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Geo recently told me I should change my User Title to "Through fair elections, I" -which completes the phrase on the next line w/ my post-rank. So I did.
Yesterday, with permission, I changed Solver's from "WPC absentee landlord" to "Soren's lackey". We had some amusing back and forth about other possibilities, many not actually meeting AC2 community decency standards. -Most involving humiliating submission/ sycophancy/sexual slavery to one Soren Johnson, a young man I understand some of you have acquaintance of and knew would never amount to anything.
SO - we're gonna have a good time here, making jokes. It will be February Monday, and I need a new Custom User Title of the Month. -In fact, the following Saturday will be the Ninth Anniversary of when we got serious about AC2, so something on that theme preferred. Something that can meaningfully end in "Transcend" would be awesome, but not required.
The rules basically revolve around You Have To Talk Me Into It, so not cussing, not super-obscene, etc. -Not that you can't suggest those in attempted humor -go ahead- just, it won't actually fly. Funny would probably be the main priority, usually. Let's have fun w/ this, and not leave it all to Geo. Now I miss E_T and Green1.
[This just in] Uno points out that my avatar should be up for abuse, so that, too. If the ideas good enough, hey, I'll do at least some of the work. I'll tend to hold out for being provided the base image, mind.
For the fun of it, I could gift winners with the "Change Other's Title" Shop item, and let them do it to me themselves.
-Naturally, if trust is not kept, it will be wasted as soon as I come on in the morning, at very latest...
I'm not fooling with polls, but I hope y'all will informally vote on all suggestions...
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And hey - no playing for blood with anything to do with [Sleezebag]. Not funny.
Be funny, thanks.
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Nine years and all I ever did was
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[nonsense]
Have you interacted with Lorizael any? That sounds like him. Next wacky forum game: The Alphonse and Gaston of "I suck" have it out, anti-Thunderdome! ;lol
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TWO MEN ENTER - HEY, NOBODY LEAVE!
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Through beheading, I
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/st-valentines-many-skulls-assorted-parts
With all of the skulls and shoulder blades kicking around, were you to gather all of the alleged parts of St. Valentine one might be able to assemble them into a many-headed Super Valentine, destroyer of lonliness. This we would pay to see.
Bonus points for an avatar change...
(I'm coming up empty for an explanation why he's patron saint of beekeepers...)
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After supper, I will add something to the OP about avatar ideas, too.
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"The little terraformer that could"
Straight from the Book of Planet! :D
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Not bad.
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Is there a character limit on the title?
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Probably. I guess I can go find out and report back ASAP.
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I put a dash before every cluster of five tests, thus: "-test test test test test ".
So you can count nine clusters of those, minus one it cut off one at the end - thus, about five more characters will fit on the first line, I count 31-32 characters and spaces to play with, stopping there. Looks like it cuts off at about 200 char total with the ridiculous number of lines - I pasted way more clusters.
One cannot discount many lines as an option, though I find it inelegant to look at.
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I changed the last "test" to "then". There was one space after, then the field ended. Close enough to 200 characters.
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Okay by me if you've not gone to bed yet, Geo. I'd like you to see the test, so I can take it off soonest.
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Okay, I see 9 dashes with their 'test' sequences of 25 characters each.
Plenty of text space to put in whatever needs to be put in thus.
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For those who missed it, I appended the test clusters over and over to the end of what's now there and my title ran nine lines and looked sorta awkward extending the height of my postbit a couple inches, which made all but long BU posts take up substantially more vertical space. Having to scroll more when I post for a month is something you might factor in about long title suggestions.
We still do not know what it would do with longer words that don't pack as neatly on a line. The test seemed to cut off at a char. limit -one "test" was 9th line- I expect there is no line limit.
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I'll throw out myself for member feedback something on the line of "Activity Machine".
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For the fun of it, I could gift winners with the "Change Other's Title" Shop item, and let them do it to me themselves.
-Naturally, if trust is not kept, it will be wasted as soon as I come on in the morning, at very latest...
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Geo, I reworded your current Title suggestion to still fit, but not say something odd for an absolute -if Benevolent- dictator of this forum to say here w/ far less possibility that the message can be taken all Nazi-like...
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Have at it, your next title is only a short while away anyway.
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On that note, I'll mention that tomorrow is February and Geo's submission -at least some version of- is currently winning. It's not to late to thrill me...
Sorry Uno. I'll keep beheading in mind if February submissions for March are slow.
Geo, would you like the "Change Other's Title" Shop item option? I can hook you up before I go to bed. Maybe we kick around exact wording first to explicitly reflect I'm "Little Terraformer That Could" on AC2's tenth anniversary. Perhaps prefixing with "AC2 10-Yr Little Terraformer That Could" -might still fit. I count 39 char., but maybe we'll take the second line.
I'll test now if I can put in a carriage return and control what line where in text. BRB.
Edit: No. Perhaps I'll try to expand that prefixing to full words close to 32char. I'll think about it today...
