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This is my favourite topic
Posted March 29, 2015
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zenwan: Thank you, I am indeed, although I would be happier if you sent over all your rain. The summer heat is starting already, and I am not fond of the loooong hot dry dusty summers, nor is my garden. My trees will soon be longing for rain again, never enough here.
I still haven't had a chance to post a mountain for you (jumping thread, sorry!) I'll get there, I hope...
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moonshineshadow: I wish I could sent the rain over to you. But it seems my weather influencing power is too weak. I tried sending some sun to Hyper during the week, but it did not work at all :D
And don't worry, you still have more than two weeks left for a mountain screen, I am curious to see what you'll choose :-)
<smiling> at least you tried. I keep trying to send sunshine everywhere I go, but without much success, it seems to want to stay with me.

I have to wait for my mountain to speak to me, so it takes time. It will get there in the end. Lovely idea for a thread. I know I should post there, but I'm always timid in strange places. ;-)
Editing to say I didn't mean that the way it sounded. sigh



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l0rdtr3k: Morning people!
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ElTerprise: Morning :).
Bom dia - and Moin. :-)
Post edited March 29, 2015 by zenwan
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: I think in my case, it's a matter where just the thought alone of reproducing makes me nauseated.

And yes, I know, my parents had to do that. I get the whole perpetuation of the species thing.
(Bringing this up because it was mentioned a bit ago.)
Doesn't stop me from telling my mother she's a dumbass for doing it. -laughs-

Also, adoption is a completely viable option. People want to think they're special, that they just need to make little copies of themselves, so they can live on in a way after they're corpses, and then they start spawning the little creatures like there's no tomorrow.
But there are already plenty of kids around because a lot of shitty, shitty adults who should have been forcibly sterilized got together and pumped out children by the countryful.
Those kids get second billing because people can't get the same ego boost raising those kids as they can by spawning their own.

-shakes head- So many people are so godsdamned stupid. They shouldn't breed. Ever. And yet they do.

(Apologies, Zenwan. Kinda went off on a tangent or three, slammed all my scattered thoughts into one post, then replied it over to you.
You're not on the hot seat for my contempt/disgust/sour stomach at it all. Promise. =) )
Now you've got me thinking and talking (or typing to be precise). Which is never a good thing.

I agree of course, but I'd add that there's also a biological imperative. The urge to breed, and in the same way that chimps kill infants from outside groups, adoption is an instinctive no-no for some people. A second rate option at best because those kids don't have their genes. So who cares about them? They're not your kids, they're future potential competitors.

It annoys me when they portray it in media and such. When they make out a drama out of a woman's or man's inability to conceive and their world falls apart as it's presented as a terrible tragedy.

I say that's bullshit and it's not a bigger drama than constipation. Breeding satisfies purely biological needs, like taking a dump. Every single psychological benefit and reward available from parenting, you can gain from adoption.

Told you, that me thinking and typing wasn't a good thing.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted March 29, 2015
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moonshineshadow: Urgh. Not good. But perhaps that is the perfect solution. Playing both of them at the same time, so if it is waiting time on of of it, I can switch to the other :P
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CarrionCrow: Wouldn't recommend that either...the way Evil Genius goes, you gain money by placing henchmen that you've spent time and resource training on the world map.
The more you place, the higher the risk that they can be taken out, at least in part.
As you finish off world objectives, the danger level will also rise.
At a high enough level, enemy agents will appear on the world map. If you don't manually hide every person you have out at the time, they'll be taken out.
Then you have to spend more time and more resources to regain your losses.

It is very much a gradual thing with a mechanic built in to screw you over when you drop your guard.
Huh ok, good to know. So saving often is probably a good idea :D Thanks :-)

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l0rdtr3k: Morning people!
*welcome hug*
Post edited March 29, 2015 by moonshineshadow
Posted March 29, 2015
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zenwan: Absolutely no apologies necessary, I couldn't agree more. There are many situations when I really believe that forced sterilization can only be seen as a good thing. My heart goes out to the children caught up in bad stuff not of their making - and credit to those who rescue them, out of sheer loving kindness.

Btw, apropos the discussion you and Moon were having this morning, I understand completely. I often sit here talking to myself as though there were two of me, and one of me sometimes writes things that the other one of me is stunned at.

I threw in a few +1's for your posts, to let you know that all was well, at least from my side. :-)

Sometimes it's good to let the fingers say what they will. There are very few judgemental people here, from what I've seen, and those who are, don't matter. Think of them as zombies, you don't even see them then.

Editing out a few typos, sometimes the fingers get too carried away. ;-)
Don't you love that...kinda makes you wonder just how many you's you've got, and just how tightly bound together they are.
Or at least it does for me. -laughs-

Thank you. =) Just didn't want you to be sitting there wondering why fragments of three or four different responses to comments from other people ended up in a reply to you.

