The Altera Centauri collection has been brought up to date by Darsnan. It comprises every decent scenario he's been able to find anywhere on the web, going back over 20 years.
25 themes/skins/styles are now available to members. Check the select drop-down at the bottom-left of each page.
Call To Power 2 Cradle 3+ mod in progress: https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-2/ctp2-creation/9437883-making-cradle-3-fully-compatible-with-the-apolyton-edition
LARRY: I'm Owen's friend.
MOMMA: Owen doesn't have any friends.
LARRY: That's because he's shy.
MOMMA: No it's not! It's because he's fat and he's stupid!
MOMMA: I dreamed Louis Armstrong was trying to kill me!
LARRY: You wrote a 3-page murder mystery that wasn't exactly difficult to figure out who did it.
OWEN: What gave it away?
LARRY: You only had two characters and one of them was dead by page 2!
OWEN: Where are you going?
LARRY: I'm going to kill her. Do you want anything?
OWEN: Can you bring me a Chunky?
OWEN: Momma! You're alive! [realizes policeman is standing next to him] Old people... you have to reassure them.
MOMMA: Your friend is dead! Why'd you leave me to be taken care of by a corpse?
OWEN: Larry is dead?! What happened?
MOMMA: He fell down the basement stairs, he's still there!
OWEN: (cradling Larry) Larry! My friend, my only friend...
MOMMA: (mockingly) "My friend, my only friend." Go bury him in the back yard before he starts to stink up the place!
That's your first lesson. Cut your score in half, right down the middle. Worse than that, you take a partner, you put an apple on your head, and hand the other guy a shotgun.
Grifters, huh? You're one, all right. Grifters got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothing to whipping a fool. Hell, fools were made to be whipped.
But to take another pro, even your partner, who knows you and has his eyes on you, that's a score. No matter what happens.
You wanna learn a few tricks? I'll teach you a few tricks.
But your hand does not get into my pocket.
'The Grifters', directed by Stephen Frears, from the novel by Jim Thompson
A great novel, a great film. Doesn't often happen.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
English Bob: [discussing the assassination of President Garfield] Well there's a dignity royalty. A majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shakes as though palsied.
Barber: Oh I wouldn't point no pistol at nobody sir.
English Bob: Well that's a wise policy, as wise policy. But if you did. I can assure you, if you did, that the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and you would stand... how shall I put it? In awe. Now, a president... well I mean...
[chuckles]
English Bob: why not shoot a president
Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man.
Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
Fatty Rossiter: It was already loaded. Jesus, Clyde, you have three pistols and you only have one arm for Christ's sake.
Clyde: Well I just don't want to be killed for lack of shootin' back.
I apply the same logic when purchasing ammo in paintball.
All right, I'm coming out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sum***** takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.
My favorite Unforgiven quote.
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!
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