User talk:Andre Aloisius
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Ghetto Cow Redux?
My fellow warriors, the lovely Czarina hasn't forsaken us! I quote:
"==You there!==
Do a favor for me, for old times sake. Start telling dem old GC peeps about our Two Week Special. Chop chop, we only have two months to build support!--Lachryma☭ 05:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)"
and:
":::Nope, temptation is fun. Anyway, I was thinking of bringing back Ghetto Cow for a week or two in early January. However, y'all will probably be lame and it'll just be me taking over Moggridge PD.--Lachryma☭ 22:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes friends, it's true. Ghetto Cow is coming back for a 2 week long ass kickage. I don't have all the details yet, other than this little gig taking place probably early January, but when I have them, I'll be posting them here. So, if you see an ex-Cow, let them know the situation.
Your's truly,
-- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 01:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Sadness...
Ghetto Cow is ending. Please vote in the historical groups section, and remove the GC tag from your profile. Thank you.-- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 19:44, 7 August 2007 (BST)
A Literal "Laugh out loud"
Since your last turn:
* Andre Aloisius said "Zombie sir, your profile indicates no predilection towards being human. For shame!" (2 hours and 28 minutes ago) * Andre Aloisius shot you with a pistol for 4 damage. (2 hours and 27 minutes ago) (Scent lost.) ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. (2 hours and 26 minutes ago) ...and again. (2 hours and 26 minutes ago) ...and again. (2 hours and 25 minutes ago) * You heard a loud and distant groaning 2 blocks to the west and 2 blocks to the north. (2 hours and 17 minutes ago) ...and again. (2 hours and 16 minutes ago) * Andre Aloisius stabbed you with a knife for 2 damage. (2 hours and 15 minutes ago) (Scent lost.) * You took a Headshot from Andre Aloisius the Zombie Hunter! You will need to spend an extra 5AP to stand up. (2 hours and 15 minutes ago)
Seriously, I cracked up! Nice shooting! --Wugmanmax 01:01, 11 July 2007 (BST)
Boo!
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--Lachryma☭ 22:32, 26 June 2007 (BST)
- Damn, I thought I'd given you a bad rat, who'd eat your barricades or something...oh well, there's always next time!--Lachryma☭ 23:40, 26 June 2007 (BST)
What the hell, fool?
Spec290 gave that video to me to watch. And what do you do? Show up out of nowhere and watch it, that's what. Are you stalking my talk page? Huh? Huh?!--Lachryma☭ 07:04, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Andre: And now is my turn to thank you *bows*
Lach: He might have gotten it off of my user page, since I put it up there shortly after putting it on your talk page. --Specialist290 ♠♥♣♦ 15:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I believe you, Andre. Even the part about being a duck.--Lachryma☭ 17:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens...
That little line you put in your Character Stats cracked me up there for a second :D --Specialist290 ♠♥♣♦ 03:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
A General Message to All GC Personnel
Sign up for a GC-Op, please. --Ev
Did you say cheerleader?!
Hell yeah you can tag along! I'm just going to be barricading too (and providing moral support, aka pompoms), so it's all good. Join us at 0:00 GMT (an hour and a half from now)--Lachryma☭ 22:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Excellent objections you've raised. However, I laugh in your face for several reasons: X:00 is with the mall tour now and it's still pretty small, also it'd be weird to encounter an active zed in a ransacked building (they'd wander off at 0:00). And you just need to sleep at Dibbings, that's it.--Lachryma☭ 23:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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I had to do some editing, but you got it mostly right; the splits are just a bit tighter than you (or most people) realized. There is one entry you made that I entirely struck out, and I added two "pending" entries that you may choose from- just sign the one you prefer, and I will un-strike it. S.Wiers X:00x-mas tree dead pool 13:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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The Nifty-ness never ends!
Well, back in the day (so I hear) UD had way more then 40,000 players. Also, in that first and second sieges, Caiger was famous, so people flocked there (thus letting other malls get taken easier)...so, yeah. And certain Shackers did form the Lime Brigade, which then disbanded...and many members went back to being zombies!--Lachryma☭ 00:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Actually I'm surprised they stuck around for so long, as I guess they were getting tired of UD and so they moved on to NW. As for being all bad ass in a mall siege...well, we'd need more people and a coordinated attack time, which is tricky to arrange.--Lachryma☭ 01:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Nifty
First , welcome to Ghetto Cow. Second: Cool, another "oldies" music lover! :D (Of course I'm judging solely by the songs you've mentioned on your user page, so I could be wrong...)
Third, I read your Mall Tour musings, and a lot of stuff seems similar to some stuff I put in CERN. Maybe you could help me on my quest to create an Emergency Revivification Network plan for every Mall in Malton :)
Fourth, speaking of Breakneck Lunatics In Non-functioning Dirigibles, get a load of this ;) --Specialist290♠ 21:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, putting CERN into operation full-time would pretty much be an impossible (or at least improbable) task; my original intention was to have it as a guideline during Mall sieges (hence the "emergency" in the title). As you thought, my consideration was that low numbers of defenders would be counterbalanced by spreading out the total infrastructure over several facilities. It might be an interesting idea to see which ones the zombies target first, then sacrifice them in favor of fortifying the remaining ones.
