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I remember, a long time ago, you were looking at emigrating to Australia and that was when there were just the two of you.

So happy to hear you have finally managed to catch your dream and more importantly you are getting as far away from us as physically possible without a rocket.

I'm assuming that "herding feral cats" was a lot of points towards your acceptance, a good transference of LAN skills.

I hope everything similarly works out for Gortex, thanks for all the poker and laughs.

Good luck to the next generation of fools LAN admins as well as the grandfather ones.

Very sad to hear.

I had some great times playing with Pete on drunken Friday nights in CS and meeting him at many LANs when we sat together at the reprobates table.

I'm thankful I was lucky enough to know him and condolences to you and the family.

I'll raise a glass tonight as well, the good stuff.

Thanks Pen and TL, it's been a long time, enjoy your retirements.

As for BrotherTobious and Chaos..... well, at least it's not Elon Musk I guess.

Love ya guys.

I'm avoiding Christmas really well. Bah Humbug.

Watching box sets from the summer and avoiding any live TV.

I'm waiting for them to throw it on an advert during the world cup to wipe out the rest of us.

Might as well sign up, I'm clean so far.

Time to switch the alarm from local radio. Actually, nah, I like the danger.

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3.17 is live and it adds some of the following to the mix

• Refuelling - Anyone out there with a Starfarer, now's the time to see what they can do
  
• Better AI - (They do seem a little more active than before on ship and ground combat), also desync is getting better.
  
• Selling - Okay trade has always been a thing but it's mainly spreadsheet stuff, but now you can loot a dead body, guns or boxes and sell the stuff back to the shops.
  
• Looting - Lots more boxes to loot with rare items.
  
• Mining gadgets - New reusable devices that allow you to crack open rocks easier, there is a 50:50 change the device may be destroyed in the process.
  
• New water stuff - Seas have been in for a long time and were pretty deadly, but now with the introduction of a river on MT they have overhauled it.
  

I've also noticed they have sneaked working airlocks back into the game.

So for those wondering.... this is what is currently in game.

• Bounties - Ship and ground, ground is usually in an outpost or cave system, ship is in or out of atmosphere.
  
• Trading - Buying and moving stuff for shiny profit or not.
  
• Deliveries - Pick up box from point A and deliver to point B, get paid.
  
• Recovery - Same as above but point A may be in a wreck site and possibly have baddies.
  
• Investigation - Client sends you to check something out, maybe search for bodies or black boxes (may include gunfire, but this would be alluded to in the text)
  
• Mining - Probably the most complex game loop in at the moment with gems, small/medium/large rocks and asteroids.
  
• Mercenary - Lots of shooty stuff, defending a site, destroying a drugs lab, clearing an enemy hideout, blowing up hacking satellites, neutralizing space guns and more.
  
• Medical - You can heal and revive people, in your team or sometimes someone (real player) might activate a medical alert beacon for a rescue.
  
• Baddy stuff - Criminal activities.
  
• Stuff I missed - Because BRAIN.
  

New ship in 3.17 is the Hull-A, a transforming small freighter. 3.17.1 is in Evo at the moment and will introduce the Scorpius, an X-winged 2 man fighter with co-pilot turret.

And last but not least, it is so damn pretty.




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My old Mobo doesn't even have a TMP slot! But as Windows 10 is fully supported till 2025
I'm not that fussed. W11 does look a bit meh to me. Plus it's worth remembering that if the one good one bad versioning Windows had followed for so long is to be believed, then after a bad 8 and a good 10
we seem due for a bad 11

It's not as if it will constantly download the Win11 OS and attempt to "update" your PC and fail without you telling it to even try, time and time again.

Nah, M$ wouldn't do that......... Would they.

Can only mirror what the others have said.
Pop them pills and prove 'em wrong, go find that lady and get her secret.

I'm guessing you'll favour Translucent. I know I would :norty:

Knowing my luck I'll get The Deep powers.

Well I got the text yesterday and will be being pumped with one concoction or another next Thursday.

I want the inevitable super powers we will all develop in a few years time, I've done my research by watching the documentary "The Boys", I know how it works.

It depends on how many finite games you have as well, it discounted a LOT of mine.

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Burn them, it's against gods will and obviously fake, not an acoustic coupler in sight.

I do remember a TV show that did an optical transmission, they gave you the plans to make a small serial circuit that detected black and white on the screen. You attached it to the corner of the screen with a suction cup and the light probe was in the middle sealed in with silicone. Then you had a small program that converted it at the machine to ascii.

It's not accurate, so no point in posting.

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