I’m just gonna say it outright:
MONDAYS SUCK.
I had a pretty good weekend, actually. I spent time with a friend, I managed to get plenty of sunshine – and trust me, out here where I am, you take sunshine whenever and wherever you can get it – and I even managed to do some reading. (Check out Virus Mania when you get a chance, it’s a book co-authored by the lovely and vivacious Dr. Sam Bailey, who features every week nowadays in this ‘ere Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher. I’ve been reading it, and it’s very interesting, not to mention quite provocative.)
And now we’re back to Monday, and a rather rude shock and return to reality.
Oh well. That’s why this compilation exists, of course – to help us endure the day. And we might as well start with a legendary game that those of us over a certain age might remember quite fondly. For the fully remastered, reimagined, and upgraded fan remake of the legendary 3D space simulator, TIE FIGHTER, is out now, and HOLY SPACE BALLS IT LOOKS AMAZING:
I played the original game, many, MANY years ago, and loved it. I played X-Wing Alliance and couldn’t get enough of it. In all honesty, I really do bemoan the death of so many classic space simulator games – they aren’t in vogue anymore and haven’t been since, roughly, the days of Starlancer and Wing Commander: Prophecy. And that is just a cryin’ shame.
I love those kinds of games. Descent: Freespace, and Freespace 2: The Great War; the X-Wing series; TIE Fighter; Wing Commander; and a whole host of other legendary titles that bring back so many wonderful memories of gaming in that 10-year golden age up until about 2003 – those were good times.
And TIE Fighter is not the only game that has gotten a massive cosmetic makeover, either. Speaking of my beloved X-Wing Alliance:
His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, is fully embracing the results of Shampeachment and Shampeachment 2: The Shampooing:
He also doesn’t appear to have any respect for Gen. Mark Milley, CJCS – and rightly so:
“Despite the fact that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen, and while numerous people, including the outside public, were saying we should bring in the Military, I never even gave it a thought,” Trump wrote in a Friday statement.
“Never once did I have a discussion with [Milley] about bringing in the Military, or a ‘coup,’ which makes sense, because I lost total confidence in him and the way he handled himself on our little walk to the church,” he said, referring to a walk the two took together as part of a larger group to St. John’s Church in June 2020.
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“There was no talk of a coup, there was no coup, it all never happened, and it’s just a waste of words by fake writers and a General who didn’t have a clue,” Trump said.
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“The way I look at Milley, he’s just a better politician than a general, trying to curry favor with the Radical Left and the absolute crazy people espousing a philosophy which will destroy our Country!” Trump said.
The former president nominated Milley to his position back in 2018.
The military leadership betrayed its duty to the Constitution and the American people in the wake of unquestionably fraudulent election results in 2020. And Milley stabbed his Commander-in-Chief in the back, repeatedly.
If there is one lesson to learn from all of this, it is that the God-Emperor’s judgement in people is in fact TOO lenient far too often. Far from the brash, crude, uncouth man that he is portrayed as by the whorenalists, he is in fact too loyal and respectful to people who do not deserve such considerations.
Mark Milley is the latest in a series of self-inflicted disasters in the US Army leadership and chain of command. The sooner he goes – especially after implementing the idiotic “Army Combat Fitness Test”, which is basically just CrossShite by another name – the better.
#BasedTucker is based:
Mark Dice digs deeper into the clandestine and ugly nexus between the whorenalists and the intelligence community:
This helps to go a LONG way in explaining why the (((media)))))) and the intelligence community seem to collude so thoroughly on every major story related to politics, foreign policy, and economics.
Bill Whittle and his friends offer their own take on the fact that, as I pointed out earlier, the Village People appear to be running the US Navy aground:
Dave from Blue Collar Logic explains some key ways in which the God-Emperor fundamentally changed and transformed his country, and I think he’s right about that:
The God-Emperor DID change things, mostly for the better. Perhaps his greatest achievement was to wake vast swathes of the country up to the harsh reality that the political, financial, and media elite actively hate them and want to destroy them.
And Jason takes great pleasure in exposing the Communist sympathies of the Black Looming Menace and Alexandria Occasional-Cortex:
People look at me like I’m crazy when I say that Communists should be shot on sight as a form of pre-emptive national self-defence. I simply point to idiots like those on the Left and say that I rest my case.
Our good friend The Male Brain is back with some entertainment for us. We start with JP Sears, who hasn’t featured on this page in a little while:
John Stossel explains how to succeed in a world controlled by people who don’t want you to – basically, just don’t bother asking for their permission:
Joe Scott explores the rather oddball Silurian Hypothesis, about the possibility that advanced civilisations might have existed on Earth long before we hairless apes ever came along to crash the party:
It’s a positively Lovecraftian idea, but frankly I seriously doubt there is much merit to it.
Speaking of seriously creepy conduct by the governing elite, Paul Ramsey notes that the FBI has plainly sold out to the Prince of this world (not that this is news, mind you):
PJW absolutely dismantles the notion that the Black “English” players who lost Euro 2021 on penalties were subjected to vast amounts of racism by English fans:
