We're more famous than I thought...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:00 pm

Even as a casual user of tvtropes I wasn't aware of this until five minutes ago.

I'm amazed!

So, hands up: Who did it? Give that man a cookie!

(Apparently someone called TheyKilledFritz not too long ago, and Specialist290 took up the staff. Anybody know them?)

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:14 pm

No idea who did it but I was amused by the repeated Nintendo Hard reference.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:21 pm

Nice find Cdr M! (Is that a naval title...?

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Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:57 pm

The Nintendo Hard reference itself makes interesting reading..

I think Oolite scored that rating mostly for this Nintendo Hard quality..

lack of, or very few check points or save points

Since they seem to find docking so hard, they must have thought it was sheer Evil Genius™ to make it so you have to dock to save...

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:56 pm

Kudos to the devs for the AI brilliance rating as well.

Luca · Post by **Luca** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:15 am

That's how I found out about Oolite, after reading about Elite in Retro Gamer!

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:27 pm

Facebook, tvtropes, we're starting to pop up in unexpected places... where next, I wonder!

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
Since they seem to find docking so hard, they must have thought it was sheer Evil Genius™ to make it so you have to dock to save...

If they thought manual docking was hard in Oolite, then they should've tried manual docking in Elite, which didn't have that handy nav buoy sitting there as a reference point.

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:33 pm

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:
Diziet Sma wrote:
Since they seem to find docking so hard, they must have thought it was sheer Evil Genius™ to make it so you have to dock to save...
If they thought manual docking was hard in Oolite, then they should've tried manual docking in Elite, which didn't have that handy nav buoy sitting there as a reference point.

Funny you should say that. The Elite page gets the same reference for the exact same reason.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:59 pm

I've decided that the Curling on Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics is "Nintendo Hard" - the Wii team goes from inept to a three stone double kiss clearance on the last stone of the end every time.

Post by **Kaks** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:55 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
three stone double kiss clearance on the last stone of the end every time.

And there I thought you spoke english!

I'm pretty sure I can explain the off-side rule, but curling is a bit beyond me I'm afraid...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:16 am

I thought this was an interesting observation:

Bilingual Bonus: Several of the advertising billboards found at navigation beacons and festooning certain types of space station are written in Spanish, German, or any number of other (predominantly Western European) languages.

Surely someone out there can do some Chinese or Japanese adverts? I think a HUGE billboard of an oriental lady holding a box of washing powder would be good!

Japanese advertising can be fun. Bright colours, strong fonts...perfect for shaders!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:44 pm

Selezen wrote:
I thought this was an interesting observation:
Bilingual Bonus: Several of the advertising billboards found at navigation beacons and festooning certain types of space station are written in Spanish, German, or any number of other (predominantly Western European) languages.
Surely someone out there can do some Chinese or Japanese adverts? I think a HUGE billboard of an oriental lady holding a box of washing powder would be good!

Japanese advertising can be fun. Bright colours, strong fonts...perfect for shaders!

Lots of Pangloss's last 'verts were in Japanese I think - he even explained how he'd created the wording to be "correct".

Commies has lots of Russian ads doesn't it.

Post by **Kaks** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:52 pm

Russian ads? More cyrillic English than anything else... not that I'd be able to read them if they were in Russian!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:54 pm

Kaks wrote:
Russian ads? More cyrillic English than anything else... not that I'd be able to read them if they were in Russian!

Well as I can't read Russian - I thought they were in Russian - I remember the debate about what the wording of the Astrolug would be in Russian for that particular station - thought the same had been done for the propaganda boards.