I'm not dead yet!

Ed Kolis · #1 April 15th, 2005, 01:41 PM

Hi everybody, I just wanted to apologize for my long absence from the Space Empires community and for delaying all the PBW games I've been in. I hope nobody's mad at me for that, but I'm having a bit of a personal crisis right now and I can't access the Internet but once a week. See, I was falsely accused of threatening to kill this girl at school (I actually asked her to kill me), and now I'm awaiting trial. It's only a misdemeanor but as a condition of my bond I have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, which means I'm only allowed out of the house on Fridays and other times when I have permission (like to see my therapist). It also means that my Internet service is disrupted, because otherwise I'd just be spending all my time playing SE4 with you guys and chatting about SE5!

One good thing has come of this, though - I have had the opportunity to begin serious work on my own 4X game; I call it Imperia Stellarum (Latin for "Empires of the Stars"), and it's got hexes just like SE5

You can't do much yet except build 3 ships from Star Trek, and if you build more than one, you get duplicates of some of them for some reason. The game's written in Java so it should work on Linux and Windows (and also Mac once Java 5 is released for Macs). So far there are 4 races, the Terrans, Uxmai (tentacle monsters which live in nebulas), Prell (floating brains which live inside stars), and Replons (big hulking robots which live on artificial space habitats). Once I get a chance, I'll show you guys - I'm just afraid I'll lose interest on working on it once I have something else to do... I'm already losing interest now

Oh, and BTW, if I remember to check this thread next Friday, could any of the beta testers get clearance to tell me if SE5 works under Wine any better than Starfury does???

I really don't want to go back to using Windows but I'm getting desperate at this point, not just about SE5 but other games, because I'm BORED...

geoschmo · #2 April 15th, 2005, 01:53 PM

Glad to here you are not dead. Um, why did you ask her to kill you? Was this just a joke or something that got taken seriously and totally blown out of proportion? That's certainly possible these days what with the zero tolerance policies. If you were serious though I hope you take advantage of the help they are giving you and spend all your energies on getting better.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 April 15th, 2005, 02:27 PM

What can I say? You have my sympathies.

Atrocities · #4 April 15th, 2005, 02:34 PM

Glad to hear your ok Ed. I hope this works out for you my friend. Geo gave you some good advise, and I do hope you'll do as he recommended. Any ways, I wish you the best and look forward to seeing you back on line soon.

Caduceus · #5 April 15th, 2005, 04:09 PM

Sorry to hear about your problems, Ed. We hope everything works out for the best!

Ragnarok-X · #6 April 15th, 2005, 04:31 PM

Ehm i seriously hope more than 80% of your post was a bad joke or else my opinion about the US is even worse now.

Atrocities · #7 April 15th, 2005, 05:18 PM

Ragnarok - tis no joke.... A kid at my nephews school, a first grader, was suspended and the police called when he kissed a girl in his class on the cheek. No [censored], they actually called the police and expelled the kid. Now that kids parents are fighting the Child Protective Service invasion of their family life. They want the child to seek counsiling to determine if he is a sexual predator..... Give ME A F***ing break!

And then there is the kid who took a GIJOE figure to school... Oh that one was a classic.

It gets worse. In the final years of the Roman Empire, the empire began to pass stupid laws, much like the ones we see passing now... thank you so very much to the liberals of America... where simple things, inocent things, are now considered criminal behavior.

I read about a kid who told his teacher that he did not like her and wished she would die, because she took his toy away from him and thew it into the garbage.... He was sent home for the rest of the week for threatening his teacher and his parents had to take him to anger management.... WTF!!! When I was a kid, if you did not like your teacher, you could say that, then get the failing grade as a thank you, now you get the failing grade and a criminal record.

This crap is getting out of hands.... I could not possibly count how many times my life was threatened in school while growing up... now it seems its a federal offense. Well hell, where in the hell were these laws when I was in school?

Aiken · #8 April 15th, 2005, 07:26 PM

Barbarian country. One can kill man and escape the jail, but you can't say something to a classmate because you'll be sued for megabucks. Your laywers lost their mind, guys. I'm kinda ashamed to belong to the same profession as these american bastards-in-law.

Glad to hear a word from you, Ed. I beleive you'll deal with this problem. Kick their arse.

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 April 15th, 2005, 07:39 PM

As a sig on rpg.net goes; 'God grant me the strength to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, AND FLAMETHROWERS FOR HANDS!!!'

Phoenix-D · #10 April 15th, 2005, 08:18 PM

"It gets worse. In the final years of the Roman Empire, the empire began to pass stupid laws, much like the ones we see passing now... thank you so very much to the liberals of America... where simple things, inocent things, are now considered criminal behavior. "

Saying you wish your teacher would die is innocent?

Other than that all I'll say on this point is to remind you that it isn't the liberals that have controlled Congress for the last decade..