Search found 5952 matches

by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:43 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Things are looking up for PDX, no unequivocal "Yes" votes so far. Guess Gunpowder hasn't checked in yet.
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Hey, so remember how P.D.X. requested that we put major decision points up to a Swamp vote? Be careful what you wish for... http://i.imgur.com/tSNr0ul.jpg So, P.D.X.'s pyromania, which I had initially assumed was just an amusing personality quirk, has to our surprise become an actual problem. See, h...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Not too long before we get our next refugee--a woman named Lacey, pursued by angry tribespeople. She is degen's mom! She is good at artistry and melee combat(!) http://i.imgur.com/ODqLc1I.jpg Here they come, funneling into our trap...we easily drop four of them. A group of visitors from the "fr...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

http://i.imgur.com/Sv0iF8Q.jpg Stinging from their earlier defeat, The Loyal Frogs regroup and send a larger raiding party this time. We'll be waiting. http://i.imgur.com/CgKN0FM.jpg The first raider, Oleg, rounds the corner and is immediately met by duff, who attacks him with a club. Magnolia the ...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:28 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Reddit
Replies: 19
Views: 1525

Re: Random Reddit

OK, this is great. Kid posts a photo to humblebrag about how his dad "accidentally" drove his Hummer into a pond, and how the electronics and rims somehow happened to be "stolen" from it while it was underwater. The rest of the community quickly picks up on the very probable ins...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:59 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

A few days later we see someone on the horizon, running from the pirates. Hey look, it's duff! http://i.imgur.com/T4TTJ55.jpg duff grew up on a dystopian cave world before escaping to become a successful entrepreneur. He has a decent range of skills and is a hard worker, willing to do the grunt work...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:57 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

http://i.imgur.com/g0l2UE0.jpg So here we are in the jungle. We conveniently landed in a space between two large rock formations, which will help establish a solid defensive perimeter. I cut you guys a break and added some anti-malaria medicine to the initial supplies. The pet capybara has been aut...
by Johnny Carwash
Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:49 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3857
Views: 214030

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

Dr. Henry Heimlich, of maneuver fame. Had no idea he was still living. For some reason thought he lived like 50 years earlier.
by Johnny Carwash
Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Star Wars Thread...The Spoiler Edition
Replies: 511
Views: 27626

Re: Star Wars Thread...The Spoiler Edition

So I thought this one was...just OK? The second half was definitely much better than the first, at least. I'd go as far to say the first half was flat-out not good. Poorly paced and oddly undramatic. Characters were paper-thin and I didn't feel invested in them anywhere near as much as the other mov...
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

rass wrote:Ha. We're all scared to pick Moreta.
I think we're just sticking with the horror movie cliches.
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:48 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Also, how many minutes/hours equals a day of game time? Just curious. A game day is I think about 10 minutes of real time at default speed, but I play at vastly accelerated speed most of the time. Also, a "season" in the game is 15 days, so that's why you're seeing the seasons change in r...
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 5:41 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Forgot to ask: since AB is along this time, should I pretend he bullies everyone out of using solar power and into the old-fashioned way of destroying natural resources?
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

The Swamp has spoken and you guys are getting a capybara.

I'll start the game tonight and will update once we hit a major decision point. In the meantime, enjoy the "who dies first?" poll.
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 1:59 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL SWAMPCRASH 2016 - Week 15 (DUE FRI 12-16)
Replies: 47
Views: 3393

Re: NFL SWAMPCRASH 2016 - Week 15 (DUE FRI 12-16)

Lions win! GG cerrano.

By the way, Roc was a great answer for #2 and deserved to be right.
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:25 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

So with a decent number of votes, the jungle biome is the clear winner for where Swampville IV should pitch its hopes and fortunes. Hope you guys like malaria. New poll up asking what the new colony pet should be. There are like 50+ animals overall, but you can only have 10 options in a poll, so I s...
by Johnny Carwash
Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:08 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Swampville IV Next up... http://i.imgur.com/aX9n95w.jpg P.D.X. grew up as a street urchin but later became a successful entrepreneur. He enjoys brawling but is also quite sociable. He has no other skills of notable merit. He is ugly and is a pyromaniac. http://i.imgur.com/vYrw5io.jpg degenerasian s...
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8832
Views: 409937

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

You're basically begging us to turn this into the "Delores" episode of Seinfeld.
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:49 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Can I nominate a long-absent swamper round? Are you talking about people whose activity levels have declined, or those who straight-up haven't been around in years? I'm kind of hesitant here because we'd be getting into the territory of people I'd never interacted with, and would feel kind of awkwa...
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Craig Sager
Replies: 9
Views: 1418

Craig Sager

Knew it was coming, but...fuck.

by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:46 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MJ was a D!ck
Replies: 4
Views: 1455

Re: MJ was a D!ck

...and Ryan sheds a single tear.

Quick, someone talk about hot '80s TV moms and then bump that other thread too.
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

So, remember when I said Johnnie might be able to pull this out as long as we weren't attacked by raiders? Guess what. http://i.imgur.com/xhHF6dp.jpg Just two of them, but that's still double what we have. One with Molotov cocktails, the other with a shotgun. http://i.imgur.com/A8xpuVk.jpg Johnnie m...
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:16 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8832
Views: 409937

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

#908 for me.

