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narf poit chez BOOM October 7th, 2005 03:01 AM
Re: !elbbabonhceT
 
...Well, go check out my Revised Edition Star Trek thread. Somebody needs to revive it.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...;Number=382000

Strategia_In_Ultima October 7th, 2005 04:36 AM
Re: !elbbabonhceT
 
Quote:
Kamog said:
Yeah, how come the Federation doesn't take advantage of all those super technologies the Enterprise comes across that they utilize to get out of a critical situation in one episode, but for some reason it's forgotten as soon as the episode is over? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
The Federation is renowned for the use of its secret weapon..... the "Plot Device". It involves such things as using uberpowerful technologies capable of doing stuff their scientists can only dream about, then throwing them out the window as the Plot Device only creates disposable technologies that expire after having been used once.

kerensky October 7th, 2005 11:16 PM
Re: !elbbabonhceT
 
1 Attachment(s)
This is for all of you who wanted to see my massive warp pint defense fleet in teh tactical view. Keep in mind that the ships that you see are standard dreadnaught sized ships which are now considered small in my game...

Jack Simth October 8th, 2005 12:28 AM
Re: !elbbabonkerT
 
Just don't let them run up against any of the Enterprises! (or Voyager, or that space station....), as they are armed with the dreaded and most fearsome Plot Device, guarded by a strong shield dubbed "Main Character".

Ignore the redshirts; they're there as a distraction.

Wait... is that Scotty....?

Uh oh.

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/PointRight.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Lightning.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Injured.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Lightning.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/skull.gif

kerensky October 8th, 2005 11:41 PM
Re: !delbbabonkerT
 
Ahhh fear the dreaded plot device!!!

But really if tehre is a weapon that enables a single ship to destroy 550 dreadnaughts on one side of a warp point and then turn around and destroy another 550 dreadnaughts, three 15,000kt defense bases, and various auxiliary bases on teh other side of the warp point, I would gladly surrender my entire empire to them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Jack Simth October 8th, 2005 11:51 PM
Uses of Star Destroyers?
 
You mean like a stealth ship with a way to build a stealthed star destroyer? Make a star destroyer, leave it in the first system with orders to kill the star after the originating ship leaves, hop into the next, repeat.

Kamog October 9th, 2005 11:17 PM
Re: !elbbabonhceT
 
Yay, tomorrow is a holiday, Thanksgiving! (In Canada) [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img]

narf poit chez BOOM October 10th, 2005 04:14 AM
Re: !elbbabonhceT
 
Yep. We're going to east turkey, and then sit around being thankfull.

"We just had turkey and now everyones' sitting around being thankfull" - Dennis the Menace. Might not be exact.

Jack Simth October 10th, 2005 08:28 PM
Re: ?yekruT tsaE
 
You're going all the way to East Turkey? That won't affect the game on Saturday, will it?

narf poit chez BOOM October 10th, 2005 08:45 PM
Re: ?yekruT tsaE
 
'Math good! Four-legs bad! East for legs!' - Bad spelling and a weird topic on #spaceempires.

Kamog October 13th, 2005 01:30 AM
Re: ?yekruT tsaE
 
1 Attachment(s)
I'm learning to play the piano! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...7173-music.JPG

narf poit chez BOOM October 13th, 2005 01:48 AM
Re: !gomaK yaaY
 
Yaay for Kamog!

So...Got anything we can listen to?

Jack Simth October 13th, 2005 08:42 PM
Re: What mod can anyone recommend to try next?
 
Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
[Whisper]We're hunting wabbits[/Whisper]
But it's duck season!

kerensky October 13th, 2005 09:07 PM
Re: What mod can anyone recommend to try next?
 
Wabbit season!

Kamog October 14th, 2005 01:04 AM
Wabbit Season
 
Silly Wabbit, Trix are for kids!

