SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread III
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Kilovolt culture shock indeed...
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Re: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread III
The orgies are the only inventions of Nero Caligula (that guy who Maximus killed in an epic battle of Heraculanean proportions) that the Elysian government kept. The other stuff, like sacrificing virgins and unholy rituals, got canned. But the orgies were kept since that was one of his only decent reforms.
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Admiral Quirino is one of the best personnel managers in the Umerian navy. He is taking every precaution to avoid exposing any of his personnel to Elysian culture without making sure they can handle it gracefully. This is one of the more important reasons that the goodwill visit will probably succeed.PeZook wrote:Kilovolt culture shock indeed...
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You know, "Q...is an asshole" should be the game's tagline 
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
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This one. It's the 17th squadron currently operating, and contains four battlecruisers.RogueIce wrote:Or all "Squadrons" were numbered sequentially and the designations change (such as how the 82nd Airborne Division is really the 82nd Division of the US Army; 10th Mountain being the same, etc).Simon_Jester wrote:This is a minor question, but how many battlecruisers are there in an Ascendancy squadron, given that they can have seventeen squadrons? Or does "17th Battlecruiser Squadron" in the Ascendancy navy not imply the existence of battlecruiser squadrons one through sixteen?
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2000 Mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
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Oh Jesus. What the hell are the Collectors doing. Oh man.
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people
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I beleive the question is, what aren't the Collectors doing? Probably a shorter, and less depressing list.
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Basic Unit of Laryngitis = 1 Hoarsepower
453.6 Graham Crackers = 1 Pound Cake
1 Kilogram of Falling Figs - 1 Fig Newton
Time Between Slipping on a Banana Peel and Smacking the Pavement = 1 Bananosecond
Half of a Large Intestine = 1 Semicolon
2000 Mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
Basic Unit of Laryngitis = 1 Hoarsepower
453.6 Graham Crackers = 1 Pound Cake
1 Kilogram of Falling Figs - 1 Fig Newton
Time Between Slipping on a Banana Peel and Smacking the Pavement = 1 Bananosecond
Half of a Large Intestine = 1 Semicolon
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I should lighten the mood with some hilarious Bragulan atrocities!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people
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Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
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I'm just going to announce now that I'm putting the NenAltKik on hiatus. A combination of time issues and an inability to come up with something I want to write is completely hampering me and I can't think of what to do. So, sorry to everyone expecting something, but I just can't manage it at the moment. I might try to pick it back up later, but don't get too hopeful.
Chalk it up to internal instability due to colonial outbursts.
Chalk it up to internal instability due to colonial outbursts.
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Damn, that's gonna suck for Simon. Man.
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Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people
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Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
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And... HMM... 
Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
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Uh, wrong thread?
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THEY SAVED SHROOMY'S BRAIN!?
Obviously mod judgement would be called for in terms of when their support might or might not be available; the terms of the agreement are such that I would not call on them for meaningful support in the event of a "war of choice" in any case.
Conversely, any attempt to start screwing around at Akhlut's expense while he's not around would be meet an extremely unfavorable reaction from the Umerians.
Well, that's what usually happens to X-COM...Shroom Man 777 wrote:Oh Jesus. What the hell are the Collectors doing. Oh man.
Akhlut wrote:I'm just going to announce now that I'm putting the NenAltKik on hiatus. A combination of time issues and an inability to come up with something I want to write is completely hampering me and I can't think of what to do. So, sorry to everyone expecting something, but I just can't manage it at the moment. I might try to pick it back up later, but don't get too hopeful.
Chalk it up to internal instability due to colonial outbursts.
Seeing as how that defense pact is... pretty important, in my view pretty essential to my national security, I would like to ask the mods that the NenAltKik be kept in the game.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Damn, that's gonna suck for Simon. Man.
Obviously mod judgement would be called for in terms of when their support might or might not be available; the terms of the agreement are such that I would not call on them for meaningful support in the event of a "war of choice" in any case.
Conversely, any attempt to start screwing around at Akhlut's expense while he's not around would be meet an extremely unfavorable reaction from the Umerians.
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Since he's only taking a hiatus due to time constraints and his polity has had interactions, it's not being removed.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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Release the [electronic] hounds!
SDN World 3: The Sultanate of Egypt
SDN World 4: The United Solarian Sovereignty
SDN World 5: San Dorado
There'll be a bodycount, we're gonna watch it rise
The folks at CNN, they won't believe their eyes
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What time is it in the game? March? April?
EDIT: And the Centrality reacts against the Space Pirates.
EDIT: And the Centrality reacts against the Space Pirates.
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This week we're finishing up March-April stuff. Next week will be April-May-June for people who have story material they need covered in these time periods. The week after that we go to July, though in one case we've already had a story post set then. Actually, I've had two set in September.Force Lord wrote:What time is it in the game? March? April?
EDIT: And the Centrality reacts against the Space Pirates.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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Thinking ahead, eh Steve?
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More like I moved them ahead since it was stretching credibility to have everything happening at once like that, and the further time frame is beneficial to the story.Force Lord wrote:Thinking ahead, eh Steve?
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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... and so, things take a turn for the utterly bizarre?
SDN World 3: The Sultanate of Egypt
SDN World 4: The United Solarian Sovereignty
SDN World 5: San Dorado
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I had originally suggested to Shroom that the HALF BRAIN WHORE should have a HAREM of DOLPHINS. Plenty of bastard children, and actual acknowledged children, along with some incest.Siege wrote:... and so, things take a turn for the utterly bizarre?
Alas, he said he'd be too weird.
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Bizarre? ...that I would say is an understatement.
I love this though. SHROOM LIVES!!!
I love this though. SHROOM LIVES!!!
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It's Shroom. I expect the bizarre.Siege wrote:... and so, things take a turn for the utterly bizarre?
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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For Shroom, the bizarre is perfectly normal.
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