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  1. quote:Originally posted by crivens: Well the FilePlanet download doesnt work - it told me I was queued, and when my turn came, I got file not found. Oh well! How in the heck do you come to have the download link at this point? Just curious.
  2. quote:If you tear the building down, I'll tear YOU down! Roger that, sir! I'll resume construction. By the way, Mikel's putting up a nice rugged armory/weapons range next to the bathhouse. Which led us to wonder about our neighborhood that now has a brewery, firearms, and scantily-clad women. Perhaps we will hold a Rave soon and give those guys over at the Police Academy something to do.
  3. To whomever repaired the mineral pool at Pkzip's House of Turkish Delights (Ep5? Jag?), a million thanks, it's beautiful and now holds water. Also, nice touch-ups to the glass luminosity and the 'minarets.' Please see Brunhilda in the back for a complimentary pi├▒a colada and full-body hot oil massage. Every good soldier deserves a little R&R. And for the female soldiers amongst us, Gunter will also be available every other Tuesday. PS- anyone know where I can get some huge palm trees? Apparently hard to come by on Mars.
  4. (I tried so hard to put her in a CatWoman suit, but as you can tell my skills are limited. Thanks for being a good sport about it, Miz Akuma! The cashiers' check is in the mail.) Okay, my first guess is, um, Tom Cruise? [ 05-18-2001: Message edited by: pkzip ]
  5. I think it's workable for a Roddenberry first season. Go revisit first season episodes of ST:NextGeneration and they are like fingernails on chalkboards. Gotta remember that Majel has deep pockets and is willing to pound sand down ratholes (see: Earth Final Conflict). They should kill off the annoying Trance Gemini character though; send her to a dark dark place where they should have sent Wesley Crusher after his first season. However, if I had cable and therefore Farscape (vastly superior writing), I wouldn't waste my time with Andromeda. $.02 . Kuh-ching. Thanks for playing. Next, Please. (p.s.- I really miss Space:Above and Beyond.)
  6. HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO HER! (Hey, somebody had to try it...) [clueless? http://www.detonate.net/newsitems/01021601/ayb.swf ] [ 05-17-2001: Message edited by: pkzip ]
  7. Nice socks, Foss... they really go with your outfit... Miz Akuma, what the heck is that you're holding in your hand? [ 05-13-2001: Message edited by: pkzip ]
  8. Sure: Celtic and Bluegrass, though. [/RP] * Scrolling through Illegal Items, to check supply of Merle Haggard Eight-Tracks...* "Hmmm, wonder what these'll get me in Tau Ceti?" [/RP}
  9. quote: This community is as forgiving as any out there! ...and its Regulars more than willing to Eat Crow when it's their time. Now it's my turn to apologize. I just assumed... well, jeez, it's Switzerland, I figured nobody would have to suffer pay-per-minute anywhere there. I've spent more of my time in Austria, where you learn to expect less. Je suis un American Estupid. Paddy, what are you going to do when multiplayer BCM comes around? Never mind, one stupid question this week is enough. And also sorry for being thin-skinned about "dude;" you know how we Yanks (ironically, an oximoron where I live) can be a bit too off-the-cuff sometimes. Let the full-contact love fest begin!
  10. SteveM, apparently you are new around here. It is polite to let Paddy answer questions put to Paddy. If Paddy's ISP is pay-per-minute rather than pay-per-month, Paddy will tell me, not "probably" you. As for "dude," no need to parrot it and put it in quotes. It's our version of "mate," okay? Let's keep the attitude adjusted. Dude. [ 05-05-2001: Message edited by: pkzip ]
  11. Paddy, no offense, but if you had started the download last night when you went to bed, you'd be playing the game today. If someone mails it today, you'll be playing it a week from now. Please clarify: do you have toll charges to your local ISP? Can you not use partial-download agents like GetRight or Gozilla? Are you behind a bizarre firewall? In other words, let me know why you can't download it like most of the rest of us 56Kers did. If you just don't WANT to, well, I can't help you, "Mate" [colloquialism edited to preserve British sensibilities]. p.s.- Fribourg third-world?!? I'll trade locales with you any day. [ 05-05-2001: Message edited by: pkzip ]
  12. You'd be surprised about the download with 56K, Paddy, it's not so bad... I also have a 56K, and an ISP that sometimes disconnects. So one night I made sure my Gozilla was working (to resume incomplete downloads), started the download (the larger high-graphics version), and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, most of the file had downloaded. I finished the download the following night. I'd recommend trying it tonight, Paddy. You're going to love this game.
  13. ummmm.... okay, I'll admit I have no idea to what Parias's puzzle refers. Somebody please clue me.
