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    Battle Damaged Clothing and Armour?

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    Downloaded and installing, its great to see something like this on something that doesn't come from an anime. Kudos to you

     

    BTW, where could I find it? I'd love to use it and you seem to have spent quite a lot of effort to get it working

     

    I reccomend you wait about 30 mins. Sizuku, the founder of BUFramework, gave me a tip that breaks the 4 stage limit. I have Version 1.1 loading onto TESNexus right now, and it has all 31 stages of armor wear.

     

    http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29751

     

    BUFramework can be found in the link above.

     

    BTW, thanks for getting me off my rump for long enough to release this. Kudos for you TehRiddles...

     

    I am going to make sooooo many more of these.... prolly one for all vanilla armors.

    Battle Damaged Clothing and Armour?

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    Well, it's no use changing the script with my lack of talent. I'll just pick and choose 4 and release it. If anyone can translate that script somehow, and increase it's capacity I would gladly give them a kudos.

     

    Soooooo much sexier with 30 steps....

     

    Edit: Finally done organizing this damned thing. It's all yours TehRiddles.

     

    http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30309

     

    If you wanted to see my original script... well, I'll just post it! You'll see why I used this one.

     

     

    scn zzArmorDamageScript

ref Armor
float Armor2
float TimerOfDoom
float Chooser
float ArmorDamage

begin GameMode

set ArmorDamage to player.getEquippedCurrentHealth 19
set Armor to player.getequippedobject 19
set Armor2 to player.getequippedobject 19

;if Armor == zzMA0 && ArmorDamage >= 100 && Chooser != 0
;	set Chooser to 0
;endif

; Not interested ATM, may try it later.

if TimerOfDoom > 0.75
	set TimerOfDoom to TimerOfDoom - GetSecondsPassed
elseif Armor == zzMA0 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 1
	player.additem zzMA1 1
elseif Chooser == 1
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA1 
	player.removeitem zzMA0 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA1 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 2
	player.additem zzMA2 1
elseif Chooser == 2
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA2 
	player.removeitem zzMA1 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA2 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 3
	player.additem zzMA3 1
elseif Chooser == 3
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA3 
	player.removeitem zzMA2 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA3 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 4
	player.additem zzMA4 1
elseif Chooser == 4
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA4 
	player.removeitem zzMA3 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA4 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 5
	player.additem zzMA5 1
elseif Chooser == 5
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA5 
	player.removeitem zzMA4 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA5 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 6
	player.additem zzMA6 1
elseif Chooser == 6
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA6 
	player.removeitem zzMA5 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA6 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 7
	player.additem zzMA7 1
elseif Chooser == 7
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA7 
	player.removeitem zzMA6 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA7 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 8
	player.additem zzMA8 1
elseif Chooser == 8
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA8 
	player.removeitem zzMA7 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA8 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 9
	player.additem zzMA9 1
elseif Chooser == 9
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA9 
	player.removeitem zzMA8 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA9 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 10
	player.additem zzMA10 1
elseif Chooser == 10
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA10 
	player.removeitem zzMA9 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA10 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 11
	player.additem zzMA11 1
elseif Chooser == 11
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA11 
	player.removeitem zzMA10 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA11 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 12
	player.additem zzMA12 1
elseif Chooser == 12
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA12
	player.removeitem zzMA11 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA12 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 13
	player.additem zzMA13 1
elseif Chooser == 13
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA13 
	player.removeitem zzMA12 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA13 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 14
	player.additem zzMA14 1
elseif Chooser == 14
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA14
	player.removeitem zzMA13 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA14 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 15
	player.additem zzMA15 1
elseif Chooser == 15
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA15 
	player.removeitem zzMA14 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA15 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 16
	player.additem zzMA16 1
elseif Chooser == 16
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA16 
	player.removeitem zzMA15 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA16 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 17
	player.additem zzMA17 1
elseif Chooser == 17
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA17 
	player.removeitem zzMA16 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA17 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 18
	player.additem zzMA18 1
elseif Chooser == 18
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA18 
	player.removeitem zzMA17 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA18 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 19
	player.additem zzMA19 1
elseif Chooser == 19
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA19 
	player.removeitem zzMA18 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA19 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 20
	player.additem zzMA20 1
elseif Chooser == 20
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA20 
	player.removeitem zzMA19 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA20 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 21
	player.additem zzMA21 1
elseif Chooser == 21
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA21 
	player.removeitem zzMA20 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA21 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 22
	player.additem zzMA22 1
elseif Chooser == 22
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA22 
	player.removeitem zzMA21 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA22 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 23
	player.additem zzMA23 1
elseif Chooser == 23
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA23 
	player.removeitem zzMA22 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA23 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 24
	player.additem zzMA24 1
elseif Chooser == 24
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA24 
	player.removeitem zzMA23 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA24 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 25
	player.additem zzMA25 1
elseif Chooser == 25
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA25 
	player.removeitem zzMA24 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA25 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 26
	player.additem zzMA26 1
elseif Chooser == 26
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA26 
	player.removeitem zzMA25 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA26 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 27
	player.additem zzMA27 1
elseif Chooser == 27
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA27 
	player.removeitem zzMA26 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA27 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 28
	player.additem zzMA28 1
elseif Chooser == 28
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA28 
	player.removeitem zzMA27 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA28 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 29
	player.additem zzMA29 1
elseif Chooser == 29
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA29 
	player.removeitem zzMA28 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA29 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 30
	player.additem zzMA30 1
elseif Chooser == 30
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	player.equipitem zzMA30 
	player.removeitem zzMA29 1
	set Chooser to 0
elseif Armor == zzMA0 && Armor2 != 0 && ArmorDamage == 0 && Chooser == 0
	set TimerOfDoom to 1
	set Chooser to 0
	player.removeitem zzMA30 1
endif
end

