Time to get this thread back on the first page where it belongs!
This is a new news channel - it will appear in a new oxp that Svengali and I are working on (although Svengali has done all the hard work - I'm just providing the infinite monkeys input)
I recognise that gradient fill! GIMP is pretty cool is it not?
Glad to have you back.
I've been getting very used to it. And for free, I can't complain.
This next one ties in with the Ring Racing League's Team Zorg. Zorg Spirits is the parent company.
The wording 'not mandatory' comes from the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial in the film 'Serenity', if anyone is wondering. It just sounded like a good thing to put on an ad. You don't HAVE to drink Zorg lethal spirits in the green bottle... but if you DO, that's OK too...
"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds..."
Dr.Pangloss, Voltaire's 'Candide'.
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
Side note: I have a few more shots of that whole thing, in case a slightly different angle should be desired.
"Actually this is a common misconception... I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities."
--Dean C Engelhardt