I may be wrong, but my impression is that PC gamers in the 90s mostly had joysticks, if not necessarily flight sticks.

I’m not entirely sure why, but I figure that the fact that relatively few PC gamers own joysticks these days has something to do with it. The combat space-sim, a la Wing Commander, Tie Fighter, or Free Space seems pretty much dead, the occasional indie aside. I tried X3 a few years ago, and while it was fun to fly around and explore for a while it ultimately didn’t offer what I was looking for in a space-sim. from the cockpit of your snub fighter for some reason. The X series is a bit like Privateer, but with the personality stripped out and a heavy, heavy emphasis on building a vast automated industrial-mercantile empire. My impression of the space-sim genre in recent decades is that they have mostly been low or perhaps mid-budget offerings like the X series. Heather loved the it, but was a little frustrated at how your actions are restricted late in the game. I missed it because my daughter got the game, and my wife played upstairs in my daughter’s room. Note that my answer in the episode is WRONG. In the Spoiler Warning episode for Contradiction, you said your wife was enthused about the game as soon as she saw it. Here is the video I mentioned on next-day shipping. And here’s the crazy story of the stranger that broke into his house. You might know Gavin Free from the Slow Mo Guys. Here is Paul’s write-up on his work on Minecraft.Ġ7:35 Meeting internet friends, and the scary story of Gavin Free. Send us questions.Ġ1:27: Paul’s introduction, work on Minecraft. Note that the Diecast email is a thing again. I don’t know what sort of hassle you’re supposed to go through to get podcasting RSS to work, but it’s evidently more hassle than I’m willing to put up with. People are always telling me how easy and turnkey it is and how service X or plugin Y fixed everything, and it always ends up eating a bunch of time, causing confusion, and failing to work as advertised. Also, I always get complaints that the RSS feed doesn’t work in iTunes or whatever, which is the only thing I want the plugin to do. I’ve tried a number of plugins for making podcast stuff, and most of them overbearing, overcomplicated things that assume your blog only exists to host a podcast. The podcast-specific RSS feed is broken and isn’t going to be fixed anytime soon.

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