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And do you have any idea how hard it is to swing a good sized sledgehammer effectively with just one hand?

Sledgehammers are hard to use. One time, we were having a camp fire and we had some big pieces of wood that we wanted to burn, but no axe to chop it into smaller pieces. For some reason, we did have a sledgehammer, so we used it to break up the wood. The guys kept missing the wood and someone accidentally hit the sledgehammer on the ground and the head broke off.

Re: ?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR

Better to hit the ground and have the sledgehammer's head fall off than for it to hit a bystander and have his head fall off, I suppose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Have you ever had bubble tea? If I were to start a business, I would consider opening a bubble tea shop because it seems like those drinks are high-priced in relation to the ingredients, and it must therefore be quite profitable. There's different flavors of bubble tea, each with a different fruit flavor or whatever, and they put these pearls in there and charge $5 or $6 for a cup. I can buy an inexpensive lunch for that kind of price. It's sort of a social thing: you would never go to a bubble tea place alone, but you go because your friends go, and you all end up buying the expensive drinks. They give you a big wide straw for sucking the pearls that are at the bottom of the tea.

Re: ?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR

From the sounds of it, it's tea you make not with a teabag but with small pearls of tea-and-flavour, which you can suck up through a straw afterwards. Just guessing though, never heard of it either.

Happy Canada Day! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif[/img]

GST is reduced to 6%, yay! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

GST was supposed to be for the duration of the first gulf war.

Bump. Because we still haven't reached 200 pages yet. We should.

Then we should continue all the way to 1,000 pages, to see if there's a comma in the page number.

Race to Insanity

OK, we need more insanity happening. ... I feel so sleepy lately. Haven't been sleeping enough since the SEV demo came out...

Re: Race to Insanity

I hope there isn't a Range Check error at 1,000 pages.

Re: Race to Insanity

That would be awesome if there was. Want to try? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Race to Insanity

We're getting there slowly people. More arbitrary discussions are needed.

Re: Race to Insanity

I think Space Empires XXIV should have a neuronic-controlled holographic interface.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

I think that Space Empires XXIV should put you in control of a real planet with real people, genetically engineered to look and act like another race. No more Play By Web, Play By Galaxy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
I think that Space Empires XXIV should put you in control of a real planet with real people, genetically engineered to look and act like another race. No more Play By Web, Play By Galaxy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Heck yeah. Then we could have the entire galaxy have time accelerators installed on it, so we won't have to wait years to see the results.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Creating a new game in SE:XXIV should spawn a completely new parallel universe for you to conquer.

Re: aes eht ees nac hcrop tnorf ym morF :eR

Exactly. You know exactly what I want. Now bring on the Planetary Napalm Bombs! We're going to invade the Vietnorak! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Let's include that in our list of suggestions to Aaron. Maybe he can put that feature in the first patch for SEV. Hopefully it won't be too much of a programming change for him.

Gas Stations in 2008

Re: aes eht ees nac hcrop tnorf ym morF :eR

What about XXV? Or even... XXX.

Re: Gas Stations in 2008

When the price of gas gets to $21.05, I'll get rid of the car and just walk or ride a bike everywhere. Or get an all-electric car.

Re: Gas Stations in 2008

Oh, if you're going electric, make sure to use capacitors rather than batteries. Higher weight, lower effeciency, lower capacity, but almost no maintenence at all.... ever.

Oh, and while you're at it, install a universal constructor (They're Working On It) in the back.

Wouldn't it be just perfect to have a van that could make full-sized copies of itself?

Re: Gas Stations in 2008

That constructor is neat. One day we'll have Star Trek replicators and we'll never have to go grocery shopping. You just instantly materialize your dinner.

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...Replicators makes me think of multiplying bugs now.

But the Star Trek replicators would be neat.

Multiplying bugs? Do they do division as well? Perchance they can manage the dreaded matrix reduction?

