You know me. Gimme the numbers. I send the attacks.
I dont care if it's clean, dirty, salty or warm.
Let's do it.

LIGHT

you call yourself taint?
Thats a very strange nick name....

how bout a salty potato?

All i know is I read the whole teams post and there isnt a single post about dogs. I am seriously disappointed in all of you.
Is the salt here now? Who needs some salted offul?

Thank god you came back with some extra salt. ITs time to cook more popcorn.
Dont get any tears on my popcorn or ill throw the hot kernels at you.

I ran out of salt. Does anyone have any garlic powder to add to this?

yummy yummy, more salt please

MMMM, more salt. Thank you. Do you have any pepper?

you're trendy

Its really salty in here. Does anyone have a pork loin I can cook with lots of salt on it??

Also...best of luck and have fun! Love is all there is.

Id say this. I said the same thing in 2009.
Married with two kids later...
Here I am.....finishing my first full set on 1a and starting my second back on teams.

They all come back.
Enjoy her.
Send me pics so I can vicariously live through you after 10 years of marriage and children. lol.

AI is a worry because it will be used by those in power to eradicate jobs and push people further into dependency on the govt. If it were used for good, those who's job AI is given to do, will let that person be FREE live a full life. Unfortunately, the powers won't allow that person to live a life free of work, and requires us to work and slave away for our entire lives to be able to take a week off and eat potato chips at home once a year and once AI takes that job, that person has no idea how to survive anymore because we don't even know how to live and the government has made it impossible to life a free life once you lose your chosen slavery position to AI.

Food.
Healthcare
Two Party Politics
Federal Reserve Banking
Insurance companies
Corporate Sponsorship
Career Congress Persons
Corporate Personhood
Taxation
Racism/Bigotry/Hate being propagated by the politicians in order to stoke division amongst the population
Constitutional Values
Electorate oversite by the people

I could go on.

Pics or it didnt happen. lol

A few shots of aged bourbon.
Once you kids settle down, Ill have mine and go to bed.

That was the worst...
You guys are really sad. What are you drinking to help you sleep at night? Pepto?

Hey superfly....

Quiet. The baby is sleeping.

Does anyone have a match? I farted....

53249 is the combination to my suitcase. That's crazy!

Hey guys, good fight. Thanks for a great first set back.
See you on the 27th! AWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pee wees!!! lol
I stick to mavericks. Tech 2 k-bots They die quick but kill ALOT of units quicker.

In time, the light will fill the darkest voids.... :)
I dont know what im talking about. Do you have ice cream?

And for the record, still one of the best RTS ever made.

Grab it, its cheap, then get TA: Esculation mod - its insane.
LOVE IT! It's TA, but crazier.

I used to get to tech 2 air playing my friend and just have bombers hole up in a corner. Then when he would rush me with his tech 2 ground troops id just send 150 bombers straight at his commander and blow him out of the water. He would say "What's that blue blob?" And I just say "planes"..... then BOOM.

BEM, I still play OG with core contingency and battle tactics, its like $4 for all of it on steam, I played planetary annilihation for a bit, but not the same.

But now to make it harder on myself, I play TA: Esculation - Its essentially the OG game, with advanced AI, more balanced building, harder to win, MUCH harder to win, and also a bunch of modded in units, tech 3 units, experimental, modded defenses, etc. REALLY REALLY FUN. Feels just like the old version on STEROIDS. Plus I think it has the unit patch on it, so it ups it to 5k or something.

Just because I poop my pants, doesnt make me biden.

How old are we talking here? Poop my pants old? Or just trip and fall once in awhile old? If so, Im both.

He is probably cool though considering the name comes from the game TOTAL ANNIHILATION, the home planet of the ARM in a galactic civil war across worlds, from 1996/97 for PC.

It is not me. I do have a youtube channel, But we do Magic the Gathering Stuff. Not POE. I dont have time to stream, I can barely keep up to reply on the forums about POE in a text based HTML Earth 2025 re-make.

:)

We sure did Kat! I miss those days. I have about 20 more years before I have a kid free obligation free existence, by then itll just be and myself playing this game.

