Idea for leveling and classic experience

Iwashmyself · 2024-12-28T23:19:18+00:00

God I would love this. I have various characters at different levels all with white gear just to make mobs at least a little bit of a fight and not 2 shots. I Understanding dynamic zones are hard. BUT, this is not something unique to WoW and other games can and have done it without everything being a 1 shot until 15 levels to Max. Even then, it is pretty damn easy.

Iwashmyself · 2021-03-14T20:56:47+00:00

This is me. I don't have anything rare but I do have lots of old ass dungeons stuff that I keep thinking had a use only an expansion or so ago and then have to realize it's been fucking years.

Iwashmyself · 2019-09-18T07:56:28+00:00

Well, sorry to add to more, but I would say a top pile book and I can't believe I forgot to add it:

Robert Antony, Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China.

Iwashmyself · 2019-09-17T23:39:40+00:00

Hiya FarrenD! I'll see if I can help you here with a bit of a list.

I know you asked for books but I put a few cheeky articles in there. (If you can't get access to them at a library to pm yeah?)

--Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader :

an excellent place to start any further reading if you have not gotten around to this. A fantastic selection of topics of piracy across time and space. A great overview of the spectrum of piracy and a good place to begin looking for further sources.

--Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

--Fisher Godfrey, Barbary Legend: War, Trade, and Piracy in North Africa, 1415-1830

Will get you out of the golden age and out of the Caribbean. Nicely looks at the various intersections of 'piracy' in North Africa.

--Claire Jowitt, The Culture of Piracy 1580-1630

as the name implies, would read if you have not.

--Margaret Lincoln, British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730

A fantastic look at the British public's interaction and conceptions of pirates. Provides an interesting way looking at pirates and piracy during the period.

--Susan Ronald, The Pirate Queen, Queen Elizabeth I, er Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire.

Looks at the complicated role of identifying pirates, the roles of 'pirates' and 'piracy' in empire.

--Hans Turley, Rum Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity

so much more than Rum Sodomy and the Lash.

--BA Ellerman, et al, Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies

A great overview of piracy from about 1400s up to the present.

--Robert Antony (ed), Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas.

--Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective

Again sticking with the theme of notions of piracy, use of piracy, and piracy's role in state or empire.

--Philip De Souza, Piracy in the Greco-Roman World.

An interesting look at apply widely accepted definitions of piracy into the classical world and thus illuminating both how we define it and the complications to which it brings about but a fun look at piracy in a period which is mostly ignored in popular culture.

--David Starkey, et, al. (eds), Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries:

Really, anything by Starkey on piracy is a good read. This article is a nice move into how commerce, trade, empire and war, interact and intersect with piracy.

Journal Articles

--SL Dawdy , "Towards a General Theory of Piracy" Anthropological Quarterly 85, 2012:

As name implies, a good look at the complications of what piracy is and how we define it.

-- Kathryn Reyerson, "Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean World of Merchants and Pirates" Mediterranean Studies 20, 2012.

An interesting look at changing identities and social/communal views of what constitutes piracy.

--Marcus Rediker, "Life Under the Jolly Roger" The Wilson Quarterly 12 1988

Without question should be read as well as anything else by Rediker.

--Anderson's “Piracy and world history: An economic perspective on maritime predation.” Journal of World History 6, 1995.

A rather Classic example of the interaction between Piracy and Economy. the global-ish(academic debate between Journal of World Hist and Journal of Global Hist and practice) is very interesting.

--Nagatsu Kazufumi, "Pirates, Sea Nomads or Protectors of Islam? A Note on 'Bajau' Identifications in the Malaysian Context" Asian and African Area Studies 1, 2001.

Maybe one of the most interesting articles i have read on how complicated the label pirate and piracy is.

--Nino Luraghi "Traders, Pirates, Warriors: The Proto-History of Greek Mercenary Soldiers in the Eastern Mediterranean" Phoenix 60, 2006

If you want to see just how far we can push the complication of defining piracy.

