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I am starting to envy that lucky bastard. Sure his home was razed, but he managed to marry a woman who is among the 6% prettiest in all of China and togeter they earn enough to make become rich again. When I read that thread title I expected more depressing lifes. Maybe goons are just that great at making good life decisions. Have a baby. By the way. This is a little nitpicky, but technically the name of the Chinese currency is "renminbi" ("the peoples currency"). Yuan is the name of the unit in which you measure renminbi. It's kinda weird. But looking at the first update, the game seems to make the same mistake.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:42
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Feb 23, 2016 21:44
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Have the baby. He's an alcoholic chain-smoking middle-aged man. It's high time he secure his legacy, don'tcha think?
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Feb 23, 2016 21:46
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Of course the goon doesn't lose his virginity until age 42
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Feb 23, 2016 21:47
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Namtab posted:Of course the goon doesn't lose his virginity until age 42 This reminds me, there is a distinct lack of computers as a household electronic item. (Or shitposting as an activity.) I suppose this doesn't come up for a large part of the world, though. Does the television and radio change anything about Yu and events he can encounter, anyway? Or are they just there for prestige?
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Feb 23, 2016 21:57
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Air is lava! posted:When I read that thread title I expected more depressing lifes. e: Also it'll be a miracle if Yu makes it to 60, which may or may not be depressing to you. It's safe to assume with those Health and Resistance scores he's not feeling fantastic most days. Aithon posted:Does the television and radio change anything about Yu and events he can encounter, anyway? Or are they just there for prestige? gbuchold fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 22:06
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Its baby making time
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Feb 23, 2016 22:27
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Re: Dollar name joke: Her name is Yuan, which might share its character with the character for money. Her name is very appropriate. 
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Feb 23, 2016 22:41
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Air is lava! posted:By the way. This is a little nitpicky, but technically the name of the Chinese currency is "renminbi" ("the peoples currency"). Yuan is the name of the unit in which you measure renminbi. It's kinda weird. So it would be more proper to say, for instance, '1000 yuan of renminbi', the way you say '1/4 cup of milk'?
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Feb 23, 2016 22:43
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Oh man, I remember this game! The best I ever did was someone who managed to move to America and live there as I think a maid. She didn't even get murdered or starve to death!
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Feb 23, 2016 22:46
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Yuan, you can do so much better  No kids, why drain finances that are necessary for booze and smokes?
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Feb 23, 2016 22:49
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I support having a kid.
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Feb 23, 2016 22:52
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I suppose the nearest Western equivalent would be Pounds Sterling.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:13
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AJ_Impy posted:I suppose the nearest Western equivalent would be Pounds Sterling. That's exactly right. "Renminbi" means "The people's currency", while "yuan" is the primary unit. We don't notice in the United States because the primary unit of the US dollar is the dollar. But just like you don't insist on paying "20 pounds sterling" for a video game, you would just say you paid X amount of yuan.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:16
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The life of Hang Yu, part thirteen Age 44  Yu's child is born, a beautiful baby girl  Much like himself, she is born to rather old parents and likely to be an only child. Unlike Yu, her family is quite wealthy and born with all the privileges that come from growing up in a large city rather than a mining village without proper sanitation.(And since the question came up in the thread: No, the game does not simulate voluntary infanticide)  Since I didn't want to call another vote so soon, I decided to name her Xiao-Xia because I thought it sounded kinda cute I tried to do a quick Google search to find out if it means anything, but I mostly got kabbalah sites and the like, so anyone with knowledge of Chinese names, please fill me in! Hey, it's been a while since we got one of these! Many of these trivia popups are triggered by life events in game, which makes sense. Age 45  If you think Yu becoming a father turned him into a bleeding heart, you're wrong though   Xiao-Xia is a healthy baby, and his father's pride and joy. Yu spoils her to no end, being most comfortable with expressing affection through money. His and Yuan's income is enough to cope with the expenses of raising a child without having to make any cutbacks. Age 46    Age 47 Yu isn't quite ready to give up the booze quite yet though, since drinking potential customers under the table is a major part of his sales process.  Huh, it seems poisoning toddlers is a family tradition? Or maybe Yu just confused the baby's bottle with his own. Age 48  The pressures of being responsible for a child turns Yu back to his old methods of stress release. Hopefully Xiao-Xia is still too young to realise what her father is doing to himself Age 49 Little of interest happens. Age 50  They grow up so quickly, don't they? Age 51  Chain smoking for 36 years straight and living in the Beijing smog has finally taken its toll on Yu.  