Devilzad's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Devilzad2000-11-15T14:16:32Zmajesty (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/majestyDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad2000-11-15T14:16:32Z2000-11-15T14:16:32Z<p>A <a href="/title/computer">computer</a> <a href="/title/game">game</a> by <a href="/title/Cyberlore">Cyberlore</a> studios, released by <a href="/title/Microprose">Microprose</a>, <a href="/title/Majesty">Majesty</a> is available for <a href="/title/Windows">Windows</a> 9x-based <a href="/title/PC">PC</a>s and soon for the <a href="/title/Macintosh">Macintosh</a> <a href="/title/operating+system">operating system</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="/title/gameplay">gameplay</a> is more of a <a href="/title/sim">sim</a> than a <a href="/title/real+time+strategy">real time strategy</a> game. You place "<a href="/title/guild">guild</a>s" that can "<a href="/title/recruit">recruit</a>" <a href="/title/hero">hero</a>es. Those heroes <a href="/title/behave">behave</a> <a href="/title/independent">independent</a>ly but you can <a href="/title/entice">entice</a> them to do your bidding by placing <a href="/title/attack">attack</a> <a href="/title/reward">reward</a>s on <a href="/title/enemy">enemy</a> <a href="/title/creature">creature</a>s, <a href="/title/player">player</a>s, or <a href="/title/building">building</a>s, or by placing exploration rewards on <a href="/title/unknown">unknown</a> <a href="/title/area">area</a>s of the <a href="/title/map">map</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="/title/official">official</a> <a href="/title/site">site</a> for this game is http://www.majestyquest.com/. An add-on called <a href="/title/The+Northern+Expansion">The Northern Expansion</a> is <a href="/title/expect">expect</a>ed <a href="/title/sometime">sometime</a> in 2000Q4 or 2001Q1.</p>war machine (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/war+machineDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad2000-01-21T19:31:04Z2000-01-21T19:31:04Z<p>A war machine is an <a href="/title/aggregate">aggregate</a> of <a href="/title/manufacturing">manufacturing</a>, <a href="/title/propaganda">propaganda</a>, and other <a href="/title/economic">economic</a> and/or <a href="/title/government">government</a>al facilities whose <a href="/title/goal">goal</a> is the <a href="/title/maintenance">maintenance</a> or <a href="/title/expansion">expansion</a> of a <a href="/title/military">military</a> <a href="/title/force">force</a>. The war machine is <a href="/title/typical">typical</a>ly an <a href="/title/active">active</a> <a href="/title/entity">entity</a> and the <a href="/title/term">term</a> carries a <a href="/title/negative">negative</a> <a href="/title/connotation">connotation</a> as it is typically used by <a href="/title/critic">critic</a>s of either the force itself or the <a href="/title/diversion">diversion</a> of <a href="/title/resource">resource</a>s to the war machine by <a href="/title/political+figure">political figure</a>s.
<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>political figure (person)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/political+figureDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad2000-01-21T19:31:04Z2000-01-21T19:31:04Z<p>A person with <a href="/title/perceived">perceived</a> or <a href="/title/actual">actual</a> <a href="/title/influence">influence</a> over the public or <a href="/title/official">official</a> policy. This influence may be local or global in scope, but may not have the <a href="/title/power">power</a> of <a href="/title/law">law</a> behind it. For example, as of <a href="/title/January">January</a> 2000 the <a href="/title/United+States">United States</a> political figure <a href="/title/Jesse+Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a> is not in an <a href="/title/elected">elected</a> office but is able to <a href="/title/mobilize">mobilize</a> <a href="/title/protest">protest</a>s and help others have their causes heard by <a href="/title/attract">attract</a>ing <a href="/title/media">media</a> <a href="/title/attention">attention</a> to their <a href="/title/cause">cause</a>.</p>Windex (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/WindexDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad1999-11-13T09:43:52Z1999-11-13T09:43:52Z<p>One <a href="/title/commercial">commercial</a> <a href="/title/brand">brand</a> of a household <a href="/title/glass">glass</a> cleaner usually <a href="/title/color">color</a>ed <a href="/title/blue">blue</a>. I imagine there are other sub-brands of Windex for cleaning <a href="/title/other">other</a> <a href="/title/kind">kind</a>s of <a href="/title/thing">thing</a>s, but the glass cleaner is the most <a href="/title/popular">popular</a> one. This brand is misused as a <a href="/title/public+domain">public domain</a> <a href="/title/term">term</a> for glass cleaners in general, especially blue ones.</p>spacecraft (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/spacecraftDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad1999-11-13T09:43:41Z1999-11-13T09:43:41Z<p>A <a href="/title/transportation">transportation</a> <a href="/title/vehicle">vehicle</a> that can <a href="/title/move">move</a> itself and possibly <a href="/title/cargo">cargo</a> through <a href="/title/interstellar">interstellar</a> or <a href="/title/interplanetary">interplanetary</a> <a href="/title/space">space</a>. See also: <a href="/title/space+ship">space ship</a>.</p>sunbathe (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad/writeups/sunbatheDevilzadhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Devilzad1999-11-13T09:43:10Z1999-11-13T09:43:10Z<p>To sunbathe is to intentionally <a href="/title/expose">expose</a> one's skin to <a href="/title/sunlight">sunlight</a>. One usually does this to get <a href="/title/tan">tan</a>, but lately <a href="/title/science">science</a> has <a href="/title/discourage">discourage</a>d sunbathing due to the <a href="/title/danger">danger</a>s of exposing oneself to the <a href="/title/ultraviolet">ultraviolet</a> <a href="/title/radiation">radiation</a> that reaches the <a href="/title/Earth">Earth</a>'s <a href="/title/surface">surface</a>. Exposure to UV increases the <a href="/title/risk">risk</a> of skin <a href="/title/cancer">cancer</a>.</p>