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Old 04-13-2002, 02:09 AM   #16
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Old 04-13-2002, 01:29 PM   #17
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Originally posted by dhamsaic
We're not oppressing them. We don't make them go through humiliating searches every day when they want to go to work.

You had a better chance with the Native Americans.
Uhhh... you been to S Texas lately? Sorry, D, but I have to call you on that one. McAllen isn't a very bad town to live in, but it sure as hell is dirty, and extremely poor. Harlingen is about the same. Nothing really gets too good until you get to Corpus Christi, which still have it's fair share of poverty despite some of the richest oil money in the state. Funny thing is that the Nueces River should have been the Tex-Mex border (which is just up IH-37 from Corpus). We backed that up with the last treaty.
You do have a good point with the NA.
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Old 05-11-2002, 09:44 AM   #18
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Originally posted by Hubris Boy

Maybe the Dwellars can come up with a new term. Suggestions, anyone?
Why invent a new term? Apparently Netrek already has invented one...

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Ogg :
Og....The act of Ogging. The process of cloaking and appearing adjacent to enemy while firing torps and tractoring on to him. Purpose: To kill. Without caring about dying in the process, also called suiciding. Ogging is an art, it consists of knowing when to cloak and when to uncloak. Planets are not subject to Ogging, since no one can here their screams.
Back in, I believe, November/December of 1990 I use to play netrek much more than now. At the time, I was probably only Flt Captain Sun Tzu, maybe even just a Captain. A group of us, which included Jay Hui (TheSlug), Byron Sinor (Krang), and Steve Russel (Khelik) were playing netrek with Terence. The three of us were Feds, Terence was Orion. It was a full game, and Terence had come in as Og <== (beginning to get how it happened :> ). At this time, suiciding people with kills *NEVER* happened. Dogfighting rained supreme, and cloaking was used only for planet taking, that is until Terence decided to teach us CMU boys alesson. Steve had accumulated a 3, 4 kill ship and had taken Spica (or El Nath, I dont remember) and Terence chased him and tried to mutual with him. Steve killed him, but was left at ~90% internal. As he wiggled towards Fed. space he watched the galactic map as Og reappeared and began to move rapidly in his direction. I will never forget how his voice shattered the calm of the cluster with yells of Its OGGGGGGGG. HELP! HELP!!!!!!!!! Its OOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!. His final words were something to the effect of AAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh, Ive been Ogged!!. Jay and I immediately picked up on the effectiveness of suiciding people, and had Terence show us how to do it better. That is how Ogging started getting popular, and how the name spread through Netrek History. [ Kevin Bernatz ]

Ogger Scum :
Those who Ogg for no understandable reason. This does not include those who occationally Ogg planet takers with kills, bombers, and star bases. However, there are people who Ogg people with no kills, and people who never take planets simply because its the only way they can see anyone blow up other than themselves. [ Hugh More (ZZnew guy) ]


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Old 05-12-2002, 11:09 PM   #19
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Well, GODDAMN. Somebody else here knows their netrek lore.

I picked up the Win32 client, and with broadband, it plays even more smoothly than I ever saw it play in my college years. Pity that most of my skills have atrophied away over that decade...

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