Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Harmony Ltd.]

It's hard to sum up more than one year of daily roleplay in a few forum posts.

[O. Hinds]

Reading Asylum by Daemon of Decay on fimfiction.
It's funny how thick Twilight is.
Too bad she's cray cray...

Ah, a fellow Realist! Splendid!

[O. Hinds]

For those of you who are unaware (probably most of you), the Asylum readership divided pretty quickly into two broad camps. The Realists believe that Twilight is actually crazy while the Dreamers believe that the hospital is an illusion. Oh, and I think that there are a few people who believe both that Twilight is crazy and that Broadhoof is an illusion.

[O. Hinds]

Have you read the latest chapter yet, Swicked? There's a part that I think you may like.

[O. Hinds]

Reading Asylum by Daemon of Decay on fimfiction.
It's funny how thick Twilight is.
Too bad she's cray cray...

Ah, a fellow Realist!  Splendid!

...not quite.

Spoiler:

Hm, interesting; I think that I've seen other hypotheses like that.

[Quotidian]

Anyone else suddenly find that they associate maybe half the songs they hear with Project Horizons?

[Harmony Ltd.]

Anyone else suddenly find that they associate maybe half the songs they hear with Project Horizons?

No.

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

*Hisses like a cat at mention of Marines*

was in marines...

[Harmony Ltd.]

Suddenly things are shed into a whole new light.

[Guest]

@PH ALL the music!
Yes, this happens. Did I ever tell you guys that I actually imagined Blackjack and Co. covering Queens of the Stone Age songs? Because that happened, a while back. =P

EDIT: Also, you guys like space things, right? Have space things. Pretty space pictures and things.

[O. Hinds]

EDIT: Also, you guys like space things, right? Have space things. Pretty space pictures and things.

Hm, thank you.

[Ironmonger]

I swear that this is how most of the elderly Hispanic people look. Someone needs to add "Chico" or something to that image.

[Harmony Ltd.]

"They say love is a battlefield. It is a good thing then that I am a proponent of preemptive strategic strikes."

[Harmony Ltd.]

Is it really all that ironic for the least moral people to be those entirely self-serving?
Or is it just sad? XP

Also, it's not that they are amoral, but that their moral code has been influenced by their experiences.

they don't care if you destroy thousands of their ships - they have no hesitation launching nukes on their own positions if this can bring them victory ;

but start targeting civilians and they will rip you a new one.

They very sound easy to control.
How often have they been lead into traps by their savagery regarding civilian casualties? How often have their enemies carried out strikes against their softer targets with ships bearing the flags of their allies or those unaffiliated, just to get the race to isolate themselves? How often have they fallen prey to faints and misinformation that lead them to destroy their own positions when it was anything but necessary?
You make them sound like an enraged bull.

Funny thing you say that.

Just today my Empire came under a surprise attack of an unbelievable magnitude. My character's reaction ?

The [attacker] launched on the Sector XXIII ten WMD bombs. The United Worlds' Federation counted forty seven worlds in this sector of the galaxy, all inhabited by at least nine billion citizens. First estimates report that only between a fourth to a third of the planetary populations survived to this attack. At least three hundred billion planetsiders have been killed, in the Federation alone, in this unprovoked aggression. The rest of the sector having been touched as well, the total losses may be ten times what we suffered, at least three thousand billion dead.

In this sector of space stationed as well the worldships of the Federation, where the refugees from Eveil were awaiting relocation to habitable worlds. Destroyed to the last. Height hundred and seventy billion dead.

The facts speak for themselves, any speech would only be a waste of effort and saliva.

There will be no negotiations.

There will be no pity.

There will be no respite.

[the attacker] will disappear. Any power assisting him will follow in his path. As will any power assisting those who would assist him, directly, or indirectly.

May his fate serve as an example to all those who would use WMDs. Our answer will be unilateral, unequivocal, and definitive.

*turning herself toward the camera [the attacker] can see the Galactic Assembly through*

If you believe in God, pray to him that we do not find you alive.

Note : "WMD", "weapons of mass destruction", is the name of weapons powerful enough to destroy ships and kill planetary populations on the scale of a whole sector (400 planets). "Eveil" is the name of the galaxy my empire originally come from and fled as the Apocalypse was coming near.

[Valikdu]

I'm playing the Spec Ops: The Line campaign.
It starts out like a generic "modern military" 3D Action. It does so in order to lull you into a false sense of security.
Then the tone gets kind of progressively darker. And then That Thing happens.
I'm a bit disoriented at the moment.

[Harmony Ltd.]

White Phosphorus mang.

You will never see it the same way again.

[Quotidian]

Then the tone gets kind of progressively darker. And then That Thing happens.

And then that other thing with the truck, and then the thing with that other guy, and then the thing with the civilians and then...

Well, I'm sure you'll find out.

[StoneSlinger88]

There's this soda called "High Mountain Huckleberry". It is fucking AMAZING. Saw it on the shelf, wondered what it tasted like. No regrets. Absolutely delicious.

[O. Hinds]

Have you read the latest chapter yet, Swicked?  There's a part that I think you may like.

I've read up through chapter 12.
What part was I supposed to particularly like?

...Um, chapter 12 is the second-to-last one at the moment.