The English people are among the least racist anywhere around. That is to their credit, up to a point – it allows them to welcome anyone from anywhere into their country. But it is also a major problem, because they refuse to stand up for British culture and the British nations. (Yes, plural – Wales, Scotland, England, and Ireland are distinct nations.)
So the idea that the English fans were racist and heaped abuse upon the Black players who failed to score penalties, is ridiculous. And when you dig a little deeper, you’ll quickly realise that the abuse came from people outside the UK with African and South Asian names.
Oops.
As always, the demand for racist rhetoric outstrips the supply, by immense amounts.
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey looks back at past epidemics and compares the outbreak of HIV and/or AIDS with the Lung Pao Sicken (thanks, Texakraut):
I’m reading the book that she co-authored, Virus Mania, right now. It’s very interesting. I recommend checking it out. I am not entirely convinced by some of the arguments yet, but it does what a good book should do – it makes you sit up and THINK.
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan notes that if you still think that TikTok is a legitimate app, you need to have your head examined:
The Dizzle schools an innumerate AND illiterate Abdool:
That is quite a short video, and it has to be seen to be believed – genuinely, it’s shocking how stupid some of the Izzlamics really are.
And he’s also managed to find an honest Izzlamist who actually takes the time to explain how Islam’s shariah laws would really work with respect to “blasphemy”:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms interviews his friend Joe from Red Judaism about the possible Jewish origins of Islam:
I’ve been arguing for years, based on a book by Emmet Scott, that Islam’s roots were likely a Reform Judaism heresy of Christianity called the Ebionite sect or cult, which has a lot of things in common with the Nestorian heretics. It looks like this idea is catching on.
No matter which idea wins out in the end, the key thing to remember is this:
Islam is likely to disintegrate in our lifetimes.
And that is incredible.
Al-Fadi from CIRA International has a long and fascinating discussion with the Rev. Anthony Rogers about the presence of the Trinity in the Book of Genesis:
I don’t know how you can read the Book of Genesis and NOT see the Trinity in it, to be honest. It’s right there in the Hebrew.
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined points out the fundamental problem with our morally relativistic times and culture:
China Uncensored reports that the Chinese are being… well, Chinese with respect to their neighbours:
America Uncovered breaks down the biggest stories of the week in the USA, including the hilarious one about the Texas Fleebaggers:
Terrence Popp puts on his serious face for a bit and asks a real question about whether the Venezuela Syndrome could hit the USA (hint: YES IT BLOODY WILL):
This video of the LEGENDARY Sir Christopher Lee correcting Peter Jackon on the set of The Lord of the Rings is the very DEFINITION of AWESOMESAUCE:
The reason why Sir Christopher Saruman Dooku Dracula Lee knows what sound a man makes when stabbed in the back, is because his life story is so amazingly over the top that the entire discography of MANOWAR doesn’t even come close. The man literally was part of Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare“. I mean, that, right there, tells you all you need to know about what a colossal BADASS he was. And that is barely the TIP of an iceberg of awesomeness the size of freakin’ DENMARK.
I’m honestly surprised that the man could actually find underwear to fit him, given that he had balls the size of church bells and made of SOLID FRAKKIN’ STEEL. I’m even more surprised that his wife – who was quite a beauty in her day – could walk straight after their… um… er… conjugations.
While we are on the subject of legendary badasses being awesome, here is a really fascinating TEDx talk by BRUCE “THE VOICE OF YHWH” DICKINSON, frontman of THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME, talking about how to use technology and entrepreneurship to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems:
His notion of a “zero carbon” aircraft is a bit silly and stupid, to be honest, because that’s never going to happen. ANYONE who says that we can completely abandon the use of fossil fuels, has absolutely no clue about basic organic chemistry. Take a look around you right now. Every single thing in your field of vision required hydrocarbons at some point in its production process.
Don’t lie to yourself and think that you can get away from the need to use fossil fuels. The only way to do that is to bomb the entire world back into the Middle Ages. Good luck with that – people like me would GLADLY shoot advocates of such things on sight.
Nonetheless, “The Air Raid Siren” is right about the promise that technology, married with human ingenuity, truly holds. And he is undeniably great fun to listen to – both when singing and speaking.
The pop culture news this week is all about Black Widow, the latest offering from the M-She-U. Midnight’s Edge offers up its opinion about the movie and whether it’s any good (hint: NO):
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock has an interesting rumour for us to think about with respect to the ways in which Darth Vader might appear in the new Obi-Wan TV series:
Gary from Nerdrotic didn’t think much of Black Widow at all:
Neither did The Drinker:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and is about the similarities between the Kung Flu and certain bat coronaviruses:
From its first emergence in Wuhan, China in December, 2019 the COVID-19 pandemic has
caused unprecedented health crisis throughout the world. The novel coronavirus disease is
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which belongs to
the coronaviridae family. In this paper, a comparative genomic analysis of eight