An alcoholic, chain smoking, drug addicted cancer patient. At least his wife and child are in good health. Age 52  Fighting erupts again, but Yu and his family has other things on their mind. Age 53  The struggle with cancer seems to have changed something within Yu, and he gives up drinking entirely. Age 54  Surviving longer than any of his doctors would have expected, he even makes an attempt to quit smoking.  ...but it turns out some habits die harder than others. Age 55  Knowing he hasn't got much time left, Yu takes the last opportunity to provide for his family once he is gone.  Even his lungs slowly filling up with fluid doesn't prevent Yu from pulling off the greatest heist of his lifetime. Age 56 - 57 Yu clings on to life, despite being mostly bedridden. Age 58  Another famine strikes.  But at this point, Yu is barely able to follow the news. Age 59  Yu passes away peacefully surrounded by his family, after struggling with cancer for eight years. In his last moments he feels no regret over the life he lived, but rather frustration that his good run ended so soon. Even so, he dies with a slight smile on his face. Final stats:  In the end, there was some small shred of humanity left in him   His daughter seems to have picked up some of his bad habits, but hopefully she can still do great things in her future. The end. I'll leave it up to you guys to compose a fitting eulogy for our friend, Hang Yu. Also, if any of you artistically minded goons are up for creating a rendition of Yu (at any stage of his life) for the thread's table of contents, that would be swell! As for the future of this LP: I'll run at least one more random life in the same format as I did with Hang Yu, with frequent thread votes. I got to show off most mechanics this run, with the main exception of emigrating to a different country. After that, I'll do a few quicker runs (maybe 3-5 updates tops) where the thread gets to vote for a general personality description I'll use as a guideline, and probably show off the option to manually generate a character as well. At some point, I'll also open up the thread for you guys to show off your own runs of the game, or any other edition off it. I suppose that will go on until I or you guys get bored with this game, whichever happens first. The next life will start some time tomorrow or the day after that! Covski fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 23:16
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Man, that came to an end a decade or two shorter than I expected. Then again, we can't all be Mick Jagger.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:22
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What a terrible end. despite our best efforts he managed to die wealthy and surrounded by people who loved him. He even managed to get rid of most of his vices and kept a shred of his humanity.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:30
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I can't believe that Conscience stat. When you called it a "shred" you weren't kidding.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:39
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His tombstone will read: 'Told you College is for smelly nerds and losers.' A flock of angels sing thee to thy rest, gentle goon.
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Air is lava! posted:I am starting to envy that lucky bastard. Sure his home was razed, but he managed to marry a woman who is among the 6% prettiest in all of China and togeter they earn enough to make become rich again. When I read that thread title I expected more depressing lifes. Maybe goons are just that great at making good life decisions. Don't you worry, we'll have plenty of miserable lives yet! Remember, China is after all a comparatively rich and pleasant country! Aithon posted:This reminds me, there is a distinct lack of computers as a household electronic item. (Or shitposting as an activity.) I suppose this doesn't come up for a large part of the world, though. Yeah, the conspicuous absence of computers is interesting to me, too. The earliest edition of the game that I know of came out in 2004, which seems a bit late for computers to be considered a total luxury good for the richest of the developed nations. As far as I can tell, they are mostly there as sort of an intuitive way to compare material wealth - Remember that the game was developed as an education tool for schools, the game even comes with suggestions for lesson plans! The items may well have some behind the scenes effects though, as the game really is largely a statistical black box. There is no "listen to radio" equivalent to the television, and I'm not even sure what effect television viewing has on your character. I think it increases happiness, hopefully at the expense of your physical stats? It's also very odd to me that when Yu died, he had pairs of both television sets and radios, but not a single telephone? Air is lava! posted:By the way. This is a little nitpicky, but technically the name of the Chinese currency is "renminbi" ("the peoples currency"). Yuan is the name of the unit in which you measure renminbi. It's kinda weird. chitoryu12 posted:That's exactly right. "Renminbi" means "The people's currency", while "yuan" is the primary unit. We don't notice in the United States because the primary unit of the US dollar is the dollar. But just like you don't insist on paying "20 pounds sterling" for a video game, you would just say you paid X amount of yuan. Huh, this is interesting! Is anything except the currency measured in yuan? And as long as I'm no more wrong than as if I'd joked about a british girl being named "Pound", I'm still pleased about that joke
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Covski posted:Huh, this is interesting! Is anything except the currency measured in yuan? And as long as I'm no more wrong than as if I'd joked about a british girl being named "Pound", I'm still pleased about that joke Nope. The yuan is just the base unit of the currency, like "dollar" for the US dollar. They even translate foreign currencies into Chinese the same, like American dollars are Meiyuan ("American yuan"). The yuan as a base unit dates back to the late 19th century, interestingly enough. The renminbi is just the latest Chinese currency to use it as a unit.
