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Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:43 am**

duck-foot wrote:exactly. nobody i know still plays anything from gw, thier just to damn expensive. my local hobby shop retailer could not carry them becouse gw wants to much money from him and he racks in atleast 2million a year!

There are a few mods I wouldn't mind having, if I had the patience to assemble and paint them. And when I say a few, I literally mean like 3 or 4.

These guys, on the other hand, I wouldn't mind patronizing if they would ship to the USA for retail sale.

*EDIT* Especially if I could get the Azaroth figure for under £15 plus shipping.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:20 am**

I like those minis. As I said previously, I'm currently infatuated with my Privateer press minis, a few reaper minis, and my RIFTS minis which I'm assembling for a sepcial event at the open house this year.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:04 am**

I think they have a few of them, but only a handful of different models, compared to the 20 they had initially.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:55 am**

True_Atlantean wrote:
The Galactus Kid wrote:Thats why I prefer Privateer Press to GW.

Darn straight. After playing WM for about a year, I went back to the gaming store to fill in the gaps in my LotR (GW) army and almost fell over when I realised how little my money bought by comparison (and in plastic!). Value for money and enjoyment ruled and I've abandoned the idea of purchasing anything from GW in the near future.

On the same topic of value-for money, I've only recently returned to Rifts and had to start repurchasing from the gorund up, starting with UE (I bought the signed hardcover - veeery nice).
After playing D&D and White Wolf games for the last decade, I got used to their pricing schedules. I have to say that even with the AUD doing moderately well against the USD, the products are still very good value. I can still actually buy sourcebooks for around the AUD$30 mark, something I haven't been able to do with D&D since the late 80's.
Hats off to Mr Siembieda

Not sure what the AUD exchange is, but you can't even get a decent sized D&D sourcebook for $30 USD anymore. I bought the Dragon Magic book a few weeks ago, and dropped $26 on it, after a 20% discount. And it's only 160 pages!!!

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:06 pm**

Grand Marshal Lazareal wrote:
Lord NorDeth wrote:Calling all Rifts Geeks!

Help me grab the bottom corner of this thread and we'll just drag it back over here...you know, on Topic.

Yeah I guess your right. This kind of turned into "How I've been wounded or exploited by other companies rant".

Sorry.

Well I've have thought about getting a Rifts logo tatoo before. If that don't make me a Rifts geek I don't know what would.

A friend of mine once thought of shaving his head and getting knobs implanted.

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:42 pm**

Grand Marshal Lazareal wrote:
Nxla666 wrote:
Grand Marshal Lazareal wrote:
Lord NorDeth wrote:Calling all Rifts Geeks!

Help me grab the bottom corner of this thread and we'll just drag it back over here...you know, on Topic.

Yeah I guess your right. This kind of turned into "How I've been wounded or exploited by other companies rant".

Sorry.

Well I've have thought about getting a Rifts logo tatoo before. If that don't make me a Rifts geek I don't know what would.

A friend of mine once thought of shaving his head and getting knobs implanted.

Well I'm not that Hardcore.
More power to him though.

Neither was he, he tried to get his nipple pierced and screamed like a woman giving birth. :lol:

Needless to say he never went through with it.

Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:52 pm**

Misfit KotLD wrote:
hippie_mama wrote:
Grand Marshal Lazareal wrote:
pyriel wrote:You know your a rifts geek when..........
You give a monolouge in drama class as a Juicer facing death.

I'm curious what the classes reaction was to that?

Yeah really, did they have ANY idea what you were talking about???

Oh cool, we're not babbling about minis anymore.

You know you a Rifts geek...

When you can "babble" about minis (from other games) and still be talking about Rifts.

Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:05 pm**

Nxla666 wrote:
Grand Marshal Lazareal wrote:
Lord NorDeth wrote:Calling all Rifts Geeks!

Help me grab the bottom corner of this thread and we'll just drag it back over here...you know, on Topic.

Yeah I guess your right. This kind of turned into "How I've been wounded or exploited by other companies rant".

Sorry.

Well I've have thought about getting a Rifts logo tatoo before. If that don't make me a Rifts geek I don't know what would.

A friend of mine once thought of shaving his head and getting knobs implanted.

I know someone who did that.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:09 pm**

Misfit KotLD wrote:
hippie_mama wrote:...you have en erotic dream about your Rifts character (from her POV, of course) and a character from a sci-fi novel...and that character is Tachyon from George RR Martin's Wild Cards series...

Yeah, you're a geek.

That's an understatement.

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:50 am**

Gradea wrote:But he couldn't sau "E tu" after a few points of MD...