Another concern that I had (and that you didn't touch upon) was that the manpower required to effectively operate the plan would deplete the number of survivors in the Mall itself, but considering that a large number of Mall defenders are what are politely termed "trenchcoaters" that probably isn't as much of a problem as it might seem. (Of course, their tendency to run off in droves at the first sign of trouble, as you yourself stated, might cause problems itself, but that's a bit of a different issue).
Personally, the thing I'd like to see is an effort to counterattack and retake a ransacked corner of a Mall instead of just abandoning the place like rats fleeing a sinking ship. While it would probably require a lot more coordination than activating an emergency revive plan (as well as motivating far too many lazy, selfish trenchies) and be something of a long-shot, if someone were to actually pull it off it'd send shockwaves across the community.
(BTW, you forgot to sign your response on my talk page. Not a big thing, but a lot more convenient for me than having to look up your user page manually ;) ) --Specialist290♠ 04:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Certainly an interesting idea to consider. Another possibility would be to combine the idea with the one you posted today, having a small group of "observers" deployed in each building to report on which ones need attention while the rest of the group for that time period responds to trouble spots as necessary. If the observer is killed, of course, reviving him will be a priority, but it will be left of course to the revival teams, allowing the combat teams to do their job. (Or, in an interesting mirror to the "zombie spy" concept, the observer could simply remain outside to monitor barricade levels, although there would be the disadvantage that they wouldn't be able to check survivor levels unless the 'cades were down and would risk getting attacked and headshot themselves.)
Incidentally, on the subject of retaking ransacked buildings or corners of buildings, it's probably a little inaccurate to say that humans would need to rely on coordinated massed attacks, if only because it implies saturation of the area (and hence AP waste). Rather, I'd go for coordinated precision attacks--first, a threat assessment is made, and a group of humans w/ a roughly 1:1 ratio is assigned as the "active" element, the element responsible for making a simultaneous counterattack on the ransacked square. Once the active element has done its job, a "passive" element (and any actives who still have AP left) move in, repair the damage, and erect new barricades. While this has been done on a much smaller scale to retake a fallen building, I don't think it's ever been successfully pulled off in an active combat zone.
Again, for all the coordination it would take to pull this off, at this point we might as well talk about floating safehouses in the sky, but it all makes for an interesting mental exercise, and hopefully we (or someone else who reaches the same conclusion) will be able to attract enough attention and interest to at least try it.
Finally, to answer your last question: Yes, there were over 1200 survivors at Caiger, and my first character was one of them. There were also over 3000 zombies at the Mall as well, but this was back in the days when the Mall Tour was a mostly-feral group with only a small core of organized participants, and also before zombies could ransack buildings. Ransack completely changed the nature of defending a building from zombie hordes. --Specialist290♠ 22:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Certainly an interesting idea to consider. Another possibility would be to combine the idea with the one you posted today, having a small group of "observers" deployed in each building to report on which ones need attention while the rest of the group for that time period responds to trouble spots as necessary. If the observer is killed, of course, reviving him will be a priority, but it will be left of course to the revival teams, allowing the combat teams to do their job. (Or, in an interesting mirror to the "zombie spy" concept, the observer could simply remain outside to monitor barricade levels, although there would be the disadvantage that they wouldn't be able to check survivor levels unless the 'cades were down and would risk getting attacked and headshot themselves.)
- Yeah, it's more of a semantic issue than anything else. I'm just concerned about the people who'll read "mass" and think Russian-style human waves (although those may be the kind of people that there's no hope for anyway ;) ).
As for the 6 NTs in CERN, during a zombie siege it's very unlikely that all 6 NTs will be operating for very long anyway even if the plan is followed; hence the breakdown of the area into "zones" and the revive team evacuation plan. The theory is that even if one NT building in a zone falls, the RPs in that zone will still be able to function (unless the zombies simply launch a "stranglehold" attacks on all NTs, in which case the defenders can simply identify the ones they can best hold and focus on them).
Holding these discussions with you, in addition to being very enjoyable :) , has also allowed me to see that there are several parts of the plan where I either need to devote further work, or where the plan itself is unclear or ambiguously worded. I'd like to thank you for your help, and I'll make sure to credit you when I make my revised draft :)
(Of course, don't interpret that to mean this discussion's over! ;) ) --Specialist290♠ 00:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's more of a semantic issue than anything else. I'm just concerned about the people who'll read "mass" and think Russian-style human waves (although those may be the kind of people that there's no hope for anyway ;) ).
