 |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| TA, WC3, Freedom Ship, more! in today's "Issue Tacklin'" Guest appearance by INC by Ray of Light 12/07/2005, 6:53pm PST | ||||
 |
 |
|||
| Ray: TA advocates I know always crowed about how you could have 300, 500, 800 units on the go
Ray: AS MANY AS YOU WANT Ray: while ignoring the problems of controlling 500 units Mr. K: I think I'm actually enjoying the micromanagement aspect of WC3, amazingly enough Ray: but wc3 doesn't have 500 units Mr. K: you have like 30 Mr. K: the game makes you get the most out of them, you are almost never just watching them beat on each other Ray: how do you keep abreast of 2 separate battles Mr. K: well it's hard Ray: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/05/MN33508.DTL&type=printable Ray: this FreedomShip project is trotted out every couple of years Ray: each time, revealing the same absence of detailed planning as it showed two years ago INC: not loading :( INC: ah here we go INC: haha every time I press Refresh on that page, two different pictures come on, and the others all go blank Ray: the site worked 2 years ago :( INC: it's like some sort of game of Concentration Mr. K: this was originally a sort of libertarian dream boat, right? Mr. K: living without laws on the high seas? Ray: he insists it won't be lawless though. That's a "misperception" Mr. K: "Capitalism is a law. No, really." INC: Robots would attend to your every need, robots armed with machine guns to ward off pirates. INC: These robots would be programmed never to attack residents or guests. INC: NOTHING CAN GO WRONG FreedomShip Newswire wrote: Ray: yeah! INC: "Another site, www.caltrops.com, has had quite a lively discussion about our project, and us! You might also read the story about the megaphone - very entertaining." Mr. K: haha, if this thing was built it'd be about 5 months until the first civil war broke out Ray: yeah, or until a rumor took hold that Jesus was swimming underneath the hull Ray: and would reward those with the faith to drill through it and set him free INC: Proposed safety of the vessel is enhanced by the use of 600 individual air/water tight hull sections. INC: 600 tombs The ship's design would accept up to 40,000 full time residents, 30,000 daily visitors, 10,000 nightly hotel guests, and 20,000 full time crew. This population of 100,000 people provides a wealth of talent and diversity for the private businesses aboard the ship and to those they visit daily on their adventures ashore. INC: 40,000 people streaming into Tijuana Ray: "FREEDOM SHIP CAME TOOK ALL OUR WOMEN :(" INC: "Hey, I just disembarked from the Freedom Ship! Anyone need a carpenter? No? They promised me my talents would be used during my adventures ashore..." Ray: "we feel this project has a strong appeal to people who went to summer camp once and wished it would never end" Ray: "then, never considered the impracticality of their wish and now, have the means to make it come true' Mr. K: Aha, young gay boys then Mr. K: "Can I still get a handjob behind the mess hall?" Ray: "how many bunks are in your largest unit?" Mr. K: "Where in this massive, floating ode to trash culture is the splendor of the wilderness?" Mr. K: "Is it on the golf course?" Ray: The summer camps I went to were always unisex. I'm pretty sure that was where I first kissed a girl. And, in retrospect, I see the counsellors were getting laid all the time Mr. K: I was in scouts and to my then horror discovered that there were definitely some pretty queer scouts, so I guess my mileage varied. Ray: ah, Scouts. They just can't catch a break Mr. K: this one guy was a constant public masturbator Ray: that's sure to have caused him some jams later in life Mr. K: Everything was weird about him Mr. K: I remember he used to scratch his balls with a fork on several occasions Ray: I would remember that too Mr. K: usually while the rest of us were eating Mr. K: He was always trying to pick fights then would break down crying Mr. K: or attack us and be easily defeated Mr. K: then would tell us that he had been eating beans and cheese all night and was going to be farting nonstop Ray: [silence, rapt attention --ed.] Mr. K: another kid, one of the leader's kids, was always trying to get into other people's bags and dry hump them Mr. K: I would never tell a republican these stories as it would really enforce their concept of "no gays in scouting" when really this wasn't a matter of gay/straight as much as freak/superfreak Ray: I will say that summer-camp "who can piss farthest?" contests started me down a road of PC-muscle building that has paid dividends in adulthood Ray: this is something I never saw before in RTS, units big enough to step on smaller units Ray: maybe the harvester vs infantry in C&C Mr. K: and in dune 2 Mr. K: the problem I have is that the big unit doesn't look so much large as the smaller units look tiny Ray: it says the little guys are as big as tanks! Mr. K: yeah, but the big thing has these funny hinge legs that look like they could support about 6 pounds The GameSpy Press Release Network wrote: Ray: that could turn out any number of ways Mr. K: yeah, it's impossible to know from that quote if this is a good or bad thing Mr. K: generally when something like that is mentioned as a selling point, I think "bad" Ray: I don't see why you'd fight with anything except cruise missiles, ICBMs, and spotters Mr. K: i liked the zoomed out shots of the nukes going off to emphasize the fruitlessness of your battle |
||||
 |
 |
|||
|