You know your a rifts geek when you watch "Future Weapons" And wonder if they'd be any good as an alternate weapon to the Boom Cannon for your glitter boy.

You watch Future Weapons and wonder if the small arms being profiled would have trouble handling Ramjet rounds.

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:40 pm**

Nxla666 wrote:
Gradea wrote:But he couldn't sau "E tu" after a few points of MD...

You know your a rifts geek when you watch "Future Weapons" And wonder if they'd be any good as an alternate weapon to the Boom Cannon for your glitter boy.

You watch Future Weapons and wonder if the small arms being profiled would have trouble handling Ramjet rounds.

...You watch Future Weapons and wonder how long it'll be until there are Ramjet rounds.

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:17 pm**

Ectoplasmic Bidet wrote:...You watch Future Weapons and wonder how long it'll be until there are Ramjet rounds.

There were a few guns in the 60s that shot 'em. They're expensive, inaccurate, and boring.

/Sub

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:43 pm**

Citizen Lazlo wrote:If I remember that right they only used the rocket propellent. Have to brake out my "Tales of the Gun" DVD's.

What if they were a hybrid that used the initial gunpowder acceleration and then ignited the rocket fuel afterwards?

I don't know for sure. I've never shot one. I just knew a guy who had one and I was furtively trying to buy one for a while.

/Sub

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:57 am**

this is how:

http://twitpic.com/3o9q0k

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:10 am**

You know you're a Rifts geek when.....

You see the trailer for the Rift MMO and even though it looks like a sweet game you wont play it on principal! :mad:

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:58 am**

... You own several copies of the card game... and have played it.

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:18 pm**

GhostKnight wrote:
Kryzbyn wrote:What was the FPS on that?

We were guessing that it was pushing 6k ft/sec based on calculations and drop.

So exactly why are you not doing weapons research?

Can't being to imagine the damage from something moving at Mach 5.33 minimum.

Lord NorDeth wrote:...One of the first conversations you had with your future Wife was about the Robotech RPG.

...The day you met her, (when she came to visit your then room-mates) you asked her if she wanted to come to the local Game Store to pick up the Latest Rifts book.

...She said YES and was GENUINELY excited about it

Stay out of my dreams! if that happened to you, I hate you.

As for GW, well this says it all http://www.largest-warhammer-40k-game.com/

Granted I have a understanding group and dozen's of my minis come from other companies [Mostly Fantasy]

My list:

If you by nine Gift Bags this Christmas season

if you plan to have everything Palladiums

If you have a complete collection of the RIFTS CCG

You bought Printer proofs

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:22 pm**

If you look at your monthly bank statement and think of it in terms of how much cybernetics implants you can buy with it....
Or E-clips.
Or body armor...
Or what percentage of a robot vehicle you can make a payment on.

You're constantly assessing where you are in terms of ..."If a demon Rifted in mid-air right about there, where do I hide?"..."If a CS patrol drops in, where do I hole up and counterattack from?"

When you're on the highway you really wish that concealed hood laser cannons actually existed.
You find yourself debating whether to use the rail guns, the particle beam cannon, or the mini-missiles to deal with that $&^%$ who just cut you off.

You've ever found yourself absently writing in 'Temporal Assassin' or 'Demigod' on a resume form where it sez 'Previous Employment'

Posted: **Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:46 pm**

Spark wrote:You've considered buying an E-Gage as a replacement for you're cell phone, simply to be able to play "Promise of Power".

I did this a few years back unforunately it is a horrible phone.

Posted: **Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:27 pm**

You might be a Rifts Geek if...

You've ever sprained your wrist mousing in marathon reply mode to a thread on 'dodging lasers'.

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:13 pm**

True_Atlantean wrote:You know you're a Rifts geek when:

You watch Matrix Revolutions and start stating them out in your head....
And work out the MD for the weaponry....
The dodge rolls to reload the suckers....

And then start working out the Octopus robots.....
Only to realize that your GM has already beaten you to it when you show up to the next gaming session.

THIS!!! SO HARD!! ALL DAY!!

Well maybe not quite, but you know you're a PB geek when you use the Matrix movies, and stuff like Johnny Pneumonic to describe cyber-jacking and stuff.

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:51 pm**

You're a Rifts Geek if:

Whenever you see 'MD' or 'MDC' in the Real World you automatically think 'Megadamage!'*
*(in this case, it's the local water utilities...Metropolitan District Committee...)

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:44 pm**

You know you're a Rifts geek if................

You're reading this! :fool:

HELLO!

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:14 pm**

The Dark Elf wrote:You know you're a Rifts geek if................

You're reading this!

HELLO!

Ah you got me Dark elf.

