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The atmosphere? Oh man, so good. I loved the little quotes in the descriptions of new technology. They got darker as the tech got higher up the tree. I still re
by anbende 10y ago
The atmosphere? Oh man, so good. I loved the little quotes in the descriptions of new technology. They got darker as the tech got higher up the tree. I still remember the gist of the one for human cloning:
"She's gone. She said she wants nothing more to do with me. But I saved a lock of her hair. She will be mine again..."
Still gives me shivers.
- grotsnot 10y agoThat's... not entirely accurate: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#Peacekeeping_Forces https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#P... (2nd one for Peacekeepers) I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again. Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Time of Bereavement" I didn't consider until now that it might be a little ambiguous, but I'm pretty sure the implication is not that Lal's chosen broke up with him, but that she died.
- anbende 10y agoThanks. I guess it's gotten a little more twisted in my memory over the years.
- Balgair 10y agoNo game has lived up to SMAC for me. I feel that was the first game that was 'art' and showed me what games could become. I am glad to hear that others feel the same way. 13 year old me was obsessed with it. This quote helped change my life and made me look at myself in a different way, a revolutionary thing back in those days: "I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment." -Anonymous, Datalinks (played when the player first constructs the hab dome building). I always see this quote with this fresco: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rQuNLP71fA/UdonE8DAuAI/AAAAAAAAC3E/xDiuO2Y56Jw/s640/French-Angel-Marble.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rQuNLP71fA/UdonE8DAuAI/AAAAAAAAC...
- FireBeyond 10y agoReminds me of one of those memes, "Creepy Things Kids Say": "My son was asked to use the word prototype in a sentence. He said: 'people are a prototype'. I was too scared to ask what he meant."
- edem 10y agoWe sit together the mountain and I. Until only the mountain remains...
- vatotemking 10y agoBut once, we were here.