Good thing I suffer from insomnia...

[st00mie]

http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20040411/localnews/215084.html

[Cuandoman]

Wow, everyone is lucky that they're ok. Kinda cool to have your name in the news.




You were probly watching pr0n.  :lol:

[Grand Inquisitor]

James Owen couldn't sleep and was watching television . . . Owens and his girlfriend

Insomnia, right...

[Bram]

about the accident on northbound I-15 between Enoch and Cedar City

Ooooh....CSI.....'the I-15 murders'. If you watch enough TV-shows, you'll eventually have a frame of reference for all US states, place names and highways.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Ooooh....CSI.....'the I-15 murders'. If you watch enough TV-shows, you'll eventually have a frame of reference for all US states, place names and highways.

[whisper]Psst... The Dutchies don't know that our country is so big, we have states like 'everything between California and New York except for Chicago' that are almost never on TV. Hehehehehehe.[/whisper]

So, Bram, how bout that Nebraska? What's the frame of reference for Nebraska? ;)

[Bram]

Duh.

That's where Richard Langly (one of the Lone Gunmen) grew up. Also, Mulder and Scully went there in the 'Kill Switch' episode.

Who was it again that said YOU were the biggest nerd on TMD?

[Dr. Sylvan]

Watching television doesn't even compare to my self-designed SW-ST-B5-BT strategy game. I mean, even normies watch TV. But most normies don't know that the maximum range of an Inner Sphere ER PPC is 23 hexes (1 map +6 hexes, or 690 meters), let alone that an AWS-9A Awesome has three of them.

I can do this all day, BTW.



(And props to the DTHT once again.)

[Bram]

Pfff....spout Battletech trivia at me all day my friend. REAL nerdism becomes apparent in knowledge about Battletech storylines.

Let's see you give a short essay on the origin of the Word of Blake. And name all the consecutive Comstar primusses.

Oh, and by the way: particle projection cannons are for pussies. Autocannons4L!

[Dr. Sylvan]

Let's see you give a short essay on the origin of the Word of Blake. And name all the consecutive Comstar primusses.

It's been a couple years since I've read the books, but I'll give a valiant effort, and promise not to look anything up online.

ComStar Primuses: Myndo Waterly, Sharilar Mori (I cast Imperfect Spelling, targetting myself.) I can't remember if there's another one after Mori who was Primus at the time Focht stepped down from the Precentor Martialship in favor of V. I. Steiner-Davion. I know Mori was still Primus in 3058, because that's when the WoB took Terra (under the guise of the 21st Centauri Lancers, if you must know). Also, I don't even know if the Primuses before Waterly are named in any novels, because events before 3049 are almost all cloaked in mystery and explained only through encyclopedia-style exposition in various sourcebooks. (I have my Field Manual: ComStar at home, but I don't think even that goes into those unnamed details.) The Primuses are for shit; Focht was the really important one. Especially in Lost Destiny, because Tukayyid is the coolest "Thrown Down, Bitch" challenge ever rendered to paper. Not to mention that "Precentor Martial" is a much cooler title than "Primus".

Word of Blake, of course, came about when Focht had Waterly 'spontaneously leave power' after Tukayyid in 3052. He started reforming ComStar so that the HyperPulse Generator station operations weren't cloaked in mysticism as they had been during the Succession Wars, and there was a portion of the order that felt he was committing sacrilege. The fanatics formed Word of Blake, took over all HPG communications in the Free Worlds League (thanks to Thomas Marik, who is a separate issue unto himself), and continued to operate their religious version of the order, until the aforementioned conquest of Terra. (They had some involvement in the novel Double-Blind, but no one cares about the Periphery or Avanti's Angels, so I have limited recollection of these events.)

Your quiz has not fazed me in the least! One time my 7th grade Language Arts teacher couldn't understand a BattleTech fanfic, and requested an intro for the uninitiated, so I wrote about 3000 words of 'brief introductory material'. :-D

[st00mie]

actually, i wasn't really watching TV.  i dont watch TV.  i just said that so i wouldnt sound like a dork or a tweaker.  i was playing final fantasy xi.

