Logan on 15/2/2005 at 05:17
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I think you are wasting your time to more useful activities; such as eating copious amounts of strawberry ice-cream and reading about epiphenomenalism.
We already did this :) and already did another works. So why we can't try this? It's not better, and not worst than strawberry ice-cream ;)
S_Hole on 15/2/2005 at 10:17
you'll know when they get it right when users start to suddenly die of old age here
Logan on 15/2/2005 at 10:47
He-he. Not only in Sword (in THief2,3 too). It appeared in some other games, so I think its a real glyph. As i know it may be from America's Indians folklor.
Yos on 15/2/2005 at 20:04
Universal symbol for trap perhaps?
(I'll get around to downloading the player and getting those modified pictures sometime over the weekend, weekdays are too hectic for me to do so.)
Hoopz on 19/2/2005 at 08:02
Ideographic scripts are notoriously difficult to decipher. The only symbol I'm sure of is the trickster glyph, which I think was also used to refer to the Pagan faction:
Inline Image:
http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/IMAGEs/Glyps/glyph089_s.jpgAnd of course you should consider the possibility that the majority of the glyphs have no assigned meaning and that they were used at random in the cutscenes and on the website. I certainly wouldn't trust the websites as they were low on info and high on marketing speak.
One thing just did hit me... for the prophecies, an interpreter is required to translate it to English or whatever common tongue they are supposed to be talking in. Yet I also remember a dialogue that goes something like: keeper- "Can you still read Keeper glyphs?" garret- "I try to forget, but you guys seem to leave them everywhere for me to find.". This suggests there are two languages and perhaps two script systems: one which everyone can read and one which only the reader + interpreter can deal with.
To Logan: you should really format that image page better as now it is hard to see immediately whether the number refers to the image on the right or to the left (looks like 'right' to me). Use some CSS or something:
.glyph {
float: left;
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
text-align: center;
}
.glyph img {
display: block;
}
Then wrap each image+number in a div of class "glyph" and put the number after the img tag. For semantic HTML, use an unorded list and style it ;).
Logan on 20/2/2005 at 13:19
I'm not sure someone need it. But may be sometime. Today it's just like sketches. Only for this discussion. Not final table at all? and not serious project. But thanks for helping.
Malygris on 21/2/2005 at 05:24
Here's all I really need at this point: glyphs representative of the major Thief factions, Pagan, Hammerite, and Keepers. Or, Trickster, Builder, Thief, if that's more to the point. I suppose I could just make this shit up as I go along, but a little air of authenticity wouldn't hurt.
Sharga on 23/2/2005 at 07:38
This thread gave me an idea of making my own glyph, representing me, Sharga.
Inline Image:
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/26434129/4419913 Tis a shame that we don't have avatars at these forums. But I will use it when posting on other blogs or the many other forums I've registered at. :D
yay.
