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[Andy44]

Dunno if this is old news, but GOG added Falcon 3.0 and 4.0 a little while ago.

https://www.gog.com/game/falcon_collection

Falcon 3.0.

Best.

Computer game.

Ever.

 

[Codz]

On this day in 1972, Apollo 16 launched our penultimate Lunar mission.

 

[Fabri91]

Now that's just pure evil:

Alas, it may as well be a microwave until I manage to fix it. If anyone has parts of a 1998 iMac G3 in Europe he's/she's trying to get rid of, I wouldn't mind.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

On this day in 1972, Apollo 16 launched our penultimate Lunar mission.

16? Penultimate? You sure about that?

 

[Codz]

16? Penultimate? You sure about that?

Yes? It was the second to last landing of the Apollo Program. In terms of Americans on the Moon, it's correct.

 

[Linguofreak]

Yes? It was the second to last landing of the Apollo Program. In terms of Americans on the Moon, it's correct.

Welllll... One *hopes* we'll be back.

 

[Codz]

Welllll... One *hopes* we'll be back.

Oh, definitely! I was speaking historically up to this point.

 

[Urwumpe]

Alas, it may as well be a microwave until I manage to fix it. If anyone has parts of a 1998 iMac G3 in Europe he's/she's trying to get rid of, I wouldn't mind.

To misquote an old Manta driver joke: "If you need spare parts, shoot one yourself!" #frommycolddeadhands

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Welllll... One *hopes* we'll be back.

Yeah. When Germans started to form a Nazi colony there. :lol:

 

[Fabri91]

To misquote an old Manta driver joke: "If you need spare parts, shoot one yourself!" #frommycolddeadhands

Eh, tried that, but the fact that the vast majority of sold G3 iMacs belong to later (quite different) revisions makes it risky to shoot the wrong part.

 

[Urwumpe]

Looks like German comedians now have a field day because of the Böhmermann affair with Turkey. It is really possible to let Charlie Hebdo appear polite. :rofl:

 

[Fabri91]

I, for example, only got to know about the Böhmermann thing after the fuss Erdogan made about it. If this isn't an example of Streisand effect I don't know what is.

 

[Urwumpe]

I, for example, only got to know about the Böhmermann thing after the fuss Erdogan made about it. If this isn't an example of Streisand effect I don't know what is.

Exactly. And only few people would have been talking much about the song about Erdogan that another satire show in TV made earlier, if the Turkey government did not demand the presence of German ambassador and did demand there that Germany forbids this. (Which the German government rejected)

 

[Andy44]

Well, some idiot finally managed to crash his "drone" toy into a jetliner.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/17/europe/london-heathrow-drone-strikes-plane/index.html

Idiots always ruin the fun for everyone. I hope they find the guy responsible and re-institute beheading in the UK.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Well, some idiot finally managed to crash his "drone" toy into a jetliner.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/17/europe/london-heathrow-drone-strikes-plane/index.html

Idiots always ruin the fun for everyone. I hope they find the guy responsible and re-institute beheading in the UK.

I wonder how much UAVs will add to the overall chance of 'bird' strike. Not to disregard the significance of unnecessary aircraft damage and financial loss due to negligent 'drone' operators, but I imagine the increased risk to life is incredibly small.

 

[n72.75]

Someone over on Reddit said that these forms were slow of late.

They don't seem slow to me, anyone else?

 

[Codz]

No issues on my side.

 

[n72.75]

No issues on my side.

And to be clear, I think he meant slow as in the quantity of posts not slow as in long load times.

 

[Andy44]

This forum goes through periods of slowness. As a member since the m6 days of 10 years ago, I think I can say the forum is in general not as busy as it was around 2007 or so. I was a moderator back then, though, and I made an effort to read every post in every thread, so maybe that skews my perception, but it definitely seemed to be more traffic.

There are a bunch of old forum members we never see anymore, guys who used to love to talk and debate stuff for page after page.

Greg Burch, Simonpro, etc. And then there were guys like flytandem, who was always posting crazy slingshot scenarios. computerex was a kid who would produce an addon within hours of someone mentioning it, I think he was banned or something but for a while he was very active. There was a guy from Latin America, Pablo Luna was his name maybe? Aenemazoso was another one...

It was a busier forum. Imagine a bunch of Urwumpes (and yes, he was there then, too, of course) all posting and arguing with each other constantly.

At least we still have Artlav and his mad scientist experiments. Guys like that make this a fun place to hang out still.

 

[Codz]

And to be clear, I think he meant slow as in the quantity of posts not slow as in long load times.

Heh, negative on that too. I certainly prefer it to almost any of the various subreddits, space-centric or not. It's not as active as it was back when I joined, but I wouldn't say it's slow.

 

[Urwumpe]

Greg Burch, Simonpro, etc. And then there were guys like flytandem, who was always posting crazy slingshot scenarios. computerex was a kid who would produce an addon within hours of someone mentioning it, I think he was banned or something but for a while he was very active. There was a guy from Latin America, Pablo Luna was his name maybe? Aenemazoso was another one...

I suspect life happened. Or they got older. And wiser.