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Peter Molyneux's 'Godus' to Be Released on Mac September 13th

zync said:
However, since we're writing on the Internet, and since the Internet originated in America, we have to follow proper American spelling while we're on it. Sorry, we own it.
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Aren't you writing on the World Wide Web? ;)
Which was invented by...

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joshhedge said:
The last I knew, the world wide web was invented by an Englishman, Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee. ;)

I'm assuming it comes down to a numbers game, as I can't see any variation in unit type, along with god intervention.
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The Internet and World Wide Web are different though...

So unless someone can correct me, the internet was invented by the Americans. But the www was invented by an Englishman in Europe/England then implemented it using an American computer called NeXT
 
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Well I think it looks great - and am a backer of the Kickstarter project. There are too few decent games on the Mac and Simcity and Godus were my hopes. Simcity has too much bad press to be credible which leaves Godus.

Time will tell if Godus will be successful.
 
If you turn the sound down the game seems really boring! lol

I think it would be far more interesting if they made the little 'minions' become aware of their 'creator' and aware that they are inside a game. Then all the tribes could join forces, fight the 'creator' and escape from the game into the 'real' world (which is actually just another layer of their existence).
 
Why do you guys pronounce route as out with an r on the front? It sounds really strange to me whenever I hear it. The e on the end changes the out to an oot sound - hence route should be pronounced as root. Route - from Old French rute (road).
 
I hope they manage to do a decent iOS version of this game, I would love to play something like this on my way to work in the morning. The only downside I can see is I might keep missing my stop. :D
 
The Mercurian said:
Surely Populous was proof of concept for this ? Its basically the same idea. No ?
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It is the same idea in the sense it's a god game, but with 2013 technology. Still, the things Molyneux claims this game can do borderline on the absurd--everything is simulated, down to grains of sand; change the coast and it'll affect weather patterns for a player on the other side of the world; a multiplayer world the size of Jupiter, etc. When I heard about them I thought someone was parodying Molyneux.

Even if it turns out to be a little more than a modern remake of Populous, that'll make me happy. I never had a chance to play it, and these days the game is just too archaic for me to get into it.
 
joshhedge said:
The last I knew, the world wide web was invented by an Englishman, Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee. ;)

I'm assuming it comes down to a numbers game, as I can't see any variation in unit type, along with god intervention.
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He built it on TCP/IP which came out of DARPA's research (DARPA of the US Department of Defense). :) It was only after ARPANET that Sir Tim could get HTTP going.

But, I'll give you a pass. We can share the internet. :)

As far as the game, that's what it seems to be, which is weird. A more Sim City like thing would be interesting where you could control certain things. Or perhaps once you get a certain amount of followers, you could cause destruction upon the non-believers!

Of course, the video only shows a proof of concept, so maybe they'll address it in the actual version.

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tobyw7 said:
You beat me to it! :D
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Guys, my point was that things change and just because some people created something originally, it doesn't exactly give them license to prevent it from being added to and changed in the future. English isn't patented.

And that's exactly the point illustrated by the Internet. We created it, and Sir Tim made it useful to people other than the USDoD.

And by the way, American English was still invented by Englishmen. We came from the same place, brought the language, added to it, changed it, and continue to do so. That's why we have such classic words as "twerking." :D

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the8thark said:
Al Gore.
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Classic.
 
"The more followers you have, the more power you have"

So it's like Twitter?
 
zync said:
However, since we're writing on the Internet, and since the Internet originated in America, we have to follow proper American spelling while we're on it. Sorry, we own it.
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All your base are belong to us!

Sorry, but that had to be said here!

;)

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zync said:
He built it on TCP/IP which came out of DARPA's research (DARPA of the US Department of Defense). :) It was only after ARPANET that Sir Tim could get HTTP going.
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... which actually started to make "The Internet" relevant for the public (WWW and all that stuff, y'know...).

That said, where did Sir Tim Berners Lee invent "The Internet"? Yes, that's right: in Switzerland :)

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phalseHUD said:
But the www was invented by an Englishman in Europe
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Correct so far....

phalseHUD said:
/England
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WRONG! That was in Switzerland (at the CERN, to be specific) ;)

phalseHUD said:
then implemented it using an American computer called NeXT
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Who cares what computer he was typing on ;)
 
Haha, nice.

Anyway, again, the point was that a derivative work isn't wrong. Often it's better than the original.

I'm pretty sure that I alluded to HTTP being super important for TCP/IP to be relevant and vice versa. ;)
 
You guys are lame...

"A study by MITI - Japan's equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world's most important inventions were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese."

So yeh...
 
liamoblomy said:
You guys are lame...

"A study by MITI - Japan's equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world's most important inventions were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese."

So yeh...
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We're lame?

Britain and Japan have both been civilizations for over 1000 years. America has been a separate entity for 237 years.

That means, in one fifth of the time, we've invented a quarter of the most important inventions. And among those, one of the biggest is basically computer networking. And let's not forget all of the advanced weaponry that helped to keep Britain free from the Germans and Japanese.

