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Trades Gamer's Hideout Pre-Ordering Thread V5, The Darkness Arrive~

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Gurdian
post Jun 23 2007, 11:54 PM

 

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djinn, put me for one Darkness pls.

muchos gracias senor.
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post Jun 30 2007, 12:25 PM

 

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darkness....darkness...darkness....

DARKNESSSSSSSSSS
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post Jun 30 2007, 06:21 PM

 

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From wikipedia

Scientific

Darkness, in science, is a relatively low level of light.

A dark object reflects fewer visible photons than other objects, and therefore appears dim in comparison. For example, matte black paint does not reflect visible light and appears dark, but white paint reflects all visible light and appears bright.[1] For more information see color.

However, light cannot simply be absorbed without limit. Energy, like visible light, cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be converted from one type of energy to another. Most objects that absorb visible light reemit it as infrared light.[2] So, although an object may appear dark, it is likely bright at a frequency that a human being cannot see. For more information see thermodynamics.

A dark area has few, if any, light sources present, making everything hard to see, like at night. Exposure to alternating light and darkness (night and day) has caused several evolutionary adaptations to darkness. When a vertebrate, like a human, is placed in a dark area, its iris dilates, allowing more light to enter the eye and improving night vision.

The scientific definition of light includes the entire electromagnetic spectrum, not just visible light, so it is physically impossible to create perfect darkness. For example, all objects radiate heat in the form of infrared light and gamma rays, extremely high frequency light, can penetrate even dense materials.[3]

Poetic

As a poetic term, darkness can also mean the presence of shadows, evil, or depression.

Darkness can have a strong psychological impact. It can cause depression in people with seasonal affective disorder, fear in nyctophobics, comfort in lygophilics, or attraction as in gothic fashion. These emotions are used to add power to literary imagery.

Religious texts often use darkness to make a visual point. In the Bible, darkness was the second to last plague (Exodus 10:21) and the location of "weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 8:12)[4] The Qur'an has been interpreted to say that those who transgress the bounds of what is right are doomed to "burning despair and ice-cold darkness." (Nab 78.25)[5] In Greek Mythology, three layers of night surround Tartarus,[6] a place for the worst sinners as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above earth.[7]

The use of darkness as a rhetorical device has a long standing tradition. Shakespeare, working in the 16th and 17th centuries, made a character call Satan the "prince of darkness" (King Lear: III, iv) and gave darkness jaws with which to devour love. (A Midsummer Night's Dream: I, i)[8] Chaucer, a 14th century Middle English writer, wrote that knights must cast away the "workes of darkness."[9] Dante described hell as "solid darkness stain'd."[10]

Even in Old English there were three words that could mean darkness; heolstor, genip, and sceadu.[11] Heolstor also meant "hiding-place" and became holster, genip meant "mist" and fell out of use like many strong verbs, sceadu meant "shadow" and stuck around. The word darkness eventually evolved from the word deorc, which meant "dark".[12]

Artistic

Artistically, darkness can also be used to emphasize or contrast with light. See chiaroscuro for a discussion of the uses of such contrasts in visual media.

Color paints are mixed together to create darkness, because each color absorbs certain frequencies of light. Theoretically, mixing together the three primary colors, or the three secondary colors, will absorb all visible light and create black. In practice it is difficult to prevent the mixture from taking on a brown tint.

The color of a point, on a standard 24-bit computer display, is defined by three numbers between 0 and 255, one each for red, green, and blue. Because the absence of light creates darkness, darker colors are closer to (0,0,0).

Pens use darkness, commonly in the form of blue or black ink, to make clear markings on bright paper, commonly white or yellow. Letters displayed on a computer display are also usually created dark, often in the same blue and black colors, on a light background. This difference in brightness levels is called contrast and makes smaller letters readable.

Paintings may use darkness to create leading lines and voids, among other things. These shapes are designed to draw the eye around the painting. Shadows add perspective.





Sorry, really nbtd


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The comic's central theme is the power known as The Darkness, and its wielders. It is an ageless power dating back beyond human history. It is linked with the Angelus and the Witchblade. The Darkness is passed down a family line from father to son, leaving the previous user (and taking his life) as his first child is conceived. The power then manifests in the child on his 21st birthday. Darkness users can create anything they desire with the darkness, even sentient beings, but anything they make will crumble to dust in the light. The Darkness powers are quite deadly, allowing the user to call forth darkling minions to aid them, and even survive gunshots. The power can also be used to maul and feed on people.

The Darkness powers do not function unless it is dark, but some users can also manipulate this by creating their own shadows/darkness e.g smoke grenades, being underground, turning off lights in a room, etc.

Band

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The Darkness were an English retro glam rock band that jumped into the top of the charts in 2002 with their debut album Permission to Land.
Their songs 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love' and 'Keep Your Hands Off of My Woman' were very well received.

They were widely regarded as a glam rock band, but the members disputed this and saw themselves as a classic hard-rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock bands like Queen, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, T. Rex, Van Halen, Def Leppard and Thin Lizzy. They were best known for the soaring falsetto of their lead singer Justin Hawkins, whose departure in 2006 resulted in the end of the band.

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post Jun 30 2007, 10:39 PM

 

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QUOTE(DjiNn @ Jun 30 2007, 07:37 PM)
argh.. booss. taukeh.. tai kor.. enough... after this thread become kopitiam laugh.gif
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sorry bro Djinn notworthy.gif

beh tahan edi

eat full too free
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post Jul 4 2007, 12:40 PM

 

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just about to ask the same thing...

wats d update on Darkness boss Djinn?
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post Jul 4 2007, 12:55 PM

 

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QUOTE(DjiNn @ Jul 4 2007, 12:50 PM)
due to that the darkness has been banned in Singapore. The store is delay~. Currently searching for others routes.

hopefully this weekend can be resolve.
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goddemmit...

more details on this:
http://www.gameaxis.com/home/?blog=1558
Gurdian
post Jul 4 2007, 09:58 PM

 

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darkness....fading....aiyo...
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post Jul 5 2007, 01:19 PM

 

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interesting....armoured core 4...

with english subs...

very interesting...
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post Jul 5 2007, 01:27 PM

 

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as attractive as armored core is....i'd rather be eating people's hearts than twisting metal...

boss djinn, go make bulk from PA nia tongue.gif tongue.gif
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post Jul 27 2007, 07:52 PM

 

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darkness sudah datang

malam pun sudah sampai

time to goto the hideout

djinn will you be available at bout 9?
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post Jul 27 2007, 08:25 PM

 

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Boss Djinn, i think i speak on behalf of everyone when i say thanks for trying so hard to get this shipped to our shores even tho SG had it banned.

Cheers.
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post Jul 27 2007, 10:59 PM

 

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ok next...

Bioshock...Bioshock...Bioshock...Bioshock...Bioshock...Bioshock...

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