Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm absolutely exhausted. My legs keep bothering me at night and then had a bad reaction to some new medication and ended up in the emergency room.

 

[Snerk]

That does sound like a drag. I'm also exhausted, though I have no excuse in particular. Just generally.

 

[Takhisis]

Get better, aimee.

That ended, unfortunately. That's a rant for another day.

Oh, I see.

Time to show commitment! You know she visited that Starbucks once, surely she'll show up again if you wait there for long enough.

That might make Lemon look a bit like a stalker.

Fireworks are obviously for celebrating We Love The King Day when you have 5 Luxury Resources.

I never let my citizens have luxuries. As soon as I can steal Fanaticism from the Goblins or Infidels and my cities can support it, I switch to that form of government and poof! No more worries about whether or not anyone is happy.

That is so you

Valka reminds me of a certain person who'd only play Alpha Centauri if Neural Suction was enabled.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Valka reminds me of a certain person who'd only play Alpha Centauri if Neural Suction was enabled.

That sounds rather grim.

I've tried SMAC, but never get very far. I've read the trilogy of novels, though.

Honestly, my citizens can be happy if they want; they're welcome to dance a jig every morning if that's what pleases them. But no amount of whining and complaining is going to get me to build them a temple, arena, or whatever unless it's seriously interfering with the food supply or production of something I really need. And if I do end up having to build them a temple, etc., it always gets sold the moment I don't need it anymore.

In my current game the Goblins and Infidels are taking their sweet time about researching Fanaticism. It's annoying because they're the only ones who can do this; I'm playing the Buteo - bird people - and the only way I can get Fanaticism is to send in a skald or Fairy and steal it; it's not even a tradable tech and you don't get it if you simply conquer a city.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Time to show commitment! You know she visited that Starbucks once, surely she'll show up again if you wait there for long enough.

She was pretty. Maybe I'll invest in some camping gear.

That might make Lemon look a bit like a stalker.

Nah. I'm just camping out for the fresh coffee early in the morning. Uh-huh. That's it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

She was pretty. Maybe I'll invest in some camping gear.


Nah. I'm just camping out for the fresh coffee early in the morning. Uh-huh. That's it.

Look on the bright side. She might be kicking herself for not getting your number, too.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, Lemon, you're a camper, not a stalker. Totally different. Is the Starbucks a known respawning spot?

That sounds rather grim.

He was fourteen years old at the time, but I doubt there's much of a difference between him and alleged ‘adults’.

Honestly, my citizens can be happy if they want; they're welcome to dance a jig every morning if that's what pleases them. But no amount of whining and complaining is going to get me to build them a temple, arena, or whatever unless it's seriously interfering with the food supply or production of something I really need. And if I do end up having to build them a temple, etc., it always gets sold the moment I don't need it anymore.

In my current game the Goblins and Infidels are taking their sweet time about researching Fanaticism. It's annoying because they're the only ones who can do this; I'm playing the Buteo - bird people - and the only way I can get Fanaticism is to send in a skald or Fairy and steal it; it's not even a tradable tech and you don't get it if you simply conquer a city.

What game is this?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What game is this?

Civilization II: Test of Time. Fantasy scenario. The seven factions are the Infidels (equivalent to human Mongols), Humans (should be self-explanatory), Stygians (undead), Goblins (nasty little creatures), Merfolk, Elves, and Buteo (bird people).

The game is played on a map that has four levels: Underwater, Underground, Surface World, and Sky. I prefer to play the Buteo because they have the easiest access to the Clouds, where they can build cities (the Magic Clouds are incredibly productive once you get mines and roads built), and it's pretty easy to access the underwater realm. All the factions start out able to build cities on the Surface. As for accessing the underground, it's easiest to find a barbarian Dwarf and bribe him; after that you can build Dwarf units that can tunnel down to the underground, or find the Gate of Hel (a gate between the surface and underground that some units can use).

The Midgard and Lalande (science fiction scenario) versions of this game force the player to think 3-dimensionally. What may be solid land on one level may be empty space or water or impassable terrain on another level.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

So, I'm in the process of giving up nicotine, and I'm in a really foul mood today.
It started last night, with a dream. Pretty cool storyline actually, post-apocalyptic and stuff, but in that dream I was chain smoking and feeling guilty about it, which is already pretty bad.
Also, I kept running into an ex, and everytime I saw here there was another guy. Shortly before I woke up I saw her making out with a guy she was with before and after our relationship. Now, I'm actually over her. At least I think so. Subconciously, well...
The dream made me far angrier than it should have. When I woke up I was seething. Of course, there's also a lot of meta-anger. The feeling of being angry about being angry, because you know you shouldn't be so angry about something so inconsequential. Recognizing that my anger is irrational should calm me down, instead it just enrages me more. I'm in an effing feedback loop here.

 

[Akka]

Civilization II: Test of Time. Fantasy scenario.