     

    See why I used the other one? :confused:

     

    I'm such a newb.

    Sexlivion + Pregnancy

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    LOL Yes I think the reich wingers will stay away from this mod, at least I hope.

     

    But regards to the damage spell I think it would be better to have a form of abortion clinic in this mod.

     

    The only problem is who in oblivion would provide such services, at least in Fallout 3 they have docters who could Preform it.

     

    But who in Oblivion would able to, ..... the Mages Guild???

     

    lol, I dunno bout you...

     

    But I wouldn't touch Arch Mage Hannibal with a ten foot pole, much less leave him with that responsibility.

     

    I do hear the Night Mother does abortions however. She has the little buggers all over her altar!

    Battle Damaged Clothing and Armour?

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    I want to use the script really badly, but with only 4 stages of damage, where is the fun? I need to extend it to at least 15...

     

    Working on it. Otherwise this script is fast. The armor reveals the naughty bits too fast. Out of the 30+ I did for Tona's armor, the last 3 showed genitals.

     

    Definitely working on it.

    Battle Damaged Clothing and Armour?

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    I never knew about this. I must see the script, it might improve mine.

     

    Since it's done already though. no glory for me. Still might post my 20+ Damage Variation. Luckily Tona gives free use of the mods, so I'll have it released by the end of today. Still a few clipping problems, but I blame it on my newb.

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

    in Debates

    Posted

    "This debate over the origin of mental disorders has its roots in the Nature vs Nurture discussions."

     

    "Bi-Polar Disorder 'may' have been the reason why some of those people accelerated so well in creativity. However, there are many people with Bi-polar disorder who are lacking creative ability, and people without Bi-Polar Disorder who are just as creative as the people on that list! Sure there's a list of famous people with bi-polar disoder... but..."

     

    "I believe a better way to turn this conversation is to ask ourselves... what is 'Severe', and what is 'Acceptable'.

     

    Bi-Polar isn't on the bad end of the mental illness spectrum. Perhaps in some cases, but I have to ask how many Bi-Polar individuals are a harm to themselves and others? Well, maybe severe cases. Still, Attention Deficit Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder,and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are not violent and harmful conditions. In Fact, without these conditions, drug companies will lose profit. One of the reasons that genetic engineering will not get here faster is because of Drug-Company profit. Sorry, almost went off-topic. On the other hand, sever disorders like schizophrenia should be removed. Nothing good has ever come out of that disease, and never will."

     

    The following quotes was from a discussion i was having with Balagor specifically. He was exploring a sub-division of the topic that I was interested in. It had nothing to do with you, and frankly, you took it upon yourself to say the following

     

    My second example was ignored, deliberately. let's make it clear, all descendants of "Grandmother of Europe" Queen Victoria are victims of hemophilia, you can put them all on the lists of extinction, can't you?

    I am not talking about ethical issues nor anyone's intelligence of which I have very little curiosity(nice sarcasm, right?), it's a question of POWER. I don't think those who promote human genetic engineering are powerful enough no matter what their true motivation is.

     

    in response to another post that I had posted earlier to disporve Bi-Polar Disorder being a sole factor in determining someone's creativity posted here:

     

    "The real catch comes here. This event was about 4 years ago. Would you like to guess my GPA in Hischool before this event?

     

    I had an average of a 2.1 GPA. Pathetic huh?

     

    Guess what I made in my first Semester after this event? Straight A's. God Bless Bi-Polar Disorder? Perhaps. My college GPA is a 3.7 now.

     

    O.K., O.K. time to cut the sarcasm. Did you see what I was trying to prove? Do you not disagree?"

     

    Your post seemed to me that you were berating my former posts for not adressing your question due to both of our uses of sarcasm. So I answered your post with a similar attitude...

     

    "Oh, heh. Hello there. I'm sorry, I was debating just that. Sorry for not responding to your post specifically... (This statement was said sarcastically.)

     

    On the subject of Queen Victoria, did you know that they royal family (Of any Nation) was inbred beyond belief? It was in order to keep the peasants out of the royal blood-lines. So of course she has illness in the genetic sense, and now all of her children may have that genetic deformation because of that same genetic mutation that had occurred somewhere in her ancestor's past. As for her bloodline going extinct, modern science has cured diseases like hers with modern medicine. Any Fatal Illness can be halted for long enough for someone with said disease to reproduce. I don't see Genetic illness dieing out on its own any time soon.

