Lexx_Luthor

OKAY!!!! I would have to use US postal money order -- no paypal. Or have friend or family who do use paypal donate (if I donate to them first). Any way to do that through mail? It'll be worth it. I have a good bit left from saving for new computer build....PM me if there is. I figure over the years I downloaded, well take a look (some very heavily changed from "stock")...

Start:: Yea, I didn't think about that. Mues:: Its hard to beat some of the old stuff. Something went wrong in game development over the decades. Some time ago, I found a site that made editors or something, so you could mod Master Of Orion 1, change map setups, add races maybe I don't recall. Don't know where it is now.

5th Fleet looks interesting. ppfffftt Just rip out the Windows drive, and stick in an old hard drive with DOS on it. Post-post-modern systems still boot into MS-DOS. Best game out there is *still* Master Of Orion 1 from 1993. Every new box I build, I first test it with an old 125MB hard drive with DOS 6.22. It always works...until now. Yesterday I slapped up a new Sandy Bridge and AMI BIOS gives this drive 0 MB although the drive works fine in the recent Athalons I built (AWARD BIOS), but a Samsung 1.2Gb drive with DOS works great in this new SB box. There was a wall about 400MB that they had to cross for addressing hard drive space (its memory after all, magnetic) and I suspect that compatibility with something as old as 125MB has something to do it. lol I got 16GB RAM and 1.2GB hard drive Hahaha. Will load a Window and current stuff soon enough though.

Dave... smoking cigars? ~~> -- ^^fixed I'll play Eliot Spitzer. Wall Street was under NY AG Spitzer's jurisdiction. He didn't play well with Wall Street. But he played alot with high polygon call girls. Okay I'm in.

Ty:: There are times when one scrolls down to read the next poast, not suspecting anything extraordinary will happen, and then one loses control and busts out laughing without warning. This is one of those times.

That was pretty good. I hope Lucas can make this a top seller mainstream story.

CGI is the only way. Sci-fi has proven models are best replaced by CGI. Another way of looking at this, is that Lucas is super-sizing his Dora and 262 manuevers, while JMS in making Babylon~5 bent over backwards to make "realistic" manuevers for his space ships and space fighters. However, I will say that even he faked a close visual range and slow relative speeds in space combat so the audience could easily *see* slow moving ships and fighters and their enemy at the same time. The most realistic space combat sci-fi footage yet is the new BattleStar Galacita series. Very fast relative speeds over longer distances than your average sci-fi CGI, and so very short poor visual observing of the fights -- and with no sound in space -- which to me is exciting to see this for the first time, but to most it probably is not "engaging." Best way to think about CGI is its central role in science fiction. If there is anything in history that looked science fiction, its was SAC under LeMay. A photo of the unreal suits they wore while flying B-47s proves the sci-fi Buck Rogers connection. 8th AAF had the same mission. So call it sci fi too, and CGI rules sci-fi. That's weird thinking but it all fits somehow. Where you gonna find flying Me-262s? Oops, we didn't think of that. Flying B-17s are crashing and not flying anymore as we poast. Okay after the war they could roundup a dozen Spanish He-111s for that BoB movie, or 6 Corsairs for that 70's show. Today? No.

From what I've read of science fiction movie and TV making, 3d models are significantly more expensive than CGI. Babylon~5 is a great example of CGI from the 1990s. Good points there mac, but start the inexperienced audience out slow; just the basics. Anyways, the core detail to watch for is the story of men inside the cockpits and on the airfield. The aircraft and dogfight scenes are fluff. A realistic movie would show almost all air warfare is waiting, looking, stalking, then a 2 second Pounce -- a nice quickie -- and a long fly home hopefully. That's 2 seconds of air combat in maybe 4 hours of air warfare. I'm guessing that kind of air warfare might not engage movie audiences, because I've long known that it has NO chance of engaging hardcore combat flight TheSims players who have read a thousand airplane books but never paid attention to them. TheSims players must have their super-size dose of Dogfight in their games. Let the RedTail audience have their super-sized CGI Dora manuevers as long as the story inside the cockpits and on the ground is done well.