Holy crap, that goes back a far long way. Though TBH, I played with it a bit but I found the original Master of Magic to be so much better at this that I just went back to it ^^

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So, I'm in the process of giving up nicotine, and I'm in a really foul mood today.
It started last night, with a dream. Pretty cool storyline actually, post-apocalyptic and stuff, but in that dream I was chain smoking and feeling guilty about it, which is already pretty bad.
Also, I kept running into an ex, and everytime I saw here there was another guy. Shortly before I woke up I saw her making out with a guy she was with before and after our relationship. Now, I'm actually over her. At least I think so. Subconciously, well...
The dream made me far angrier than it should have. When I woke up I was seething. Of course, there's also a lot of meta-anger. The feeling of being angry about being angry, because you know you shouldn't be so angry about something so inconsequential. Recognizing that my anger is irrational should calm me down, instead it just enrages me more. I'm in an effing feedback loop here.

Are you wearing a nicotine patch to bed? That can give you really vivid dreams.

I tried the patch and had to wear it to bed because it can take a few hours for it to get a good dose into you and if I woke up without it already on I started immediate, hard withdrawals. So I had to suck it up and deal with the crazy dreams.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I got a letter from my health insurer yesterday telling me the monthly payment for my plan, which is $111 a month after subsidies, will be $218 next year. Which is brutal and I'd have to find a cheaper plan.

The silver lining is that the State of Michigan is currently processing my application since my income for 2017 has me as eligible for Medicaid.

Because otherwise, spending $218 a month on my current plan is lol. I'd probably have to drop down to a super bare bones bronze plan. It's bad enough that I have one regular med that pretty much not a single plan covers and costs me $340 every time I have to get it, which is extremely painful.

 

[cardgame]

So as far as I was aware, medicaid's whole purpose is to take care of the poor. Right? That's what it's for. To do that.

In actuality, unless you have kids or have been determined to be medically disabled, you're ineligible in my state. It doesn't matter how much income or assets you have or don't have. Kicked to the curb.

 

[EgonSpengler]

A suspect in a crime was being interrogated by police when he said, "Just get me a lawyer, dog." The detectives thought he was asking for a literal lawyer-dog. That is, a lawyer who is a dog. Obviously, they could provide him no such thing, so they continued the interrogation. At the man's trial, his lawyer said the interrogation should be thrown out because the defendant's right to an attorney during questioning was violated. He was denied. He went to an Appeals Court. He was denied. He went to the Louisiana Supreme Court, who also denied the motion. A justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court wrote, in his concurring opinion, "In my view the defendant's ambiguous and equivocal reference to a 'lawyer dog' does not constitute an invocation of counsel that warrants termination of the interview."

I can't believe I live in this country, sometimes.

 

[Synobun]

Hey, wait a second, this isn't the lame jokes thread...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Holy crap, that goes back a far long way. Though TBH, I played with it a bit but I found the original Master of Magic to be so much better at this that I just went back to it ^^

It's my favorite version of Civ. As I explained before, my username was derived from a name I made up as the leader of the Uridian faction in the Lalande scenario.

I've been considering trying to write some stories based on my games, but haven't really put a lot of effort into it. Yet. My storywriting activities are fixed on my long-term NaNoWriMo projects.

 

[Takhisis]

Civilization II: Test of Time. Fantasy scenario. The seven factions are the Infidels (equivalent to human Mongols), Humans (should be self-explanatory), Stygians (undead), Goblins (nasty little creatures), Merfolk, Elves, and Buteo (bird people).

The game is played on a map that has four levels: Underwater, Underground, Surface World, and Sky. I prefer to play the Buteo because they have the easiest access to the Clouds, where they can build cities (the Magic Clouds are incredibly productive once you get mines and roads built), and it's pretty easy to access the underwater realm. All the factions start out able to build cities on the Surface. As for accessing the underground, it's easiest to find a barbarian Dwarf and bribe him; after that you can build Dwarf units that can tunnel down to the underground, or find the Gate of Hel (a gate between the surface and underground that some units can use).

The Midgard and Lalande (science fiction scenario) versions of this game force the player to think 3-dimensionally. What may be solid land on one level may be empty space or water or impassable terrain on another level.

I really should get Civ 2 for that kind of thing. On the other hand I am playing my way through Wesnoth (a game I really recommend).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I really should get Civ 2 for that kind of thing. On the other hand I am playing my way through Wesnoth (a game I really recommend).

I haven't heard of that one.

The thing about multi-level maps is that I now find single-level maps rather boring. Just think... you're minding your own business, a Dragon shows up (eventually you can acquire the tech to build your own Dragon units, but in the early-mid game they're really dangerous), and you have no Sorcerers handy to attack them on that level (either Sky or Surface)... but you have a city either underground or underwater that has a Sorcerer that can teleport to the level where the Dragon is and has enough movements (6 tiles) to attack the Dragon before it does any damage. The Dragon literally never saw it coming.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Anybody remember Civilization: Call to Power and the underwater cities? That was a cool concept that I wish had been put into real Civ games...

 

[Traitorfish]

So tonight I went to see critically-acclaimed death-grind-whatever-core band Nails. The first twenty-five minutes of their set was great.

I'm not sure what like the last hour would have been like, because the singer mumbled something about technicality difficulties and all they all walked off stage.

Very punk rock.