>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.
— Academician Prokhor Zakharov
Alpha Centauri thread.
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You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world of industrial growth and hard currency. It is all very well and good to pursue these high-minded scientific theories, but research grants are expensive. You must justify your existence by providing not only knowledge but concrete and profitable applications as well.
-CEO Nwabudike Morgan "The Ethics of Greed"
I like the flavor text of the Bioenhancement Center:
>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
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TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
>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"
>tfw Ethics of Greed will never be a real book
>Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled. The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival.
— CEO Nwabudike Morgan, The Personal Diaries
W-what happened?
I wish 4X games were fun
they walked in on the crucial "how many dicks can fit inside one person" experiment
Nwabudike is a dumb nigga
>God tier
Santiago
>high tier
Miriam
Morgan
>mid tier
Lal
Deidre
>low tier
Zakharov
>shit tier
Yang
Good list
The devs didn't seem to like Santiago or the Spartansvery much. She doesn't get many quotes, and her faction doesn't map to its real life 1990's political ideology analogue nearly as neatly as any of the other factions do.
Peacekeeping son of a bitch detected
This. Sadness
>Bro Tier
Zakharov
Lal
>Cool Tier
Santiago
Deirdre
>Annoying tier
Morgan
Yang
>I wish you would fucking die already tier
Miriam
>"Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for a white man" into a Negro and get a jigaboo with intelligence."
Sid Meier was really provocative for his time with some of this material.
If my life were nothing more than a program cooked up by a computer while I float in a tank I'd want out of this nightmare.
How did they know?
Also, what was favourite secret project movie? The best was the Voice of Planet.
really makes you think
GET OFF MY LAND
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everytime i play no matter what my people riot and am forced to staple them
like how the fuck, ive got all my resources even outs or have profit in them, everyones fine and then random riots forever.....FUCK