Guard your love for food blenders, human poet-cat!

[another_commander]

Also, never forget Debug Console Powah; we have the quote of the day macro, purely for this kind of entertainment:

[Mad Dan Eccles]

I *love*

"Guard your loathing of discos, human arts graduate-fish!"

Bell and Braben really had a thing about arts grads, didn't they?

[Diziet Sma]

Bell and Braben really had a thing about arts grads, didn't they?

To say nothing of poets. Makes me suspect it was the poets and arts grads that kept scoring all the hot dates..

[submersible]

Also, never forget Debug Console Powah; we have the quote of the day macro, purely for this kind of entertainment:

Thank you , I have been meaning to get use of the debug console skills for a while. Now it begins.

Some new ones from my testing

All pancakes - prepare to cutlet…
We shall steak your dwarf
Kiss your loathing of poetry, human poet-monkey!
Die treacherous lollipop-umbrellas
We then cutlet your mutant
You might render this soup!
You may obstruct this grub
We will burgers your umbrella
All mutants - prepare to monkey

[GGShinobi]

All pancakes - prepare to cutlet…
We shall steak your dwarf
Kiss your loathing of poetry, human poet-monkey!
Die treacherous lollipop-umbrellas
We then cutlet your mutant
You might render this soup!
You may obstruct this grub
We will burgers your umbrella
All mutants - prepare to monkey

So funny! And those messages are really distracting in combat! The Thargoids are very clever - they know a laughing pilot is a bad pilot!

[PhantorGorth]

submersible:

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  "thargoid_does" =
  (
     "despise",
     "render",
     "creep",
     "blast",
     "kiss",
     "[thargoid_does]", // picked to often?
     "flay",
     "obstruct",
     "author",
     "crush"
  );

Putting "[thargoid_does]" inside "thargoid_does" dictionary is redundant as it will 1 in 10 times pick that only to pick another one in that list which 1 in 10 is that one again and so on. With theoretical infinite number of substitutions mathematically it is equivalent of 1 in 9 random selection of the other options. This is only theoretical as there is a nested substitution limit (I can not remember how deep) that means there is a chance, if rather small, of being left with that key, and possibly other keys, being un-substituted.

[submersible]

Putting "[thargoid_does]" inside "thargoid_does" dictionary is redundant as it will

You know - I had a grave feeling when I did it that it was silly. If there is much interest in this thread such that people think it's an OXP worth having - perhaps you'd be able to clue me in some more about how all of that works. I've been reading wiki, descriptions.plist comments and am only barely wiser.

[Commander McLane]

Putting "[thargoid_does]" inside "thargoid_does" dictionary is redundant as it will

You know - I had a grave feeling when I did it that it was silly. If there is much interest in this thread such that people think it's an OXP worth having - perhaps you'd be able to clue me in some more about how all of that works. I've been reading wiki, descriptions.plist comments and am only barely wiser.

What you have here is something pointing to itself. Which in the worst case can create an infinite loop. Which is a bad idea.

Or, from a more basic common-sense point of view: You're giving ten options, but one of them is "choose one of the other nine options", or to put it in other words, "d'oh! start all over again and repeat this choice (for no good reason)". It just doesn't make sense.

[Eric Walch]

You're giving ten options, but one of them is "choose one of the other nine options",

Actually it is not one of the other nine, but choose the ten options again. If it were only the other nine, there would be no loop.
I am sure you mend to write that in the first place.

[spara]

I'm surprised, there is no quote of the day oxp, showing the quote through the interfaces screen.

[Cody]

I'm surprised, there is no quote of the day oxp, showing the quote through the interfaces screen.

You'll be wanting a fortune-cookie OXP next... ho-hum!

[CommonSenseOTB]

Of course there can be too much of a good thing. Here is a quick test oxp which adds more curses and will say one to the console every 5 seconds.

http://swarm.perlide.org/static/Thargoi ... es.oxp.zip

Thanks for that submersible.

[HAL]

Two more I've just got:

Eat leopard, poetry!
We'll use your strange dust clouds for our soup!

[HAL]

Just a minute ago,

"Guard your love for Telaceian lethal water, human poet-monkey!"

Okay, if you say so mr. deceased Thargoid!

[Mad Dan Eccles]

I had "Star! Star! Star!" earlier today, which was quite poetic in a way.