Law Snoll Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 got my laptop back all fixed. yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 damn it's quiet here, wtf. downloaded and playing the Free to Play Battlefield. gotta get paid so i can get back on TOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share Posted May 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Law Snoll Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 i'm looking into going to school for training on the Raven UAV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 pfffft. At the Madison Curling club we typically spend $15k to $20k on beer a year how about 3k in one day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 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?): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 damn, would i be able to attend one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 in roanoke virginia for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted May 21, 2012 Author Share Posted May 21, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Law Snoll Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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