No.

@GrayStoat :o

@pixel Quite

now I have to wait until payday so I can make a kickstarter pledge

@YiJiang @ravendreamer - now he will

@pixel No you don't! Kickstarter pledges aren't charged until the end of the campaign, 5th January

aren't charged until then?

@pixel Yarp

what an awkward time of year to have sums of money leaving my account

oh well

@pixel Haha. Yeah, you only get charged if the campaign is successful.

I guess the important question, is first round of beta testing or second?

@GrayStoat Describe this to me.

@GraceNote He is a blueberry.

@OrigamiRobot Elite

@OrigamiRobot It's an Elite game

on kickstarter

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@OrigamiRobot Kickstarter

lol

the original elite is 9 years older than me

@GrayStoat I can't see Kickstarter pages.

@OrigamiRobot Wikipedia uses the word 'Seminal', and there's no warnings on the page about unencyclopaedic language, so it must be so

@OrigamiRobot Open your eyes Dilate frontal apertures

@pixel 3 than me

I don't know what "space trading" means

@OrigamiRobot Trading.... in space

Played Escape Velocity?

Spore?

Like that's it? Just an economy?

Only while docked

@OrigamiRobot Like Skyrim is just running around hitting things, and diablo is just point and click, yes

the rest of the time its a space game

Good morning, Bridge

@fbueckert afternoon

@GrayStoat It wasn't an attempt at oversimplification. I meant everything is economy driven?

Revolutionary 3D graphics:

@GrayStoat Back in the day, that WAS revolutionary! :P

@fbueckert Well quite!

> The original “Elite” fitted into around 22K of memory, out of a total of 32K on the BBC Micro Model B computer on which it was launched (8K was needed for the screen, 2K for the system).

Wow

I remember coding some graphical adventure games that had to be swapped out in parts because they were too big.

And this was for a Tandy TRS-80.

> Credits can be accumulated through a number of means. These include piracy, trade, military missions, bounty hunting and asteroid mining.

That's all I've ever wanted.

@fbueckert I also remember something of that sort... way back then... like, uh, Final Fantasy 7

@badp Look up the TRS-80. :P It had a grand total of 64K of memory.

(I guess it's also not the first or last of Final Fantasy games that ships on multiple disks but w/e)

@fbueckert Yeah, that makes the idea of games that don't fit in it at all times not so surprising

@badp Actually, I'm pretty sure it was the first FF to be shipped on multiple disks; 6 was for SNES.

@OrigamiRobot soudns like eve :)

@Blem I would play Eve if it were free and non life consuming.

@OrigamiRobot same here :)

@Blem EVE - 2003, Elite - 1984. Sounds like Elite...

I didn't even need to look at the message to know that the reply was to Gnomeslice.

@Wipqozn Buuurrrrnn?

now I'm playing wow and planing on trying Planetside 2, because non of those games are life consuming >.<

lol

I have just changed guilds in WoW, and refuse to play Planetside anything on account of it being crap last time

@Blem My friend is in the PLanetside 2 beta and he said it's really bad.

I play Minecraft, which doesn't consume my life at all

@Blem WoW isn't life consuming?

I got the beta also, just havent tryed it, got an extra key so gonna play it with a friend this weekend

The first company to make a good MMOFPS will be very successful

@GrayStoat Definitely not.

@RonanForman Not at all

@fbueckert WoW is very life consuming if you actually play it

@GrayStoat wink

@pixel And I will contribute to its success

@RonanForman giggles Oh you!

I use to play hardcore wow, I had no life

@pixel Exactly

@OrigamiRobot most gamers would

@fbueckert My life is currently being consumed by WoW, every time I try and quit somebody else appears and entices me to stay

where do you play pixel?

heeeeeeeey! I didn't know you still played WoW... oh you heal? Yeah we need a healer...

@Blem some EU realm, although I have an inactive US account as well

but what eu realm?

silvermoon

so you are playing alliance?

unfortunately

I've already been through two guild disbands this expansion, both of those guilds were horde

:/ that sucks

so I've decided to join a long standing Alliance guild with a good reputation for actually killing stuff which has a couple of friends in it

I got a level 90 human monk in the hardcore guild i use to play in, but i mainly play horde now on another server with some friends

@pixel The expansion's been out for barely a month, and you've gone through two guild disbands?

I've tried playing the game casually, I can't do it

Wow.

