XWA One Year Thread Part VII: Shadows of the Forum - Page 16

Law Snoll · 05-15-2012, 02:16 PM

One guy just told me there will be new space combat in SWTOR, with all directions flights instead of fly-on-rails. But i can't find any official at least common information about it. Can anyone help me? Or it's just a next rumor without a confirmation?

Oh, i still so hope on a new Star Wars simulator with relatively detailed flight controls, not those stupid arcade flights for feeble-minded kids from kinder garden...

K_Kinnison · 05-15-2012, 02:54 PM

Diablo 3 is fun. Love the fact you can set off dungeon traps to kill MOBs.. and even gain more XP for doing so. Don't like so much the "monsters popping out of the ground" feature. But it dose make it more exciting

Rogue15 · 05-15-2012, 10:33 PM

got my laptop back all fixed. yay!

Rogue15 · 05-17-2012, 12:04 PM

damn it's quiet here, wtf.

downloaded and playing the Free to Play Battlefield. gotta get paid so i can get back on TOR.

Keyan Farlander · 05-17-2012, 03:42 PM

Was at the AIA convention in D.C. today. Man, everything's on the cloud now. But no one can tell me what the cloud even is, or why I should care. They only know that I NEED IT NOW NOW NOW GO GO GO.

Rogue15 · 05-17-2012, 04:27 PM

lol im ready for drill. just got all my **** packed up...wish i didnt have to work tonight!

5-10...blows. if we dont deploy by january im switching to active duty.

Law Snoll · 05-17-2012, 04:50 PM

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damn it's quiet here, wtf.

Then let's talk about something interesting! But... anyway, yet i even have no idea about what can be interesting for virtual starfighter pilots from the United States, lol.

edlib · 05-17-2012, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Keyan Farlander

Was at the AIA convention in D.C. today. Man, everything's on the cloud now. But no one can tell me what the cloud even is, or why I should care. They only know that I NEED IT NOW NOW NOW GO GO GO.

Well,.. It's big and white and fluffy and floaty and full of data.
Mostly porn and illegally downloaded MP3s.

And it IS quiet here. Maybe... too quiet...

Life keeps going. The weather is better here now. I'm not working as much. Just overseeing maintenance projects at work. Taking tomorrow off, however. Going to go fly a plane.

Seriously. Pics to follow.

**Wildstar** · 05-17-2012, 06:29 PM

All of you guys jonesing for virtual space combat might want to check out a game on Steam called "Moon Breakers," which is multiplayer and free-to-play.

Rogue15 · 05-17-2012, 10:37 PM

i'm looking into going to school for training on the Raven UAV.

K_Kinnison · 05-18-2012, 12:41 AM

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Diablo 3 in a few days. Those of you who will be playing PM me your battleTag so we can link up and demonslay togeather. "D

um... yea about that.

We really should.

I stopped getting errors long enough to finish Act 1. THo i tend to play slow. Level 18 Witch Doctor.

Keyan Farlander · 05-18-2012, 12:41 PM

Going to Ocean City for the weekend. I hope they still have the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game on the boardwalk. Playing through it has been an annual tradition for me.

K_Kinnison · 05-18-2012, 05:13 PM

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Going to Ocean City for the weekend. I hope they still have the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game on the boardwalk. Playing through it has been an annual tradition for me.

Love that game. I can usually go through the whole thing on one quarter. Tho I often have trouble with the AT-ST and the many waves of TIE Ints at the beginning of the Battle of Endor.

best part is using Wicket to kill Imps on Endor.

Kuuki · 05-19-2012, 12:09 AM

pig roast tomorrow at my vets club tomorrow from noon til 11pm.

I helped out alot today, will attempt do help out more tomorrow and definately on sun.

on the side I pulled an eight hour day for free. back hurts D:
but it does seem promising, even tho I can already pick out a few draw backs.
but a live band, beer tasting event and a beer trailer with 5 taps on it just for starters.... omg omg omg...

but being one of 'the guys' who writes the checks at the club (I'm the paymaster there afterall)
EASILY 3 grand on beer and liquor

K_Kinnison · 05-19-2012, 01:24 AM

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but being one of 'the guys' who writes the checks at the club (I'm the paymaster there afterall)
EASILY 3 grand on beer and liquor

pfffft. At the Madison Curling club we typically spend $15k to $20k on beer a year

Kuuki · 05-19-2012, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by K_Kinnison

pfffft. At the Madison Curling club we typically spend $15k to $20k on beer a year

how about 3k in one day?

edlib · 05-19-2012, 08:03 PM

I flew a plane yesterday. A Cessna C172. I taxied it to the runway, took off, flew a large figure 8 in the airspace over Nashua New Hampshire, headed back to the airport. All I didn't do was land. We were up for a half-hour.

