Argh, stupid! (lol)

[mmosu]

Oh, that is a good one!   ;D :-X

Anyone ever see the movie Shooter?  fragger's joke reminds me of a line in that movie: 
"What's the first thing you feel when you shoot a civilian?"
"The recoil from your rifle"

Also Art & fragger, that's a familiar joke around here as well  :-X

[fragger]

Cheers, mmosu - I guess some gags have universal appeal :)

@eor: ROFL ;D ;D ;D

[eor123]

Okay...this is a new twist on the animal suicide scenario.

I left a swamp boat on the river's edge near the Chemical Products Company while I retrieved the formula for Paul Ferenc. Just as I returned I saw the second of two gazelles commit suicide by walking into the swamp boat.

I guess the poor animals are just traumatized by all the shooting.

[mandru]

I've just come to realize that in the second half of the game I've always been so anxious to get out to the barge escort mission I've never stopped in Selao to listen to the random conversations that are available between the mercs before the cease fire is shattered by the delivery of all those weapons.   ???

I'd jumped off the barge and was hurrying to get to the doctor to warn him things were about to break loose.  I caught the edge of something unintelligible that sounded like inter-faction bickering, one merc screaming something at another and it wasn't until after I'd talked to the doctor that I realized that merc interaction was something I'd not encountered before.  Of course the point at which that had sunk in was well after I'd cleared my save points to get back there easily.   :D

I simply keep running into things that I have to earmark "I'll have to check that out later".

So next time through I'll have to use a no detection cheat, get to a rooftop and spend some time watching to see if there's anything else that will play out I've been missing with the pre-ceasefire Selao merc's.

[PZ]

wow - nice find  :-X

Maybe someone has a saved game for the point just before the barge mission? (Art)  :-()

[Art Blade]

I'm quite sure that I have some. That's not the problem. The problem is: how on earth do I recognise which save game is suitable without having to load and play like a couple thousand saves?  ????

Mandru (anyone), what is the game progress percentage at that point so I might be able to go by that?

[PZ]

Isn't it around 50% that you start in Bowa?  I may check saved games that I have because I too would like to experience what mandru found.

EDIT: It is actually before 50%.  I just uploaded a PC save at 31%, and the player is standing in front of the door to the Pala Church.  Go in and you can initiate the sequence to go to the southern map.  Get the save in our downloads section.

[mandru]

I've found one game save where I'd just completed the barge mission and was at the port headed for the doctor's office.  The save was listed as 2nd Act and either 46% but be aware this is the same percentage after you report to the doctor and have escaped the town after the ceasefire is broken.

On finding this save I delayed going to the Doc and climbed up the ladder on the central building and leaped across to the other building to the west of it and made three different reloads listening for new merc chatter at around 25 minutes per attempt.

I wasn't able to catch the wild screaming I described above again but I did catch new dialog about a lanced boil on someone's knee that spewed out hundreds of maggots and what it disgustingly looked like (ugh), and at another point there was a loud exchange that started out promising but when I put a scope on them to watch the interaction between the two mercs the audio track cut off leaving the two of them standing about two feet apart wildly gesturing (some of it quite threateningly) in a parody of a mime argument.

There's a scientific principal that states that any time you try to observe or measure something you are changing it so that you can never make a perfect observation or measurement.  I think I'm butting heads with that precept trying to catch the event I'm searching for.   :D

[PZ]

... but I did catch new dialog about a lanced boil on someone's knee that spewed out hundreds of maggots and what it disgustingly looked like (ugh), and at another point there was a loud exchange that started out promising but when I put a scope on them to watch the interaction between the two mercs the audio track cut off leaving the two of them standing about two feet apart wildly gesturing (some of it quite threateningly) in a parody of a mime argument.

wow  ????  that's not an exchange that I've witnessed - just goes to show that there is always something new to find in FC2  :-X

[Art Blade]

the maggot/knee part isn't new, you can hear it quite often.

there - just heard it in Port Selao:

"...it was big like a grapefruit. And?" "I was there when the doctor lanced it. Maggots, hundreds of maggots. It spilled down his knee, looked like a macaroni dinner."

LOL

Actually, the quotation marks are misplaced.. it should read:

- "...it was big like a grapefruit."
- "And?"
- "I was there when the doctor lanced it. Maggots, hundreds of maggots. It spilled down his knee, looked like a macaroni dinner."

[PZ]

 ^+-+ sounds even more disgusting the way you put it

[Art Blade]

ahem, I didn't put it that way, some mercs did 8-X :-()

[PZ]

 ^+-+ :-X

[mandru]

Yeah the "Macaroni Dinner" part of it was pretty disgusting which was why I skirted around it.  ???

[Art Blade]

Just don't imagine you had to eat it.






Man, I can be so evil..  ^-^

[PZ]

Yeah the "Macaroni Dinner" part of it was pretty disgusting ...

Andrew Zimmern would like that type of dinner  :-()

[Art Blade]

Just had to check wikipedia who that guy is, and this...

He also hosts the show "Dining with Death" which explains some of the foods that could cause death.

..made me chuckle.  :-()

[PZ]

I've seen him eat scorpions and insects of all kinds, spiders, lizards, brains, rotted meat in rotted butter, bowls of maggots, and just about everything that could possibly be considered food.  He has a show called Bizarre Foods on the Travel channel here in the States.

[mandru]

I know Zimmern.

The Travel channel always tends to run his show at the same time my wife comes home for lunch.

I flip away from the news station I leave on for background (paying attention when something interests me) to find something more pleasant than world affairs while were eating and there's Zimmern bolting down something so disgusting flies won't lay their eggs on it while expounding on how lovely it is that little bubbles of purification are exploding at the back of his sinuses and how exquisitely it complements the texture.

Anthony Bourdain on another Travel channel show isn't as bad as Zimmern but I've become aware that it's probably best I stay put and never try traveling very far over the horizon as I would certainly starve to death preferring that to some of the stuff they enjoy eating.

[PZ]

 ^+-+ :-X

He's probably a bit tired of eating the disgusting foods because he is increasingly visiting better places with finer foods.

[Art Blade]

 ^+-+

[PZ]

Interestingly, the story is that at one time in his life he was a homeless individual in New York.

[Art Blade]

Maybe that's why he's able to eat anything called "food" :-\\

[fragger]

There's another merc conversation about someone eating elephant dung on a dare and it being "the best entertainment ten bucks ever bought me". Zimmern could probably pull up a place for that culinary experience without batting a lip ????

[mandru]

Is that much worse than this?

Coffee from beans defecated by palm civets:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

$100 to $600 in US dollars a pound?  Some people seriously need to have some sense slapped into them.   ???

The really sad part of this whole fad is that I am sure that the native population of palm civets are being decimated by opportunists gathering breeding pairs to start farmed coffee bean producers to cash in on the high value that has been attributed to this product.  Or would it be better to call it a by-product?  ????