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Pus In Boots
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 21:24
I propose "newbles" as our national currency. Much better than the "Troller" currency.

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AndrewT
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 21:41
Here's my attempt:



I know, not great. But hey, I was bored.

Game Maker
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 21:45
AndrewT's flag it the best.
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 21:47
AndrewT, I quite like it! The glow is my favorite part, and I like the background. But it's up to Matt to decide..sorry, I mean Mr. President!


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Grandma
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 22:33
I always thought codes would be our currency.

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zenassem
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Posted: 5th Dec 2008 23:58
Quote: "I always thought codes would be our currency."


Well in that case we are in a recession!


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Benjamin
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 00:14
I think flags are supposed to be simple, relying on geometry and simple colours rather than something that can't be drawn on paper.

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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 00:21
Quote: "I think flags are supposed to be simple, relying on geometry and simple colours rather than something that can't be drawn on paper."


This is teh intertubes! There is no such thing a "paper".

And this, is what makes TGC better than the other countries.


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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 02:26
Undying nationalism, I love it! But I agree with the Secretary of Sarcasm, our flag should be something simple. Something that someone could sew into an actual real-life flag so Lee could drive around in his real-life car with two little flags on the front of it. As President, I can honestly say that if I had two little flags like that, I'd TOTALLY put them on the front of my Mazda . I don't know what you call flags that you put on the front of cars though, I'd have to look into that.

I still like Deathead's St.-George-at-a-rave-party flag the most, though AndrewT's would have topped it with a simpler background. Maybe the St. George thing but with the cross converging on the pyramid in the center?

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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 03:47
My vote goes to Walter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--lrON9yzs

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AndrewT
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 03:52


Any better? I can change any colors if you want, or change the size/position of the cross.

BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 04:53
Wow, Matt actually gets a title? Congrats Matt!

Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 05:29
Much, much better. Maybe the cross should be some other color though to offset the yellow in the pyramid, maybe blue to match the logo in the pyramid with a white background, or make the cross white? Not sure, but don't base it entirely on my suggestion because the flag belongs to the community as a whole, hehe. Though I'm serious about putting two of them on the front of my car and taking some pictures of it parked in front of some busy location, lol .

Quote: "Wow, Matt actually gets a title? Congrats Matt!"

Thanks! It's only temporary though, until the last of our coup efforts are complete. IanM's laser is more complicated than anyone had previously predicted.

AndrewT
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BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 05:56 Edited at: 6th Dec 2008 15:50
Quote: "Though I'm serious about putting two of them on the front of my car and taking some pictures of it parked in front of some busy location, lol ."


Well, you won't be needing your car much longer. Didn't you know, the president doesn't have to go through traffic .



I'm going to have some fun with this .

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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 05:57
Yeah, I'm still working on getting Ian's laser shutdown. Those nasty little martian slaves he has at his moonbase are creepy little buggers. They won't leave me alone long enough to make any decent progress.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 06:05
Woot, I get my own Marine One!!! SWEET! ! Now we're going to need some Marines, though.

Sorry for the mission Dink but you're the only member of the staff whose qualified for such a clandestine mission. Intel says if you kill the slavemasters, the others might revolt. If you can capture some slaves alive, though, bring them back to Earth and we'll put them to work at MISoft

I dig the new flag Andrew, much better! Sorry to overwork you, but we need a good Presidential Seal as well . Each secretary can make their own seals, though.

BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 15:45 Edited at: 6th Dec 2008 15:49
Heres the one I made to use on the side of the chopper, it was kind of hastily done though, so if Andrew can make a better one, go for it.



AndrewT
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 15:49
That's cool bmaczero! I'll make mine first, and then see if there's anything I can do for the president one. But yours looks fine.

Grandma
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 16:05
This is getting out of hand.

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AndrewT
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 16:40 Edited at: 6th Dec 2008 18:47
Here's my badge:



Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 17:55
Quote: "This is getting out of hand."

On what page was it ever in hand?

I like that one bmac, the layout is perfect. The stars are a bit jpeggy but otherwise it's tops

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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 18:00
Quote: "On what page was it ever in hand? "

No offense but that means your presidency has no point.



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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 18:05
I wish I had kept up with this thread, but alas, I was busy.

Any of the 22 pages you guys recommend me to read?

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 18:05
Deathead, I'm pretty sure that was made clear long ago...lol.


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Alucard94
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 18:19
Quote: "No offense but that means your presidency has no point.
"


No really? This thread was never anything serious, it's not like we were promised anything for becoming president. Although Matt did get that title and that shiny star.


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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 18:33
I'm using my Presidency for all its worth though, and then some, lol. This administration is taking the fictional role of President and trying to do some real good, even if it's only as relevant as the Queen telling everyone to hug each other more often .

Here's what you missed, Zeke:

* I was soaring ahead in the polls by number of supporters. People started dropping out to join my ticket

* Pus declared an election day and everyone prepped for voting

* Mike Johnson changed his title to Forum President, in an effort to establish that he was President without needing to run for office.

* The moderators attempted to rig the election in an effort to make Johnson the President without him really trying to win

* I was winning the election by a landslide before the Johnson rigging, and so I took matters into my own hands. Employing the help of a very high ranking official at TGC, my people stormed IanM's moonbase, arrested mods who tried to resist, and seized control for ourselves. Military coup wins, fatality. Johnson escaped though we later dropped charged against him

* I, Matt Rock, was inaugerated as TGC's first President. Viva la Resistance!