True, the thread is blessed with a number of good people. Makes having a thread where the subject is everything infinitely easier to deal with.
No worries regarding the judgment thing. There are people I care for, and people I don't.
I'll give you three guesses as to whose opinions I care about...;)
Posted March 29, 2015
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ElTerprise: Hello again. Any recommendations for linux compatible games? After i tested ubuntu and installed basic application i wanted it's now time for some games. I already downloaded FTL because and started the download of PoE (which will probably takes ages ^^)....

BTW: first post from Ubuntu :)
A +1 for your effort! Can't help with games suggestions, sorry.
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Hate to be a downer, but if you're looking for improved pace over Anvil of Dawn, Evil Genius might not be the best of choices. That game is frigging glacial at times.
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moonshineshadow: Urgh. Not good. But perhaps that is the perfect solution. Playing both of them at the same time, so if it is waiting time on of of it, I can switch to the other :P
Not to mention that too often, the minions seem programmed with artificial stupidity.

See a valet use a fire extinguisher, see the valet leave the extinguisher in the corridor. See it abandoned and languishing, forcing you to make another one, because unless that one is returned to it's holding case it won't be refilled.

That's only the first of the many I can remember.

Edit: I found I actually had to micromanage the minions or they'd just laze around being useless. So it's kind of time demanding in that way.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Wouldn't recommend that either...the way Evil Genius goes, you gain money by placing henchmen that you've spent time and resource training on the world map.
The more you place, the higher the risk that they can be taken out, at least in part.
As you finish off world objectives, the danger level will also rise.
At a high enough level, enemy agents will appear on the world map. If you don't manually hide every person you have out at the time, they'll be taken out.
Then you have to spend more time and more resources to regain your losses.

It is very much a gradual thing with a mechanic built in to screw you over when you drop your guard.
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moonshineshadow: Huh ok, good to know. So saving often is probably a good idea :D Thanks :-)

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l0rdtr3k: Morning people!
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moonshineshadow: *welcome hug*
One other bit of advice - when super agents hit the field, distract them, don't try to engage them with force.

Distraction is explained in the tutorial. Keep henchmen who specialize in it around for occasions that super agents show up.

Until you learn how to kill them, super agents are invincible.
They will kill both your rank and file henchmen, and your high-level bodyguards as well, who are irreplaceable when they're killed if I remember correctly.
Distract them into a stupor and ride it out until they go away on their own.
Posted March 29, 2015
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ElTerprise: Hello again. Any recommendations for linux compatible games? After i tested ubuntu and installed basic application i wanted it's now time for some games. I already downloaded FTL because and started the download of PoE (which will probably takes ages ^^)....

BTW: first post from Ubuntu :)
FreeCiv

No wait...

Tux Racer.
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: I think in my case, it's a matter where just the thought alone of reproducing makes me nauseated.

And yes, I know, my parents had to do that. I get the whole perpetuation of the species thing.
(Bringing this up because it was mentioned a bit ago.)
Doesn't stop me from telling my mother she's a dumbass for doing it. -laughs-

Also, adoption is a completely viable option. People want to think they're special, that they just need to make little copies of themselves, so they can live on in a way after they're corpses, and then they start spawning the little creatures like there's no tomorrow.
But there are already plenty of kids around because a lot of shitty, shitty adults who should have been forcibly sterilized got together and pumped out children by the countryful.
Those kids get second billing because people can't get the same ego boost raising those kids as they can by spawning their own.

-shakes head- So many people are so godsdamned stupid. They shouldn't breed. Ever. And yet they do.

(Apologies, Zenwan. Kinda went off on a tangent or three, slammed all my scattered thoughts into one post, then replied it over to you.
You're not on the hot seat for my contempt/disgust/sour stomach at it all. Promise. =) )
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j0ekerr: Now you've got me thinking and talking (or typing to be precise). Which is never a good thing.

I agree of course, but I'd add that there's also a biological imperative. The urge to breed, and in the same way that chimps kill infants from outside groups, adoption is an instinctive no-no for some people. A second rate option at best because those kids don't have their genes. So who cares they're not your kids, they're future potential competitors.

It annoys me when they portray it in media and such. When they make out a drama out of a woman's or man's inability to conceive and their world falls apart as it's presented as a terrible tragedy.

I say that's bullshit and it's not a bigger drama than constipation. Breeding satisfies purely biological needs, like taking a dump. Every single psychological benefit and reward available from parenting, you can gain from adoption.

Told you, that me thinking and typing wasn't a good thing.
More thinking is always a good thing. (Except when it isn't. Oxymoronic? Maybe. But it's how things roll all the frigging time, apparently.)

I understand the biological component as you're describing it, thinking that would need to be countered with a massive cultural shift.

Some men feel like failures, or less than men, if they can't produce a child. Some women feel like failures if they can't get pregnant.
And of course, it's drilled into people's heads from the second they can process it that that's what they're supposed to do.

All the yammering to have a family, it's no big surprise that some people lose their minds if they can't. They've been frigging brainwashed into thinking that they're garbage if they can't.

And yes, if you want to help a child, you can adopt. If you want to feel like a good parent, you can totally be a good parent to a child, even if you didn't have a part in spawning it.
Posted March 29, 2015
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ElTerprise: Hello again. Any recommendations for linux compatible games? After i tested ubuntu and installed basic application i wanted it's now time for some games. I already downloaded FTL because and started the download of PoE (which will probably takes ages ^^)....