A couple linger in the halls looking for their rooms

Found the CD, cant find the portable drive...lol

Yah know, I think we went to TIE, not PDM....

Ya know, I gotta dig out the old "CD ROMS".

For you younglings...its where we put data. Music. Videos and such. 7.80 GB maybe....

Anyways.....I got a bunch of stuff on those....Lord knows what....but.... why not...

Fun times they were LI.

I love this guy.... Doug is my favorite.

https://wiki.earthempires.com/...United_Council_of_Nations

I think the rest of the story goes like this...

Empyrean and Bluedawg spend a set or two in Paradigm. Empy joins the ArchAngels fighting team. Bluedawg, nets the highest net he's ever netted.

Two sets later, BD and Empy start Midknight Riders. Many friends from all over join us, and we build up to over 40 members. Two sets of peace or so, I can't remember. Then all out war with RD, Elysium, LCN, LaF, and many others just stomping us.

We move to teams.

Empy get's tired. Leaves his people in charge. Leave's game in 2012ish.

Comes back in 2021 to find no one anywhere. Leaves.

Comes back in 2023. Joins paradigm on alliance, with the best damn group of crazies he ever met.
Joins LIGHTS on team. Grabs SOL by accident on alliance.
Grabs and untagged country in Teams, and that country complains that he is in Empy's alliance, yet he has no tag.....so Empy gives him the finger. and goes back to bed.

And here we are. Jan 2024.

Howd I do?

https://www.angelfire.com/ma4/xdocx/dochistory.htm

HOLY CRAP!
This is about the fall of UCN, the rise of pre-Midknight Riders Clans we started...written by me of course, when I was about....23 years old or so?
At most I was 25. Still full of life and angst.

I have a "CD-ROM" with a ton of EARTH 2025 history on it...

Damn...I have no idea how or why I found this.

He's in my clan? I haven't looked at the members list yet.
:)

Interesting observation Drow.
I have shared research tech doing that for me as an indy. Do you have research tech alliance beefing up business or are you running solo? Interesting thing to look at, for sure.

Nevermind. I learned to read.
I see the qz thread.

I don't understand why we need GDI for clans. Isn't that what clans are for? Am I reading what it is wrong? make me less stupid. I know almost nothing on the subject except its "clan gdi" and it appears based on Pangs notes, to be GDI for clans. :)

let's find paladine, bluedawg, archaic, and a bunch of other people i forget. Just drag them back to earth.

Did someone say Pay my boosh?

Buch? Bush? What? I need someone to pet me...MEOW.

seriously,

I dont know what brought me back to this game after a 14.5 year hiatus, but it calls me once in awhile.
Every so often, we get a geezer come back, hell, some of you stayed all this time. Back in the 90s, this place was a bustling epicenter of friends, enemies, frienimies, and lovers. It was peace, war, and netting. It was meet ups, greet ups, and beat ups.
We came into our clans as newbs, and stayed with the ones we loved, and built life long friendships, that sadly, were burnt to a crisp during the 2016 election and COVID 19....but we built them all the same and they were wonderful.

I miss the politics, the wars, the IRC runs, the late night chatting on ICQ. I miss it all. And suddenly, being back a couple weeks, it still has that same kinda happy tingle....all of the new years the have come and gone, this one feels a little extra special...just to feel that little Earth tingle again....
You guys are great. May you all have a WONDERFUL 2024.

Anyway, I appreciate all of you still playing this game and keeping it alive. I salute you.

May 2023 put to rest division, and 2024 bring us all some peace with who we are...and may you all, have a wonderful, safe, and hopefully, a very naked New years Eve.

with love,
Empyrean

Another year closer to death...ive been working real hard to speed it up, but I am failing. (This one is a joke, see next post)

Happy New Year.

you PAY me on the head???

I dont think you guys realize what you let into PDM.

Ex UCN wolf pack.
Ex president MKR.

Im your worst nightmare in a forum...for bad jokes anyway...
Not good for much else.

Especially land grabs!!! AWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!