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Figure why I call it "the closest Confed ever got to Kilrathi fighter design"? ;)

Yeah, I really wonder what the Concordia flight ops planners were smoking sometimes... Yes, sure, let's send a bomber, SOLO, into possibly hostile territory!!... :mad:

Seems like I'm the only one who liked frames :D (both in terms of presentation and coding)

It was called "Incoming" because that was the word you'd hear the most ;) Actually I like that game somehow, although it wasn't really "good". But it was what I'd call "kuzweilig" in German, which roughly translates to "entertaining" and also is a polar opposite to "boring" ("langweilig")... I...

A while ago I explained the Morningstar to a friend using the words "almost a superfighter" ;)

I got the same impression while watching the LP of BCSBuster (never played it myself so far, shame on me...) However, I found that situation quite funny in the Let's Play "Okay, now I'll finish up this Fralthras and be back in a little bit" [cut] "Alright, BCS Universe, I'm taking too much of...

Some people seem to have trouble running KS on modern systems, while playing the originals with DOSbox works better for them. Also, KS apparently misses those images in the star background (like planet, galaxy, ...)

Isn't that what I just said?

I think what he meant was some kind of "table of contents" for all the pages in that chain, so that someone with low internet speed who already visited doesn't have to load the pages all again (when they're out of the cache already) but can skip to the one he/she wants directly. I'd say, why...

Yes, that's something like the reason why he quit the industry... His visions were about taking games to a much higher "level", realizing much more of their untapped potential. Comparing with those other types of media you listed, games have much more untapped potential, just because they're...

He was right in his predictions. Haven't you noticed the "(Yet)"? :P It wasn't before pure "FMV games" died out, that CD-ROM games became viable. Yes I've read the thing with him disliking Wing Commander. But disagreeing with him on one thing (or even multiple things, there's several things I...

I have to agree. De-clawing a cat is a cruel thing to do.

Wasn't this the one with the second chance mission?

Yes, they do, but only under the counter. You can't display them openly on the shelves or anywhere else, you are not allowed to advertise them (and depending on interpretation mentioning the title may count as "advertising") etc. but you are allowed to carry them, if you only get them out if...

Well, we don't really know what the Nephilim are up to at all. The way you describe it is putting them very similarly to the Terrans and the Kilrathi in terms of their intentions, their thoughts, and so on. What we percieve as "war effort" on their part may actually be something strange we don't...

Maybe we can agree they seem to have slapped it in as a Fanservice, but without really thinking it through?

What he is saying that games are not process oriented enough. They are too data intensive, instead of process intensive. The latter permits interactivity, the former constrains it. If you click on the link within the article, or look around in that archive, you'll find more on process...

Let me link this article here, it's related to the topic, but approaches it from a more fundamental level. It gets especially interesting when he starts to talk about "Data intensity". A little appetizer:

I would have edited my last post to include information of the book, but it's too late for that, so here is it in a seperate post: The book ist called "Heller als tausend Sonnen: Das Schicksal der Atomforscher" by Robert Jungk It was originally released 1956 by the "Alfred Scherz Verlag" in...

The Temblor bomb needs an unstable world. The Behemoth gun doesn't. The only limit might be the actual size of the target, but even if it is too big to annihilate, there surely won't survive any living thing or built structure on it.