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chitoryu12 posted:Man, that came to an end a decade or two shorter than I expected. Then again, we can't all be Mick Jagger. Almost a decade with lung cancer is still a miracle.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:10
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"Here lies Hang Yu, he had a bunch of drugs and got laid. College is a scam for losers."
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Feb 24, 2016 00:13
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He lied, he cheated, he stole.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:36
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AJ_Impy posted:I suppose the nearest Western equivalent would be Pounds Sterling. This sounds like a Bond girl's name. "Here lies Hang Yu, sometimes drugging and drinking won't kill you as immediately as you think."
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Feb 24, 2016 00:37
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Hang Yu: He lived like was going to die young, for longer than expected.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:42
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God what a great run! He even got back into drugs and became a petty criminal by the end. I wish we could play as his daughter next and do a Hang Legacy Run but another random chump in a new country will be interesting too. I don't like that "Cash in all your goddam investments to cover nebulously defined natural disaster costs" event, at least in Yu's case. I could see it being more plausible in a less well-developed or especially war-torn country, but not in China.
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Does anyone know if Real Lives 2010 works on Windows 10? It's only $30 and this has gotten me interested enough that I'm considering doing a run or two for the thread.
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Feb 24, 2016 01:44
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chitoryu12 posted:Does anyone know if Real Lives 2010 works on Windows 10? It's only $30 and this has gotten me interested enough that I'm considering doing a run or two for the thread. It works with some effort. In compatibility mode as admin at least.
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I started a graveyard to memorialize all the runs. (not finished) Now you finally have something to put in that reserved second post! I'll write some jquery and CSS tomorrow to include everyone's eulogy for Yu. It will be of the "gently floating animated quotes" variety. It'll be super classy and tasteful. The effects I mean. Not the eulogies. Feedback on what else should be included on the headstones is also appreciated. Cathode Raymond fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 02:35
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chitoryu12 posted:Does anyone know if Real Lives 2010 works on Windows 10? It's only $30 and this has gotten me interested enough that I'm considering doing a run or two for the thread. My friend streamed it like last week on Windows 10, which was mostly motivated by her wanting to show some friends how silly this game is, so yeah, it does work with some finagling.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:59
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Hang Yu: More like Hang-10. Smoker, Addict, Cancer Bag. Loved every second of it.
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Feb 24, 2016 03:24
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"Hang in there, always be who Yu want to be."
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Feb 24, 2016 07:34
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I don't know much about real Chinese names, but Xiao Xia could be Little Shrimp.
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Feb 24, 2016 08:21
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This was a neat read. Please run us through a dozen more of these!
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Feb 24, 2016 09:55
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Arbitrary Number posted:I don't know much about real Chinese names, but Xiao Xia could be Little Shrimp. All depends on that characters, and I doubt Real Lives models that, so we'll never know. The Little part is probably right, though, but it's usually a nickname thing rather than an actually name.
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Feb 24, 2016 10:30
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RIP in peace, at least they didn't Hang Yu 
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Feb 24, 2016 11:24
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Hang Yu: Died as a loving and caring* father, despite his best efforts.
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Cathode Raymond posted:I started a graveyard to memorialize all the runs. (not finished) Now you finally have something to put in that reserved second post! Hey, this is really neat! I'll be adding it to the OP right away!  If you wanted to make pretty banner that I can use to link to it, that'd be really swell too!Nietzschean posted:This was a neat read. Please run us through a dozen more of these! I'm glad you all seem to be enjoying the the game so much! The next run will start tomorrow, unless I have spare time and is stricken with inspiration/boredom this evening.
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