I guess I did pretty well for a first flight. It was a nearly perfect day. A bit of turbulence, and that freaked me out a bit. The whole experience was pretty nerve wracking.

I got a little light headed towards the end. I don't know if it was the motion, or the nerves... but just before landing I got a bit queasy. Didn't hurl though. (But once we landed I wasn't so lucky...)

Pix (or it didn't happen... right?):

K_Kinnison · 05-20-2012, 12:23 PM

Ed that reminds me "Back in the day" my DAD had a Cessna 175 we took around for fly-ins in the early 80s. Even took a trip to Silver dollar City in Missouri, and Mackinaw Island Michigan in the plane. But usually it was to fly-in breakfasts. My wife used to be a pilot and it is one of our dreams to have a plane and fly together

**Wildstar** · 05-20-2012, 12:54 PM

Great day yesterday...in the morning, I was finally able to get over to my sister's and get her printing again from her laptop (she has one of those OfficeJets with wireless capability). Then it was my league banquet in the evening...team didn't win any of the big prizes, but my new female teammate (first league this year) not only won high average in her division, but most improved woman, as well.

Kuuki · 05-20-2012, 08:48 PM

pig roast was pretty good, 3 live bands

but 306 ponds of pig apparently wasnt enough, so 10 sheet pizzas was ordered.

sooo much beer and booze drank.

twas a good day

Rogue15 · 05-20-2012, 08:58 PM

damn, would i be able to attend one of those?

edlib · 05-21-2012, 01:28 PM

It was a pretty good weekend.

Nothing epic (except the flight...) but the weather was nice, and things were pretty relaxed.

Spent most of the afternoon yesterday walking around nearby parks with the GF and kids... then went to the shore for great fish & chips, and ice cream.

Back to work now. And the weather is supposed to be lousy here all week.

Oh well... It was fun while it lasted...

Rogue15 · 05-21-2012, 02:23 PM

in roanoke virginia for the day.

Keyan Farlander · 05-21-2012, 05:31 PM

Nice flying, Ace.

Ocean City kind of sucked, but I did play through Star Wars. The stick didn't seem right, one of the buttons didn't work, and I don't think there was any sound. But hey, a tradition is a tradition. I wonder if MAME can play that game yet?

Law Snoll · 05-21-2012, 05:40 PM

edlib, the photos looks just great! How i wish Russia have such of liberal flight laws like the United States has...

Anyway, it hits me right into old wound. 2 years ago we salvaged old abandoned Mi-8 that once belonged to KGB in the Soviet Union and was left to die right in field after the Soviet Union collapse. In fact those helicopter spent more than 15 years under open sky, and the Siberia is not the United States, we sometimes have here +40C at summer and -40C at winter, so i think you can imagine what such of climate can do to any vehicle that is left for at least one year on street. But... it is Mi-8, nothing to break in these crazy mix of high-tech and ease of stone-age! We here find everybody and everything to make it fly again! If i would say we cleaned those helicopter by our tongues, i think it will be not too far from the truth. I was in volunteer team and worked on gas-turbine engines of the helicopter (i was aircraft mechanic when served my draft service in Russian army, so i know this TV3-117 engines like my five), we everybody worked for free there because of only thing we would to get - our own aircraft for flights and parachute jumps. More, when we was needed for new parts, Kazan helicopter plant's workers sent it to us for free! Then we find couple of retired pilots who happily agreed to fly on holidays to lift us up for jumps... but everything FAILED!!!

Ministry of Communications simply rejected to register our helicopter because of... because of they wouldn't do it. They find thousand of reasons to don't do it. FSB (descendant of KGB in Russia) suddenly "awoke" and started to scream "It's our helicopter!"... right after we finished all repairs and maintenance. Well, we asked there "What helicopter?", so they got nothing, but, anyway, bureaucrats simply restricted us to fly.

Last autumn guys from flight club of my hometown took off those Mi-8 illegally and started to make laps around town as action of protest! In result we everybody were arrested and spend some hours in police where policemen said us something like "yes, guys, we can understand you, but also you have to understand us - you have no rights to fly on it until helicopter remains unregistered and you got no of official permission to take off". So our Mi-8 now sleeps in closed hangar and who knows when we should get a chance to fly on it again...

Our wings are still broken.

