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I'm Mustang19, can't find you.
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roseweird posted:

haha do you remember the names of any of the players involved


whichever mod stickied the thread must have deleted it out of shame, this is the only reference i can find

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3342912&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=175#post388141529

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I'm 4467252.

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You didn't miss anything pan, it was unsuccessful. We'll try again later.
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when the spartans go planetbusting academician cities that's basically a wedgie
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Panopticon posted:

we need a SMAC style borehole that goes straight through the centre of the earth and out again. would dropping stuff into it zoom out the other side and whizz up into space or would gravity slow it down after it reached half way and force it into an eternal pendulum?



it just disappears. nobody knows why

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Lucille posted:

One issue I can see with anything surviving depletion is, how do you replace steel? Sure you can cheery-oh along with some Iron Age steampunk bullshit but there's nothing to indicate a replacement for steel and its alloys once coal runs out, and I'm pretty sure steel is critical to industrial civilization.



the answer is cabron fiber. and you say, "but what about skyscrabers??" solution: nuke every city that has even one syskrapper

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roseweird posted:

all carbon fiber is made from petrochemicals



thats just the resin though, right? seems like something that could potentially be resourced from organic renewables

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Fiberglass is the only decent organic material and it requires oil.

North Korea is sort of an example of what the post collapse world will look like. They didn't have access to the world markets so they developed Juche Fiber in place of what we use for plastics.
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Lucille posted:

Fiberglass is the only decent organic material and it requires oil.



http://techandle.com/2012/09/23/mushroom-building-bricks-that-are-stronger-than-concrete/

http://www.architectmagazine.com/building-materials/artificial-spider-silk-approaches-commercial-viability.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_carving

http://www.vosizneias.com/67836/2010/11/05/london-did-nazis-make-lampshades-from-jewish-prisoners-skin/

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Not only would you probably run out of goats before that could be applied on a large scale, but biological compounds tend to not do well in water or high temperature.
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you keep bringing up "large scale" while neglecting the possibilities of recreating industrial society on a small scale



Well it wouldn't work anyway, the point seems to be to create a ductile material for special applications not a replacement for steel, fiberglass, that kind of thing.

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Lucille posted:

Not only would you probably run out of goats before that could be applied on a large scale, but biological compounds tend to not do well in water or high temperature.



people who live in the ocean or desert/tropical environments will, continue to be, fucked

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make everything out of wood. sell it to hipsters
use millions of dead to fertilize new forests. the cycle of capitalism continues
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I'd say that's hard. Manganese reserves are steadily declining. In a few decades the Bessemer process and, by extension, survival will become impossible for most people. There are just too many special materials that industrial civilization depends on to work. And it would be extremely difficult to re-industrialize because the easily accessible surface resources are entirely depleted.
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tpaine posted:

if you fucking people keep nerding this place up i'm going to start handing out probations. believe it.



With respect, I'd just create more accounts.

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roseweird posted:

also i got banned from that smac forum, which you might find entertaining: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=4238.15

anyway i know no one is going to click that link so here is the PM i got from the admin shortly after registering and making a few posts in a thread looking for a game, it's amazing:

"I only realized today that you're in ghost mode, because I could see you all along - that is standard on forums for staff, but there's usually a clearer indication on other sorts of forum software than we use. Now, what follows is strictly not site policy, but my personal opinion, and you need not act on it or even reply.

Ghost mode, hiding your lurking presence from other members, is fair if everyone does it and fair if no one does it, but not fair if some do it. Information is power, and you deprive others of information they left available to you. In the years I was a common citizen, ghosts drove me batpoop; one of the things I love best about my nerdbadge is that 'I see dead people'.

You may have your own good reason for ghosting - and your reason(s) may well be none of my business in any of my capacities. I just wanted to share an opinion, and whatever you choose to do about it is okay."



youre dealing with a man who continually maintains an up-to-date site dedicated to playing a 14 year old pc strategy game. you deserve no mercy, and he will show you no mercy

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roseweird did you ever play dominions 3? there's an active goon multiplayer group for that and while it isn't as engaging as smac it's pretty good

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dominionsgoons

e: active relative to smac, i guess

also this forum seems to be relatively active
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php

that said apparently dominions 4 is coming out in september so maybe you should just :filez: dom3 and wait for that before paying

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