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| Author | Topic: Umbrellas |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 06:30 PM ET  
Have you noticed there are no umbrellas in SMAC? Odd really, in an environemnt where the Planet is so important that one of the simple sanctions it could exercise on us humans is to make it rain? Why do I think this? Well, today in London it pissed down ("what's new" say you Californian cynics - "bugger off to Manchester say I"). Anyway, I digress. Having been nearly blinded by some obnoxious old bat who wanted to open her oversized umbrella in my face; having been drenched by water cascading from other peoples umbrellas on to me. Do umbrellas in aggregate make the totality of society any drier? No they tip it from the haves to the have nots - a form of misery redistribution. This is the "I'm alright Jack society and f**k you". I ask myself the question: Are umbrellas only suited to capialist societies. Does Morgan get +2 Umbrella and Yang -1? I think we should be told. Resource Consumer |
| Earwicker |
posted 06-29-99 06:38 PM ET
The Spartans would have an umbrealla penalty -- reflects their disdain for the daintiness of those who want to be dry AND fashionable. Santiago probably has a nice, utilitarian oilskin. |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-29-99 06:45 PM ET
"The rain it raineth everywhere, Upon the just and unjust fella; But more upon the just, because The unjust hath the just's umbrella" Sorry... couldn't resist that! RC... yeah on a day like today, the best thing to do is to stay indoors and play SMAC... oh and Tim Henman got rained off at Wimbledon yesterday too, just when he had some chance of actually winning Nell... thinking it would take an army of Miriams to get her to move to Manchester... |
| Rynn |
posted 06-29-99 07:31 PM ET
And here all the time I thought that these little 3-3-1's were pushing shopping carts with umbrellas in them. And while we're at it, why do the probes carry metal detectors? Rynn |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-29-99 07:50 PM ET
Rynn: And why do Foil Probes have a giant tuning fork stuck on the front of them? And more to the point, why do Trance Scout Infantry wander around with hoovers? What are they planning to do, vacuum the worms out of the fungus? Nell |
| Rynn |
posted 06-29-99 09:05 PM ET
LOL  Good one Nell.(And I read somewhere here a description of the Alien Artifact as a cross between R2D2 and a fire hydrant) Rynn |
| Valtyr |
posted 06-29-99 09:42 PM ET
*putting R2D2 into the torture device known as the "Network Node"* Valtyr Yang: "Now, tell me your secret!" R2D2: "Blipp..no!" ZZZZAPPPP!!!! out pops a microchip Valtyr Yang: "Aha! "Industrial Nanorobotics"! This could be useful!" |
| Shining1 |
posted 06-29-99 10:14 PM ET
Nell: It's a strobe light, not a hoover. Apparently, attacking boils suffer from an acute form of epilepsy - which can apparently be quite a funny sight .RC: For a start, the Hive is supposed to be underground, so I can't see umbrellas being much use there. Though I think you're right, but for different reasons - capitist societies tend to have better clothes, and therefore the people with the better clothes need umbrellas to stop their better clothes getting wet. Even at the cost of others. Ever seen a soaking wet armani trenchcoat? No, me neither. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-30-99 04:50 AM ET
Perhaps Miriam doesn't need one as she perhaps prays for rain? Maybe she's an English tennis or cricket fan? |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-30-99 04:52 AM ET
Oh, and by the way.. Have you noticed that transports look like oxygen tents? |
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