General Conversation #1

Ariklego wrote:

All hail Richie! All hail Richie!

"Oh, Rich can you see, by the dawn's early light..."


I'd have them both beaten, but unfortunately most of my posts have been in reply to those of Richie's, so my post count has been climbing at almost exactly the same as his. And with Bio's no-double-posting rule...

*Walks out on the balcony and starts throwing money to the pesants*
Actually, Arik, I got up here mostly by replying to your posts If it weren't for you, 78 of the posts that got me up here wouldn't exist!

Now, If you would be so kind, My Orb and Scepter!

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

All hail Richie! All hail Richie!

"Oh, Rich can you see, by the dawn's early light..."


I'd have them both beaten, but unfortunately most of my posts have been in reply to those of Richie's, so my post count has been climbing at almost exactly the same as his. And with Bio's no-double-posting rule...

*Walks out on the balcony and starts throwing money to the pesants*
Actually, Arik, I got up here mostly by replying to your posts If it weren't for you, 78 of the posts that got me up here wouldn't exist!

Now, If you would be so kind, My Orb and Scepter!

*A mini-Mech walks up and hands you a grenade and a rifle. A Titan II modified with arms instead of its two main guns carries a jaw-droppingly huge throne to you*

Tank time! The Nexu Assault Tank is officially up!

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Ariklego wrote:

Tank time! The Nexu Assault Tank is officially up!

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Saw it, commented on it, liked it...
I love that tank! You should build more of those...

Two posts within a few hours, arik. The Edit button is giving you a disapproving look. :/

*Tries to figure out how the Edit button just gave me that look...*

My apologies, sir. Won't happen again. ...Actually, I probably shouldn't say that so early.



As a general update, the Taurus III project is coming along nicely. I've pretty much completed the frame's legs and feet, and am beginning work on the torso. I was originally going to give the legs the usual "chicken walker" look, but thought better of it and made them a lot like the originals. The legs themselves are pretty different aesthetically, and they have a slightly difference stance to eliminate that "I'm gonna tip flat on my face in a second" look that the Taurus has when you look at it from the side (Don't tell Chunk, but the majority of his walkers have that look ), but otherwise I retained the same Omnimech-style leg design. Well, it's mostly the torso that'll be different, anyway.

Ariklego wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

All hail Richie! All hail Richie!

"Oh, Rich can you see, by the dawn's early light..."


I'd have them both beaten, but unfortunately most of my posts have been in reply to those of Richie's, so my post count has been climbing at almost exactly the same as his. And with Bio's no-double-posting rule...

*Walks out on the balcony and starts throwing money to the pesants*
Actually, Arik, I got up here mostly by replying to your posts If it weren't for you, 78 of the posts that got me up here wouldn't exist!

Now, If you would be so kind, My Orb and Scepter!

*A mini-Mech walks up and hands you a grenade and a rifle. A Titan II modified with arms instead of its two main guns carries a jaw-droppingly huge throne to you*

Thank you, I'm Flattered!

Ariklego wrote:

*Tries to figure out how the Edit button just gave me that look...*

My apologies, sir. Won't happen again. ...Actually, I probably shouldn't say that so early.



As a general update, the Taurus III project is coming along nicely. I've pretty much completed the frame's legs and feet, and am beginning work on the torso. I was originally going to give the legs the usual "chicken walker" look, but thought better of it and made them a lot like the originals. The legs themselves are pretty different aesthetically, and they have a slightly difference stance to eliminate that "I'm gonna tip flat on my face in a second" look that the Taurus has when you look at it from the side (Don't tell Chunk, but the majority of his walkers have that look ), but otherwise I retained the same Omnimech-style leg design. Well, it's mostly the torso that'll be different, anyway.

Does it count as "double-posting" when you quote an earlier post? I'd just edit it into the other post, but nobody would see it if I did that.


Anyway, I've finished the Taurus III frame! I haven't tested it with any armor yet, so it most likely still has some flaws to iron out, but other than that it looks spectacular. I'd like to test it by refitting the armor of one of my Taurus II units to fit the new frame so I know how it does, but if everything checks out I'll be putting the new frame up immediately.

