We must dissent.
We must dissent
Luddite please go.
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literally the best atmosphere of any game
>Luddite please go.
NO!
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It was a great game all around
"Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers." - Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit"
Go and stay go.
Fuck off, Bowie, you're dead and gone.
Shut up and prepare your organic superlube, the believers are going in.
>read dune
>suddenly the whole setup of fictional book quotes and worms makes a lot of sense
Come and try it genejack.
Why are Bowie and Khan here?
"We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?" - Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)
she was right
SMAC writers foresaw PRISM/Echellon and all those projects.
By creating a planetary network, mankind on Planet now has the ability to share information at light-speed. But by creating a single such network, each faction has brought themselves closer to discovery as well. At the speed of light, we will catch your information, tag it like an animal in the wild, and release it unharmed-if such should serve our purposes.
>Disrespecting the Academician
That's a mind staplin'.
>SMAC writers foresaw PRISM/Echellon and all those projects.
Oh yeah, the bastards were ahead of their time and put actual effort and thought into it. They tried to represent all the various ideologies fairly and with true merit to each, even if they disagreed with it.
This game is one of the few games that stuck with for all those years and shaped me. Every time I feel physical pain I cant help but remember this vid:
My math 6th grade social studies teacher sold me this game for ten dollars (which back then was the equivalent to a week's worth of lunch) after her son didn't really take to it. This game pretty much changed my life.
>They tried to represent all the various ideologies fairly and with true merit to each
they pretty much gave flack to every one of them except maybe lal. Although Sup Forums will just spam "muh dead wife fucking"
I really like youtube.com
Which is weird because its a really good one
>they pretty much gave flack to every one of them except maybe lal.
Exactly. None of them were pure and perfect or the obvious writer's favorite. If they tried the same thing today with current writers the hippies or commies would be perfect little societies without any flaws or depth.
And you can say Lal is a naive, ineffectual faction that completely relies on the vote to accomplish anything, something that could be pretty much ignored in reality.
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>There are people who seriously consider Miriam morally better than any other faction
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
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She's morally superior to Yang, Santiago, and Zakharov at least.
>morally superior to Yang
That's not really an accomplishment.
She has a point.
Zakharov lost himself in research and did some damn shady thing in the name of science.
Spartans are just war mongerers, who would clone their troops in mass and give them cybernetic improvements without any care for moral issues - all for victory.
The Hive is willing to squash all individual right, even the basic right to live, for the "Greater good"
Morgan will do anything for a buck, even shady things if the price is right.
Gaia is a fucking tree loving hippie who'd put planet before mankind.
and Lal is just a broken old man, trying to hold on to the failed ways of the old world.
why is Lal so perfect Sup Forums? i want to hug him and tell him everything is gonna be alright
Only retards wouldn't, tbqh.
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Nice pic, user!
You look really cool in there.
You are cute. :3
>fedora
>when supporting a religious zealot
You don't know how that works, do you?
YANG DID NOTHING WRONG
>The Hive is willing to squash all individual right, even the basic right to live, for the "Greater good"
Nothing wrong with this
This.
North Korea is a paradise.
then you'd agree to die in favor of what some government person claims to be the bigger good?
Sure, are you some death-fearing untermensch?
in that case: go out there meet a woman get married have kids, two of them and work to support your family. dont forget to pay your taxes. Do it for the great good and stop wasting time playing video games and posting on Sup Forums.
This isn't the "post pictures of yourself" thread user
"Nerve stapling", pleb.
finding a good wife is the hard part; otherwise it should be a non issue
Did I say good wife anywhere? No I didnt. go out there first single woman of your race you meet - ask her on a date.
Do it for the greater good.
>This pasta again
When you will understand Miriam is one of the absolutely WORST leaders and actively uses her bullshit to sway masses?
that's your personal preference getting in the way of the greater good, indeed the greatest good would be taking up the worst wife to help everyone else.
Miriam has her faults too. but she never does anything morally shady.
here and I disagree with I don't mind any of this
>actively uses her bullshit to sway masses?
Like any other factions?
>uses her bullshit to sway masses
>she's a politician
I don't understand your point.
>God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
But that is not how logic works.
>Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)
>belief in god
>logic
pick one
could you you provide an academic source on the inherent conceptual superiority of logic above belief? thank you
Lal is the only sane man who still remembers what the mission was all about in the first place. Everyone else were quick to abandon the mission and follow their own agendas.
youtube.com
fucking nightmare fuel
That's the point. Zakharov is mocking the "logic" of Miriam's Believers in that quote. They are desperate to live in a universe that cares for them, so they make up illogical nonsense to comfort themselves.
No.
fucking lol didn't even think about it that way
Zakharov is so fucking cool
"eyy babe wanna fuck? IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD!"
Is that fucking Nicola Sturgeon?
Is this a game manual or a Scientology pamphlet?
GURPS expansion book.
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>AYY
But nowhere in the guide you posted is it said that she's a luddite.
>The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat. I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say.
>-mr. science man
>not so great
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Its called having fun user. The reason why it was spoilered is because it didn't fit with the joke.
The point is that they're all highly deluded in their own ways, not one faction in Alpha Centauri is morally clean or even truthful. That's what the game is all about, and why the atmosphere is so dark and the planet appearing so cruel.
Aside from the fact that his society would be creatively barren.
He is kind of the most loyal, but he's also underhanded, using spies regularly, and despite his talks of peace keeping he is easily angered and gets in everyone's face about it — he respects the others as much as they all respect each other.
>You will never overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone
>sea levels will rise
wow, does that actually happen in that game?
If you build a coastal city you're screwed?
>fun
>Sea levels will rise approximately 1133 meters over the next 20 years
I FUCKING LOVE BOREHOLES
If you don't build a certain structure, yes.
Chiron, Planet, is alive and if you're to harmful to the ecosystem it will get angry with you. You can, however, deploy solar sails to lower the sea level or melt the ice caps to raise it but that requires everybody to agree to it.
You can make cities underwater.
You can also build domes so cities won't get fucked if they go underwater.
If you have pressure tanks, your city will not drown.
>Daily reminder that Deadrie did not believe there was a God and it was all a front, she continued to believe to lead her people and dispair at where the Human Race was going.
One of my favorites. Feels relevant to today too.
> can you not spare 0 credits?
Bitch is asking for too much money, should have spend her pennies more wisely!
I installed the GOG version which comes with the widescreen patch but my game keeps crashing a few minutes after I start a map.
Help
Best event
>Deirdre
>leading anything but wormcock
>in the past 30 years we collected a few terabytes of data about the target planet
>2050
>terabytes of data are a lot
I just found that interesting.
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>Zakharov
>Actively creating and stockpiling chemical weapons, creating hybridized animals and other monsters.
>Spartans
>Created an army of slaves, cloned with any defects removed by cybernetics, a slave caste that served the warrior caste.
>Lal
>A megalomanic that begins to use the massive , complex bureaucracy to maintain the illusion of democratic power, kills his competition and commits human rights violations in reviving and cloning his long dead wife over and over.
Do remember that each faction is completely different to what we think of them, the leader of the Church is not the religious fundamentalist, the UN Peacekeeper is not the democratically elected leader. The faction typically is but the leader has qualities that run completely against what they present themselves as.
pls respond
Fuck, Miriam. Got them mixed.
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Don't worry, this ain't no SJW thing. Even the female leaders are covered.
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We can even get into the expansion races if needed.
Is that Mathew McConaughy?