While on my travels along the Intarweb, more specifically on Gamespot, I encountered this video.

 It is pretty good and I would recommend a view, but most importantly I have a question. Where did the last footage of Warhammer Fantasy come from? Mark of Chaos perhaps?

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Thanks to you all if you respond, if not, well go kiss a squig. :P

(I have also reached level 12 and become a rad racer, this is one old game I remember.)

Hello there everybody,

 I'm not going to be online as much for a couple of days. The rest of this week is being consumed by college.

 I'm going to have orientation 'till about 4:00 P.M. I will try to get back to PM's and such later, but school is good at interrupting life.

                                                                  -John

Hey there everyone.

 I just watched the new Hellgate London video. Man is it amazing looking! If you haven't watched it I suggest you go watch it. Here is a link

 The graphics are incredible, I know they are pre-rendered and all, but it is still coolness in exuberent amounts. I thought the first one was really good, but with this one I wanted them to keep on going.

 Anybody else have any comments?

Between 8:15 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. October 30, 1938 thousands of listeners tuned in to a radio broadcast that swept the nation with a wave of hysteria and panic. The broadcast consisted of a radio representation of H. G. Wells’s sci-fi fantasy, “The War of the Worlds.” Thousands of listeners were led to believe that an interplanetary conflict between Earth and Mars had rampantly spread death and destruction in the greater portions of New Jersey and New York. The story was adapted by Orson Welles and started with a brief statement that this was a drama, followed by an except from the first portion of the book. Many people who believed this story true had to have not heard this portion of the broadcast, nor three others during the broadcast telling of it‘s fictional nature, nor seen newspaper and other ads publicizing the story; this or the people did not listen to them.

The beginning of the actual radio play started with a simulated weather broadcast, followed by the beginning of a dance program. This dance program was broken into by a special “news report.” It appears that the breaking into the play from “normal-style” programming may have been a reason for the mass of people who believed that this was real. It has been questioned by myself that people may have believed the story was real because of the “news break-in” beginning. Orson Welles actually expressed his feeling that the play may have been not realistic enough, this was of course before the broadcast had happened. At least a score of adults were fooled enough by the play to have to be treated for shock and hysteria at local hospitals, if it had been more convincing I could hardly imagine the harm that could have been done.

A popular suggestion to account for the people believing in the broadcast is called the “Nelson Eddy Tune Out” myth, in this suggestion people who listened to the popular Chase and Sanborn Hour radio broadcast tuned out from the program when the first musical interlude played. In this way many listeners skipped over the introduction and believed this was a true news story. By the time an additional warning was dispersed these listeners were too far drawn into the story to listen to/take care about/actually hear the warning. While the “Nelson Eddy Tune Out” myth is an interesting story and a way to explain the panic The War of the Worlds caused it is not an all assuming theory. While around 18% of The War of the Worlds’ listeners had at some point heard part of the Chase and Sanborn hour, the “tune out” happened at the second musical interlude. While this does not matter in figures it does show inconsistency amongst the “facts”. This still means that 88% of The War of the Worlds listeners did not hear any of the Chase and Sanborn hour. Also the approximately 500,000 people changing channels is quite small compared to the 35,000,000 listeners to the Chase and Sanborn hour.

More than a dozen families in a single block of street ran from their homes packed ready for the police to tell them wear to evacuate to, they had covered their mouths and noses with wet handkerchiefs to escape from the deadly gas raids of Mars. People held emergency church services to find redemption from the “end of the world”. Bus schedules were changed to go around what was called an accident blocking that part of the country. People volunteered to provide their services as first-aid workers to help with injuries and to provide themselves as militia to fight the invaders. The worst spreading of the terror was when people who thought it was a drama were called by friends and told that general orders had been issued to all in a wide area to evacuate, this spread the terror of the invasion to others otherwise unaffected. In addition people in panic were sure that they had heard the president and other officials come on to the air to order the mass evacuation of the area, none of the reported officials were in the play.

