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Of all the projects using Minecraft as a medium, MCME is quite possibly the most detailed and incredibly large undertaking ever. We are working to create what may become the first and possibly only seamless recreation of Middle-Earth that is 100% detailed and complete, allowing players to walk uninterrupted by loading screens from one edge of the map to the other. As if that weren’t enough, when the project is complete, a role-playing element is in the works along with npc’s and an actual storyline.

I've recently become a member of this online group working towards making Middle Earth (the land of the Lord of the Rings) a reality through a Minecraft server. It's pretty awesome - both the scale of the project on which we are working AND the people with whom you get to work. It's free to join, there's room for advancement among the ranks, and - best of all - you are even allowed to submit your own designs and build your own houses.

I urge anyone here interested in LOTR, Tolkien, and/or Minecraft to check out this website now: Minecraft Middle Earth!


Here are some pictures...












Here's the trailer from YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HdKXlN_gB0

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I'm relatively new to the community still, but I've already learned tons. My Minecraft In-Game Name (IGN) is keeganwh. =)

Quote from Magistrate

Reinforcement and all that. Thanks, I'll fix those.

Edit-- Fixed.

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@critter: With the new logo (thanks again, Jetrall!), I think it looks okay without the transparent black background. Had to shift things around a little, but there you go.

You're welcome!

Umpa, these are terrific. You've really come a long way from when you first started posting your work on this site. I've really been enjoying watching you develop as an artist. This is some pretty epic stuff!

Zubin speaks only truth. You must do as he says!

All from a chat I had with Daemaro this evening...










Don't ask.

Zubin is the man. He's crazy in all the right ways and has been here since the olden days - which makes him pretty much automatically cool in my book.

Quote from Nekrodrac

Original: "Plump women makes me horny."

Verbose: "If you don't mind me saying so, madame, I find human females in possession of a rubenesque anatomy particularly stimulating to my sexual reproductive instincts."




Original: "The time is currently 12:30 PM."

Says the guy who kicked a little girl.

As others have pointed out, I think your voting options are flawed from the start. How can you have a "No" and a "Yes" option both followed by "he influenced some of it". That makes no sense. How can I not believe in a high power, but still believe that he influenced anything? Why is there no, "No, there is no higher power" option?

In terms of religious beliefs, I personally go for 'Agnostic Atheism'. Essentially, while I do not believe in a God or higher power, I do not deny the possibility that one exists. I think that human perception is simply too limited to every truly know whether something higher exists. If we could, that would undermine the very concept of a higher power.

You also specify "life on earth as it is today". This obviously makes the odds much much much lower than simply asking about life in general appearing. Life as it is today is the result of millions and millions (if not billions, seeing as how the numbers are a little fuzzy that far back) of years of evolution. With every second of existence, the probability of anything being the way it is goes down. Even so, I can't see how there's any evidence of life as it is today being the result of some higher power. Random mutations combine with favourable conditions and some dumb luck (evolution in a nutshell) to create life as it is today.

With that in mind, I find that science - which attempts to provide evidence and explanations for universal phenomena based on what we can perceive - makes the most the sense. According to (most) scientists and scholars, the probability of life forming here (and elsewhere in the universe) is actually fairly high. It's true that the odds are not at a particularly high ratio, but even taking that into consideration, the sheer volume of other solar systems that exist make it near impossible for me to believe that life does not exist out there somewhere other than here (even if it is very unlike life on earth).

Occam's Razor would suggest that the simplest answer - in this case, the idea that stuff just happened the way it did for no reason - is often the correct one. When it comes to proving the existence of any type of God being, I am going to require direct evidence. If God himself comes down and speaks to me or if I die and go to heaven, that's about it.

Getting dirty in the kitchen?

MR. CLEAN MAGIC ERASER TIMEH!





Technically, this fits within the parameters you set.

Hi Diablofans!

I'm around here for a while, reading this forum since 2008, just never registered myself.
This site is a truly unique project, I've never encountered such a professional and ambitious fan site in around 10 years of personal diablo history.

So first of all: Thank you diablofans.com, diablofans staff and members. You're doing an awesome job!!!!


My personal background:

In the beginning I was introduced to diablo2 in the year 2000 by a friend. From this time on I was hooked to d2, it was a great time hackin' and slashin' through classic, it even got better in the expansion set. The run for items, pvping, trading and the appereance of a real market inside a game, just amazed me.

Later on, I stopped playing pvm, and went for one thing only:

The great decade of legit pvp 1.09 - 1.11

What is legit pvp you may ask?
It was a term used for playing pvp under a restricted rule set, which balanced out the flaws diablo 2 naturally had. Those rulesets were introduced and developed by leagues and pvp communities. The aim was to give different team vs team setups equal chances while fighting each other. During 1.09 those leagues were huuuuuuge, I remember tournaments with around 30 4n4 teams dueling each other. Besides 4n4 there also existed 1n1, 2n2, 3n3 leagues/tournaments. Most mentionable communities were duellliga, art of war, postreality, euro-pvp and polish clan league.

