Oolite Bulletins

Diziet Sma wrote:

I keep hearing Scott Manley raving about FTL on his KSP Interstellar Quest series. Guess I'm gonna have to check it out..

Well, consider yourself warned by some of the other comments in the thread- it's a great game, but won't hesitate to take you down hard

This might entertain some of my fellow nerds. Audio.. "visualisation" (for want of a better term.. "sonification"? ick!) of astronomical data:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bwpp

Enjoy.

FTL. Oh god, FTL. Specifically the iOS port on my iPad, because it works brilliantly on a touch screen. I have had it sitting on my Steam account from an old Humble Bundle or similar, but never really got into it. Over Christmas, I wanted something to play. Because I was away, I only had my iThingy ...

Smivs wrote:

ancipital wrote:

Luckily, we're living in the future...

Oh yeah? Where's my flying car then?

Oh, yes, about that.. umm.

I eated it.

So sorry.

Cody wrote:

ancipital wrote:

...and no, somewhat allergic to Aldiss, I must admit...

<chortles> He does have that effect on some people!

Luckily, we're living in the future, so we can all carry a small library around on a Kindle if we so choose- pander to our own tastes!

Thanks all..

..and no, somewhat allergic to Aldiss, I must admit.. more of a Murakami, Calvino, Pynchon and Charles Stross bent, really.

Amah wrote:

Hi ancipital,

welcome aboard. Same here, also played Elite in various incarnations starting in the 8bit era.

Thanks! It's predictable that we share that vice, given where this is..

Hello people, I've been around before, but I am brilliant at losing account info, so I have reregistered now. I met some of you at BAFTA a few years ago, at the post-Braben lecture drinks. I.. err.. was using a BugMeNotted account before, so I was just one of those people posting as "Commander ...

Given that hardware limitations are often an issue with people (as in can't afford to buy new hardware), I assume this won't only be an IR based system? I mentioned FaceTrackNoIR before, which would only use a webcam that most people would already have. The way that most sims do it is to support Tr...