My grandmother was in New Jersey at the time and though her and her parents did not listen to the broadcast, she heard about the broadcast afterward. People, according to her, were still in the belief that it was true despite the assurance of police and the government, also the area they were in had reportedly been destroyed. The terror of the Martians spread across New England, into the South, into the West, and even into Canada. One Canadian woman was found at home by her husband, a bottle of poison in her hand screaming she would rather die like that. Her husband calmed her, then listened to the broadcast and called to find out what it was about. The only loss of money reported in all of the confusion was by a man who “bought a ticket to go away” only to find he hadn’t the money to buy work shoes, both Mercury and Cantril gave him size 9B work shoes approximately $3.25 a pair. The broadcast has been replayed and redone several times, the most notable in Venezuela where a mob burned down the station and killed people inside, while the army went to fight the Martians.

I have personally downloaded part of The War of the Worlds broadcast online and listened to it. I have only gotten to download part of it (about 26 min) because of my connection’s slow speed and its frequent disconnections. The website has many broadcasts done by Mercury, not just The War of the Worlds. From what I have heard the broadcast is very realistic, and a person who missed the first warnings may have lost his calm to the point of not being able to hear the additional warnings. From the dance music, to the governmental reports, to the realistic death of Carl Philips the drama is too real for the comfort of listeners and too close to the war scare that was just then coming to a close. I will continue to feed my interest in this story which has been fired by this report. I will download all of the broadcast, I will find the old movies (one representing the story, the other the terror and the story), and I will watch the new movie I have heard will be created on this landmark of entertainment (I have heard it will be available in summer of 2005).

 Copyright December 2, 2004. By John1918

 I am now an Atomic Punk! Which happens to mean level 11. Again I must thank my friends for giving me the chance to post so very many things. Now, however, I can also thank my union.

 For those of you not "in the know" Atomic Punk was the first bomberman game released for the gameboy. It is also a song from Van Halen's debute album and the name of a Van Halen tribute band.

 Well, I am now the leader of The True Warhammer 40K Union. With this comes the passing of the Old Union into the dusts of oblivion and the rise of a new Union of a different breed.

 We have already been more active in the past day than the old union was for months. Our membership is growing, our topics blooming, our leadership wisening. I offer now to all who read this blog to come join us in our march of greatness. For we shall make our mark upon the lineage of Gamespot, and upon the very fabric of the Internet itself.

 Lead, Follow, or Get The Hell Out of Our Way!

 Gamespot finally has something good to say about me, while I am still considered a dabbler I am now also considered neighborly!

 This was definately only possible due to all my current friends, so Thank You All.

 Today I have graduated to a person capable of posting sub-par videos. Thats right everybody, level TEN! Gamespot has also decided to stop calling me a flirt and start calling me a dabbler, why does it sound like a demotion?

 Apparently GS is having problems, so I cannot give you a post count, but I can reasonably say that it is still around 4-5000 less than night_haunter. :) There is also a new thingamawhatsit on my page telling me that my profile has been looked at 100 times since October the 13th.

 Next would come the informative factoid, unfortunately most people already know what a phoenix down is...If you do not, why are you on Gamespot?

 Thanks to my friends, my unions, and Toomy all powerful, for giving me reason to be on here and level up. Without you all it would not be possible.

                                                                       -John

Evening there everybody,

 Now as I type this there is a scene from a Christmas card laying itself to rest upon my home. It has been on the chilly side for the past couple of days, combine that with a bit of precipatation in the air and you have the perfect ingredients for snow. Already a couple of inches has fallen and the calm difting of the falling snow continues.

 My home lays within the boundaries of a national forest, and is surrounded by the most lovely of cedar and pine trees. Out of the chimney flows a thin wisp of smoke from the warming fire. As I sat and watched the peace that was befalling the world and sipped a cup of hot chocolate something dawned on me.

 I used to live in a city where all you ever saw was rain for weeks at a time. To now live in one of the Christmas cards I always used to recieve is quite amazing. Now for words of wisdom I have learned from this.

 Never take for granted what you have, because there is someone else out there that would trade their very life for it.

 Never take for granted snow, it may look soft, fluffy, and lite, but it is a bit...um...pain :D to shovel.

                                                                 -John

 I am going to be posting less and coming around not quite as often. My work plate is getting fuller with the end of the year coming around. I have to work more to get my schooling done early and I have other things that are going to be sucking away my time.

  I am still going to be around and will try to make it to roleplaying night. :wink: If I cannot make it I will allow Toomy himself, night_haunter, or davidr_pikula1 or somebody who means well and has lost a character to sub for me, aren't I nice? :P

 Bye for now Boyz, I will be back!