Newsman badge--very sly!
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AnderVash,
Posted on: 2004-09-20 18:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Not a badge, but the monster in the clockwork task force is named 'Babbage'. It's a not-so-subtle reference to Charles Babbage, who is accredited (I think) with being the first computer scientist. I guess only the hard-core programmer geeks would figure this one out.
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Not necessarily. 
I'm nowhere near a programmer (Sys admin, and chef-in-training) and I know who Charles Babbage was. And yeah, you're correct; he designed the "difference engine", which is widely hailed as the precursor to the computer, and contained many of the logical features of the modern general purpose computer, in 1834.
The Babbage Machine was a totally clockwork computing device. He designed but never built it, if I'm not mistaken. Kind of like Davinci and the helicoptor.
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Man, this is so gonna turn things into "Six Degrees from kevin Bacon" at some point. 
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I think you meant "Six Degrees of super Statesman."
(Note: Some time after the Kevin Bacon game, there was a version called "Six Degrees of Arnold Schwarzenegger." This was wrong on many levels, but the first and foremost is because "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" keeps the scansion and rhymes with "Six Degrees of Separation," which is where it comes from. "Super Statesman" does, too. [/anal retentive mode])
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The Babbage Machine was a totally clockwork computing device. He designed but never built it, if I'm not mistaken. Kind of like Davinci and the helicoptor.
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Correct.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-l...bage/index.asp
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Babbage failed to build a complete machine. The most widely accepted reason for this failure is that Victorian mechanical engineering were not sufficiently developed to produce parts with sufficient precision.
In 1985 the Science Museum launched a project to build a complete Babbage Engine to original designs to explore the practical viability of Babbages schemes. The Engine chosen was Babbages Difference Engine No. 2 designed between 1847 and 1849. The calculating section of the Engine, which weighs 2.6 tonnes and consists of 4,000 separate parts, was completed and working in November 1991, one month before the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth.
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another one(although totally obvious)is the "around the bendis" badge,as in brian michael bendis,writer of powers,daredevil,ultimate spider man and about a bajillion other comics...
anyhoo,very cool-I'd like to go through the badges and see if there are anymore references to comics!
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Perez Park must just tickle you pink, then. It does me. 
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Now thats awesome, there is nothing like honoring an inventor by getting one of his greatest ideas running before his 200th birthday
One that i found funny is the Top Dog one (you get it by going on top of the Atlas Globe). Well the "Top" is certainly for the "top of the Globe", but Top Dog is also a group of dogs that can make tricks, like the walk on a sphere (you know, you put the dog on a sphere (a giant ball) then he walks on it and the sphere roll).
So we go on the big sphere to become top dogs....hehehehe.
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Ted Knight also played Henry Rush in the series "Too Close For Comfort", in which he had the occupation of cartoonist of "Cosmic Cow".
I enjoyed that show myself, but being 33 I guess my opinions are those of an "old man". 
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Hehe, what I thought was most amusing was the writers/producers trying to peddle the Monroe character as a straight man when he was soooooooo gay that he was literally on fire
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Hehe, what I thought was most amusing was the writers/producers trying to peddle the Monroe character as a straight man when he was soooooooo gay that he was literally on fire
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Oh, thtop! There'th tho much futh over a few extra eth'th! Jutht beacuth he lithped.
no, wait... he didn't lisp. :erm:
heh. Either way, straight or gay, he was kinda funny. Maybe he was just one of those "sensitive" straight men.
So... was I the only one that noticed that "Brigadier General Hammond" is the military liaison to Portal?
It's in the article on the invasion, if you don't believe me!
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So... was I the only one that noticed that "Brigadier General Hammond" is the military liaison to Portal?
It's in the article on the invasion, if you don't believe me!
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I never noticed that. What I have noticed, however, is that CoT portals suspiciously resemble StarGates
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One that i found funny is the Top Dog one (you get it by going on top of the Atlas Globe). Well the "Top" is certainly for the "top of the Globe", but Top Dog is also a group of dogs that can make tricks, like the walk on a sphere (you know, you put the dog on a sphere (a giant ball) then he walks on it and the sphere roll).
