Happy as hell?

or how I learned to love the bomb and other strangeness...

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After contemplating a good bit about whether or not I should start this thread, I've obviously decided to forge ahead and do so, duh. My main reason is due to all of 'our' negative leaning threads and the topics which they contain. My secondary reason is because my 2 GB of RAM arrived yesterday and I'm quite impressed going from 1 gig to 3 . So on with the show...
I am "happy as hell" because I finally got my RAM. 2 GB OCZ Platinum series. Sweet looking and awesome performance. Of course the first thing I did after installing, and running certain memory tests for a few hours, was load up DA.
Let me just say, I seem to be able to have my gigantic, all abundant galaxies again as I had no CTD's during my gameplay. I ran FreeRAM on the other monitor just to observe things. FreeRAM must not pick up on more than 2 gigs but I ran this game with about 1800 RAM available at it's lowest. Normally, when I was running 1 GB the game seemed to drain 500 to 600 mb, thus prompting a CTD within the next few turns. The game would constantly drain RAM.
Now, with the new memory, once the game 'bottomed out' so to say, sucking up it's 500 to 500 mb's of RAM or so it 'stopped'. Gradually, I watched the RAM actually raise up to 2040 mb and hold steady until I finally had to save and quit... wife came home AND electrical storms rolled in (I'm wondering if the two are somehow related, the wife and weather that is, but that's not necessarily important right now). Also impressed with how fast the game shut down vs. how it usually did... lagging that is. I'm not going to spout off too much about it as it seems that as soon as I give this game praise it thwarts me so...
Anyhow, please feel free to share what has or might make you happy today and let's talk some positives for a change. Later guys!!!
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Anyhow, please feel free to share what has or might make you happy today and let's talk some positives for a change. Later guys!!!

Things that make me happy (not necessarily in this order).

Release of the new AltMeta.  

A happy Evil Stormbringer.

Playing escaped convict meets the French maid.   
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My current happiness derives from:

It's raining( I don't have to go to work, so I can play more GC2   )

The new Altmeta ( have to repeat this one, been waiting to see this out for three months   )

My Girlfriend does have to go to work ( So she won't be bugging me about what I should be doing instead of playing on the computer. )

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Going to see an ultrasound of my baby to be this morning!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Playing escaped convict meets the French maid.



[shuddering] TMI
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Going to see an ultrasound of my baby to be this morning!


Congrats Purge! Hope all goes well.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Playing escaped convict meets the French maid.


We prefer "jail warden meets female inmate".

I'm happy Stormbringer is happy. If he's happy, we're all happy.

It's raining( I don't have to go to work, so I can play more GC2 )


What kind of stupid job do you have that you don't have to work when it rains? And how do I get one?

Congrats Purge! Hope all goes well.


Good for you, Purge! Is it your first?
If that isn't enough to make us happy, well, we can put on our maid outfits and go to Mumble's house.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If that isn't enough to make us happy, well, we can put on our maid outfits and go to Mumble's house.


Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If that isn't enough to make us happy, well, we can put on our maid outfits and go to Mumble's house.

If thinking about poor old Martin Luther meeting a French maid is enough to make Cornhusker shudder, I would think the idea that any GalCiv2 players might actually own a maids outfit a tad disturbing. However, not quite as disturbing as considering that one may show up at your house.   


Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I would think the idea that any GalCiv2 players might actually own a maids outfit a tad disturbing.


What if our wives own maids outfits? In a community property state, which I live in, that means it is half my property. So I own half of at least one maid's outfit. Is that really so disturbing.




For me, I'm happy to have had the last two days off, I was badly in need of a vacation. Its back to the grindstone today, though. So many calls my secretary has for me, I feel sorry for her.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the responses guys, I appreciate it. To Oz, you obviously see what I am trying to do with this thread.
Nothing sinister I can assure you though...
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What if our wives own maids outfits?

Much less disturbing.  

In a community property state, which I live in, that means it is half my property.

Is this how it works? My wife told me it means that what's hers is hers and what's mine is hers.   
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks all!

Everything is looking good. The due date is May 27th and this is my first.

Looking forward to bringing a future nerd girl into the world!
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is this how it works? My wife told me it means that what's hers is hers and what's mine is hers.


Sounds like you, sir, need a lawyer!   

Wives and husbands have a fiduciary relationship to each other. Wait, no, I need to stop myself, I'm not going to get into a long spouses rights discussion in a happiness thread.

I guess: does it matter what's hers as long is she is yours? Probably the better question...
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The due date is May 27th and this is my first.


May God hold you all in the hollow of his hand. You'll hear a lot of jokes about how your life won't be the same, and it won't be, but it's a good thing. My kids are 15 and 13, but I remember when they were babies. You're about to have some really good times. You get to look at life again through children's eyes, when all that really is important is if you can go pet a puppy. Makes you think about your priorities.

