Showing our appreciation for the Devs.

[Omnirizon]

this thread's so saccharine.

sweeter than froo froo cocktails at a dance bar playing the most cliche dance music and top 40 hits they can find.

I'd send KO a boatload of Bulgarian pole dancers. And since he seems like I nice guy, I'd have em tested for herpes first; don't want to give him any STDs.

[HoneyBadger]

Sometimes it's hard to get any appreciation, even for showing appreciation.

[HoneyBadger]

It's always funny to me how willing people are to make fools of themselves for negative reasons, but-and it's often those same people, but not always, Omnirizon-who disparage those who willingly put themselves in the same position for positive reasons.

There's a difference between heartfelt and saccharine, though-that of honesty, if nothing else. And I-honestly-wouldn't have written it if I cared about how it sounded, or thought it sounded sicky-sweet.

[Omnirizon]

ehh...

don't worry about me; do your thing.

I was dancing like a little girl to the most homo 80s music at just such a bar last nite. It was damned fun. Everybody dresses 80s, I wore raggedy jeans and one of my death metal t-shirts. there were chicks with leg warmers, dudes with blue jean jackets and bandanas. it was totally gay, and fun.

I'm nobody to poke at you for being sappy, but talk is cheap. so why not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

take on meeeeeee. take me ooooooooon. i'll be goooooooone. in a day or twooooooo.

[JimMorrison]

The younger generation still struggles with things like sincerity, Badger, please forgive them.

As far as Bulgarian pole dancers go, I heard most of them bring their own pole, if you know what I mean, !yikes!


But in all seriousness, I feel very much the same, and I think many people do (though maybe few are touched quite so deeply, or are nearly so capable of expressing such). It is the simple fact that this game truly is imagination given a life of its own, and done so by a couple of incredibly talented - and personable - fellows. With all of the money that I and my best friend have spent on "studio" titles, I've rarely found a game which had 100 contributors that gave me even 10% of the value that Dominions has.

I'm all for the expensive drink (Cognac perhaps?) and fine meal, and I get the sense that these inspirational game-makers would happily take a visitor up on such an offer. Why? Well, it's simple..... the big studio developers, they know how many people they have pissed off with their vapid, unfinished, poorly thought out dung, and so would not take a fan's hospitality, out of fear of poison or gunshot. But not our devs, for they know what a good game looks like, they know what dedication and support of their product looks like, and they know what honest and sincere appreciation looks like.

I am too new around here to start a thread like this on my own, but I can thank Badger for that one. However, I don't think I'm too new to gush. I just wish more people felt comfortable expressing love as an emotion not connected to sex. Dominions doesn't make me feel sexual (well it didn't until those ads showed up!), but it does fill me with pleasure. I don't know why people find it so hard to be appreciative of what they are given, and to express the potential of a future positive, rather than complaining about what they see as a flaw in someone else's endeavor.

We're very lucky. At least, I feel that way. It would be a triumph of humanity if even 10 people could muster up the courage to simply post in this thread, "I love you guys."

And thank you.

[Edi]

I must say that nothing since the first Age of Wonders has captured my imagination in the way that Dominions has and comparing those, Domninions comes out on top by a wide margin. I've played the series since Dominions - PPP and it just keeps getting better and better. With strategy games, I am very much a sandbox player, so for me every game of Dom3 is in a way like a story of its own.

The uniqueness, the research that has gone to it all, the thematics, the world history, the detail in the nations, it's refreshing and exhilarating and sets my imagination on fire. If it didn't, these things would never have been written. I have no doubt that Dominions will keep on enriching my life for a long, long time to come, regardless of whether or not there are any sequels beyond Dominions 3.

So I want to thank Kristoffer and Johan for making Dominions (as well as CoE). It takes a special kind of vision to produce something this unique and I'm proud to be able to call them friends.

Thank you, Illwinter!

[Sombre]

It's more fun to mod than any other game I've tried.

But more than that I'm really impressed by the way KO interacts with fans on this site and continues to produce great stuff for the game. Dom3 has had more content released in patches than 90% of retail expansion packs have. It isn't like it /needed/ it, but it keeps the game exciting and fresh.

JK's support for modders and bugfixing has been pretty amazing too. He obviously doesn't have much of a presence on the forums, but he generally does fix the important stuff for us and as much as we might complain about certain bugs (like cave provinces) the amount of stuff on the buglist that's turned green is really very impressive for one guy working on it in his spare time.

I know KO wanted a dark elf mod made at some point, just for nostalgia's sake possibly, so I will endeavour to get that done for him in the nearish future. Don't think I can really do anything for JK though.

[HoneyBadger]

Awww...I love you too, JimMorrison.

I think a lot of one's ability to express emotion has to do with being comfortable with who you are, and your own sexuality.

[Omnirizon]

JimMorrison said:
The younger generation still struggles with things like sincerity, Badger, please forgive them.

sincerity is a construct; it is meaningless save as a method of deluding people into preserving a social hierarchy. thus why sincerity is well developed in confucian ethics. the orient in general has a strong respect for social hierarchy, thus why there is so much emphasis on sincerity that often comes across as pretense to those of the west. but even in western areas with more established social hierarchy, such as the dixiecrat south or amongst the lower class in general (who must be made to respect upper classes despite being exploited by them) there is so much emphasis on things like "firm sincere handshakes." though i imply social hierarchy and sincerity are bad through my rhetoric, they are not necessarily.

i'm authentic because i remain true to my typcial detached, irreverent, and deconstructionist self. thus i tell honey he is being saccharine and this thread's a little too sweet yadda yadda yadda.

"sincerity" in this context would be for me to not act authentic in order to preserve the tone and then the social hierarchy established by honey in the thread.

however, i never questioned honey's authenticity. he wasn't necessarily constructing sincerity in order to accomplish some goal; to place himself in favorable light or suck up. maybe he's a sappy guy. i'm not one to judge.

dominions and its devs are authentic to us as players because they have proven themselves as very fun to play games and dedicated devs.

i never asked dominions to be sincere nor the devs to be sincere devs. it would be meaningless to ask such.

sincerity is meaningless. a construct. an illusion. a delusion. there is no such thing as intrinsic sincerity.

[llamabeast]

I am not easily so eloquent as HoneyBadger. But I'd just like to say here that I agree with him 100%.

I think Omnirizon is an arts student. [meaning arts as opposed to sciences of course, not fine art]