     

    As noted by my last post as well, the reason why diseases like Bi-Polar disorder and A.D.D. will probably never be cured genetically is because those diseases are prime targets for pharmaceutical companies. Since they are the top of the crop when it comes to power (Industrialization and the such, my friend), they will never let genetic engineering slide. Money is power, and they have quite a bit. These Free-Lance Scientists have ideas on Genetic Engineering, but no one to support or back their findings with money (A.K.A. Power)."

     

    This addressed your comment, and I quote...

     

    My second example was ignored, deliberately. let's make it clear, all descendants of "Grandmother of Europe" Queen Victoria are victims of hemophilia, you can put them all on the lists of extinction, can't you?

     

    with the following answer

     

    "On the subject of Queen Victoria, did you know that they royal family (Of any Nation) was inbred beyond belief? It was in order to keep the peasants out of the royal blood-lines. So of course she has illness in the genetic sense, and now all of her children may have that genetic deformation because of that same genetic mutation that had occurred somewhere in her ancestor's past. As for her bloodline going extinct, modern science has cured diseases like hers with modern medicine. Any Fatal Illness can be halted for long enough for someone with said disease to reproduce. I don't see Genetic illness dieing out on its own any time soon."

     

    This is all true historically, and it gives a seconds side to the argument that post made. after that you were talking sarcasm...

     

    Of course sorry if you are a british citizen, I did mean no offense to the queen.

     

    I am not talking about ethical issues nor anyone's intelligence of which I have very little curiosity(nice sarcasm, right?)

     

    This is where the misunderstanding came from, on my part.

     

    The next part you commented

     

    it's a question of POWER. I don't think those who promote human genetic engineering are powerful enough no matter what their true motivation is.

     

    and my reply discussed the power of the pharmaceutical companies over getting anything revolutionary in the fields done.

     

    "As noted by my last post as well, the reason why diseases like Bi-Polar disorder and A.D.D. will probably never be cured genetically is because those diseases are prime targets for pharmaceutical companies. Since they are the top of the crop when it comes to power (Industrialization and the such, my friend), they will never let genetic engineering slide. Money is power, and they have quite a bit. These Free-Lance Scientists have ideas on Genetic Engineering, but no one to support or back their findings with money (A.K.A. Power)."

     

    Hemophilia, A.D.D., and Bi-Polar Disorder apply to this directly. As Money is Power in Today's age. Agreed?

     

    Then you gave a counter argument, and demeaned me. As far as I understand.

     

    Since when hemophilia could be cured by medicine? I wonder.

    As far as I know, if a patient of hemophilia get internal or external bleeding, the only way to save his life is tranfusing blood constantly.

    the fate of human is(shall never) not for scientists to decide. Enrico Fermi invented atomic bomb but it's Trumen who decided to use it.

    I don't expect you are able to understand.

     

    So I countered with a reply to the hemophilia argument with an argument that combined both Hemophilia + Bi-Polar Disorders, and explained what I meant by cure. I also agreed with your statement on power, and once again explained the subject on who I believed had the power to stop the advancement of G.E.

     

     

    "Exactly, my intelligent friend. The queen is alive, lo and behold. Thank medical technology (BLOOD TRANSFUSION). A.D.D. can be cured with Vyvanse, Ritalin, or other speed-like substances. Bi-Polar Disorder can be tempered with Lithium, or other medicines.

     

    Of course, I used the term 'Cure' loosely. What I meant was maintain the state of quality, or normal life.

     

    As for your seconds statement. Yes, I understand this completely..."

     

    and also politely asked you to cease and desist calling me retarded (Which is in a way, exactly what you were trying to say.)

     

    "As someone who studies in the field of medicine, I am slightly offended by this statement. I might not support every fact with a source, but this in itself leaves room for debate. Of course I am wrong on some things, but undermining my ability to understand is not the way to go in this board.

     

    Edit: My apologies, but perhaps you are not a native English-Speaker? Perhaps I took that sentence the wrong way. Your lack of Colloquial writing makes me have second thoughts about what the meaning of that was. After all, if one doesn't understand how to write the language of the person you are making an inference to, then it might be a misinterpretation.

     

    Good Day,

    TD"

     

    In which, you replied, that I was again retarted....

     

    please don't take it personally, I'm just respecting the truth.

    Yes, I am not a native english speaker, I can fairly read but hardly wirte.

    Good Day to you as well.

     

    ...By saying that your former statement was the truth.

     

    So I got mad...

     

    "Perhaps you are correct. I don't understand this statement. This 'Truth' that I am inherently ignorant, and cannot understand things that are painfully simple.

     

    Could you please explain to me why I don't understand? I realize that it is hard to debate with a man with an incredible god-like intelligence, but will you make an exception with me and explain why my hypothesis and debate is false? All I want to know is why my opinion is worthless, and why I don't understand anything about genetics...