BTW: first post from Ubuntu :)
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zenwan: A +1 for your effort! Can't help with games suggestions, sorry.
Thank you :). I think i'll look through my library again.

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ElTerprise: Hello again. Any recommendations for linux compatible games? After i tested ubuntu and installed basic application i wanted it's now time for some games. I already downloaded FTL because and started the download of PoE (which will probably takes ages ^^)....

BTW: first post from Ubuntu :)
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j0ekerr: FreeCiv

No wait...

Tux Racer.
Thank you i'll look for both :). I played Tux Racer years ago on Windows. Interesting to see what has changed since then.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by ElTerprise
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: One other bit of advice - when super agents hit the field, distract them, don't try to engage them with force.

Distraction is explained in the tutorial. Keep henchmen who specialize in it around for occasions that super agents show up.

Until you learn how to kill them, super agents are invincible.
They will kill both your rank and file henchmen, and your high-level bodyguards as well, who are irreplaceable when they're killed if I remember correctly.
Distract them into a stupor and ride it out until they go away on their own.
I usually managed to confound, capture and interrogate Mariana Mamba. But once she's captured, you have to routinely interrogate her to keep her weak, lest she escapes the base wreaking chaos as she goes through it. Until you found the piece of equipment that allowed you to actually kill her.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted March 29, 2015
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zenwan: Absolutely no apologies necessary, I couldn't agree more. There are many situations when I really believe that forced sterilization can only be seen as a good thing. My heart goes out to the children caught up in bad stuff not of their making - and credit to those who rescue them, out of sheer loving kindness.

Btw, apropos the discussion you and Moon were having this morning, I understand completely. I often sit here talking to myself as though there were two of me, and one of me sometimes writes things that the other one of me is stunned at.

I threw in a few +1's for your posts, to let you know that all was well, at least from my side. :-)

Sometimes it's good to let the fingers say what they will. There are very few judgemental people here, from what I've seen, and those who are, don't matter. Think of them as zombies, you don't even see them then.

Editing out a few typos, sometimes the fingers get too carried away. ;-)
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CarrionCrow: Don't you love that...kinda makes you wonder just how many you's you've got, and just how tightly bound together they are.
Or at least it does for me. -laughs-

Thank you. =) Just didn't want you to be sitting there wondering why fragments of three or four different responses to comments from other people ended up in a reply to you.

True, the thread is blessed with a number of good people. Makes having a thread where the subject is everything infinitely easier to deal with.
No worries regarding the judgment thing. There are people I care for, and people I don't.
I'll give you three guesses as to whose opinions I care about...;)
<laughing> No guessing necessary, I think.

I'm glad you understand what I'm talking about, I think that probably Moon does also. :-)
It's hard to keep track of myself sometimes, bits of me do seem to be found hanging around in strange places, long after I've left. In a way, those fragments of me are all that some people ever see.

Just so you know that your kindness and the effort put into this thread is appreciated, I mentioned it here. Hope it gives you a smile.:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/one_year_anniversary_giveaway_1/post69
Posted March 29, 2015
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l0rdtr3k: Morning people!
Good morning. =)

How're you doing today?
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ElTerprise: Hello again. Any recommendations for linux compatible games? After i tested ubuntu and installed basic application i wanted it's now time for some games. I already downloaded FTL because and started the download of PoE (which will probably takes ages ^^)....

BTW: first post from Ubuntu :)
Hmm...I know nothing about Linux, so I'll pass this along. Basic stuff, but maybe it's a place to start.
Post edited March 29, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Posted March 29, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Don't you love that...kinda makes you wonder just how many you's you've got, and just how tightly bound together they are.
Or at least it does for me. -laughs-

Thank you. =) Just didn't want you to be sitting there wondering why fragments of three or four different responses to comments from other people ended up in a reply to you.

True, the thread is blessed with a number of good people. Makes having a thread where the subject is everything infinitely easier to deal with.
No worries regarding the judgment thing. There are people I care for, and people I don't.
I'll give you three guesses as to whose opinions I care about...;)
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zenwan: <laughing> No guessing necessary, I think.

I'm glad you understand what I'm talking about, I think that probably Moon does also. :-)
It's hard to keep track of myself sometimes, bits of me do seem to be found hanging around in strange places, long after I've left. In a way, those fragments of me are all that some people ever see.

Just so you know that your kindness and the effort put into this thread is appreciated, I mentioned it here. Hope it gives you a smile.:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/one_year_anniversary_giveaway_1/post69
That does sound familiar...

That was very kind of you to say and put out there, thank you. And yes, it did make me smile reading it. =)
Posted March 29, 2015
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ElTerprise: Thank you i'll look for both :). I played Tux Racer years ago on Windows. Interesting to see what has changed since then.
I wonder what kind of face he'll make when he finds out it hasn't.

Whenever I booted up ubuntu, I just ended playing mahjongg tile match. It's like gravity, you can't avoid it.
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