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:56 pm**

You know you're a Rifts Geek when you can't help looking at every thing, included porn, and thiking how could be converted i Rifts (try to look at Tentacles portn and not thinking "hey perhaps Splyncryth do like japanese schoolgirls..he look like the sort of tentacled overfiend....")
And just for not leaving the rest of Megaverse out

You know you're an HU geek when you can think the most weirdest use of existing power for solving an everyday situation and know 5 way to explain the physics of it. No matte r how nonsensical.

You know you're a Nightbane Geek when your Morphus has a Morphus and both are based on jungian interpretation of your psyche....and you want to punch someone violently with it.

You know you're a Splicer and AtB geek when you read science magazine in search for inspiration

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:08 pm**

You know you're a Rifts Geek when:

Every time you come across mention of the Great Rift (Valley, of Africa), your first thought is "Damn, I hope that thing closes soon before something nasty steps out of it!"

You can't find your car keys, flashlight, resume folder, or financial records check stub folder, but you known EXACTLY where your copies of all your Rifts books and Rifters are....

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:44 pm**

Shinitenshi wrote:You have 5 generations of lineage of your character mapped out including all family members names and birthdays.

only 5?

Shinitenshi wrote:Every time you hear a song you immediately yell out which of your characters the song fits.

guilty

Shinitenshi wrote:You have a timeline of what all your characters were doing during the Rifts timeline.

Guilty

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:45 pm**

You've still going steady with that NPC your PC hooked up during the campaign...even though that game was over FIVE YEARS AGO.

Every time there's a new sci-fi series on television, your first thoughts on watching it are 'what would my 9th level Headhunter do in this situation...?'

You've ever tried to use TK, pyrokinesis, Elemental Magic, or plasma weaponry to shovel snow off your yard.

You can't remember your co-workers' names, but you know who all the NPCs are called in the RPG campaign.

Your JOB is what you do to make money, but your WORK begins when you step into the campaign and into character(or is it the other way around?)

You've tried to summon a Psi-Sword to deal with an obnoxious customer at work.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:44 am**

After you run an adventure you tell anyone and everyone outside of your gaming circle the events of the adventure. Been doing that a lot lately.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:27 pm**

You've classified your friends' Alignments and probable PPE rating even though they've never played Rifts with you.

The Palladium Books computer server greets you when you log in with "Don't you have a LIFE?!"

Your intense indepth treatment of a subject on the forums has scared the hell out of Kevin Siembda himself.

You've sold your soul for a Critical Strike roll.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:51 pm**

Greetings!

If you have tried to use Bio-Manipulation: Mute on some motor-mouth that you just couldn't escape from gracefully! NOTE: GUILTY!!!

If yoy have tried to use Telemechanics: Control to have the ATM give you a bigger account balance!

If you have ever actually been hurt and have REALLY tried to use Bio-Regeneration (either one)! NOTE: GUILTY !!! GUILTY !!! GUILTY !!!

Good Gaming, GaredBattlespike

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:11 am**

You've tried to grow a Millennium Tree in your backyard.

You've ever dressed up your dog as a DogBoy

You've tried to brew the mystic teas presented in Rifts Mystic Herbology

You consider yourself a Cigarette Juicer

You've converted every aircraft in Jane's Encyclopedia of Modern Aircraft to TW variants

You've tried to cast Cure Disease on yourself to cure your head cold.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:05 am**

... you've ever referred to your boss as a Prosek.

... you thought the Pontiac Aztek looked like a miniature Mountaneer ATV, only uglier.

... you're a little leery of vacationing in Africa because the Horsemen just might show up.

... you see a gargoyle on a building and keep your eye on it, just in case.

... you can't find the capital of your home state/province/country on a map, but can point out the EXACT location of Chi-Town.

... you ever wished you had a laser scalpel to cut your over-cooked steak.

... you've referred to drug addicts as burnt out Juicers or Juicer Wanna-be's.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:40 pm**

You've ever tried to pay your bills with credits

You've ever felt the compulsion to hide your literacy

You've ever wondered if a police K-9 is reading your mind.

You think the motto on the dollar bill(under the centerpiece of the eye atop the pyramid) should read 'In Splugorth We Trust".

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:42 pm**

..... you fly half way round the world to spend the weekend gaming with you folks - and you thought it was awesome and well worth the trip btw!

......you've posted on this post alone more than three times!

......you check the forums before your own emails (dont you?!)

......you name your kids, Erin & Victor (no I havent)

.....you refer to you mates in RL by their characters names

.....you write a note to yourself a tip-ex part of the letters out so it looks like runes

.....you accidentally ask for a plane ticket to Madhaven at the kiosk by mistake.