[StoneSlinger88]

It was pretty sweet and fruity, but I've never had a huckleberry. Tasted good to me!

Also, I found a giant bottle of seltzer water that was "Boston Cream Pie" flavor. Tastes alright in sips, not so good taking a large swig. Polar makes it, and their Orange Dry soda is real good stuff too.

[Harmony Ltd.]

@Harmony
Wow, any who indirectly assist those that indirectly assist?
So they can really just justify anyone in the galaxy, at that point.
Sounds like fun :D

Honestly, they should just say that. "We are going to start killing every being not a part of us. We don't think we'll ever stop."

More like "we're going to kill the motherfuckers who just committed genocide against us, and any who get in out way will get steamrolled, so you better get on our good side".

[Harmony Ltd.]

Isn't it how an Empire is meant to be ruled ?

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

for teh lulz

[O. Hinds]

From Daemon of Decay and referring to Swicked:
"Ah, some interesting theories there. They should post them in the comments, or bring them up in the fan group."

[O. Hinds]

From Daemon of Decay and referring to Swicked:
"Ah, some interesting theories there. They should post them in the comments, or bring them up in the fan group."

...you're sharing my thoughts other places?
Do you do this often?
While there's nothing inherently wrong with it, since they were posted publicly, it's still kinda weird...

I'm certainly capable of discussing the the comments or fan group were I at all active on fimfic in general.
As it stands, though, maybe later. I like talking about stuff here, even if a lot of the stuff I wanna talk about has limited interest.

Oh, sorry. I just thought that he'd like to hear your feedback on his story, particularly since I think that that's the first time I've heard that particular hypothesis.

[RoboRed]

AJ's meal plan:

[Harmony Ltd.]

Isn't it how an Empire is meant to be ruled ?

Yes, it is.
That's the point

I'm reminded of the aftermath of an NCR win for New Vegas in which the Followers don't actively support NCR (I looked it up on the wiki). The soldiers kick the glorified good samaritans out of vegas entirely. I mean, honestly, why? XD

The funny thing is that my guys were the ones who created the local version of the "red cross". The are called.... the Followers of the Apocalypse.
Why that name ? Because they were created to find means to save as many people as possible from the incoming Apocalypse which doomed my guys' original galaxy. They're the positive side of their Survivalist bent.

Anyway, I'm still blown off my socks by the sheer political stupidity of the aggressor. His argument, a xenophobic one, was "the Extra-Galactics are trampling our honor and taking over our galaxy". Yes. Yes we are taking over. But only because you are so divided as to spend all your resources in intestine struggles, not seeing farther than your own doorstep, and we aren't killing thousands of billions of people in the process. Asswipe.

Good point is that now, politically, we have all latitude to do as we please in our witch hunt against the guy, and it only reinforced our position.

Really, it's strategic, tactical and political idiocy of the highest magnitude.

With enemies like that...

[Harmony Ltd.]

Good point is that now, politically, we have all latitude to do as we please in our witch hunt against the guy, and it only reinforced our position.

Here's what I mean :

[a native of the local galaxy, speaking about what just happened and commenting on the aggressor's call for a galactic crusade against us]

No, you would need to be completely idiot to get in the way of this Galaxy's most advanced nations' on their path of revenge. My condolences go to them... and my future condolences to [the aggressor].

Being big and mean and having a reputation of ruthless efficiency when it comes to bringing whole empires down has its advantages when it comes to International Relations.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Man, it's cliché, but teamwork is a goddamn beautiful thing.

You have the big brute, working with the finesse of a sledgehammer (overwhelming force deployed on a given area) ;
You have the spy, getting us informations to a point where we know the enemy better than it knows itself ;
You have the "farmer", productive enough to supply everyone with the resources to wage a total war, and whose transport ships grant us unequaled mobility, to the point where we can ignore blocus ;
And the saboteur, going deep behind enemy lines to hinder the enemy's war effort.

Assemble all that... Unstoppable.

[Harmony Ltd.]

The game isn't complex enough to model that kind of thing.

The only thing is I need the happiness level (which dropped to 0.1% on the attacked planets) to come back to reasonable levels (~70-85%), and to let the population numbers regrow to the "normal" level of ~9.5-10 billions per world (the attacks left them at ~2.3-2.5 billions). This should take around 30-40 cycles => one game cycle taking 24 IRL hours - how much time really pass in the game universe during a cycle is left vague, and to some extent vary between players : considering ships are built in 12 IRL hours, infrastructures in 24 hours, the same amount of time it takes to invade a planet with kamikazes and normal ships respectively.

The penalty is that if I start expanding my territories too much, if I conquer / take control of too many planets, I will be starting to have insurrection : worlds will take their independence, the unhappiest first. So in this case, the worlds that fell victim to the bombings.

So the obvious measure is to rebuild and limit territorial expansion (during a war with the attacker, most planets will probably be either transferred to allies or abandoned depending on their productivity / strategic value).

For information, no enemy troops landed on the planets. Simply, 10 bombs exploded which impacted all the fleets and 400 planets of the sector. the mechanism is left vague but there are words about "space-time / hyperspace ripples" or some technobabble like that. There's an element used in the bombs, the same one that allow ships to travel between galaxies - so rare only one planet in one hundred has a source of it.



Unrelated :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIkTNnnBFo

i find this humorous.

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