Ariklego wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

*Tries to figure out how the Edit button just gave me that look...*

My apologies, sir. Won't happen again. ...Actually, I probably shouldn't say that so early.



As a general update, the Taurus III project is coming along nicely. I've pretty much completed the frame's legs and feet, and am beginning work on the torso. I was originally going to give the legs the usual "chicken walker" look, but thought better of it and made them a lot like the originals. The legs themselves are pretty different aesthetically, and they have a slightly difference stance to eliminate that "I'm gonna tip flat on my face in a second" look that the Taurus has when you look at it from the side (Don't tell Chunk, but the majority of his walkers have that look ), but otherwise I retained the same Omnimech-style leg design. Well, it's mostly the torso that'll be different, anyway.

Does it count as "double-posting" when you quote an earlier post? I'd just edit it into the other post, but nobody would see it if I did that.


Anyway, I've finished the Taurus III frame! I haven't tested it with any armor yet, so it most likely still has some flaws to iron out, but other than that it looks spectacular. I'd like to test it by refitting the armor of one of my Taurus II units to fit the new frame so I know how it does, but if everything checks out I'll be putting the new frame up immediately.

Double posting cinsisting of posting twice concecutively in one topic. I think we're all AOK with Self-quoting though.

Just for a couple laughs:

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Ariklego wrote:

Just for a couple laughs:

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Thanks to you, my birthday started with an LOL!

This frame is fun to work with.

Anyway, let's see how quickly I can build you a good-quality Mech from scratch or from a frame...

Ariklego wrote:

This frame is fun to work with.

Anyway, let's see how quickly I can build you a good-quality Mech from scratch or from a frame...

You have untill Chtistmas!

No way, I'm not taking that long with this one. The bigger challenge is getting it done by the end of the day.

EDIT: Well I only made a variant of an older base of mine (I'll leave it as a surprise as to which I used), but I'd say it's done! And I'd say it turned out nicely. ...Hopefully I can get it up by the end of the day. I'm pretty bad about quickly getting completed models up.

Ariklego wrote:

No way, I'm not taking that long with this one. The bigger challenge is getting it done by the end of the day.

EDIT: Well I only made a variant of an older base of mine (I'll leave it as a surprise as to which I used), but I'd say it's done! And I'd say it turned out nicely. ...Hopefully I can get it up by the end of the day. I'm pretty bad about quickly getting completed models up.

Hurry, you only have 12 hours left!

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Thanks to you, my birthday started with an LOL!

Happy Birthday then! I'd sing the song, but it's copyrighted, so... I won't.

Ariklego wrote:

Just for a couple laughs:

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Nice, I like the new body. Hurry up and post this on MOCpages!

LTE the Mechanier wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Thanks to you, my birthday started with an LOL!

Happy Birthday then! I'd sing the song, but it's copyrighted, so... I won't.

What do you mean it's copyrighted? Copyrighted to whom? Go ahead and sing it anyway; If it is copyrighted, then its a copyright that gets infringed on every single day!

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

LTE the Mechanier wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Thanks to you, my birthday started with an LOL!

Happy Birthday then! I'd sing the song, but it's copyrighted, so... I won't.

What do you mean it's copyrighted? Copyrighted to whom? Go ahead and sing it anyway; If it is copyrighted, then its a copyright that gets infringed on every single day!

Honestly it's believable. Did you know that 80% of corn grown in the US is copyrighted by a single company?

Regardless of whatever ridiculous copyright laws might actually exist on this...

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Richie, happy birthday to you!"


EDIT: By the way, I think I may have to delay your birthday present by a day or so. It's coming kinda slowly, and I have a lot of non-computer things left to do today.

Ariklego wrote:

Did you know that 80% of corn grown in the US is copyrighted by a single company?

That is just wrong. How and Why does one copyright corn?