I remember being very eager and motivated to be one of the top players around, and well I partly succeeded. When I look back, I can say we (the teams/clans I was in) won some of those tournaments or at least got among the top 5 nearly every time. I also managed to evolve to one of the top assassin players around, it was a great time, although daily training was essential to stay up to the competition. But hey I was young and had nothing to do except passing school / university, life was easy

With experience and time passed, there came duties and responsibilities as for example being assassin moderator in various communities, admin of art of war, part of the rule development team e.g. at euro-pvp.
Our aim was to step up to the next level and make D2 dueling more interesting as an e-sport. We dreamed of receiving sponsorship for tournaments or leagues, or even sponsorship for the better teams around that time. We spent a lot of time bringing d2 pvp to a professional level, but ... we failed. Sponsors weren't interested, human resources were low and after introducing past 1.09 content, many active players just left to wow or quitted. I also think, if we would have had shoutcasters, streams of tournament finals etc. it could have become a lot better.

In 1.10/1.11 this scene did get another little push, because of many youngbloods joining the legit dueling scene, but it never was as many players as back in 1.09. To sum up, the scene was dead at around the year 2009. None of the mentioned communities do still exist, nor do the players or the items we gathered over years. Thanks to blizzards deleting/banning wave in 1.11, where nearly every user playing with a modified language dll or other bagatelles lost all of his wealth.
Luckily, I stopped some months before this happened, I would have cried ^^

Nevertheless, this time was my best time ever playing a game, due to friendships, the work and the little effort we had. Hell yeah I even met the guys I played with in real life. Is there anything better you can expect from a game?


So what are my expectations for the upcoming DIABLO 3 (if it ever comes out before I am too old to react ... )
First of all, I am pretty sure, pvp is gonna be big in d3. In the longterm, it's the thing which will keep me playing for the upcoming 4 - 10 years. What I expect next is a huge wave of former d2 players coming back to meet up, form leagues, an active scene. I also do appreciate the dedication of people like FORCE (thumbs up!) who plans to shoutcast future tourneys and so on, this is what an active pvp scene needs: COVERAGE. You should have been around 6 years ago dude ^^. Although blizzard said they wont focus too much on pvp, I hope this time we can get it popular and big.



Last thing I wanna talk about is the time which has passed since anouncement of diablo 3.
What can I say here ... well development is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar toooooooo slooooooooooooow.
I personally wait for it since I dunno... many moons ago describes it best I think. Diablo 3 is now at the peak where people are losing interest... so they better hurry up.

A simple example: We already worked out a D3 pvp focused website, forum, tournament/league scripts, marketing concepts etc., 1,5 years ago.
Why? Because we had the impression D3 is around the corner.... Nowadays, none of the people involved have any interest in the topic or just dropped the idea. It simply took too long. Thx to blizzard for raising false expectations.


Well, thats my introduction and my personal diablo history. Hope you had an interesting read.


Best regards!

^fragdieb aka B4ST4RD aka LEH-B4ST4RD aka TC-B4ST4RD



greetings to the following (uuuhh nostalgic purpose):

Art of War Community
Duelliga Community
Postreality Community
Euro-Pvp Community
The Amazon Basin
Legit Ear Hunters Clan
Terrorcorps Clan
Terror ad Vincit Clan
Vik, Spirals, Invisible, Faleya and many other people I've met in those years, too many to quote each.



I appologise for my grammar and vocabulary, english is not my mother tongue.

OH HEY look I started up my own webcomic

CHEWING FAT


HERE IS A COOL SAMPLE
(You may not be able to see, but at the top it says "JESUS: THE TEENAGE YEARS"



like it on facebook and post something so it doesn't look like i'm talking to myself

I was gonna propose a toast to his future good health.

Y'know... "Bottom's Up," or something...

(I wonder if it's possible to give myself negative rep...)

Hm... That is a good point. I always just did it because I always thought from my end, "I wonder who gave me that?", but, like you said, if you leave your name it will just be a tennis match of reputation points. I think I'm going to cut that habit, then.

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I was putting my name in my rep comments for a brief while, then realized that completely defeats the purpose of rep.
Rep is made to give to people if they've made a really good post, given a thoughtful point, ect. Not for "hey, he gave me rep, I'mma give him some". That defeats the purpose of rep going to those who deserve it, and just ends up with people passing rep back and forth simply because they gave it to each other. In that way, you could have a shitty poster who has tons of rep, simply because he gives it out to fucking everyone. Rep should go to those who actually deserve it, simply giving rep to somebody should not qualify you as a rep recipient.

Thank you, and well said.

If you mouse over a persons green square it gives a message. These messages are set to appear when you reach certain levels of reputation.

But I do this showing an actual number would be nice too.


I think 50 is the next level of reputation for most people here. I'm at 72 and it says I will become famous soon.