The days of me spending hours making cars in Car Wars with graph paper and a calculator, or making Twilight 2000 characters (Same generation style as Traveler) are long gone.
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Yeah, but which edition of T:2k? v2.0 was a substantial re-write of just about everything when compared to v1.0.
Thanks very much for that.
I always wanted to play Traveller, back in the day, but no-one in my group was ever interested in it. (Thereâs no-one in my current group whoâd be interested either, but letâs not go thereâŚ)
Hehe - I still have my original âClassicâ rules, as well as a lot of the add-on books. Every once in a while I think about seeing if theyâre worth anything, and then I either forget or change my mind.
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Whichever one I would have played in 1992.
Fun little time waster if youâre at work for the rest of the year and itâs painfully slow:
Maybe it is the accent, but this guyâs narrative amuses me - watching some of his Fallout 76 videos⌠it seems like theyâre not really âwalk throughâ videos, because they donât seem very instructional⌠itâs more like riding around with him as he discovers stuff. âOoh, looky there!â style.
Found an article about how Bing Crosby was instrumental in getting magnetic tape accepted for recording radio shows. Before it was, any live shows had to be broadcast twice: once for the east coast of the US and again for the west coast.
The old Magnetophons recorded at 30 inches per second, which made splicing tapes together impossible if you wanted a fade out/fade in effect. Once recording got down to 15 and 7.5 ips with the Ampex 300, you could.
Related note: a lot of âThe Chainâ by Fleetwood Mac was made by splicing pieces of different songs together. Itâs the only song that has all five members credited as writing it.
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Larry Correia posted on his blog that the final book Zachary Hill was working on three years ago when he suddenly died from a blood clot has been finished by Zachâs twin brother and a couple of friends. The regular edition of Sakura: Intellectual Property will be out in March, but theyâre making a special leatherbound hardcover edition with special illustrations. As of last Friday, 150 of the 350 available had been pre-ordered. If interested, head to the order page.
As Larry put it, itâs âheavy metal saves the worldâ.
Correia posted a link to a short story that heâs making available for free called âThe Testimony of the Traitor Ratulâ. Takes place during the events in âSon of the Black Swordâ and provides the backstory of a pivotal supporting character.
This is what Zach used to do.
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Iâve always liked fuck waffle. Saw them live in Miami.
Twatwaffles may be a derivative of that.
This is an amazing idea, and I donât even own a dog.
Understand your kidâs hobbies. Especially if they are isolated by something else. I know this article is supposed to be a tear jerker but I kept getting mad.
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Just in case somebody need a CAD system. I will download, install this one as OokSon v1 is interested in CAD stuff.
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Smash and Grab by Pixar
I saw that one, didnât like it. It seemed like a story of camaraderie, two friends doing for each other through thick and thin, but there was too much collateral damage to make the characters likeable.
Maybe this one will be better.
Larry Correia posts âbook bombsâ every so often where he picks a good book and coordinates getting everyone to buy it from Amazon on a specific day to boost the sales and give the author more publicity. The one he started tonight and has it running through tomrrow is for Sakura: Intellectual Property that I mentioned last month. I bought a lot more books and DVDs in the past month than I should have, but Iâm considering helping out the people who took Zachary Hillâs rough draft, completed three days before he died, and got it in shape to be published.