That's another place to look which the yoof of tomorrow are going to go "huh?" over. "Wots a commandline? (to the tune of knuckles sparking off cobbles)another_commander wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 7:41 amAnd you can run the game with the-showversion
parameter, which will display the game version on the startup screen as well.
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Re: Question about change in Oolite
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Re: 2025-07-30 Science Fiction Trivia
Never heard of it, so I'll take your word for it.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 4:25 pmHow about the hidden cave system underneath the city of Threerivers in Paul O. Williams' The Fall of the Shell? Set in the aftermath of a nuclear war destroying the US, some refugees build cities along the Mississippi and hide away in them. Threerivers has hidden caves where the stone for the city above was carved from the bedrock and the hero Brudoer hides there for yonks, spying on those living above. Don't recall any super sonics, sorry!
Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; no MBPs. Correction - in his list of Bondisms, Wildblood did include the MBP I had been thinking of - the sub-volcano cave (magma chamber? I shudder, geologically) in You Only Live Twice. He also took several other shows off the table (Thunderbirds, UFO) but not all of the other examples I'd been thinking of.
Place 2 : Cholmondely with "hidden cave system underneath the city of Threerivers in Paul O. Williams' The Fall of the Shell?"
Place 3 : TBA
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Caves excavated for building stone? Well, it's not without precedent - volcanic tuffs under Rome (that's another city on a short fuse, along with Naples) ; Box stone mines just outside Bath (I got "tagged" by a sniper's laser down there; part of the complex is a military nuclear bunker. They probably weren't loaded, because I was on the "public" side of the tunnel full of razor wire, but it's a very effective "Fuck. Off. Now.")
It'd be a hell of a lot of effort for a just-post-apocalypse society though.
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Re: Question about change in Oolite
But with all their jobs taken by AI, they won't have any use for an education (not that education should need a use, it is a goal in its own right, without being a means for something else). Not that many of them will be capable of an education, the way they are degenerating.RockDoctor wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 10:11 pmThat's another place to look which the yoof of tomorrow are going to go "huh?" over. "Wots a commandline? (to the tune of knuckles sparking off cobbles)
Just get a certain member of our community to show you his "games" with AI... and then get ready for a heart attack and recurrent nightmares. And then worse in a few year's time.
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