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Capt Dizle
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So what does this have to do with eggs?
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Oslo, Norway
Nov 1999
time: 06:19
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Originally posted by Mr. President
One of the books that you can get at the end of the game is the "Critique of the Critique of Pure Reason", a reference to Immanuel Kant's philosophical work. Another one is "The Unbearable Lightness of Hovertanks", after Milan Kundera's novel. The one that goes with the highest rating, if I recall correctly, is "Stairway to Transcendence: The Last Book You'll Ever Need" or something like that, which is a reference to something which I can't remember. |
Most of the books are spoofs on existeing books.
"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" (ore somesuch), "The litle train that could" (or somesuch), "How to raise a disabled child" (or somesuch, my memory isn't very exact one these books' titles  ) "The cat in the hat" etc.
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Googlie
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Commanding Officer, CRYPTEIA
Apr 1999
time: 21:19
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Originally posted by Adalbertus
Does anybody know what nerve-stapling really is? And why you don't need to discover neither Neural Grafting nor MMI to do so? |
Here's an extract from The Spartan Chronicles:
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Kurt drew his riot control nerve prod stick he'd requisitioned from the armory that afternoon, and dialed it to max. He padded up behind Bert, reached out, and touched him on the side of the neck, toggling the switch as he did so.
Bert froze in shock as the paralysis was instantaneous.
Kurt moved round in front of him.
His wide eyes showed the recognition - and wonder. His vocal chords were paralyzed, so he could not utter a word.
Kurt took his backpack from his shoulders, and opened it. He pulled out the contents piece by piece, and showed them to Bert as he arrayed them on the floor beside him.
Bert's eyes were wide with horror as he recognized the items.
Kurt found the power source, and plugged in the base unit. He connected the nodes to their receptacles, then placed the plasteel cap on Bert's head. He connected the sensor filaments, and moistened the pads and placed them on Bert's temples and at the base of his skull.
He connected the filament probes, then looked at the set up. Satisfied, he turned a dial and the equipment hummed to life.
The filaments snaked out and met the sensor pads, penetrating the neural cortex rapidly and easily. They searched for the interstices where the synapses joined and separated, and each time they encountered the join the current surged and the synapse fused. After a few seconds it was done.
Kurt removed the apparatus, and stowed the equipment back into his backpack.
He drew his shredder pistol, set to flame, and turned to the Vidtrance equipment. One burst was enough to incinerate the tape that Bert had somehow manufactured from the dream sequence. The image of Lisa faded from the screen. "I hope you find another man worthy of you" he whispered to the blank screen.
He turned to Bert.
"You've no idea what I'm saying to you, but in case there are recorders operating, note this:
"The nerve prod will weaken in about one hour.
"This attack was not random. It is in revenge for the Hive nuking of the Spartan Command Center through this operative.
"I am a Believer"
He padded out and closed the door on the nervestapled Bert.
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That's how I imagined it, anyway.
Googlie
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Capt Dizle
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Thats pretty good.
I always get nervous around talk about nervestapling cause thats what MoSe and Mongoose are always threatening to do to me.
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I can only assume Believer HQ has some reference to Swedish mystic and scientist Emmanuel Swedenborg's work 'The New Jerusalem.'
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01-06-2002 22:04
. In 1122, this was the place where the German Emperor and the Pope settled the dispute on investiture (Investiturstreit), i. e. who has the right to determine who becomes bishop. As many bishops in Germany also were rulers over a country (and of the seven Electors - those who had the right to elect the Emperor - three were bishops, those of Mainz, Trier and Cologne), this was an immensely political issue.
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