     

    http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=2101

     

    Please back your statements with actual evidence (See rule #2). You might actually sweep my opinion to the side your trying to get me join.

     

    Edit: Sorry, I was angry. This post was written in hate, and has nothing to contribute the the argument.

     

    Apologies,

    TD"

     

    .... and apologized for it.

     

    Then, here comes the grand finale!!!!

     

    what you don't understand is that you can't decide anything of significance, whatever you are debating here is useless, you as an expert can't even deny my contra-argument, that means you arenot able to predict the consequence of HGE, not to mention convincing people that you can handle all the potential possibilities.

    do I make it clear enough?

     

    Now my opinions are useless, my expertise (Which I'm not really showing, I'm trying to have fun on these boards) is questioned, and I have no concept of HGE. You made it all clear.

     

    Now I will make it clear that I misunderstood your post, and am apologizing for the third time. Now stop trolling, and continue the debate.

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

    in Debates

    Posted

    please don't take it personally, I'm just respecting the truth.

     

    Perhaps you are correct. I don't understand this statement. This 'Truth' that I am inherently ignorant, and cannot understand things that are painfully simple.

     

    Could you please explain to me why I don't understand? I realize that it is hard to debate with a man with an incredible god-like intelligence, but will you make an exception with me and explain why my hypothesis and debate is false? All I want to know is why my opinion is worthless, and why I don't understand anything about genetics...

     

    http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=2101

     

    Please back your statements with actual evidence (See rule #2). You might actually sweep my opinion to the side your trying to get me join.

     

    Edit: Sorry, I was angry. This post was written in hate, and has nothing to contribute the the argument.

     

    Apologies,

    TD

    Plagues of the 21st Century?

    in Debates

    Posted

    Sure I did:
    even when assuming physical contact is required for transmission!

     

    :)

     

    I listed handwashing as the biggest mitigating factor based on my own experience in the real world, which has shown me that covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing is much, much more common than hand washing.

     

    :)

     

    *Sigh*

     

    Well, I can't really find a counter-argument out of this anymore. So I might as well tell you that I had already believed you when you said that Hand-Washing (Mechanical Vector of Transmission) was the most decisive factor in disease spread and prevention.

     

    I recently went to a restaurant between the posting of this, and my last post. My server was the most unclean person I had ever seen.

     

    Right in front of me, an obviously disease employee sneezed on his hands. Being the paranoid fool I am, I watched him as he continued to serve. I actually followed him into the restroom, and saw a sign that explicitly said that "All employees must wash hands before returning to work". Verily enough, he left his stall (After doing a number 2) and did not even stop to look at the sink. I will probably never particular that restaurant again.

     

    I study medicine, and have done the labs that show the spread of the all ubiquitous(Omnipresent) bacterium. Every day I study, I find the chance of a Pandemic more positively possible.

     

    I can't really disagree with you, since what you say is correct in terms of scientific research. Many articles support your statements.

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

    in Debates

    Posted

    Since when hemophilia could be cured by medicine? I wonder.

    As far as I know, if a patient of hemophilia get internal or external bleeding, the only way to save his life is tranfusing blood constantly.

    the fate of human is(shall never) not for scientists to decide. Enrico Fermi invented atomic bomb but it's Trumen who decided to use it.

     

    Exactly, my intelligent friend. The queen is alive, lo and behold. Thank medical technology (BLOOD TRANSFUSION). A.D.D. can be cured with Vyvanse, Ritalin, or other speed-like substances. Bi-Polar Disorder can be tempered with Lithium, or other medicines.

     

    Of course, I used the term 'Cure' loosely. What I meant was maintain the state of quality, or normal life.

     

    As for your seconds statement. Yes, I understand this completely...

     

    I said this in an earlier post

     

    "As noted by my last post as well, the reason why diseases like Bi-Polar disorder and A.D.D. will probably never be cured genetically is because those diseases are prime targets for pharmaceutical companies. Since they are the top of the crop when it comes to power (Industrialization and the such, my friend), they will never let genetic engineering slide. Money is power, and they have quite a bit. These Free-Lance Scientists have ideas on Genetic Engineering, but no one to support or back their findings with money (A.K.A. Power)."

     

    since I have posted the same thing at least three times now, let me clarify what I meant.

     

    Money = Power

    Pharmaceutical Companies = Big Money Industry

    Scientist=No Money

    Breakthrough in Genetic Engineering to treat Bi-Polar Disorder = Money loss for Pharmaceutical companies

    Scientist + Breakthrough in Genetic Engineering / Companies who want money = NO BREAKTHROUGH IN SCIENCE.

     

    We have the ability to discover the cures to every disease. Interestingly enough, I have an article for you to read and debate on!

     

    http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00003046

     

    Cancer is a genetic disease in many cases. Leukemia, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and many more all have some roots into genetic disorders. In the article I posted, they are testing the use of Interleukin-12b to treat cancer. Interleukin-12b works through the DNA of cells around your body by altering it to resist cancerous mutation in the genetic code of a cell.

