SpaceGhostofArrakis, they actually tell you what that means in the old RPG. It’s a matter of cutting distance off the wavy course you need to take by getting dangerously close to the gravity wells of obstructions to make the trip more of a straight line.
Revtim, I second that notion. Chuds should remain deep underground where they would feel more at home with the Niktuku and a certain imponderable antideluvian.
saepiroth, slave girls … [drooooool]. They are so very useful to support the troops of SOLDIER.
And BTW: Nar Shadda always had the best strip joints. I think the peace-loving people of Alderaan just had good weed.
Interstellar pirates suck, but how can we manage problems that come from off-world when we can’t even manage the stuff that happens here on Terra?
Just the other day, I was zipping down the Long Island 3-D Expressway in my 2072 Corvette when some biscuithead in a 2069 Hyundai Accent hovered up behind me. I was at 120 meters doing about 10 km/sec, but that wasn’t fast enough for the guy. Instead of doing the obvious (passing above or below me) the guy had the audacity to actually flash his brights at me. Evidently, I couldn’t get out of his way fast enough, because the little bastard actually took a potshot at me with his Ion Cannon. Nearly fried my flux capacitor. I had to call OnStar and have the satellites fry his ass with an orbiting chemical laser. I’m not looking forward to my Mastercard bill next month - OnStar will probably charge me 1,000 interstellar credits just for getting that butthead off my tail.
And what’s up with all these commie politicians who keep trying to limit civilian weapons to 200 gigawatts? Do they have any idea how many pirates have invested in black market mil-spec shield generators? How are we supposed to protect ourselves? Everyone with any detectable brain activity knows that pirates don’t care what the government doesn’t allow.
Oh, please! There’s no comparison. What we did to the Vegans was a military neccessity. These pirates don’t have that excuse.
Besides, I’m tired of people making the argument that only perfect societies can criticize other’s actions. “How can you be opposed to Kedrak the Bloody’s policies when Rigallians on Terra don’t have equal rights?”…just a bunch of whiny assholes.
Well, I for one totally agree with the policy, considering that you can go to any drugstore and buy Rejuvenex to stay 23 for as long as you’d like…
Ok, the side effects are annoying, but nothing that can’t be solved by an injection of tri-bacteriophage blocker.
The injection has very little undesired effects, and they can be countered by a simple neutrino treatment.
Now, if you want to talk about the side effects of the neutrino treatment, that’s a different story.
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I see that Fledermaus wants to get into the whole Kodos vs Kang debate, but since both are indicted right now, I won’t touch the subject with a ten foot pole.
You know what else I’m sick of? The new Soylent Green commercials. “It’s not people! We swear!” Come on, how dumb do they think we are?
And let’s face it: We all know professional sports would be much more interesting if the powers that be would drop those silly “no bionic enhancements” rules.
you know what REALLY ticks me? the way all these people are bothered by the fact that soylent is made of processed corpses. damn prudey stuck-up bastards. HELLO! HELLO! people in developed systems have been eating their dead for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! the Za[sym]Akgr[/sym]thay’riith did it, the prolosi[sym]a[/sym]a[sym]i[/sym]i did it, and even those wierd little bastards from SOL III did it!
robodude, it’s people like YOU who are holding back the development of the [sym]XetaRiKyst[/sym] hivemind! pull your sensory array out of your excretal orifice and think about sentiences other that your own, you son of a deneebrian man-whore!
hell, it pisses me enough that i have to lapse into my native language to truly express my rage!
[sym]hey! do you like kittens? cause kittens are cute! really cute! they’re so FUZZY and WARM! i love em! how’s about puppies? i don’t like puppies. i prefer ferrets. i LOOOVE ferrets. they are REALLY fuzzy! they’re my fuzzybuddies![/sym]
bastard.
