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Your punishment for attempted entrapment and assault with a deadly chalice is to watch these: Happy happy joy joy. Since you're in such a joyful mood, what do you think are the chances of either side (or sides) in the coming American civil war managing to get hold of some of the nuclear arsenal, an...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:12 am

Summary: What is your favourite SF book. And why?

Ohh, sneaky covert submissions.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:12 am

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 8:56 am

A grumpy, old man with accelerationist tendencies

has just been awarded the chalice! Congratulations, Sir!

Phew!

If we're still on "name your favourite SF novel", with a side serving of "overpopulation stories", did anyone mention Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!" which through the usual obscure mechanations of Hollywood became the screenplay for "Soylent Green". ...

Encabulator now links. Sorry. No problem, now I can confirm that the answer "no" was correct. No "sci-fi" show-off of 3D software (at least that's my understanding of what "Encabulator" would do). That is, mentioning or presenting screens of the 3D software "durin...

Come in, Number 5, your time is up! They're all too busy hiding in the tunnels! Talking about tunnels ( sort of caves), I'd suggest Descent game series, where most of the action happens in mining tunnels across the solar system. Oh, Sorry Cholmondley, I didn't notice this one straight off. So, no S...

Come in, Number 5, your time is up! They're all too busy hiding in the tunnels! I don't know that one, but if you hum it I can play it. If we don't get another troglodyte by ... oh, say Sunday evening... Yeah, Sunday; end of the Grand Prix (which may not be defined by the clock - just a little bit ...

Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; no MBPs. Correction - in his list of Bondisms, Wildblood did include the MBP I had been thinking of - the sub-volcano cave (magma chamber? I shudder, geologically) in You Only Live Twice. He also took several other shows off the table (Thunderbirds, UFO) but not al...

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 10:21 pm

Place 5 : TBA

Chalice alert!

Is this thing on ? ... {howl round}

Since you're grumpy with me for "spoiling" UFO , might I suggest: Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) The Greatest Adventure on Earth...Is Under It! Quoting from IMDB: "A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean. ...

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:25 pm

What is this board's coding for a "spoiler"? Well, you have been warned ; spoiler for Asimov's "Caves of Steel" (1955, thereabouts) :

For my personal reference, it's lsquare( spoiler rsquare) blah blah blah lsquare( /spoiler rsquare) Just stick that into the HTML editor ...

Do tunnels count as caves? If so, I just thought of very good example. Well since in terms of plot devices What is this board's coding for a "spoiler"? Well, you have been warned ; spoiler for Asimov's "Caves of Steel" (1955, thereabouts) : Asimov's main plot device in terms of ...

At least on Linux *-test builds, the major version (e.g. 1.91) and build date appear in the window title. On dev builds, the full version name appears in the top of the screen. Standard builds too. I've never been tempted by the "dev" builds. IIRC, dev is the same as test (has debug conso...

this will push the definition of "cave"... Caves of Steel Asimov 1953.... Well, having recently reminisced about "caving" in the Box stone quarries near Bath, I think I can accept that stretch. Oh, hang on, sequence check ... Yeah, that's good. Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; ...

Just probing if it was a download size issue. Currently the largest object in the Expansion manager is "Lave is Earth 8k", at 130MB and some change. Which is giving about 1 minute of 1MBPS (I could get 2.2 MBPS by going to the wiki links). Then it drops to under 256 kBPS and slowly tails o...

I can download the pack by clicking the link on the web, so it can certainly download. There's an out-of-game way of getting at the OXPs, OXZs, etc? (Doh! See below! Someone uploaded a new version while I wasn't looking.) Ummm. Find the OXZ through the Wiki ; download from the link in that descript...