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I am...whimsical today.

I say I've read the books of Ringworld, but I managed to find the Abandonware games while my graphics card was going through it's stage of buggering all 3D applications (A time of Old-Skool discovery indeed), and I quite enjoyed them...come to think of it, I still haven't finished the second one.

And I've always fancied logging onto HBO as Commander Teal >:)

  • 02.08.2007 12:03 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Guscon
And I've always fancied logging onto HBO as Commander Teal >:)

Not to be confused with Captain Scarlet.
I always felt sorry for Captain Brown :(

  • 02.08.2007 1:01 PM PDT

Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

Colonel Mustard?

[Edited on 2/8/2007]

  • 02.08.2007 1:03 PM PDT

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No, I mean the armour that the Arbiter was wearing had that beak-like protusion from the center, the armour seemed to splay out by the wrists, etc.

PS- In Ghosts of Onyx the term Bandersnatch was used. This had a dual meaning because it is from mythology and it is an alien species from the Known Space (Ringworld) Universe.


Hmmmm...my image of a Pak must be a tad different than yours, which is of course expected as the likelyhood of two people visualizing a generally described thing in identical ways is small.

And yes, I did catch the use of the term Bandersnatch in GoO, though I doubt the creature described in the Known Space universe had any impact on Nylund's choice to use that term, it is an obscure mythological creature, but I find that the more obscure, the more likely it is that excelent fantasy wrighters will know of it and make use of it in some way.

  • 02.08.2007 1:36 PM PDT

that which is not dead can eternal lie, but with strange aeons even death may die.

Wow, I cannot believe that the term "Bandersnatch" was used. Now Eric Nylund is just going to far with that.

*gets one of Microsofts lawyers!*

*Sue!Sue!Sue!*

  • 02.08.2007 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Guscon
And I've always fancied logging onto HBO as Commander Teal >:)

Not to be confused with Captain Scarlet.

I can't believe that show made it onto the Sci Fi channel here in Australia. Puppets FTL!

  • 02.08.2007 4:21 PM PDT

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There are many different things from Lary Niven's books to Halo. Larry Niven's Ringowrld did not have some parasite on it and the story was not in a war lke halo is. Its more of an exploration story. The only 2 things that are simular in the 2 story's are that the Ringworld creaters in both story's are extinct and that they both have a Halo. Bungie did not get very much stuff from his books.

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Well, and the fact that both rings ahve a Map Room and a Control Room.

  • 02.08.2007 11:48 PM PDT

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Well, in truth, Lary Niven's Ringworld was a map itself, a complete, to scale, recreation of the landmasses of all the inhabited worlds in that part of the galaxy, and then some.

It didn't have a "map room", though the fact that it had a control room is hardly a unique idea.

  • 02.09.2007 5:49 AM PDT

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Well, in truth, Lary Niven's Ringworld was a map itself, a complete, to scale, recreation of the landmasses of all the inhabited worlds in that part of the galaxy, and then some.

It didn't have a "map room", though the fact that it had a control room is hardly a unique idea.


yes, quite true, I mean, For both Earth and Kzin, it was there world flat out of the rings surface. Beat that halo!.

  • 02.09.2007 8:52 PM PDT

Who reads these?

I got all four ringworld books for christmas, good read.

And yes I think that in one of the site updates some of the staff mentioned him in as one of their inspirational sci-fi sources.

  • 02.10.2007 12:36 PM PDT

If any book had an impact on Halo's story it was without a doubt Starhammer by Christopher Rowley. Jason Jones has cited it as inspiration before, and the two stories are very, very similar.

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I think we should also look at Marathon. Halo is basically Marathon with pimpt graphics and a different story. At the very least, many gameplay elements come from Marathon. And the whole 'AI telling you what to do' thing.

  • 02.11.2007 4:16 AM PDT

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