Hmm... Maybe we could test it out by focusing on holding one zone at a time (assuming we're given the opportunity to test out our theory). CERN isn't really designed to be a "defensive plan" as such--it's more of a general guideline. The specifics of when, where and how I'll leave to the defenders, since it's usually a case-by-case basis.
As for the GC Strike Team idea, I see you've already discussed it w/ Lach, so I won't comment any further other than to say it's an interesting idea.
Here's an interesting thought--while reading the Giddings wiki to check out their account of what was going on, I noticed that they've been having problems w/ overbarricading nearby entry points. What if we intentionally sacrificed a nearby NT to serve as an unbarricaded "entry point" while defending the others? It would be extra-sneaky in that we'd be steering the zeds into doing what we want them to do, and they'd think it would be an accomplishment ;) (although in the grand scheme of defending the Mall, of course, it wouldn't much matter after the Mall fell). --Specialist290♠ 02:46, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Graaagh!
Oh, I mixed them up...my bad. Anyway, yes we do use that yahoo group thingy (mostly for polls and occasional questions) but we mostly stick to the wiki. Go figure.--Lachryma☭ 19:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Random Conversation
I moved this here cuz it was just us two talking, so....--Lachryma☭ 02:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
So I should be in the Nichols Mall area in about 7 hours (7pm CST) - do we have a safehouse at this point or should I just duck and cover? --Andre Aloisius 17:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Um...the safe house is Nichols, cuz it's like, safe.--Lachryma☭ 23:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hokeydokey. I'd just thought I'd read stuff about not sleeping in Malls - am I crazy? --Andre Aloisius 00:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oh yes, but in a good way. Crazy, I mean. Sleeping in malls is perfectly fine, unless zombies ransacked a corner, there's 5 people in the whole mall, or if you heard the mall had been slated for demolition. If not, then sleep there, and be like the majority of survivors in Malton!--Lachryma☭ 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, but can the majority of the survivors in Malton do this? (Tries to moonwalk. Fails. Falls down.) YOU SUCKAS GOT SERVED. --Andre Aloisius 01:21, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- You can use these: '' for italics, just put 'em on both sides of stuff. Like so. Anyway, that dance thingy you just did inspired me to...um, get served. Cool, huh?--Lachryma☭ 01:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Noted! --Andre Aloisius 01:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, because time spent typing <i></i> could be spent
learningperfecting the moonwalk.--Lachryma☭ 02:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)- Ya see, I dance for a very specific group of people. You may have heard of them, I think they call themselves, "Blind". I think it's like an mnemonic thingie, like, uh, Believers in Latent or Inherently Noteworthy Dance. I'm a pretty big deal there, they LOVE me. --Andre Aloisius 02:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Blind...that sounds very familiar...Are they professional race car drivers, by any chance?--Lachryma☭ 02:54, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oh yes, but in a good way. Crazy, I mean. Sleeping in malls is perfectly fine, unless zombies ransacked a corner, there's 5 people in the whole mall, or if you heard the mall had been slated for demolition. If not, then sleep there, and be like the majority of survivors in Malton!--Lachryma☭ 01:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hokeydokey. I'd just thought I'd read stuff about not sleeping in Malls - am I crazy? --Andre Aloisius 00:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Knowing
(jumps up and down, bangs his head on the roof) I know you too! --Cap'n Silly T/W/P/C
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Welcome to our fine establishment
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WORD THE FUCK UP! and thanks for fixing my heading on Nothing Exciting --Ev933n / Talk PPGC 22:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Ghetto Cow Stuff
Well, for inventing the term "Sticklingrad" we'd take in anybody! But you seem pretty cool too, so it all sounds good. Put "Ghetto Cow" in your profile, hang out with us, and you are soooo in! We'll even give you a rat, unless your offer to join is some sick practical joke...--Lachryma☭ 01:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hell no we don't take stuff seriously. Our instructions for dealing with PKers are "Give 'em scotch laced with zombie blood"...so yeah, we joke a lot. UD is more fun that way. Moving along, where are you? Oh, and what description do you want on our member list?--Lachryma☭ 01:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Cool. Rhodenbank, huh? How you would feel about ditching those evil rat-eating zombies of the Mall Tour and having some fun in Ridleybank? I know you want to follow them, but it's pretty sad to watch those morons sheep survivors try to defend their mall..,--Lachryma☭ 01:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, just saw your thing on the Talk:GC page. Yeah, we are tired of mall sieges. But I was thinking the exact same thing about Nichols! Great minds think alike!--Lachryma☭ 01:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Yep, Nichols, unless no one wants to go or something...I might stay in Rhodenbank for a day or two just to get everybody revived. Oh, and you're listed on GC's page! Wow!--Lachryma☭ 01:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Official Welcome to Ghetto Cow
Welcome to our lovely group. Feel free to add to our travel journal, the "Why we play UD" section, and don't hesitate to ask any of us for help! Here, have a rat:
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