     

    Let me ask you from one 'Understanding Being' to another. Interleuken12 has been proven effective as of yet, and even may help destroy HIV with further study into I-12. Based on the equation above, do you think that those with power(money) would want something like this to ruin their billion dollar breast-cancer drives and costly medicine that only halts the progression of a disease? I'll leave that to debate.

     

    he doesn't understand, does he? so it's not a personal attack but a fact.

    I emphasized I was not talking about intelligence, are you able to read?

     

    I don't expect you are able to understand.

     

    As someone who studies in the field of medicine, I am slightly offended by this statement. I might not support every fact with a source, but this in itself leaves room for debate. Of course I am wrong on some things, but undermining my ability to understand is not the way to go in this board.

     

    Edit: My apologies, but perhaps you are not a native English-Speaker? Perhaps I took that sentence the wrong way. Your lack of Colloquial writing makes me have second thoughts about what the meaning of that was. After all, if one doesn't understand how to write the language of the person you are making an inference to, then it might be a misinterpretation.

     

    Good Day,

    TD

    Days got shorter..

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    I see where you're going on this, but your analogy is a bit backward. A better analogy would be a bowl filled with oil, in the exact center of the bowl a small spinning drum is lowered. The drum is set to speed continuously. As the drum keeps moving, the oil around it moves; faster when near the drum, slower when further out. This is done for awhile until there is no increase in speed along the outside edge of the oil. Awhile later, the edge of the bowl is tapped slightly. This tap disturbs the motion along the surface and somewhat below, but the speed at the core is unaffected.

     

    In this case, the disruption is minor and only affects that outer edge and works from an outside in pattern as opposed to an inside out. As the drum is still spinning at the same rate, the surrounding fluid will still be moving at the same rate, After a time, the fluid at the edge will return to spinning at the same rate it was previously.

     

    The Earth's history has had MANY such events, and none of them have led to any of the sorts of cascading doomsday scenarios you might be envisioning. As large as the energy from the earthquake in Chile was, compared to the mass of the entire world, it is like little more than a fly hitting a car's windshield.

     

    Kudos, the analogy was beautiful, Vagrant. I would like to approach this time problem with a historical story about the invention of modern time. We start at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Work before this era was never time based on a clock of any time at all. In fact, most people used the position of the sun to determine the time. People worked from sun up to sun down on their latafundia, or farm. The origin of time as we know it today probably originated on the rail-road system. The rail roads needed a very formal system of time in order to keep trains from wrecking. Eventually the government of world nations picked this system of time, and adopted it.

     

    Time as we know it is very much man-made. We have scientists that do indeed try to keep time in standard by calculating the motion of the earth, and the effect of earthquakes on the earth's rotation. However, to the common man/business man, time will never change. Time is a tool of industry. Time to clock in to your job? Who cares if it speeds up a millisecond or so, you're still going in at the time the business requires you to do so, and it will still be the same length of time it usually is. So far, I have seen no significant change in what I do everyday due to this earthquake. Time has not been changed from the way it was and will never be unless something more catastrophic (Say, an hour's increase in time?) is done.

    Hello

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    No, no. I encourage you to post as much false information as possible. It gives others with the correct information to set you straight. That's how life runs on most Message Boards.

     

    Welcome anyways.

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

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    Posted

    My second example was ignored, deliberately. let's make it clear, all descendants of "Grandmother of Europe" Queen Victoria are victims of hemophilia, you can put them all on the lists of extinction, can't you?

    I am not talking about ethical issues nor anyone's intelligence of which I have very little curiosity(nice sarcasm, right?), it's a question of POWER. I don't think those who promote human genetic engineering are powerful enough no matter what their true motivation is.

     

    Oh, heh. Hello there. I'm sorry, I was debating just that. Sorry for not responding to your post specifically... (This statement was said sarcastically.)

     

    On the subject of Queen Victoria, did you know that they royal family (Of any Nation) was inbred beyond belief? It was in order to keep the peasants out of the royal blood-lines. So of course she has illness in the genetic sense, and now all of her children may have that genetic deformation because of that same genetic mutation that had occurred somewhere in her ancestor's past. As for her bloodline going extinct, modern science has cured diseases like hers with modern medicine. Any Fatal Illness can be halted for long enough for someone with said disease to reproduce. I don't see Genetic illness dieing out on its own any time soon.

     

    As noted by my last post as well, the reason why diseases like Bi-Polar disorder and A.D.D. will probably never be cured genetically is because those diseases are prime targets for pharmaceutical companies. Since they are the top of the crop when it comes to power (Industrialization and the such, my friend), they will never let genetic engineering slide. Money is power, and they have quite a bit. These Free-Lance Scientists have ideas on Genetic Engineering, but no one to support or back their findings with money (A.K.A. Power).

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

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    @Trandoshan

    Welcome to the "club of BD", it´s a wonderfull world. :biggrin: I got straight A´s all the time too.