coronaviruses namely Human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43), Human coronavirus HKU1
(HCoV-HKU1), Human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoVNL63), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory
syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Bat coronavirus RaTG13 has been carried out using Chaos Game
Representation and Fisher-Shannon Complexity (CGR-FSC) measure. Chaos Game
Representation (CGR) is a unique alignment-free method to visualize one dimensional DNA
sequence in a two-dimensional fractal-like pattern. The two-dimensional CGR pattern is then
quantified by Fisher-Shannon Complexity (FSC) measure. The CGR-FSC can effectively
identify the viruses uniquely and their similarity/dissimilarity can be revealed in the FisherShannon Information Plane (FSIP).
It is worth pointing out tat this doesn’t actually mean much of anything. It just means that General Tso’s Chicken Pox is related to bat viruses – which we knew already. What that paper doesn’t address is the reality that this virus was plainly weaponised.
Your long read of the week is also from Dawn Pine, and consists of Ron Unz‘s extremely long, dense, and interesting analysis of the origins and realities of the Wuhanpox:
From the very beginning, many leading scientific experts believed that Covid was a product of human design, notably including virologist David Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate and former president of Caltech. But for various reasons our Western media establishment instead quickly constructed a Potemkin-like consensus that the virus was entirely natural and the global catastrophe a random, unforeseen event for which no one could be blamed. However, over the last couple of months, this propaganda-bubble has collapsed, and there is now increasing agreement that Covid was probably an artificial creation, engineered in some laboratory.
The same American-dominated propaganda organs that had spent more than twelve months mustering shreds of fact and logic to loudly proclaim that the virus was natural and ignoring all dissenting voices have now mustered other shreds of fact and logic to argue that it was created in China and leaked from a Wuhan lab, once again ignoring those who suggest otherwise.
But the flood of mainstream writers promoting this new consensus have built their narrative on a factual foundation that is gossamer-thin, and those spiderwebs of speculation were recently swept aside by the direct personal testimony of Danielle Anderson, a respected Western virologist who was working at the Wuhan lab during that period, and who described the likelihood that Covid was either created there or that any lab-leak had ever occurred as โexceedingly slim.โ
From the first, there had been three plausible origins for the disease. Covid was either a natural virus, a Chinese virus, or an American virus. But although our media has wildly swung between the first and second possibilities, the third has been entirely excluded from consideration, with those who suggest it completely ignored.
This information blackout was even extended to major world governments. The remarkable speed with which the virus had jumped more than 3,000 miles from Wuhan to Qom and infected much of Iranโs parliament and political leadership class led that country and its media to denounce the outbreak as a likely American biowarfare attack against its two leading international adversaries, China and Iran, with the former Iranian president lodging an official complaint with the United Nations. But virtually no Americans were ever informed of these grave public accusations by a nation of 80 million people.
I do not agree with Mr. Unz’s conclusion that the Wuhanpox is basically an American bioweapon unleashed against China by rogue officials and possibly neoclowns buried deep in the Trump Administration. In my view, the Chinese simply grew very lax with their biological research lab in Wuhan. Given that the Chinese unleashed most of the pandemics in the past century upon us, the Scamdemic is probably no different. The Chinese are directly responsible for releasing SARS and the Wuhanpox to the world – and their behaviour after the release of the virus speaks to a culture that refuses to accept responsibility for its f**k-ups, which is certainly in line with what I have seen of Chinese culture.
But it’s an interesting analysis from Mr. Unz nonetheless.
Linkage is good for you:
- The Ukrainians are doing their absolute damnedest to join NATO, but the organisation itself is telling them, “not so fast”;
- Related – most people who aren’t familiar with Ukraine, do not realise or know that it is in fact at least three different countries joined together, and those sub-nations don’t get along at all;
- The Neo-Tsar agrees with that verdict, in fact – he’s been arguing for years that Ukrainians and Russians are one people, and he’s mostly (not entirely) correct, at least as far as the eastern third or so of Ukraine is concerned;
- A court in Europe insists that the Russians should recognise LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT marriage “rights” – good luck enforcing that, especially since the Russians voted to amend their constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman;
- The Russkies are even less inclined to listen to anyone else at this point, because their economy is bouncing back fast from the Scamdemic and is less reliant on energy exports than ever before;
- Hot on the heels of the “English” team blowing the Euro 2021 final on penalties comes the half-arsed cockamamie theory that the Eyeties won the tournament because racism, or some such malarkey;
- Related – James Thompson from The Unz Review explains how important the “English” team’s performance at the Euros was for the globalists, and how their loss proves that the globalist worldview is both evil and stupid;
- Paul Craig Roberts points out the absolutely undeniable truth that Blue-State America hates the rest of the country and wants to see it destroyed;
