Oolite Bulletins

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For the Hardheads, I either inject away, activate my cloaking device for a bit, or try to hit it with the lasers. I can't recall (& am too lazy to search) but one of the myriad of OXPs I have installed has something called a barakas barrier missile which will wait patiently while you're cloaked...

the cloaking device is one of the core quests. I think it has to do with a certain galaxy and shooting, but yeah, good luck.

Get* one of those silly ships with the plasma turrets on the side (the Caduceus Genitalia is a good one, yeah). You'll find it handy to pull along side an enemy & match velocity, and once you get better, add the side laser to the show. * I mean for fun, you know. The Xarik is a cheap way to buy ...

This modern novel tells the tale of a human race cast into the stars as a virus decimated the population and turned the rest into something...different. The danger is not over, though, as something dark and hidden threatens mankind's very soul... (note: I haven't actually read this, but it came up ...

Disembodied wrote:

I don't have a pension ... I'm saving up bottletops and banking on the fall of civilisation.

Canned foods and ammunition will be the currency of the future.

The PS2 port of Star Wars Battlefront II had a fun, un-realistic space-fight mode. The rest of the game was a typical one-eyed blind fart jump & shoot turkey. Switching between Oolite & pioneer is a hoot, though. Newtonian space combat is brain warping. Good thing it skips the realism of try...

It's those tiny ships, the sunracers & ferdies, that are the best pirates. Horrible little things to pick off from any distance longer than about 8km. Hopefully this one isn't going to be a cake-walk at 16km.

Mediafire is refusing to cough up the download because I'm not logged into Facebook, or something. :evil: Trying it in /usr/local/bin/lynx gives some interesting options. None of which download the file, obviously. (/usr/local/bin/links as well) The disturbing line(s) that make(s) me suspect that m...

I'm ashamed to say it took me 30 seconds to get that... I was too busy trying to work out what the initials stood for to actually look at the whole name itself! You might find this quite interesting then! :) I still don't get what "Titriotsrj" is supposed to mean. Is it a bawdy joke about...

But at least it will be fun to fly in a Constitution class ship. Might be nice to shoot one, too (though it'd be most fun to expend my wrath on the Enterpoop-D or maybe even the Space-Mulgrew). On the gripping hand, tangling with a gang of hairless apes who can hit you with pinpoint accuracy at sev...

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

Makes me feel better owning a laptop. Just unplug it during storms and no worries.

Built in UPS, surge supressor; what's not to like? Oh yeah, the 1.5 to 10x cost multiplier. >:(

Regarding FP Liners, I almost finished a name-gen for it this morning so that instead of 4 different coloured, but nameless ships, I have a fleet of 429 individually named ships. Names range from the bureaucratic "Tianve Arrow" for one of the white ones to "Pussycat's Passion" f...

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Album here.

When I boot into Linux, however, I now don't even get a desktop. In both cases, I get past the boot loader, then the screen goes black then cycles through a random selection of colours (i.e. all black, then all red, all cyan, all yellow etc). There's no particular pattern to the colours, and hittin...