Its made to introduce real life guys and gals to an airplane story, souls who never really *looked* at an airplane before. Hopefully, the visual Posh sells these souls into a lifetime of reading up airplanes where there is enough realism for all. "Hey this airplane thing is cool I want to read more." Razor:: There is a NEED. Most of the souls in the audience DON'T KNOW what YOU know <citation needed> as a hard core TheSims player. The idea is to sell an airplane story, and if they get into it, they might read the airplane books you read, or the airplane internets sites you visit. Think about the audience as "crew" in first day of training -- never having really *looked* at an airplane before. You make things a bit too obvious, too dramatic, over done. You make things clear. Cool. FUN You probably forgot: They are paying money. Unless you are a government, you have to make folks happy if you want them to PAY MONEY to you. For realistic detail, they can read airplane books (or airplanes on teh internets) if the movie can invite them them to.

harry:: We used SPI's AIR WAR. Man that was intense detail. Too much probably. Mee and buddy. He and I had long builded model planes and stuff. I always flew Red. But one time I challenged him: I flew MiG-21 and he F-104. I turned, he turned (sorta). I win. The Deal was, we swap planes. Me BLUE in F-104. I zoomed. He zoomed (kinda). I win again. I knew how to look at the numbers, and play accordingly. That's how it goes. I knew how to fly F-104 against, well anything. I knew how NOT to fly against F-104. Now...how to fly AGAINST F-104, I don't think anybody ever figured a way to do that.

Don't have sound, but just watching THAT was AwSim! ...thanks

Oh yea, and recall that quick scene out of EMPIRE ... JEDI(?) where Lucas puts maybe a hundred ships and space fighters darting through the screen? I'm stoked to see all these planes on screen here. --- Now if only WW2 8th AAF or BoB combat flight TheSims developers would think of this without killing frames.

Whoa....that looks GREAT!!!! That review link -- complaining about Me-262 and Split-S. All I saw was an inverted dive entry. Granted, I'd just push the nose down to gain speed (no carb), but I saw no evidence of a pull through to a Split-S, unless I missed it in that trailer. And for those of you who STUDY air combat, you know a pilot in a big fight like that can panic and do something dumb, and lots of 262 pilots DID JUST THAT and turned when they shouldn't have and got shot down. So There! Now granted, they could mess up things like the ability to tell a captivating story, or mess up the acting direction, or the script. I don't have sound on my computer, but what I saw looked dam good. We'll see. Definitely going to this one.

Found an utterly fascinating recent item through ticker forum. MS-Magazine. Recall that's Gloria Steinem's publication... (14 July 2011) > A Feminist Economist Speaks Out: Deficits are a Grrrl’s Best Friend by Susan Feiner. Scroll down and see the humorous Old Macdonald paraquote ... We/I We/I owe...a quick click here... czech it out. Interestingly, the initial comments show that souls know what is going on. However, my take -- neither raising taxes, nor cutting spending, nor even both together, can fix the problem, because its not about the Quantity of money taxed or not spent -- a click here, a click there -- but the Quality of money.

I'm thinking of the nations and how they ALL seem to have fallen into endless debt. What happens to the individual souls in these nations is related however. FC:: Don't forget electric power! When you run out of storage space for 1,000 tons of food, 200 AR-15s, 500 years of medicine for *each* individual in your circle, etc... Then what...? For the wealthy enough, after spending a mere 5% of their wealth on a weapons arsenal, private farm with hospital and pharma warehouse, then gold may be a compact way of securing the other 95% of their wealth. To Paraquote Tolstoy: How many AR-15s does a man need? Most are not that wealthy. I am not, but as an American I "get" the concept of wealth and freedom for all. Local community is an equally important "investment" as the things you mentioned. But how to do that when so much community has broken apart over the decades? Then the image of feuds and warlords come to mind lol. Everybody here is specially lucky. If I had that much wealth muscle, I would have bought out Thudwire years ago and paid TK a fortune to re-program StrikeFighters, optimizing the game sim completely around classical stratospheric SAC-vs-PVO, LeMay vs Saivitsky, and that's what we'd all be playing here today. :good: ---- ..love this...I found this on the SF (stratofortess) forum last night... Thread..."Cold War alert" river rat::

