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Ylvali · #51 April 3rd, 2008, 08:58 AM

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sansanjuan said:

I think many of you may be missing the fact that the ad is targetting pretty blond women that like to hang out in comfortable clothes and play PBEM strategy games.

I think I fit into this category... I dunno what I think... But what the heck, If this ad brings more women here I�m all for it!

Salamander8 · #52 April 3rd, 2008, 10:50 AM

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Sombre said:
Some people would look at that and think "lucky bogbeast!". I look at it and wonder where she's wearing her poison prot items.

It's obviously the garter of poison immunity she is wearing!

I admit to liking the ad a lot, but I'm a push-over for this kind of stuff. Gimme my cheesecake!

Kamamura · #53 April 3rd, 2008, 11:12 AM

Ad topic - you don't pronounce it correctly, it's not "Ummh", it's more like "ULM!"

lch · #54 April 3rd, 2008, 11:24 AM

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Ylvali said:
I think I fit into this category... I dunno what I think...

A candidate for "Miss Bog Beast 2009", perhaps.

moderation · #55 April 3rd, 2008, 02:50 PM

The ad is still running. I guess it really wasn't an April Fools joke.

Sensori · #56 April 3rd, 2008, 05:23 PM

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The ad is still running. I guess it really wasn't an April Fools joke.

If it said "I want my D4" it would've been an April Fool's joke going with the actual joke, D4: Succubi in Heat. Now it's "just" an ad!

NTJedi · #57 April 3rd, 2008, 08:18 PM

I like the DOM_4 April Fools joke... anything which gives more attention to a possible sequel.

moderation · #58 April 3rd, 2008, 11:36 PM

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another way of looking at it would be along the lines of what edratum suggested. it is pure marketing forced by capitalist endeavor. I don't want to open that can of worms. But while some Pmod critics claim that modernism is more of a 'counterfeit culture' than an actual 'counter culture' (similar to Sombre's position), others claim that fault lies not with modernism or Pmodernism, but with capitalism. Capitalism creates the necessity for the boundlessness reflected in modernism.

Oh by the way, can someone translate this into English?

Just for the sake of exploring postmodernist theory, which I'm somewhat interested in, does Dominions 3 challenge the accepted order / master narrative in any meaningful way however it is advertised? I mean it's a fun indie game, but like you're conquering the world in Dom 3 just like every other 4X. I would love to see fighting for global domination in Dom 3 as cool and subversive, but I can't see how that could be.

I think I used modernism/postmodernism somewhat confusingly, but that is because I was presenting two different viewpoints in one. I will break it down:

1. modernism is the result of modernity. Modernity is the result of the enlightenment (order and reason, that there is a thing such as reason, everything is knowable, everything is orderable; perfection is both possible and desirable).

1a. modernism is both a reaction against the enlightenment ideals of modernity, but rooted in them. It was a rage against order, but a celebration of individuality, freedom, and mass culture. These things are all the result of "universal man". Modernity, the enlightenment, created "universal man" in opposition to "situated man". Situated man is the non-universal, entrenched in tradition and the past; things the enlightenment believes corrupt true Reason. So modernity creates "universal man", a man of pure reason and universality. But now universal man is above the order that created him, he is universal, he has no reason to be beholden to whatever created him. He reacts against order using its own ideals of universality and freedom. Thus: Modernism.

2. Postmodernism is the result of postmodernity. Postmodernity is the result of modernism. It is the crass, limitless, fragmented, mass culture that modernism created, and that we are all comfortable with today.

2a. Some authors blame 'modernism' for the boundlessness of contemporary culture. They say capitalism worked just fine, it was the raucous modernism activity, the beatniks, the hippies, the radical movements, the permissiveness, that caused modernity to decay into postmodernity. These authors say modernism is dead, and it is time to return to the ordered ideals of the enlightenment. The enlightenment didn't fail, modernism did.

2b. Some authors blame 'capitalism' for the boundlessness of contemporary culture. They say modernism was a solution to mass growth of urban life and culture. But that capitalism, not modernism, created and encouraged the permissiveness and boundlessness of contemporary culture. Capitalism had an unquenchable need to accumulate, accumulate. Make more and more. Sell more and more. Everyone buy buy buy. This lead to capitalism creating permissiveness in culture; which leads us in postmodernism.

Because of these two different perspectives, you will see 'modernism' used to refer to both the belief in order, and the reaction against it. 'Postmodernism', whenever it is used, is a reference, sometimes celebration, of the fragmentation of life, of self, of the society we have today.

Whenever someone uses the term 'Postmodernism', they will always then refer to 'Modernism' as the belief in order and reason. They see modernism and postmodernism as a coherent dialect, the first caused the other. These are people who argue that capitalism, not modernism, caused postmodernity. Capitalism is the root of fragmentation.

Those who believe modernism is to blame for postmodernity, do not often use the term 'postmodernism'. For them, modernism turned into postmodernism, there really is no difference between them. Modernism was the fragmentation all along.

Hmm... it took me a while to read this. I guess I need to read a few more books later instead of playing Dom 3.

I wonder then if it's possible to relate this back to Dominions 3. To me the game seems like one more shiny toy amid all the other shiny toys provided to us by our culture.

Ninave · #59 April 4th, 2008, 03:08 PM

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Lingchih said:
I think there was once one female of the species that played Dom 3, but she has since disappeared from the boards (I did not stalk her).

I think there are lots of us (women), it's just that on the boards you don't have to specify and are automaticly taken as male.

cupido2 · #60 April 5th, 2008, 03:34 PM

New ad, no bog beast.
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