@fbueckert yeah

The first guild just collapsed out of not enough people giving a damn

then I joined another guild on the same realm that was 25 man, turns out they had been struggling as 25 man and resized to 10 man a week after I joined

im having a hard time playing casuyally also, guess that is why i got 3 level 90 and 2 more in the work, 4 of them on a server where my highest was level 80

so I left on account of not wanting to do 10 man

I hate levelling, so having 11 level 90s will never happen

I did all of my levelling with 12 hours of the expansion being released

and will not do any more levelling until next expansion

assuming I'm still playing

Priest is the only good class in the game

so I have a level 90 priest

multiple level 85 priests

and a variety of other priests between level 20 and 80

I played a bit of priest back in vanilla, he is level 70 now

and discipline is the only good spec in the game

so all of my priests are disc priests

my rogue was my main for pve and then i did pvp on my priest and gave fear ward when needed

reached rank 10 or 11 back in the old pvp system on the priest

I wasn't playing when the old pvp system was in game

was a pain, no vacation if you wanted high rank

Really Facebook?

that's your own fault

you chose to use facebook

every action has an equal and opposite reaction

@pixel What I signed up for was an exclusive social network for top-tier university students. Not this 'recommend a Russian' crap

@GrayStoat only if you were at Harvard in 2003

@pixel When I joined, Oxford and Cambridge were the only UK universities. You needed to register with your cam.ac.uk email address

@GrayStoat And now you are market research. Congrats.

This actually showed up for me

@GrayStoat that was called a 'beta test'

@OrigamiRobot I'm not even that, I'm just a pair of eyeballs.

@pixel I feel used

@GrayStoat Your feelings are only the tip of the iceberg, fact of the matter is that you was used, you still are being used, and by this point you are so used that you're starting to show signs of wear

@pixel Tbh I only give Fb a few minutes of my time a day (to check for messages), which is probably why it's got such crazy ideas about me

@YiJiang One of your friends has no taste.

@GrayStoat you spend more time per day being violated by the facebook than I have in my entire life

@fbueckert No, a lot of my friends have no taste

But one of them has such poor taste that he thought it would be a good idea to friend - actually friend - Rebecca Black

but is it the actual Rebecca Black?

ask her if she really gotta get down on Friday

@pixel Congratulations. Sadly not using Facebook results in much decreased awareness of events and opportunities. The amount I am violated is made up for in offline activities made possible through Facebook.

The Rebecca Black song "Friday" is about the JFK assassination. The driver of the car he was assasinated in's name was Samuel Kickin (Kickin in the front seat, sittin in the back seat...). The assassination occured on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to "get down" (got to get down on Friday).

Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody's Russian) and to top it all off, in the hotel that morning JFK declined a breakfast of sausage, eggs and toast for a bowl of Bran Flakes instead (got to have my bowl- got to have cereal). Also, the following Monday JFK was supposed to sign a bill into law requiring all public schools to provide bus transportation for their students (got to catch my bus...)

And I thought you'd like a JFK conspiracy theory tied to Rebecca Black

@pixel I am facedesking so hard right now...

oh well

@GrayStoat OMG. Marking the month following the release as "take your time off, stockpile on food and water, disappear in the basement".

@MartinSojka lol

@MartinSojka I'm glad other people are excited

inb4 cancelled again

@pixel Friday is in fact a prediction of the end of times

Right away in the video they mention the "ARK" music factory. It would take an ARK to save humans during a pole shift that would send the oceans spilling inland.

@pixel JFK being a robot is the only conspiracy theory I need.

If you look a minute and twenty seconds in, the moon isn't quite full yet. Why use a graphic of the moon that is ALMOST full? That is because that is exactly what the moon will look like on December 21st 2012 (the full moon is scheduled for December 28th 2012).

2:10 in, the subliminal messages start in the flip book sequence. Notice how her grammer suddenly changes as well "we we we so excited". This represents a breakdown of society and of our educational system as a whole.

Notice that she only talks about 4 days, "yesterday was Thursday, today it is Friday" "Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwords" - this clearly references the fact that the disaster will take 4 days to complete.

@GrayStoat you a believer of 2012 being the last year then?

because like, I was about to pledge for the new Elite game

but if the end is that close I won't bother

@pixel It's safe to pledge, if the world ends it'll be before they take your money

Why would the world end again?

but... white christmas

Hell, go buy everything on kickstarter, safe in the knowledge you'll never have to pay for it

@tiddy Because stupidity and Mayans

@tiddy Millenium bug, obviously

@Blem I can't see this but I hope it's The Professor Brothers.

The paper calendar on my desk only goes up to 31st December, therefore it is logical that that is the end of the world

@OrigamiRobot It is "A Conspiracy Theory Too Weird Even for the Internet"

@GrayStoat Ah right, ancient ignorant civilizations with literally no idea of how things work

Here in the states we call those people southerners

Actually, according to the Mayan calendar, the world already ended!

@tiddy They made a calendar, but after a while, the calendar stops

Therefore apocalypse.

@OrigamiRobot sssshhhhhhhh

The world might here you and end out of embarrassment.

@GrayStoat hear?

@pixel I might die of shame