Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

Erm...

*has totally not just changed his avatar again*

What?

 

Avatars, who needs 'em? That's what I say.

 

Its amazing how just one more turn syndrome takes over when playing Civ.

Liking it so far, having not read about the game play going in, I liked having the opportunity to pick the profession of the people founding the colony when starting up. I do miss a few elements form other Civ games though.

 

I get "Just One More Trade" for Wonder Trade. It's a damn slot machine.

 

Go away Zaheer.

Oh, this was post 14,000.

PARRRRRTY!

 

No. You can be if:

You get a chair.
Have meetings - with minutes
Set up sub-committees
Have one committee member who never contributes, while another never shuts up and makes the same point 10 times

Then you'll be a committee!

 

I have been thinking of changing my avatar as of late - particularly something that had more of my favorite color (blue) and less of my least favorite (yellow) - but I can't really think of anything that goes with my username.

 

Hey, I know! You want to get a committee, hire Sivron, Tol Sivron!

 

BEHOLD MY LITERAL HEART OF DIAMOND!!!!

 

Ooh, thanks! The R-41 is one of my old favorites, and I love the look of the swept wing Z-95. Cloackshape isn't bad either....hmmm....decisions decisions.

 

Wow, an X-Tie! That takes me back.

 

Oh, most of those aren't renders - they are scratchbuilt models. I recognize them from this site I used to visit. I completely forgot about them until now.

 

I want to say those are Wong's custom models.

Won my first game on Vostok (I think, whatever the Medium equivalent is) Marathon on Tau Ceti. Slavs ended with an Exodus victory, with 12/18/8 affinity. Destroyed Franco Iberia (half to annoy Jello) and nearly wiped out Polystralia when I set up the last Human settlement for Earth refugees. Maybe it was the map, but for the first 650 turns or so, Planet was at peace, and even the aliens were rather sedate.

 

Wong's sculpts, that's it.

Anyway, the pictures are good, but they don't seem to show up very well in the avatar. So I went with the Mobius Squadron symbol for now. Maybe change it again later, as I am indecisive

 

You just like to think about pistol-whipping me.

 

What, the aristocracy that believes themselves to be more important than everyone else by luck of birth? Pah. I went purity, and preserved the best of humanity, and then opened up up a warp gate to share the new world with those left behind on Earth, not just those rich, powerful, or lucky enough to get a berth on the colony ships.

 

Nope, I'm not confused. I will have nothing to do with Miss raised-in-luxury self-proclaimed arbiter of culture. She may be intent on preserving culture, but only the Western European stuff that she deems worthy.
"I do not subscribe to the notion that all ideas are worthy of preservation. Some are reprehensible, and through diligent study you may detect the shadow of these ideas before they reform within the zeitgeist, and choose a different path for yourself before they infect minds again. Some are banal, and have been culled because the ideas within them, although perhaps worthy, were expressed with considerable crudity. Some are preserved as historical curiosities, fashionable nonsense which you may examine and mock for their shortcomings. I have labelled these latter ones as such, lest there be confusion on the point. You will no doubt replicate much of old Earth’s folly in your own time; I will not enshrine this folly lest it be mistaken for wisdom."

 

You are welcome back: radiation will curse your flesh and gens, the ash wind will clog your respirators and claw your sanity, the new nature will eat what is left. We will take your gear, your ammunition and leave the rest for the Forbidden Zones.

 

That picture reminds me of the Chimney sweeps from Mary Poppins.