@sw, thanks.
@Speaker, I'll have to quote myself to answer your question.
BTW, if anybody is wondering what he's talking about check my post on page 2 of this thread. I have links to the 4 plays.
Sir S
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Sun Sep 26, 2004 3:32 pm
Appears I'm a little late to the party, but...
You know what I remember most? The debates and disccusions about the most irrelevant things EVER! For example, the original cut of the intro had Mr. Rockford surviving the sun exploding on the other side of Pluto. It occured to me that he was a general, and had a perfectly good ship and he was hiding on the other side of the planet! I argued that he was a coward and was hiding from the fight. Of course, that doesn't even begin to compare to the neuronet threads. Yeah, back then the neuronet would steer for us! I'm pretty sure several comparisons of joysticks to unflattering phallic proportions were thrown around.
That was a long time ago, though. Oh yeah, I remember the agonizing periods that could last for entire seasons where we didn't get a single word of any news from DA or MS. And then the magic moment when you load the front page and theres a new screenshot or some new preview with new information.
Then there was the off-topic forum. All sorts of great stuff happened there. EB, Mad Dog and I would work a jab into every post about Stinger and Boscoe's age. Steamed carrots anyone? Oh yeah. And any discussion I ever participated in with Rheinland Destroyer (where is he)? I swear, we could never agree on anything at all. Ditto for MinisterPhobia and Stinger. In fact, their inability to disagree eventually lead MP to leave the site, only to come back to the sweet embrace of our collective arms. I guess he left again though Wait, is Geek Orgy still around? I guess he was already mentioned, but I have to say resisting Zeratural's communist propaganda was both difficult and entertaining.
I remember being confused when I can't find Denmarkian on Babelfish. I can't remember how this injoke originated, but I think it's pretty easy to figure out... Hmm. What else? Oh yeah. I used to fly around with Stinger, EB, and Mad Dog (and sometimes others) in Freelancer. Havn't done it in a while, obviously. See, I'm a lazy bastard at heart, and it was terribly convenient to just click Formation on Stinger and turn and watch TV, only to come back and occasionally kill a flight of Outcasts or look at the new planet we found or something. Specifically, though, I remember the habit of our guide blindly trusting the autopilot to steer us around planets, only to send everybody trailing him to a fiery death barrelling into the planet at 300 kilometers a second, while goes on his merry way, and I remember *****ing about it a lot afterwards. That ruined FL for me. Even in SP I always use manual fight, even when I'm supposed to be in formation with a transport or something
I also remember my habit of making bigass posts. Oh yeah, hi
P.S.
For those who aren't going "Who the hell is this guy?" and are wondering where I've been, well mostly I've been either studying, driving to the ends of the earth looking for a new place, moving to said new place in an entirely new city, or working on remodeling said place. Stupid real life, why can't it just go away?
P.P.S.
I don't know why, but it says I only have like 1000 posts. That's a lie, and I actually had like 7000 or something, so I still own you all
Edited by - Tachyon on 9/26/2004 4:40:26 PM
You know what I remember most? The debates and disccusions about the most irrelevant things EVER! For example, the original cut of the intro had Mr. Rockford surviving the sun exploding on the other side of Pluto. It occured to me that he was a general, and had a perfectly good ship and he was hiding on the other side of the planet! I argued that he was a coward and was hiding from the fight. Of course, that doesn't even begin to compare to the neuronet threads. Yeah, back then the neuronet would steer for us! I'm pretty sure several comparisons of joysticks to unflattering phallic proportions were thrown around.
That was a long time ago, though. Oh yeah, I remember the agonizing periods that could last for entire seasons where we didn't get a single word of any news from DA or MS. And then the magic moment when you load the front page and theres a new screenshot or some new preview with new information.
Then there was the off-topic forum. All sorts of great stuff happened there. EB, Mad Dog and I would work a jab into every post about Stinger and Boscoe's age. Steamed carrots anyone? Oh yeah. And any discussion I ever participated in with Rheinland Destroyer (where is he)? I swear, we could never agree on anything at all. Ditto for MinisterPhobia and Stinger. In fact, their inability to disagree eventually lead MP to leave the site, only to come back to the sweet embrace of our collective arms. I guess he left again though
Wait, is Geek Orgy still around? I guess he was already mentioned, but I have to say resisting Zeratural's communist propaganda was both difficult and entertaining.
I remember being confused when I can't find Denmarkian on Babelfish. I can't remember how this injoke originated, but I think it's pretty easy to figure out...
Hmm. What else? Oh yeah. I used to fly around with Stinger, EB, and Mad Dog (and sometimes others) in Freelancer. Havn't done it in a while, obviously. See, I'm a lazy bastard at heart, and it was terribly convenient to just click Formation on Stinger and turn and watch TV, only to come back and occasionally kill a flight of Outcasts or look at the new planet we found or something. Specifically, though, I remember the habit of our guide blindly trusting the autopilot to steer us around planets, only to send everybody trailing him to a fiery death barrelling into the planet at 300 kilometers a second, while goes on his merry way, and I remember *****ing about it a lot afterwards. That ruined FL for me. Even in SP I always use manual fight, even when I'm supposed to be in formation with a transport or something
I also remember my habit of making bigass posts. Oh yeah, hi
P.S.
For those who aren't going "Who the hell is this guy?" and are wondering where I've been, well mostly I've been either studying, driving to the ends of the earth looking for a new place, moving to said new place in an entirely new city, or working on remodeling said place. Stupid real life, why can't it just go away?
P.P.S.
I don't know why, but it says I only have like 1000 posts. That's a lie, and I actually had like 7000 or something, so I still own you all
Edited by - Tachyon on 9/26/2004 4:40:26 PM
Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:08 pm
@Gowserpaul, you don't post much, but you're consistent.
@Esq & Fd, you're both, right there, demonstrating the time-honored and "historic" tradition known as the "hijack & spam" technique. Bravely done! Way to demonstrate the History of TLR.
Sir S
Edited by - Sir Spectre on 9/27/2004 11:09:10 PM
@Esq & Fd, you're both, right there, demonstrating the time-honored and "historic" tradition known as the "hijack & spam" technique. Bravely done!
Way to demonstrate the History of TLR.
Sir S
Edited by - Sir Spectre on 9/27/2004 11:09:10 PM
Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:12 am
Sorry guys, I'm history. I'm part of the annuls of TLR lore. I only entered this thread to begin with because it was originally linked from the news items on the front page. Otherwise, I would never have known about it. Normally I just check up on a few FL mods then go away.
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Sir Spectre giving the Spammysburg Address on 5/13/2004 22:21 PST:
12 posts and 2 days ago, we brought forth on this forum a new direction, conceived in spam and dedicated to the preposition that all posts are created useless. Now we are engaged in a great civil disobedience testing whether that thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great forum of that nonsense. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum as a final resting-place for those topics that gave of their importance that spam might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ... blah blah blah, spam spam spam.
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Sir Spectre giving the Spammysburg Address on 5/13/2004 22:21 PST:
12 posts and 2 days ago, we brought forth on this forum a new direction, conceived in spam and dedicated to the preposition that all posts are created useless. Now we are engaged in a great civil disobedience testing whether that thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great forum of that nonsense. We have come to dedicate a portion of that forum as a final resting-place for those topics that gave of their importance that spam might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ... blah blah blah, spam spam spam.
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