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Title: Lord British in space! Post by: Ubvman on October 13, 2008, 12:30:06 AM I haven't seen it posted in any of the forums here yet so:
(move to general if more appropriate) US game designer blasts into space with DNA cargo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_sc/as_kazakhstan_russia_space;_ylt=A0WTUcO39PJIZngBfTCs0NUE) Tourist Blasts Off in Russian Rocket (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-space-kazakhstan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) :heart: Godspeed, Richard Garriot! :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Tale on October 13, 2008, 02:28:30 AM Need more stories about the fact the latest space tourist lives in a castle with a moat and dungeon. I picture him walking into the ISS and saying "Your time has come".
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: naum on October 13, 2008, 06:48:55 AM His dad was an astronaut too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_K._Garriott
If I had a spare $30M, not sure I'd splurge on a space trip… …but then, it's the thing to do for today's billionaire… Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Khaldun on October 13, 2008, 08:29:35 AM More video on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgyeg8vrq6Q
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Fabricated on October 13, 2008, 09:00:47 AM Somehow space has become boring.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Nebu on October 13, 2008, 09:39:56 AM If I had a spare $30M, not sure I'd splurge on a space trip… …but then, it's the thing to do for today's billionaire… I'd do something stupid... like change the lives of people in third world countries. Then again, I'm crazy like that. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 13, 2008, 10:35:06 AM Is it wrong to hope the ISS or his re-entry capsule turns into a meteor while he is aboard?
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Nebu on October 13, 2008, 10:41:34 AM Is it wrong to hope the ISS or his re-entry capsule turns into a meteor while he is aboard? (http://www.rense.com/1.imagesE/meteor.jpg) Azzrape?!?! Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 13, 2008, 10:50:02 AM I'd feel horrible about the other astronauts, but I do think I'd cheer. At least until the first bit sunk in. :|
(Which I know. Having a shuttle disaster the day before my birthday was still close enough to muck it up for several years.) Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Pennilenko on October 13, 2008, 10:53:02 AM Is it wrong to hope the ISS or his re-entry capsule turns into a meteor while he is aboard? Show us on the doll where he touched you. :sad_panda: Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: schild on October 13, 2008, 10:57:08 AM I think Lantyssa just wants to keep him from convincing dumbasses to give him money again and taking it away from other companies - which will surely be his MO upon his arrival back to earth as a SPACE HERO.
In which case, I agree. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Pennilenko on October 13, 2008, 10:58:48 AM I think Lantyssa just wants to keep him from convincing dumbasses to give him money again and taking it away from other companies - which will surely be his MO upon his arrival back to earth as a SPACE HERO. In which case, I agree. Fine, just ru-ine my attempt at humor with harsh reality! Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 13, 2008, 01:26:45 PM Show us on the cub where he touched you. :sad_red_panda: Much better.(You're not gonna freak because I edited the quote, are you? I didn't know doing it twice, one of which was purposefully poking a button, constituted a habit. :uhrr:) Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lum on October 13, 2008, 03:00:35 PM Is it wrong to hope the ISS or his re-entry capsule turns into a meteor while he is aboard? Yes. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 13, 2008, 03:07:14 PM Fair enough. How about being shoved out the airlock like a Toaster then?
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: SnakeCharmer on October 13, 2008, 04:26:57 PM :uhrr:
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: NiX on October 13, 2008, 04:43:02 PM Fair enough. How about being shoved out the airlock like a Toaster then? The irony of an astronaut murdering him and then taking a picture with "PK'D! LOL!" on it would be all kinds of awesome.Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Stormwaltz on October 13, 2008, 08:02:16 PM Deep within Rainz' underground volcanic lair:
"FIRE ZE MISSILES!" Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: damijin on October 13, 2008, 11:32:13 PM I really find this whole thing fucking stupid.
