Muratus del Mur

might be that quantum entaglement is a manifestation of this principle. When it comes to quantum physics many things are at the border, thats the place where abstract and concrete are interconnected. I can't say they are the same thing, but in general you can find manifestations of a principle in various forms, from physics and even to philosophy. A closer similarity would be with things like voodoo :) .. but there is the same "issue" , if you digg deeper into how it works, you will probably end up to some weird physical phenomena , maybe the one you mentioned. My point is that a principle is what governs a manifestation, not the other way around.

Finally! I have the layout done..it was enormous work. Many details can't be seen in this pic..and i don't want thwm seen yet. The metal insertions and other cool stuff are not here either, this is just a first print on my home printer for the first test. This is how a title doc will look like..mostly. Each land will have a slightly different layout with different themed image and probably different colors. Idealy all you see orange in here will be golden foil when done. The the round things on the lower right are supposed to be the places where the signatures/stamps go, one by me and one by the one granting the title (two spots for two sigs). The entire page is filled with ultra fine lines just like paper money..will look just awesome You notice i totally changed the layout idea i wanted initially..this one fits a lot better with what is actually on the doc and is much more elegant in my opinion. Needless to say i did all in vectorized form so i will be able to print it at very high resolutions..just for the fun of having a top quality doc. I will update you soon when i hve more news about the progress of all this. Let me know your honest opinion on this first sample Ps. Pic is done with the phone.. i wont bother providing any clearer images at this point but i might one some final papers will be done. Ps. The big big stamp will come on the back of the paper and on the envelope probably

No you got me wrong. I do believe they are your.. i just don't want to take them for free from the db as you said. I want to trade silver for gold, ingame, not db... and i know you had only good intentions, it just sounded as if you told me to spawn some more gold.. missunderstanding. Whoever i get to contact first ingame i will do this. Apparently so far i didn't manage to contact Miq yet.

Chew..i'll pretend i didn't see that Miq. ok, i'll find you (and rob you :)) )

I need some more gold coins..i just realized i have only two left. So, i am exchanging silver for gold 15 silver for 1 gold negociable (more silver per coin) if you have more than 3 gold coins...simply because if i find someone to provide all the gold i need it will be more simple for me than buying one by one. I have both silver coins and notes. post here the number of gold you are willing to trade and i will find you. Thanks

For my own reference, Azull, Intrigue, and Yoshi ..i should pick one of you .. but not sure who deserves the most - Azull came closest to what i asked, but a fast cut is debate-able - Intrigue found an unexpected way to do it, nothing about grinding the blade however - Yoshi worked a lot to grind his blades himself, but not so great results correct me if i see it wrong

"why so serious" :)))

cmon.. it was a good joke :)) why hide it :))

the answers for the research are not right or wrong, they come in shades, but eventually if you put together all the info available in different corners of md, or shall i say minds of md people, some info becomes impossible and other info becomes obvious. Reaching deep on an obvious path could get you very high and very fast, so yes, knowledge is currency, and for the others is like Endleg said "You can search but the only thing you will find is sharper mind." both cases are fine. The wors case are the research done secretly without any kind of attempt to compare the results with others and to see if you are in a fictive world within a virtual one, or if you are still following the concepts of the world you are in. This could easily be compared to madness...same way genius could be at the border of madness..so be careful

hand drawings are like books its why i made md like this you don't remember or dream "letters"..you remember what your mind reconstructs..and that holds much more interesting info than what a colored realistic picture could offer. The relation between md and dreams..thats a complicated story and i want to keep this short,..but there IS something there :) thats also a reason why md played outside md will never be md

hahaha..i absolutely love this one "Research and Connection is actually a ploy Mur created to get people to remember things he'll probably forget." ..its TRUE in fact i mention this to the people i give certain info that they might eventually need to write them as research articles ;)

viscosity is a gold mine for the gameplay, it makes secret areas that are forgotten and gives a way to create activity centers for groups of people. It might not fit well with just a handfull of people in md now, but i won't change that. Viscosity gives value to places that otherwise would have been ordinary. It makes resource gathering a challenge, and encourages group play. The alternative to viscosity is to close down a large part of md so the remaining part will fit to the existing number of active players,...but viscosity solves that in an other more dynamic way..those areas self-close while still giving any group of players the ability to open them. Its uncomfortable, yes, so what. If i am wrong about all this, i will expect a clearer more aware explenation from either council, chew, or kings.. why? because if there is someone that will convince me to chance my concepts about how i want md to be, then they should be people that reach a certain rank in this invisible hierarchy. That doesn't mean at all that your views are insignificant or useless, they are actually very valuable, but they need to change the mind of other people before they will change my mind in any way... and i am talkinng strictly about viscosity case for now. There is also a research related issue here, viscosity and fenths, separation from reality by forgetting the surroundings, etc... the people i mentioned could talk to me about all this in a way i could explain in more detail the meaning of viscosity, and maybe find a more suitable way to integrate it IF needed.

