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How many of you have lost your spouse, lover, or job over this game????
I burned my pizza once. Went a whole weekend without answering the phone. And missed several doctors appointments to play that one Last turn. Oh ya, I missed 24 Last night too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif |
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Atrocities missed "24" what? is that a tv show?
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Atrocities ,
Well, "lost" was the best thing that ever happened to me, < snip dumb post > It was a symptom if not the cause. [ January 16, 2003, 01:40: Message edited by: Gryphin ] |
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24 is on again during the week at... check your guide...
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227. You wish for a Climate Control Facility during the long and harsh canadian winters
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True. Still, today is friggin' cold back here in Montreal
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228. you buy a new laptop so you can play SEIV while you are away on business trips and tell your wife it's really so you can IM her while you are away.
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It gets to like 50 at night here in the desert that is southern California! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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Oh my goodness... Would you guys just be quiet?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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229. (not sure if this has been posted before) You are filling out official documentation, and when you get to the "Race" line you write in "Terran".
230. You've been playing for 6 hours straight and think, "Man, I need a break!" so you go and work on your mod. |
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231. You find what might be a super rare bug that does some strange stuff, is easy to solve, and no ne else has apparantly ever seen it.
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232. You can eyeball the difference between a meson bLaster I and a meson bLaster IV in combat.
233. You show this to your dad. 234. You actually think it is cool. 236. You dad agrees. 237. ( a different one ) YOu talk with puke about your seiv pbw dream... and he had the same one... [ April 10, 2003, 00:43: Message edited by: tesco samoa ] |
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some people on here need to be out to SEA, methinks.
Space Empires Anonymous. |
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Is it a 12 step program? SEA. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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it's a twelve step staggered program.
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The only cure for SEIV addiction is going to be SEV...
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238. While comparing the US and Canada in matters of area, population, and production, you determine that Canada is a domed colony. You then announce to your coworkers "I think I figured out what's wrong with Canada."
true story (edit: this is not meant to be a knock on Canada, just an amusing interpretation of statistics.) [ April 11, 2003, 15:28: Message edited by: Loser ] |
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lol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
well that explains why they talk funny... canadian voices are designed to be heard in a methane atmosphere and hearing them in oxygen just messes them up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif |
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ok, most of these are pretty bad, but here goes...
239. You actually know what "contra-terrene" means - bonus points if you have more than a vague understanding of how a photon can be "jacketed"! 240. The fact that a tachyon cannon has a completely different effect than a tachyon PROJECTION cannon is not in the least disturbing to you. 241. "So then they opened fire with their Wave Motion Gun..." "Oh, you a fan of Starblazers are you?" "Starblazers? Never heard of it..." 242. When watching the original Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer" you think, "A REAL Master Computer wouldn't act like that!" 243. Upon seeing the monolith on the moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey" your immediate reaction was, "Oh boy! 1100 of every resource! Too bad the moon doesn't have any more facility slots, then we could REALLY rake in the dough!" 244. You don't understand why when we have a war all our molecular biologists and architectural engineers don't immediately drop what they're doing and start developing orbital massdriver cannons of doom! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif 245. "They're using depleted uranium shells? So what, my emissive armor will block 3/4 of the damage!" 246. When you heard that ground troops were deployed to Iraq, you turned on the TV and said, "Hey, what are all those guys doing there in funny green outfits? Where are the Heavy Battle Mecha?" 247. And when you heard about the casualties, you said, "Wounded?!? That's impossible! Troops are units, so they don't take partial damage!" 248. You take up playing Starcraft but can't shake the habit of calling your Zerglings "ripper beam escorts" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif 249. You start wondering what racial traits God has. "Ancient Race for sure, and he probably has Omnipresent view of all systems turned on as well, the cheating %*@!*( ..." 250. (Woohoo, a good one for a good number!) Your girlfriend gets pregnant and you say, "Oops, it must be the leaky shield effect" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif 251. She DOESN'T get pregnant and you say, "Dammit Susan, do you HAVE to use so much Emissive Armor?" 252. You never quite saw the point of "broadband"... dialup is good enough for all MY Online gaming needs... if it takes two days between turns, surely I can wait another five minutes for the .zip to download from PBW... 253. You ask the pastor of your church if it is a War Shrine or one of those pansy Nature Shrines, because we really need to help out the boys in Iraq! 254. You are the director of the Department of Homeland Security and your first initiative to prevent terrorism is to build a Fate Shrine in every state. 255. You can recite the names of all the Canadian regulars to this forum, from memory! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif 256. You did not write this entry for fear of causing an Overflow Error and crashing the game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif |
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257. You take exception to #253, because system-wide value and conditions improvement are awesome abilities.
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#258 you notice that #243 is wrong
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#259 You justify a poor yearly review at work by saying "well, you have to take into account my -20% productivity" because of hostile elements in my proximity.
