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by Ford Prefect
Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:34 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517794

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I think how the Bragulans make war has a lot to do with how clever they're supposed to be about all the oppression. Does the system just want a whole lot of Bragulans to march into the jaws of battle, or does it want to beat other nations ? In the later case then yeah, I can see them forming social ...
by Ford Prefect
Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:14 pm
Forum: Comix!
Topic: Interesting Link and Content Thread
Replies: 373
Views: 203557

Re: Interesting Link and Content Thread

I'll be honest, I've always found jodhpurs kind of goofy looking.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Birthday thread
Replies: 528
Views: 314804

Re: Birthday thread

Hope it was a good one, Boots.
by Ford Prefect
Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:56 pm
Forum: Literature
Topic: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY (COMPLETE)
Replies: 71
Views: 53051

Re: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY

Vic that comic is just insanely rad. I keep coming back to it.
by Ford Prefect
Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:34 am
Forum: Literature
Topic: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY (COMPLETE)
Replies: 71
Views: 53051

Re: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY

A part of me would like to believe that at the end of all this, Rey might have grown as a person, but ...
by Ford Prefect
Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:12 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236235

Re: Random ideas (again)

I bet Stevie Nicks wishes her nose could have regenerated.
by Ford Prefect
Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:58 am
Forum: Westworlds
Topic: Motley Musings
Replies: 12
Views: 32468

Re: Motley Musings

Obviously we can draw parallels to the American Civil War, but I like the wider political tensions. It strikes me as a little unusual that Caliora Empire waited so long to intervene, but certainly if nothing else moved them, Washington burning most of the place to the ground would.
by Ford Prefect
Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:04 pm
Forum: Literature
Topic: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY (COMPLETE)
Replies: 71
Views: 53051

Re: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY

If you can make Darkness' dialogue any more ridiculous, I will be honestly pretty shocked.
by Ford Prefect
Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:43 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517794

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

A society like this strikes me as really volatile, even if that's how they're socialised and how their brain chemistry works. You'd think that even if the guys at the top are physiologically averse to playing nice to their underlings in any way, they'd at least present society with a tiny kernel of ...
by Ford Prefect
Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:48 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517794

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and you too can be Shere Khan.
by Ford Prefect
Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Book Thread
Replies: 203
Views: 162487

Re: The Book Thread

Actually speaking of degeneration, I finished No Country For Old Men today. I finished The Road faster, but I read that on the plane back from Japan so had heaps of time. I think Blood Meridian was more powerful, but once again Cormac McCarthy demonstrates his incredible talent. If you haven't read ...
by Ford Prefect
Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Status update!
Replies: 6
Views: 6361

Re: Status update!

Man, somehow it just feels like yesterday, and yet so long ago all the same ...
by Ford Prefect
Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:28 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Replies: 979
Views: 517794

Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited

I'll just say I like the idea of Baylor trying to retire to some far off farming colony on the fringe (which is really an air conditioned resort where you run automated harvester machines for luxury goods). Trying being the operative word, as it's hard to escape the pull of the core even when you re...
by Ford Prefect
Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:57 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Random Ideas (Input Requested!)
Replies: 503
Views: 338933

Re: Random Ideas (Input Requested!)

Man, is that some social commentary. :)
by Ford Prefect
Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Birthday thread
Replies: 528
Views: 314804

Re: Birthday thread

happy birthday, my main man in the Phils.
by Ford Prefect
Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:05 am
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Gizmos, Gadgets & Gunnery
Replies: 92
Views: 82776

Re: Gizmos, Gadgets & Gunnery

The comment in the article about the project running hugely over-budget makes me think that there might be some mileage in writing articles about things which did get canceled, even in the world of Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda. For flavour.
by Ford Prefect
Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593654

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

Yeah, the difference is obvious and immediate and really quite good.
by Ford Prefect
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:52 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Gizmos, Gadgets & Gunnery
Replies: 92
Views: 82776

Re: Gizmos, Gadgets & Gunnery

Okay this isn't a very intellectual thing to say but that owns.
by Ford Prefect
Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:21 am
Forum: Literature
Topic: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY (COMPLETE)
Replies: 71
Views: 53051

Re: [Secret Santa] ADVENT REY

Suversive, perverse, deranged. One can forgive overlong infodumps where they end with 'mondo unslick repartee'.
by Ford Prefect
Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: Westworlds
Topic: Motley Musings
Replies: 12
Views: 32468

Re: Motley Musings

Revengence.

That's only half a joke, you'd think guys like this would do a really good business in acting as Furies in cowboy hats. That's a pretty obvious one admittedly. Hunting contract breakers is a little different but also probably appropriate.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:39 pm
Forum: Westworlds
Topic: Motley Musings
Replies: 12
Views: 32468

Re: Motley Musings

When I hear about these guys I think 'Pinkertons'. That might be the wrong image to have, but my impression of the Pinkertons is that they were pretty bad dudes in their own way.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Birthday thread
Replies: 528
Views: 314804

Re: Birthday thread

Thanks guys, 'preciate it. :)
by Ford Prefect
Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:23 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236235

Re: Random ideas (again)

Alphanaut.
by Ford Prefect
Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Topic: Countries, Regions and Locations
Replies: 48
Views: 41719

Re: Countries, Regions and Locations

The Red Menace is on your doorsteps, New York. :) Really beautiful building too, though I don't recognise it. When it's not moonlighting as the Communist consulate, what is it?