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Other Projects => Curses => Topic started by: Aqizzar on November 27, 2008, 11:30:03 pm
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Just noticed one of my Liberals has an error in his birthdate. No month is listed.
It just says "Born 13, 1980 (Age 27)"
Not a serious problem by any means, but a bug is a bug.
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The meaning is clear. He was 13 when he was born.
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The pregnancy was difficult. The birth: a cesarean autopsy.
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She didn't even realize she was pregnant. For thirteen years she just thought she was obese.
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I have someone that beats that. She/He/It was "Born 14, 1993".
Edit: I found something else about this bug. The person will never get older, as their birth year will increase by one every year. The teenager that I have who is affected by this bug is now "Born 14, 1995".
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It is because they are the highlander. See if they can only die by head trauma.
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Found this. People were being born in "the 0th month, before January" instead of December, and because said month never occurred, they were not aging. Because they were not aging, the game thought they were perpetually born "X years ago" -- where X is a constant -- and so determined their birth year to be advancing as the current year advanced.
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So you fixed it? Good, I don't want elves in my LCS.
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So you fixed it? Good, I don't want elves in my LCS.
Elves are conservative scum.
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I thought they'd be more like liberal treehuggers on at least some issues...
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The Elves keep muttering about "conservation", which, though the LCS is not entirely clear on the meaning, sounds a lot like making the trees Conservative, so yeah. Evil.
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That, and they're xenophobic isolationists. That's kind of conservative.
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There should be a convention (Renaissance Fair?) in the summer or fall at the park, during which you encounter "elves" and such. Bonus points if you add Trekkies.
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Ooh, adding certain events at certain locations throughout the year would be awesome.
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There should be a convention (Renaissance Fair?) in the summer or fall at the park, during which you encounter "elves" and such. Bonus points if you add Trekkies.
What about a gay pride parade or some such, so we finally have a way of actually effecting that issue? You could run into CCS sleepers or hitmen and news anchors, and jump in front of cameras like you do at the station.
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I am awesome and you all want to have my babies.
QFT
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I am awesome and you all want to have my babies.
QFT
WTF?
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That was my way of saying your suggestion is awesome.
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One can never be too careful on the Internet. I couldn't be sure it wasn't 'lolfag sarcasm' or something.
Of course, it would have been underlined if it was sarcasm.
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Of course, it would have been underlined if it was sarcasm.
Naturally.
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Now I'm trying to figure out what's with your broken link.
Problem with gay rights related raids is that there's not much for the LCS to disrupt. Mostly gay rights is conservatives disrupting liberal activity (anything Fred Phelps does for example.) We don't have things like psycological conventions on the dangers of homosexuality. So maybe gay rights should move in the opposite direction, with society tending to become more liberal on the issue naturally, but conservative organizations setting the movement back. The LCS would have to prevent conservative activity by disrupting raids or pre-empting them upon gaining intelligence, requiring the LCS to be on the stategic defensive as well as offensive.
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One can never be too careful on the Internet. I couldn't be sure it wasn't 'lolfag sarcasm' or something.
Of course, it would have been underlined if it was sarcasm.
To be specific, it stands for Quoted for Truth, i.e. quoted because it's oh so very true.
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One can never be too careful on the Internet. I couldn't be sure it wasn't 'lolfag sarcasm' or something.
Of course, it would have been underlined if it was sarcasm.
To be specific, it stands for Quoted for Truth, i.e. quoted because it's oh so very true.
Oh I know what QFT means, I've just never inspired baby-having feelings before.
Especially for advocating Gay Pride demonstrations. It's curious on several levels.
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Especially for advocating Gay Pride demonstrations. It's curious on several levels.
Curious? When talking about gay pride, you could almost call it queer.
[/bad joke]
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Hmm. How about a way to arrange parades and such? You could have a parade against nuclear power and such.
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Um.
I think you mean Protests. Not parades. I like it, but I think it's something sleepers can do, rather than active members of the LCS.
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Pfft. Protests are sad and conservative. Parades on the other hand are happy. When people are happy their mind changes.
You know those 50s style commercial spoofs? Environment commercials funded by nuclear power stations... That kind of funny stuff.
