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I didn't realise my home port is where all my ships are now. All of them. I set New Babbage as my starting port for the IAE with the intention to book it over to Orison, however this has upset my own particular apple cart. With 100 systems in the eventual game, having all of my shit stuck on...

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets from today, Thursday 11th of November: - World: Global Confirmed 251,672,962 Global Deaths 5,076,863 - UK: Hospital overcrowding caused deaths, say doctors - Isle of Man: Four more Covid deaths confirmed on Isle of Man - Vaccines: New Ebola...

Okay scrap what I said, it downloaded faster than expected and I got half an hour. Between kiddie going to nursery and me going to work. The 400i flies nice but I'll need to upgrade its rotation speed to be just right. :) I was delighted to find I had been issued one of the prototype 404's...

In these wes 'aint lookin' phat, not fat, yo.

If I stay home sick my kiddie stays home and doesn't go to nursery. SC may be a time sponge but a human child is on an entre another level.

Thank you, Glorious Leader! I hit the hey at 11pm last night and it hadn't released by that point, will download after work :)

Did you know standing at sea level on the shore, due to the curvature of the earth the Horizon line for an average hight person is only about 3 miles away? for the horizon to be 10 miles away, so the target ship would be sat on the horizon, you'd have to be 67ft up. Here's a horizon calculator...

They'll finally have somewhere to keep all their money which isn't the Cayman Islands.

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets from today, Wednesday 10th of November: - World: Global Confirmed 251,107,751 Global Deaths 5,068,862 - UK: Covid-resistant people inspire new vaccine tactic - UK: Admiral office closes because of home working - Germany: German Covid surge...

Welcome aboard!

Indeed, the tool used for what it is intended to be used for: Unique tokens to represent unique data - I worked in an industry which involved selling stuff and taking transactions with tokenized payment details. They typed in their card details in on the payment screen, but it was the token that...

Cool, that's well chonky.

I've had a while to think about NFT's and talked to a few internet randos about it and have come to the following conclusion: In a walled garden such as a game where the makers of the game control the means of production of the digital asset, their distribution and customers access to said...

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets from today, Tuesday 9th of November: - World: Global Confirmed 250,580,621, Global Deaths 5,060,487 - UK: Covid jab to be compulsory for England's NHS staff - UK: Gloucestershire: Hospital full as Covid patients double in a week - China...

They warn right at the beginning they say the F word a lot even for them, so if you are somewhere that isn't suitable for that wait until you are to watch or put on some headphones, yo. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaHugHihh0

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets from today, Monday 8th of November: - World: Global Confirmed 250,056,541, Global Deaths 5,052,620 - World: Passes a quarter of a billion confirmed cases. - US: First travellers arrive in US after 20-month ban - UK: Buyers show remorse over...

Over these many years the one thing I have made sure to do is not to assume anything about the player base. "Perhaps because it is there is not sufficiant reason for climbing the mountain" is an astute observation, however one may find that stops absolutely nobody: View...

As the old saying goes 'Hope for the best and plan for the worst'. We have no way of knowing what 'emergent gameplay' will come out of the eventual game and there is track record of players gleefully forcing their fellow gamers to be their content even in non PvP events like the original...

COVID Corner - Some reports from some news outlets from today, Sunday 7th of November: - World: Global Confirmed 249,733,830 Global Deaths 5,047,944 - US: US court temporarily blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for companies - Germany: Germany reports 23,543 new cases reported in past 24 hours...

I always wondered why the electricity bill at the 'Ministry of Alteration' was so high... I just thought they were leaving their computers on over night...