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| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-26-99 08:01 AM ET  
in the Resource Consumer "Which" series :- Which household object reminds you of SMAC leaders? Yang - refrigerator Maybe this could be instituted as a standard psychological test? Resource Consumer |
| Krushala |
posted 06-26-99 09:46 AM ET
You have a pot plant in your home cool. They are easy to grow if you keep good light on them. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-26-99 01:54 PM ET
Damn, Krushala You got the joke - I was hoping that that would skate through the thread. The lighting costs a fortune, though. Resource Consumer |
| LoD |
posted 06-26-99 03:07 PM ET
My sugestions are: Miriam - toilet bowl. Morgan - carpet. One question: did I get the one about Zak - I mean, how do I set that clock LoD |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-26-99 04:25 PM ET
LoD, You need one like mine - sometime the light's on and sometime's it's off. The LED should be gren but sometimes it's borwn and sometimes it's nothing. I look at the TV and the video and see Zak and Morgan in pact brotherhood. Resource Cinsumer |
| Q Cubed |
posted 06-26-99 04:39 PM ET
RC, it's not that hard. Just look at the video for the Xenoempathy dome. It really looks like a bad trip. Then again, it looks frighteningly similar to like 3 wonder movies in CTP... |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-26-99 07:45 PM ET
Q3. That's why I'm lining my house with tin/aluminium foil. It will reflect all the CtP Wonder movies being played by laxy barians all over London and preserve my house as an ocean of calm. Until those damn Hari Krishnas come around - have I got a surpise for them... Resource Consumer |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-26-99 07:47 PM ET
Laxy Barians by the way means "lazy brains" and not "rastafarians". Lest you White Wolves out there try and get some smart ideas. Resouce Consumer |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-26-99 11:07 PM ET
RC: Isn't it meant to be the loft that gets lined with tin foil? Nell... with images of RC surrounded by a jungle, glowing ultraviolet blue...hehe |
| Shining1 |
posted 06-27-99 12:11 AM ET
Q: The Xeno Empathy Dome has got nothing on the Dream Twister. That's real footage of Cambodia, too, if I'm not mistaken. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 05:01 AM ET
Nell, the loft, walls and the doors - they'll get in somehow unless you stop them. ... and watch out for the anys. Resource Consumer |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 05:02 AM ET
....actually that should be "ants" but perhaps "anys" is more paranoid? |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-27-99 12:16 PM ET
RC: The "anys" are in league with the "gobilisns", you know... and no amount of tin foil will stop them... You Will Be Assimilated... Nell aka the Borg Queen |
| HelloKitty |
posted 06-27-99 12:53 PM ET
I think we may be a little off topic here. Anyway, Deirdre- poster on my wall oooooooo |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 01:05 PM ET
I've gotta tell you this. Got back this morning - reasonably straight. A friend parks his car in the multi-storey. We get the lift, me and another mate Nutty Dave. Said, Nutty Dave is trying to roll a ciggy in the lift and, being the worse for wear, makes a mess of it. Spills his roll-up over all over the lift floor. Suddenly, he screams. "Ants, ants, everywhere". He then tries jumping on all his spilled baccy shouting "kill them all, kill them all". I cried laughing (and still am) Resource Consumer |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 01:10 PM ET
This, by the way. chaps and chapesses is what they call in the creative arts "context". Resource Consumer |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 01:13 PM ET
Nell, So your a Quorg Bean as well? I stand in awe. |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-27-99 03:29 PM ET
RC: Yes, the original Quorg Bean at your service... also smoking roll-ups, so my best regards to Nutty Dave and his tobacco ants... been there and done that!! lmao  Nell... RQ, BQ and QB... and losing track pretty fast! PS: That's quite clever, being able to stand in awe while also floating on the ceiling. PPS: How long before the "Get Thee Gone To The Off-Topic Forum, O Irrelevant One" posse comes to get me? And you? |
| LoD |
posted 06-27-99 05:05 PM ET
RC: Some lightshow you got there ... Nell: Are you a Sliver Queen too? BTW, if anybody will wonder why I'm not responding - I'm going on vacation for two weeks. LoD |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-27-99 05:16 PM ET
LoD: Only when I'm in the mood... more often than not it's Evil Queen... hehe I'm not playing M:tG right now, but I used to play online ALL the time, on TEN.net... brilliant fun, as you don't have to buy the cards, but can make just about any deck you want... I really should start playing again, M:tG is brilliant... love those 50-card five-colour decks...  Nell... digging out her old Stasis Deck... boring, but never fails... hehe PS: Happy hols! |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-27-99 05:34 PM ET
Nell, Magnetic boots help. The blood rushing to your head is quite a disturbing sensation, though. I also initially thought that scout patrols and synthie sentinels reminded me of Neil Armstrong. (maggie boots link) As for off-topic. I'm more off than on and put my hands up to that - attention span of a nano-grasshopper. But, then again, I think I amke more sense off-topic than on-topic. Ot maybe I make no sense at all. Having been described today as " a wacky wanker". I don't know whether to laugh, cry or just carry on regardless (Ooh, stop messing about) LoD, I wish you a nice vacation. Where are you off to - the Baltic, the country or somewhere more exotic? Resource Consumer |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-27-99 05:46 PM ET
RC: Now I won't be able to look at those Scouts and Synth Sentinels without laughing... and I've always thought that the infantry with those weird gun things look like they're pushing some kind of hi-tech shopping trolley Nell... hmmm is this on-topic or not? And does anyone care? |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-28-99 11:37 AM ET
