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Personally, I think it was all deliberate mindplay by the British military: 'Give us a hard time over Gibraltar? You KNOW what we're capable of'. Not only do they try and steal our rightly-owned colonies, but steal our fish stocks too. Then they rip off British tourists, before jailing them for drinking too much of their horrible Cervesas with bits of lime sticking out the top. Oh yeah, they steal our women too, with their sultry, smarmy good looks, fast cars, black slip-on shoes, no socks and loose trousers, before mutating them into fat, hairy-lipped senoras. We should have taken them out when we ruled the world. 'Singeing the king of Spains beard' my arse, should have gone and shaved his pubes off when we had the chance. Just my 2 pesetas worth Note: the author bears no responsibilty for the views expressed in his own post

Had an interesting thing happen to me the other day; was trying to capture a station in my Garid, but of course went over the top and destroyed it instead . A cargo pod appeared on the radar, so I sent a shuttle to retrieve it. Minutes later, the shuttle still hadn't reached it and wasn't moving. Zoomed in on it, and it stuck in the station superstructure (stupid marine). Wouldn't even RTB. The only thing I could do was to park my CC as close as possible, get out and jet pack over and fly the shuttle myself. Something else happened just after that. i was trying to capture a Credian Merc station (as an assassin), but again ended up destroying it. I checked my experience points, and it had gone way in the negative! It wasn't a friendly or neutral station, so why the slap on the points front? I'd captured or destroyed neutral staions before, but earned points for them.

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. 'Just like the vas deferens back home' I pissed myself. Twice. PS Why do sperm always sound like Munchkins?

quote:Originally posted by Tyrn: You have to remember not to introduce yourself using your BCM handle when meeting new people.Not actually a problem for me.........

quote: Big risk man! And now you┬┤re blind, right? Who said that?

#15 (Is this a VE thread?) I managed to keep my eyes open while sneezing.

Yeah, it's fine in 800 x 600 Silly me.

quote:Originally posted by Menchise: I guess the web caters to masochists too. Of course it does, why else would we be playing this game?

OK, didn't realise it was my vid card which was reporting the other resolutions. You learn something new every day eh?

quote: For that sort of info, don't you think you should tell me WHAT resolution you are running the game at? I suppose so, yes. I'll let you know when I get home, but I think it is the 760 x ??? resolution (or something like that)?

Maybe a $ from every BC Commander will buy a return trip to Sidney...............

I have engineers doing repairs on deck 3, if I check Perscan, the 'Repairs on deck 3' text overlaps the right-hand edge of the Perscan text box. Purely cosmetic of course. Otherwise running very smoothly since 1.05 patch thank you very much.

I was actually quite serious. People dying and being injured is NOT my idea of fun.

quote: 45,000 people rioting, 15 killed, over 250 injured Oh, that's FUN then, is it?

That reminds me of some crazy Kiwis, who ocerclocked a old 486 by putting it in the deep freeze and playing Quake II on it. IIRC, the actual aim was to find out if packing it around with beer or liquor provided the better coolant. Beer won. As always

quote: Epsilon5, wait'll you see who Shirley is impersonating now! Every BC commander worth his/her salt should ensure that Shirley impersonates him/her at least once on a gaming forum in order to be awarded 10000 experience points. Jaguar and Ep5 are Demi-Gods to me now. Can I start a cult?

Let me just drag this thread out of the annals of history............... Ah, there we go. Went to see it last night and well, what a night! Didn't get home till 11.45 and a thoroughly well spent evening it was. It's been nearly 20 years since I read LotR, Silmarillion (sp?), Book of Lost Tales etc, but they had me drawing maps of Middle Earth, writing my name in Elvish and all the other trappings associated with obsessed adolescents. To be honest, I'd forgotten all about Tom Bombadil, but I did miss the Prancing Pony song and the Barrow Wrights. The sequence in Moria was immense, as was the final battle with the Uruk-hai. All characters were just about as I imagined them, but they did have me thinking on a few things: Elrond - Priscilla, images of Terence Stamp in drag and table-tennis balls were banging around in my head every time I saw him. Frodo - that guys eyes are just TOO big for his face Gandalf - Peter O' Toole, frightened boys and rugby spring to mind. If anyone has seen the Z├╝rich Insurance commercials in the UK, you'll understand why. I thought Boromir was just right; a good man at heart, but desperate enough that you couldn't quite trust him. The Elves and Hobbits were perfect. Well, I could wax on endlessly about it. Suffice to say, I will take the missus to see it when she returns from Ireland and may even catch it again while she's away. Addendum: the scene where Bilbo gives Frodo the Mithril, sees the ring and tries to grab it? Jumped a bloody mile! [ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: Paddy Gregory ]

