Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1915529-20141111085227

(NOTICEE: This is a long post NOT all about Thief)

Thief III: The Space Age

Ignoring for a moment that any Space Age would have not have happened because it was Karras who brought in the Metal Age and only by his mind could a space age come to life and he never intended the Metal Age to truly grow (with humans at least), I think it would be a brilliant concept.

LGS could have pulled it off for sure since they introduced robots and security cameras into this medieval world. But at the same time, I think it may have been one jump too far. There’s no doubt many stupid people who think robots in a game like Thief was too much like zombies in a game like Thief. That’s why (as far as I know) there are no robots or zombies in NuThief because it has been watered down to appease the dumb masses. So as cool as it sounds, I don’t think it would have ever happened.

And keeping on the theme of space, that is what I hate most about the human race. I have always liked the thought that one day in this life time or not, people will journey through the stars and make colonies on planets across the galaxy. The recent discussion on whenever it is possible to move faster than light adds a little fuel to this possibility (albeit it’s most likely hundreds of years in the future if not more).

However Earth is tiny. Think about it. It is a tiny ball of rock. If you wanted, there is nothing stopping you from going to Japan. You could get some money, leave the house and be on the streets of Tokyo not in a month... not in a week... but in just ONE DAY. So the Earth is tiny: FACT. Yet despite being full of people, we can’t live together in total peace because we are animals with different opinions. Like I said, it does not matter if you’re beating up someone in the street because of some insignificant reason or if you’re sending thousands of troops abroad to fight back at people who have committed mass murder because their opinion is that you should die because your opinion is that you don’t follow their opinion of their religion, which goes against their opinion of your opinion of your religion.

Regardless of the difference in scale, it really is like trying to live with someone in a house where you both hate each other’s guts and every chance you get you try to kill each other. Only difference is, you can’t leave the house and the other houses on the street are distant stars and planets. So imagine if there is life in the other houses on the street. These houses can communicate with each other because these people have advanced technology but more importantly, live together peacefully. Not just with the people in their own house, but also with the people in the other houses on the street. Like a friendly neighbourhood.

But whilst everyone gets along nicely, there is one house on the street that is always got someone shouting at each other with the sound of screaming and plates being thrown and broken. The rest of the neighbourhood are not going to invite this house (Earth) to join the block party or the local book club. The rest of the neighbourhood will shun Earth and ignore them, leaving Earth alone because the neighbourhood is a great place. And the people from Earth will only infect it with their vile hate for each other.

Furthermore, going back to the idea of people living in space colonies across the Solar System or Galaxy. Can you imagine the extent of wars if this happened. People hate and fight each other in neighbouring countries. Imagine if people lived away for decades in a space station and created a new system of law and order completely removed from any controls government on Earth. What would happen if some of these people returned to Earth. It would surely lead to conflict that see millions die because Earth is racist to ‘SpaceLivers’.

And that is why I hate people.