To see how I've used my Presidency so far, read pages 19+. The President doesn't have any real powers (I'm only a mod until the coup is finished), but we're using the title to invoke some good around here .

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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 00:49 Edited at: 7th Dec 2008 00:54
My secretarial badge:



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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 06:26
^^ Now THAT is awesome! ^^



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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 13:32
Why thankyou! Tentacles are always a fair bet.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 19:13
Yeah, I think it's safe to say Kiwi's seal is best, though now conspiracy theorists like Grandma will say the Illuminati and the Free Masons helped us get elected

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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 20:47
Quote: "The anthem is being worked on"

Does that mean that the composition I've been working on furtively was all in vain?

(Yes, I actually have )


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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 20:48
I have also been working on the anthem. Has someone already been chosen to write it?

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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 22:01
Quote: "Yeah, I think it's safe to say Kiwi's seal is best, though now conspiracy theorists like Grandma will say the Illuminati and the Free Masons helped us get elected"

Oh no, not even close.

Let's just say it involves people with big pointy hats. I'm on to you.

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Posted: 7th Dec 2008 22:06 Edited at: 7th Dec 2008 22:08
Quote: "Let's just say it involves people with big pointy hats. I'm on to you.
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I may have hired some... Eeh, "socially unacceptable" people to help with Matt's presidency.

... Although Matt you did meet those yesterday outside that bar didn't you?


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Matt Rock
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Posted: 8th Dec 2008 01:56
No anthem has been selected yet, I was referring to those of you who've started working on them

I'm sorry Alucard, but your ploy failed. Amy Winehouse might be a scary dude, but he does have a girl's name... I can't say anything more though, it's classified

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Posted: 8th Dec 2008 03:51
Matt. IanM must be on to us. He changed the security codes on the moobase laser...

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Hmm... On one hand, destroying the laser would end the problem altogether. But on the other hand, we might need to use the laser in the future to counter-assault any future coup attempt... tough call. Try dousing the security entry unit in chocolate milk, that might solve it. If not, we'll at least make the unit delicious while we work out how to get around it. We could always fire up the war machine again and capture IanM, forcing him at gunpoint to help us bypass the security mechanism, but that would go against my "military as a last resort" philosophy .

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Quote: "He changed the security codes on the moobase laser..."


Did you try hitting it until it breaks? That always works in the movies.

Of course, you could always make an exact replica of the unit (With bypassing software, of course), wire it into the console in palce of the current one and slowly remove it wire by wire until yours is in it's place.


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@ matt's reply


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When you finally break in, watch out for the warbots - and yes, before you ask, they are protected from chocolate milk. That was one of the first things I designed them to be resistant to. You guys really are so obvious!

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Chocolate milk resistant?

That's improbable! Nothing is chocolate milk resistant. Not even chocolate milk is chocolate milk resistant. Only 2 known materials can withstand chocolate milk to some degree. One is imaginary and the other is out of the question.

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Posted: 8th Dec 2008 16:14
Did you count in if you have a mana level of 33? I've heard that you get a lot more resistance spells then.


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Posted: 8th Dec 2008 19:31
Outside help? No, I didn't summon- I mean "hire" any outside help.

Quiet, my pretty shoggoths... soon... soon...

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Oh no. I can foresee a plan in which either of both parties uses the most terrifying weapon ever seen by mankind. Seeing that the moon is a distant place and only IanM lives there, I can see Matt actually ordering to use this apocalypse in small on the moonbase if everything else fails.

Yes.

I am talking Paris Hilton.


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Ha! Think you'll scare me out of my base that way? I can see her now on the monitors, and ... yes, yes I knew it! It's Agent Dink under that blonde wig!

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As dangerous a climate as Ian's moonbase is, I couldn't send the ACTUAL Paris Hilton up there. It's too... I dunno... mean-spirited! But there are benefits:

* Her built-in nightvision would certainly help us find the darkside base entrance
* Her dog-releasing purse could help us get around Ian's cat sensors
* Sending Hilton on a suicide mission does sound extremely tempting

But I'd be worried she'd proclaim "that's hot" at an inopportune moment and ruin our chances at success, and I'm sure she'd flip open her cell phone in the middle of Ian's electromagnet landmine fields, creating a new sea of tranquility and giving the man on the moon a third eye. So sending Hilton is probably too dangerous.

But if we send Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Nicole Ritchie, and Tara Reid, we have a chance! Yes, our administration's version of Foxhound... the ChihuahuaBimbo Unit. If you guys were looking for another excuse to fire up Photoshop, I just gave it to you .

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I take it Ian got the better of things, seeing the sudden death of this very-close-to-900-posts thread.

Anyhow, after some serious head scratching and countless trips to the local cider house, I have an anthem prototype ready for rewiev by the perusal bureau.

I call it a prototype since I am yet not sure about how well the parts at 0:41 and 1:09 fits in (I often write such passages, but I don't find it very "anthem-ish").

So, give it a listen and tell me what you think


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What's the text?


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I shall write the lyrics. (I think the song is brilliant).

(music 3 bars)
Oh Apollo you are
a wonderful land.
Full of game creators, oh
and other sorta dudes too!

A land dynamic!
Users of the boards, praise!

Praise to our makers, oh ya! Praise to our girlfriends, oh ya!
Whom let us make our games, instead of cuddling.

Oh Apollo you are
a glorious land.
Let us hope you survive
Always in internet land.

Let us sing! Let us shout!
Let us drink! Have a stout!

Let us sway! Let us stumble!
Pass out, and again tomorrow!!

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