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-Anyone who does Reddit, word that we were back got out within a day at r/alphacentauri - please generally be bumping that news, and convey this message, s'il vous plait:
Hi; I'm Buster's Uncle, the Owner and Manager of Alpha Centauri 2 Forums.
There are plans in the works to head off future downage like the extended period we just seem to have passed, and I think this forum is a superior format for SMACers to come together in. We have patches, mods, and custom factions, wallpapers, over 15 years worth of content accumulated, including -my personal favorite part- conversations as early as 2010, and it's WAY easer to find the old stuff than most social media formats, to put it (ridiculously) lightly.
We're a community, and we're made out of people.
I'm in it for the PEOPLE, and always have been, much as I love SMAC(X).
We see a lot of traffic, and always have, from people cynically following links to something in our Downloads, downloading and running. -And that's okay; in addition to being great gaming content, the various patches, for example, also serve as bait to the percentage who go up a level or two and have a look around the forum, and the percentage of those who sign up and join in. MORE people to do tech support with/ teach game art modding/post AARs/discuss SMAC(X) in whatever way/ discuss other games -we've got a subforum for that and several dedicated to specific other games-/ and even talk about whatever we please in our Off-Topic, Recreation Commons. (And that's not even getting into a lot of optional fun forum bells-and-whistles like Shop items and the 20 themes/skins.)
I invite YOU to be one of those people. I'm never signing up at Reddit, yet would REALLY like to see this invitation/sales pitch posted there.
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Oh, and bad news --- my dentist has sold his practice and is retiring on the seventh of next month, not two weeks notice.
I actually discussed this with him just about a year ago -he's 68 now if I recall right when we talked about it- I suggested he do half-day switch-offs for a few months to give the girls who work there a chance to train the new guy -I'm serious- in how the business is run so well w/ excellent treatment of customers.
Yeah, no. It sounds like the new guy is fresh out of school, and I'll buy the assurance that he's a lovely fellow, pending a meeting, but that means he's green, and won't be all that good at anything for a couple years. He's also married to a dental hygienist, which tends to require one of the girls -they're all actually about my age- gets bumped. Bummer. It was ideal there the way it was.
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Um, as an Archaeologist myself We all would luuuuvvv to hear more about this, I reckon. Specialty? Fieldwork? Where? Any good stories to share? Wanna talk about Indianna Jones? (Uno's a big fan - literally a Very Large Man Who Loves Indy.)
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« Last post by Geo on Today at 09:30:50 PM »
Paperback books count as wood, so there's the tie-in.
Which begs the question: would books 'preserved' on the 'perfect' wet site still be as eligible as clay tablets after 3-4 millennia?
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« Last post by Vidsek on Today at 09:12:41 PM »
Um, as an Archaeologist myself, I can confidently state that we much prefer wet ancient prehistory. Wet and anoxic. Dry sites rarely have more than stone and, occasionally, bone. Wet sites with no dissolved oxigen can have wood and other plant materials. Sometimes even animal stuff other than bone.
Paperback books count as wood, so there's the tie-in.
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At least one of those countries had the means to deliver and the possession of a biological WMD - remember the Scud attacks on Israel in 1991? [shrugs] I remember - and if stuff like that was reliable, effective and not-so-prone to bite the perpetrator on the butt, they could have been doing it since Victorian times...
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I was just reviewing the last page of Racing and, reading reply #391, came to a thing you do sometimes that could be done better: the multi-subject entry. Here, I'm reading about a population boom 100 year after Planetfall, and the generational change in attitude that accompanied it. The next pic is of a handsome young man in a spiffy white dress uniform and, with no transition whatsoever, we're suddenly talking about smart fabric. -Instead,
(^the both-ways pointing arrow button towards the right over the Reply box^) --- or even just --- would provide a universally-understood break and ease the jarring-ness of that - contra-wise, sometimes you figure out a connection between subjects and come up with a transitional phrase, obliviating the need. It's unfortunate that forum formatting makes simply some extra vertical spacing between topics somewhat impractical -most especially with pics involved- but I think it's communication/style issue worthy of giving some serious thought...
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« Last post by Geo on Today at 06:49:05 PM »
But Iran and Iraq didn't have nukes - Israel does, it's been said about all my life.
At least one of those countries had the means to deliver and the possession of a biological WMD - remember the Scud attacks on Israel in 1991?
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...And I'm not entirely sure I'm not overthinking it after the very first try w/ landscape background, save that I didn't need to leave the space between words...
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Is any of it really as scary as when the US was directly at war with fighting China in 1950, only on third/forth parties' land and pretending that wasn't what was going on? Daddy's least favorite war story was about pulling rotten Chinese bodies out of a Korean river. (As technically a medic, Dr. Potter couldn't always get him out of being put on corpse details several times, and it scarred/scared him for life.)
Not much of a proxy war, really, and McArthur's big mouth in the mix. It's probably a Very Good Thing for the entire human race that the Chinese didn't have a nuclear option yet, but maybe precedent is still that if we got out of THAT mess alive, maybe I'm too pessimistic.
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