You'll also discover the joys of sleep deprivation, but you're a GalCiv2 player (well, you were  ) so that shouldn't be anything new...

Wives and husbands have a fiduciary relationship to each other.


Does that mean I have to come up with a fid before I get any uciary? No, it must have something to do with maid's outfits...

Stop me before I post again!

Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The due date is May 27th and this is my first


Congrats Purge! A day later and we'll have the same birthday   

What kind of stupid job do you have that you don't have to work when it rains? And how do I get one?


I'm a mason, so unless I have some inside work at the time I get rainy days off. Good thing it pays well enough to afford the occasional short vacation.   

This is a great thread EvilS. Are you sure someone didn't get a hold of your account and post this?   
Reply #18 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm a mason,


Bricks don't melt. Can't you wear a really big umbrella hat and just keep working?  

This is a great thread EvilS. Are you sure someone didn't get a hold of your account and post this?


No, it's his evil twin, Evil Evil Stormbringer. Or just E2. Et tu, Stormbringer? Oh, this is just silly...
Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Purge, When my first arrived and wouldn't go to sleep at night, I'd hold him in my lap while playing GC2 until I could put him down. I have an office chair at my computer so I'd usually swing side to side to quiet him.

Congrats! I have to wait a few weeks for the next sono of the soon-to-be twins.    
Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I got 50$ today. Have fun with all your new RAM.
Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks All.
My wife and I are looking forward to it.

And congrats to Jacob. Twins will definitely keep you busy.

I used to be a SysAdmin, now I'm all Network Engineering for a major website. So semi-regular scheduled late nights and 24/7/365 on call. I can take the sleep dep!

We currently have a rocking chair in front of the computer. If our baby will not sleep, I might end up being a mad GC II player! I've already warned the wife that I'll be teaching our girl how to be a proper GCII evil genocidal maniac!

Now this is what a planetary invasion sounds like....If you but threaten them with extinction see all the nice things they will give us and we can still take their planets anyway!

Reply #22 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I used to be a SysAdmin, now I'm all Network Engineering for a major website. So semi-regular scheduled late nights and 24/7/365 on call. I can take the sleep dep!


Hey, in all seriousness, make sure you make time for you family as they grow up. Raising my kids is the only thing I've ever done that I think really matters.

I'll be teaching our girl how to be a proper GCII evil genocidal maniac!


Geek girls rock! I wish my wife was a geek. Anybody want to trade?

(No, Mumble, I won't trade for you. Not even if you are wearing your maid outfit...)
Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I used to be a SysAdmin, now I'm all Network Engineering for a major website. So semi-regular scheduled late nights and 24/7/365 on call. I can take the sleep dep!


Hey, in all seriousness, make sure you make time for you family as they grow up. Raising my kids is the only thing I've ever done that I think really matters.



I definitely agree. I'm usually a straight forty. I also made sure the last time I switched jobs that my boss believed in what I think of as time equity. AKA If I come in and work in the middle of the night, I don't go to work the next day. I work when they need me, but I expect a fair return for the labor.

I have worked places where that wasn't true...I eventually figured out that I was getting nothing for the extra hours and late nights. Basically I was getting paid less, because I was working more for the same amount of money....And the number of hours and late nights just continually spiraled up.

There really is nothing more important than my family. I go to work to get a check so that I can pay for the things that keep myself and my family well. The time I spend with my family is the best spent time I have. I was happy when I was single, but now I can't imagine not having my wife around! Talking of things that make me happy
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What makes me most happy is my wife! especially on the nights when she dousn't have a headache!!!! or whenever i can get her to play a multiplayer game with me... i dunno why but a game is 10x more fun when you play multiplayer with freinds or family.

Ahem, galciv has no multiplayer i know, but it would make me very happy if it did!

When i'm playing galciv, my wife will often ask me "whats that" or comment on the cool ship i made, and it makes me feel so bad that she cannot join in the game with me.
Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
When i'm playing galciv, my wife will often ask me "whats that" or comment on the cool ship i made, and it makes me feel so bad that she cannot join in the game with me.

My wife will often make funny comments about the game. She has absolutely no idea of what a computer game is and is otherwise pretty much computer illiterate. She was watching me the other day while I was at the main screen clicking on planets and checking their production. I was playing the Yor and she asked me why I didn't like the yellow circles. I had no clue what she was talking about. She said that I was touching all the purple circles but I didn't touch any of the yellow circles and that meant that I didn't like the yellow circles. I explained to her that the yellow circles were stars and then I pointed out that not all of them were yellow. I also zoomed in to show the planets and orbiting moons but she didn't seem particularly impressed.