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| Sacrificing Bad Wing Commander Rip-offs |
Perhaps the highlight of the show for some, destroying these insults to the space sim genre sends a message to all game developers that rip-offs will not be tolerated. Also, it was damned good fun.
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Weasel: Urge to kill rising...
Death: "These, gentlemen -- and I use the term loosely -- are the enemy.
Your job is to make them wish their daddies never got an itch in their
crotches."
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Weasel: Look, Joe! Software!
Joe: I was not entirely for this....My urge to collect is too strong!
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Byydo: Uh-oh. I can't even comment on this part; destruction of storage media is a violation of my Gibsonian data fetishistic religion.
Weasel: You can actually see Hades' bloodlust growing in this picture.
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ChrisReid: This would be a good shot to be misrepresented out of context.
Death: Sorry, not going to take that particular shot. Too easy.
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ChrisReid: That's one fine spigot.
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Weasel: WILL IT FLOAT?
Death: Who knows? Let's find out!
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Death: "Do you have any last requests?"
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Hades: It needed a bit of help to get destroyed.
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Weasel: Damn it, it floats. If only we had a militant Englishman to jump up and down on it...
ChrisReid: The game actually took a lot of beating up to this point. The worst was yet to come though.
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Weasel: You're going to have to do better than that, Mr. Hades.
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TyeDyeBoy: The horror...
Monee: Is it dead yet...?
Death: Dude in gray shirt: "I can't watch this, it's too gruesome."
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Weasel: Ladies and gentlemen, Barrie "Red Feet" Almond.
Monee: Uhhh, how hot was that water, Hades?
ChrisReid: I'm pretty sure this is a pre-water shot..
Death: Joe: "No need to bow to me, Hades. I'm not that kind of God."
Weasel: I think you're right. Anyway, that water must've been hot, because after Hades was done stomping on Independence War, his feet and ankles were very red.
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Hades: That water was actually very hot.
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Weasel: I don't think any comment of mine can do this picture justice.
Monee: NOW, it's dead. Good stomping there, Hades.
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Death: "Hey... it's still moving! Kill it!"
ChrisReid: Here's a little tip: pictures are better when you get the heads in the shot.
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Hades: Then it was left to boil for a bit.
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Weasel: Tye puts his Spyder knife to good use.
TyeDyeBoy: I've already got two new knives for this, one of them being a nasty serrated job that could probably saw through a CD.
Monee: Tye and sharp objects...need I say more?
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Weasel: I could be wrong, but I don't think LOAF likes Tachyon that much...
Death: LOAF: "Die, you bastard! Die a horrid death, for the agony you put WC
fans through!"
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TyeDyeBoy: As frantically as he was tearing at this thing, I think most of us were pretty sure a finger was coming off.
Hades: I think Joe was yelling "be careful!" at this point.
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Death: "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee..."
Hades: Destroying packaging is all well and good, but you need to make sure the game can never be played again.
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Weasel: This is, without a doubt, the best picture from the convention.
Monee: Would you like a CD?
ChrisReid: I've got I-War blood on my shirt.
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Weasel: Take a look at the fake Dralthi on what’s left of the front of that box.
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Weasel: Would the fake Dralthi like some coffee? No? Too bad.
Death: What a waste of perfectly good coffee.
ChrisReid: I originally planned to eat what we were cooking.
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Death: You know, coffee is much more consumable when it's poured into a
cup...
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Death: "Aww, now you're all dirty. Here, let me help you wash up."
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Joe: Star Crusader actually had a sticker that said, "Combines the best of X-Wing and Wing Commander". It should have read, "Stays crunchy in coffee and hair-care products"..hehe!
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Hades: Star Crusader Soup
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Weasel: Damn, can I cook or can't I?
Joe: Immediately after this photo was taken, LOAF peed on it.
Death: I'd say "or what," Weasel.
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Weasel: Leave it to Monee to turn ruthless destruction into art.
Monee: LOOK! A frog! Origami is always appropriate, right?
Joe: I was very impressed by that.
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Joe: I learned this from my dad! :)
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Byydo: This is just getting disturbing.
Monee: Freespace boxes just don't burn well. I wonder how many toxic fumes Joe got from the shrink wrap?
ChrisReid: It doesn't get any better than this. It's worth a thousand dollars to fly across the world and burn Freespace on a balcony with a bunch of Wing Commander fanatics.
Death: Joe: "Oooh, yeah... that's some good stuff there."
