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Offline CP5670

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #20 on: April 04, 2006, 03:39:04 pm
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #21 on: April 04, 2006, 03:41:54 pm
What's Freespace?
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Offline Eightball

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #22 on: April 04, 2006, 03:45:53 pm
Uh, who's the idiot in the quote in the first post?

And I'll celebrate by spreading news of the Freespace torrent far and wide!
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Offline Cobra

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #23 on: April 04, 2006, 03:45:58 pm
*gets out mini beam rifle designed to cut off headz* who's first?

[EDIT] dammit, 3 people posted right when i was typing.
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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #24 on: April 04, 2006, 03:56:55 pm
April 4th, eh? Sounds good - put it on the calendar! Update the Wikipedia!! Heck, I envision that one day, Google themselves will have a Google Doodle for Freespace on this date!!!
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Offline Kosh

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #25 on: April 04, 2006, 05:46:56 pm
This should be an international holiday.
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Offline Corsair

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #26 on: April 04, 2006, 06:57:22 pm
Huzzah, hand me a Bosch beer!!

(out of curiousity, why April 4?)
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Offline Eishtmo

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #27 on: April 04, 2006, 07:23:50 pm
So do we build a Freespace tree or something?  Should there be cake or turkey with all the stuffings?  Maybe fireworks, definetly fireworks.

Someone render some FS style fireworks already!
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Offline achtung

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #28 on: April 04, 2006, 07:35:19 pm
Quote from: Corsair on April 04, 2006, 06:57:22 pm
Huzzah, hand me a Bosch beer!!

(out of curiousity, why April 4?)


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Let me assure you of one thing that you can go to sleep with tonite. I have FULL intentions of getting this license. If I DO get it, you and your teenny leetle friends on your Ferrous Oxide project, are effectively, shutdown because I don't piss around when it comes to IP properties. You would do well to ask around. I've sued publishers for less and I have attorneys around the world, literally on speed dial.

Now, I will leave you with that thought, as I retire for the evening.

You will eventually come to regret this day. Mark my words.
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Offline Cobra

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #29 on: April 04, 2006, 08:58:45 pm
where did that quote come from?

Ferrous Oxide is the Ferrium project, right?
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #30 on: April 04, 2006, 09:31:07 pm
Yes. Even though it is a completely different game, we will be able to make a mod of it for FS2 (assuming it is ever completed).
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline redsniper

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #31 on: April 04, 2006, 10:37:47 pm
Derek Smart's birthday should not be celebrated in any way even if it's just by having a holiday fall on the same day. April 4th should be a day of mourning for humanity until dear Derek's death. I propose we make FS1's release date the official Freespace day, or how about the day we got the source code. ;7
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Offline Mefustae

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #32 on: April 04, 2006, 10:40:27 pm
Y'know, maybe it shouldn't be so damn close to April 1st, previous experience has shown us the forums can be quite fux0red for the first few days of April... :nervous:
 

Offline Martinus

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #33 on: April 05, 2006, 03:00:59 am
It was more a joke than anything else simply because it was his birthday. :nod:

If we were to have an official FS holiday I think it should probably be on the game's offical release date or whenever the source was released.
 

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #34 on: April 05, 2006, 03:15:09 am
After thinking about this for a while, I think I've got a better idea. Instead of it being on DS's birthday, how about something more appropriate, such as the day the game was officially released, or the day when they released the source code? :nod:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Martinus

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #35 on: April 05, 2006, 03:40:36 am
Looks like a photo finish on that one folks.

Maeglamor takes the cup! ;)
 

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #36 on: April 05, 2006, 04:12:04 am
Quote from: aldo_14 on April 04, 2006, 04:54:24 am
You keep your crack to yourself, sunshine.

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #37 on: April 05, 2006, 12:14:22 pm
Quote from: Maeglamor on April 05, 2006, 03:40:36 am
Looks like a photo finish on that one folks.

Maeglamor takes the cup! ;)


Uhm, I was merely doing to you what you were doing to redsniper. :p
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Styxx

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #38 on: April 05, 2006, 12:22:09 pm
I'm all for it, but on the day the source was released. Then we can come up with arbitrary foods and beverages to celebrate it, and make available a paper cut-fold-and-paste thingie (how do you call them in english anyway?) of an Orion to act as christmas tree equivalent, and everyone shall rejoice.
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Offline Martinus

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Re: International Freespace day!
Reply #39 on: April 05, 2006, 12:22:11 pm
Damn, I hoped you wouldn't notice that.

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