i am afraid that i did indeed forget about this topic. If anyone with enough access could help me sort this out , it would be very helpful. the data is very valuable, but at this point i am unable to use it myself. As a fast opinion from what i see, i think an exponential drop of volition gain would pe appropriate..that way the low levels will be more freqvent and the grinding will become useless. but i also don't want to limit it, grinding has its good parts...i am unecided i must admit. Everything will be eventually adjusted to fit the most common, normal, values you gained, so thank you for your honesty in reporting the values and the way you obtained them. Maybe with the secondary tags system this could be divided in two, giving certain roles and limiting other roles for people going over a certain limit too fast. hopefully chew reads this, or someone will remind me about it when i will start coding again, who knows when, maybe in 2050 :)

the fear of someone being able to come in and see what you talk, or not being able to chat with people not in the same loction, are things that give md a certain feel. I might be wrong but in every other game i checked, the chat was something common, nothing "location" based...if you could call those "locations" ..and here its simply not like that. If you like to enjoy md for what it is, use it as it is, if you just want to use parts of it, then do whatever you like, but i must warn you it will never be the same for you. Where is the fun in plottting something in a secret location, or going to find someone in a remote place , if you "cheat" by using messengers? Of course anyone can do whatever they please outside md, but the user experience and level of excitement is designed to work with the way it is, ..what you will do otherwise will alter this. Eventually you will miss out part of what md is, its up to you. One note. PM's are not monitored and never will be. It is technically possible to do it for someone with database access, that being me and chew for the moment, but in case this rule will be broken i am willing to store them encrypted too. Chat is designed to leave traces, echoes of what was spoken there, giving unexpected people the occasion to see whats going on and pick on those traces. Keeping a md related discussion outside of md will only enclose you in a private group and will cut your connections with "what might happen"

Akshan, if you are too lazy to try then be also lazy to mention it. I don't think 3 blades would make a difference anyway yes..doing it slowly requires skill, a skill that can be perfected ... but the actual skill is to sharpen beyond what is normally considered "very sharp" my chrome-vanadium blade gave up eventually :))..who thought a cig could become such a hassle to cut clean. I managed to cut a pencil clean but a cig..its harder :)) I picked the winner for now... but i am leaving this topic open till last moment maybe someone does the trick I will help you a bit. a 45deg angle, clean cut till 99% of the cig, then a twist perpendicular on the remaining paper... that does the trick with a razor. Holding the cig vertically also helps, or hold it horizontally but cut from below ..this adds the weight of the cut part to help you cut clean. A rotation move (as i already saw) does the trick if the blade is ultra hollow ground or does not have an angle change. Commercially you will not find any blade sharpened like that, unless very expensive ones that are actually beveled...but its easy to achieve that shape within one day of grinding a blade manually, or a couple of minutes of doing it with an electric tool. For your curiosity, get an old type of razor blade, the big one, is still available to buy at very very cheap prices in malls, or disassamble a 'modern' single use shaving..thing (not sure how its called)... try with that. It will not be valid for this contest, but its for your curiosity to see if you lack the skill or the blade ;) There are two points in this challenge, one or the other are fine for me. Either learn to sharpen a blade, or learn to use it for delicate stuff. I must say i am not satisfied with the results, but i am satisfied with the amount of effort you put in trying it, in making a movie, and in trying over and over again

:) "soon" is best answer indeed .. its been two years indeed, my past two years where like a marathon, and was NOT work related, in fact, i consider working such a bliss now, like vacation :)) I am trying to keep a presence, i am not ignoring MD if that is how it looks like... when i will "return" i will focus on development, but as a player...idk.. "not soon". You are all lucky there is a wookie arround... seriously... md would have been dead by now without him, so stop asking about me and appreciate those arround that do all that they can to be 'alive', not like me

Thank you all for your kind wishes :) ..this made me very happy :) topic can be closed now, Thank you

