Wing Commander: Prophecy Memorabilia
My AI kicked enough ass for 1.5 million people! froan
In the interests of getting the food before 8:30, we are setting up to order AT 5:10 on the button. If you want food (or beverages, Jason) come here and order now. No one is slipping in after that 5:10 marker. We will be on the phone at that point. I cannot stress this fact enough. At 5:10pm today, I will pick up the phone. At 5:10.02 I will begin dialing.Somewhere between 5:10.05 and 5:11 the phone will likely be answered (this time will now be considered T). At T+@.03 (where the @ symbol denotes approximately and the period signifies seconds) I will begin speaking to the operator at the delivery place and will be starting to place the order. This will take an unknown amount of time. This unknown length of time will henceforth be designated O. Therefore at T+@0.3+O the order will have finished being placed. At this point order confirmation will begin. Order confirmation will take another unknown length of time known as C (not to be confused with the speed of light, although the electricity moving through the phone lines will be moving at high velocity, or, if there are fiber optics between here and there, the speed of light). If you have not given your order by T+@0.3+O+C-0.1, you will be out of luck (orders placed that late by the way, will be heavily frowned upon, and may be wrong_).
(By the way, we are ordering from Frank and Angie's pizzeria.)
--From the Crunch Food Archives, courtesy of Kris Pelley,
programmer/food orderer conniseour"
Your AI only has to be good enough to kick Frank's ass. asommers
At two kilometers, a ten meter object is very small. pshelus
als: Is there a company policy against swear words in error messages?
jh: I don't know. Why? Did you find one of mine?
als: No, I'm thinking about putting one in.
The only time I was afraid of being in a foreign country without the
constition was that time I was naked in a South African jail for nine hours holding my
nuts after getting the $#!t kicked out of me.
afoshko, on freedom
fjr: If you guys want something, we can put it on the card and get it delivered.
jh: No thanks, I'm going out to get something nice.
fjr: We can order pizza!
jh: I meant lingerie, actually.
fjr: We can't put that on the company card, though.
...hmmm...traversing the object list once per object,
doing accurate distance calculations to every other object,
sixty times a second. I think we've found ourselves a new *Square Root King*
--pshelus <and associated involuntary flinching>
<hysterical laughter from crew>
fjr: I wish we could put our AIs up against each other.
jh: We can, but I'd have to keep yours from cheating.
fjr: Without cheating, mine would just sit and spin.
Top Ten Things to Put inside the 'Deluxe Edition' of Prophecy.
#10. Correctly Labelled game CDs. (Sorry LucasArts...)
#9. A Cloth Map of Britannia
#8. Adult - Sized Diapers
#7. The Extra Copies of Ultima 8!!
#6. Yet another rebate for WC IV
#5. An apology for Privateer 2
#4. A really cool 'Screenie!!' (Not.)
#3. One word... ToonStruck!!
#2. A letter to Microsoft, begging them to buy us
…and the number one thing to put inside the Deluxe Edition of WC: Prophecy...
#1. An autographed 12'' Single of Neil Young's 'Keep on Rockin' in the Free World'
Love, Billy Cain"
Top Ten Things You Might Hear Near Billy's Office
#10: Fix it or _____________.
a. I'll kill you.
b. I'm going to crush your skull with a cinder block.
#9: I'm your sex slave. What do you want me to do?
#8. What do you mean Star Wars isn't cool? I'll destroy you.
#7. Forty-two, come on!
#6. FAN-tastic!
#5. Visualize this... <proceeds to destroy your world>
#4. You're not ready for the Turd Olympics.
#3. Everybody loves Quisp!
#2. YEAH it is.
...and the number one thing you might hear near Billy's office is...
#1. It's an art call.
DY-NO-MITE. asommers
A Good Target is hard to come by. jhughes
