OK so here is the my dilemma. A computer illiterate friend of my mother's bought a used computer from a yard sale for dirt cheap. The only problem the computer had is it was missing a HDD. Now, she comes to me and asks if i can "fix it" and says she will pay me for my work. I agree because I figured "replace a HDD and reinstall a OS...no problem". Well, I ordered a new HDD for the computer and installed it into the case, but upon booting it up I get no display from my moniter. I'm at a loss here; I can't figure out what the hell I did wrong or if there is something missing that I simply didn't do. Any help here would be much appreciated

Well this is the bastard child of insomnia and too much science fiction so please excuse grammar and tense mistakes.

His vision remained intact; gazing at the absence of matter in front of him. He spoke into the space around him only to have it implode before making so much as a hum. His muscles grew and shrank as they tried to revive his frozen limbs. Drawing in breaths, filling his lungs, and releasing the non existent vapor reassured him that panic should set in soon. He continued to watch the horizon that his mind had drawn…

The muffled sounds rattle his eardrums. The once baseless sounds had now formed into syllables.

"Com…ple…de…ach" He slowly lets his eyelids open and his eyes widen. The sounds around him reverberate and speak. "Complete. Please detach." The letters flare and fade periodically while chanting the phrase aloud in a deep monotone. "Complete. Please detach." His wobbling hand rises while he outstretches his taut finger. He lightly presses against the round, blue orb that lay imbedded on the surface to his side. The machine above him buzzes and vibrates as it slowly rises. The padded steel dome that had grasped his skull opens its structure and releases him from its clenching hold. The machine folds its limbs and retracts them into a small opening on the face above him. He contorts his frail spine and crookedly sits himself upright. He takes a final breath, plants his feet firmly on the ground, and shambles towards the distant door .The door was a glowing silhouette amongst the room's darkness. The slow stride of his walk allowed him to observe the square, featureless room he had been resting in and question how he had gotten there to begin with.He allows the mysterious thought to slip past him as he approaches the door.The still shut door blooms radiant light from every crevice and exudes strange warmth. He leans towards the adjacent wall and slaps his palm against the blue orb on the surface. The door lets out a high pitched beep and slides upwards into the wall, letting loose an explosion of warm air.The burst and intensity of the air staggers his small frame. He digs his feet firmly into the ground and forcefully throws himself through the threshold.

His eyes began to focus through the wind as he stands in front of the panorama presented before him. All of the buildings and structures around him lay in ruin. The tall buildings that filled the blue heavens sat as crumbled bases against the orange tinge. He stares closer at the city and sees no signs of trauma. There were no scars of warfare or signs of a discontent society. He stands silent and takes a last glance at the scenery.He stretches his leg outward and slowly walks towards the center of the city…

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[QUOTE="KillerLlama007"]

Well you clearly objected when he said SC is just a rip off Warhammer 40k. Now like the poster above me has said, they are both have very different game-play as one is squad based and revolves around strategic points and a streamlined income while the other is more about micro-management, gathering ones income, and counter units.So with this in mind I can assume that you don't mean the game-play is where the similarities(or blatant rip offs) lie. This leaves the only thing left to point the finger of plagiarism at...the universe.

And even still the 1987 version of WH: 40k was/is a game. In fact, if you have played it you notice an odd similarity between it and modern RTS's. So I'll say it again in case it did not sink into your thick skull. Warhammer 40k is the reason Starcraft even exists...both in game-play and lore.

DanielDust

Dude i'm sick of getting it into your thick skull so I'll just say that I like both of them, very much and the only reason i play/ed DoW more is that it has better graphics. I don't really care if you think DoW is better than SC or that SC is a rip off of DoW and if you think DoW is original then so be it even though it too is a rip off(no not of starcraft - if it will pass through you mind-).

Both of them are good and DoW's gameplay is NOT THAT different from SC's.

I never once debated which I was more fond of and I will still leave that open to your own speculation. I simply called you out on your false statement and backed up my claims with logical(and chronologically correct) arguments. Of course, your rebuttals did not offer the same structure.

So good day and continue to be an epic failure.

Making a video game based off of a book, movie, made-up universe, comic book, board game, or whatever... is easier said than done. For example, the lord of the rings books... they came out a long long time ago, and now there are lots of games based off of them, but I honestly can't say that the books are responsible for the gameplay elements in the games. The storyline yes... but not the gameplay. There are a some LOTR games that are kinda cool, and some that are garbage.

I don't know anything about Warhammer 40k or whatever this 80s thing is that is being brough up here, but it seems like blizzard was the one to actually take the storyline, the characters, and whatever other elements they stole/borrowed/took and put them into game form. A daunting task. To say SC is based on DOW sounds like an innacurate statement. To say they share storyline or they share characters/plot elements from the same universe sounds correct.

As for Dune 2, I never played it.

df853

The thing your missing though is that the 1987 WH:40k is not a book...its a game. It is basically an RTS where you move around the pieces yourself and roll dice to see if you hit, miss, etc. In fact, the tabletop is still fairly popular today as it is still played by many(including myself). All the blueprints for the game where there and its just took a decade for computers to be able to embody the concept of the original game. I would say it is not a bold statement to claim that it is its basis of Starcraft.

[QUOTE="KillerLlama007"][QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="KillerLlama007"][QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="KillerLlama007"][QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="fatzebra"]

SC2= copy of 40,000

DOW= awesome

DanielDust

You obviously don't know what you are talking about :|

If you would have said C&C, maybe but saying SC2=copy of 40K shows only one thing and i'm not going to say it.

I am for SC2 but I will buy DOW2 too :)

40k has been around longer then SC just so you know...

So does stupidity and ignorance.

Here's proof of your's (just so you know):

Warhammer 40K:2004 as I said(sorry more like 2005) not 1987

Starcraft: March 31, 1998

I tried to not offend the ones that say SC is based on DoW 40K and that DoW 40K has been around longer than SC but i HAVE to tell to all of them that they are extremely stupid and ignorant. :|geez the stupidity in all of those posts

*fixed *The Warhammer 40k universe has been around in tabletop form long before starcraft. In fact, I am almost cerstain starcraft would not exist if not for Warhammer.

Well we don't/will not/might never know, will we?

In some alternate dimension or DoW fanboy world maybe, but unless in this dimension I see DoW (the game) being released fist and SC the one that steals many elements from DoW , SC is still the first and the oldest + the best.

Hm, it would seem you don't understand the concept of chronological order. So here I will make it easy for you by using pictures.

See this?

1987: These are tyranids from the WH:40k universe. A race that has been apart of the lore since the get go. The tyranids rely on an overlord type creature to govern their actions because alone they are nothing but mindless drones. Their tactics are very primitive but often effective. They prove that there IS streangth in numbers.

Now lets go foreward a bit...

1998: Wait a sec...this little bugger looks familiar...copy and paste the above tyranid section and erase any instance of the word "tyranid" and write "zerg" in its place.

I don't think you get the, DoW Universe(80s)=/=Actual DoW game (September 2004)

I know the DoW universe is older than SC but the DoW game isn't since the 80s. Maybe SC has some ideas from it but it's not a DoW copy and it's DoW that is the copy of SC.

Well you clearly objected when he said SC is just a rip off Warhammer 40k. Now like the poster above me has said, they are both have very different game-play as one is squad based and revolves around strategic points and a streamlined income while the other is more about micro-management, gathering ones income, and counter units.So with this in mind I can assume that you don't mean the game-play is where the similarities(or blatant rip offs) lie. This leaves the only thing left to point the finger of plagiarism at...the universe.

And even still the 1987 version of WH: 40k was/is a game. In fact, if you have played it you notice an odd similarity between it and modern RTS's. So I'll say it again in case it did not sink into your thick skull. Warhammer 40k is the reason Starcraft even exists...both in game-play and lore.

[QUOTE="KillerLlama007"][QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="KillerLlama007"][QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="fatzebra"]

SC2= copy of 40,000

DOW= awesome

DanielDust

You obviously don't know what you are talking about :|

If you would have said C&C, maybe but saying SC2=copy of 40K shows only one thing and i'm not going to say it.

I am for SC2 but I will buy DOW2 too :)

40k has been around longer then SC just so you know...

So does stupidity and ignorance.

Here's proof of your's (just so you know):

Warhammer 40K:2004 as I said(sorry more like 2005) not 1987

Starcraft: March 31, 1998

I tried to not offend the ones that say SC is based on DoW 40K and that DoW 40K has been around longer than SC but i HAVE to tell to all of them that they are extremely stupid and ignorant. :|geez the stupidity in all of those posts

*fixed *The Warhammer 40k universe has been around in tabletop form long before starcraft. In fact, I am almost cerstain starcraft would not exist if not for Warhammer.

Well we don't/will not/might never know, will we?

In some alternate dimension or DoW fanboy world maybe, but unless in this dimension I see DoW (the game) being released fist and SC the one that steals many elements from DoW , SC is still the first and the oldest + the best.

Hm, it would seem you don't understand the concept of chronological order. So here I will make it easy for you by using pictures.

See this?

1987: These are tyranids from the WH:40k universe. A race that has been apart of the lore since the get go. The tyranids rely on an overlord type creature to govern their actions because alone they are nothing but mindless drones. Their tactics are very primitive but often effective. They prove that there IS streangth in numbers.

Now lets go foreward a bit...

1998: Wait a sec...this little bugger looks familiar...copy and paste the above tyranid section and erase any instance of the word "tyranid" and write "zerg" in its place.