Akhlut wrote:Also, I full well expect that someone, somewhere in the galaxy is selling subprime mortgages in exchange for pornography. And that it might well cause the utter collapse of galactic civilization as the economy implodes because of it, for arcane reasons not even the largest supercomputers can figure out or comprehend.
See, this is why Umeria is awesome. We don't have this kind of problem with our financial system.
Instead, we have completely different problems with our financial system! Like convincing someone to give you a loan to start a business when you aren't doing any of the Things On The List To Be Encouraged...
And this is why your colonies are being flooded with the most low-end crap from the NenAltKik, including potentially toxic flatware and prefab apartments for kipaktli that have been deemed unfit for kipaktli living.
SDNet: Unbelievable levels of pedantry that you can't find anywhere else on the Internet!
Master_Baerne wrote:This needs to happen. There can be massive budgets, exploding spaceship models, and an inexplicably calm doctor named Simon! And then the families of my dead spacers can sue the production company for all the money they have, causing an intergalactic economic collapse, because, seeing as how we don't understand how the world economy works, the galactic one must be goddamn IMPOSSIBLE to figure out.
My hat's off to you, sir. And a very nice hat it is, too: Almost as nice as *ahem* 'Fox's' hat.
Conversion Table:
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
Master_Baerne wrote:My hat's off to you, sir. And a very nice hat it is, too: Almost as nice as *ahem* 'Fox's' hat.
I aim to please; was also aiming for a bit of a double entendre with Fox, hence some of my choice of words.
Scene Four of Glowworm is next in the queue after I finish the fourth Battle of Bannerman segment.
Akhlut wrote:And this is why your colonies are being flooded with the most low-end crap from the NenAltKik, including potentially toxic flatware and prefab apartments for kipaktli that have been deemed unfit for kipaktli living.
"Unfit for tyrannosaurus rex living" is hardly disqualifying...
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Hey PeZook and Steve, before I surrender myself to sleep, I'd just like to say that I hope I can sneak my Spozavik post in before your great Monolith conclusion, mangs. Take your time guys!
"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 - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Simon_Jester wrote:OK. I decided to split my fourth Battle of Bannerman piece. Thus, the fourth is up; the fifth will be coming as practical.
Poor Commander Copeland...
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
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
And if he was from Tianguo, he'd be up and walking around in a month. He'd have lost some memory though...
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
Did we just encounter a situation where the "its over 9000!" meme is actually appropriate? Fuck guys, another sign of the apocalypse down. Now, in the 2012 World Series when the Cubs play the Sox and win in the 7th game in extra innings the world can end properly.
And sorry for being a lazy ass about stuff guys. Shoulda got stuff done but instead watched Eureka Seven for surfing robots and odd anthropology references.
A teenage girl is just a teenage boy who can get laid.
-GTO
We're not just doing this for money; we're doing this for a shitload of money!
Master_Baerne wrote:Truly, he was an inspiration to us all.
Indeed. He was the commander of the Cutter Group. Him dying while his plucky yet outgunned band of small ships occupied their target long enough so that (hopefully, it remains to be seen) the rest of the fleet could finish the job, and not let the Pendletonian frigate escape.
That's worthy of a TV movie right there, at the very least.
Although, if one ups the drama and such, you could even go feature length, in all major theaters movie.
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
No, actually, he only had about ten years in service. He was angling for a slot in the Advanced Tactical School so he could move up to a starship command, with an eye to some interesting rumors about the idea of large manned-craft fleet carriers coming into service in the next decade or two.
So no, retirement was nowhere on the horizon for Bob.
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
A real pity that the Imperium couldn't care less is too damn far away to punish an insignificant planet. If we had known the Collectors would come, a couple of Retribution battleships plus a couple of heavy cruisers and their escorts would be present. Probably a Battle Barge might tag along, along with a coterie of Adeptus Mechanicus who would be quite eager to feast themselves on a carcass of a Collector ship.
STGOD: Byzantine Empire 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.
Kreia
Brave Sir Hushy ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Hushy turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Hushy!
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
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. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
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.
The Monolith! We destroy that and it's over! Charge!
*EXPLODES*
"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 - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
I promise to have a scene up with Hiigaran's reacting to the Collectors sometime tomorrow.
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC
If all Astartes use such brilliant tactics, then I won't worry
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
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. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
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.
On the plus side, it means that Pezook has at most 5 of them. And that's only if the escorts are basically gnats.
If the conjecture about there being 20 Monoliths total is true though they weigh in at between $2000-3000 each.
Edit: and i wouldn't put it past Steve to have written 10,000 purely to amplify the Fear, uncertainty and Doubt factor.
I did mention Collectors were a throughoughly special case, right?
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
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. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
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.
The Commune is positively impressed by the Collectors' use of the shock factor.
And man, Siege, you've sent ships to SELL stuff to the Commune? You realize, of course, that trade is considered an abomination in our small patch of space?
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