Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[tribey]

Hearts of Iron IV coming out Q1 2015. <3

 

[Doctor Feel]

Hearts of Iron IV coming out Q1 2015. <3

I enjoy this series, but I've never properly worked it out. I haven't sunk enough hours into it. I pictured you with Nigel Smarts smile when you said this btw.

 

[tribey]

I enjoy this series, but I've never properly worked it out. I haven't sunk enough hours into it. I pictured you with Nigel Smarts smile when you said this btw.

I have a three-parts musky/two-parts veiny history boner for that period, so on a personal level it's a kind of interactive immersion that could only be matched by actually ruffling Jake Neade's hair after he downs his first post-premiership red tin.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I have a three-parts musky/two-parts veiny history boner for that period, so on a personal level it's a kind of interactive immersion that could only be matched by actually ruffling Jake Neade's hair after he downs his first post-premiership red tin.

I agree - I too share an immediate for that period in history. I should really bother to work the game out, how supply works, what units to use for what. There is so much variation and so much going on that I find it hard to work out. Is there even a tutorial?

 

[tribey]

I agree - I too share an immediate for that period in history. I should really bother to work the game out, how supply works, what units to use for what. There is so much variation and so much going on that I find it hard to work out. Is there even a tutorial?

There might be. I haven't played it for a couple of years and tend to just dive in. From memory there's a fairly hefty instruction book that covers everything, although the deeper nuances and complication are very much trial and error.

 

[Powerstufff]

'port power' lol

Sadly that's how we badged ourselves then

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Sadly that's how we badged ourselves then

What's sad about it?

We have history and we embrace it. Isn't that what we told the camrys last week when they tried to claim others history?

Good, bad or indifferent it is our history and there are 144 years of it.

I'm more embarrassed about losing the prelim to Glenelg in 82 and missing the finals in 83 than I am about the whole Port Power stage of our life.

 

[tribey]

Sadly that's how we badged ourselves then

The 'Port Power' branding was indeed horrible - I still cringe at those pavers in and around Alberton - but contrary to the beliefs of Gra'am Cornes and the endless cavalcade of arsegarglers he strives to represent, we were always 'Port Adelaide' as my patented reality mosaic shows:

Clockwise from top-left:

• 1. 1999 Ansett Cup Grand Final Football Record: Hawthorn versus Port Adelaide
• 2. Channel 7 scoreboard graphic from Round 1 1997: Collingwood/Port Adelaide
• 3. A young Warren Tredrea at a training session circa 1996/7 wearing a training singlet emblazoned with Port Adelaide
• 4. The R1/1997 debut of the permanent score graphic in the top left corner: COLL/P.A.

 

[I Dont Care]

Hhhhnnggggg!!! I loved AOE2, Civ III and the orginal Medieval Total War. So many hours. Don't have a PC anymore though and they just don't seem to have good strategy games for ipad or PS3. I assume CK2 is PC also?

They keep them away from the console kiddies

 

[I Dont Care]

What's sad about it?

We have history and we embrace it. Isn't that what we told the camrys last week when they tried to claim others history?

Good, bad or indifferent it is our history and there are 144 years of it.

I'm more embarrassed about losing the prelim to Glenelg in 82 and missing the finals in 83 than I am about the whole Port Power stage of our life.

No, nothing was worse than the whole 'lets distance ourselves from our history to try and get new fans' strategy our club hierarchy chose in those early AFL years. We redeemed ourselves in the late 80's from your embarrassment

 

[I Dont Care]

Right now i'm thinking of buying a cheap inflatable pool and a heap of cheap fans to build myself a hovercraft.

Now there's an idea. Then you could by a cheap larger Woolies pool for $300 to play it in

 

[raman]

No, nothing was worse than the whole 'lets distance ourselves from our history to try and get new fans' strategy our club hierarchy chose in those early AFL years.

That's massively overstating things. I don't think the first AFL administration did that at all.

To my memory the alliterative appeal of "Port Power" started to become too dominant in the media discourse, that's why we abandoned it.

