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That reminds me of when Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had to pee in his own space suit when they delayed his launch for four hours. What's funny is that the mission damn near got scrubbed because of it. Since he was only going to be up there for half an hour or so, nobody made any...

Good work, McGruff. You've got to have fun with your job sometimes.

Frankly, the last couple of books were boring. Frank Herbert wasn't so much believing his own hype as he was milking a cash cow. Which I don't blame him for. If I could do it, I would. It just didn't feel like there was much to tie the last two books in with the first four. No characters...

I've got to say, I didn't much care for the original series after Children of Dune. I thought the House trilogy was very good, especially the expanded role given to Count Fenring. Haven't tried any of the Butlerian Jihad books, though I'm marking it for my next trip to the library now.

Bears? Dude, you just got beat by the Lions. As for my beloved Packers, I think they'll get to the playoffs, where they'll be promptly booted out in the second round. The defense just can't hack it, I'm afraid.

Coming from Milwaukee, I generally drink Miller High Life as my standard cheap beer. When I'm feeling like something better, lately I've been drinking Harp or Pilsner Urquell, or one of the multitudes of microbreweries we have around here. As far as spirits, I like all varieties of whiskey...

Hey, let's keep our fingers crossed. Also, DyNaMiX, is your name in honor of the old Dynamix company? Because if it is, they made some really excellent games way back when. Especially Betrayal at Krondor. It's 11 years old and free these days, but still probably the most entertaining RPG...

The Vindicator's not that chunky. After all, it has a spoiler on the back.

You're all forgetting the biggest reason the Border Worlds have different fighters than Confed during WCIV. EA/Origin deemed it necessary to have all new fighters, because otherwise they didn't think people would buy the game.

Try these on for size. They're in the dark.cfg file, of course. JoyOn 0 Throttle 0 Joy Dead 0.100000 Joy cx 226 Joy cy 233 Joy lx 8 Joy ly 8 Joy rx 445 Joy ry 458 This is not exact, however. The y axes are all perfect, but as you of course have found out, P2 is a little dodgy on...

I'd also check what version of DirectX you're using. With 6.0 and below, KS would run fine on my Win98SE machine, but with higher it would often require me to set my monitor manually when I wanted to play. I also noticed that this is less of a problem when I switched my video card to a GeForce...

Thanks guys. Really. I've been away for a short while, which is why I never replied. Turns out what I really needed was a vacation from the internet. Which I took, for a week. And in real life too. Hopefully, with the power of the north woods behind me, I'll be ready to answer any tech...

Doesn't it aggravate you when you help all sorts of people out and nobody has the frickin' common courtesy to even say thank you? Don't get me wrong, I like helping people. Otherwise I wouldn't have half of my meager 60-odd posts in the tech forum. And I've been here a full year. I know...

Red Adair died too? Double bummer. Although to be honest, I thought he'd been dead for years. Anyways, Rick James. He was one of the funkiest mofos around and don't nobody around here forget it.

LOAF is right. Go into Windows Explorer, stay on the C: drive, check that config and autoexec, and then tell us what you know. Also, you probably shouldn't set your CD drive to explode. Just a thought.

No, that's not a good way to go through life. I agree. It's just that I don't believe in causing unnecessary drama in my life. I like Wing Commander. All of them. A lot. But over the past couple of years on this forum, I have gleaned enough secondhand info about the movie that lets me know...

I've never seen the movie, and I probably never will, since I don't feel like getting angry.

WC2 Kilrathi Saga has pretty bad keyboard response. It's got a real problem with pressing down more than one key at once. As in, it doesn't work. You should either get proficient with the mouse or buy a joystick.

Come on now, they were a two hit wonder. Let's not forget Shout.