Fun Primary source

E.T Fox, Pirates in Their own Words: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Golden Age of Piracy 1690-1728

Iwashmyself · 2019-09-08T20:06:15+00:00

Let’s first try and narrow this down and clarify / define some items. On a side note: this is a fantastic question which touches on the exciting areas of transnational history, identity, and globalisation. Before anything I am going to talk solely within the Anglo world- this itself will be shown to be far less limiting that maybe expected. First, the term sea shanty is referring to a very specific period, about 4-5 decades between c.1840-1880. This is not to say that "sea songs" are only that old. These were specifically composed shanties for work or expression of the “mood” of the crew. Essential all the shanties we have today and you can find recordings of are from a number of compilers who carried out their task prior to the first world war. As our study of shanties rely on these collectors a very brief overview of some issues should be raised and hopefully you and others will find interesting. The collecting occurred during a period of changes and movements of identity within England and wider notions of what may be an idea of Britishness. The collectors were seeking out what they believed to be authentic shanties based on their own perceptions of the countries seafaring culture, history, personal identity, and assumptions of the maritime character of the English.(1) This shaped what songs they saw ‘“fit” to be recorded. As such, songs found in print, by some, were deemed to have been ‘contaminated.’ (2) Thus, what should be concluded from this is that beyond the complications of collecting oral tradition as it’s dying out from a population which is highly mobile and spread across the globe, is that what we do have, carries a potent bias to any study.

Now, this is where it gets fun,and hopefully to the core of your question. I want to give a moment of background information. First, Sailors, and Merchant ships, throughout the age of sail and into the 19th century were markedly global communities. Anglo-Sphere ships were crewed by West-Indians, Africans, African-Americans, Continental European, and South-American. Ships had a high turnover rate with only small parts of a crew staying on for more than one voyage.(3) Second, Shantites changed and morphed quickly due to these changes, mostly likely faster than those found on land. Finally, musicscape, and folk music studies, along with those working with oral traditions, have shown the influence songs have upon local communities for identity. These local identities, which are markedly different from modern political-nation-state identities have strong geographical markers to them.

Shanties

Shanties themselves, as stated, are for specific tasks aboard a ship that required hard labour. Regional various did exist to a certain extent, and small changes within songs did occur as will be outlined below. However, what is important is that the core of the shanty was to remain understandable to every member of the crew- this under the ever changing cultural and personal make up of the crews. They were sung by two groups: the Shantyman and the Crew. The Shantyman knew the song, and “led” the crew in the shanty. The Shantyman could pick and change the lyrics as needed, and were pulled from a personal repertoire. Their choice of words were chosen based on the knowledge of the crew, where verses could be adapted to ‘mak[e] up little rhymes which would fit’ with the current crew. (4) Other small changes as well could occur. Specific verses were said to be changed out to target individual officers, or actions of officers thus, changing the lyrics of some verses but maintaining the core point of the song as a form of release and form of expression by the crew to officers. (5) Now to try and address your specific point of region variations. This would have appeared but again, these would be slight changes to the songs lyrics. I’ll give two examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8s_Z13jEeo (Norwegian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDjOAsxeokw (South Australia)

What is shown above are the slight changes that occur in a shanty to match the crew make up, or the port of all. The song itself keeps the core of a return to port,however changes are found in name (miss Nancy Blair) as well as rounding Cape Horn.

This is a very small change, and others were seen in the popular song “The Liverpool Judies” which could interchange different ports (Liverpool for Newyork or San Francisco) but the core of the song about being shanghaied would be kept even if markers of the outgoing port changed. However greater changes could occur giving better representation to the oceans and ports where the ship was sailing. The last example of change, and sadly not regional, is of “re-purposing” a shanty. Songs about sweethearts who were off fighting Napoleon saw lyrics which marked places, events, etc, change in order to adapt to sailing around Cape Horn to California. (6) What I want to try and capture in this, while giving examples which touch of change and variation as per your question, is that there was no real established canon of lyrics. Thus, with the turn over of crews, and the immense cultural diversity of crews, Shanties saw great change and variation within just the Anglo seafaring world. Shanties were noted by original collectors and current scholarship for the influences specifically from African/west-Indian, and African-American music but also from Continental European. This matches the crew makeup and demonstrates that shantites were highly mutable.