Jack Simth October 14th, 2005 01:19 AM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
A jewish priest was walking up a hill.
An odd creature came tumbling down, and landed at the priest's feet.
Jewish Priest: What are you?
Creature: A trid.
Jewish Priest: And why did you come tumbling down the hill?
Trid: Giant kicked me.
The jewish priest, understandably upset at such abuse, came and asked the giant why.
Giant: Silly rabbi, kicks are for trids.

narf poit chez BOOM October 14th, 2005 04:08 AM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
Rotten tomato.

Atrocities October 14th, 2005 05:00 AM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
Why rotten tomato?

El_Phil October 14th, 2005 11:26 AM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
To discourage that sort of joke. On which note I approve of that thrown tomat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

narf poit chez BOOM October 14th, 2005 01:40 PM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
It's how I rate bad jokes. Ordinary bad jokes only rate a normal tomato.

kerensky October 14th, 2005 09:42 PM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
Here Narf have some rotten kumquats. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

narf poit chez BOOM October 14th, 2005 10:00 PM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
...I'm not sure exactly what a kumquat is, aside from 'vegetable'.

kerensky October 14th, 2005 10:37 PM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
Quote:
The kumquat tree is slow-growing, shrubby, compact, 8 to 15 ft (2.4-4.5 m) tall, the branches light-green and angled when young, thornless or with a few spines. The apparently simple leaves are alternate, lanceolate, 1 1/4 to 3 3/8 in (3.25-8.6 cm) long, finely toothed from the apex to the middle, dark-green, glossy above, lighter beneath. Sweetly fragrant, 5-parted, white flowers are borne singly or 1 to 4 together in the leaf axils. The fruit is oval-oblong or round, 5/8 to 1 1/2 in (1.6-4 cm) wide; peel is golden-yellow to reddish-orange, with large, conspicuous oil glands, fleshy, thick, tightly clinging, edible, the outer layer spicy, the inner layer sweet; the pulp is scant, in 3 to 6 segments, not very juicy, acid to subacid; contains small, pointed seeds or sometimes none; they are green within.

Jack Simth October 14th, 2005 11:21 PM
Re: gninosaeS tibbaW
 
Hmm... Attack of the Killer Kumquat's? Just doesn't have the same ring as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

El_Phil October 14th, 2005 11:36 PM
Re: gninosaeS tibbaW
 
What does? Kumquats do however gain points for the use of 'Q' a much underused letter.

narf poit chez BOOM October 15th, 2005 12:27 AM
Re: gninosaeS tibbaW
 
Ah, thanks.

Strategia_In_Ultima October 15th, 2005 11:29 AM
stauqmuK :eR
 
Sounds to me like an EEE falling down from great height.

kum-QUAT!

Jack Simth October 15th, 2005 01:15 PM
Re: !talpS
 
Ah, that's how we get squash....

kerensky October 15th, 2005 04:53 PM
Re: !talpS
 
EEE Squash. Get it while it's hot and still making neural connections!

kerensky October 17th, 2005 03:37 PM
Re: !talpS
 
This thread is dying!!! Someone quick, get an AED over here and revive it!

El_Phil October 17th, 2005 06:21 PM
Re: !talpS
 
Get me an inflatable goat, a large knife, three spoons and a mongoose. Stat! Let's just hope we're not too late.

inigma October 17th, 2005 07:05 PM
Re: !talpS
 
deflate, deflate... er defib, defib!

narf poit chez BOOM October 17th, 2005 08:09 PM
Re: !talpS
 
Warning: If you are a geek, the following poem may cause intense mental and emotional discomfort. You have been warned:
Quote:
Subject: A poem based on E.A.Poe's The Raven.
Author: Stan Slaughter
Date: 14 Oct 2005 03:49 PM
Originally Posted: 14 Oct 2005 04:55 PM
A poem based on E.A.Poe's The Raven.

Abort, Retry, Ignore?
By Anonymous

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.

Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing.
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
>From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world is wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"


Stan Slaughter
http://www.StanSight.com/
"Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway."

Jack Simth October 17th, 2005 10:27 PM
Re: !talpS
 
Bah! How often do floppies actually see use nowadays?

