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Has anyone else played the new game NASA made? It’s very short but I thought it was fun.

Star*Soldier also mentions them at least twice but doesn’t give much information about them.

I’ve heard that granite is good at absorbing the energy of an earthquake and since New Hampshire’s nickname is "The Granite State” I assume they have a lot of it there.

When I started this thread I intended it to be more serious than this but it’s really hard to think seriously on this subject. I keep thinking about Kilrathi steaks and that bloodfang pilot impaling himself on the Hoe of Destruction.

Bondarevsky would probably say that just because the Kilrathi are doing it doesn’t make it right for us to do it too. He wasn’t very happy about people taking cat ears as souvenirs. Maybe the real reason the bugs were interested in the Kilrathi is because they taste so good.

I was thinking about farmer Mack’s comment that the tigerlion he killed turned out to be “quite delicious”. Since the Kilrathi are intelligent the idea of eating them seems kind of like cannibalism but Mack didn’t eat a human which means he isn’t really a cannibal. So, I’ve been wondering, is...

I don’t think the space combat in movies would be nearly as exiting if the fighters regularly took more than one shot to destroy. Watching each ship get shot 7 or 8 times before blowing up is a lot different than shooting it yourself multiple times while trying to stay alive. Even in the...

I do like the idea of the Kilrathi using their claws to write with. It seems like they would have to dip them into ink (or blood?) quite a lot though if they were going to write very much.

I decided to make something using the Kilrathi letters from the Standoff Easter egg. The first thing I noticed is that they look like they would be very awkward to write by hand. Trying to make those shapes is more like drawing than writing. Maybe they’re easier for Kilrathi hands or maybe they...

It would have taken me a while to find the message if Plywood Fiend hadn’t posted its location and I probably wouldn’t have been able to figure out how to translate it without Ilanin’s post. But since I was the one who actually posted the translation I get all of the credit…right? Once I...

Here is what I got

You could get a USB floppy drive and try to get the game to run using DOSBox. Edit: just seconds too slow.:(

Are there any good, free anti-virus programs or do I have to spend money to get decent protection for my computer? I know there are a lot of free programs out there but how do they compare to the others?

Is it possible that some of the numbers for planet populations include space stations and moons orbiting the planet? Kind of like the way people living in the area around large cities are sometimes included in the population of the city itself.

Is there anything that gives a good idea of how many people in the Confederation live in space stations? Paladin is the only one I can remember who was said to have grown up on one of them, everyone else seem to come from a planet. Privateer, however, makes it look like living in space is...

Armada let you blow up the Earth at the end of the Kilrathi campaign.

Star*Soldier does mention “the Aligned People’s” a couple times but doesn’t give any details about them.

I was uninstalling a program using the Add or Remove Programs tool and I noticed that the list says Standoff takes up about 5,600 Megabytes. I checked the game files and my entire Secret Ops folder takes up less than one gigabyte. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling Standoff to see what...

But it works.:p

It’s been a while since I played this mission but I think I would shoot the drones as soon they were in weapons range. The one you’re supposed to find is the only one that doesn’t blow up.