Woa, that's nice!!!! Thanks for this MB streak LOL spot on man-dude. The worst part is the light reduction in probably ALL of TheSim's canopy static tint/smoke/grease. I estimate that in extreme cases (the Planes and Sims all differ) the outside brightness is reduced by up to 90%. This nonsense is completely unacceptable for low light level or night missions. In the short time I parried with the Su-27 Flaker 2 game, I loved the dynamic canopy scratches glistening bright in the sun. These dynamic scratches did not reduce outside light levels, and as they were dynamic, I think they modeled the real thing well, without getting between the player and his/her game (a very important thing devs forget about). And best, the Flaker-2 dynamic canopy scratches in sunlight were actually very pretty.

This is a slip up. How does this work? Razor:: Who is "we?" Political parties raise taxes -- the parties that caused the problem in the first place? How does paying *the same* organization more taxes fix anything that organization caused? No, its not a "banking problem." Its a money Quality problem. Banks are great, as long as men and women have the freedom, independence, and liberty to avoid banks when banks do really, bad, bad things, and so men and women are never forced to live under the rule of banks. Its not caused by political parties, although both ALL political parties enable the debt backed money Racket. ----- I don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole thread because of a single slip up, so otherwise, yall fellas are doing really good here?

Only Chuck Norris can kick this can down the road. ooops, wrong thread, but Norris Theory can be applied to everything so...

Shrike:: Yall fellas+fellattes are doing fine. eww... My fave analogy to the central bank owned "dollar" debt backed system is pouring sand on a sand pile -- a chaotic or non~equilibrium dynamical system. Advance search Google the exact phrase fingers of instability if yall wish.

Woman who cut internet to Georgia and Armenia 'had never heard of web' aussum, Awsim, AUWSSOM picture That was on 11 April, when Japan got hit as well. I found this through arstechnica hardware site in an article about various reasons and amounts of internets outage. Interesting. Ars article ~> State of the 'Net 2011: earthquakes, revolutions, scrap metal snafus

I figure she sawed to see what it was, hoping for copper maybe. You go girl. Ever see screenshots of copper thieves who got caught by Andre-Marie Ampere? That is one tough law man.

Start:: Google is your friend sometimes. This is not one of those times. Let it go. Club 27? The best break out running at 27. Ray Manzarak was 27 when The~DOORS started up. Mark Foster (Foster The People) delivered pizza and at best did TV/commercial music until the AGE OF 27 he went from total unknown to No.1 (at least on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart) with just one title.

Yea the whole idea was for nuke carrying aircraft. F-84G for example. I figure you could setup the way points so you line up between them, and start pull up at the right distance from the way point sitting on the target. But yea the nav is a bit "automatic" certain but at least its something.

Do'h, forgot: Nightwatch 24 July ~> http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch/NightWatch_11000151.aspx x, Beck is a good example why I never watch Television, and the idea of Political Youth Camp is still scary from any side. I can visualize a Climate Change Youth Camp. What's even more scary is this guy dressing up as police, the victims armed with automatic programmed faith, and having no means for self defense. That's frightening. There's a National Outdoor Leadership School in Alaska that just had 7 kids -- alone -- unarmed defenseless -- mauled by a bear. FAIL so x ignore Beck. Apparently, a few years ago, Beck "indicated" on his FOX show that Ron Paul( ) supporters were terrorists. A year or two later, Beck was inviting Ron Paul( ) on his FOX show all the time. Weird. Weird. Weird.

Fubar:: Can we confirm this? I'm making this up, but maybe TK, not wanting work anymore with DX9, left that code not accessing the new multi~thread optimizations. Or the other way around...the new core code not accessing DX9. Is that what you are thinking? We need to ask TK how his multi~thread works on a basic level...like, is AI broken into unlimited amount of cores? If so, then in the future there would be much less limit to the number of AI units in a mission. Spreading WW2 bomber gunners into multiple cores would help solve the fps hit that gunners introduce in very large WW2 style formations.