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

Did you know that 80% of corn grown in the US is copyrighted by a single company?

That is just wrong. How and Why does one copyright corn?

Well, a while ago a certain company developed a certain hybrid breed of corn that had a number of unique traits. One is that it isn't affected by the company's special weed killer, and there are a few others, but the key difference is that when the specific breed of corn cross-pollenates with other corn, the other corn is turned into that same hybrid corn.

Well, partly due to having corporate members inside the government, the said company managed to copyright their special breed of corn. The end result is that 80% of all US corn, no matter what it was originally, got turned into the copyrighted breed of corn. What's more, not only is the corn copyrighted, the company has full ownership over the corn. Farmers planting the corn are regarded as "business associates" of the company, don't own the corn they're growing, and are required to return it to the company when it's harvested.

Yes, in case you're wondering, one worst parts is that you could grow non-hybrid corn, but it could get "infected" by pollen from nearby hybrid corn (a common thing considering how much of the hybrid corn there is), and once it had happened you'd no longer have ownership over the corn you were growing.



...Why do they do it? Short answer: greed. They're rolling in the big bucks right now, I can tell you that.

Ariklego wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

Did you know that 80% of corn grown in the US is copyrighted by a single company?

That is just wrong. How and Why does one copyright corn?

Well, a while ago a certain company developed a certain hybrid breed of corn that had a number of unique traits. One is that it isn't affected by the company's special weed killer, and there are a few others, but the key difference is that when the specific breed of corn cross-pollenates with other corn, the other corn is turned into that same hybrid corn.

Well, partly due to having corporate members inside the government, the said company managed to copyright their special breed of corn. The end result is that 80% of all US corn, no matter what it was originally, got turned into the copyrighted breed of corn. What's more, not only is the corn copyrighted, the company has full ownership over the corn. Farmers planting the corn are regarded as "business associates" of the company, don't own the corn they're growing, and are required to return it to the company when it's harvested.

Yes, in case you're wondering, one worst parts is that you could grow non-hybrid corn, but it could get "infected" by pollen from nearby hybrid corn (a common thing considering how much of the hybrid corn there is), and once it had happened you'd no longer have ownership over the corn you were growing.



...Why do they do it? Short answer: greed. They're rolling in the big bucks right now, I can tell you that.

That just makes me want to claw someone's throat out of their neck with my bare fingernails.

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

Ariklego wrote:

Did you know that 80% of corn grown in the US is copyrighted by a single company?

That is just wrong. How and Why does one copyright corn?

Well, a while ago a certain company developed a certain hybrid breed of corn that had a number of unique traits. One is that it isn't affected by the company's special weed killer, and there are a few others, but the key difference is that when the specific breed of corn cross-pollenates with other corn, the other corn is turned into that same hybrid corn.

Well, partly due to having corporate members inside the government, the said company managed to copyright their special breed of corn. The end result is that 80% of all US corn, no matter what it was originally, got turned into the copyrighted breed of corn. What's more, not only is the corn copyrighted, the company has full ownership over the corn. Farmers planting the corn are regarded as "business associates" of the company, don't own the corn they're growing, and are required to return it to the company when it's harvested.

Yes, in case you're wondering, one worst parts is that you could grow non-hybrid corn, but it could get "infected" by pollen from nearby hybrid corn (a common thing considering how much of the hybrid corn there is), and once it had happened you'd no longer have ownership over the corn you were growing.



...Why do they do it? Short answer: greed. They're rolling in the big bucks right now, I can tell you that.

That just makes me want to claw someone's throat out of their neck with my bare fingernails.

The feeling is mutual.

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

That just makes me want to claw someone's throat out of their neck with my bare fingernails.

Let those feelings go away as you stare at this picture.

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BiO wrote:

RichTheWolf257 wrote:

That just makes me want to claw someone's throat out of their neck with my bare fingernails.

Let those feelings go away as you stare at this picture.

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Unfortunarely, that did NOT ruin my bad mood. This is just too serious to be wiped away with a picture of a puppy. Something must be done.