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  • Re: Chris Roberts wants to write a movie, not a video game

    From rms@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 12 09:12:42 2025
    Here's the video I'm watching now, which I guess is going to
    show off a Squadron 42 battle:

    Neat, but I'll hold off watching until the game actually releases in a
    few years. It's been five years or something since I bought the base ship package, and I haven't fired it up since then. Gotta have something to look forward to, right?

    rms

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 12 13:18:17 2025
    It's not a very good movie, doesn't seem very well-researched.

    Here's the video I'm watching now, which I guess is going to
    show off a Squadron 42 battle:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIGAMDCR58

    Immediately, two things come to mind:

    a) The first actual character we see is on a "destroyer". Short
    for "submarine destroyer", I don't think calling a ship a "destroyer"
    makes much sense for a spacecraft, unless it goes after cloaked ships(?).

    b) The guy sends operational intelligence back to someone -- a family
    member, one would assume -- which is strictly verboten in a "real"
    Navy. "Loose lips sink ships."

    Anyway, I'm going to try to suspend disbelief and watch this thing.
    Thought you all might be interested, too.

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  • From Mr Rob@21:1/5 to rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net on Mon May 12 21:55:37 2025
    On Mon, 12 May 2025 09:12:42 -0600, "rms"
    <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

    Here's the video I'm watching now, which I guess is going to
    show off a Squadron 42 battle:

    Neat, but I'll hold off watching until the game actually releases in a
    few years. It's been five years or something since I bought the base ship >package, and I haven't fired it up since then. Gotta have something to look >forward to, right?

    I also bought in to the game, but way back in 2017.

    By strange coincidence I logged in today for the first time for nearly
    2 years. When I first started 'playing' SC all you could do was walk
    around a hangar and get inside your basic ship.

    I didn't even bother doing that today. I just wanted to renew my
    password and leave it again. Probably until Squadron 42 is playable,
    which is what I am really interested in.

    The world may well end before that game is ready though.

    How many billions years of life left in our Sun? I can't remember.
    It's probably not enough time though to finish this game and get S42
    released.

    --
    Rob

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu May 15 20:00:04 2025
    vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 13:18 this Monday (GMT):
    It's not a very good movie, doesn't seem very well-researched.

    Here's the video I'm watching now, which I guess is going to
    show off a Squadron 42 battle:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIGAMDCR58

    Immediately, two things come to mind:

    a) The first actual character we see is on a "destroyer". Short
    for "submarine destroyer", I don't think calling a ship a "destroyer"
    makes much sense for a spacecraft, unless it goes after cloaked ships(?).

    b) The guy sends operational intelligence back to someone -- a family
    member, one would assume -- which is strictly verboten in a "real"
    Navy. "Loose lips sink ships."

    Anyway, I'm going to try to suspend disbelief and watch this thing.
    Thought you all might be interested, too.


    While I enjoy the novelty of "Movie-video games", almost all of them end
    up having zero actual gameplay and quickly nullifying your choices. I'm
    not very hopeful for any game in this genre.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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