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A great start! And yes, I do say "a great start" because, after all, those collision shape limitations you mention mean that ultimately, it only goes a step further than what WCP did originally. But hey, it's still cool! I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to do something else instead: namely...

I actually dug up an email I wrote to someone straight after I watched the Star Citizen announcement, when I was venting my disappointment with the whole thing. Now, here's the thing. I believe that many people at the time filtered the announcement through the prism of Chris Roberts' career...

The trouble with Star Citizen and Chris Roberts, though, is that he's doing *exactly* what he promised originally: he's working on a game that contains everything but the kitchen sink. No, scratch that - the whole premise is that even the kitchen sink is included. This premise, frankly, was...

Ugh. I couldn't possibly be more in disagreement on these kinds of ideas. Well, each to his own and all that...

You know, I think of all the new characters Forstchen created or developed, Jukaga is the only one I find genuinely interesting. I don't like what he did with Tolwyn, I find his Bear ridiculous, and the background politicians he makes up are utter jokes. But Jukaga - man, that's a great...

You forgot a few details. Since Blair was called Maverick, and since there'd been talk of a Top Gun sequel/remake for years, the producers decide to kill two birds with one stone. Riffing off the "Danger Zone" soundtrack, they bring in Kelly McGillis as Blair's civilian flight instructor...

Wow! I was like… nah, I don't care enough to bother watching, but... meh, I guess I'll have a look… and wow! Wow! That has got to be the worst thing I've seen so far this year. It's horrifyingly terrible, it feels like every scene just takes the cringe up another notch. Really, it looks so...

Autoslide has one huge advantage - it allows you to extend the duration of your afterburner fuel considerably.

Well, with the DLL patches, it's possible to add more gun types beyond what the game originally had, and it's possible to add more ship types than the game originally had, and it's possible to add more ship types in the sim. So, you know, it certainly wouldn't hurt to add the Bearcat to the sim...

Aww, the Scimitar is an absolute beauty. It's certainly my favourite of the WC1 fighters in terms of appearance. And a great cockpit, too.

Well, I'm glad you forgive me not liking the Hellcat, as frankly, I don't know if I could forgive myself if I did like it :D.

I'm going to chime in on the patriotism thing as well, because frankly, it's ridiculous and silly as heck. Patriotism is loving your country and nation. Now, think about that for a moment - what does that mean? What analogies can we think of, when we're talking about love? Well, how about home...

It's ok, none of us are perfect :).

Well, with regards to the Kilrathi ships you and @Pedro mentioned, I suppose I should have specified - I mean Confed ships :). Kilrathi ships in WC3 generally looked fine, and in some ways, the new, polygon-based visual style even surpassed their sprite-based predecessors. I didn't like their...

Yeah, it's a lovely Excalibur. Of course, the Excalibur always had it easy - as the only not-ugly ship in WC3, it wins any WC3 beauty contest by default.

Pretty cool! That's a lot of not-blinking! :) At first I thought that he had simply pasted a static photo as a texture on a 3d helmet, it wasn't until he looks sideways halfway through the video that I realised it's not a photo. And yeah, 'tis a lot of blurring. But the overall result is...

I wouldn't say Privateer is my favourite WC game, though certainly, apart from Armada and SO, it's the one I spent the most time playing (and, ahem, I wasn't really playing SO when making UE and Standoff, so…). But I very strongly agree about atmosphere. It had tremendous atmosphere. I suppose...

I'm sure many others wish you had, too… ;) Hmm. I was about to write that our perspectives are not likely to change that much with another twenty years, since the big jump is from thinking like a teenager to thinking like an adult. But then I realised that in twenty years, many of us will not...

Hah! Even though those textures are WIP, I think that looks fantastic. It makes for a unique style. Now, re-texture everything else to look like this :).

For quite a long time, the Wing Commander movie played a sort of ritual role for me - whenever I bought a new computer, changed the DVD drive, or whatever, the WC movie DVD would be the first thing I'd watch (way back in 2000, it was also the first DVD I ever bought). These days I've kind of...