He bugs me as an individual. I don't want him to die, I just wish that the whole Tabula Rasa debacle (and by debacle, I mean existence) had never happened. But you know, I'm just a peasant working for his money. I wouldn't understand the complexities of game design from the castle owning, $30m ticket dropping, spoiled bastard perspective. (rich people make me butthurt) Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: schild on October 14, 2008, 03:36:51 AM Edit: Nevermind, I think the whole thing is insane. Just gonna leave it at that.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Tebonas on October 14, 2008, 04:15:07 AM Its not like other billionaires do more useful things with their money, so let him have his fun. Hell, I loved Ultima up to VII/2, so he deserves some credit for that.
His later games sucking doesn't invalidate the fun he brought me. I just didn't buy Tabula Rasa, so I don't have to be angry about it. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 14, 2008, 10:33:05 AM I think Lantyssa just wants to keep him from convincing dumbasses to give him money again and taking it away from other companies - which will surely be his MO upon his arrival back to earth as a SPACE HERO. I'll point out that ultimately this is all I want, since some people seem to think I actually might wish harm on someone.It's internet bluster, about a pointless article, on a pointless waste of money, for someone whom I consider at best pointless and at worst hurtful of the gaming industry in the last few years. It's worthy of being in Serious Business, so I'm going to treat it as such. I don't actually wish ill of anyone. Even the loonies I can't stand I just want to go away and be quiet. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Yegolev on October 14, 2008, 12:45:37 PM Who is watching the castle while he is gone?
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Der Helm on October 14, 2008, 02:24:42 PM Who is watching the castle while he is gone? He is... FROM SPAAAACE! Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: UnSub on October 14, 2008, 07:16:01 PM Who is watching the castle while he is gone? He is... FROM SPAAAACE! Either that or he has a clone. Or 8. He's the kind of guy who would. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Ratman_tf on October 15, 2008, 11:55:19 AM Who is watching the castle while he is gone? He is... FROM SPAAAACE! Either that or he has a clone. Or 8. He's the kind of guy who would. You found your christmas present! Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Righ on October 15, 2008, 04:29:21 PM I'm sure he cloned himself before acquiring the Cosmonaut skills. Unfortunately his clone only has a level one castle.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Mirochai on October 16, 2008, 03:36:10 PM He is the first gamer is space yeah? I'll tip my hat to that.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: lamaros on October 16, 2008, 05:58:43 PM on a pointless waste of money Actually, he gets to go to space. Space. Good on him I say. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 16, 2008, 06:20:29 PM See Nebu's comment for my feelings on this. His first one, not the one playing along with my posts.
Space is cool. I like the space program. Visit APotD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) daily. I'm Big into Sci-Fi. Would think it really cool to go myself. I still consider it a waste of money. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: deadplayer on October 16, 2008, 06:38:19 PM $30 million for a space travel :ye_gods:
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: lamaros on October 16, 2008, 06:41:13 PM See Nebu's comment for my feelings on this. His first one, not the one playing along with my posts. Space is cool. I like the space program. Visit APotD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) daily. I'm Big into Sci-Fi. Would think it really cool to go myself. I still consider it a waste of money. Yeah I'm just being a pedant about 'pointless'. While I love space (as a child I could tell you the distance between all the planets in the solar system, their mass, etc) I also would probably do something different if it came down to having that much money. But that's a question of what you would do with you money, not if what you're doing has a point. He wants to go to space. He gets to go to space. Now, to properly derail this thread: Hitler had a point, he wanted to wipe out the Jewish race. It was an abhorrent point, sure, but it was a point. If you happen to agree with him that wiping out the jewish race is a good thing then he might seem to you to have had a wonderful point. If we have 30million to throw about our choice between "going to space", "wiping out jews", and "helping the homeless" isn't determined by one of them having a point and the others not but by our personal evaluation of the extent to which the point of each is valuable and worthwhile. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Tebonas on October 17, 2008, 01:50:25 AM That comparasation is bullshit.