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If you're willing to take the risk, I can change your user's title, yes. ;cute
If you want to have the 10th year anniversary mentioned, perhaps use blank spaces between the two lines to separete them?
Like this:
AC2 10-Yr old [insert spaces until it switches to the next line]
little terraformer that could
If using blank spaces to fill a line works, you could even spell out the forum name completely, like:
AlphaCentauri2's 10-year old [insert spaces until it switches to the next line]
little terraformer that could
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"On AC2's Tenth Anniversary I'm
The Little Teraformer That Could"
-That's 30char first line, 32char second; should work like that. I'll jigger the wording slightly tomorrow if your attempt doesn't quite align. "I'm The" are both actually superfluous, I think.
I'll now go get the shop item and gift you - IF I can recall/find the workaround we found for your gifts to come through. I'd be mighty obliged if you got that first thing in your morning. Replace the carriage return with a space and join the lines before you copy/paste. Enjoy.
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Okay, I snuck and tested. Copy/paste "On AC2's Tenth Anniversary, Little Teraformer That Could" and that worked just fine for two neat lines.
Shop Item ASAP.
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Soon wasn't very soon. Buster showed up, and I was multitasking while she wasn't here. -She loved my ROTJ plot alters, BTW.
ANYway, I see the gift went through okay, and 2 in my morning is ideal. :danc:
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Little problem. Your lines have a grammar error in it. Teraformer instead of Terraformer.
And I can only make the adjustments from my home computer. Not enough time during workbreak, and I don"t trust my tablet to copy/paste text correctly.
Perhaps better do it yourself?
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Here:
On AC2's Tenth Anniversary, Little Terraformer That Could
I went to some trouble and want you to enjoy your winnings. The 1char won't make a difference.
Are you working second/third shift or something? It's past midnight there (?), and I assumed you were gone for the day... 7:37pm here in the heimat, and no rush. Get it when you're home.
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I'm on first shift. I'm leaving now.
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You'll have to do it yourself. I get an "User doesn't exist error", even when I copy/paste your username on a forum post.
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Username is BUncle. That's what I used on a whim when I signed up. Buster's Uncle is my current display name. Maybe I should throw that up for grabs, too.
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Ah okay. After work I'll try again.
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Success! :danc:
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Ooooh. That doesn't look bad.
Fifty-lal post.
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Change my display name to "ForoModder"?
"Anniversary" was misleading and people can count, so I fixed...
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Never happy eh? ;)
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[shrugs] Didn't want to lie - Saturday is our ninth anniversary - but the beginning of our tenth year.
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Had a whim, Geo. Does it suit?
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;lol ;clap
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That gag woulda worked better w/ Librarian...
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/38034fb39ee2f89b5f02037930186f7b/tumblr_nnj0uuwxJk1r4j3sgo1_500.jpg)
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...Should I invent a new postrank for, say, 50,000?
What? "Sidlike"... "This isn't even my Final Form!" "This IS my final form!"?
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Sexy Librarian aficionado?
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Isn't there in the SMAC lore something called 'the overmind'? I think it was reserved for the first faction to transcend and so create the overmind in their image.
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Ohhh. That's --- the term "Planetary Overmind" is somewhere in the transcend stuff, yes.
Ohhh. Off to the admin cp right now...
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Done.
Even I need 3,291 posts more to get there. Need to rig up a postbit icon...
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Well, looking in the interlude text you could grope a couple titles inbetween.
Starting with 'Ascendant' perhaps, meaning uploading your personality into the fungal neural net.
After which the next step could be 'Undermind', meaning you ascend, but were a tad late.
The 'Overmind' is the next step, for those who linked up first with the nascent fungal neural net, while it was still in its infant state.
And after that there is the possibility to become the 'Matrix' itself.
You could reserve the latter for a million posts or something. :o
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[ninja'd] Maybe I'll move the goalposts if anyone ever gets to Transcend...
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Here. I'm good and I'm fast. Uploaded to all 14 themes, I think, and installing now...
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Installed.
I COULD go ahead and incorporate those intermediate ranks... -But I'd have to wear them, eventually. What would the icons look like?
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So, if I read you correctly, at this moment the rank after 'Transcend' is 'Overmind'?
That planet pic looks nice after Transcend. A tad long though, but okay for the highest level nonetheless.
I'll stroll throught the SMAC artwork a bit, looking for things that might fit such titles as 'Ascendant' and 'Undermind'.
Of course, since you'll always be the highest poster, you're automatically the 'Overmind'. :P
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Right now, it's "Planetary Overmind". I'm sure you can look up usergroups from your profile or something.
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There's still nice stuff in the art folder of SMAC. :)
First one can be found under asctran_sm
Second icon is under bureau_sm
And the final one is a small part of the file 'interface', on the upper right.
My suggestion would be 'asctran_sm' for Ascendant, and if you choose to implement the title 'Undermind', 'bureau_sm' as to indicate the smallness underneath the 'Planetary Overmind'. Or else the third icon for 'Undermind'.
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Oooh. I was thinking a smaller Planet in the smaller box - and why not still do that - but maybe I can run ^the first two^ together...