Hehe ..thx. i mtoo drunk now.inagoodway :)

that second video is the most unexpected way i saw :)) ...sadly no, its not what i had in mind, but i admire the ingenuity :)) The first video is what i had in mind, but, sadly the last part is not clean cut this is vlid for everybody, don't be shy to post also stranger or more original ways you discovered,...i am looking for a certain thing, but, i might reward somehow also the impressive attempts (ps: Don't try filming slow motion or altering the cig content to better support the slow cut...thats not original but simply rude attempt to cheat, so don;t go that way)

hahha...seriously...where? i wrote it or i made it self-understood somehow? just curious.

or randomness IS part of the logic system of the universe, thats my conclusion so far at least...a conclusion i will keep open for change later, given a better reasoning i must add that with such forum topics i entertain myself occasionaly, i pic some of your replies as much as i can read (i have a serious concentration problem reading long text), and i analyze those replues individually, not compared with the rest. Even if i read or reply a year later, such topics remain the things that keep my mind alive and keep me going, so i must thank you everyone for your replies.

please remind me next time to give a public explenation about the reason i admited anyone into SOTIS...

symbols and counter-symbols are like music, you can't pretend to have musical ear and then confuse noise for melody. One mistake shows there is something "not there", but one perfect answer shows there might be something hidden in there (your mind and abilities/senses). Who won the 4 stage recruitment? I don't see anyone in sotis and i don't remember. I looked over all replies again and i know instantly who i would have selected (with a 50% score, but still more than the rest)..but..he is not. I wonder what happend to him... i avoid to say his name for now, because i don't remember the conclusions of that recruitment series. Looking at it now i would oscilate between canceling it or rewarding one person. help my memory pls

I was asked a question by Yoshi, and I think this part of the answer needs to be public, so here it goes; Recruiting for SOTIS will never be the same,so this is NOT a way to get into SOTIS.. This guild will be a collection of people, each different...thats why anything related to previous recruitments can be public...there are no secrets now. Symbols have counter-symbols, there is a rare...ultra rare...skill..better said "sense" that some have, to understand symbols with their feelings and be able to match their counter symbols. To determine such a skill its very complicated...people get tainted by the use of symbols nowdays and even those that have such a skill will judge with their logic not with their heart. So, i divided the recruiting in steps, because someone that has such a skill will be remarked easier this way, and the test itself was supposed to "open" their heart, or to confuse them totally, filtrating in this way all the participants. Pairs of counter-symbols have a special property ... they can describe a "complex thought" . Lets define a complex thought first... A thought that holds the information seen from all perspectives, balanced, without loose ends, that can not be normally detailed without being broken down in many many sub elements, such as a dream or a book, but in essence, its only ONE thought. Such a thought can be imprinted into objects, transfered between people, hold inside yourself...and so on. You can make a very clear and direct association between complex thoughts and magic. All the spell docs are each one complex thought detailed over multiple steps ;) In person i never met someone with this ability..sadly. Looking through history, i found two people only to hold a similar skill to mine...and I will not insist on their name them because i do not think I am worthy to be placed on same line with them,,.. they are from a different level so to speak. Before giving one name i will first expllain something. Like with any skill/ability, there is no sharp line to determine who has it and who doesn't. Someone could learn a skill. someone could partially understand it, while others can be over the line to master it and those people will expand the "borders". King Solomon had this ability, to enclose complex thoughts into symbol pairs. Sadly most of the info you can find nowdays is transcribed severl times and many many interpretations that lose the real meaning.... but the meanings remain in the symbols. A symbol "pair" can consist of 2,4 or 8 symbols, matched with their counter symbol. They build like a small universe if ideas, that are complete, but in their "core" they define a gap. Its like removing the surplus stone to reveal a beautiful sculpture. This is powerful...so powerful that probably anyone in existance mastering such a skill will make history or there won't ever be two people at the same time able to do this entirely. I have just a part of such a skill, (and i am not making history :)) ) so i can assume there are people out there, like me, that have such a skill partially. I saw traces of other people able to do this, some work in advertising, one was a monk...the advertising people are like shadows, in fact i tend to believe that the brain behind this was not the designer but someone else (like his employer) giving the ideea. The monk died like 100 years ago sadly. so..to stop this before its way too long. Symbols matching skills was a curiosity of mine and i wanted such a person in sotis...even with a partial skill..maybe one day it will matter in MD,,for sure. Sadly I realize that people come and go in MD and eventually sotis will remain just a collection of names...or..maybe not. I hope not :)

AUDIENCE IS ABOUT TO END ..what...nothing has been discussed?...so what? :))))))) you didn't expected that did you