Your story is somewhat relevant to the topic at hand, the original topic in this thread is Michael Richards yelling words at some other people who yelled words at him. Racism and/or bullying by just words in western countries is so irrelevant in the big picture compared to physical violence in starv...

Guess I wasn't quite done here yet after all. :p Rich western countries yep we all are rich here, we all carry guns .. we all wear cowboy hats Yes, rich "western" type countries, as in countries that has a developed health care, welfare and educational system and hasn't seen war on their h...

Never did I claim that people aren't actually affected by psychological pain, my own personal opinion is that lots of it could be mentally blocked out if people wished to do so however. People are too sensitive, specially in rich western countries where they have never experienced REAL pain aka phys...

btw, about physical and psychological pain, here's an example about why I personally believe physical pain is more "real": * If someone chops off your hand, your hand is literally destroyed. (Before someone says the hand can be put back on again in a hospital let's say the hand is melted i...

Well written Ashiwi. You explained the point I had better than me, hehe Teflor: heh, you use the word ignorant about euros? You do realize that this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmesn5WXeE would NEVER be possible to do in any western euro country I can think of. Only in america can you walk out ...

Oh, I am indeed the one who is technically wrong cuz people DO get harmed by words. My own view is that it's a weakness and wrong that people do however cuz I know how much worse physical violence really is. Words are just words, they are in your head and can be blocked out if just the will power to...

haha nice one. Btw Ambar I guess you grew up in Utopia where there was no racisim or hatred About growing up in certain areas, me personally I'm from Norway, a rich western country. There are gangs here and street violence like most places but it's nothing compared to a country that's troubled with ...

It's a weakness in human nature that some people get emotional or depressed cuz of words. Words are not physical, they can not literally harm you unless you let them. If someone burns you with a lighter you are literally harmed, you can not take away or block that pain away. If someone stands in fro...

I personally find it both amusing and pathetic that WORDS even matter in any conflict, by my own personal opinion words are just words and no word whatsoever can hurt me. I have to be physically hurt to be hurt, unless someone hits me or tries to wound me physically I cannot be hurt. If some moron t...

People who claim homosexuality is "unnatural" are way lost, it's very natural it can be seen many places in nature. I'm pretty sure homosexuality is one of nature's many ways of preventing over population of whatever species is growing too large in numbers. Which pretty much explains why o...

I hate ALL OF it. It doesnt belong here or on these boards. Nilan Not to sound racist, but that's typical americans, denial. I don't see anyone in this thread actually expressing racism everyone has just discussed it and pretty much everyone agrees racism is wrong, some people just seem to be a bit...

If he hates all forms of racism why is he only pointing at one side of it, the use of the N word... It was "whitey" and/or "whiteboy" that was used first in this case during a long period of heckling before Richards went crazy... Who excused him btw? I said they had it coming for...

I do not like the word nigger in fact i hate it, i think ya gotta be a pretty small insignificant loser of a human to resort to rascist comments like that. I dont tolerate it. But you do tolerate two black guys sitting in an audience mocking a performer with all sorts of cruel stuff including the r...

Gotta love how the media is causing a big scene out of this and not mentioning that those two black guys were taunting him and using racial slurs long before he went crazy on the stage.... The fact that those two black guys were yelling "cracker ass motherfucker" and "whiteboy" w...

To provoke exploration you can boost certain zones to being worth 2x exp and announce it publicly. One rl week ice crag and havenport might be hot exp spots, some other week temple of moon and the undead grid before paradox tower, and so on. It seems a bit weird to me that the ultimate exp here is t...

uh, from what I've heard the people in the audience was mocking him with racial slurs like "whitey" and "whiteboy" and "cracker" long before he said the N word at all. His intention was to prove that him saying the N word would cause a riot unlike them standing there ru...

You guys are absolutely right about the zone exp thing, it seems like here only a few select zones are actually worth exp. I'm willing to move around doing tons of different zones exploration style but when I whack one of the mobs out there I see it's worth like no exp compared to the already select...

The exit is fogged?

hmm, I remember basternae II had the same issue.. Is it supposed to be like this or is it just something you can't do something about? Doesn't it make it a bit too easy when you can just run past aggros without sneak for example? Isn't a charge or shieldpunch supposed to abort spell when stun hits e...

Sounds excellent Shevarash. I'll prolly be able to get those guys that gave
up to try again at toril 2.0 then cuz they seemed to be attracted to this game
other than the tedious exp.

By the looks of it so far, there are indeed plenty of places to go and stuff to do before high level on this mud. It's just that it goes too slow cuz of long exp tables. This mud has pretty good low/mid-lvl zones from what I've seen. If toril 2.0 is gonna erase the days of mindless exp that's good, ...

I don't think the high end levels is a problem of being slow, it's the lower levels I'm concerned about. I've been trying to get more people to come over here from duris but it's the low levels that's stopping them. They log on and try a few levels then says "no way I'm not going through this a...

A rl friend of mine had been playing sojourn and he introduced me to mud after it had split into toril/duris. He suggested I started on toril cuz there was !pk so I did. I had just read the lord of the rings for the first time so I rolled a halfling and got instantly hooked on the game after the exc...

I'm pretty new on this mud, I've never had a lvl 50 char on toril. I've been around since right after sojourn split though just been playing duris all these years so I'm a pretty experienced player. I've exped to 56 through insane exp tables as a drow mage in aggro scan tracking swallow proccing gia...

(A place like CC should be dark and scary, not flashing ansi..)

haha, the whole zone Cave City? :p

Some spaces too many and a message too many on the spell dust devil when it hits you with disarm effect. A ranger woman utters the words, 'dust devil' A cloud of swirling dust knocks your a white-hot fiery mace from your hands! A cloud of swirling dust knocks Loriendelas's a white-hot fiery mace fro...

Didn't see any existing threads to post about it in, so made one. I'll start with some: Death cry : Noticed death cries aren't very visible, they should be as it's something your char would most likely pay much attention to. I suggest red ansi to make it more visible when something dies nearby. Layh...