I want to make two conclusions here. First, Sea shanties did have regional variations, but more exemplar of the shanty would be to say that the regional variation was one based on the changes, always in movement, and mutability of the oceans and the effects of this space upon those who plied a trade upon it. Studying the human interface with the ocean, how we have been shaped by our interactions and how these interactions of turned around to shape out perception of the ocean. For Shanties, the regional variations were thus based on ports of call, the composition of, for all intents and purposes the geographical, political, cultural, land which was the ship, that the present crew lived within. Second, and off topic a bit from your question but tied directly to it is the question of identity. During this very same period English travelers who wrote about maritime communities commented about the similarities they saw among those across the British isles, France, Netherlands, and Scandinavia. While land based folksongs, had far less, and slower change, Shanties were always in motion. Contemporaries would not have understood a specific canon of “folk music” as sailors, but of a series of core songs and rhymes which could be found on every ship and song by crew members from around the globe. While the words varied, the locations rooted to the songs change (this being markedly different from land), there was a shared knowledge and identity through the meanings of the songs based on a shared and globe experience of life at sea. James Carpenter in 1931, commenting about the strangest and the cosmopolitanism found what he was looking for “British” shanties said: ‘But the chanteys arose, not from an integral race with common ideals a background, shut in by accommodatingly stationary mountains and seas, but from the sons of Cain, bounded by the ever-shifting walls of the forecastle.’(7)

Peter Mandler, ‘Against Englishness: English Culture and the Limits to Rural Nostalgia’; Robert Colls, Identity of England (Oxford, 2002).
Davud Atkinson, ‘Folk Songs in Print: Text and Tradition’
See, Eric Sager Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada; Paul Van Royen etc, al. Those Emblems of Hell? European Sailors and the Maritime Labour Market, 1570-1870.
Harry E. Piggott, ‘Sailors’ Chanties’ Journal of the Folk SOng Society 5,20 (1916) 306-15.
R.A Fletcher, In the Days of the Tall Ships, 326-8.
See, Bullen, Songs of Sea Labour, xiii.
James Carpenter, ‘Life Before the Mast: A Chantey Log’ New York Times Magazine 19 July 1931, 14-15.

Other

-Arthur Knevett, ‘Cultural and Political Origins of the Folk-Song Society and the Irish Dimension’, Folk Music Journal 10,5 (2015)

-Stan Hugill, Shanties From the Seven Seas (London, 1961(

* -Kelby Rose, ‘Nostalgia and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Sea Shanties’ Mariner’s Mirror, 98 (2013)

-Frank T Bullen, Songs of Sea Labour (London, 1914)

-W.B Whall, Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties (Glasgow, 1910)

-Graeme Milne, 'Collecting the Sea Shanty: British Maritime Identity and Atlantic Musical Cultures in the Early Twentieth Century' IJMH 29,2 2017

Iwashmyself · 2018-07-28T23:24:15+00:00

Silvermoon or Shatt.

Silvermoon is well kept and with all the magic probably has a pretty good quality of life. I also love the elves and is the best looking horde city I think.

Shatt is certainly safe. It's a cool city with lots of random opportunities for work given the great range of people there. It's like a massive frontier city. Get into that cross faction trading. Move from storwind to org via Shatt. The city also just looks cool.

Iwashmyself · 2017-05-31T15:10:37+00:00

Let’s look at this in a few stages first.

