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Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Fineus on October 11, 2003, 11:25:38 am
Well, I'm back. Seems the place is still standing.... good! What've I been up to? Well some highlights...

Driving. I've been lazy and not bothered with getting my lisence but dad was ok with me driving the hire car around some of the quieter places... managed not to stall or crash which is nice to go.

The marine world park... lots of dolphins, sea-lions and seals which made for a brilliant day - all the animals were really friendly and such which was pretty cool.

Absynthe. Illegal in the UK (at least not available in shops) but I found many a bottle in Portugal. Also, Jack Daniels is depresingly cheap out there compared to UK prices (about £12 as opposed to £17).

Weather. It rained the first week but cleared up for some really great sun. I is tanned, a'ight?

A curiously large number of pretty girls for this time of year (during school terms) but who cares. I'll say no more about this ;)

Lots of trips and stuff, everyone in Portugal is really friendly... the food is good and the sights are fun.

Now then.

What's been going on around here, and indeed all around the world? I gather HL2 has been pushed back after the source code got ripped but that's about it. Fill me in on the highlights of it all please!
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Setekh on October 11, 2003, 11:30:16 am
A tanned Thunder? :cool: No way. ;) Let's see, I would direct you to the generally funky stuff happening at the SCP... oh, and an0n's back. :p Apart from that, business as usual. :D
Title: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Knight Templar on October 11, 2003, 12:53:01 pm
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
A curiously large number of pretty girls for this time of year (during school terms) but who cares. I'll say no more about this ;)

 


Didn't take one home now, did you? Shame.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: vyper on October 11, 2003, 01:18:17 pm
[q]I gather HL2 has been pushed back after the source code got ripped but that's about it. Fill me in on the highlights of it all please![/q]

To be accurate, there's now a Beta of the game itself floating about because someone else did a job on getting the models, etc.  And so its pushed back till 2004 (hey look at it this way - more cool stuff will be added)
Title: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: an0n on October 11, 2003, 02:11:49 pm
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Originally posted by Thundfireth
What's been going on around here, and indeed all around the world? I gather HL2 has been pushed back after the source code got ripped but that's about it. Fill me in on the highlights of it all please!
Well, the world ended when Shrike marched the forumites against this huge beast made of myst and fire. However, being the saviour of mankind that I am, I took parts of Shrike's corpse and reformed the cosmos. From his bones came the earth, from his eyes the sky and from his blood the oceans. But the Gods of old were not so forthcoming with the power and the inhabitants of the Earth fell from grace amidst a flurry of beaurocracy. And strangely enough everything came to be exactly as it was before the apocalypse. The only difference being that Pi is no longer exactly 4 and SAAB never ran for 15 seasons. The reason for these differences is beyond me.
Title: Re: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Shrike on October 11, 2003, 02:26:02 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Well, the world ended when Shrike marched the forumites against this huge beast made of myst and fire. However, being the saviour of mankind that I am, I took parts of Shrike's corpse and reformed the cosmos. From his bones came the earth, from his eyes the sky and from his blood the oceans. But the Gods of old were not so forthcoming with the power and the inhabitants of the Earth fell from grace amidst a flurry of beaurocracy. And strangely enough everything came to be exactly as it was before the apocalypse. The only difference being that Pi is no longer exactly 4 and SAAB never ran for 15 seasons. The reason for these differences is beyond me.
Liar.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: an0n on October 11, 2003, 02:28:28 pm
You're the non-sentient, decaying flesh that forms the fabric of the cosmos. You don't get a say in the history of the universe.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 11, 2003, 02:38:54 pm
Oh great. Now an0n thinks he's an editor for DC Comics :p
(I.E.: He's going through world-resetting syndrome)
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: an0n on October 11, 2003, 02:49:47 pm
It's not being reset. It's being Xerox'd and the original destroyed.

But, like the Asgard genome, eventually all the copying will introduce subtle errors and flaws that accumulate until the universe is nothing more than a big ol' pile of incoherant mush.

Basically, it starts as B5, gets screwed with all the copying of energy, matter and plots and comes out as Sunset Beach.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 11, 2003, 03:04:00 pm
Ah. Good. Because DC screws up when they do universe resets, and fail to remove discontinuities :p
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: magatsu1 on October 11, 2003, 03:11:59 pm
actually, you can get Absynthe, allbeit not the "proper" stuff.
(in Bars anyway)

just thought I'd point that out...
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: vyper on October 11, 2003, 03:17:21 pm
Yeh, but its about 40-60% proof, same as either a good Whisky or Vodka.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Shrike on October 11, 2003, 04:46:20 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
You're the non-sentient, decaying flesh that forms the fabric of the cosmos. You don't get a say in the history of the universe.
:devil:
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Levyathan on October 11, 2003, 04:53:01 pm
Okay, so I got a question. Just out of curiosity, why was he unbanned, again?
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2003, 06:17:14 pm
It was boring without him
Title: Re: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Ace on October 11, 2003, 11:49:44 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Well, the world ended when Shrike marched the forumites against this huge beast made of myst and fire. However, being the saviour of mankind that I am, I took parts of Shrike's corpse and reformed the cosmos. From his bones came the earth, from his eyes the sky and from his blood the oceans. But the Gods of old were not so forthcoming with the power and the inhabitants of the Earth fell from grace amidst a flurry of beaurocracy. And strangely enough everything came to be exactly as it was before the apocalypse. The only difference being that Pi is no longer exactly 4 and SAAB never ran for 15 seasons. The reason for these differences is beyond me.


This was the version of SAAB that didn't have marines by day and fighter pilots by night?

Or am I getting this mixed up with that other space opera, BMW...
Title: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Blue Lion on October 11, 2003, 11:58:43 pm
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Well, I'm back. Seems the place is still standing.... good! What've I been up to? Well some highlights...
 


You were gone? :wtf:
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Sandwich on October 12, 2003, 02:16:34 am
Welcome back dud.

EDIT: Err..... "dude". :D
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Fineus on October 12, 2003, 04:24:38 am
I... well... I don't know where to start with the directions this thread has gone in... erm, yeah.

Any cool stuff happened in the FS world?
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: vyper on October 12, 2003, 09:07:24 am
[q]Any cool stuff happened in the FS world?
[/q]

HT&L build is kicking about in the SCP forum somewhere.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2003, 09:49:33 am
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Originally posted by Ace
This was the version of SAAB that didn't have marines by day and fighter pilots by night?

Don't you get me started
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: 01010 on October 12, 2003, 10:24:38 am
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Originally posted by magatsu1
actually, you can get Absynthe, allbeit not the "proper" stuff.
(in Bars anyway)

just thought I'd point that out...


You can buy 69% proof absinthe with wormwood at larger tesco stores and most reputable off-licenses will get it in for you (better than Tesco stuff) if you ask.
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: Gortef on October 12, 2003, 10:45:30 am
Welcome back K. Good to hear that you had a nice trip. And be careful with the Absynthe ;)
Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: 01010 on October 12, 2003, 12:02:58 pm
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Title: Teh Portugal Report
Post by: magatsu1 on October 12, 2003, 03:10:58 pm
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Originally posted by 01010


You can buy 69% proof absinthe with wormwood at larger tesco stores and most reputable off-licenses will get it in for you (better than Tesco stuff) if you ask.


heheh, 60%? 69%? either way, two shots and I'm gone for the night :cool: