Occam’s Razor

August 31st, 2010

Alternately titled:
How to Make a Kraken Figurine in Five Minutes During Your Lunch Break Without Getting Ceasar Salad Dressing on Your Tie

According to Wikipedia:
Occam’s razor is the principle that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). The popular interpretation of this principle is that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Simplest is not defined by the time or number of words it takes to express the theory; simplest is really referring to the theory with the fewest new assumptions.

Step 1:
Open the top of your plastic salad container. You might be tempted by the delicious smell of roasted chicken and garlicky ceasar salad dressing to just have at it, but I advise you wait a second and make some careful preparations so you don’t ruin yet another tie. Also while you do this open up Turbo Squid Tentacles, set the slider to free and type in squid.

Damn only one free squid model...

Damn only one free squid model...

Step 2:
Get some proper utensils. You and I both know that the spork implement that the deli packages with these salads just plain suck. A spork just doesn’t have the necessary ‘bite’ to grab both succulent pieces of chicken and crunchy romaine lettuce at the same time. Do yourself a favor and head to the office kitchen where you can get a real metal fork. Before you go, open up 3DMax and strip out the eyeball and a bunch of the deeper textures in this otherwise craptastic model.

There thats a little better.

There thats a little better.

Step 3:
You lower your freshly obtained fork towards the salad but catch yourself at the moment before its tines touch the creamy sea of flavor. We’ve addressed utensil slippage but what about splatter? There are essentially two schools of thought here, both of which make you look dumb but will preserve the integrity of your neckwear. Option A is the napkin tucked into the collar affectionately known as the redneck ascot, Option B is the more sassy ‘over the shoulder’ manuever. Pick whichever one you like, it’s really a matter of personal preference. While you make that decision, open photoshop, rotate the squid, scale and fatten him up a bit (he’s been dining on DHW ships after all) and adjust the hue to something approximating DF’s figurine colors.

No Anorexic Squid Allowed

No Anorexic Squid Allowed

Step 4:
Finally it’s go time! You lay into that salad with all the pent up hunger that skipping breakfast can cause. Meanwhile a google image search of Darkfall backpack gives you the perfect image… some idiot’s mount bag.

Mount Bag Ahoy

Mount Bag Ahoy

Step 5:
Wash out and recycle your plastic container if applicable. Remove the neck napkin or unsling your tie from over your shoulder as necessary. Failure to do either of these will make you look like a moron when you get up to stroll around the office after lunch. Before you do head out to make the rounds of small talk and other assorted time wasters, fire one of your new kraken figurines into the mount bag. Actually better put three in there just to make it blend in with the rest of the items. Combine mount bag with clan station photo and presto troll bait for the forum idiots.

You guys are pretty fucking gulliable.

You guys are pretty fucking gulliable.

Thanks for all the entertainment forumfall.

Some of my favorite quotes:

I know Kill Cult has a dev in their clan, so that is a bit of an odd coincidence, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt if someone actually knows what that item is. - Zarithas

Gosh, thank goodness he’s giving us the benefit of his doubt.

I foresaw this happening, so….
*posts original photoshopped picture*
might as well stop being faggots kc/LoD and just respond with a legit answer. - Itwas Luck

I DONT NOT LIKE KNOWING STUFFS!

I think they need to do an IMMEDIATE scan for the item-id for that type of item and BAN the accounts who house them. Assuming of course this is an illegal item to have. I’m not going to play a game that houses this type of corruption and allow it to go un-punished. I wanna see someone get fired/banned. - Grim Creaper

I’m going to take this case all the way to the mayor!

It’s a troll but they opened up the can of worms so ppl are using this time to point out the special favors that LoD has been granted throughout the game… - Scrappy Doo

You folks are dumb enough to believe this thread, it’s not surprising that you believe everything else you refered to..

While I do believe that shit is fake, I’ve chased LoD on several boats, and the kraken always attacks mine instead of theirs. It’s even spawned inside of my boat and we could not move once. - Damphousse

I hear ya man, sometimes I drive down the street and hit every red light.

SotL Outa Luck

August 29th, 2010

About a year ago Admiral Tweedle approached the KC leadership and let us know that he wanted to get involved with building a navy. One year, too many spreadsheets, untold conversations in vent, and countless hours of drilling later, The Men have one of if not the best, navies on NA-1. The foundation that he laid, combined with the diligent refinement and hard work of all the members of MEN has created a seagoing franchise that to this date is without rival.

This weekend once again proved this claim as LoD, KC and Yew continued our successful string of tower captures. Having run out of plausible excuses, the ensuing tears on the forums have orbited into the realm of hyperbole. Some of the latest explanations of our dominance include:

LoD stocks their boats with 50 guys. - we had about 30 at the south tower and ONLY 24 at the north
The Men use pixel detecting alts to ‘autorepair the ship’. - not necessary when you have people who are smart enough to multitask
LoD is nutcupping itself. - wait what?
Getting up early for a game is for nerds. - when you grow up, getting up without moms help is pretty easy
The Men zerg recruit. our alliance is smaller than it has ever been
The Men will isolate and kill you if you come on their ship. - yeah…
This website has a keylogger and we are grabbing IPs to ddos people during a seige. - We have Devs to take care of that for us.

What most of these people just cannot wrap their minds around is that they are outclassed when it comes to sea battles. They cannot stand the fact that naval warfare requires discipline, practice and teamwork. Both Vax and Admiral Tweedle spent time this weekend compiling movies of what such a force looks like. Hopefully our enemies will study and learn so that the next time we hit the sea towers there’s less people wearing tin foil hats and more folks ready to give The Men a serious fight.

Vax Ikins ‘In The Shit Cam’ (with footage from Vax, Zets, Gipper, Tweedle and Scarce):

Tweedle’s ‘Captain’s Cam’

Aggressive V

August 8th, 2010

Vax has once again produced another masterpiece video:

You can download full size versions here:
http://www.filefront.com/17183231/Aggressive-5-Part-One.avi/
http://www.filefront.com/17185505/Aggressive-5-Part-Two.avi/

Flotsam and Jetsam

July 20th, 2010

The MEN had another great morning at the Sea Towers, capping both while sinking several enemy boats in the process. Well done MEN.

If you're in the water without a ship, you're probably doing it wrong.

If you're in the water without a ship, you're probably doing it wrong.

Once again Vax was nice enough to put together a video of these fights and a few snippets from other examples of naval dominance.

Projected 6″ Rise in Sea Levels

June 30th, 2010

…from all these fucking tears

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