I took this photo in those day. Helicopter there looks pretty little, but download and enlarge it. You see? It has no signs, no number... from legal point of view these Mi-8 does not exist! And we can't register it... because of our flight law are just ugly.

And another one photo with helicopter very far.

K_Kinnison · 05-22-2012, 03:32 AM

Snoll, you did it backwards. Should have had the rights to the copter BEFORE you started working on it. not after.

Tho i bet the result would have been the same in the end

**Cmdr. Cracken** · 05-22-2012, 06:11 AM

@Ed: you're just one step away from an X-Wing now...

Pretty awesome.

Rogue15 · 05-22-2012, 07:45 AM

roanoke is crap.

Zargon · 05-23-2012, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Keyan Farlander

Was at the AIA convention in D.C. today. Man, everything's on the cloud now. But no one can tell me what the cloud even is, or why I should care. They only know that I NEED IT NOW NOW NOW GO GO GO.

its just clusters of servers acting as one

I was at a MS event last thursday (17th) on the new cloud stuff, especially the 'private cloud' and Azure, basically an internal cloud cluster than hits MS's public cloud when you reach capactiy, its pretty neat stuff

Keyan Farlander · 05-23-2012, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Zargon

its just clusters of servers acting as one

I was at a MS event last thursday (17th) on the new cloud stuff, especially the 'private cloud' and Azure, basically an internal cloud cluster than hits MS's public cloud when you reach capactiy, its pretty neat stuff

I was mainly amazed that the people trying to sell me on it could not give me a simple explanation of what it is. Back in my day, "cloud computing" meant "distributed computing". It seems marketing people have taken over the term and used it as a snazzier word for "network resources" now.

Rogue15 · 05-23-2012, 10:48 PM

epically failed at donating plasma. bad reaction to it...it was like having my first blood test...flashing images of people around me, me screaming 'OMG IM GOING TO DIE HELP ME GOD!!! HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!111111111111111' I'd have won an award on youtube. seriously.

Keyan Farlander · 05-24-2012, 10:16 AM

Got a wheel bearing replaced on my car. Now they are telling me I should replace the drive shaft for $950 because of a noise they are hearing that I brought it in for twice (while it was under warranty) that they were unable to fix both times. F. That.

Rogue15 · 05-24-2012, 12:26 PM

feeling 100% today. did card pt with my friend down at the park. pt muscles are all feeling pretty damn good right now.

did some more on my own. i'll feel it later i'm sure. soaked my shirt in sweat.

edlib · 05-25-2012, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Keyan Farlander

Got a wheel bearing replaced on my car. Now they are telling me I should replace the drive shaft for $950 because of a noise they are hearing that I brought it in for twice (while it was under warranty) that they were unable to fix both times. F. That.

Yeah... I asked the guy at my shop to check my tire 6 months ago, and he told me they were fine. "Another couple of years, easy..."

Last month after I had that spring replaced, the same guy told me I should get all 4 replaced ASAP!!! PRIORITY ONE!!! OMG!!!!!!

Uhhh... yeah.

It's not really high on my list of things at the moment.

So: Either he never looked at them 6 months ago and lied to me... or he's just looking for more business.

Either way, if they do get replaced anytime soon, it won't be at that shop.

K_Kinnison · 05-26-2012, 01:37 AM

I have a mechanic that I trust with my life. and has never let me down or tried to scam me. in fact, I had trouble with my car dying while driving, and even being hard to start. my mechanic found out it was faulty crank shaft sensor that cost $50.

edlib · 05-26-2012, 07:56 AM

I used to use a guy like that with my Audi.

The only problem with him was that he also owned and ran a semi-pro race team... So of his season was going well, it might be days before he would look at my car.

He had it locked up in his garage for well over a week one time while he was out west somewhere, and I couldn't get ahold of him.

But he did great work for cheap when he was around. But just not reliable enough to trust with a car I now need every day.

Keyan Farlander · 05-26-2012, 12:16 PM

A good mechanic is more valuable than a good woman. Well, no it's not, but that sounded like something a manly man would say.

edlib · 05-26-2012, 01:22 PM

But... If you could find both in the same person...

Rogue15 · 05-26-2012, 03:17 PM

card pt again today. took over 45 minutes to get through the deck. going to keep doing this workout, it's fun, though it takes forever to cool down.

edlib · 05-26-2012, 05:12 PM

18 bands from 14 grade schools. I started at 8 this morning... just ended. My jobs today were herding cats and polishing turds.

Yay for long weekends. This one has already been plenty long already.