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Me: I love fast space flying
Also Me: Some day I will even hit that pesky checkpoint 2 of the Fly Dangerous training course.

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Many many years ago in a galaxy far far away I trained at the age of 10 to become a X-Wing pilot. The training course was the classic “hit all checkpoints as fast as you can to qualify”. The course would reset on each failure and the instructor said: “Don’t worry, try it again!”

My dad is still pulling my leg with that line because I wasted so many hours on this to just get it right 🤣

(and yes I was delighted to learn about https://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm recently)
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Oh ffs Freenode. We were still discussing this internally (and not even on the IRC) but it looks like my nick registration was killed anyway today and our foss project channel from 2007 simply nuked.

Thanks for helping us with the choice of moving forward 🖕

I love sci-fi fantasy and spaceships. I also love buttons and switches but it seems that designers jump the “touch screens everywhere” train. Seems there is a secret contest who can cram in the most absurd amount of screens e.g. in a movie or game cockpit. I don’t like that.

Imagine you can not eject that critical core because your fancy touch screen went byebye on the last barrage/power-surge. “Technician is informed”?

This crept in basically everywhere. Give me back buttons. Clicky buttons! Shiny buttons! Glowing buttons!

There are some games – like Orbiter Space Flight Simulator ( http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ ) – that scratch that itch, but they tend to be on the simulation only side of things. I also like pew pew 🙁