What can I say, I am so cheap that I will post something off a mailing list, claiming all credit in the process =)
1. Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory. 2. If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again. 3. Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is dangerous. 4. It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here. 5. The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. 6. The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating. 7. When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky. 8. A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again. 9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. 10. You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp. 11. The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. 12. Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds. 13. Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made. 14. There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. 15. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck. 16. Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them. 17. If all you can see out of the window is ground that's going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be. 18. In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose. 19. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment. 20. It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible. 21. Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.
I just felt bored so here is an update for a laugh.
On a blanket from Taiwan - NOT TO BE USED AS PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO.
On a helmet mounted mirror used by US cyclists - REMEMBER, OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE ACTUALLY BEHIND YOU.
On a Taiwanese shampoo - USE REPEATEDLY FOR SEVERE DAMAGE.
On the bottle-top of a (UK) flavoured milk drink - AFTER OPENING, KEEP UPRIGHT.
On a New Zealand insect spray - THIS PRODUCT NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.
In a US guide to setting up a new computer - TO AVOID CONDENSATION FORMING, ALLOW THE BOXES TO WARM UP TO ROOM TEMPERATURE BEFORE OPENING. (Sensible, but the instruction was INSIDE the box.)
On a Japanese product used to relieve painful haemorrhoids - LIE DOWN ON BED AND INSERT POSCOOL SLOWLY UP TO THE PROJECTED PORTION LIKE A SWORD-GUARD INTO ANAL DUCT. WHILE INSERTING POSCOOL FOR APPROXIMATELY 5 MINUTES, KEEP QUIET.
In some countries, on the bottom of Coke bottles - OPEN OTHER END.
On a packet of Sunmaid raisins - WHY NOT TRY TOSSING OVER YOUR FAVOURITE BREAKFAST CEREAL?
On a Sears hairdryer - DO NOT USE WHILE SLEEPING.
On a bag of Fritos - YOU COULD BE A WINNER! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. DETAILS INSIDE. (The shoplifter special!)
On a bar of Dial soap - DIRECTIONS - USE LIKE REGULAR SOAP. (And that would be how?)
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom of the box) - DO NOT TURN UPSIDE DOWN. (Too late! You lose!)
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding - PRODUCT WILL BE HOT AFTER HEATING. (Are you sure? Let's experiment.)
On a Korean kitchen knife - WARNING: KEEP OUT OF CHILDREN. (Dammit! Who are they to tell me what to do with my kids?)
On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights - FOR INDOOR OR OUTDOOR USE ONLY. (As opposed to use in outer space?)
On a Japanese food processor - NOT TO BE USED FOR THE OTHER USE. (Now I'm curious.)
On Sainsbury's peanuts - WARNING - CONTAINS NUTS. (Really? And that's bad why?)
On an American Airlines packet of nuts INSTRUCTIONS - OPEN PACKET, EAT NUTS. (I'm glad they cleared that up.)
On a Swedish chainsaw - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STOP CHAIN WITH YOUR HANDS OR GENITALS. (What kind of consumer phone-call led to this warning?)
On a child's superman costume - WEARING OF THIS GARMENT DOES NOT ENABLE YOU TO FLY. (That's right, destroy a universal childhood fantasy!)
On some frozen dinners: SERVING SUGGESTION: DEFROST.
On a hotel provided shower cap in a box: FITS ONE HEAD.
On packaging for a Rowenta iron: DO NOT IRON CLOTHES ON BODY.
On Boot's "Children's" cough medicine: DO NOT DRIVE CAR OR OPERATE MACHINERY.
On Nytol sleep aid: WARNING: MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS.
On a different note, I am not allowed to talk about this yet, but something very new and exciting for the flight sim community is underway here at frugal's world, I just hope me and Mark can pull it off... Watch this space!
Well, as you know, a lot of companies have been going under recently (ahem) and it has now become a bit of a joke. And today, on my beloved and redesigned PlanetCrap, I noticed a new source of joy that will keep me browsing for ages. Yes, its fuckedcompany.com which brings you all the latest in the online flops.
I guess its rather perverse on my part to take pleasure (yeah, ok, I am simply amused in a ironical kind of way) in reading that. Especially, since now my own domain fragged.org has no chance whatsoever to make any profit (redesigning it and actually updating it would help). As for frugal's site, all we can hope for is that we never read about it there...
The question that I am looking an answer for... WTF happened to the internet?
Any thoughts on this or how you see it developing in the future, comment away =)
p.s. rigged my counter again after losing a good 1000 visits... (stupid flock, i need to learn to do perl better)
Roger Wilco. What a piece of art. Every multiplayer game uses it. We love it and it helps bring teamplay to another level, much like in a real sport (well, quake3 :) or, as with sims, real mission.
So, why is it the topic of my column update then? Nothing new about this, it has been around for ages...