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(https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21600.0;attach=21851;image) - first try
Ascend
(https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21600.0;attach=21858;image)
PlanetVoice
(https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21600.0;attach=21859;image)
PlanetaryOvermind
(https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21600.0;attach=21854;image)
An alternate
(https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21600.0;attach=21857;image)
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Postrank Icon_____Required posts_____ Members
Drone (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20drone.png)_____(0 posts)_____(12730 Members)
Citizen (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20citizen.png)_____(5 posts)_____(244 members)
Specialist (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20specialist.png)_____(200 posts)_____(23 members)
Talent (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20talent.png)_____(500 posts)_____(27 members)
Librarian (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20librarian.png)_____(2000 posts)_____(7 members)
Thinker (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20thinker.png)_____(5000 posts)_____(2 members)
Transcend (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/user%20transcend.png)_____(10,000 posts)_____
Voice of Planet (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/Ascend.png)_____(20,000 posts)_____
PlanetVoice (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/PlanetVoice.png)_____(30,000 posts)_____
Ascend (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/NameLater.png)_____(40,000 posts)_____(1 members)
Planetary Overmind (https://alphacentauri2.info/Themes/default/images/PlanetaryOvermind.png)_____(50000 posts)_____
I think I'll tinker the width down on the new ones, more in line with tradition - then to upload the same four new icons to 14 themes...
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-I reckon we'll just keep adding under Planetary Overmind every 10,000 till the end of time - and I should make that first new one Undermind.
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Again, nicely done.
Now I just have to keep posting to hear the Voice of Planet. ;wait
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:D ;nod
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Clinical Immortal could go in there somewhere...
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That's a condition, not an occupation. :P
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Clinically Immortal? Just, Immortal?
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There's still nice stuff in the art folder of SMAC. :)
First one can be found under asctran_sm
Second icon is under bureau_sm
And the final one is a small part of the file 'interface', on the upper right.
My suggestion would be 'asctran_sm' for Ascendant, and if you choose to implement the title 'Undermind', 'bureau_sm' as to indicate the smallness underneath the 'Planetary Overmind'. Or else the third icon for 'Undermind'.
Found the post!
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No submissions in February.
I guess Uno's Through beheading, I
wins.
I shoulda remembered this two days ago.
Uno? Shall I send you the Shop item to do the honors yourself?
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...We passed my tenth anniversary here on the 6th - time for a new BU user title, submissions welcome...
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Since you're starting on your 11th year; "Buster's Binary".
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No special reason I'm posting here.
Nothing to see here, continue AC2ing.
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...Has SOMEone been in the Shop?...
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...I'm going to try "Upon" for "Through" -which sounds funny in English- and hope the line length is still right...
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Yeah; that'll do.
I have to be a good sport about it, or there's no justice in having that Shop item. -So I figure I have to wear it at least a month plus until I have an idea I like...
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I have been in the shop. You didn't notice the cake? :P
Why not "elevator" (as in space elevator) instead of "escalator"?
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Eadee, you nice man who didn't do it, do answer the question.
Geo, who bought you that cake? Somebody think you're special?
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Geo, who bought you that cake? Somebody think you're special?
Should've been 'happy birthday, Geo'. ;lol
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Why not on your birthday instead? It's not the 29th of February....
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...The sixth of next month is my 11th anniversary here -or beginning my 12th year largely in charge- and isn't it time for a new one?
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Since you're starting on your 11th year; "Buster's Binary".
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Come the 6th, then. Can we make that go with Ascend?
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Come the 6th, then. Can we make that go with Ascend?
Something like "it's Buster's Binary, he will "?
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As Buster's Binary, I?
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As Buster's Binary, I?
Ov kourse.
The line I quoted might be too long anyway.
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I'm two days late, but year 12 is now underway, and Geo's title offering is on me till at least the end of the month...
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Now the question is who's the Primary: Buster or her Uncle. ;lol ;b;
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She's on her second year of what amounts to a full-ride college scholarship, holding down two jobs, and making straight As - I'm proud, and rather fond of the child.
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...Say, would it be funny enough to justify the confusion if I temporarily changed my display name to Manic, for a month or as long as the current spell lasts --- or would it just look like a lame attempt to low-key impersonate a certain regular's brother?
Like, I STILL get asked once in a while if I'm any relation to oldtime SMACer buster, or what...
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Call it a Manic Monday, and you should.be Golden. 🤭
Seriously, I doubt Maniac pops in often here. He seems to be out of the gaming scene.
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No time like the present, a Friday...
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[cue Bangles vid...]
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:-*
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Nobody's even asked so far.
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I just decided to more clearly phrase what my user title meant to say - you approve, Geo?
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The real question should be: does she approve?
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Hell no - I'm not allowed to call her Buster, only her misogynist expletive mother didn't put that into her head until it was too late and being her uncle was my real name - so I have to sneak.
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Her mother is the misogynist? ;lol
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She hates herself a lot, now that you mention it.
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