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Weasel: Joe tried to save Freespace. Silly, crazy Joe.
ChrisReid: Don't worry, I've got another one. To burn next year.
Joe: I couldn't hold back my collector's spirit!
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Monee: "Kill it! KILL IT!"
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TyeDyeBoy: Et tu, CIC? There... is... another... star...lan...cer....
ChrisReid: Wow, Joe is contorting like the thing from The Thing.
Joe: When software is destroyed, I feel the pain!
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Monee: Tye... the red eyes and expression are a little... frightening?
Death: Paula: "Oh my God, this is just too horrible to watch..."
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Weasel: We tried to use Freespace as a doorstop, with little success.
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Weasel: Weasel kill Freespace. WEASEL SMASH FREESPACE!
TyeDyeBoy: Was that the jump where you hit your head on the ceiling?
Weasel: Yes. Stupid ceiling.
ChrisReid: Yeah, I wish I had a video of that.
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Joe: ....The suspense is KILLING me!
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Weasel: If it was in our hotel room and not bolted down, Hades tried to use it as a weapon.
Monee: Next year, I think that Hades will probably be doing the same thing to our house. Before then, I'd like to inform him that anything that is heavy and ceramic is NOT to be used to destroy CDs, thank you.
Hades: Fortunately your cats don't fit either category.
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Joe: Little did we know that shy, reserved Hades is an expert in the art of software torture!
Death: CD: "Do you expect me to talk?" Hades: "No, Mr. Disc. I expect you to die."
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Weasel: That CD actually made it to the hotel pool seven floors below. In fact, LOAF nearly overthrew the pool.
Monee: Loaf has quite a frisbee talent. I wonder what he could do with a Ninja star?
Joe: An absolutely amazing shot! I was impressed!
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Weasel: Rest in pieces.
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Weasel: This picture just made me choke on my smoothie.
Joe: We had 1 picture left, and we were in a creatively destructive mood......
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Byydo: I printed this one out and tore it in half... It just wasn't the same though.
Weasel: Pocky, by the way, is delicious and incredibly addictive.
Monee: I need more Pocky. :-P I had almost forgotten about the chocolate Pocky. DAMMIT, Weasel!
Joe: Pocky was stuck in my teeth for 3 days after that!
Death: Chris: "Just you guys wait. I have plans for you..."
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Weasel: I think this is an attempt to take a picture of the CD in the pool.
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Weasel: Always remember to clean up after yourselves, kids.
Byydo: What? That's it? That's all the pictures you took? Didn't you (LOAF) get any of the actual Dragoncon?
ChrisReid: You know.. there were 20,000 people there and hundreds of sessions, but I really don't remember more than 1 or 2 that we went to. There sure were a lot of hours of us sitting around though.
Tye was most upset that he wasn't able to melt a game in the hotel room. So he took a CD home with him!
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TyeDyeBoy: Sadly, my hurricane lighter ran out of butane after about two seconds using it on this thing, so I improvised with a basic grill lighter.
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TyeDyeBoy: For those that can't see, that's Disk 3 of I-War Deluxe.
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TyeDyeBoy: Really, I'm not a psycho...
Monee: For those of you who would like to help my plight, please send a nice fire extiguisher?
Death: Beavis: "Fire's cool! Hehhehheh."
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TyeDyeBoy: To tell the truth, the process was quite beautiful. Stank, tho.
Monee: Our living room smelled BAD for a couple of days after this. We had our fans on and the windows open for hours after this. I wonder how much lung damage we ended up with from those fumes?
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Joe: Well done, Tye Dye!
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TyeDyeBoy: And now, as an homage to Hesh, the greatest reactor technician in the year 2021, we play... THE HAMMER GAME!!!
Byydo: Ugh... If you're gonna hit it with a hammer, at least hit it edge-on and delaminate it so the kinetic energy doesn't all transfer straight through into the stones and chip them to hell. I bet monnee smacked you silly.
Weasel: YAY! THE HAMMER GAME!
Monee: You'd be surprised at how easily that thing shattered after all the abuse it had received.
ChrisReid: That's a pretty gross hammer.
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Byydo: Nice job fucking up your hearth, Tye.
TyeDyeBoy: Only took one shot to finish it off. Unfortunately the cleanup of little plastic bits continues to this day.
Monee: How purty. I find it miraculous that neither cat has eaten any of the cd.
Joe: KEE-RUNCH!
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