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Yup, those huge Australian spiders with red fangs would scare the shit out of me! >_>
Some of the houses are tenanted though.
 
valcik said:
Some of the houses are tenanted though.
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So if I buy the town do I get to order my citizens around or is it more like a Sim City thing where I have to create residential, industrial and commercial zones and then provide services for more citizens to arrive and pay taxes? It did say it had water rigth? So that's covered, maybe I'll build some windmills now, or should I go for a coal power plant in preparation for city growth? :P
 
Glad we don't have any huge spiders with fangs over here in Finland. There was a 'bear scare' the other day, probably still ongoing. A young bear is running around in a city in southern Finland. They put out a nation wide alert about the poor bear for the whole country for the entire day yesterday. I can't even...I mean Finland is geographically a pretty big country. That bear's not gonna eat all of us. Plus it's a juvenile, it's just scared.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/bear_scare_in_hamina/8883457

And even if a bear comes at you, just do a heavy metal - shout and the bear will go away.



Anyway, cool thing that Aussie town for sale. I've heard that lot of places like that in Aussieland, places off the beaten track. It's also a huge country.
 
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Anatoli Bugorski once decided it was a good idea to take a peek at a malfunctioning particle accelerator.


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People tell you how you should switch to some random Open source OS because it's "Superior", but then you do and you realize none of the programs you use work on it and you would need to switch to inferior alternatives with interfaces designed by blind chimps to be able to do the half of the same work on this open source OS the dude insists is superior...
 
Walpknut said:
People tell you how you should switch to some random Open source OS because it's "Superior", but then you do and you realize none of the programs you use work on it and you would need to switch to inferior alternatives with interfaces designed by blind chimps to be able to do the half of the same work on this open source OS the dude insists is superior...
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Yeah, that's a terrible way of introducing people to the said "open os". It's a great system, but one should not install it because other people told him so, one should find out himself why he would want to use it. If you don't have that itch and your current OS solves all your needs, there is no point in switching. His persuasion would do more good if he would just introduced people with the existence of the said os and WHY it exists, then leaving it up to them to decide if they will ever have an itch that the said os could scratch.
 
Some people have put in a crap ton of work into developing all those os things. And linux stuff also. Without much or any salary, not sure how it exactly happens. Wonder if Linus Thorwald, the Finnish developer of Linux, makes money out of the whole shebang.
 
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Some people have put in a crap ton of work into developing all those os things. And linux stuff also. Without much or any salary, not sure how it exactly happens. Wonder if Linus Thorwald, the Finnish developer of Linux, makes money out of the whole shebang.
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He works for the non-profit linux foundation, which is funded by many companies around the world who use linux for mission critical tasks. Money does not appear to be a problem for him:

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/linus-torvalds-net-worth/

Although he did not make any money in the first years of linux. I would gather that most of the software in linux was at least initially done as a hobby (meaning no one paid them to do it). Currently there appears to be quite a few open source software development jobs that pay.

There is a documentary that explains linux origins:

 
I remembered some funny cringe inducing lame misadventure of mine. I was hanging around with a friend, we were talking about shitty graphic adventure games that we were playing (like cool alpha males do) and I was explaining to him how this one I was playing just made no sense, it involved a Monkey creating a puddle and running off and that somehow leading to me fixing a crashed plane. Thing is the second I was explaining to him how the game called attention to the monkey with the character going "Oh look a monkey!" Out of a store walk out 3 black dudes just hanging out who literary just heard to me exclaim my surprise at looking at a monkey when they came into my view. I was dressed with a long coat too because it was late at night and I was super edgy with my long coats back then. They probably thought I was some neo nazi fucker instead of a dork talking about a shitty adventure game, kind of surprised I didn't get beat up. We just walked onwards not looking back, me feeling awkward with my face bright red, my friend just contiaining his laugther. I still cringe whenever I remember it.
 
Walpknut,

funny. Being a graphic adventure games fan can have some inherent hazards that one should be aware of. Situational awareness, just like in the games themselves. As long as you don't look like a two meter tall blond, blue eyed, typical 'Aryan'-type, or a skinhead, a sort of hunched over little goblin-type with a shaved head and beer bottle in hand, I'm sure you're ok. Or a drunk football hooligan or something. Or that they detected that there was no real malice in what you said, since you're mostly a good dude (chaotic good?). :-D No seriously, you're ok.
 
Reading 40k, WHF or D&D manuals on the bus and people looking at you like you are into a satanic cult anyone?

Mazes and Monsters is a far out game...


@MutantScalper You would be surprised of the ammount of south american neo-nazis who european ubermensch would beat up for belonging to an inferior race just by looking at them.
 
Gonzalez said:
Reading 40k, WHF or D&D manuals on the bus and people looking at you like you are into a satanic cult anyone?
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Here we tend to shrug such off as rebelliousness. It's allready a "common knowledge" that black-metal "satanists" and such are "actually nice fellows behind all that make-up! You can play tennis with them!"

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Btw - are there any Arabic speakers on the forum? Does Mohamed2001 speak it?
I'd like to know what "Trans-Saharan Federation" would be like in Arabic, both script and phonetically.
I tried Google-translating it, but there's no reliable way to double-check if a translation is sound (and very often, it's FAR from sound... )
 
The European footie championships have been pretty entertaining so far. Not sure if the American NMA'ers follow those? If you guys want to get into footie, these might be the matches that will lure you in.

The hooligan activity has been pretty high with the English doing their traditional thing, the Russians being the new kids on the block and 'challenging' the English and the others bubbling under. Can't imagine buying expensive tickets to a footie game only to return home with a gashed head.
 
MutantScalper said:
The hooligan activity has been pretty high with the English doing their traditional thing, the Russians being the new kids on the block and 'challenging' the English and the others bubbling under. Can't imagine buying expensive tickets to a footie game only to return home with a gashed head.
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It's a strange world we live in, where if you go to a mma or boxing event (those that people consider brutal and untasteful), you are mostly sure about your safety, however if you go to football match, all bets are off.
 
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