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Post by phalanx on Sept 25, 2016 12:49:25 GMT -5
Mine comes from my love of Civ and Rise of Nations type games. I have pretty much used it or a variation of it since I first started playing games online or using forums.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 25, 2016 12:52:06 GMT -5
Mine comes from my love of Civ and Rise of Nations type games. I have pretty much used it or a variation of it since I first started playing games online or using forums. Civ remains my favorite game of all time. II was the perfect improvement over I, III was awkward and different, IV was near perfection but also impossible to win, and I've never been able to run V because it uses Steam for installation. |
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Post by phalanx on Sept 25, 2016 12:57:37 GMT -5
Mine comes from my love of Civ and Rise of Nations type games. I have pretty much used it or a variation of it since I first started playing games online or using forums. Civ remains my favorite game of all time. II was the perfect improvement over I, III was awkward and different, IV was near perfection but also impossible to win, and I've never been able to run V because it uses Steam for installation. IV was also my favorite with a close second being strangely enough the Nintendo DS version. I was surprised by how good it was and sunk a TON of time into it. Five is when I burned out, sadly it was just not the same without Mr. Nimoy. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 25, 2016 13:30:48 GMT -5
Civ, in all its iterations, is overall my favorite game of all time. II and IV were the best of the series, IV being incredibly moddable.
To be fair, I'm not much of a gamer. Other than Civ the only games I have played with regularity are Rome:Total War and Europa Universalis 4. And WAY back when, Medieval Lords.
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Post by berkley on Sept 25, 2016 22:08:23 GMT -5
I've never gotten into gaming at all but I see Ubuntu has something called Freeciv that is based on Civ; maybe I'll give it a try sometime.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 0:10:58 GMT -5
My orginal name here was mars, because of "Mars Needs Women". When I signed back up, I decided to just keep working my way through the title.
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Post by Wild Card on Dec 2, 2016 0:47:58 GMT -5
I'm just going to throw out there that Wild Card is the name of the main antihero from a story. Never intended to change it, but a friend is a prankster and I didn't realize I was logged in when i let him borrow my phone. He never does damage just simple changes to my titles or whatever. Silly things and I'm lazy so I haven't gone in to change it. Besides, Wild Card is a antihero so she fits here.
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Post by Lolatadatodo on Dec 2, 2016 8:20:08 GMT -5
From the courtyard, I floated in and watched it go down.
Heard the cup drop; thought, "Well, that's why they keep them around."
The blackguard sat hard, down,with no head on him now,
and I felt so bad, cause I didn't know how to feel bad enough
to make him proud.
By the time you read this, I will be so far away.
Daddy longlegs, how in the world am I to be expected to stay?
In the night--
in the night, you may hear me call
Pa, stay your hand and steel your resolve.
Stay where you are, so long and tall.
Here's Lola--ta da!--to do her famous Spider Dance for you!
Lighten up your pockets!
Shake her skirts and scatter, there,
a shrieking, six-legged millionaire
with a blight in his sockets.
Miss Montez, the Countess of Lansfeld, appealed to the King of Bavaria,
saying, "Pretty papa, if you are my friend--
mister daddy longlegs, they are at it again!--
Can I see you?"
Poor Lola! A tarantula's mounting Countess Lansfeld's handsome brassiere,
while they all cheer.
And the old king fell from grace,
while Lola fled,
To save face and her career
You caught a fly, floating by,
Wait for him to drown in the dust;
drown in the dust of other flies,
whereby the machine is run,
and the deed is done.
Heaven has no word for the way you and your friends have treated poor Louis.
May god save your poor soul, Lola.
(But there is nothing I adore,
apart from that whore's black heart.)
Well, doesn't that just beat all!
Miss Gilbert,
called to Castlemaine by the silver dollar and the gold glitter!
Well, I've seen lots, but never, in a million years, would think to see you, here.
Though the long road begins and ends with you,
I cannot seem to make amends with you, Louis.
When we go out, they're bound to see you with me.
At night, I walk in the park, with a whip,
between the lines of the whispering Jesuits,
who are poisoning you against me.
There's a big black spider hanging over my door.
Can't go anywhere, anymore.
Tell me, are you with me?
I called to you, several times,
while the change took place and then arrived, all night,
and I died.
But all these songs, when you and I are long gone, will carry on.
Mud in your eye.
You asked my hand, hired a band.
"In your heart is all that you need;
ask and you will receive," it is said.
I threw my bouquet,
and I knocked 'em dead.
Bottle of white, bottle of red.
Helpless as a child,
when you held me in your arms,
and I knew that no other
could ever love me as you loved.
But help me! I'm leaving!
I remember everything,
down to the sound of you shaving--
the scrape of your razor,
the dully-abrading black hair that remained
when you clutched at me,
that night I came upstairs, half-dead,
and, in your kindness, you put me straightaway in the cupboard,
with a bottle of champagne,
and then, later, on a train.
It was dark out, I was half-dead.
I saw a star fall into the sky, like a chunk of thrown coal,
as if god himself spat like a cornered rat.
I really want you to do this for me,
will you have one on me?
It was dark; I was drunk and half-dead,
and we slept, knocking heads,
sitting up in the star-smoking air, knocking heads like buoys.
Don't you worry for me!
Have one on me!
Meanwhile, I will raise my own glass to how you made me fast
and expendable,
and I will drink to your excellent health,
and your cruelty.
Will you have one on me?
Helpless as a child,
when you held me in your arms,
and I knew that no other could ever love me
From the courtyard, I floated in
and watched it go down.
Heard the cup drop; thought, "Well, that's why they keep them around."
The blackguard sat hard, down, with no head on him now,
and I felt so bad, cause I didn't know how to feel bad enough
to make him proud.
Well daddy longlegs, are you?
Daddy longlegs, are you?
Daddy longlegs, are you proud?
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Post by Lolatadatodo on Dec 2, 2016 16:17:30 GMT -5
D'awww.
Thank you.♡♡♡
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2016 2:56:22 GMT -5
 Because the name sounded cool and it was Chaykin, stretching his talents; and, I love me some Chaykin. Plus, Michael Moorcock remarked, in his intro to American Flaff: Hard Times (the first First Comics album collection of AF 1-3, plus additional story pages), how much Han Solo owed to Cody Starbuck, including his taste in shirts (and pants). Plus, it's a good space pirate name. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 13:41:44 GMT -5
I always thought Starbuck originated in Battlestar Galactica...I wonder if the show producers swiped the name?
But thanks to you Cody, I'm naming my next Rotweiller pup Starbuck.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 6, 2016 13:59:11 GMT -5
But thanks to you Cody, I'm naming my next Rotweiller pup Starbuck. I so thought you were going to write "Starpup". |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 6, 2016 15:35:24 GMT -5
But thanks to you Cody, I'm naming my next Rotweiller pup Starbuck. I so thought you were going to write "Starpup". Would get confused with  |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 6, 2016 15:55:00 GMT -5
I so thought you were going to write "Starpup". Would get confused with Dying to know how you know about this. |
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Post by foxley on Dec 6, 2016 23:33:07 GMT -5
I always thought Starbuck originated in Battlestar Galactica...I wonder if the show producers swiped the name? But thanks to you Cody, I'm naming my next Rotweiller pup Starbuck. I suspect both Chaykin and Battlestar Galactica swiped 'appropriated' the name from Moby Dick. Starbuck was the name of the first mate on the Pequod. |
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