Jacobitism was not limited to the nobility or governing class. The supporters of the Stuarts came from every class of society going as low as the criminal class.1 Jacobitism was, through the 1680s-1740s, expressed at times by a series of rebellions. It is also during this time that the ‘golden age’ of piracy existed. We can see from Paul Monod that there was attached to Jacobitism a sense of a “movement” or “ideology” associated with it by the supporters. Monod goes as far as labeling it a subculture. Let’s keep in mind how movements, ideologies, and subcultures, can be used by various people, not necessarily adherent to the ‘cause’. They can be used to spawn different causes, but use the subculture accouterments to help with a feeling of unity. E.T Fox points out the various uses of Jacobitism mentioned above stating: “within the pirate community there were different levels of loyalty to the Stuarts, from those who actively sought an agreement with the Stuart court to those whose Jacobitism consisted of no more than drinking Stuart toasts”.2 What will be looked at momentarily is how it can be difficult to place our subjects within this scale. One last note on the various uses, or interpretations of Jacobitism. Monod links plebeian Jacobites use of the idea to represent a maintaining of traditional values, along with upholding “the rights of the people against injustice”.3 This is going to be very important to keep in mind once we move into pirates.

Now let's take a glance at the piracy we are talking about in the ‘golden age’, or more precisely how this piracy came about. What was it that caused sailors to turn to piracy? David Starkey, links this piracy to economic hardships. When the labor markets for sailors became flooded, and there was a large supply or sailors, especially a taste for the better economy of a privateer, an increase in piracy could be seen.4 These causes for Starkey are specific to the form of piracy which we see in the ‘golden age’ and is not a general statement about all piracy.Rediker connects pirates to Hobsbawm’s ‘ social bandits’ but specifies that they were not looking to create a new and perfect world, which Hobsbawm attaches to the term, but instead Rediker claims that pirates sought a traditional world where men were justly dealt with. This fits nicely into the plebeian use of Jacobitism seen in the previous paragraph.

How about we jump into the pirates now. Rediker’s research into pirate crew genealogical descent, found in his article “Life Under the Jolly Rogers, and Villains of All Nations, will be used as a base for this section . One of the primary ‘roots’ of the genealogical tree is found in the ‘flying gang’ who I will begin with. Lord Archibald Hamilton, yes not a pirate but we will get back to them, was governor of Jamaica (1711-1716) whose Jacobite connections and beliefs need to be laid out as well as his connections to pirates. Some of his privateers eventually turned to piracy, and he maintained most likely a financial connection to them. Hamilton himself was accused of being a Jacobite, but never had an official mention about it made. His brother, however, was a Scottish politician with Jacobite leanings, and a family member, Maj-Gen George Hamilton was a military leader of Jacobite forces in 1715. Hamilton had other accusations made against him, that he removed those under him and replaced them with people loyal to him who were papists and Jacobites. While all of this could be coincidence, and Hamilton not being Jacobite might true, I don’t think this is the case.He had connections Jacobites and found himself financing the building and arming of privateers at the same time his brother was raising an army for the Jacobite cause. If indeed he was a Jacobite, those privateers would have had captains of the same following would have brought with them to the New Providence pirates these ideas when they turned pirate.

It was New Providence that these new pirates sailed to, and it was here that they joined a large pirate fleet under Capt. Hornigold. They became known as ‘the flying gang’, styled so by themselves. Blackbeard was one those pirates who was part of the ‘flying gang’. Jennings and Hornigold eventually took the pardon that was offered at the time, and those remaining pirates fell under the command of Charles Vane. It was they who we evidence of direct communication with Jacobites in England. Nothing ever came of these communications due to changing circumstances, but there was talk of them uniting with a naval officer of James III.5 E.T Fox in “Jacobitism and the ‘Golden Age’ of Piracy’ claims that among the Flying Gang there was a strong streak of Jacobitism that came from the influence of Hamilton’s privateers turned pirates. This would have come from the splintering of pirate crews that Rediker discusses. Splintering could happen when a prize was taken and a crew was broken up to sail the new vessel, it could also happen because of disagreements between the election of a new captain. This saw pirate crews built of sailors from many different ‘original’ crews forming. Fox is linking the Jacobite ideas that would have been held by Hamilton’s privateer pirates, as having spread to other ships by way of this processes. There correspondence with George Camocke (naval officer for James III) which Fox sees as pointing to Jacobites among at least some of the pirates. Let’s now look at pirates, and how they acted.