So we go on the big sphere to become top dogs....hehehehe.
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Now, that's funny
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So... was I the only one that noticed that "Brigadier General Hammond" is the military liaison to Portal?
It's in the article on the invasion, if you don't believe me!
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I never noticed that. What I have noticed, however, is that CoT portals suspiciously resemble StarGates
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I never noticed the General hammond bit, either, but I'm not high enough to deal with the Portal Corp, yet. i did, however, immediately associate the CoT portals with the SG.
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I never noticed the General hammond bit, either, but I'm not high enough to deal with the Portal Corp, yet. i did, however, immediately associate the CoT portals with the SG.
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Me too. Great show too btw
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The Newsman exploration badge you can get in Faultline seems to have a tricky background to it. It reads:
The Theodore Knight building was home to many Super Groups in the years before the Rikti War.
Okay. That got my wheels turning.
Theodore Knight
actor Ted Knight
his newsman character Ted Baxter
the Baxter Building
home of the Fantastic Four supergroup
Man, that's just as twisted as the streets of Faultline themselves!
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Wow, good job
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Ted Knight was in Caddyshack with Bill Murray who was in Ghostbusters with Dan Akroyd who was in Blues Brothers with John Belushi who was in Animal House with........
Kevin Bacon.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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That's good.. but.. you can do it shorter than that.
Ted Knight was in Caddy Shack with Bill Murray who was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon. 2 steps.
Not a badge, and not comic related, but I'd guess that Romero Heights in DA is named for George Romero? (I'm really hoping there won't be a "Huh? Who's that?" post put up here...)
When I first saw that part of the zone I thought of John Romero (Doom), but hey George Romero works as well. (Night of the Living Dead). Either way they were both big on Zombies.
Also, Raimi Arcade is named after Sam Raimi, creator of the Evil Dead series.
Dialogue references:
Nemesis Automotons saying "I need those TPS reports" (Office Space)
Copper Dragon saying "You must defeat Copper Dragon to stand a chance" and "Attack me if you dare, I will crush you" (Street Fighter II)
The Family saying "Let me introduce you to my little friend" (Scarface)
Warriors training, saying "Be like water" (Bruce Lee)
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Also, Raimi Arcade is named after Sam Raimi, creator of the Evil Dead series.
Dialogue references:
Nemesis Automotons saying "I need those TPS reports" (Office Space)
Copper Dragon saying "You must defeat Copper Dragon to stand a chance" and "Attack me if you dare, I will crush you" (Street Fighter II)
The Family saying "Let me introduce you to my little friend" (Scarface)
Warriors training, saying "Be like water" (Bruce Lee)
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Also:
"I don't want to kill you and you don't want to be dead." Danny Glover in Silverado.
"Come out and plaaaay." David Patrick Kelly in The Warriors. (Double joke, heh.)
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You noticed the Nemesis grunts?
Occasionally they chime 'None Shall Pass!'
That tickles me.
Saw a Behemoth Overlord say "You shall not pass!"
Apparently they picked up a few things a certain ancestor missed when facing certain gray wizard.
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Also, Raimi Arcade is named after Sam Raimi, creator of the Evil Dead series.
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And director of the Spider-Man movies...
I thought the mission "Where is Carmine St. Iago" was pretty clever.
I wondered if the Grey named in magic SO's, Power of Grey, etc. was based on the magician Grey from the Ardneh books by Saberhagen
Look at the icon - it's an alien head. So the "Greys" of modern UFO folklore are actually his minions ...
(Which fits, if you go with the theory that aliens have basically filled the niche in our folklore that used to be occupied by the Faerie.)
Other references I've noticed:
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Not a badge, but the monster in the clockwork task force is named 'Babbage'. It's a not-so-subtle reference to Charles Babbage, who is accredited (I think) with being the first computer scientist. I guess only the hard-core programmer geeks would figure this one out.