Wrong. There was a new version I installed a few days back. Having done this only a few minutes before my league game and no time for testing, I joined the server and procceeded as usual, chatting and fragging away. Until--and this is unusual for my cable modem--i got some weird lag. Normally, I attribute this to my nasty flatmates downloading porn or abusing my network in some other imaginative way (like downloading the latest Linux ISO for the 10th time). But, as I was ready to unplug the network cable and have my piece, I spotted a little add in the fucking corner of my quake, saying 'click here to go to gator.com'. With a banner, a flower and everything! Inside my game, no less!
Needless to say, after the game, I dropped out and some program called FSG.EXE was running and smiling at me from the taskbar icons. I killed it then deleted the direcotry and all files that it had and it has not bothered me since.
Very interesting read, i assure you. Here we go, some snippets: 'fsg.exe' is installed to the ststem directory. This file executes when RW is run for the first time and, WITHOUT ASKING YOU downloads the full GATOR program. To my understanding, Gator is software that offers some kind of disscounts or something, on products found on web pages. Gator is also identified as SPYWARE, meaning that it transmits data from your machine to other machines on the Internet, again, without asking you.
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Since their budget was still not looking good, they decided to make RW into a spyware product. This has caused much concern with the original Resounding team, but we have no choice but to do what they tell us, since they owned the rights to RW. We had no input on the decision, and we couldn't do anything about it.
Isn't it lucky my team just got us a GameVoice server with x2 channels of 6 users? Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame...
Some of you might have heard this already, some not, and there are those that wont care either way... Barrysworld, the biggest UK multiplayer gaming network and news site, officially announced today that it is to close down.
To say that I am f*****g pissed off would be an understatement. I have been using their servers to play Quake for almost 3 years now. April last year, I joined their active gaming leagues and also helped run them when became a league admin. It was my best gaming experience that lasted until now - incredibly well organised, in high spirit and even sponsored with prizes for the better teams. All in all, it turned playing the game into my favourite past time.
Myself and my team played endlessly, practicing every day, to eventually come to the top of the league, competing in its highest division. We had a purpose, it was all worth it, we were at the top of the world! And now...
Bollocks to the league though, it was also a whole community around it. One, in which most players knew each other, there was rivalry and sportsmanship, big lan parties and generally, a good laugh. Quakenet irc slowly grew to become the 4th largest in the world. We belonged!
Up until 9 months ago it was all run by volunteers - people like myself, who helped with web pages, league, admining the public servers and providing help. There were a lot of us, helping out as best as possible. And the always brilliant, competent and helpful, yet down-to-earth staff.
The enterprise then recieved an investment, allowing it to expand and become the biggestof its kind in Europe, yet remaining free of charge to the community. And now, when a second investment is needed, people are unwilling to risk it.
The end of an era. Is this going to mean the end of the whole scene? Last month saw another major UK games provider, GamesInferno, go under. Followed shortly by the ClanWars league. I am sure there will be others.
I really hope that the communities around the UK scene bounce back after this blow. The question is, with the demise of the "DOT COM" rush, how many sites and networks are going to survive when everybody is jumping on the bandwagon?
P.S as i am very upset, ignore typos & the likes. Those that want to help / show their support, come to irc.barrysworld.com, #savebarrysworld (1500+ people there at the moment and growing) and #barrysworld, we need 2 million GBP to keep em goin...
Not that anybody would bother coming here, after all, I do not play flightsims, know next to nothing about them (well - the autolanding feature on F15 Strike Eagle is superb =) and have been known to be quite hostile. Ok, being called a 'cu*t', 'evil' and stuff like that probably has no real bearing, considering that abuse like that is customary within the Quake community.
Anyway. Site is done. A lot of work went into it, not as much the design, it was a quick solution to get Frugal off my back, but implementing it and reorganizing the site took its toll. we are about 6 days late with launch so far and I have yet to do 2 more perl scripts and get it working in Netscape... If i do, ever. Appologies to Unix users who have no choice in the matter.
The cool thing about the redesign is that the site should now be very easy to navigarte and even easier to maintain. I(we?) also added a lot of new features such as:
wrote a perl script for columns (oh, did I mention that this will be the first flightsim site with columnists? hehe - the perfect way to introduce trolling in the community =)
wrote a poll script, which i am proud of, every bit of it is mine =)
yet another first for the community: a random irc quote script, which i originally wrote for my old quake 3 clan
print article script that strips the graphics of a given page, making it easily printable.
the usual random screenshot and screenshot scripts
What else - got rid of the black and green to piss a lot of you old look fans off (including Mark)
Right. This will do for now, don't report problems to me as it is now Mark's responsibility and I can sit in my room, smoking my fag, drinking my lager and laughing at him -- luv ya, bushy =)
P.S. i will appreciate your support in this - bully him to get me a G-force 2 ultra vid card to review. Laters =)
random screenshot
random irc quote: <ReDeeMeR> yes i intend to be up all nite talking bollox to anyone that will listen