[jpmeyer]

Do normies watch 3-6 movies per day?  THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

[Bram]

Doctor, you amaze me once again. It's good to see a fellow Battletech fanatic on these baords. Actually, I'm probably a bit of an odd Battletech fanatic, never having played the original hexagon game or the RPG. It all started when I was bored and picked up one of the paperback novels and was intruiged with the possibilities of such a large universe. I devoured the books in no time and have even picked up some source books for no other reason than because I liked the information in them)

The only gaming experience I have concerning Battletech are all of the computer games (and I do mean all of them....MechWarror 1 on Amiga, Mechwarror 2 (plus Ghost Bear's Legacy and Mercenaries), 3, 4 and Mechcommander on PC, and Mechassault on Xbox...yes, I actually bought the xbox for that reason). I also played the cardgame for a while and I own several of the Wizkids 'gaming miniatures, though I can find noone to play that with me.

All I ever wanted to be was a 'Mech jock

P.S. There were a total of 14 primusses, if you could the Blessed Blake himself:

Jerome Blake
Conrad Toyama
Raymond Karpov
Andrea Marteen
Dwight Kurstin
Gregori Hartford
Kari Marie Marshall
Hollings York
Adrienne Sims
Yin Takami
Allen Rusenstein
Julian Tiepolo
Myndo Waterly
Sharilar Mori

But don't feel bad....I only knew the important ones by heart, too and had to look up the rest.

[Magi]

Kaervek VS Dr. Sylvan

:p

[Matt]

I'm guessing Bram's the guy on the left.

[Dr. Sylvan]

I'm guessing Bram's the guy on the left.

Not a chance. :)

@Bram: http://www.classicbattletech.com/
For all your pre-WizKids-sacrilegious-timeline-jumping BattleTech needs. (Where by "sacreligious" I mean "WizKids didn't want to deal with the absolute fuckton of continuity baggage they'd need to continue directly from the well-known, well-loved storyline with a cast of thousands to whom Phil is still emotionally attached, so we'll jump into the future and start fresh, oh and while we're at it we'll add those spindown things to the miniatures so you want to go on a berserker rage because you're still upset at FASA for that copyright conflict with RoboTech that prevented you from getting the hundred of Griffin miniatures that would've made you the coolest kid on the block". Just in case you were wondering why "sacreligious" appeared in there.)

The original "hexagon" game was absolutely horrible to play, because fighting with four Mechs on each side could take something like three hours. I think at one point there was a product specifically designed to turn large-scale combat into shorthand (BattleForce maybe?), but I never got ahold of it. My experience with the computer games comes down to my roommate last year downloading MechWarrior 2 and me rattling off range/tonnage/critical slot allocation reqs from memory, recognizing Mechs by silhouette, and things like that. It really freaked him out, actually. ("Phil, why don't my LRMs work?" "You're below minimum range." "How did you know that?" "Your readout says he's 150m away." "Oh. [pause] Freak.")

My storyline knowledge came about when a friend of mine loaned me Far Country when I was nine, and then I bought Operation Excalibur the next year. Now I have almost everything from the Blood of Kerensky trilogy through the Twilight of the Clans oct-ology. I'm missing the trilogy that contains Decision at Thunder Rift, the trilogy about Aidan Pryde, and probably a couple of other ones, but I'm so hardcore I even have Star Lord despite its awfulness. My Technical Readout collection includes the revised 3050, 3055, 3057, and 3058. (This is where the bitterness comes in: 3055 originally had a cool colorized section of all the "IIC" Mechs, especially the hyper-sexy Marauder IIC, but then the stupid copyright stuff made them remove it and stop manufacturing the BT 3rd Edition boxed set.)

Those were definitely The Days (as in "Back In").