  14. Aramike, humbly begging your pardon sir, but "a good ass-whipping from his mother?" I think I've seen his mother listed as co-defendant, or at least mentioned more than once along his bleak timeline so far. At what point does it not behoove the state to give HER a good ass-whipping instead? (Okay, we socialisty democraty types call it "rehabilitation," whatever. Repair her. Otherwise, you've given her the right to carry around a loaded weapon called a Child. We're talking Big Pipe Bomb.)
  15. Speaking of patience, how long will it take me to download the first demo once it's released? ( * takes sidelong glance at 56K modem. Looks at list of friends, none of whom have DSL or cable. * ) So if I get lucky and the servers(& mirrors?)allow download resumes, I'll set up a nightly schedule and be playing it, oh, about six days after you guys have it. Ya don't appreciate what ya don't have to pay for, and in this case having to spend a little extra patience and concentration is _well_ worth what we're getting in return. However, it would have been odd if nobody started a thread on it. Fellow Bit-Chomper here.
  16. [Five thousandth post... Just had to point that out. That's a lot of TLC to put into a community. Here's to five thousand more. Thanks.]
  17. pkzip

    BCM newbie's

    Personally, I used the Search about fifty times before I ever dared to post in here. And if I had been 'required' to use the Search, let's say, ten times before being Allowed To Post, I would have done it. Point being: it's a darn good Search function on this thing, and we've all seen some miserable ones. It's a big fun well-groomed historical database, all subjects covered. Might as well promote it.
  18. no question: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Honorary mention: SciFi: Bladerunner B&W: Citizen Kane Foreign: Kolya (Czech) Mystery: Body Heat Stage: Noises Off Musical: Sound of Music
  19. first computer games were on a mainframe: STREK- prolly much like Korivak's. Ascii heaven. I think <*> represented a starbase; and ADVENT- "You are standing in a valley facing north..." Cheat codes were 'xyzzy' and 'pluhy'; First quarter-eater: Battlezone. Ah, those lovely buzzbombs. 'Nuff said. First pc (286 with cga) game: Conflict, a fabulous and unknown Mideast war and politic simulator: you play as Israel and you have, um, touchy neighbors. Cga "blink red" trigger causes a lockup in my modern vidcard. Full game size: somewhere around 300k. First modern pc game: Burn Cycle. Little printed character dossier and soundtrack cd included. Purely linear, but a heck of a storyline.
  20. Best of fortune and safety, cruise. Your calling is one that most of us have neither the gonads nor the courage to do for a living. Good to know it's folks like you who are out there minding the fences.
  21. Nice use of a limited number of accompanying screenshots CJ chose: created suspense, conveyed an understanding of the scope, gave momentum to the review (okay, maybe Tacops was a little dim)... but nice to see well-chosen visuals as part of the narrative, not clickable chads. ---- "Watch for the next installment, which will chronicle this reviewer's budding career as a human GALCOM commander." ---- Mmmm, chronicles, mmmm... I imagine he will have a well-bitten tongue while he writes about worlds on the other side of the NDA. Fine line, but he seems to be a solid professional. Looking forward to his next episode: this may become a tutorial of sorts.
  22. I didn't see anyone mention, and thought that it should be. Hats Off to our boys Tanner and Noreiga for pulling off a sweet spacewalk up there today; skilled grunts yanking cables nine stories above a shuttle and station whipping along at several hundred vacuum-packed feet per heartbeat. One step closer to having a new permanent Third Brightest Object in the evening sky. Think about it, when we were kids (which spans a few decades in here), we said, "Wouldn't it be cool if someday...?" Well, we're living it now. And those blokes are now visible from your backyard, every few weeks, and for only a few minutes at a time. That's one mean orbit on that mother up there, and as of this mission, she's got some big beautiful kilowatts to back it up with. For some serious Screenshots, and for a Java app that lets you know when she'll be passing over your hometown, you know the drill: www.space.com www.nasa.gov Raise a salute in their honor. [This message has been edited by pkzip (edited 12-07-2000).]
  23. quote:Originally posted by Pyros: The coming of the dark times when a game player is tested to his limit, I saw the many shiney lights of the new hardware and its lure was too great.. Bilbo Baggins Lives.
  24. "The Software Drives The Hardware." Tell me who originally said that and I'll give you a nickel. The 'console' market will never be primary for development. Why? Show me somebody who can build a decent game with only a console at their disposal. Or only a Mac, or only a Unix server. And show me a decent developer who will commit to never using any of the three above. You like the kind of games created exclusively for the Whatever-Box? Buy the Whatever-Box, then buy the game. Heck, I loved my Steely Dan eight-tracks in my 69 Plymouth Valiant, but I also dig their new CD in the Toyota. And with all due respect to Steely Dan, they didn't force me to buy a CD player or the car that it goes in. The art manifests the canvas, the payload drives the rocket, Form Follows Function. Which reminds me, I need to upgrade.
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