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  1. Boo! I've been on a Mac for years, but a mate is giving me an old Windows laptop, i'm looking at giving the game a go again. Been making ship cards using stuff from: http://fractalsponge.net/
  2. A little late, but I blended together some recent events, with a little celebration score from a galaxy far far away Good to see you Tex and E!
  3. Golly, that seemed like time travel
  4. Supremacy, as it was marketed in the UK, is curiously the only PC game I couldn't let go of, once I migrated to a Mac Still there on my shelf
  5. Nice, I remember when you were an annoying teenager as well Alas, I migrated to a mac rendering most of my gaming options on a computer obsolete (no cheats/hacks on Empire at War anyone?), but ultimately the limitations of Rebellion pissed me off to much to bother using Parallels to play on my system. To me the game was an epic tale you could be part of filled with imagination, swiftly ruined with the game's original limitations, that Revolution's editor made somewhat more enjoyable; such as making the entire 200 systems core worlds, but no one ever getting to grips with the most hated aspect of the game; the pain in the arse 'natural disaster' that simply pissed off everyone. Epic tales I love, give me a thousand star systems and just a gradual increase in eaches' resources and you have the ultimate reason to build a Death Star and destroy worlds. I loved the option to name ships as well. This was a mellow game that so could have been
  6. Busy with life, but all is cool. You well dude?
  7. Well done you mate; life is a bit easier with a few academic options under your belt
  8. That would be cool, given it's Darwin's big moment, I would be happy to show you the first addition of the book; it goes at auction for hundreds of thousands of pounds. A freebie in the zoo goes without saying
  9. Hello matey! Sorry I haven't been around of late, real life rather gobbled me up in 2008, work wise. Good to see so many of the old faces of more or less grown up with online are still about. I can't promise this is my grand return, because i'll wake up tomorrow and nothing will have changed in so far as how I juggle time. As you may have realized work got suddenly very busy. I basically got put in charge of an image data base at the Zoological Society of London and tasked to build it from scratch, in part from working at a paparazzi company called Bigpictures some of you may remember I worked for briefly, where I used some software called Fotostation which you basically use to attach meta data to images, making them easy to find. (Bigpictures literally had millions of images). Cool thought I, then the immensity of the task set in; there were at least 500,000 .jpg's alone on the servers when I started in 2007, not to mention 30,000 b\w historical pictures, and at least eight filing cabinets of slides. Due to this wonderful digital age, the photos being added to the servers on a weekly basis is huge; not just from London Zoo and Whipsnade safari park, but our scientists uploading stuff from their conservation projects around the world. It's also utterly fascinating if you appreciate animals and wildlife, and hence highly addictive hunting for newly uploaded stuff on the servers, especially when you have been given privileged access everywhere. If things couldn't get worse to my excuses not being here, I inherited a minor fortune; not enough to fly us all off to a mid pacific tropical island for a swrebellion member meet , but more than enough to not worry about the house anymore, or my pension to be honest given i've been able to invest a six figure sum in the stock markets via a highly respected firm of investors, and go shopping on my passion for photography; I worked out I spent almost £10,000 on gear in 2008, here's why: http://s4.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1233589195/MeandRoxy.jpg A few moments later I took this: http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235507919/rockhoppers.jpg which got in the The Times Quite a buzz.. I also have access inside the various animal enclosures, which is a photographers dream; and you'll have to bear with me as i've forgotten how to thumbnail using this site's coding; though they aren't that large: http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235254138/Rickythelemur.jpg A Lemur called Ricky http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1229465389/IMG1797.jpg A big fluffy overgrown kitten who likes to snarl lots http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231006977/IMG1622.jpg A model with a snow leopard cub at the Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231095094/IMG1050.jpg Me, taken by the model; hence out of focus http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235173056/AdrianCrackers.jpg and a wildlife film maker I was asked to photograph in our giraffe house So you can see the distractions! Anyway, I hope you guys are all ok, my first internet community this, so I don't think i'll ever be gone to be honest; just my job preventing more interaction, not that that's something I resent as you may have gathered from the above. I'm still on the same email if you want to drop me a line, and will try and pass by tomorrow, assuming nothing dramatic happens; which generally does at a zoo unfortunately! May the Force be with you, always
  10. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aigI3Fs9Jv8 Remember some of this lot?
  11. I'm opposed to those Macs primarily because of the new LCDs they're using, which have a high gloss finish (if you've ever used a laptop with a high gloss screen you'll know how annoying it is, if you haven't they look cool and glossy for about a day and then as soon as you start having dark areas on the screen all you get is a reflection of the real world. Can't watch movies, can't play games, can't do graphic work. Glossy screens have to be one of the stupidest fads of recent computers - PC and Mac) and the smaller model, which is a 20" or 24", only shows 6bit colour and not the quoted 8bit. Some people were suing Apple over this a while ago, false advertising and the such, I wonder how that went? Knowing Apple it was either settled out of court or they were bullied out of the law suite. I can't help but get more and more annoyed at Apple, they make decent products (OK, well the design things well - how they make them is another thing as many iPod gone another brand MP3 player will tell you, or someone who's dropped an iPhone), but they have become real pricks. Websites, or people, who speak out against Apple get shot down. I remember when AppleInsider was forced to take down news articles about Macs because Apple didn't like the PR. They closed an entire site because they were sick of the bad press - and these are sites that report soley on Macs, the good and bad - threatened with law suits that people can't afford. Hell, how many people heard about Apple using slave labour and when they were caught raising the pay of said people to just above the slave labour mark. Sorry for the extended, anti-apple rant at the end there, I'm just getting sick and tired of this sort of political, don't tell the truth, act all nice up front and be a prick in real life bull crap and Apple play the part too well - maybe they should run for some political position? I used to sort of understand this sort of argument, but don't anymore. This machine has simply mental speeds, and to be quite honest, every Mac user i've come across since buying it yesterday as more or less shrugged when i've expressed any concern about all the shit being bombarded at PCs, except my IT manager who after a long pause said he would bring some stuff in tomorrow casually, and picked up the phone to take a call Despite arming myself to the teeth with protection on a PC, still these little annoyances slip through I can't be arsed to be living with in all honestly. An extra grand rid of that crap is fine by me. I finally understand those who mock Microsoft products; and from me without the slightest bit of anti-globalization crap to boot, this simply seems better. Did I say it looks nicer?
  12. My only solution to this completely pointless event in the game, that took far to long to sink in, is you do not not need have to defend every system you control. Watch how the stupid AI behaves. If you control every system in a sector and have them undefended, the AI will randomly bombard you here and there and you will loose support for not being in total control, but with one system in neutral or in it's favor, will not touch you; thus allowing you to build up vast fleets based around shipyards you want to hang onto with troops Having said that, a nice mod to the game expelling this complete blunder to the original game and enabling systems to have at least 15-20 energy slots, given our processor's are a lot harder these days would be cool.
  13. Anyone got the rather woo opening video of Nar-shaddaar from Jedi Knight II?

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