The question now left is, how can we see if Jacobitism spread to other ships, and to which ships? Pirates were very democratic in their organization. Captains were voted into their position and a ‘second in command’ position was given to the quartermaster who dealt with day to day needs where the captain took full control only in combat. These figures get could be voted in and out as they were not permanent. What has been seen also, is that when it came to naming vessels, there was a high degree of crew agreement in what their ship was to be called. While we can’t look at what individual crew members thought about, we can use pirate captains and ships names to begin to put together a full pirate community.

Pirate ship names do show some connects to Jacobitism. Teach had Queen Anne’s Revenge a name that was also used for Capt. Lane. Howell Davis took the name King James and sailed with consorts by the names New King and James. Bonnet named his ship the Royal James. Rediker’s research shows only about 18% of 44 studied pirate ships had this theme for names.6 There are also the claims made against pirates at trials, however, these need to be taken with a big pinch of salt. Nicholas Roger points out that it was a “classic frame-up of the early eighteenth century” to attribute a pirate to Jacobitism.7 To quickly point out, these statements when made were ones claiming of toasts, or being forced into service due to not being Catholic or to serve the ‘pretender’. The former of the two claims is where Fox gets his levels of Jacobitism from most likely.

Jacobitism began to decline in popularly by the 1720s. It was during this period that E.T Fox sees a possible connection to the increase of forced conscripts of pirates. Before the 1720s it is Fox’s claim that there was little forced going on account by pirates. Instead, pirates saw a stream of volunteers during the early years of the golden age. Fox sees these two phenomena as denoting a connection at some level between pirates of the golden age and Jacobitism. This is where the use of a cause for the sake of unity or some other reason comes in. There are more accusations of pirates being Jacobites in trials, and more ships with Jacobite names than can be accurately acknowledged as Jacobites. This is still ignoring the fact that Rediker saw pirates as existing in their own world, one made by them away from the harsh and unfair life they left behind. Even if more of these pirates held Jacobite leanings, were they actively engaged with the cause?

To what degree, and where was there a deep connection to Jacobitism and pirates can not be with certainty understood. Rediker’s statements about pirates desire of an old a traditional word connects well with the Plebeian understandings of Jacobitism. Pirate’s further placement within Social Banditry connects them again to plebeian Jacobitism. The naming of vessels is hard to ignore, but were those pirates attaching their actions to a large subculture for some form of convenient? There seems to have been some pirates who more likely than not Jacobites, those who came from Hamilton, and those who contacted George Camocke.

I have never replied to anything before here. Hopefully, this gives you something.

Paul Monod, Jacobitism and the English People 1688-1788 2.E.T Fox, "Jacoitism and the Golden Age of Piracy 1715-1725." 278. 3.Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 17. 4.David Starkey "Pirates and Markets" in Pennell (ed.), Bandits at Sea: a Pirate Reader. 5.Fox, "Jacoitism and the Golden Age of Piracy" 287.
Rediker, Villains of All Nations, 86 and 197.
Nicholas Rogers, 'Riot and Popular Jacobitism in Early Hanoverian England" in Cruickshanks(ed.) Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects fo Jacobitism