Besides - that's on oldie - Abort, Retry, Ignore? Was mostly the DOS version - it now only rarely comes up with legacy (or legacy portions of...) drivers on unattended servers. We now have the Blue Screen of Death, you see....

kerensky October 17th, 2005 10:36 PM
Re: !ooG !talpS
 
That was a good one Narf.

narf poit chez BOOM October 17th, 2005 11:58 PM
Re: !ooG !talpS
 
Not mine, though. Got it off the Baen humor forum.

But I'll take the credit for recognizing good poetry when I see it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Methinks Jack just doesn't recognize quality when he sees it. Shame, really.

Jack Simth October 18th, 2005 12:09 AM
Re: siarppA kcaL I
 
Well, that's what happens when I don't write any ranks in Appraise into my character sheet....

Kamog October 18th, 2005 02:10 AM
Re: siarppA kcaL I
 
What is that green glowing light I see between the steps of an escalator? What is down there?

narf poit chez BOOM October 18th, 2005 02:14 AM
Re: siarppA kcaL I
 
Kryptonite!

It's to keep general zod from stealing the secrets of the escalator!

Jack Simth October 18th, 2005 02:19 AM
Re: !ygrenE noitoM lautepreP
 
Nah, it's how they run the things. With a very clever arrangement of gears and belts, an escalator actually gives off free energy.

Pity the only arrangement of gears and belts that gives off free energy always ends up being an escalator....

That, or it's a particular breed of warning/diagnostic light.

El_Phil October 18th, 2005 08:13 AM
Re: !ygrenE noitoM lautepreP
 
Narf! You've ruined a secret kept for genarations. Now every supervillian worth his salt will built his lair in shopping centres to be safe from Superman!

I hope you can live with the consequences when were all ruled by an evil supervilian overlord. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

narf poit chez BOOM October 18th, 2005 03:44 PM
Re: !ygrenE noitoM lautepreP
 
Nah. See, the escalator blocks the rays. It's only if someone tries to steal it will the kryptonite be exposed.

Kamog October 20th, 2005 03:10 AM
Re: !ygrenE noitoM lautepreP
 
That's a good idea.. I'm planning to steal an escalator from the local shopping center. Don't tell anyone! I'm not a Kryptonian so the kryptonite should be harmless to me. Now, I just need to convince all my friends to break into the mall with me tomorrow night and help me carry the escalator out of the building and take it home. It's way too big for me to move it by myself. I'm going to replace my stairs at home with the escalator and be the only one in the neighborhood to have a perpetual motion machine! I hope we don't get caught on the way home while we're lugging the escalator down the street.

Strategia_In_Ultima October 20th, 2005 03:50 PM
!etinotpyrK rotalacsE :eR
 
Why don't you just use a space/time folding gizmo to take the thing home without even having to move it? That way you can keep the friends out of it as well, and they won't know what's going on until it's too late.

By the way, why are we still spelling the stcejbus egassem backwards?

kerensky October 20th, 2005 04:49 PM
!etinotpyrK rotalacsE :eR :eR :eR
 
You know, with a space/time pocket folder gizmo, you could walk into the mall during open hours, zap teh escalator out and replace it with a set of regular stairs before anyone ever noticed.

Now if only I could get my hands on one of those.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif:)

Strategia_In_Ultima October 20th, 2005 04:58 PM
Re: gninosaeS kcuD
 
You can.

Just engrave your wish, coupled with some wise words and advice, in a block of stone, bring that stone into stable orbit with some stellar body or other (comets not recommended) and step outside to find a delegation of the future which has traveled to the past to fulfil the wish of the Great Prophet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

kerensky October 20th, 2005 09:24 PM
Re: gninosaeS tibbaW
 
Hmmm, now if only I could get my hands on another block of Duraplast plating and some ore of those military grade rockets....

Oh, yeah, and some penguins.......................................

narf poit chez BOOM October 20th, 2005 10:18 PM
Re: gninosaeS tibbaW
 
Penguins?

TerranC October 22nd, 2005 11:00 PM
Re: !talpS
 
Tee-he-he.

TerranC October 23rd, 2005 12:14 AM
Re: !ooG !talpS
 
Woo-hoo-hoo


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