lets not start on that, Oddworld has other devices that are non-science ;)

Such as?

Rainmakers, for one.

lol nate dog is rite tisk tisk tisk rain makers indeed

Oddworld is set in a different reality to Earth. Fact.

Yes, they probably do get shot. The Glukkons are all Bar Stewards, they see that everything has to have a purpose to them. Retired species in Oddworld are of no need to them so they would proably kill them and make more room for younger sligs.

Who says Mud psionic abilities can't be explained? Rain can be generated artificially here.

shot them is sooooo unproductive, make them guard very danerous places is so much better, they won't get any older, and the place is garded.

or send them to war

anyway each location with low chances to survive is good.

yeah stinken sligs i hate them i remember when i was attaked by darth slig and i just survived because i had my trusty odd saber.

please try to keep that kind of stuff for the rpg section of this forum ;)

I do believe that retired sligs (and disgraced sligs) are specially requested by Skillya to help refine her soup recipes.

makes me think of the movie "the island"... :p
oh you are now old enough to go to "the island" fellow slig come and follow me

WTF????

not my fault you didn't see it, (actually I didn't see it either, but the plot is revealed in the trailer)

http://www.theisland-themovie.com/

i meant the darth slig thing as a joke, DUH!

my dear magic6mushroom, SHUT UP

the things in spider man actually do make sense, if you took some guys dead arm and fused it to your spine and bloodstream somehow, you would have a third arm. Don't stop there! why not have four!

Yes. Four arms, the perfect number of arms to have:p

Sligs have retirement funds, if I remember correctly. One plan for MO was that you could steal their ATM cards and drain their retirement funds. Perhaps elderly Sligs are allowed to retire because, just like in real life, they become an important sector of the market. Stannah stairlifts, conservatory renovations, knitting needles - or Oddworld's parallels.

Spider Man is more believable than Oddworld.

MM, please explain just how you can make rain and exactly how the Mudokons can make rain. You would tools to generate certain ammounts of moisture, a tool to make an unstable atmosphere, a tool to put low air pressure on the area, and you would need to somehow make two fronts come together to produce rain. All I see is a circle of stones with some Muds chanting around it. Doesn't exactly look like that that can be explained scientifically.

1. It's magic9mushroom
2. I was actually getting up the seeping idea and "neural link" idea, as the nerves to control legs would not be there unless you got a brain implant
3. Who says the Muds don't have extremely advanced brains that generate powerful electric and magnetic fields? and rain can be triggered by silver iodide or similar chemicals

I've been studying electrical and magnetic fields for over 4 months and have exam tomorrow
and there's no way a brain could generate them in big quantity (even at small it's not possible)

Unless their brains are different, biologically. I mean, there's got to be something different with mud's brains/bodies to give them chant power.

umm...maybe it's just me, but just because more then half of you don't believe in religion here doesn't mean you have to zero it out from OW

we were trying to point out some things can't be explained only with sciences on oddworld

Abeguy's onto something. I really don't want to hear anything about Mudochlorions. But then I'm in the unique position of actually being obliged to read the discussion. Anyone who wants to keep the spirituality of Oddworld intact is entirely able to just ignore this conversation.

Rain can be made on Earth by releasing particles of Silver Iodide into the atmosphere. This causes moisture to gather around the particles, forming rain drops. This has the side effect of denying rain to other areas.

:lol:

Mazel-tov on your extensive general-knowledge!

But I fail to see the connection between going up in a plane and dropping silver iodide powder into a cloud on the one hand to standing on the ground near a contraption, chanting and producing clouds and rain out of a clear sky.[/blatant cynicism]

Oddworld is fiction. It's a story as is any marvel comic.

What do you think an MRI does Xavier? the currents in a brain produce magnetic fields. Granted they aren't big but Mud brains could produce fields that are much bigger, and shamans are just people who have learned to control their own brainwaves

This connection, my good fellow, is that both produce rain. Now, I'm just spitballing here, but if Oddworld's upper atmosphere contains trace amounts of silver and iodine vapour, then the lighning bolts from storm circles could ionise these molecules so they combine, forming the fine scattering of particles on which water can condense and collect on, untill rain drops have formed.

Of course, any particles could create the same effect, but silver iodide is used on earth. Pollution released during the work week gathers in the atmosphere, then after five days rains down again for the next two. Our own seven day week may actually cause it to rain on the weekends after five beautiful work days. Irony Gods be thy master! :fuzcool:

Sligs are very strange creatures, I must say. They would probably my favourite villain apart from the Glukkons. Sligs are so funny!

That's a little off, Lord Vulcher. But I like the croaky voice.
The voiceover was good with the sounds

Not *any* particles...AgI is used because it has a similar structure to ice

Speaking of sligs, we haven't heard anything about Skillya recently have we?

no we haven't...

Strange, I thought oddworld would have finally leaked something about her.

I realy don't see why they would
especially now, they haven't told us anything since a year...

:|

Darn you Lorne, you are so gifted at keeping secrets!

Someone could say he's torturing us with his little secret keeping.

I suppose they could. He always tortures us. We hardly know a darn thing about Oddworld with what he's saying.