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Title: Looky what I found!
Post by: TrashMan on April 11, 2025, 11:08:50 am
Feeling old yet?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kaOEh0yA0bXrfgNJ1SmiAcKsWVlooIdw/view?usp=drive_link

Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Iain Baker on April 11, 2025, 05:32:43 pm
Fantastic, and bloody funny
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: perihelion on April 12, 2025, 03:48:50 pm
Ah man, I remember crawling all over that thing trying to find every easter egg!  Good times.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Mongoose on April 14, 2025, 09:17:59 pm
Oh wow.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 21, 2025, 05:28:25 pm
Trashman.....I feel VERY old seeing that...


Also

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-hMUvAD7c9iPf9QtRpknCMmy8kff89B5?si=JWEMs7XxYkhetFNF
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Dark Hunter on May 09, 2025, 09:46:02 pm
I feel very, very old seeing this.

But it's fun to see it again.

(Has it really been six years since my last post?)
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 10, 2025, 04:04:55 am
Sometimes life gets in the way of a good HLP session. 😅
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Glowhyena on May 14, 2025, 11:08:07 pm
The Herc MKII looks funny.  :lol:
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: TrashMan on May 20, 2025, 07:45:43 am
A whole of bunch of HLP people spread around. I found their individual charaters as pngs. Tiara, Shrike, Galemp, Nico, Grammar Inquisition, etc.. Unofrtunately, I don't have all them labeled
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: BengalTiger on December 01, 2025, 10:16:47 pm
Derek Smart...

Have not heard that name since the very early days at HLP.

Anyone remember the full story? I think it's worth explaining for the newer folks.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Krackers87 on January 05, 2026, 01:28:18 am
Derek Smart...

Have not heard that name since the very early days at HLP.

Anyone remember the full story? I think it's worth explaining for the newer folks.


I found the OG thread: https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=25162.msg503400#msg503400

Linked at his first post.

The short of it is, DS expressed an interest to buy the FreeSpace license and develop FS3, but HLP was very familiar with how garbage he was, both as game dev and general human being, and in one of our finest moments of history, collectively trolled the **** out of him till he ****ed off, lol.

A number of people actually tried to be reasonable with him or were polite in explaining how much we didn't want him anywhere near our precious, but dude was such a ragey lolcow that we weren't kissing his feet in praise.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 05, 2026, 10:02:29 am
He is not a reasonable man...
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: deathspeed on January 05, 2026, 07:54:43 pm
I thought I had been around for a long time, but this is my first time seeing this.  I do remember DS though - i hope this discussion does not conjure him lol.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Mongoose on January 05, 2026, 10:52:15 pm
You have to say his name three times to get him to show up, so we can only talk about him in the third person.
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: BengalTiger on January 06, 2026, 09:04:46 pm
Derek Smart...

Have not heard that name since the very early days at HLP.

Anyone remember the full story? I think it's worth explaining for the newer folks.


I found the OG thread: https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=25162.msg503400#msg503400

Linked at his first post.

The short of it is, DS expressed an interest to buy the FreeSpace license and develop FS3, but HLP was very familiar with how garbage he was, both as game dev and general human being, and in one of our finest moments of history, collectively trolled the **** out of him till he ****ed off, lol.

A number of people actually tried to be reasonable with him or were polite in explaining how much we didn't want him anywhere near our precious, but dude was such a ragey lolcow that we weren't kissing his feet in praise.
2004, woooow...
I'll be going through the whole thing
Title: Re: Looky what I found!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 07, 2026, 03:27:52 am
Enjoy 🤣🤣