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Offline astronaut23

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2013, 01:00:30 PM »
http://www.webspawner.com/users/shuttlehoax/

LOL...read if you dare.   The stupid it hurts to read.    ::)

This line :

Yet despite the absence of this blue glow we can still see blue coloured oceans which according to the opinion of some obtain their colour from the very same blue sky glow.

suggests to me that this is a spoof. Or at least I hope it is...

Well it doesn't suprise me if someone thought that.   They are dumb enough to see a reflection of sunlight off the comm antenna on the moonwalkers PLSS backbacks and claim it is a "wire".

Offline Echnaton

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2013, 01:10:17 PM »
Poe's Law

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Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett

Offline Drewid

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2013, 03:12:27 PM »
But since what we claim to be our satellites are really aliens in Unobtanium-Fueled-Orbiters, we lose that argument.

That would be Elerium, not Unobtainium. Elerium-115. You get 50 units of it per Power Source.

That does my old heart good. (I worked on the original x-com series.)

Offline raven

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2013, 07:43:54 PM »
I'll be honest, I found that game very hard to get into, though I know a lot of people revere it.

Offline Allan F

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2013, 08:20:03 PM »
It was fun on the Amiga. Completed it a couple of times, then started to edit the game files to get supersoldiers every time.
Well, it is like this: The truth doesn't need insults. Insults are the refuge of a darkened mind, a mind that refuses to open and see. Foul language can't outcompete knowledge. And knowledge is the result of education. Education is the result of the wish to know more, not less.

Offline Noldi400

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2013, 04:39:50 PM »
But since what we claim to be our satellites are really aliens in Unobtanium-Fueled-Orbiters, we lose that argument.

That would be Elerium, not Unobtainium. Elerium-115. You get 50 units of it per Power Source.

That does my old heart good. (I worked on the original x-com series.)

Really loved that game.  The reboot, not so much, although I do enjoy it.  It was just dumbed down a little too much. I guess the target market doesn't have the patience for resource management us old farts have.
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Offline Valis

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2013, 03:11:27 PM »
But since what we claim to be our satellites are really aliens in Unobtanium-Fueled-Orbiters, we lose that argument.

That would be Elerium, not Unobtainium. Elerium-115. You get 50 units of it per Power Source.

That does my old heart good. (I worked on the original x-com series.)
Kudos. The originals are still one of my favourite series; I played TFTD the last time less than a week ago.

Offline Noldi400

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Re: Space shuttle hoax...
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2013, 03:27:26 PM »
But since what we claim to be our satellites are really aliens in Unobtanium-Fueled-Orbiters, we lose that argument.

That would be Elerium, not Unobtainium. Elerium-115. You get 50 units of it per Power Source.

That does my old heart good. (I worked on the original x-com series.)
Kudos. The originals are still one of my favourite series; I played TFTD the last time less than a week ago.
Actually, I just got a copy of that from Oldgames (or something like that) and am planning to play it as soon as I finish up my current (new) XCOM game.
"The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are... a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut." - Dean Koontz