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If only we could put LSD in the drinking water; then everyone would be happy!
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Arguably, there's a point for including, say, a Water Treatment Plant or something and having a special site action (using a Science skill check?) that allows you to put LSD in the water. This would be a terrorist action in most levels of government (though for L+ you might get a medal instead) and should lead to (a) a flurry of newspaper articles about all sorts of weird stuff, possibly including a report that water may be tainted and drinking bottled water is advised, and also (b) most Conservatives are suddenly rendered completely useless at combat for the next few days.
Obviously a few Conservatives will believe in retaining their Purity Of Essence and not drink the tap water, but you'll get most of them. The justification for making them useless in combat is in the amusing video below:
Soldiers on LSD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8cjIlvgv0)
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While there was some paranoia in the 70's about drugs in the water supply, there probably isn't enough LSD in the world to taint the water supply of a major city.
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Because an active dose of LSD is very minute, a large number of doses can be synthesized from a comparatively small amount of raw material. Beginning with ergotamine tartrate, for example, one can manufacture roughly one kilogram of pure, crystalline LSD from five kilograms of the ergotamine salt. Five kilograms of LSD — 25 kilograms of ergotamine tartrate — could provide 100 million doses, according to the DEA, more than enough to meet what is believed to be the entire annual U.S. demand. Since the masses involved are so small, concealing and transporting illicit LSD is much easier than smuggling other illegal drugs like cocaine or cannabis.[74]
You were saying?
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So what, you're gonna dump 2.5 kilo's in there and hope it distributes itself evenly over the tens of millions of liters that people drink and none of it ends up in the hundreds of millions of liters that goes through the same system but ends up being used for bathing, cleaning, clothes washing, lawns, livestock, etc? Less then 1% of the water supply actually gets drunk so multiply by a factor of 100 there and then mulitiply by a factor of 10 (a low estimate probably!) to deal with uneven distribution and suddenly you're looking at needing 2500 kilograms to give a major city a dose. When the Feds busted the worlds biggest producers of LSD back in 2000, they found .2 kg of LSD in their possession. These guys were producing 1/3 of the worlds LSD supply according to some estimates and they only had less ten .1% of what you'd need to drug a city.
You were saying?
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Diffusion. Problem is that it'd spread out too slowly. That is; unless you make sure that only the water leaving the purification plant is laced...
Oh, and they only make such small quantities because there is no need for bigger quantities. LSD isn't a drug taken very often, and it's not exactly a profitable drug. I mean, you could probably get a dose for what, 10 bucks? Less? That'd leave you unable to do anything for around twelve hours...
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Its always in the chemistry. If you could take over the water plant for about a month, you could definatly lace the water supply with LSD. Note that LSD is a contact drug IIRC so anyone taking a shower or bath in LSD laced water is also likely to be effected. Note that this is something that always bothered me about Batman Begins in that the vaporized water causes immense fear and yet no one who took a shower was effected.
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They were probably terrified too, they just couldn't find their way out of the shower.
Also, it might not be a physically sound plan given the scale, but lacing the water supply with LSD is very much in the character of LCS, and would be a lot of fun if large scale events like that could be tracked.
Speaking of which, why isn't there a (de)criminalization of drugs issue?
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Or, like I said, you could just rig the distribution system with devices that release specific amounts of LSD. Honestly you don't need more than 40 micrograms to cause an effect; so even if the water and LSD didn't have time to diffuse completely, you would still be pretty much out of whack.
Might be too difficult to accomplish.
OH MY GOD AQIZZAR, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO MENTION THAT. Where have you hidden the Conservative Mind Reading Device?!
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Okay, possibly more practical idea. How about tampering w/ a local water main at night so that a five block radius has it's water severely contaminated? Then you send a bunch of hippies in raincoats to go pull on all the fire alarms throughout downtown...
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Okay, possibly more practical idea. How about tampering w/ a local water main at night so that a five block radius has it's water severely contaminated? Then you send a bunch of hippies in raincoats to go pull on all the fire alarms throughout downtown...
That's the sort of hilarious, multi-part plan I'd love to order my minions off to. Real machination.