Interesting that Nguyen is #38. Vietnamese-Americans aren't a particularly large group, but Nguyen accounts for like 40% of Vietnamese surnames.
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:14 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

So, now it's a matter of seeing if Johnnie can survive on his own. Let's see what Masshole Robinson Crusoe can do. He is capable of performing most basic tasks at least moderately well (except firefighting), and we have decent stocks of food and basic supplies, so it's not necessarily a lost cause. ...
by Johnny Carwash
Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:14 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

http://i.imgur.com/lWKjOMh.jpg Down to our last three colonists, our base is struck by lightning and catches on fire! Johnnie, who for some unexplained reason refuses to participate in firefighting, is indifferent and calmly eats breakfast. Ryan is woken out of bed and spends a few seconds putting ...
by Johnny Carwash
Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

I just realized that giving Nonlinear a cowboy hat proved eerily prescient, as his story arc ended up mimicking a country & western song:

- His wife leaves him
- His dog dies
- A couple of his friends die
- His wife comes back but then promptly dies
- He dies
by Johnny Carwash
Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:34 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Lunch update: With two Swampers (plus a dog and an ex-wife) now gone, we manage to stabilize things a bit and a few relatively quiet days pass. I'd like to get Gunpowder a bionic or at least a peg leg, but the operation would require anesthetics that we don't currently have, so for now he'll just ha...
by Johnny Carwash
Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

You say "we" eat the emu... I'm correct in assuming I go my own route in this scenario, right? I mean, that's fresh manmeat sittin' right there. FWIW, I *seriously* considered directing you to eat your ex-wife's corpse, but with the social health of the colony already in a precarious stat...
by Johnny Carwash
Wed Dec 14, 2016 7:57 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

So with that bloody episode over, we pick up the pieces (literally) and try to get back to some semblance of normal life. Taking a lesson from what happened to Marshmallow last time, I make sure to send specific "Do not butcher Yorkshire terriers" instructions to the kitchen. http://i.imgu...
by Johnny Carwash
Wed Dec 14, 2016 7:57 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

We get an urgent message that a "poison ship" has landed nearby and will begin to release toxic gases unless we destroy it quickly. This should be easy, just walk up and shoot it and-- http://i.imgur.com/6f43RMQ.jpg Holy shit! This thing emerges. Remember this thing? It was the doom of Swa...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:57 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Can you inject players into the mix at will? Or maybe out another way, do you start with a maximum of 5 or is that just what you decided to do? (Apologies if I missed this logistical stuff in an earlier post.) I'm using a mod that lets me customize the initial set of people. I think you can have as...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

while Gunpowder goes around to stab her from behind to incapacitate her Surely there was a better way to handle this. Unless he was just feeling stabby and took the opportunity that presented itself. Yeah, the game doesn't really have a good way to safely subdue people. It's basically just shoot/st...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:56 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

bapo luckily manages to escape his rat attack with no long-term effects. An escape pod crashes nearby and its occupant is a woman named Eddie, who is Nonlinear's ex-wife. What went wrong, Nonlinear? Was it the cannibalism? We successfully recruit her to the colony. We get our first full group of rai...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:50 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

Lunchtime update: http://i.imgur.com/Quc6JYT.jpg Bapo is attacked by mad rats! let's hope he doesn't go the way of howard. We are attacked by a pirate band called "Crueltylineup," which sounds like some asshole teenager's Xbox Live handle. They only send one guy, though, and we easily disp...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:11 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

So from the poll, it looks like nobody thinks Nonlinear will die first? Are you assuming he won't go without eating someone first?

(Note that this shouldn't be construed as a hint either way.)
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:46 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: What is The South?
Replies: 70
Views: 3525

Re: What is The South?

Hey Rex, I see that you drew a small circle around Atlanta, presumably to indicate its un-Southernness due to transplants, etc. Would you give Charlotte the same treatment? Richmond?
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:03 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

A refugee is seen on the horizon, running from angry tribespeople. Hey look, it's sancarlos! http://i.imgur.com/DRHP8dq.jpg sancarlos was a child spy who grew up to be a liberal arts teacher at a public school. He is good at shooting (I guess the school was in Oakland?), social interactions, and han...
by Johnny Carwash
Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:02 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

http://i.imgur.com/jTQVi6J.jpg This time we'll ramp up the challenge a little bit and start in an arid shrubland zone. Not extremely inhospitable, but we'll have to contend with the heat and less ideal soil. Johnnie might find the area similar to his current real-life environs, but with less meth (...
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:35 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: What is The South?
Replies: 70
Views: 3525

Re: What is The South?

Of those, I went with VA, KY, TN, AR, FL. I think of Texas and Oklahoma as kind of their own thing.
by Johnny Carwash
Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2017 - The Final Countdown
Replies: 616
Views: 30700

Re: Swamp RimWorld Challenge 2016

sancarlos wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:I find that with my diet, no amount of brushing yields a positive mouth scent.
Taken out of context, that would make a hilarious signature line.
Thread title updated.