- PCR isn’t just an acronym for an overhyped, misused, and generally pointless test for the Commiepox, either – it’s also the acronym for the name of an author who isn’t afraid to tell the truth about the Scamdemic;
- For some rather odd reason, Apple’s weather app refuses to display the temperature as 69 degrees Fahrenheit, and rounds up to 70 – could that be because 69 is a crude sexual reference? Inquiring minds want to know;
- The Limeys finally see the end of their lockdowns today, but being the bunch of spineless twerps that they are, they’re all anxious and bothered about having to be free again;
- It took a bloody eternity, but the God-Emperor of Mankind has finally realised and admitted that giving interviews to anyone from the whorenalist class is basically a waste of time;
- The Swiss appear to be hell-bent on destroying their air force’s ability to fight, which is why they went and bought a whole bunch of Turducken Planes;
- Speaking of the Joint Strike Flying Piano, the list of flaws with that flying shitheap has exceeded 800 and aren’t likely to go down anytime soon;
- The Sefrikins are proving the harsh and painful truth of Nature’s Equation – “diversity + proximity = war” – and they’re doing it on a daily basis now;
- Just in case you didn’t already have enough reasons to hate FaceBorg, it turns out that if you back up your WhatsApp messages to the cloud, law enforcement agencies can get access to them;
- And here’s your “news of the weird” moment – apparently American Airlines stopped a Turkish female bodybuilder from boarding one of their flights because her shorts were too short;
- Bitches be crazy in general, and some bitches in Russia be EXTRA crazy – like this horrifying story about an alcoholic single mother who got drunk and set a homeless man on fire, who then burned to death;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- If you’re not familiar with the concept of “love jihad”, that’s where a Muslim guy marries a non-Muslim girl and forces her to convert to his religion – well, apparently Hindus do that shit too, and a Chief Minister of an Indian state wants to pass a new law against it so that no woman’s FEEEEEEEWINGS ever get hurt;
- File this one under “critical pace theory” – the US Air Force, already among the jokiest of the major military branches, now has a fitness policy where you can walk instead of running, and they’ve made the push-ups easier too;
- Leftist retards clearly don’t understand the concept of “projection”, and the Fake Administration clearly doesn’t understand that knocking on people’s doors to ask if they’ve gotten their vaccine will get those door-knockers SHOT;
- OK, who had “Gigantic big-ass Solar storm that will cripple GPS and satellite communications” for the 2021 Doomsday Bingo Buzzword Pool for July?;
- The European Central Bank evidently doesn’t have any serious problems to focus on (so it thinks), and now wants to switch its focus to “climate change” by asking if you comply with emissions requirements, and then giving you money;
- If you’ve ever wanted to know what treason looks like, here is a list of some of the most notable cases of treason and sedition in American history;
- The new York F***ing Slimes clearly thinks that the people protesting in Cuba are just pissed about COVID, or something, but in reality, they are marching for their own liberation, and it’s about bloody time;
- Related – in case you’re wondering, yes, Virginia, Communism truly is evil, yet for some bizarre reason everyone gives me odd looks whenever I say that shooting Commies on sight is a perfectly legitimate form of national self-defence;
- Archaeologists appear to have found a tablet that might just bear the name of Gideon, from the Book of Judges, potentially proving YET BLOODY AGAIN that the Bible is a historically accurate document;
- Related – yet more evidence of precisely that same point, now that archaeologists have found a “missing piece” of the wall that defended Jerusalem prior to Israel’s defeat and subjugation by Babylon;
- The Australian government is hell-bent on scaring the shit out of its people with respect to the Kung Flu, but the Aussies don’t appear to be too impressed by such nonsense;
- If you don’t hate Faceborg yet, you’re not paying attention, especially when they promote videos of a transgender “man” “chestfeeding” her child, which she had with her transgender “wife”, who is actually a man (yes, it’s confusing);
- You can’t be racist if you’re Black, right? Well, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith put that proposition to the test when he said some hilariously stupid shit about a Japanese MLB player who doesn’t speak very good Engrish (yes, that’s laycist);
- Neither Dawn Pine nor I have a particularly high opinion of the Euroweenies, but from time to time they do stand up for themselves – like when Spain’s top court recently ruled that their Kung Flu lockdowns are unconstitional;
Every time I watch the The Neo-Tsar open his mouth and opine on things, I STFU and listen, because everything he says is genuinely very interesting. Here is an array of his unfiltered opinions about his country’s neighbours – and when you listen to him, you’ll quickly realise that he is extremely intelligent, astute, well-informed about history, and more than capable of making up his own mind based on the real facts on the ground:
History lessons of the week:
Dawn Pine suggested the Great Man of the Week for this one – and he is none other than Samuel Colt, the man whose guns won the West:
What do you suppose would happen if HALO‘s Cortana and the Chief had to go to couples’ therapy?
And now let’s watch Mint Blitz do the crazy shit that only he can do:
While we are on the subject of nerdy things – Henry Cavill is a genuine star, a great guy, a friend of the fandom, a very hard worker… and, as it turns out, a GIGANTIC WARHAMMER 40,000 nerd:
That is just awesome.
And now for something completely different:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
The boys are back with a new special, too:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls,:
Let’s mock the Texas Fleebaggers:







Remember, gents – consistency is not a strength of government.

Tell me again why I’m wrong when I say that the New York F***ing Slimes headquarters on 8th Avenue needs to be demolished immediately?


It’s a very good point. Think about it carefully and you’ll quickly realise why – and it’s NOT just because the CIA backs a lot of this nonsense. It’s because America genuinely does represent freedom and opportunity.



YOU CANNOT UNSEE THAT.

Yep, pretty much.


Lord God Almighty, we beseech Thee to make it so.




Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man may have gone a bit stir-crazy during the Scamdemic:

Your “Mother Nature Hates Green Weenies Too” moment of the week:

Your “Malaise” moment of the week:

My only question there is… why the hell did the rabbit STOP attacking him?!?!?
Your “NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!” moment of the week:

Your “LET IT BURN!!!” moment of the week:

That, right there, is a major morale booster.
Your “Dismal Science” moment of the week:

Paul Krugman. Enough said.
Your “JUDGEMENT TIME” moment of the week:

Here’s a picture of the judge who made that decision:

Your “Freedom Fries” moment of the week:

Anyone dumb enough to pay $200 for French Fries has a hole in the head.
Your “Dee-vine Intervention” moment of the week:

Hey, do you have a better explanation?!
Your “Spinning Shit Into Gold” moment of the week:

Trust the South Koreans to do something that bonkers…
And now let’s have a few Media InConsistency moments:


Clearly, it’s fine when Daemoncrats do it, and horrible when Republicucks do it. That’s the rule.
This headline did not age well:


From the lion’s point of view, that has to be the closest thing he can imagine to Meals on Wheels.