    True a lot of people without BD are as creative too. I probably got my BD triggered by to much weed smoking in the early teens ( refering to the weed topic here), but had I not got it there, I could have got it later on just like you, by stress.

     

    Now to the topic and the ethical question. Shall we clean the brain for the genes that creates BD?

    I my self (and my wife) took that decision not to have kids, by two reasons;

    first they could inherit BD, (which is not bad if discovered early)

    second, though I am comfortable now with my desease, my life has sometimes been a living hell,

    because I was diagnosed late in life, and spend 10 % of my life in mental hospitals.

    By choosing not to have kids, I have done some kind of a "cleaning myself.

     

    It´s quite another thing to eliminate the desease, and thus a hole characteristica for good.

     

    >Off Topic<

     

    Weed? Amazing. That's one good way to activate a hidden genetic disorder.

     

    My Bi-Polar doesn't seem to be as severe as yours. I don't particularly suffer, but I do have other down-sides. My social life is pathetic. I have little motivation anymore. What Motivation I do have during my 'Manic' phases never carries on. On top of that, my depression phase is longer than my manic phase. My family on the other hand (No Specifics) have much more problems coping than I do. At least I get A's. It's about the only benefit I have with this damned Disorder.

     

    >On Topic<

     

    I believe a better way to turn this conversation is to ask ourselves... what is 'Severe', and what is 'Acceptable'.

     

    Bi-Polar isn't on the bad end of the mental illness spectrum. Perhaps in some cases, but I have to ask how many Bi-Polar individuals are a harm to themselves and others? Well, maybe severe cases. Still, Attention Deficit Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder,and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are not violent and harmful conditions. In Fact, without these conditions, drug companies will lose profit. One of the reasons that genetic engineering will not get here faster is because of Drug-Company profit. Sorry, almost went off-topic. On the other hand, sever disorders like schizophrenia should be removed. Nothing good has ever come out of that disease, and never will.

    Plagues of the 21st Century?

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    Posted

    @Trandoshan

    Of cause I can only support washing your hands, when ever needed. We are good at it where I come from, and we teach our children well in this lesson.

    But when I look around how things work, the girl at the bakery is wearing rubber gloves, at the gas station they wear rubber gloves, at the cafeterias they wear rubber gloves, all when they touch the food, in order not to infest it.

    Now what I am getting at, is we can also be hysterical, and loose our natural resistance to certain bacterias. Some people, I call them "plastic wrappers" are so afraid to touch things nowadays, at least in DK, so they live their lives protected by plastic.

    It is also those very same people that get a "jelly belly" when they vistit other countries. Perhaps because they are not used to bacterial flora anymore, perhaps, they finally also killed off the good germs on their hends/body.

     

    Agreed. Better to do something than nothing. Hand Washing is something and still reduces the chance of contact vector transmission. Good.

     

    Denmark is like that you say? I never thought as much. Weakening immune systems are quite the problem anymore. It seems the more human-kind gets cleaner, the more we become vulnerable to conditions.

     

    http://www.education.com/reference/article...ene_Hypothesis/

     

    The Hygiene Hypothesis puts this to work. About two hundred years ago, allergies were non-existent. When someone had an allergy back then, it was a serious condition. Nowadays, if someone touches a speck of dust, they go off like a wildfire. Same does apply with bacterial variations in other countries. It seems like whenever someone gets a deadly disease, the first questions most doctors ask is "Been traveling lately?".

     

    My god, I just realized. Human kind is stacking up for another pandemic, arent we...

    Battle Damaged Clothing and Armour?

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    Posted

    Well if you get permission from any of them I would love to see what you managed to do with them. The fact you managed to create some armour with over 20 variations is quite amazing

     

    Removing Vertices is Hardly Amazing, and I'm not an Amazing Modder, but I'll organize the mod and release it. I guess it won't hurt my rep, I never had one at all, after all.

    Lets allow genetic engineering for humans

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    Posted

    @Trandoshan

    I have seen Sybil, her problem is not genetic, but caused by physical stress. Just like David Helfgot, a famous pianist, that you do not find on the list over famous people with Bipolar disorder. He suffered from anxiety neurosis caused by his fathers hard pushing.

    Bipolar disorder however is truely genetic. You inherit the invulnability from your parents, mostly mothers. A stressed situation like long time stressing work, car accident, sudden loss of family member, alcohol/drug abuse can trigger the desease.

    You can also be lucky that it would never happen.

     

    Most people who suffer from BD are more creative than the average population, perhaps due to major brain activity. Brain activity can be at a level (mania fase) that in can kill the person, if medical aid is not provided. The mania fase is the most creative and productive for individuals with BD. Mozart made some of his great symfonies in this state of mind.

     

    I have this desease my self, from my mother. In my greates mania I build a 10.000 square feet nursery all alone. It was second hand, so I had to tear it down first, and move it. It took 1 year. So the desease falls in convienient some times.

     

    Can you see now if we start to "polish" the world population, shape it as we want, there will be no-one left, but superhealthy robots that can eat, work and s;;it. But there will be no diversity at all.

