Showing our appreciation for the Devs.

[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.

[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.

[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]

[Reverend Zombie]

The devs got our appreciation when we shelled out the [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon41.gif[/img] for the game, no?

Money talks, b.s. walks.

[MaxWilson]

Reverend Zombie,

Our devs are not quite so crass as you believe. Everybody likes to succeed at what they do; many people mistake a metric (money) for the thing (success). JK and KO seem more motivated by cool ideas and appreciation.

-Max

[sector24]

"BUILD ME AN APPRECIATION THREAD WORTHY OF MORDOR!"

This game is truly inspiring, thanks reading all of our minds and making the game we've been dreaming of since we were kids.

[HoneyBadger]

I don't debate your persuit of authenticity, Omnirizon, although I think you'd find it more easily outside of whatever philoso-ethical dictionary you're using to dredge up that bit of near incomprehensibility. I also don't question your age, your persuits, the self you represent, etc. I do question your judgement-in your persuit-to besmirch someone who is themself expressing authentic character.

You can question my sappiness, or lack thereof, but you can't within the same statement call someone overly emotional, and coldly calculating, at the same time. They're diametrically opposed. And since you've already put forth your position that I am "sappy", you have proven beyond my own ability that I am acting in an earnest, real, unphoney way.

So I thank you for your compliment-obviously a high one, considering all the expensive words you used, and your earlier statement about talk being cheap-misguided and ultimately distracting to your goals though it may have been.

[Omnirizon]

those words were cheapos.

wait till i start dropping bombs like:

antiestablishmentarianism

floccinaucinihilipilification

or

hippopotomonstrosesquipidalian

[DonCorazon]

Thanks KO and JK. I think one of the great accomplishments of Dom 3 is bringing together this cool and intelligent community from all around the world.