Posts from philosophy

In principle, in this situation, the answer to your question won't be off-topic. Everything in this world has both a dark and a light side. There is no absolute evil or absolute good. Everything has flaws, and there is something good in everyone. To claim otherwise is pointless. That's what I wanted to achieve: to have both evil and good Necromancers, evil and good Elves, evil and good Orcs. At first glance, it sounds silly, but if you consider it in perspective... Remember the Orcs from "The Lord of the Rings" and compare them to the Orcs from "Warcraft III." Don't you think there's a difference? And I'm not going to divide the Elves into light and dark like in Lineage II; instead, there will be cheerful and good-natured Elves, and there will be arrogant and vain Elves. The same goes for the Dark Elves: some will simply enjoy being secluded from the rest of the world, finding pleasure in darkness or at least dim light... And there will be other Dark Elves who crave power above all else, who are willing to do anything to achieve their goals, no matter what they are or what means they use... I hope you understand.

Great idea, but imagine how many races, units, heroes, etc., would have to be created, and then new races need to be introduced (like the Chinese). Sigh... Although, you could introduce a third type of elf, like there are Forest Elves (Fortress), Dark Elves, and then High Elves (like the Altmer from TES or the Rivendell elves from Lord of the Rings). I'll think about it; maybe we can divide some of the existing factions, like Humans (Castle) - good, Humans (Pagoda) - evil, and the elves are already divided, and we can come up with something else. In short, can I move your post to the Ascension forum?

Hmm? Alex, do you want access to forbidden websites, only pop music, and only Petrenko's humor?

No, I don't think the USSR even dreamed of the internet! And I think the leaders would eventually give up! In general, the USSR is not an option either, but I don't want it to be like in Europe or America!:cool:

Teng, in the USSR, there was more than just pop music. I would even venture to say that pop music as we know it didn't exist back then. Because pop music is music made for money, while music made for the sake of music is something else entirely, as we've already discussed.

No, I don't think the USSR even dreamed of the internet! And I think the leaders would eventually give up! In general, the USSR is not an option either, but I don't want it to be like in Europe or America!:cool:

The USSR had the internet, or rather, its beginnings.

Well, when I mentioned "pop music," I meant that behind the "Iron Curtain" of isolation, only pop music would have survived:(
The Internet exists in China, which has a communist regime, and Sweden also moved towards communism... what's the point? In China, the Internet is PROHIBITED!

Hmm? Alex, do you want a censored internet, only pop music, and only Petrenko's humor?

And where do these fairy tales about the "gray totalitarian state" come from, where everyone wore padded jackets and ushankas, listening only to marches and Komsomol songs? :D
My father listened to the Beatles and Pink Floyd at full volume (he put the speakers in the yard to shock the grandmothers on the bench - youthful hooliganism :rolleyes:), and no one even thought of arresting and executing him. :D Do you think that culture was worse in the USSR than it is now? All the beloved classic cartoons ("The Bremen Town Musicians," "Winnie the Pooh," "The Mystery of the Third Planet," and many others), magnificent films with the most talented actors, playing in a way that a crowd of American sex symbols (I can't even call them actors - this is a profession that they don't master) could not play, even if they were coached from morning till night - all this was born in the USSR, a country with the most "reading" population. Unfortunately, "it was."
As for pop music... many of these motifs can now be heard, re-sung. Just remember the "Old Songs About the Main Thing" series. It was enough to take these songs out of the chest, like old clothes, and brush off the mothballs - and everyone started whistling them again, paradoxically. :rolleyes:
However, Tengro is 13 years old, according to his profile, and he knows about the "horrors of the totalitarian regime" from modern sources, which are interested in showing that no matter how bad it is now, it was even worse before! I saw an article with my own eyes that told how in the 80s a schoolboy was taken to the KGB because he came to school in Nike sneakers... wow, our whole family wore imported clothes, and I can say how the authorities reacted to this: they didn't react at all. ;)
However, a return to the USSR does not threaten us. It was not only a different economic system, but also a different mentality. A girl could return home at night, fearing only one thing: stumbling in the dark. The entrances were not locked with iron doors with intercoms, but there were no syringes lying on the window sills, and there were no puddles with a distinct smell of organic matter on the stairs and landings. :( Benches and swings in the courtyards stood for decades... and now a beautiful playground for children has been built in our yard, but for some reason, "kids" who are far from kindergarten age are swinging on the swings, and good fellows with beer are sitting on the benches (with their feet on the seats)...
The golden age of culture, you see... :mad:

Back then, things weren't bad, and they weren't good – they were just NORMAL...

There are no perfect times by definition. :rolleyes:

One of my acquaintances says that he doesn't like Russian and Soviet films because you can tell that the actors enjoy drinking and all that. I replied that American actors... well... enjoy doing drugs, sleeping around, and all sorts of other things. But back then, they could still act, and there's no need to believe all that trash.

One of my acquaintances says that he doesn't like Russian and Soviet films because you can tell that the actors enjoy drinking and all that.

It's probably noticeable in Freindlikh's performance in "Office Romance" :smile36:, or in Basilashvili's performance in "Autumn Marathon" :smile07:, or in Akhedzhakova's performance in "Garage" :smile22:...oh, and of course, in Smoktunovsky's performance in "Hamlet"! :smile29:
Oh dear. :smile39: That's how we love and respect our own cultural heritage. :smile09:

Today, I attended the conference "National Ideology Through the Prism of Culture." And you know, what conclusion did we come to with the help of my statement about our forum? Right now, we are experiencing a period of moving away from reality into a quasi-reality, a fictional world. But the thing is, this fictional world doesn't satisfy us either, and we move into a quasi-reality of a quasi-reality. We are looking for a way out, relying on our ideas about reality. And as a result, we move from quasi-reality into reality, but one that is different from the one we left.
Thank you all for helping me come to this conclusion!

I'm not sure I fully understand you... I mean, I basically understand, but I don't quite understand, because I understood you in a way that it's like you understand, but you don't really understand, so it's like you don't quite understand.

The thing is, we don't like reality. We escape into a game created by someone else. But we don't like that game either. And we start creating our own (like with RPGs, Ascension, Restoration, and so on). But at the same time, we base it on elements from reality (races have prototypes, etc.). That is, we return to reality. But it's already filtered through the prism of our consciousness, through the game.