     

    I see that I worded my former post wrong. I know that Bi-Polar is pure genetics. My counter argument was on the subject of Mental Illness being solely due to genetics. Which has evidence to support it.

     

    As for Bi-polar disorder. My whole family has it in some form or not, and I was not spared myself. (Note, I am not clinically diagnosed, but family is. I think I might have a good chance of it.)

     

    Since you pointed out how people with Bi-Polar Disorder are creative, I will try and prove it with my life experience.

     

    STORY TIME!!!

     

    Mine was actually triggered by stress recently. I actually worked at a restaurant for a while back, and one day I just... Froze. I was doing the jobs of 3 people who were out that day, and I just quit out of the blue. I can still remember how I felt. Depressed, tired, angry. I nearly knocked the hell out of one of the employees beside me. The confusion I felt in that moment was unbelievable. Funnily enough, about a day later I was really happy and about a week I sank again. I haven't evened out since, so I know it's a problem. At least I have a semi-creative outlook on a disorder I may or may-not have.

     

    The real catch comes here. This event was about 4 years ago. Would you like to guess my GPA in Hischool before this event?

     

    I had an average of a 2.1 GPA. Pathetic huh?

     

    Guess what I made in my first Semester after this event? Straight A's. God Bless Bi-Polar Disorder? Perhaps. My college GPA is a 3.7 now.

     

    O.K., O.K. time to cut the sarcasm. Did you see what I was trying to prove? Do you not disagree?

     

    Bi-Polar Disorder 'may' have been the reason why some of those people accelerated so well in creativity. However, there are many people with Bi-polar disorder who are lacking creative ability, and people without Bi-Polar Disorder who are just as creative as the people on that list! Sure there's a list of famous people with bi-polar disoder... but...

     

    did you check the list of famous people without Bi-Polar Disorder?!

     

     

     

    ha, I had fun writing this. I hope you people enjoy my humor as much as I do. Life is very drab on this side of the monitor.

    Plagues of the 21st Century?

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    Posted

    The potential for a pandemic is easily there. People in general are nasty, and don't wash their hands nearly often enough. With that in mind, let's play a hypothetical game and follow a disease from "patient zero" to outbreak.

     

    Patient Zero is infected with a disease, he may know it or he may not, either way it doesn't matter -- people are nasty. His flight has just landed at an American international airport, arriving from outside the country. On his way through customs, he's made to put his finger on a scanner (true story). Now, he may have coughed on this hand, so his finger may be harboring germs for this hypothetical disease. Some of these are left behind on the scanner.

     

    Unfortunately, the DHS agents don't even so much as give the scanner a quick wipe between passengers (also true story). The next several passengers through all pick up these germs from the scanner. Of these, a certain percentage develop infections. We've gone from one infected to an unknown number in just a few minutes time. We'll say six, out of two dozen that were exposed. The rest of the exposed may still pass on the disease to others for a limited time (eg, until they wash their damn hands). The infected will eventually become contagious and begin spreading the disease as well, even if they do wash their hands in the meantime.

     

    Each of the 24 exposed comes into contact with at least four people, exposing all of them to the disease. Now we have 120 exposed.....

     

    And on, and on, and if some of those exposed, or worse fully infected, gets on a plane.... well, you can see how things can get out of hand very quickly, even when assuming physical contact is required for transmission!

     

    The main mitigating factors are how much exposure it takes to develop an infection, and how long the disease (whether virus, bacteria, or parasite) can survive "in the open" so to speak. The biggest mitigating factor though, is people washing their damned hands!

     

    Cripes I thought we learned this crap in kindergarten, but spending time out in the real world, I can't count how many times I've seen people go to the bathroom and not wash their hands. And if they do that, you think they're gonna wash before eating, or after touching something remotely dirty? Hand sanitizer, fools! Do you speak it?! I used to think my coworker was paranoid for wiping down his keyboard, mouse, even his monitor with alcohol wipes at the start of his shift, and keeping a bottle of hand sanitizer. A couple days of paying attention to the hygiene habits of others changed that. :sick:

     

    A large part of the reason H1N1 was such a relative flop was people were actually doing these things because of the media blitz. Hand sanitizer stations popped up everywhere, not just around my college campus but in public and work places as well. As well, more people got flu shots than traditionally would. A pandemic is imminently possible, but the media hype machine can quickly scare people into taking appropriate precautions. Thus, unless a disease has a fairly significant incubation period, I think things look alright for us in this regard.

     

    Okay. Rant mode off.

     

    I agreed with every statement posted here. This is exactly where I wanted this thread to go. As student who is studying medicine, I can honestly say that washing your hands -- Is Fatally useless -- that is with soap.

     

    Here in my state, many of the restrooms we have contain non-antibacterial soaps. My college has the same problems, and I'll tell you why just washing your hands will not totally remove bacteria from your hand. In some cases it increases the amount of bacteria on your hands(Exposed).

