You know you've been playing too much SMAC when... - Page 2

Anodyne · February 24, 2002, 20:18

55) When you fall and hurt your knee, you start to wonder why it hasn't healed at all although you've waited for at least 10 turns...

name · February 24, 2002, 20:24

You have to be in a base for your knee to heal.

Anodyne · February 24, 2002, 20:29

Yeah, I just assumed that base would be more than 10 moves away

56) You avoid walking through areas with red plants, claiming that it's "so damn slow, and remember those mindworms around..."

Shai-Hulud · February 25, 2002, 03:32

57) You post into "You know you've been playing too much SMAC when..." more than once

58) You actually remember several similar threads in the past which you've all read with enthusiasm

59) You start living in turns instead of real-time

60) You won't dare to go out before you've learned to do Empath Song right

aahz_capone · February 25, 2002, 05:02

61. You wonder why they don't "repeal the UN charter" for the remainder of the war and use nerve gas...

62. You refer to leading millions of people in a struggle against oppressors a "social experiment".

63. You stick your hand into the university's computer to try to "infiltrate datalinks"

Jac de Molay · February 25, 2002, 09:28

You look over at your pet hamsters after a long playing session and think, "you can hear them in there, you can see them. It is a thing of terrible beauty."

Adalbertus · February 26, 2002, 18:23

65) If you seriously hope that Morgan will pay for the SMAC Movie (see the other thread ...) He ought to have enough money^H^H^H^H^Henergy credits.

Patashu · February 27, 2002, 01:02

66)When you go to the pentagon in 2100 and ask why there isn't anyone on Alpha Centuri yet.

67)When you go back in 2600 and ask why the game hasn't ended yet.

Blake · February 27, 2002, 04:15

68: You start working on a new game, inspired by SMAC.

aaglo · February 27, 2002, 04:21

69: (

) And when you enjoy being in the process of making a new game, inspired by Smac.

gwillybj · March 2, 2002, 03:02

70. In the middle of an intense negotiation, you mumble (with a glint in your eye

), "I find your unwillingness to cooperate disturbing."

VitalyB · March 7, 2002, 17:45

That's easy one. When you do stuff like that:

ftp://netdots.myftp.org/Vitaly4.exe

For all the paranoid once:
1) Stay paranoid, it is healthy.
2) This exe is free of trojans/viruses etc. It contains an animated talking face created by CrazyTalk (http://www.reallusion.com/) which exports to exe files.

Oh and the talking face is me, a few years ago.

Shai-Hulud · March 7, 2002, 21:22

71. When you quote Foreman Domai looking absolutely ridiculous

You need help!

Atlas3060 · March 9, 2002, 16:50

When your brother is sick, with a cold, and you wanna throw him into the Recycle Tanks.

Lucy In The Sky · March 10, 2002, 01:15

73. When you begin to refer to life' losers as drones.

Velociryx · March 10, 2002, 04:12

21. You think The Bible is written by Velociryx

Hmmm....if there's ever a SMAC2, you KNOW there's gotta be a sequel book...

-=Vel=-

VitalyB · March 10, 2002, 06:34

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Originally posted by Shai-Hulud
71. When you quote Foreman Domai looking absolutely ridiculous

It is technically not really me looking rediculous, cuz the hair was done in photoshop, the eyes are of CrazyTalk (to make them move) and my mouth sure has some teeth in it

.

Shai-Hulud · March 18, 2002, 08:45

74. When you save the "You know you've been playing too much SMAC when..." - thread for later reference.

Apocalypse · March 25, 2002, 16:38

75. You help design prosmac.

76. You look outside, see the sun, and wonder where the other one is.

Cybergod · March 25, 2002, 18:30

77. When you search for Morgan Bank to try and convert Euros/Dollars into Energy Credits

78. When you start your morning prayer with a "Our Lord Velociryx"

79. When you go out and try to level a mountain to cultivate farms and solar collectors

80. After you finish the "Dream Twister" (plus watch the movie) you cannot sleep for months

81. When you wish your girlfriend looked more like Deidre, Santiago or Aki

Jethro83 · March 30, 2002, 23:19

Don't know if anyone will find these funny, but anyway...

When you are looking for a Particle Impactor to take with you as you go past the local church in case the bible-thumpers attending mass pronounce vendetta on you for being a godless democratic/autocratic type, hoping to redeem the souls of your people.

