Thursday chatter about Mars Rover Racing
<ctate>
FOAF’s writeup of a
recent Kraftwerk show.
<em> ctate: do you know what show that was? because the pre-encore cellphones-instead-of-lighters thing happened at the Seattle show.
<ctate> dunno
<em> but, well, enough people were holding their phones up to take pictures during the show that it seemed like a natural progression
<ctate> aha! it was indeed the Seattle show a few weeks ago
* em feels a rush of hometown geek pride
<ctate> you were there?
<dsandler> cellphones-instead-of-lighters, really?
<em> yeah. it r0x0r3d
<dsandler> these truly are the End Times
* dsandler . o O ( the Talk/End Times? )
<ctate> the word of the day is ESCHATON
<dsandler> Isn’t that the word of every day?
<dsandler> Recently, anyway?
<ctate> hm, i haven’t checked the Rapture Index lately.
<ctate> wars are up but i think plagues and volcanos are down, so it’s a wash.
* dsandler sometimes gets the feeling that this world is the Mars Rover—very nearly at the end of a good run, and then, inexplicably,
“Time Extended!”
<ctate> when you juuuuust barely coast in under the checkpoint after desperately popping it in neutral to squeeze those last few pixels in
<em> but sooner or later we’ll be on our backs in a crater, manipulators and sensors waving feebly…
<bcombee> oooh! I want “Mars Rover Racing” for the PS2!
<bcombee> You turn left, and fifteen minutes later, you see the rover turn left as you get pictures back from Mars!
* darryl is now known as darryl-doc
<pixelknave> half pipes on
Burns Cliff!
<darryl-doc> bcombee++ ; // heh
<dsandler> bcombee++; // Gran Turismo: Olympus Mons
<em> > tell rover to turn left
<em> * the rover says nothing
<em> > inspect datastream
<em> * ye cannot inspect ye datastream!