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Canadians are awesome.

 

Have you seen Come From Away? It's a musical set in Gander Newfoundland when 38 airliners diverted there for a week after 9-11. Things don't get more awesomely Canadian than that. I grew up in eastern Canada and was stuck in Gander with a broken C-130 for a week 3 years after 9-11, so the show really hit home for me, laughing and crying the whole time.

 

Mover and Wombat had a little shout-out to C-130 aircrews today. I need to find out when Mover was at Balad Iraq, I was based there a lot and it might have been me delivering him there.

 

So a germany game studio just released a new Starfighter Game, the other day. That is really trying to get back to the Spirit of the Old Wing Commander and X-Wing games with very handcrafted and script heavy spacebattles, instead of the more randomly generated ones we see in current games. With the story being about the fight against a Space Sect/Cult.

Its called Chorus and I´ve been following it for quite a while.





Really wanted to buy it but thought my computer wasn´t good enough for it. But with the release also came a free demo which I tried out just to be sure and it turns out it actually runs smoothly on my system (and thus should on other middle class computers as well).

Will get the full version of the game later today (and kinda regret having misread the requirments earlier, those extra ship paints they offered for preorder looked really sweet ).

So if you are like me, and enjoy this type of game, that really became a rarity these days, you might want to give them demo a shot.

(And no I´m not paid to say any of this. Just hope the game will be a success and we see more like it in the future. )

 

I’m glad there are some out there producing that classic space sim type game.

Not doubt the modding community will try and have a hand at doing a SW conversion of it at some point.

 

It's on my wish list. Every time it comes around, tickets sell out before I hear about it. The head of the organization I work for was on one of the planes diverted up there, coming back from a conference in Europe. Stayed there for a week until the borders reopened. I really want to see that show.

 

And here I am waiting for Star Citizen...

 

Oooh, what did you get us?

 

If you have Apple TV, it's available there as a film recorded during a live performance.

 

I don't think these guys made the cut for the Sheep.

 

Are we, though?

Are we?

 

@Vehn , did you ever see this early trailer for 1941?

 

Sounds like Dan Akroyd played the narrator. He's got that old-timey newsreel voice down pat!

 

Negative @Sarge never seen it but will now! And all I want for Xmas is a game update!

 

But we couuuuld...

 

Last one there is buying!

*kicks in the boosters*

 

"I told him not to push that button."

 

Gives a whole new meaning to "Tornado"