When you flip through TV channels and look through your TV guide expecting the Morganlink 3DVision interview on the Longevity Vaccine to be on.

The next time someone complains about Microsoft being a greedy monopoly you explain to them "They never sought to become a monopoly. Their products were just so good that nobody saw the need to compete with them."

You wire up your computer to the ground and try to upload the entire contents of your hard drive (after collecting encylopedia information on the last 6000 years of human civilization from Encarta) into the 'fragile neural network of the planetmind', explaining to those concerned that you want to start your 'Ascent to Transcendence'.

When over the phone, you start calling people by their name with 'earth' in front of it (ie. Hey earthjohn. How's it going earthjohn? Did you hear about what earthbob did yesterday?)

You blame your insomnia and nightmares on "The Dream Twister".

You wonder why there's no 'golden-age' at the local grammar school, even if the number of high-achieving 'talents' exceed the mediocrity and there are no 'drones' around.

When you go to Scotland, search a local bookshop for "We Must Consent, 101 Sure-fire Pick-up Lines for Lady Dierdre" and then turn up at a nightclub, hoping that she will be there.

You start a search in India for Osama Bin Laden's estranged identical twin brother, hoping that he will help to preserve human rights.

Before enrolling at university, you ask if Prokhor Zakharov is their 'Provost'. Then you ask if they have retroviral capabilities or are researching Retroviral Engineering.

You buy a factory and start looking for genejacks to run it, knowing that the people who complain about you tyrannising them will be remanded to your punishment sphere next-door. Then you look through the phonebook for Sheng-ji Yang, with the intention of calling him to thank him for his 'gift to industry'.

You worry that the foreman of the nearest construction site will start a violent rebellion against the middle and higher classes.

You hire a houseboat, park it out at sea and start searching for your extra mineral gem bonus in the water surrounding it.

Adalbertus · March 31, 2002, 03:40

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When you are looking for a Particle Impactor to take with you as you go past the local church in case the bible-thumpers attending mass pronounce vendetta on you for being a godless democratic/autocratic type, hoping to redeem the souls of your people.

No that's not funny.
(Grabs his Plasma Steel Armour suit to go to the Easter service).

Quote:

The next time someone complains about Microsoft being a greedy monopoly you explain to them "They never sought to become a monopoly. Their products were just so good that nobody saw the need to compete with them."

Seriously, I thought this were a Gates citation or nearly-citation. Billy Boy playing too much SMAC

Jethro83 · March 31, 2002, 19:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Adalbertus

No that's not funny.
(Grabs his Plasma Steel Armour suit to go to the Easter service).

I guess not. Perhaps a Plasma shard gun and Photon Wall armour suit. Personally, I'd take my tamed boil of mindworms if it were to be true (I know the difference between reality and SMAC thank you).

Quote:

Seriously, I thought this were a Gates citation or nearly-citation. Billy Boy playing too much SMAC

What I was referring to with the one saying "They never sought to become a monopoly. Their products were just so good that nobody saw the need to compete with them." was actually a reference to what Nwabudike Morgan says in the Network Backbone secret project movie:

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"Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us."

Adalbertus · March 31, 2002, 20:37

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I guess not. Perhaps a Plasma shard gun and Photon Wall armour suit.

Nice of you to think that I'm so far advanced in technology against your particle impactor

Actually being in a church gives +2 in Morale. Didn't you know that? Miriam goes terribly wrong in that respect.

Hey, we're in a thread "You know you've been playing too much SMAC when ..."

Quote:

What I was referring to with the one saying "They never sought to become a monopoly. Their products were just so good that nobody saw the need to compete with them." was actually a reference to what Nwabudike Morgan says in the Network Backbone secret project movie:

I know. But I thought exactly this reasoning might be taken from one of the Microsoft apologies about being a monopoly. It's very much their style, anyway.

Ogie Oglethorpe · March 31, 2002, 23:48

Quote:

Originally posted by Velociryx
21. You think The Bible is written by Velociryx

Hmmm....if there's ever a SMAC2, you KNOW there's gotta be a sequel book...

-=Vel=-

Now would that be the new new testament?

Sikander · April 1, 2002, 03:56

You refer to dancing as "Shakin' Your Nwabudike".