.....your medicine cabinet consists of only a D20 (to see if you save vs poison/disease)

.....you do exactly what you're doing now and trying to think of another reason why you're a Rifts geek (yes I mean you!)

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:55 pm**

....You think Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is the national anthem of Atlantis (Copver by Splyncryth)
.... Every song you listen become a potential soundtrack for a rifts campaign
.... You still believe in a Rifts:Movie
..... You secretely dream of a Rifts: Animated series.(but for god sake not a CGI toon everything but that!!)
.....In an event of Rifts action figures, you would likely think about proposing to Pixar for a toystory version of it.
....You bought the card game(this alone would list high in Rifts Geek level)

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:57 pm**

--You cannot tell the difference between a Mad Haven mutant and a native New Yorker...

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:02 pm**

If you have multiple copies of the main book.

If you ever want to Cross over existing fictional characters into Rifts.

If you ever wish you had a grackletooth as a friend in real life.

If you ever seen a UFC fight and gone My character can take them.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:17 pm**

..Your crossover write-up files on your computer exceed fifty pages...

You've ever complained about the waiting period on purchasing anti-armor weapons

You've ever plotted the defense of your hometown against zombies, vampires, Splugorth slavers, armored facists with energy weapons, giant robots, Mechanoids, or any combination(or ALL) of the aforementioned.

You've ever tried to use telekinesis or telemechanics to SHUT THAT PERSON'S DAMN CELLPHONE OFF!!!!

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:17 am**

You appear on the first page of this thread, but are still active on the boards.

/Sub

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:16 pm**

You had to go to direct deposit because you keep better track of your e-clip shot count and MDC levels than you do your paychecks....

...You post to these threads like you got Exp. for it...

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:04 pm**

taalismn wrote:You had to go to direct deposit because you keep better track of your e-clip shot count and MDC levels than you do your paychecks....

...You post to these threads like you got Exp. for it...

We dont? then whats that little number counter under my name? my MDC? oh... wait... no thats my PPE :mrgreen:

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:09 pm**

Damian Magecraft wrote:
taalismn wrote:You had to go to direct deposit because you keep better track of your e-clip shot count and MDC levels than you do your paychecks....

...You post to these threads like you got Exp. for it...

We dont? then whats that little number counter under my name? my MDC? oh... wait... no thats my PPE

We could only wish...it would take a strategic NUCLEAR weapon to kill me under those conditions...

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:22 am**

taalismn wrote:
Damian Magecraft wrote:
taalismn wrote:You had to go to direct deposit because you keep better track of your e-clip shot count and MDC levels than you do your paychecks....

...You post to these threads like you got Exp. for it...

We dont? then whats that little number counter under my name? my MDC? oh... wait... no thats my PPE

We could only wish...it would take a strategic NUCLEAR weapon to kill me under those conditions...

My post count isn't as high, but I have a lot more geek points than you.

/Sub

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:01 am**

If you ever thought of hand loading your shotgun rounds with wood chips.Just in case of a vamp attack.
If you watched Starship Troopers And thought it could have been a coalition grunt story.

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:35 am**

you might be a rifts geek if you hear a song and the first thing that comes to mind is, "hey I could build a campaign around that".

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:45 pm**

If you ever watch porn and wonder would it be blur if two juicers were starin in it.

If you ever consider how beyond the pale porn would would have to be to be Underground.

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:58 pm**

Subjugator wrote:
taalismn wrote:We could only wish...it would take a strategic NUCLEAR weapon to kill me under those conditions...

My post count isn't as high, but I have a lot more geek points than you.

/Sub

You might be a Rifts Geek if ...

You Geek Point tally is higher than your Social Security accumulation...

You actually keep TRACK of geek points.

You have a Geek Point Bank account..

Your Geek Points earn interest...

Trekkers, Star Warriors, and Losters recognize your vast Geek Point accumulation and are instantly jealous of it.

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:01 pm**

...If you've ever watched a nature program on PBS and found yourself thinking "I wonder what a Rifts version of that critter?" and you begin stating it.
(That poor Bird-of-Paradise will never be the same again)

...(Related) You've ever considered megadamage lemmings, simply because "Hey, there's canon megadamage WOMBATS!"

...You can't think of wombats without seeing them as oversized mutant living killing machines...

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:06 pm**

taalismn wrote:You've ever tried to pay your bills with credits

You've ever felt the compulsion to hide your literacy

You've ever wondered if a police K-9 is reading your mind. And when the officer gets the dog out you still wait around for the Dog Boy to exit the car.

You think the motto on the dollar bill(under the centerpiece of the eye atop the pyramid) should read 'In Splugorth We Trust".

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