We're more famous than I thought...
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We're more famous than I thought...
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?)
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?)
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Nice find Cdr M! (Is that a naval title...? )
Oolite Life is now revealed hereSelezen wrote:Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.
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The Nintendo Hard reference itself makes interesting reading..
I think Oolite scored that rating mostly for this Nintendo Hard quality..
I think Oolite scored that rating mostly for this Nintendo Hard quality..
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...lack of, or very few check points or save points
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Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Facebook, tvtropes, we're starting to pop up in unexpected places... where next, I wonder!
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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.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...
Running Oolite buttery smooth & rock stable w/ tons of eyecandy oxps on:
ASUS Prime X370-A
Ryzen 5 1500X
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128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
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ASUS Prime X370-A
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16GB DDR4 3200MHZ
128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
1TB Hybrid HDD (For software and games)
EVGA GTX-1070 SC
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Funny you should say that. The Elite page gets the same reference for the exact same reason.Cmdr Wyvern wrote: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.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...
"There is still much music to be written in C major" Stravinsky
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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.
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And there I thought you spoke english!DaddyHoggy wrote:three stone double kiss clearance on the last stone of the end every time.
I'm pretty sure I can explain the off-side rule, but curling is a bit beyond me I'm afraid...
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I thought this was an interesting observation:
Japanese advertising can be fun. Bright colours, strong fonts...perfect for shaders!
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!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.
Japanese advertising can be fun. Bright colours, strong fonts...perfect for shaders!
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Lots of Pangloss's last 'verts were in Japanese I think - he even explained how he'd created the wording to be "correct".Selezen wrote:I thought this was an interesting observation: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!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.
Japanese advertising can be fun. Bright colours, strong fonts...perfect for shaders!
Commies has lots of Russian ads doesn't it.
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Russian ads? More cyrillic English than anything else... not that I'd be able to read them if they were in Russian!
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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.Kaks wrote:Russian ads? More cyrillic English than anything else... not that I'd be able to read them if they were in Russian!
Oolite Life is now revealed hereSelezen wrote:Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.