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Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:41 pm
by TerresaWiggin
-you create a java program to encrypt emails as seen in ES series and try to get your friends to use it (no luck)
-you practice battleroom techniques in a swimming pool (launching off of knee's doesn't produce enough momentum w/out null G, but go nova worls great with 2 or three.)
-you laugh out loud reading in Silent reading and make it a bit less silent
-you compare everything in your physics class to EG technology

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:44 pm
by TerresaWiggin
-you have a fake identity on parenting sites as TerresaWiggin (first parent you thought of and the people reading the sites definitely could use some advice, they shouldn't care if it comes from a 13yr old)

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:53 am
by Boothby
When you break out your calculation sheets from your Ender's Game presentation to help you design real-world sets (the rotating stages from Cirque du Soleil's "KA," and "Zumanity," for instance).

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:45 pm
by TerresaWiggin
cool!

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:12 pm
by Boothby
When we got the drawings with the designer's initial concepts, one of the guys in our group said, "Steve, I think they've been reading that book you keep talking about..."

(VERY Technical)

(more "accessible") Look for the battle sequence starting at 5:30

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:06 pm
by Boothby
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Look at the 4:00 (4 minute) mark.

Tell me what that scene makes you think of.

KA opened in 2004. I started working on it in 2002. The "Battle Belts" that allow the performers to spin in air are THE EXACT SAME BELTS THAT THE CIRQUE PERFORMERS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE ENDER'S GAME MOVIE. And though I'd love to claim I designed them, I didn't. I did get to engineer them, though!

Instead, I designed and engineered the "Sand Cliff Deck," and the "Tatami Deck" (the "Kitchen drawer" behind it).

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:36 am
by TerresaWiggin
I can totally see where you got that from :)
So cool you got to engineer that, If I ever see the show I'll be curious to see if my dad notices. (He's a big fan.)
Its good to know that the Ender obsession gets put to work neh.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:43 am
by Boothby
Whenever I have a big turntable project (and there have been a few), I break out my EG spreadsheet!

I had a 22' diameter turntable for Zumanity that was required to spin at 6 rpm. That's 7 feet/sec at the perimeter and 15%G centripetal force--enough to toss a trained Cirque do Soleil acrobat! We tuned it back to 3 rpm...much safer.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:48 pm
by TerresaWiggin
Any forum that contains language like 15%G centripetal force is one I want to be on :D

I think we're getting off topic um..

when you get into a discussion with your teacher about Philotes only without saying so directly.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:09 pm
by TerresaWiggin
when you go to an elementary school and all you can think about is how young Ender was

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:03 pm
by Sharpe
When you join Pweb so that you can have a support group for you obbsession

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:30 pm
by TerresaWiggin
When you join Pweb so that you can have a support group for you obbsession
or when you spend all your spare time posting your obsession on pweb

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:28 pm
by KennEnder
... when you've been a member of Pweb longer than those now obsessed have been alive :)

Re:

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:10 pm
by TerresaWiggin
when you hang your arch enemy upside down in a vent after convincing him to crawl in there with you.

when you call your computer screen jane and hope for a reply.
or you make a program to spit out jane like answers to your questions (or at least put her into all your error messages)

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:53 pm
by TerresaWiggin
*double post*

when you have read and responded to 89 topic notifications in the last 2 weeks

EDIT: 91

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:40 am
by CarryChristSoup
-you expect ridiculously accurate scientific realism in all other sci-fi, and are secretly disappointed any time a movie, book or series fails to take into account relativity.

- anytime you play a strategy game, you ask yourself "What would Bean and Ender do...?"

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:14 pm
by TerresaWiggin
you hear that someones middle name is Julian and proceed to call them Bean for the next week and a half (still counting)

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:27 pm
by StoneGirl8
  • When you argue with your friends that the meaning of life is to procreate :wink:
  • When being compared to a human peer becomes a grave insult
  • When you start of believe in the philotic strands connecting us all :bow:
  • When you cry at the end of Shadows in Flight :cry:

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:08 pm
by TerresaWiggin
you silently call your mom an Oomay (she deserved it, for the moment at least)

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:22 pm
by TerresaWiggin
you tell your friend "its not his fault. Boys are physically unable to sense philotic connections"

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:39 pm
by EAGLE
you know you've read too much EG when...
~when you are bored in class you daydream about Battle School
always dreamed about it
You expect to see genius activity out of any third child in a family. :roll:
I do yet my youngest sibling (3rd) is lacking. Welp hopeful for my own kids one day *wishes*
your on this website
No when you troll this site like I do and try to get every new post on the main page to show your name [done 6/1 8:25pm PST :hatsoff: :mrgreen: ]....I know it's an obsession
- When you decide to learn enough about computer code that you can make your own Dragon graphic with a secret message inside.
Oh and I dont get violently angry when someone wont read EG, I just get very frustrated and keep bugging them.
Agreed and they WILL read it!!

And lastly when every time you think you hear an inkling about a EG book or movie you fly over to Pweb and over-actively flood the forum, usually with Calvinball post!! :angel: :hatsoff: :evencooler:

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 11:30 am
by mywildimagination
When you see a seven-year-old on a ropes course and think of Bean.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:16 am
by Rootersfriend
...When you're put into a funk for a day or two solely by thinking how you'll never get to meet Rooter, Planter, or Human...

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:20 am
by Rootersfriend
(hit submit too soon, my bad)

Or when you and the one you love <text like this, and speak in terms of "we know how you feel," or "we just want you to know we love you," etc...> when you want to convey something very serious, deep, or personal to eachother.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:45 am
by BobbyOodle
...when you're having emotional and life problems and you ask yourself "What would Ender/Bean do?". And then it works.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:52 am
by dk55717
You know youve read to much EG when...
-you named your cat Bean
-You start spelling Bean with a capital b
-you built the entire battle school in Minecraft and then wondered if it is possible to build the Formic ships

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:00 pm
by Jaxn
You read 8 books in 10 days straight.

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:36 pm
by Boothby
DK,

Let's see some pics of this Battle School!

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:46 am
by PetraVecchio_
When your English teacher decides to show a few of the new stils from the movie and plus trailer, then proceed to get into a one sided heat debate with one of your classmates who insisted to claim that the "boy with the blue eyes" and the"" girl with the long hair" are going to kiss and date in the movie. And the last thing you yell before getting sent out is"She marries the genetically altered one and tjen ends up the with the Brother!"

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:42 am
by Boothby
PV,

At least it sounds like your English teacher is a big fan....

Re: You know you've read too much EG when...

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:25 pm
by PetraVecchio_
She is. We're reading it in class…well technically the rest of class is reading it. I get an alternative assignment, because "apparently it seems like I'm already familiar with the novel."" And I'm not allowed to be in the room during open class discussions, she's afraid that I'm going to spoil the ending.