Matrix reduction? I've got a shrink ray for that. Just need to kidnap Matrix.

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Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.

Oh, so we're back to the "grey goo" again? How long is it this time until the Earth gets "von Neumann"ed?

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Jack Simth said:
Multiplying bugs? Do they do division as well? Perchance they can manage the dreaded matrix reduction?

Nah, more like von neumann lego blocks.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Linear algebra wasn't too bad. It's the partial differential equations that was hard! We need some bugs to solve those.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Someone should put some von neumann processing units on some distant planet.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Sure, so they can come back and KILL US ALL!!!!

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

No, for extremely cheap processing power.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Let's put the von neumann units on all the "dwarf planets" like Pluto.

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Do not ask which creature screams in the night,
Do not ask who waits for you in the shadow,
It is my voice you hear in the night,
and it is my body that lurks in the shadow,
for I am Agent Zero, and you are the puppet,
that dances to my tune..

Discuss.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif
http://www3.telus.net/public/funnybnz/700NE.jpg

Seriously, it does it's job as a creepy poem. Good, but not great.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Today, October 6th, is Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival. It's an Asian holiday and today at work, a Chinese co-worker brought moon cake for us. Moon cake is an expensive, round and dense pastry-type of of cake and it's filled with a thick filling.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC

Mmm. Cake. Don't suppose you could e-mail us some?

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar

OK.....why has this wonderful discussion about nothing in particular died?

edit: I may have been gone for a long time but for some reason, I still have more posts than NA! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Geez, I remember when we competed for postcount with each other.....

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
OK.....why has this wonderful discussion about nothing in particular died?

edit: I may have been gone for a long time but for some reason, I still have more posts than NA! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Geez, I remember when we competed for postcount with each other.....

Well I've got nothing in particular to say anyways http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar

Strategia... we competed for post count?

Re: How random is \"random\"?

Well..... I seem to remember something along those lines, at least. In this thread. Somewhere. A long time ago.

Re: How random is \"random\"?

Whatever. My avatar is still cooler than your avatar.

See? I have STARS.

Re: How random is \"random\"?

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Subject: New Twist On Old Joke
Author: Chris French
Date: 22 Jan 2007 04:15 AM
Q: What do you get if you cross a hippopotamus, an elephant, and a
rhinoceros?

A: You get stomped to death by three very large, very pissed-off
African mammals.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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CF

I Read Baened Books

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Subject: FW: Summary of this year's emails
Author: Leonard Hollar
Date: 13 Jan 2007 07:03 PM

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Subject: Fw: Summary of this year's emails

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I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue
on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that
needs sealing.

Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown)
who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the
$15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating
in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out
for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant
freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water
buffalo on a hot day

Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward

an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove
toilet stains.

I no longer can buy gasoline without taking a man along to watch the car so
a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these
products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup water in the microwave
anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked
with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume

sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al
Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our
American troops or the Salvation Army.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number
for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore

and Uzbekistan ..

I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free

replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have

their recipe.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown
African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it
bites my butt.

Thank you too for all the endless advice Andy Rooney, George Carlin and

Robin Williams has given us.. I can live a better life now because they told

us how to fix everything.

And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up $5.00 I dropped in the

parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting
underneath my car to grab my leg.

Oh, and don't forget this one either! I can no longer drive my car because I

can't buy gas from certain gas companies!

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70
minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this
afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to

grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a
friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's
cousin's beautician...........and believe it or not, this email will be
tracked.

Have a wonderful day....

Re: How random is \"random\"?

Shameless post padding to check my signature. Whooo, squirrels!

Re: How random is \"random\"?

How your computer works - Whoever made this is a genius.

Re: How random is \"random\"?

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
How your computer works - Whoever made this is a genius.

Sweet Jesus..... that's brilliant! And captivating as hell.....

Re: How random is \"random\"?

Interestingly enough, if you look closely enough you can see that the balls are created at one place, and destroyed at another.