[sub]god! it’s enough to make me go on a laserblade hunt for some [sym]androginii[/sym] on my private planet again! almost fucked the whole ecosystem last time, too![/sub]
you mean that the members of the [sym]XetaRiKyst[/sym] hivemind using greek symbols as the only way to represent their unique and tonal chorusal language in print is a BAD thing?
you xenophobe! i bet you set the symbol of [sym]p[/sym] on fire on the lawns of the Xakkatoriomn! i mean, just because they worship numbers as their god…
…and eat your brains out of your skull so they can fill the hole with computers and use your bodies as manual labor.
that’s no reason for hate! don’t be so bitter that the inhabitants of your planet have become interstellar delicacies prized by all who behold them, you species-ist. just accept the fact that you all taste DAMN good when broiled and mixed into spinach pasta with parmesan!
You won’t believe what I saw at a museum. I saw someone actually using a computer. They had it connected to a simulated internet. Oh it was funny. Can you believe they actually used to gather information that way.
I can’t believe how inefficient they were before the invention of the CBSU* with taps into every human brain. I don’t know how they ever communicated. I did hear they used to actually verbally communicate with oral signals. The voice box would make sounds that were interpreted by other persons. This led to confusion since the interpretation of words is different not like our efficient visualization of a concept. This led to many disagreements and then to wars and then to the distruction of most of the people of Terra. If you want to investigate this matter further, just think about “history of human speech and why it was the downfall of the 21st century”.
I was also studying the fact that they actually touched each other and the visuals on this made me so sick that I didn’t touch my nutritional suppliments for days. The thought of actually producing offspring in this manner is so repugnant to me that I have blocked all thoughts on this subject. But to get to my rant–can you believe there are those who want to return to this. What are they thinking? How can they even conceptualize this–there is no way society would survive. The mental trauma to our children alone is enough to cause another collapse in our economic and social stratas. The children’s therapy treatment session would have to increase from 20 hours a week to 40 hours a week based on current robotic simulations. The germs are what is disgusting. I DON’T WANT A HUMANOID’S GERMS TO TOUCH ME! I am comfortable with my robots and will fight to the death to avoid coming into contact with anyone else.
I was at the Mall yesterday thinking about finally buying one of those genetically-engineered catwoman love slaves. But I chickened out because of the damn PETA protestors. Why can’t they mind their own business? Then I was going to download the latest holodeck novel but it said I need at least a 100 googlehertz processor to run it. And to top it all off, the Psicops ticketed me for “contagious pessimism.” Life was so much simpler in the 20th century!
Hey jerk! Congratulations, you ruined my life. What kind of sick mind get his jollies by filming clones of the same person having sex with each other? My kids can’t even maintain eye-contact with me anymore. Are you happy now? Well I am not amused. What kind of soul sapped individual are you? Let me assure you that I will hunt you down and flay you alive. I will devour your liver and make your skin into the nice coat for myself. And don’t you think I can’t do that, I will find out your UID. Plus I already have license for revenge from the FBI, God bless Republicans. Let me assure you, I will be the last human you clone to put into your smutty skin flicks.
By the sixth moon of Antares, don’t get me started on clones. Fledermaus-5 ran off with the family hover wagon two months ago and still hasn’t been found. And the Interstellar Police are ever so helpful–can’t file a missing person claim on a clone, because as we all know “clones aren’t people”. Grrr. Damn you, George Bush the Seventh for encouraging all of that cloning research.
Ya know, even when I was decanting Fledermaus-5 from his clone-chamber I just knew that something like this was going to happen. I never could get the neutrino-protein mix right. I knew I should have paid to have Clones ‘R’ Us handle it. But goddam it, those displays at Hyper-Mega-Super-Mart make the do-it-yourself clone kits look so easy!
Next time, I’m sticking with robots. Sure, they don’t have that spark of self-reliance that clones do, but disposal is so much easier when things go wrong. No offense, Osiris. I certainly don’t want this thread to degenerate into another “clones vs. 'bots” argument.