It'd be a more interesting—and accurate—comparison if the study had only included inventions since 1776. I think we might have also invented declaring independence from England and successfully defending that claim on the first shot, mate. That was an important one. ;)

So yeah. ;)
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I'm curious:

Does the game's developer believe in a deity?

How do you get the ingame characters to believe in you?

If you have the power to manifest yourself and just walk around, perform miracles, and say you're God that should make it pretty easy...
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The same way it happens in real life, blind devotion with no proof other than someone saying "this is god". :rolleyes:

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zync said:
We're lame?

Britain and Japan have both been civilizations for over 1000 years. America has been a separate entity for 237 years.

That means, in one fifth of the time, we've invented a quarter of the most important inventions. And among those, one of the biggest is basically computer networking. And let's not forget all of the advanced weaponry that helped to keep Britain free from the Germans and Japanese.

It'd be a more interesting—and accurate—comparison if the study had only included inventions since 1776. I think we might have also invented declaring independence from England and successfully defending that claim on the first shot, mate. That was an important one. ;)

So yeah. ;)
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And where did that original knowledge come from? Where did the original settlers come from? Exactly. I'm American and I know this.
 
cgk.emu said:
And where did that original knowledge come from? Where did the original settlers come from? Exactly. I'm American and I know this.
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Uh, that's exactly the point I've been making. If you look above, I was talking about how things evolve, and just because you started something—namely British English—that doesn't mean it can't evolve into something else—American English.

You could also replace those two with ARPANET and World Wide Web.

You should also note that not all of the original settlers were English, and not all of the knowledge came from the British. In fact, a lot of modern technology is based on Algebra which came from the Babylonians which was based on Arithmetic which existed in Babylon and Egypt.

And English itself is based on Germanic languages and Latin—neither of which are British. England was itself a settlement of mostly Germanic people at one point.

In that line of arguing, you could even argue that your thoughts aren't original to you because you are your mother's child. Your thoughts are therefore hers, and hers are those of her mother, and so on and so forth.

All knowledge is built on knowledge of the past. That's why science and the scientific method works. It's also why you can navigate your life. All you do all day is build on the past.

Now, that's a rather cynical world view. I like to think that we can evolve things on our own. We can build NEW things on the past. And we don't need to give credit to it every time we think of something "original" because nothing ever was theirs either—which is the lesser point I've been making. England owns English, but they own British English. They don't own American English. So we can spell things differently and it's OK. They have no claim on it.
 
zync said:
And yet I've never heard a Brit pronounce it with anything but a 'z' sound. ;)

Silly Brits, civilization is spelled civitas. The Italians owned it first, at least as far as English is concerned. That's what matters, right? Any further changes to spelling or pronunciation are irrelevant.

Oops, I meant that's what matters, riht?

However, since we're writing on the Internet, and since the Internet originated in America, we have to follow proper American spelling while we're on it. Sorry, we own it.

I'm having a bit of fun here in case that wasn't obvious. ;)

Back on topic, this game seems weird. What determines who wins in a fight? Is it their conviction? And the winner of another game is the god of this game and gets revenue? What? And if he's the god of this game, what are you then exactly when you play? Are you a lesser god? I hope one of the other linked articles explains this because I'm confused.
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Haha I love it. Touche
 
joshhedge said:
The last I knew, the world wide web was invented by an Englishman, Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee. ;) .
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And yet, neither the initial invention, nor the standardization work that made it useful, were done in the UK.

Some of the greatest American inventors were actually folks from the colonies. ;)

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zync said:
We're lame?

Britain and Japan have both been civilizations for over 1000 years. America has been a separate entity for 237 years.

That means, in one fifth of the time, we've invented a quarter of the most important inventions. And among those, one of the biggest is basically computer networking. And let's not forget all of the advanced weaponry that helped to keep Britain free from the Germans and Japanese.
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In fairness, many of the key "inventions" in computer science and networking (as well as that WWII technology your speak of) were made by Brits. It took the Americans to make the stuff actually useful, but the Brits came up with more than their share of the original ideas.

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phalseHUD said:
Aren't you writing on the World Wide Web? ;)
Which was invented by...

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The Internet and World Wide Web are different though...

So unless someone can correct me, the internet was invented by the Americans. But the www was invented by an Englishman in Europe/England then implemented it using an American computer called NeXT
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The WWW technology was invented by a Brit in Switzerland. The same Brit moved to MIT (USA) to drive the standards that made the WWW actually work in practice. The technology itself was just an evolution of existing hypertext and networking concepts; the big breakthrough was in getting people to agree to the standards.
 
Gasu E. said:
In fairness, many of the key "inventions" in computer science and networking (as well as that WWII technology your speak of) were made by Brits. It took the Americans to make the stuff actually useful, but the Brits came up with more than their share of the original ideas.
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As I noted previously, my point was that just because someone derived something doesn't mean their derivative work isn't original (i.e. American English). Almost everything is derived from something else.

Also even the main weapon that I mentioned that finally ended WWII was mostly invented by a German—Einstein. And many of the smaller weapons were derivations from each side.
 
I'm sorry... I might have missed something. I hope I did.

Are we really arguing about whether or not one spelling is somehow superior to another?
 
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