Wiping out Jewish people negatively affects Jews (obviously) Garriot pissing away his money on useless stuff (and he has a history of doing that) does not affect anybody else. The man is a big child. He has his own castle for heavens sake. Does he use his money in a responsible way? Certainly not. But its not like he stole that money from anybody. People bought his games. EA bought his company. They could have given to charity instead just as easily as him. Hell, I give to the Red Cross and to the WWF anually, but if you suggested it was my obligation to do so I would tell you to go fuck yourself. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: lamaros on October 17, 2008, 03:53:55 AM I'm going to give you the ESL excuse for misreading that so horribly. :heart:
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Tebonas on October 17, 2008, 06:19:22 AM I still think killing or not killing people is never a question of personal evaluation, but I might have gone somewhat over the tangent here.
Blame it on the second language thing, I guess thats better for me and I won't have to apologize! :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Sky on October 17, 2008, 11:28:00 AM While I hope Richard gets back ok, it would be kinda funny to hear the transcript of a problem:
"Houston, we have a problem." "Sorry, I cannot help thee with that." (I know it's not NASA, stfu) Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Nija on October 17, 2008, 04:11:40 PM How the fuck did he end up with $30 million to blow? Did he get in on the Amazon IPO?
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Montague on October 17, 2008, 05:17:13 PM How the fuck did he end up with $30 million to blow? Did he get in on the Amazon IPO? He sold Origin Systems to EA in 1992 for $35 million. Invest that money wisely before the tech runup and that's a lot of salad. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Righ on October 17, 2008, 08:02:13 PM Also, he may have paid $30 million for the flight but he in turn has been paid by a number of sponsors, so he's only out of pocket by a fraction of that. It was in the article or something. Hitler wasn't.
If he invested his money in stocks wisely, he's recently lost a fair amount of it. We've have heard from him about that, but in space no-one can hear you scream. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lum on October 17, 2008, 08:46:43 PM He also made quite a bit of money when Destination Games was sold to NCsoft (not sure as to the exact amount but it was a significant portion of NCsoft stock).
That being said he postponed his trip a few times due to the cost. Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Lantyssa on October 17, 2008, 08:51:59 PM He did say in some interview this was costing most of his fortune.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Ubvman on October 18, 2008, 02:05:33 AM He has several sponsors I believe, one of them is Seiko:
SEIKO Spring Drive Spacewalk: The Quiet Revolution goes into space (http://www.seikowatches.com/baselworld/2008/press/details/10_spring_drive_spacewalk.html) Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk (http://www.seikospringdrive.com/spacewalk/watchinfo/index.html) He's wearing a nice watch indeed: (http://www.seikowatches.com/baselworld/2008/images/press/details/10_01_spacewalk.jpg) (http://www.seikowatches.com/baselworld/2008/images/press/details/10_05_spacewalk.jpg) Its a very expensive watch, several thousand dollars - but my other hobby is collecting watches, so I'm gonna have a look at it... On another note, People here are so blasé - either about space travel or even gamers in space. C'mon - its LORD BRITISH IN SPACE!!!! Tough crowd - I'm kinda stoked for him... :awesome_for_real: :heart: :heart: :heart: :why_so_serious: Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: schild on October 18, 2008, 02:21:18 AM That watch is cooler than Garriot or Tabula Rasa.
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: penfold on October 18, 2008, 06:53:47 AM Seiko... doing what Omega did with an off the shelf model in 1957 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwatch) :)
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: tkinnun0 on October 18, 2008, 09:47:17 AM It's a watch. But if buying watches gets more people into space, go buy watches!
Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Ubvman on October 24, 2008, 12:18:25 AM For closure...
Other forum posters fervent wishes for fiery heat shield failure re-entries notwithstanding: He's BAAAACK! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_sc/eu_russia_us_space;_ylt=A2KIKvL4dAFJWO0A5Bas0NUE) Title: Re: Lord British in space! Post by: Dtrain on October 26, 2008, 01:11:33 AM For closure... Other forum posters fervent wishes for fiery heat shield failure re-entries notwithstanding: He's BAAAACK! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_sc/eu_russia_us_space;_ylt=A2KIKvL4dAFJWO0A5Bas0NUE) Did he find his missing talent? |