Sensible strategy, actually.

Don’t you just hate it when you get a doughnut bone stuck between your teeth?!?

I eat 90%-cacao dark chocolate for fun. CAN. CONFIRM.









Your Dog of the Week is the Hanover scenthound (or just the Hanover Hound):

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And now, pray silence, please, as we watch a specimen of Gymbeasticus liftheavyshitus doing his thing – none other than strongman great, Tom Stoltman:
Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:
Jesus loves knockouts:
While we’re on the subject of bullshido – check out this hysterical ad for a BJJ gym:
Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’
#MetalNeverDies
The new POWERWOLF album is out now – get it ASAP.
New BRAINSTORM album this year as well – it’s shaping up to be an awesome year for metal.
And, of course, we have a new IRON MAIDEN album – this is definitely going to be a vintage year for amazing metal.
And finally we get to the bit that you all actually care about – the Instathot to get the week off to the right start. Her name is Julia Rรถmmelt, apparently originally from Augsburg, Germany, a town a bit northwest of Munich, and now living in Speyer, northwest of Stuttgart. As for her age – well, depending on where you find the information, she’s either 26 or 30. I make no claims as to what her true age or birthplace is, since the information appears to be scant and contradictory. But apparently she was a Playboy Playmate this year (Playmate of the Year, in fact – though I don’t quite know how that works, given that 2021 hasn’t ended yet), and is quite big on TikTok (whatever that is). She is a model in her own right – I have no clue whether she’s any good at it – and an influenza… uh, I mean, influencer.
As you can tell by my Boomerific bewilderment at these terms, I have absolutely no idea what any of that guff means – you’ll need to ask someone about, oh, half my age to explain these terms. (And no, I am NOT a Boomer myself. I regard most – not all – Boomers with lip-curling contempt. There are a number of Boomers who read this site who clearly Get It, but they are rare among their peers. The entire Boomer generation has proven to be selfish, immoral, and broken beyond belief. And my generation, and the one before and the one after mine, is now paying a truly appalling price for their stupidity and avarice.)
All I know is, she has a nice smile, a very nice rack, and a really nice butt. I’m a man of simple tastes – I look, I like, I post. It’s just a real shame that she’s wrecked an otherwise superb body with those stupid tattoos.
Anyway, that’s enough gasbagging for now. Get thee hither to work – the Fake President needs your tax dollars so that he can bring as many illegal invaders into your country as possible.