A giant step for a scout patrol. .. and that's another thing that cracks me up. Every time I see the word "scout patrol" - I have visions of them sitting in a cirle around Santiago (the archetypal Akela - or maybe Miriam) chanting "we will dib our dob" or some such nonsense. Also, why do units with drop ability have go-fast stripes on them? Also, supply crawlers look like Fiat-126s and choppers look like wasps. Resource Consumer |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-28-99 08:06 PM ET
RC: Stop it, I can't take SMAC seriously at all now!! The mere thought of anyone saying "dib dib dib" to Miriam just cracks me up... not to mention the giant plates of spaghetti that keep appearing out of the xenofungus and eating all my budding Neil Armstrongs and Buzz Aldrins... Gotta argue about the choppers though... ages ago, someone on the forum (not me, but I wish it had been) asked why, instead of helicopters, we'd been given go-karts with lawnmower blades stapled to the top of them. I can't look at choppers without smirking ever since... Nell... easily amused |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 09:33 AM ET
OK Nell, I take the point on the go-karts. Actually, the speeders look like a pedal car I had when I was about 4. The other thing that gets me is the pictures in the build screen. Why is there a smiling child for the rec. commons - surely that should be children's creche. Sometimes I get so confused. Oh, and by the way, have you noticed how Morgan's cities look like ice creams. SO that's what happened to Ben and Jerry. Resource Consumer |
| MikeH II |
posted 06-29-99 09:43 AM ET
Video recorder, video recorder I know I know that name.... got it it's the black box under the TV I use for telling the time! Pin holes in a white wall also look like ants. In certain situations. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 10:13 AM ET
So, you've got people putting pinholes in your wall as well. Do you line your house with foil? That's why I thought they were doing it but perhaps I'm wrong. Reminds me of the man who set out to eat spiders around the world. He came back and said they were very tasty but they all tasted of nutmeg. He was later found mad and committed to the asylum. If he was mad, what do you think about the nutter who went round painting all the spiders with nutmeg? Resource Consumer |
| MikeH II |
posted 06-29-99 10:18 AM ET
Not my wall, a friends. She used to hang indian style wall hangings fron the ceiling they kept getting knocked down when too many people sat on the bed, hence a lot of pin holes. Most of the time they just looked like pinholes. |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-29-99 11:15 AM ET
RC: Never mind Morgan's icecreams, what about Deirdre's bases? They look like great big huge... err... [censored for the benefit of our younger readers] Or is that just me and my depraved (deprived?) imagination? Probably. Or maybe it's Deirdre who's deprived? That would explain a lot... Nell... dreaming... |
| MikeH II |
posted 06-29-99 11:19 AM ET
I think that's just your depraved imagination actually Nell. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 11:43 AM ET
"Hey, I'm depraved on count of I'm deprived" from "Gee Officer Krupke", "West Side Story". |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 11:45 AM ET
MikeH, I sometimes think ants look like pinholes - except when they move. Then they look like moving pinholes. Resource Consumer |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-29-99 12:15 PM ET
MikeH: lmao... compared with a few other members of this forum, I think my imagination remains admirably restrained... well, the bits of it that make it onto the forum do, anyway! Nell... still in stunned silence... |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 12:16 PM ET
I'm gonna have to check out Deidre's dodgy bases when I get home. Perhaps I won't destroy her tonight after all..... Resource Consumer |
| Rudebw0y |
posted 06-29-99 12:26 PM ET
Morgan - Calculator Miriam - Reclining La-Z-Boy chair Zak - Linux server Lal - Dondo (African hand drum) Yang - TV Santiago - Shower nozzle Deirdre - Sex toy hanging in closet |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 05:25 PM ET
Yeah, but what's she hanging by? Have Yang and Lal been at her with their obscure Alpha Centaurian Eastern Practices. Damn. I'm almost starting to feel sympathetic towards her and she always gives me such a rough time. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 05:28 PM ET
Nell, By the way. Having been parked next to Deidre all night (lawyers permitting, of course) I see what you mean about her cities. Isn't it intersting how they are assymetric, though. Is this art imitating life or SMAC just imitating? Or ititating? Resource Consumer |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-29-99 06:02 PM ET
"ititating"? "imitating" which I was I wanted to say or just "iritating" which may be true Resource Consumer |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-29-99 06:40 PM ET
RC: hehe... it's art imitating life... or so I've been told... A mere coincidence that those suspicious-looking bases belong to Deirdre The SMAC Babe? Or wishful thinking on the part of the graphic artist? Or a huge conspiracy by the Wobbly Green Pixies From Outer Space? You decide... Nell... blithering PS: It's "irritating"... when you walk a pod all the way to that perfect spot and it gets eaten by a worm the moment it gets there |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-30-99 04:45 AM ET
Nell, Worms must just be impatient with us capitalists - about 2 moves out of the base then gobble it's gone. ... and have you noticed that formers look like mobile toyboxes ... and when a base gets overrun with mindworms they destroy the Centauri Preserve. I'd send these worms back to skool |
| Nell_Smith |
posted 06-30-99 05:02 AM ET
RC: ... Down With Skool...Formers are actually Lego models built by two-year-olds... as any fule kno Nigel Molesworth for Forum President!! Nell... reliving her childhood... PS: I always find that, if you build a new base and leave it ungarrisoned, one turn later a worm eats it. But if you build a garrison, the worm pops up somewhere else instead, usually deciding to eat a Lego former instead. AI map cheats? Surely not... |
| Rackam |
posted 06-30-99 05:07 AM ET
And if it's not the lego former, it will be the coffee-maker artifact. |
| Resource Consumer |
posted 06-30-99 05:52 AM ET
Nell, You're not being sympathetic to these mindworms I hope, I have to admit, I laugh whenever I see Yang drop a missile on an Isle of the Deep. It looks like someone is turning over a compost heap. Resource Consumer |
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