quote: As for BCO, I'm looking forward to that, though my experiences with online gaming are few, and I tend to be the guy who always loses. I guess someone has to lose, I might as well be that No that would be ME, actually.

Aha, so no team actually owns the stadium they play in? Is it because it's 'not the done thing' , or are there regulations preventing it? I'm sure most of the teams have a big enough budget to build a purpose-built stadium of their own. Or is most of the budget taken up with the (hugely inflated) wage bill?

I have a question (or more of an observation really) about NFL and, I suppose, American sports on the whole. How do teams maintain a consistent, loyal fanbase, when they might suddenly be bought up and relocated clear across the country? I used to watch NFL when it first came on UK TV, about 18 years ago. Then, the Rams were in LA, the Cardinals were in St. Louis and the Raiders were in LA, amongst others. This is completely alien to me as a concept. Did all the LA Rams fans suddenly become St. Louis Rams fans and if not, who do they follow now? Or do they wander round in some kind of sporting limbo, waiting for a team to drop on their doorstep? In the UK, it's very simple, the team is named after the city they come from abd stay there. God forbid someone buy up Liverpool FC, relocate them to W**kchester and rename them! An American friend of mine actually explained why College sports have such a high profile in the US. People tend to associate the team with the town and know they will not suddenly up sticks and bugger off in between seasons. Anyone care to comment or enlighten me?

My first intro to a PC was the Sinclair ZX81 at school. A truly versatile black box . There was also a BBC machine, but none of the younger kids could get anywhere near it.....

On today's Yahoo! UK quote: Shopping centre silences abusive scales CANBERRA (Reuters) - A weighing machine that has told a woman "get off, fat pig" and abused a man who had put on some weight over Christmas has been hastily removed from a busy Australian shopping centre. Management of the Greensborough Plaza in northeast Melbourne pulled the plug on the coin-operated scales after several customers complained about offensive comments on printouts detailing their weight, height and body mass. One 79.9-kg (176-lb) man was stunned to read on his printout: "You are a little overweight. Fat xxxx." Although his wife was offended, he was nonplussed. "I was more worried about my weight than the message," Greensborough resident Bruce Hamilton told reporters. The shopping centre, managed by Australian property group Lend Lease, removed the machine immediately. "The comments that the machine spat out were offensive and it was removed immediately and is being examined by the supplier," spokeswoman Melanie Shelton told Reuters. "A preliminary audit indicated someone had tampered with the machine and altered its usual messages such a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year."

Cute kid, reminds me of my niece. But who is that ugly SOB in the background? j/k

You think 45% is bad? I was leafing through a German-language magazine, Gamestar, the other day. It gave BCM a score of............ 11%!!!!! I think I gave the review about as much attention as the reviewer obviously gave the game. They also listed it amongst their turkeys of the year. Couldn't believe it and will certainly not buy that mag ever again. Unfortunately (or fortunately maybe?) there isn't an online review. If you really want me too, I'll get it and try a translation, but I'm really not that keen on forking out a few Francs for a shitty one-page review from someone who obviously isn't worth the trouble. for what it's worth, here's the link to the mag site: Gamestar Edit: oh yeah, a couple of times in the rag, it was referred to as 'Battlecruiser 3000', They can't even get the name write. Just trying to remember some of his points, couple which struck me were about patches breaking more than they fixed and an unreadable manual. Methinks someone didn't visit these boards or look at the online documentation AT ALL. [ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: Paddy Gregory ]

My God man! Haven't you found out what's causing this yet? j/k Congrats. 2 girls meself, we should set up a 'Lock up your daughters' club or something.