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The Doomsday Machine
on: October 16, 2002, 10:07:34 am


As many guesses as you want as to how I did the Doomsday Machine itself. :D ;7

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This'll be fun... :drevil:
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Reply #1 on: October 16, 2002, 10:26:53 am
and what is it?
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Reply #2 on: October 16, 2002, 10:37:16 am
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Originally posted by venom2506
and what is it?


:wtf: You never saw the original Trek, did you?

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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #3 on: October 16, 2002, 11:08:53 am
startrk? no, I won't click :p
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Reply #4 on: October 16, 2002, 11:57:07 am
It's something to do with the Typhon textures or Subspace tube, I'm sure...
 

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Reply #5 on: October 16, 2002, 12:10:18 pm
Looks like he took a picture of something shiny (a pot-roast, a huge turd etc), then copy-resize'd it a few times and screwed around with the lighting and colour balance.

Or covered a water-bottle in tar.
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Reply #6 on: October 16, 2002, 12:16:47 pm
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This'll be fun... :drevil:


Ooh! I was right, this is fun! :devil:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #7 on: October 16, 2002, 01:16:02 pm
He glued a dozen Ganymedes together and gave them the Arcadia textures.
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Reply #8 on: October 16, 2002, 01:25:21 pm
Hehe, you will never guess this ;)

(Has the inside info now)...
 

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Reply #9 on: October 16, 2002, 01:31:04 pm
looks like this thing you can eat ( don't know the english name )
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Reply #10 on: October 16, 2002, 01:32:52 pm
A hollowed death-turd?
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Reply #11 on: October 16, 2002, 02:04:50 pm
The giant cone of doom!  It ate planets you know.
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Reply #12 on: October 16, 2002, 02:33:34 pm
mmm....lummey. ;7
 

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Reply #13 on: October 16, 2002, 03:49:18 pm
no it's not... it's a modified black hole!

either that or a massive beam cannon / tractor beam!!!
 

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Reply #14 on: October 16, 2002, 04:04:54 pm
I just got done downloading the sounds for it (weapons fire) and was wondering: (1) Is it in game? (2) can we put it in a ST mod? (3) can I have it anyway ;7

BTW that is a cool A$$ed render! That should have been the cover of the ST Novel (Picard)  VENGENCE, when the Doomsday Machines BIG BROTHER comes along and Picard must stop it.

    "Sir 2 Borg cubes are engaging the DM, and their getting their A$$es kicked!"

    I fell outta my chair when the Admiral ordered Picard to help the Borg! F-that!

   Turns out the origianl DM was a protoype built by Guinan's race and sent to to Borg space (Earth was in the way, an accident). They were finishing the REAL WEAPON when the final Borg atttack happened. Centuries later the weapon is activated and now we have another DM going near Earth to fight the Borg...
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Re: Hey Sandwich
Reply #15 on: October 16, 2002, 04:30:46 pm
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   Turns out the origianl DM was a protoype built by Guinan's race and sent to to Borg space (Earth was in the way, an accident). They were finishing the REAL WEAPON when the final Borg atttack happened. Centuries later the weapon is activated and now we have another DM going near Earth to fight the Borg...


I love the smell of retroactive continuity editting in the morning! It smells like... a festering, dead, wet dog that's been rolling around in kimchi.
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Re: Hey Sandwich
Reply #16 on: October 16, 2002, 05:06:45 pm
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I just got done downloading the sounds for it (weapons fire) and was wondering: (1) Is it in game? (2) can we put it in a ST mod? (3) can I have it anyway ;7

BTW that is a cool A$$ed render! That should have been the cover of the ST Novel (Picard)  VENGENCE, when the Doomsday Machines BIG BROTHER comes along and Picard must stop it.

    "Sir 2 Borg cubes are engaging the DM, and their getting their A$$es kicked!"

    I fell outta my chair when the Admiral ordered Picard to help the Borg! F-that!

   Turns out the origianl DM was a protoype built by Guinan's race and sent to to Borg space (Earth was in the way, an accident). They were finishing the REAL WEAPON when the final Borg atttack happened. Centuries later the weapon is activated and now we have another DM going near Earth to fight the Borg...


hehehe:

(1) No, it isn't (Thunder, do you find this amusing at all? ;7)
(2) Yes, you can
(3) Yes, you may.

Wondering if I lost my mind? Nope, sorry - not yet.

An0n is the closest so far - it's a picture, a photograph, of something, not a render.

However, I was working on a model of the doomsday machine, lemme dredge up a screenshot. Hold your horses.

Oh, and BTW, the novel is Vendetta, by Peter David, and regardless of mikhael's views, retroactive continuity editing absolutely rules under 2 conditions:

1 - When it's done by Peter David
2 - When it's not explaining contradictions, but filling in storyline elements never touched before.

Now, lemme find that screenie.
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Re: Re: Hey Sandwich
Reply #17 on: October 16, 2002, 05:20:39 pm
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1 - When it's done by Peter David
2 - When it's not explaining contradictions, but filling in storyline elements never touched before.


Meh. Peter David honestly rings no bells for me (the last Trek novel I read was.. um.. Prime Directive I think. That was before half this board started elementary school).  RetCons are almost never done well, and anything that involves Guinan is right out. Next to making Q a recurring character, Guinan is the worst Trek concept ever to get cast.

BTW, is that silvered air ducting, like would come off the back of an electric clothes dryer? Or perhaps airconditioning ducts for use in drop ceilings?
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Reply #18 on: October 16, 2002, 05:25:15 pm
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Meh. Peter David honestly rings no bells for me (the last Trek novel I read was.. um.. Prime Directive I think. That was before half this board started elementary school).  RetCons are almost never done well, and anything that involves Guinan is right out. Next to making Q a recurring character, Guinan is the worst Trek concept ever to get cast.


Yeah, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. That was a good one - really mysterious-like up till the end. Beware the Vacu-Ants! ;)

To be fair, you should at least try Peter David, though. Go pick up Vendetta. It's the only ST book I've read over 10 times. ;)

Out of curiosity, what is it about Guinan you don't like?

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BTW, is that silvered air ducting, like would come off the back of an electric clothes dryer? Or perhaps airconditioning ducts for use in drop ceilings?


Nope and nope. :D Now, on to the screenie! ;7


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey Sandwich
Reply #19 on: October 16, 2002, 05:51:36 pm
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Out of curiosity, what is it about Guinan you don't like?


Sweet model.

Guinan, like Q, existed entirely as a plot device throughout the series. She was never a fully formed character, just this convenient way to explain something away. Don't understand why something is the way it is? Go ask Guinan. Mucking about in Earth's past? Run it past Guinan, she was there. Doomsday Machine coming toward Earth? Little did you know, Guinan's daddy was playing about in the machine shed one day...

Now, is it one of those children's plastic tunnel things? I'm almost certain I see a helical structure supporting some sort of flexible 'skin', so its gotta be a hose/duct of some sort. The tunnel thing is my last guess.
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