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Get your mind out of the Cabbage Patch.
Lady Squee said
Probably. One speech I did: I had been absent and while I was, the professor moved the speech up a week. So I get back and everyone is reading their index cards and I turn to someone. "What's going on?" "Speech today."I go up there, think of everything in about 5 minutes... I'm the only one to make an A.My biggest problem is talking about myself, I guess. I feel so cliche.
Problem solved: talk about me
In the year 2490 the Class-AAA trade-freighter Lambda set off for a week-long voyage from Martian Spaceport to its destination: Ganymede (Jupiter III). The freighter carried a mammoth shipment of explosives, food and other sundries en route to a long-established mining colony on Ganymede. Lambda was mysteriously lost in transit, although it had made the journey at least a dozen times prior to its disappearance. Unsurprisingly, there was intense backlash from the Merchant's Guild of Mars which demanded to know the whereabouts of their vessel, lest mining activities cease on the mining colony, and by extension cause severe loss in profit for the Martian people. Greed is an excellent motivator and for the financially-struggling Martian colonies, a loss of one substantial shipment can mean starvation for many.
Upon the request of the Merchant's Guild and the Martian Spaceport, the financiers of the Lambda voyage demanded their shipment, along with their freighter, be retrieved and delivered to Ganymede by any means necessary. The commanders of the Spaceport hired a mock crew of rogue space-cowboys to do their bidding, in the hopes that they would be required to pay them a smaller sum of Credits than if they hired professionals. 3 weeks after the Lambda's departure, a second spaceship was sent out into deep space to rendezvous with the Lambda, wherever it may be, and you are one of the crew members aboard this second vessel.
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The men and women aboard this second vessel (got any name suggestions for our ship? Write them in you reply.) are a variety of explorers, ship mechanics, cowboys, etc., many with questionable pasts, who are hired by the Martian Spaceport to retrieve said shipment. What they find en route to Ganymede/Jupiter III is just the beginning of a grander and more sinister plot that you, in all likelihood, do not wish to be part of. But without exception, there's two weaknesses all space-cowboys have: an easy paycheck while exploring the vast frontier of the solar system.
The technology level will be expanded upon further in the OOC, but to give you a general idea, space travel has been routine since at least the year 2250. But distance is still largely a liming factor in space-travel. Not to mention the enormous costs of owning and constructing a spaceship ship; in 2490, the income gap between the labor class and the upper class is still plaguing society - only a select few have the funds (and the balls) necessary to finance exploration of the final frontier. That's where we come in.
Any questions?
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Jorick said
Hahaha, oh man, that's hilariously stupid. Dumber even than the Republicans being dipshits about Benghazi and repeatedly trying to make Hillary Clinton look like an incompetent and horrible person for that nonsense. Same end goal of fucking with a 2016 presidential bid, but damn, at least there was more complexity and finesse to that than this amazingly stupid statement of "ermagerd this person is bad they shouldn't be elected!!!"
But Clinton WAS incompetent if she didn't know Benghazi was a terrorist attack.
After all, Hillary is supposed to be our Secret-ary of State.
Also Hillary is a lesbian, just thought I should put that out there. As we all know, lesbians can be very irrational.
mdk said
check out .I can't decide if I've ever heard a more outlandishly sane solution to the 'controversy' of marriage equality.
Yeah, I read about that yesterday, pretty funny.
NO, NOBODY CAN GET MARRIED NOW THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Munk said
The dude, who by the way was already known for his aggressive neighborhood watch tactics, carrying his concealed weapon, stepped out of his car and followed Trayvon Martin after explicitly being told not to by the police dispatcher—let's repeat that: George Zimmerman, a decade older and some seventy pounds heavier than Trayvon Martin, carrying a concealed weapon, , who was unarmed. He then murdered Trayvon Martin, was convicted—not even of manslaughter!—because of Stand Your Ground (which doesn't count if you're a young black man being followed by an armed man, apparently) and then proceeded to actually make money off of his murdering a boy. Tell me again how he's a victim.As for the racism, it seems pretty clear that Zimmerman holds some racist views (you think this would have happened if it was a white kid?). Being Hispanic doesn't stop him from being racist.ETA: Speaking of racism and the whole "well it was self defense" thing: (prosecuted by the same lawyer as George Zimmerman!) killed exactly nobody after being abused by her husband. For some reason she doesn't get to invoke Stand Your Ground.Kill a kid? Well, sure, it was self defense. Fire a warning shot at a wall? 20 years in prison for you, lady. See how self defense is exactly what we want it to be?
Zimmerman was known for no such thing. He was known to be a successful neighborhood watchman who reported suspicious activity and never overstepped any boundaries.
In Zimmerman's neighborhood, there had been a series of break-ins and robberies prior to the Trayvon Martin incident.
Not to mention, if he was really that guilty, the jury could have chosen a guilty verdict. But they didn't. Also why are you trying to bring his lawyer's past history into this? His lawyer did his job which is to provide a defense for his client. That's how our judicial system works, homegirl and you're the type of person that would have condemned women in Salem to be burned as witches without hearing all of the evidence because you base legal cases on emotion, not evidence.
Dervish said
I actually think the game looks great for an MMO. It actually has more detailed graphics than I expected.
You must not have played many MMOs because I can list 10 that have superior graphics when playing TESO at max settings. But the graphics are just nitpicking, the gameplay itself is very meh, it gets slightly more difficult around level 10, but it's still not challenging. Skyrim is definitely more of a conquest and feels rewarding. TESO, not so much.
Azarthes said
I'm still betting on it going FTP within a 6 month time.
They also had an NDA because the initial feedback was so bad from many players and they didn't want word of their mediocrity getting around before they launch the game.
Basically, unless you're a HUGE fan of the Elder Scrolls series and willing to overlook said mediocrity, you probably won't be billing to shell out 15 a month for this game. It's gonna go the way of Star Wars: The Old Republic. They're gonna sap as much money as possible in the first few months before they have to switch to an F2P+Cash Shop model to keep profit coming.
The Nexerus said
Unhealthy people dying is good for the economy, Griever. Especially if they're elderly.
That would be the case if they died overnight. But smokers and drinkers take many years before they finally croak.
They suffer for many, many years and all along that journey they sap taxpayer cash via healthcare.
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