 

[I Dont Care]

The 'Port Power' branding was indeed horrible - I still cringe at those pavers in and around Alberton - but contrary to the beliefs of Gra'am Cornes and the endless cavalcade of arsegarglers he strives to represent, we were always 'Port Adelaide' as my patented reality mosaic shows:

Clockwise from top-left:

• 1. 1999 Ansett Cup Grand Final Football Record: Hawthorn versus Port Adelaide
• 2. Channel 7 scoreboard graphic from Round 1 1997: Collingwood/Port Adelaide
• 3. A young Warren Tredrea at a training session circa 1996/7 wearing a training singlet emblazoned with Port Adelaide
• 4. The R1/1997 debut of the permanent score graphic in the top left corner: COLL/P.A.

Arsegarglers...now that confused the spellcheck. Thanks Tribes, a new word for my dictionary

 

[I Dont Care]

That's massively overstating things. I don't think the first AFL administration did that at all.

To my memory the alliterative appeal of "Port Power" started to become too dominant in the media discourse, that's why we abandoned it.

It was abandoned because of supporter backlash. Like the words of our song getting changed

 

[tribey]

That's massively overstating things. I don't think the first AFL administration did that at all.

To my memory the alliterative appeal of "Port Power" started to become too dominant in the media discourse, that's why we abandoned it.

The clincher was that from the off, both the media and AFL Approved generic merch departments began to refer to us as 'Port Power Football Club', let alone the countless plebs who were confused by the whole Port Power vs Port Magpies @ Ethelton misinformation that was rife.

I'd love to know exactly who it was that actioned such pervasive and misleading branding. Needlessly created a rod for our backs on multiple fronts.

 

[raman]

I always saw it as an AFL ignorance thing rather than a Bucky/Boulton actively paddling us up shit creek thing. But I can't cite any primary sources on that.

 

[bomberclifford]

I'd love to know exactly who it was that actioned such pervasive and misleading branding. Needlessly created a rod for our backs on multiple fronts.

Mark Wightman is the name you're looking for. He provided the 'strategy' around the branding in the early days.
He was also a board member from 2002 to 2006.

Our logo and original guernseys were designed by IKD (Ian Kidd Design) but I've heard that the process was heavily directed by the board.

 

[tribey]

I always saw it as an AFL ignorance thing rather than a Bucky/Boulton actively paddling us up shit creek thing. But I can't cite any primary sources on that.

Hindsight's 20/20, but between the forced adoption of new colours, a new guernsey and the bitter compromise of the PAMFC divorce, to de-emphasise 'Port Adelaide' on the most prominent branding of the logo and song was... ridiculous? Needless? Too much? All of the above.

REH has previously made mention of the fact we supposedly wanted brand differentiation on 'Adelaide', but man, I remember me and my schoolmates being confused about what the deal was vis-a-vis identity between the fistpumping gala at the EntCent and first bounce against the Pies at the G in '97.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Maybe it was Alex Kidd that came up with the design ??

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I still say **** it. It happened and we moved on and so has everyone except the camry trolls.

And you know, **** those sluts in the pooer.

 

[bomberclifford]

lol Dingle, you never cease to amaze me with the shit you come out with.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

lol Dingle, you never cease to amaze me with the shit you come out with.

Don't pretend you don't think the same as me man.

 

[bomberclifford]

Don't pretend you don't think the same as me man.

You are like the demon voice in my head that tells me to do the stuff that gets me in trouble. Enjoyable trouble.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Mark Wightman is the name you're looking for. He provided the 'strategy' around the branding in the early days.
He was also a board member from 2002 to 2006.

Our logo and original guernseys were designed by IKD (Ian Kidd Design) but I've heard that the process was heavily directed by the board.

Got on the piss with Wightman in Darwin (I drank with his brother Dave who introduced wrinkles to 5AA apparently - lot to thank this family for...) when Port came up in 2004.

Funny shit. RussellEbertHandball knows the story. Too long to type though.

 

[tribey]

Maybe it was Alex Kidd that came up with the design ??