“You Must Construct Additional Pylons”

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    20 days ago

    KILLING SPREE!

    RAMPAGE!

    DOUBLE KILL!

    M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!

    Edit: oh yeah and Duke at an arcade cabinet of his own game: “Don’t have time to play with myself.”

  • podperson@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

    • Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperature Science
  • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?

    Serviceman Burnside: Sir! An object in motion stays in motion, sir!

    Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!

    Serviceman Burnside: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!

    Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

    Serviceman Chung: Sir, yes sir!

    • Konn@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Mass Effect had some real good dialogue for background chatting. This piece in particular is really immersive and funny to boot.

  • Melllvar@startrek.website
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    18 days ago

    “Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person’. That’s what it says, ‘a horrible person’. We weren’t even testing for that!”

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    “They have taken you from the Imperial City’s prison, first by carriage and now by boat, to the east, to Morrowind. Fear not, for I am watchful. You, have been chosen.”