think in South America and the Caribean a similar parade type event is done. But I don't know the time of the year. The last one I saw was when I was real little back in Cuba in the late 80's or something, before the Soviet Union.

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With regards to parties. The only time a party can be called a party is when girls are in it, and you can socialize with other people (men and women) face to face.
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With regards to "commercialism":

Ok guys WTF is the problem with people wanting to make some F**** money, and other people wanting to spend their money on bull**** they don't need????????????????

Its called Capitalism and freedom of choice. MOFOs!
So what if people want to buy presents in X-mas? So what if people want to buy chocolate and flowers in Valentines Day? So what if people want to buy costumes in Halloween? So what if people want to buy stupid green hats and a TON of booze in St. Patricks day?

[desert]

Maion

Here, see for yourself. http://www.gamespot.com/users/fasthe...able?mode=want

And for the sake of limiting OTness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKqdckJhrA (Part 1)
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5v...e=related(Part 2)

[Pontius Pilate]

Pontius: No, you´re not "that other Roman guy" at all. Aemilius Paulus is, I just remebered his name. There are so many new guys these days I´m having trouble keeping up.
He´s the guy who despises all music and is those other stuff I said that admitedly don´t really have anything to do with this topic.

I too find your whole "people are starving, stop having fun!" pretty ridiculous. Let me ask you, what do you do? All those books you read, musn´t they cost lots and lots of money? Think of the Africann children for Christs sake! They´re starving and there you are blowing hundreds of dollars on books every year, dollars that could save lifes!! YOU LACK ALL MORALS!!!!

See how ridiculous it gets?

Btw, I don´t drink, do drugs and...well, don´t really screw as much as I´d like.

First off I don't read that many books actually. Second, I am not saying to not have fun. Third, never mind. I'm just going to drop this topic, its for another time and another forum.

[Pontius Pilate]

I feel you mean. Good accurate costumes are hard and expensive. When I started doing mines they were just a few black rags with black jeans and cloack (no hood), black face paint and I went as a type of Sweboz unit. Last year I upped the anti by going as a Botroa, I had to make a shield. Now I upped it once more by making a sword, small armor plate, tunic, and helmet (and another shield).

For a Roman with mail, you have major 2 issues. 1st finding mail, or something that passes as mail (like a thick shiny shirt), or you could take a shirt and glue/sowe a thin layer of metal mesh of somekind. The shield is the hardest part because it has to be curved. And making that takes some time, there are instructions on how to do it in the RomanArmy.com forums (Romanarmytalk). It thats too much work then just leave it straight.

Another big issue with shields that avoid is making a real handle. Normally shilds (not the hoplite, aspis, shield) like the Roman, Gallic, etc, type have a whole in the center and the handle is IN that whole. The shield boss covers the whole. This gives the user greater control.
--I don't do this, too much work. I just make a handle with wood and screw it to the shield, the boss is just aluminum foil held in place by glue/nails/push-pins.

I'll post a pic of the handle when I get home.
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Yeah, i was thinking of making my own costume too, it's just that I would want it to be perfect and it would take alot of time, something I'm running short on now-a-days. The all black Sweboz unit looks sounds like a good idea though, and it shouldn't take that long to put together. Although, I wonder what the reaction would be when you try to explain to people what you are, I doubt any of them have ever heard of Sweboz before. If only I read this post a few days ago! Well maybe next year. Yeah the curved shield would be a headache to make, and so would an imperial gallic helmet. Or you could do a montefortino which you could try to make by putting a bronze metal pot on your head and then try to attach some kind of cheek plates and a horse hair crest. Is it just me, or does the montefortino helmet sort of look like a metal pot?

[Maion Maroneios]

Here, see for yourself. http://www.gamespot.com/users/fasthe...able?mode=want

And for the sake of limiting OTness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKqdckJhrA (Part 1)
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5v...e=related(Part 2)

OK, I guess you don't belong to the category I forementioned...

Maion

[Pontius Pilate]

And for the sake of limiting OTness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKqdckJhrA (Part 1)
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5v...e=related(Part 2)

What, the hell.

is that you in the video?