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I have played through XWA with the upgrade project and installed the TFTC mod, and can confirm that both are incredible and WAY better than the woke space-combat-for-babies crapfest that Squadrons was. The TFTC actually has two campaigns. The “classic” one keeps the original mission structure and attempts to make the XWA engine behave as closely to TIE Fighter as possible, while the “reimagined” one redoes all of the missions (or at least the ones they’ve finished, which I think is up through Battle 10) as though they were XWA missions. This means you get much larger ship counts (you usually fly with a full squadron of 11 other wingmen), multiple objectives across different systems, and the ship behavior from that game (cap ships have great point defense, but watching hundreds of warheads overwhelm it is epic).
There are occasional bugs, and some of the missions are hard as BALLS, but the mod team is super responsive and you can skip any that give you too much trouble (which you could also do in XWA).
The ONE thing I don’t like about it is that now the Emperor’s Secret Order objectives are primary ones that cause failure if you don’t finish them, which can be annoying since they generally force you to drop what you’re doing and are usually time limited.
It’s super easy to get working too. All you need is a clean install of XWA, a couple of installer files from https://www.xwaupgrade.com/, and the TFTC installer. Get it now before Disney issues a DMCA takedown.
While we’re on this subject, FreeSpace 2 had its source code released forever ago, and a team of modders have kept it updated to this day. If you have the game, you can play it with modern graphics and resolutions, ports of Freespace 1, its expansion Silent Threat, and “reimagined” expansion Silent Threat Reborn (which is as good as either of the original campaigns), and a whole bunch of custom campaigns that either continue the FreeSpace 2 story or are based on other properties like Battlestar Galactica. All completely free, too!
https://www.hard-light.net/
WHOA. That sounds amazing. I definitely need to check this out. I loved those old LucasArts space sim games and I’ve never quite gotten over the fact that such games are no longer really produced in any meaningful way.
I remember. There was that one mission in XWA which required you to go back to the Azzameen home station and take it back from pirates, but there is some incredibly stupid bug in the code somewhere, in which, if Erin’s ship takes ANY FIRE WHATSOEVER, it immediately starts attacking Azzameen station. So you have to do your absolute damnedest to keep a bunch of enemy fighters off your OWN arse, while also protecting a freighter that the game’s AI flies as though it is drunk.
There were a few other redonkulous missions in XWA, but that’s the one that stands out in memory.
Oh yeah, I’d clean forgotten about that. I recall something about this from many years ago in which I read on some wiki page somewhere that the source code had been fully released. I think I even downloaded FS2 on Linux and compiled it and got it to run… somehow… This goes back into the dim mists of antiquity. I played a couple of FS2 missions and I thought that it was an amazing game – it was a big improvement over even the original Descent: Freespace, and that’s probably one of the 10 best space sim games ever made.
For what it’s worth, I also managed to get the open-source build of Marathon running on Linux, again many years ago. I should really start that up again, once I actually have some proper free time…
“I recall something about this from many years ago in which I read on some wiki page somewhere that the source code had been fully released.”
You probably read it in my comment on your Reaxxion article, which appears to have gone down the memory hole (the comment, not the article). I had just started playing through FSPort and STR at that point. Oh well. ๐
The great thing about Freespace 2 is that all the big ships have proper beam weapons, both for point defense and ship-to-ship combat. I think only the Lucifer had them in FS1, but can’t remember because it’s been a while. It’s one hell of a rush to be caught between two behemoths pounding the crap out of each other. It’s what I imagine being one of the strike craft in Homeworld (my all-time favorite game) is like.
Also, if you thought the Lucifer was bad, wait until you see a Shivan juggernaut!
How does Putin make everything he says sound so important? Trump does a lot of fluff talk, but Putin never seems to waste his words.
Maybe he is extremely comfortable in his skin knowing that he can probably kill 99.999% of people in every room. Just kidding…. Or maybe not.
Putin always comes across to me as very erudite, intelligent, well-read, and precise. Every time I listen to him speak, I learn something.
The reason why his words carry such weight is because, unlike the God-Emperor, he doesn’t spend any time whatsoever on self-aggrandisement. If you listen closely, you’ll see that he almost NEVER talks about himself. He always talks about the country and the people around him.
He is not charismatic in the way that The Donald is. Putin comes across as far more cold, dispassionate, and dangerous. But he is every bit as intelligent, and every bit as much of an Ur-Alpha – he is merely a highly secretive one.
And Putin is definitely an Alpha, not a Sigma. He WANTS to be at the top of the power structure and he goes out of his way to destroy those who try to rival him. He is not disruptive, either – he wants to keep and enhance existing power structures, not tear them all down and do his own thing.
And yes Putin can definitely kill everyone around him if he wants to – either with his bare hands, or by giving an order. He’s a scary dude.
Starbucks is not coffee.
Amen, Reverend. I don’t drink that shit. I just use the memes))
I didn’t play Tie Fighter or XWA, but I did play the hell out of Rogue Squadron growing up. Unlocked and made gold on all the bonus missions, including the excellent Death Star Trench run.
Still have a soft spot for the y-Wing’s ability to snap u-turn so effectively in that game. The Naboo Starfighter update on PC for the Phantom Menace, and the Tie-Interceptor hidden behind the millenium Falcon… outstanding game.
I remember reading an interview with Michael Stackpole. (For the kids out there, he established a new type of novel in the Star Wars EU: A series without Jedi or Sith, just X-Wing Pilots fighting to scrub the Imperials out of power after ROTJ. Good series of books, starting with Rogue Squadron.) Part of his creative process was playing through TIE Fighter and XWA to understand the ships, the combat, and the weak spots. When you read his books you can tell, he has a firm grip on Star Wars dog fights and the weaknesses of capital ships, that other writers of the era, Zahn included, simply do not have.
The man could write Jedi fiction too. ‘I, Jedi’ is an outstanding product.