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Hi lads, I've been negligent in my duties as a DangerDog recently I

They were good. Thanks for posting. On a related note (insanity0 here are some quotes from some comedian Jack Handey who is apparently on Saturday Night

That's pathetic, frior-one :laughing7:

That must be a very satisfying feeling. Well done. Let us know about the next ones, too.

"Squeezes elephant poo to drink the fluid" Wouldn't it be better to just die?

Yep - it works for me. I don't use it often as hardly any of my friends are A) awake or free when I am and B)have it installed. Other than that it seemed fine to me.

I know exactly what you mean. I dropped them to excellent for a big formations mission recently and just about killed myself on take off as the plane seemed to be racing. Never knew what i was missing! I still turn it back to Perfect for less intense missions as i do love my scenery.

Wish I had dragged myself out of bed for this but in bed at 5am on a winter's morning is hard to argue with. @jensenpark - just reading through you and BG's routine on the Ubi squadron's page. My only comment - stupid ba$tids . Inane but really fun.

Good to hear, jp. Thanks a lot. I hope you have fun with new campaign.

Hi Pooka - yeah the comments are really really gratifying, as is the number of downloads. It's amazing the difference that a popular setting makes. My Spanish Civil War one appealed to a more select few although it still got downoaded enough to make it worthwhile. Even if a lot of people don't play through the whole campaigns (I know I rarely do) at least I know that some people are enjoying what I did. Actually, while you're here, thanks for your comment about how effective the clouds looked in the first two missions. After you mentioned it I realised that I had liked them too and went back through all the missions and added them to some. Made a big difference, to me at least. Ta!

Thanks guys. I'm pretty pleased - 700 downloads in about 30 hours. Great to have finished it, too. It takes up soo much time. Thanks to BG, Pooka, Klinger and Ironmike for testing some missions.

Ha-hah! The Dogz be "connected". Now that we have a man on the inside, long live the upcoming "Mandatory Skimpy Bikinis for Hot Chicks Revolution!!!!!".

Thanks for the interesting info Drinksky. That should impress a couple of my beer-snob friends. I only tried the beer once but it was an impressive beer and I always look for it now. Alas, unsuccessfully but I live in hope... Jensenparl - what kind of beer is "Shaftesbury"? It sounds interesting from your recommendation.

Hi JP - that campaign should be out this week I hope. I still have to make at least semi-decent tracks for it and then package up all the files but I think it's mostly done. No doubt I'll spot the glaring errors the second it's uploaded but what can you do? Timezones- hmm, I'm

Interesting. I'll have to try some of those British beers as I have seen them in my local bottle shop but never heard much about them. As for the Big Rock range, they sound good so I'll keep an eye out for them. Mass market NZ beers are extremely bland, too, so it's not just exclusive to NA.

Ahhh, see I don't really care for Guiness. Lacks the sweetness, the 'spices' of the Belgian abbey or trappist beers. To me it's like drinking a flat, marmite milkshake. I find it extremely tough going. In all fairness though it's been a few years since I last tried it. Chimay and Leffe are very nice but I'm very lucky to have access to a fairly good range of less common ones that to me have more character (but then again I might just be being a wanker about it ). If you enjoy the taste of the Chimays and so on, and you have a chance to try them then I can highly recommend Aachel, the Rochefort range (the "8" is my favourite), Villers trippel,Duinen Dubbel and Trippel, and if you can lay your hands on it, Westvleteren 10 or 12. It's very rare and costs an arm and a leg (relatively speaking) but is well worth trying, just for the sheer complexity of the taste. Plus it helps monks, like our very own Frior-One, support their 'monking' habit so drinking it is practically an act of charity!

