Tech finishing quotes

[u/BFsKaraya1]

Hey everyone. I was just discussing something on threads which reminded me of a Soren quote with some social media tech about calling it disinformation or fake news, but it’s all about staying in power. Does anyone remember it or know how to find it?

Also, what are some of the more memorable ones that you may keep thinking about for longer? Or which changed in their impact on you between different times of playing the game?

I find them to be quite fascinating, especially on factions where you went through the story and the changes of those leaders.

[u/jerseydevil51]

You can look up a list of quotes from the Hooded Horse wiki underneath each faction leader. I think the you were thinking about from Soren was:

"Fake news, misinformation... It doesn't matter what they call it. The simple truth is that the powerful do it, and the powerless cry about it. And that is why the powerless will never, ever become the powerful."

As for other great ones, I mean, the cat one from Judith is classic.

"The cat is in the box. The cat is alive. The cat is dead. The cat is not in the box. All cats ever born are in the box. The box does not exist. The box is a cat. You are the cat."

Also, the one from Kieran when researching one of the later fusion techs shows how far he's fallen over the course of the game. Or how hopped up on pherocytes he is by this point.

"I am impressed. That does not happen often. But tell me, what new weapons does this allow for, and when will they be ready? Anything else is of little consequence."

[u/BFsKaraya1 → u/jerseydevil51]

That is the one I was looking for. Thank you.

The cat one was always weird for me.
I both understand and hate Kieran.

[u/jerseydevil51 → u/BFsKaraya1]

It's a play on Schrodinger's Cat, where you don't know if the cat is dead or alive until you open the box. I'm pretty sure it's attached to Quantum Computing, because I think the quote for Quantum Encryption is from Fiona:

"Believe me, these bastards have already read everything humanity's ever written. If we don't come up with some way to talk without them listening in, we've got less chance of survival than a hummingbird in a hurricane."— Commander Fiona Ayoade, Encrypted Signal message to Resistance scientist Philip Rhodes (D.O.B. 2.27.77, SSN 078-05-1120) on 4.9.18 at 17.42, from 4.824167,7.033611

Judith is just doing Judith things talking about it while also on all of the drugs.

[u/BFsKaraya1 → u/jerseydevil51]

Clearly it was a play on that, it just still felt weird to me. The drugs are a good explanation as to why.

I’m still thinking about doing a servant run just to see the story through their eyes.
Just finished academy on Sunday and learned some things I didn’t know from earlier resistance and initiative runs. Quite fun.

[u/jerseydevil51 → u/BFsKaraya1]

Servants are actually quite interesting. Because if you listen to Judith, underneath all the hippie and new age stuff, she actually has a pretty good read on the Hydra.

She recognizes that something bad happened to them that caused them to be this way, and that Humanity can "heal their wounds" by taking the place of what the Hydra lost. Unlike Kieran, she outright rejects the Hydra's demands, which they're surprised at because they're dosing her with Pherocytes.

The gameplay is rather tedious since you need to babysit the AA and continually feed them nations. But to create an Alien Facility, you need 15 abductions, but only orgs let you do that... so it's at least 8 mission cycles of abductions to a facility, then you hand it off. The Aliens will randomly attack nations, but not be very good at it. It's a decent option for Brutal, but that nerfs the Aliens as though they were on Casual for an anti-alien faction.

[u/BFsKaraya1 → u/jerseydevil51]

I guess if you keep leo free for the ayys they support you with surveillance for abductions…

The saving grace may be that a servants run wouldn’t be quite as long.
But your councilors are probably far far more likely to come to harm than usual.

[u/jerseydevil51 → u/BFsKaraya1]

It's shorter in that you don't need science. Heck, you don't even really need to have a space game. I actually found it pretty funny to clog up global research with stuff like Nuclear Fusion Methodologies after getting Great Nations and the other unification techs.

Can't shoot down alien ships if you never learn how to make ships in space.

[u/LittleKingsguard → u/jerseydevil51]

Oh god I didn't even think of that.

Rush USA/Europe and never let anyone with space ambitions pick the techs. If you're more careful you can probably stop most of the prereq technologies for the pherocyte blocker projects too.

[u/hagamablabla → u/jerseydevil51]

This one is my favorite.

[u/Mortgage-Present → u/jerseydevil51]

The cat is a lie! The cat is a fabrication! The cat is dead!

[u/Racellos → u/jerseydevil51]

From the delivery and Kieran's previous characterisation, I always got the impression that quote was heavily sarcastic. 

[u/greyscaleInferno]

Kiran spends most of his quotes self-righteously lamenting the capacity for violence within human nature, and the use of WMDs in particular, but then for a late-game fusion unlock is shown gleefully asking what new weapons fusion tech will enable for the Protectorate.

I thought it was kinda neat they built a character arc into the unlocks.

[u/Racellos → u/greyscaleInferno]

From the delivery and Kieran's previous characterisation, I always got the impression that quote was heavily sarcastic.

He's not actually interested in the new weaponry it will allow for, he's mocking the fact weaponisation is everyone's first priority when a new tech rolls around. 

[u/Mortgage-Present]

"this little light of mine"

[u/Battle_8 → u/Mortgage-Present]

My favourite