#260 You love SPACE HoRSE, but thought that resource 'spoilage' was unrealistic because it should have been labled 'maintenance'. #261 You don't believe in a war for oil, but minerals and radioactives might be another matter all together. |
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262. (This happened to me today) You look at anything with the word "Race" in it and simultaeneously think of shipsets and try and correct it in your head to "Racial"
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263 - Your friends are tired of the way you analogize everything to SE4 terms.
Friend "They never should have put that rookie pitcher in Last night." Me "Yeah, it's like in SE4, you never send your ship into battle before parking it over your emergency training sector for a couple of turns" Friend "OH jeesh." |
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264 - You have logged into this forum from at least 10 different computers. One of which is an unused office at work where you won't be noticed. (like right now)
265) - You sometimes find you have 5 or more sesions of these Forums open. 266) Edit: removed in favor of Narf's. [ April 24, 2003, 13:32: Message edited by: Gryphin ] |
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268: you open so many sessions of the forum threads all you can see is 'int...'
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lol narf, been there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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whatever number it is now:
Being up at 3am because of school work and desperately seeking sleep but reading Shrapnel forums because it is so great |
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got linked here recently... is there a complete list of those? if there isnt, we should get one done, i'd print it...
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This has probably been said before but:
When you spend so much time customizing the game that you never play it. |
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#. When asked what your profession is you respond by saying: "General Operations Director of the Starwolf Empire."
#. When your friends and family try to have you committed because you live at your computer waiting for PBW to come back up. #. When you purchase satellite ISP so you can play your PBW turns while on the road. #. When you came here from the MOO3 forum and never looked back. |
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()When you email Atrocities everyday and ask to add unlimited things to STAR TREK MODE http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif , and you havent even played a single game turn of SE4 gold.
() When you ask all modders to add all modes together like devellon,star trek,AST,piret nomad,Babylon 5,AI, to get a real teck thrill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif . Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #48 The bigger the smile,the sharper the knife. |
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how to tell when your on the forums to much...
if you don't pay attention, no matter which web site you wanted to go to, you type in www.shrapnelgames.com. happens to me. |
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How to tell if your addicted to SEIV a simple three question quiz.
1. Are you reading this? 2. Do you stay up all night just to play one more turn? 3. Does this apply to you? I am the ruler of a galatic empire that spans 16 systems and over 100 worlds. Billions of people depend upon me to keep them safe from the Eee, Phong, and Rage hords! |
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Instead of measuring time in hr, min, sec... you measure it in min, org, rad! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
You know, over at the Mobius Forum there's a thread with over 2000 (20XX might be appropriate http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ) "signs you play too much Megaman"... |
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When a hot girl friend is visiting from Paris and you spend time on this site and getting in a few turns on your saved game in the 15 minutes before she arrives!
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The list needs to be updated and I am far to lazy of an individual to do it.
# When all you do is talk about SEIV and how you modded this and that and no one around you knows what in the hell your talking about and all wish you would just shut the hell up. # When go to bed at night frustrated about a problem with your new mod only to wake up at 3 am with the solution and spend the next 12 hours modding your mod # When you go to bed thinking your empire is going to kick the crap out of another empires fleet in PBW just to wake up, download the next turn and discover your fleet is gone, your planets captured, and your empire in ruin. # When you cry over loosing a fleet of ships # When you openly plan to commit honorable suicide for failing your empire and allowing the Vile Federation to conqure you. # When you start attending Star Trek conventions dressed up as a Phong. # When you stand on a street corner yelling at the top of your lungs - "The EEE are Comming!" # When you begin to think of finances in SEIV terms. Money = minerals + Organics + Rads - maitenace cost / pie = "**** I am broke! Time to put things on hold." |
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#When you lie awake at night worrying that your new Kirov-class light cruiser may be under-gunned for the war you have just launched against the second-most-powerful empire in your current game.
#When you become giddy with joy at the fact that achieving gas planet colonization technology has doubled your empire's potential resource base and industrial strength at a single stroke. #When your wife asks you "What's wrong?" and you just don't know how to tell her that what you are so deeply worried about is the fact that the Klingons have just declared war on your empire and you have no navy to speak of. |
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when you have read four seperate forum topics regarding how to diagnose an addiction to this game or forum:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=010552#000000 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=009035#000000 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=006010#000000 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=004698#000000 |
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Waking the dead here, Puke.
#When you count your PBW games among the commitments that keep you going. #When you budget time for creative writing, almost every week, for an RP SE IV forum. #When the product of this creative writing is something you are so proud of that you show it off to your friends, whether or not you've converted them to SE IV yet. #When you get that 'crunch time hustle' feeling when time starts getting short on either of those. #When you think about starting a discussion over whether Space Empires IV should be abbreviated 'SEIV', 'SE IV', or maybe just '1.84'. |
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