Evening (or possibly not) esteemed fellow hounds, I have been partaking of the joys of Belgian brewcraft and thought this an appropriate time to offer praise to the noble art of beer-brewing and at the same time elicit recommendations from your distinguished personages. This evening I was lucky enough to have on hand a fine Belgian ale by Duinen - the Trippel no less. A delicious, citrusy,almost floral beer (in a really manly, un-gay sense of course, in case anyone was getting alarmed). I followed it up with a dark, roasted-tasting porter by a Russian brewer, Baltika. I'm not much of a one for dark beers but this porter, admittedly the only one I have tried, is delicious. Dark, a burnt, malty taste and nose, with a sweetness to smooth it off. Another thing I like about these kinds of beers is that they don't dick around with a ridiculous 4% alcohol content - the Baltika Porter weighs in at 7%, with the Duinen trippel at 9% so you don't have to drink 6 of them to get the sharp edges taken off. I am blessed with many things in life - a fine, beautiful wife, an execellent bunch of guys to talk flying with (cos I'm never awake when you are), and most importantly, a beershop around the corner with a staggering selection. So, do you have any recommendations for a fellow beer-lover? I drink the full gamut of beers though I find Stouts and Lagers to be fairly generic. They have their place admittedly, but for me it's the brilliance of the Belgian ales and the Weissbiers that drives me in my search for excellence in beer. [Canada has a corker, too - Fin du Monde. Any Canadians who read this should make sure to lay their hands on this beauty.]

If you want some good online action shots set to a quite cool soundtrack, try 4"7heaven" by MysticPuma I think. I have it on my hard drive. Full of great action shots. That plus 'Requiem" are two of the movies that really got me hooked on IL2 before I was able to get my hands on the game. Another one that shows lots of different theatres and planes with a cool soundtrack and lots of action is "Spread your Love" (Marc Bolan song). The two movies I have posted about don't show the anarchic, insane side of the IL2 community but they do show a lot of the great IL2 moments - nailing a sweet deflection shot, blowing a wing off a bandit, blowing seven bells out of tanks with your rockets, etc etc. Also they lack narrative completely. I'm happy to upload them to any and all though. Cheers, FSM

Your namesake city? Hm? I'd never even heard of Halfwit Donkeylover City before. I guess you learn something every day. PS Sorry for revealing your true identity to the world >

Hi lads, Thanks for your comments. I can't boot the PC in 'safe mode' because if the screen fails then nothing at all displays so I couldn't see anything to change it. Unfortunately we ditched the old CRT monitor a couple of years ago so there's nothing else to test it on. The monitor is working at the moment (touch wood) and I agree that it seems to be the monitor itself rather than the computer or graphics card. I did a google and found nothing much other than that perhaps the wiring inside the monitor is loose. It's no longer under warranty and we'll probably just get a new, non-BenQ one, so I might have a look inside. BG - Happy New Year!. The holiday was pretty good except the weather - 10 -15 degrees centigrade on average the whole time I was there! Not the summer I was hoping for.

I got a copy while I was in NZ and I have to say that the new jets are a damned good time. Real or not, who cares? Just pure fun tearing up the skies in them. And jeebus do they back some weaponry some of them.

Hi guys, Two days ago my error prone BenQ 17inch TFT monitor decided it would show only white. No text, images, nothing - just white. First I thought it was some virus or something, however even when the monitor was turned on independently of the computer it came up pure white so I concluded it was a monitor problem. As I was contemplating whether to drop it or kick it off the balcony it suddenly flashed into normal functionality which lasted until about three hours ago when it started the whole routine again. This time it remained white through several restarts. Finally I just turned the PC on and walked away. When I came back in about 30 minutes thr windows screensaver was on. Tentatively I moved the mouse to see if it would work and sure enough, everything is hunky dory again. I don't get it! I'm probably going to buy a new monitor - not BenQ again as this is the third monitor we are on after only 2-3 years use (happily they or the PC company replaced them free as they were under warranty). So, I have a monitor. It mostly works but sometimes it only display a blank white image. Restarting, checking connections, the programmes running, have no affect it seems. Any ideas?

Nice.

Hi guys, I'm thinking I might curtail the campaign and get it out before i leave for my Xmas holidays on Dec22. I have had most of the missions sitting on my HD for months now and just want to get it uploaded. If I have time/interest I can always add more missions later but as it is if I throw in a couple of movies it'll