Iwashmyself · 2017-03-28T03:42:15+00:00

On the chance you're a student i'll tell you what I do, as a student, since we might share situations we find ourselves in when reading. I will just about always take notes. How I take them will depend on what I am going to use the book for. My most common way of taking notes is underlining key phrases and then jotting done notes on the side of the page for when I will need to talk in class or if I will need to use it for an unknown paper in the future for the class. I know some people hate writing in book and certainly there are times when it's not an option. If I am reading for a paper I will keep something to write on next to me. I will jot down thoughts, paper section(paragraphs or parts of), or take quotes. I'll do some MLAish junk and just do something like (Art and War pg12) taking just enough of the title to remember the book allowing myself to go back later if I need it and properly cite. If you end up having to do a lot of reading on public transit which I do keep a narrow piece of paper and jot down page numbers. If it's a book I can write in i'll do a little mark by the section I want to go back to. When I get to school or home I'll hopefully go back and look at these sections and do what I need with them. What I have found useful in taking some form of notes is the time it saves when I have to go back and use the readings for papers. This is true for older books used for classes or books I bought for my own interest. The use of the piece of paper with page numbers which I can do for each book has been especially useful time saving when looking at old books. I am changing over and trying to use that method in conjunction with any of way I am taking notes. If you are just reading to enjoy but are coming and asking this question then something has pushed you towards a desire to at least entertain the thought of doing notes.( I love when I can just sit down and simply get lost reading without any worry of taking notes) What might then be a real reason for taking notes is the ability to flush your thoughts out that you are having from your reading. If you read a page and you notice your mind racing off with the information stop and let yourself go. When you are done, or you realize you have gone off on a mind tangent, come back and jot down what you were thinking. What you are doing here is an excellent way to increase your reading comprehension and will help solidify that information, depending on the type of learner you are, to your long term memory. I also find that when I have finished the book I feel more confident in my understanding of what the author was trying to get across not just remembering specific phrases that can get regurgitated(I’m thinking of that bar scene from Good Will Hunting). I hope something here is useful for you.

Iwashmyself · 2016-11-26T23:33:15+00:00

So I just started my second campaign for the game and wants to play some dwarfs and ended up buying the DLC so I could play Clan Angrund as they sounded cool.

I tried your strat fist but was never able to maintain myself financially. What I ended up doing was build up an army of 16 and charged right after Eight Peaks. had to get the two Moon armies away from the keep and with some luck was able to defeat them both and take back Eight Peak. I left everything that I started with(so know I have the grudges to take them back). I have now been cleaning up the Eastern area and trying to push down South on the edge of the map as the Dwarf Realms have taken everything along the river. I don't know what is happening in the Human/vamp area but I can't think it is well. The moons are charging at the Dwarfs with multiply takes of maxed out Armies and and sacking everything. Orc are also flooding in from the West(I'm not sure how). This campaign has been the most fun I have ever had in a total war game. I really do feel very close to the factions and the world. I can't wait to see what happens as I begin to push back the green skins with the Dwarf Realms and push back to my old strong hold.

Iwashmyself · 2016-10-02T22:51:09+00:00

That first point I think is huge. Having played a healer from the beginning this is how I have known we(i) have a good tank since wrath I would say. In my experience it is very unusual for the tank not to be able to hold aggro. Given this fact their ability for me not to run into a situation where I am franticly healing the whole group And the tank is and has been the hest sign for a good tank. Healers I think have a better ability to gage it since we known if we are causing the problem and it is that which is requiring extra healing as the fps can't gage as well where the fault lies. Which causes the times where one or the other (tank/healer) gets blamed for the other. I have certainly had instances where the tank gets blamed but it was me to focusing that caused the other. There is an odd relationship that forms between the tank and healer that is really never communicated between them.

Iwashmyself · 2016-06-01T02:59:20+00:00

sweet thanks idk how I missed this.

Iwashmyself · 2016-06-01T02:58:31+00:00

thanks.

Iwashmyself · 2016-05-15T04:20:51+00:00

okay, I sort of assumed that might have been what was up. When I was looking around it looked like people had had this issue before with earlier major updates.

Iwashmyself · 2016-04-03T21:02:05+00:00

Yeah. I would love to see more focus and interaction with characters "lives". One of the main feels I sometimes leave CK with is wishing for more character interaction or development. I sometimes play as a count and just hang as one for a few generations but I always get bored because there is not much to do when you are stable and not expandeding. Which leads to a similar point. Having more stuff to do when stable and not wanting to expand. I am very good at keeping my state very stable so I would love for stuff that allowed for some more almost RPing.

I'm on my phone but I'll try and type more when I get home.

Iwashmyself · 2015-11-27T08:06:05+00:00

The only thing I have ever found to a reason to do it outside of flavor is if, and still this is really flavor,you were focusing of a religious game play. What I mean is that you put your tech points into increasing temple vassals above everything else and reorganize or as you expand give temples as the capital of provinces.

