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Posting to help! eta: turns out I didn't need to!
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Mar 10, 2015 17:29
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yea sure, why did that guy just get probated? Everything is fine. Do not adjust your set.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:31
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yea sure, why did that guy just get probated? He did a thing you're not allowed to do.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:49
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Mission 15: Best Served Cold Loading Screen Quote of the day:  Ouch. Never mess with a bureaucrat.  Now it’s time to fight off the OTHER rebel hordes! These ones won’t listen to Marco, sadly.  Sometimes in Tropico, every day is Talk Like A Pirate Day.  Today we are a War Hero, bravely fighting alongside our troops! That has always been our background, even if you say otherwise!  For this mission let’s select Hotel Corporate Buyout for our rise to power. After all, we just BOUGHT out the island of Puerto Gato! As for our three Traits…  Obsessed? We’re not obsessed! We just think you can do things a little bit better and more cheaply!  I plan on having a LOT of journalists coming up, might as well make them vote for me! Heh heh heh.  El Toucan was killed. This time, for revenge, we put on the mask! This time, there will be no more innocent toucan blood shed! EVER! And we’ll punch out and lock up anyone who says otherwise! So let’s begin!  …well, looks like PR Specialist won’t come in handy after all, due to “no elections” being permanently in place. But whatever! Let’s roll with what we’ve got, baby!  Current Resistance: 70. Hmmm…  Hey, not bad! We start off this mission with a pretty well-developed infrastructure. Power plant, casino, art museum, Eternal Flame, Prison… this island has everything we need! We could do with a high school or some production buildings, though. In the meantime I’m ordering a tourism sector down by the beach, as usual.  What?! NOOOOOOOO! You rear end in a top hat, those things aren’t cheap!  Crapola. At least we still have the college-educated ladies that were once working there.  Hmm, since the center of the island is elevated, we could generate 40 MW of power with just one turbine in the right spot. Make it so!  “Hey, doc, how’s it going?” “BADLY! When the hell is this turbine going to be finished? We can’t run the hospital equipment off of llamas on treadmills forever!”  With some coaching from El Presidente, the turbine is finished quickly, powering up the Casino and Hospital and reducing Resistance Members by 5, to 65.  Oooh, good idea. And since the Art Museum is run by two Journalists already, that means I have 2 of the 8 needed. Hmm, probably a TV station or Radio Station plus newspaper will suffice… I spy an optional objective by the palace…  Oh, yeah, THIS sounds like a good idea. Umm… maybe I should just wait a bit until I have enough dough to justify this. Or a place to put all those new criminals.  Big Boss? Is that you!?  The tourism district is growing slowly, with two hotels, a cocktail bar, and a beach site. Hmm, is that another optional objective I spy?  Uh-oh. I, uh… oh, man, I’m just gonna wait till I have more soldiers, okay? Marco is making a lot of requests for all sorts of things to be blown up besides this too, like our Childhood Museum, our Art Museum and so on. Fulfilling these requests lowers Resistance, but increases rebels. Risky.  Behold, another DLC building, the LABOR CAMP! Yes, instead of reforming prisoners, we just enslave them and turn them into farmers to create whatever crop we desire! Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!  There’s a lot of illiterate dumbasses who need education to fill the jobs at the church, the Labor Camp, the Bunker, and so on. C’mon, graduate already, will you!?  MARRIAGES FOR EVERYONE! If you have a problem with this, get the hell off my island.  Now, according to our threat report, there are 6 rebels on the island, but 10 soldiers. So we can be sneaky and lure some of them into a trap to eliminate some of them.  We COULD also offer the rebels Amnesty, but that only works if you’ve got a significantly high happiness rating. Silence the Rebels works too, for up to 3 years, but lowers the respect of the intellectuals.  They’re attacking the ministry!  Casualties on both sides as they shoot at each other. Pew! Pew!  Excellent! Now we can get down to business. There’s only 2 rebels left. Our micro-skirmish has tipped the odds in our favor, we can safely blow up one more building for Marco. Eventually.  Free detonator!? Hey! That’s treason!  Ooh, now THIS looks like a pretty good optional objective. If one of the buildings he thinks the stash is in is also one of the buildings that Marco Moreno wants to destroy… heh. That’s all for now, but let’s take a look at the center of the island and the tourism district before we go.   Till next time, Tropicans… when we start BLOWING poo poo UP! Poll: What’s YOUR favorite explosive or famous explosion? Mine is Tunguska. Speedball fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 18:49
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I don't think any explosion in human memory can match the Krakatoa eruption.
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Mar 10, 2015 19:12
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yea sure, why did that guy just get probated? He posted OP's fetish webcomic.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:27
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Don't try to stir poo poo. Scaly Haylie fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 20:40
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If you actually care, check their rap sheet. You know, besides like, Krakatoa, and the explosions in Starship troopers, nothing comes to mind when I think Explosions. Freespace 2 did very nice ones from a video game perspective.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:49
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1961's Tsar Bomba experiment, the biggest man-made explosion ever recorded.  Which means that El Presidente is sure to find a way to exceed this record.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:53
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radintorov posted:1961's Tsar Bomba experiment, the biggest man-made explosion ever recorded. Wasn't that the one that had scientists worried that the explosion might ignite the entire atmosphere?
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Mar 10, 2015 22:26
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Hogge Wild posted:He posted OP's fetish webcomic. Veloxyll posted:If you actually care, check their rap sheet. Also if you haven't played Red Faction Guerrilla and The Saboteur you absolutely should. Now there were two games that made explosions and terrorism fun!
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Mar 10, 2015 22:48
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kaosdrachen posted:Wasn't that the one that had scientists worried that the explosion might ignite the entire atmosphere? The version I've heard of that story is that this was true of the FIRST tested atomic bomb. They went ahead with it anyways. Edit: Looked it up, turns out they considered the possibility, looked into it, figured it was unlikely, and then happened to mention the incident to someone who wouldn't shut up about it. Tomn fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 22:49
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Yeah, people babbling about stuff they know nothing about and spreading disinformation is kind of a hallmark of the human condition. In this particular case they forgot to calculate heat dispersal, in the original model everything would stay the same temperature as at ground zero, hence, infinite nuclear explosion of the atmosphere!
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Mar 10, 2015 22:58
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That's actually what one of the first proper computers, MANIAC, was created to calculate. Whether or not the atmosphere would be detonated by an H-Bomb, that is.
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Mar 11, 2015 03:39
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I have a small spot in my heart for the Big Bang, even though it wasn't really an explosion.
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Mar 12, 2015 06:07
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Speedball posted:Yeah, people babbling about stuff they know nothing about and spreading disinformation is kind of a hallmark of the human condition. Heh. Kind of a big oops, but still glad to know they made sure to check their notes /before/ setting it off.
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Mar 12, 2015 10:02
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Personally, I think I gotta go with the British trying to blow up Heligoland, while not even using nuclear weapons to do so.
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Mar 16, 2015 23:16
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Definitely Tunguska. I'm all for colossal Shoggoth explosions.
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Mar 31, 2015 22:18
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kaosdrachen posted:Heh. Kind of a big oops, but still glad to know they made sure to check their notes /before/ setting it off. 
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