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8 yrs ago
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8 yrs ago
If you're not trying to romance the Pokemon, what's the fucking point?
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8 yrs ago
Can't help but read 'woah' as a regular 'wuh', but 'whoa' as a deep, masculine 'HOO-AH!'
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8 yrs ago
That's patently untrue. I planted some potassium the other day, and no matter how much I watered it, all I got was explosions.
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9 yrs ago
on holiday for five days. if you need me, toss a rock into the fuckin' desert and I'll whisper in your dreams
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According to the IRC, I'm a low-grade troll. They're probably not wrong.

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I mean, the ratio's right there on the first page. 60 : 1100. That's just above 1 : 20 and six times stronger than the Japanese Yen is now.

Maybe you could've just asked someone to edit the specifics into the front page instead of griping?
Maybe just have it at a level where people don't have to go digging through pages to find some sort of conversion table.


It's ~twenty to one. Bam, simple.
An atmosphere suit is a must, yep. As are funky malfunctions. I was thinking that Marco's Valentine Bombs could be an official team asset, since they're already something useful and unique that we have in good supply.

Heroic mentioned healing resources, so it's possible that the (purely hypothetical) ship has a solid nano-medical bay. That'll be useful when we end up hurting innocent people as collateral damage. I don't think there's much teleportation in Expanded Horizons yet, since it's a pretty major ability.

Secondly you could have a 'salvagers/Pirates/repossesors' license wich generally allows you to take anything not currently supervised and probably get around the law for doing so. (At worst we have to return it.)


"Licensing," said Giggles somewhere between Nova and the Valentine shop, "is the Devil's business."
Anarchists don't need permission to take your stuff


This actually happened in character. Salvage work could be a pretty viable front, though.
Giggles gave the durry a look and raised an eyebrow. It hung from his fingers with the balance of a seasoned smoker, but he didn't raise it to his lips.

At least Valentine seemed to have calmed from his bar-crawling mood. "Eh. It's not the worst." Rural communities could get as bad as any hub, and there were dark places in Giggles's memory of travels. "I could stay here if I had to. No one's tailing me. There's work." Work to be done, not work to get paid for. A clean slate was just another opportunity to start scrawling plans. "Wouldn't mind leaving either. Freedom's a beautiful thing."

Giggles took a sip of the tea, realised how much sugar was in it, took another few. "If I had a ship, I'd take it to the Myrlian Belt. They say there's chaos out there. Ecetopia's nice..." More than nice. A paradise that didn't need or deserve the likes of Giggles. "...But I just got outta there and I can't go back for a while."

"Speaking of." He raised the cigarette, too awkward to be apologetic. "You can't smoke this, you know. It's waterweed. I... Kinda drowned in a pond and found it in my hair." He frowned at it. "Can't guarantee it won't get you high, though. Fuckin' pixies." Giggles didn't elaborate.
Checking in.


Love the upgrade to the OP!


you're welcome
Just bumping because it'll be relevant again soon and it's easier to find on the front page of the test forum.
@Silvan Haven relative to what?

If we keep comparing it to real currencies (inadvisable), it's considerably stronger than the Yen, the Ruble or the Rupee. Inflation's probably been going on for a lot longer around here too- But a Federation credit is still stronger against today's dollar than today's dollar is against a 1900 dollar.

Not to mention the price of goods have probably changed quite a bit, given that production is faster and cheaper.
Heads up that Giggles isn't against rounding up all the other angry proles in this city and hauling a shit tonne of ass. He just wouldn't do it for that particular reason.
"Licensing," said Giggles somewhere between Nova and the Valentine shop, "is the Devil's business."

The place was a vision of bankruptcy in the making. Even here- Especially here, where the wealthy sprawled over the poor in the most literal of ways- Gentrification took its toll. It must've been nice in its day, thought Giggles over a packet of lead slugs. He wasn't particularly sad about its inevitable passing.

Such things happened. He did his best. That was all he could do.

"Shit, not even a laspistol?" asked Giggles, mostly to himself, the cabinet quite visibly empty. That didn't stop him from laying out a few components, though. He looked up with a screwdriver wedged into a photon pump. "No, man. I got here less than forty-eight hours ago, I don't know the turf. And that doesn't matter, because another forty-eight hours from now I will know the turf and I still won't be able to get you to meet Fatcat."

A faint grunt and the top of the pump popped off. Giggles peeked into the radiochamber and started hooking it to a cell battery. "Let's say Thuit is real, and not just a mask for an AI, or a council of shareholders. Don't you think he's put out a million other shops in the last half hour? The last year? Ten years?" Something sparked around his glove and he put the contraption back down, for now.

"Whether you're tryna appeal to his big heart or shoot him in his alien nutsack, you won't be the first or last and you won't get that far even if you rounded up all the other angry proles in this city and hauled a shit tonne of ass. What do you think police are for? Citizen protection? Pffnah." Giggles slung off his gloves, this place seemed safe enough. "Police are there to be bought and then to protect private capital. I'm sorry, man. I can't fight a whole planet to reach a ghost."
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