     

    The purpose of soap was never meant to be the elimination of bacteria from your hands, but more of a substance that emulsifies the oily substance on your skin. Based on experience in the lab, washing your hands removes the layer of oil on top of your skin. What lies under that layer of oil? More god-forsaken bacteria. The experiment that I carried out proved that even 'anti-bacterial' soap is useless unless applied so vigorously that you start rubbing the top player of your skin off. However, I am happy to inform that washing your hands with soap, and then applying hand-sanitizer (alcohol based only) does a good job of removing most of the bacteria (and some viruses) on your hands off.

     

    The problem with that, however, is who the hell will spend 3-5 minutes washing their hands! Certainly not every moment that you come in contact with a surface that may contain a deadly virus, and trust me, bacteria and viruses are, of course, on every surface known to man. It is the fact that bacteria and viruses(also definitely not killed by anti-bacterial handwash) are so ubiquitous that it makes hand-washing obsolete in most cases. Paraphrasing my argument, even hand-washing is pretty useless.

     

    OF COURSE, wash your hands after using that hand for toilet paper. There is no doubt that it helps with disease-control, but calling it the greatest mitigating factor is controversial. You can't rule out the other vectors of transmission. Droplet(Sneezing in an elevator), and mechanical (Mosquitos/West Nile) may also cause a patient zero scenario.

     

    By the way, you didn't mention whether the pathogen was airborne :smile:. Everyone who was on the plane would have been exposed long before he ever touched his hand to a scanner. Just a thought.

    Sexlivion + Pregnancy

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    Posted

    But maybe if you get the English version, you canz make?

     

    Cat maybe can haz kitten?

     

    Which cat will immediatly swear into the service of the dread Basement Cat and raise to be a homicidal maniac, but that's all in a days work.

     

    It's unwise to bring forth Catnarock in any situation, but I will see what I can do. After looking through the script, I have something to discuss with Nexus.

     

    1. In my FO3 script, each race had it's own NPC that was detected by the script. (Such as a Caucasian having a Caucasian child) Oblivion has trillions of races, and there are no simple ways to create a child NPC and then convert it into the race of the player. It's beyond my knowledge of scripting. Wyre (The Modder) could do it though. heh.

     

    2. I haven't found a way to utilize the skeletal variation mods. I was trying to make a race mod using skeletal variations, but it fell apart due to the fact that I can't find a function that would change the player's skeleton with the new one. Modding the player's skeleton directly in CS is a big no-no.

     

    3. DLed, the english version and opened the script. I'm experienced enough to understand complex scripts, but that is a pile of hard solid @*#*. I can't make heads or tails of it. I'm almost as confused as when I opened up deadly reflex to understand it.

     

    BTW @*#* was supposed to be gold. Bleeped it out for no reason other than lulz.

    Sexlivion + Pregnancy

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted

    Er, I take it the English translation doesn't translate the scripting?

     

    And there are no Japanese perverted scripters willingto help?

     

    Darn. If only I soke Japanese.

     

    I know, moon-speak is hard to learn. I've been trying for a year to learn their language in an academic institute.

     

    Forgot there was an english translation, i feel like an idiot. Maybe I am. Still, have you seen that script? Those Japanese! They make everything so difficult...

    BATTLEFIELD - War Playground

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    Posted

    And, yeah, i know this Rise of Sheogorath Mod. I was a good Idea but a crappy conversion with detailless Dungeons and Actors with boring Dialogs.

     

    Amen

     

    What? I talk not about this "Battles with 50000 NPCs" Stuff. Maybee 5-8 NPCs in one Battle

     

    Sorry, just making sure. Your lack of colloquial sentence structure made me think you were new to it all, but you might even know more than me. My apologies.

     

    So what do you need specifically? RoS should supply a decent script. Scripting only takes 5-10 weeks of headache over heels to learn. I don't think I have enough time to create the script you want (college and the likes), but I can point to simple scripts that give the same result and will help you grasp the basics of scripting. I'm afraid that's all.

    Summons

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    Posted

    The first could be done with a simple script. But Alons is already on top of that.

     

    The change to sheogorath face feature. If a custom race was used that makes you look like sheogorath then it might be possible to do something like showracemenu in the console. I don't think there is a way to change appearance/ race in real time.

     

    On the contrary... all it would take is a mesh that includes Sheogorath's clothing and head w/ hairstyle. The face of course would be static, but I don't think it matters to the OP. Since the Sheogorath head-mesh already looks like sheogorath, there would be no need for any exstensive modeling work. After merging the clothing, head (and eyes/hair/ears/etc.), and hands into a single mesh (In blender or something) you could set this mesh as an article of clothing that takes up the feet, lower body, upper body, hand, and head slot. When you equipped the clothing in-game, you would take the appearance of sheogorath. Easily done. Adding the golden saint/dark seducer script doesn't even take much knowledge of CS use. Just enchant the sheogorath-clothing with up to 10 Golden Saint summons, and wa-lah. Done.

     

    Voice set is different. That may take scripts.

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