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  • #1

    Easter Egg

    Just playing another game of SMAX, I stumbled over the base name "Concordat of Worms". As probably many of you are not familiar with medieval German history, a short explanation:
    The name has nothing to do with Mindworms at all. Worms is a nice city of 82 000 inhabitants on the west bank of the Rhine with a much more splendid past than presence . In 1122, this was the place where the German Emperor and the Pope settled the dispute on investiture (Investiturstreit), i. e. who has the right to determine who becomes bishop. As many bishops in Germany also were rulers over a country (and of the seven Electors - those who had the right to elect the Emperor - three were bishops, those of Mainz, Trier and Cologne), this was an immensely political issue.
    Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?
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    There's a few funny things like that in SMAC. When your probe gets compromised by the Hunter Seeker in the message popup you can see the word FIRAXIS amongst the garbled background. Also, if you look at the picture files in the game folder the flags.pcx file has some weird stuff in it. There is a dogprint with writing that says BKTSP WAS HERE. And I'm sure most people know about the SID and BRIAN factions that are hidden.
    "Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot"

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    • #3
      Originally posted by BustaMike
      And I'm sure most people know about the SID and BRIAN factions that are hidden.
      And the base-names are hilarious for the SID/BRIAN factions.

      The logo, of course, is the Firaxis logo, but the bases have skyscraper renditions of the Firaxis office tower, logo included - neat

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      • #4
        So what does this have to do with eggs?

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        • #5
          Easter eggs are hidden in the garden and wait to be searched for.
          Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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          • #6
            Of course, the Firaxis logo also makes an appearance in Nonlinear Mathematics.
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            • #7
              It's all part of the big FirAxis of Evil plot...
              "Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt Whitman

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              • #8
                One of the books that you can get at the end of the game is the "Critique of the Critique of Pure Reason", a reference to Immanuel Kant's philosophical work. Another one is "The Unbearable Lightness of Hovertanks", after Milan Kundera's novel. The one that goes with the highest rating, if I recall correctly, is "Stairway to Transcendence: The Last Book You'll Ever Need" or something like that, which is a reference to something which I can't remember.
                Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Mr. President
                  The one that goes with the highest rating, if I recall correctly, is "Stairway to Transcendence: The Last Book You'll Ever Need" or something like that, which is a reference to something which I can't remember.
                  Stairway to Heaven?

                  "There's a lady who's sure
                  All that glitters is gold
                  And she's buying a stairway to heaven..."
                  I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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                  • #10
                    Oh, Mr President, thanks for your support.
                    I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Alexnm


                      Stairway to Heaven?

                      "There's a lady who's sure
                      All that glitters is gold
                      And she's buying a stairway to heaven..."
                      That's probably it.

                      Thanks for your support.
                      How could I not support Brasil, after all they've done to show the rest of the world the real way to play football?
                      Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mr. President
                        One of the books that you can get at the end of the game is the "Critique of the Critique of Pure Reason", a reference to Immanuel Kant's philosophical work. Another one is "The Unbearable Lightness of Hovertanks", after Milan Kundera's novel. The one that goes with the highest rating, if I recall correctly, is "Stairway to Transcendence: The Last Book You'll Ever Need" or something like that, which is a reference to something which I can't remember.
                        Most of the books are spoofs on existeing books.

                        "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" (ore somesuch), "The litle train that could" (or somesuch), "How to raise a disabled child" (or somesuch, my memory isn't very exact one these books' titles ) "The cat in the hat" etc.
                        -bondetamp
                        The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
                        -H. L. Mencken

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                        • #13
                          Recon Rovers: Unsafe at any speed. A reference to Ralph Nader's book.

                          My personal favorite of those end credits is the one that reads "How to raise a nerve-stapled child." Atrocities are fun, hehe.
                          "Luck's last match struck in the pouring down wind." - Chris Cornell, "Mindriot"

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                          • #14
                            Funny enough, but sometimes I think about real-life persons who should be nerve-stapled. Does anybody know what nerve-stapling really is? And why you don't need to discover neither Neural Grafting nor MMI to do so?
                            Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                            • #15
                              Nerve Stapling prolly something on the order of lobatomization ala "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest".

                              Og
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