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My friends and I throw an annual halloween bash. We'll drive up to Pennsylvania about a week beforehand and stock up on Yuengling. And then have a big party at my buddy's house. This year, I'll be dressing as Poncho Villa.

He means John Spencer, who plays White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on "The West Wing" played Captain Paulsen in Wing Commander IV. On a related note, does it bring a smile to your faces when you see people from the games in other movies? I'm not talking so much about Mark Hammill, John...

The way I would look at this debate, speaking from a purely speculative standpoint anyway, is that Iceman was so good that they probably used some of his genes in the GE program that augmented Seether's abilities. :)

That's a good point about the use as a terror weapon, but I figure that the cost was probably the biggest factor. All of the Dragon's features probably just didn't jibe with a peacetime budget, sorta like Seawolf-class SSNs. On an aside, Lynx, I sent you a PM a while back about using an...

There's another website like this, too. www.fthevote.com Although I imagine what all of these election night parties would be like. Fifteen guys all hovering around one very frightened girl.

I like "The Star Spangled Banner" fine, but I think "God Bless America" would be a better national anthem.

I have a Windows version of Harpoon with the EC2000 scenario pack which is a lot of fun. Also, Jane's Fleet Command was pretty cool. And if they ever get that 'next generation' Harpoon game out, it'll be awesome. Not to be forgotten, though, are a couple of sail games: Wooden Ships and Iron...

Ooooh....politics... ;) About NASA, I would not expect any candidate from either party to ever pay any real attention to the space program until there becomes some pressing need for us to "solve a problem." With over 41 million Americans living without health insurance, funding for the space...

No! The colorful birds are MINE! Besides, that was for a thread that was a little less than a year old. This is four years. That's like, so much worse. ;)

Ooh...flight music. Does the prospect of listening to music in the cockpit while fighting the enemy bring up nostalgic images of "Iron Eagle" for anyone else? Anyhow, I thought for a second or two and this is what I came up with for my kat-killin' playlist... Metallica - "For Whom The...

Hmm, good point. However, we don't hear about the Landreich after the war, so for all we know their technology has evolved and modernized as well. In fact, I'd think they would be more likely to have a technological edge given their militaristic nature.

Fun thread, although it left me wondering why that guy got banned. Anyhow, was there ever a mission editor or any kind of modding tools released for the WCP engine? Or, for that matter, were any other games using that engine ever made? It seems like a shame that such a great game engine was used...

My favorite type of mission to fly has usually been escorts. The main reason I like them the most is that you really have to hustle to take care of your escort assignment (especially in the first two Wing Commander games). I always had a soft spot in my heart for the Raptor. It was fairly...

I stand corrected. The website I went to for information was wholly inaccurate. Using the right information, it'd take almost three years to get from Earth to Pluto. Yike.

Not really. It's roughly 3.5 million miles from Earth to Pluto, or about 5.6 million kilometers. At 80 kilometers per second, it'd take about 19 hours to get from Earth to Pluto. On a wholly unrelated note, "C'mon C'mon" by the Von Bondies is a really good song.

Actually, we're both wrong. I looked it up on a couple of poker websites. The Dead Man's hand is two pair, black aces and black eights. Whoops. Will be fixed shortly.

Well, I thought that I would take a crack at writing my own fan fiction. I'll be adding to this in somewhat small chunks, partly because I may not always have a lot of time to work on it and partly to make it easily digestible. Any feedback would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Enjoy. :)...

I'm so jealous. Yuengling is so very, very good. The first time I had it was at a bar in Pittsburgh when I went up for the WVU-Pitt game one year. Ever since then, I have my friends who go to WVU bring me down a case whenever they come in from school. People who don't like beer should try it, I...

I have yet another dumb question. How much mention is there of marines in the Wing Commander canon? I now we see Dekker's unit in WCIV and WCP as well as brief mentions of marines in Wing Commander I. Also, I know there are marines who go on suicide missions to mine Kat warships in the Battle of...

Told you so. I missed the disclaimer, I'm going to have to go find it. And Striker, you want to talk about being rough on the newbies? At least he didn't get saddled with the damned birds! ;)