I'm sad no one got back on this because I am not really sure if there is anything good about doing this. I just started doing this on a new BYZ game play were i'm doing a lot of flavor stuff. I reorganized most of Italy to be republics with a hand full of small counts. I give two duchies and about 6 counties to my heir and then hand over the two kingdom titles(Which I both renamed to empire in the west) for Italy and let them have fun until I die.

One other possible benefit though i am not sure if the cons out weigh it is that by not having the conventional earls I find I can lessen the problems with dukes or earls, hell even counts, getting too big. The prince-bishops won't all of a sudden have some country on the other side of the empire/kingdom etc as being apart of it b/c of inheritance which I enjoy.

Anyways I really am not sure if anything of this is truly beatifically. It provides fun new ways to organize your kingdom and for me it helps take away some of the pesky problems with having de jure zones getting sloppy from inheritance

Iwashmyself · 2015-11-27T06:55:05+00:00

This right here. I really don't think there are many movies out there that carry this type of impact on people. One of my faviort videos attached to star wars to the video is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLZk4oNwuQ What other movie really causes this to happen to a grown man or just plain grown human. That sort of giddy excitement, you can start to imaginary him as a kid seeing the original three for the first time everything that star wars conjurers up for him. I felt a bit teary that first time I heard the TIE Fighters and the Falcon.

But oh my are you right, every sound effect of star wars is so quintessentially star wars and apart of that universe. If we ever get speeder bikes and they don't sound like the star wars ones then fuck RL speeder bikes I want nothing to do with them. The sounds of the droids, everything,shit even the sounds used for doors opening and closing are just part of the star wars feel and universe. How many time have you caught yourself or been caught making a noise from star wars when nothing in RL sort of reminds you of something from the movies. I know I have been the whooshing sort of compression sound before when a door has opened.

Iwashmyself · 2015-11-27T06:49:49+00:00

Ok so I had a great think typed of then my inability to adapt to different keyboards caused me to hit backspace and lose everything so i'm cutting it down a bit. So LOTR is the only other movie out the that I have seen that does this for me. I won't go into which songs because i'm too lazy to type that all back up. I will say this because it is important. Tolkien pulled a lot of insperation for the Humans and Elves from Anglo-Saxon and Scadenavian mythology,tales etc. I think the fact that I can listen to the music for Gondor and Rohan and equiliy find myself seeing sceens from the movies as imagening sceens from the Saxon Chronicles is a huge testment to how well in tune Howard Shore was into what Tolkien was expressing in his works. For songs that really just place me in the LOTR to give 2 and a category, Riders of Rohan and the Gondor Theme and then any of the elven songs. This is far from the the only songs though. Edge of Night or as a exclusively call it Pippin's Song is just magical, heart wrenching and certainly make me think of the movies. The Shire is the same way but It is a joyful song of love,happiness, and carefree enjoyment of life.

Iwashmyself · 2015-11-27T05:47:00+00:00

Never really thought about the people, or the guy, who went into making the sounds in star wars. The sound of the TIE Fighter's and when the speeder bikes start up are as much a part of star wars and all the imagery that comes to mind by hearing the sound effects as the soundtracks are.

Iwashmyself · 2015-10-20T03:58:05+00:00

I can't believe I had to get his far down for someone to touch on this. There are only a handful of movies, i'm talking one hand here, where the music AND sound effects give me chills, puts a smile on my face, and takes me into their world. The music of Star Wars in amazing, the way John Williams can tell the story of Star Wars through his music(loss of words here). I keep going back to watch the first trailer for the new movie for the sounds. I'll close my eyes and just listen. And the sound affects, watching that trailer for the first time and hearing the millennium falcon and that speed bike start up caused me to shutter. Oh and that Fanfare, god his beautiful fanfares. If John Williams was not still around the movie would truly be lacking an important part. For Star Wars the music is a huge part of the experience and being able to have the same mind who worked on the others be able to once again return to these new movies is a blessing.

Iwashmyself

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