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Quotes to hang a story on
04-14-2014, 05:33 PM
What it says on the tin. Just throw some quotes/lines/snips at the wall and see what sticks.
"Worthless!" The heavyset man dressed on white with a fez bellowed at his scrawny associate. He lifted the black-painted statuette. "This 'Maltese Falcon' is made of gold!" (Fen collector trying to get one of the originals from the movie)
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Quoting myself, from a much older thread:
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
"You dropped what into the Handwavium?"
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Where's the kaboom? Where is the ship shattering kaboom?
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"They're 'waved shipping containers. That one's Nanoha/Yuuno, that one's Shinji/Mari, that older one's Ranma/Ukyo..."
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"Now," the man cocked the shotgun "step away from my giant robot." Everyone else in the shadows of the overhead catwalks pumped their shotguns as well.
Whenever someone attempted Grand Theft Mecha on Marsbase Sara, every Mecha pilot nearby got ready to open fire. Because the next Mecha a theft was attempted on might be their own.
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*holding a bottle of 'wavium* "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."
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"In my years as a Heavy Metal singer I've met many fans, but this this the first time I can say I've ever been inside one. This is Flying Heavy Metal, and I'm on the Space Shuttle Melchizedek."
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"United Unmanned Aerial Vehicles of America Local 402. Official Work Stoppage at this Airfield."
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"Gentlemen, we're the Knight Sabers. And we've been paid good money by a group with a special interest in ensuring you don't log in to Eve Online for the next three days. So, it looks like you'll be our guests until then...."
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Quote:Dartz wrote:
"Gentlemen, we're the Knight Sabers. And we've been paid good money by a group with a special interest in ensuring you don't log in to Eve Online for the next three days. So, it looks like you'll be our guests until then...."
"Do to the 'Knight Sabers' incident against members of our player base. CCP has chosen to permanently shutter EVE Online for the sake of our players safety."
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You missed the joke. If theres one thing Eve is memetically notorious for, its the lengths players gothrough to fuck each other over. Triggering powercuts to peoples homes, network outages or other forms of enforced absence arent unheard of. The idea that someone would pay the Knight Sabers fees - which arent small - just to keep a few people from logging in is both rediculous and to some minds perfectly in character. And its entirely possible for that much real money to be on the line in a real inter-corporation battle, withe the cost of titans and the like, that someone might just think it worthwhile. Its all part of the game...
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... You know, now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been one of those EVE fleets willing to go that far in real life...
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