OT: Wright flyer oh dear

I noticed someone near the start of this thread panned Gothic 3 (with good reason I might add). People do yourselves a favor if you are fans of RPG's and go find the first two games in this series, Gothic and Gothic 2. They are epic! I enjoyed them more than Morrowind and Oblivion, which are the only games they are really comparable too in style. They admittedly aren't as pretty as Oblivion, but still rather excellent.

Have to admit I'm looking forward to Fallout3 myself. It is sitting on my shelf, as yet un-installed, (I'm still pretty addicted to Age of Conan at the moment), but is sure to get a thrashing sometime in 2009. :jump:

Of course the release of P3 may well put those plans back a few months :icon_lol:

As far as First Person Shooters go.... run out and grab Left 4 Dead, which was recently released by Valve. Best co-op game I've played in ages. Valve have basically taken the 28 Days Later take on Zombie movie epics, and turned it into a frantic co-op shooter which is just insanely fast paced.
 
Olham, here are some of my Se5 repaints for OFF. From most recent to the oldest.

New white Se5

Old white Se5

Another one

My first one

I started repainting planes with not so much knowledge on Photoshop/Paint shop pro. The repaints are getting better (weathering etc.) as you move to the earliest ones. I am getting ready for more stuff when P3 comes out :jump:. I may start reskinning other types of planes as well :ernae:. (See post number 6 here for a teaser :)

Pageturner I have had Gothic I and II and played them both for a loooong time. Gothic II is way better than Oblivion. We must not care about good graphics so much. Good gameplay and depth is what a game is all about..
 
Hey, Gousgounis
Perhaps you create yourself an alter ego (Baron von Hellas? would sound believeable. Or does your name have a meaning, that I could translate into German for you?), flying German planes, as those planes were really colourful painted, some with great artwork skills. That's fun, and it could have been possible (and you'd always have TWO guns - much better!). A blue cross on a white plane, with Greek blue nose and tail end? Impossible with the Allies, but with us - no problem (you see, I'm recruiting in a more subtle way than OvS with his posters... :costumes:)
Have fun.
Olham
 
After seeing the DrI skin that Ovs did for me I came up with an "alter ego". His name is Josef Richter von Feuervogel. Being German, you know what that means, eh Olham?

CJ
 
There is no way I am flying for the dark side! :kilroy:.
And my name in Greek has a meaning yes. It is the surname of a Greek National Hero of the mighty 80s :costumes:. But trust me you dont want to know what kind of hero he was :costumes::costumes::costumes:.
And the Greeks were on the side of the Entente the whole time!
 
Bleeech! Gousgounis - zere ain't no dark zide, our side is the colourful side! But if you must stay with your entente friendz, I do deeply respect zis, and it honours you! So, vee might meet in ze skies one day - I would have preferred to meet you over a Stifado and some Retzina, really.
Keep your bird in the sky, friend.
Olham

Hey, CAMELJOCKEY, off course I know - it would be Firebird. Or did you mean Thunderbird; that would be: Donnervogel). However - Firebird fits that car from your earlier avatar, and also this Dr. 1 I wish you success with it - and don't shoot Gousgounis (or only, when it's absolutely necessary).
 
Olham54 said:
So, vee might meet in ze skies one day - I would have preferred to meet you over a Stifado and some Retzina, really.
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Of course you would. Nobody wants to die now eh? mwahahahahahaaa :costumes:
 
Hello Gousgounis,

You wrote: " ...And the Greeks were on the side of the Entente the whole time! ..."

Greece was at first neutral, officially. However they allowed the Entente to use their ports, and supported attacks against the "central powers". This was not really appreciated by the diplomats, until King Constantine abdicated/resigned(?), and left the country.
Greece then fought against the central powers because Bulgaria, then belonging to the the central powers, had invaded Macedonia. When England had lost the battle for Turkey at Gallipoli, a lot of mediterranean states thought of supporting the central powers, if only against colonial repression, or Russia. And England would have declared war to Germany even if Belgium would not have been invaded, the plans were made already in 1906/07.
Seems there is a lot of misunderstanding, along with propaganda and Hollywoood, which lead to the current perception of what lead to this war, and who did what. The reasons for WW1 were much more complicated, and there was no black and white, not even close to WW2.

Greetings,
Catfish
 
Catfish;

WWI in Greece was a pretty complicated political subject. After the Balkan Wars, the King wanted Greece to remain neutral, favoring Germany. But Eleftherios Venizelos, (a great politician which wanted to get to the side of the Entente) managed to become the prime minister of Greece and joined forces with the British and the French against the Central Powers. The King left in exile. (Greece had always trouble with some morons sitting in some god damned throne :censored:)
Bulgaria and Turkey were some of the countries in the vicinity of Greece which sided with the Germans. I have read many books about Greeks-Serbians-Frenchies fighting against Bulgarians-Germans in the trenches at Serbia. So no, we were not neutral :kilroy:.
And because I dont have time to get to the post office to send you my history book from school check THIS out.:ernae:
 
Gousgounis said:
I started repainting planes with not so much knowledge on Photoshop/Paint shop pro. The repaints are getting better (weathering etc.) as you move to the earliest ones. I am getting ready for more stuff when P3 comes out :jump:. I may start reskinning other types of planes as

Hi Gousgounis,
Do you have a tutorial or can you give some advice on how to re-paint the skins -It is something ive never tried, but have always wanted to do

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Hello Gousgounis,

thanks, but from this very link:

" ... Even though Venizelos promised to remain neutral, after the elections of 1915, Bulgaria's attack on Serbia, with which Greece had a treaty of alliance, obliged him to abandon that policy. ..."

" ...Meanwhile, using the excuse of saving Serbia, in October 1915, the Entente disembarked an army in Thessaloniki. ..."

Germany fought in Macedonia in the Vardar valley in 1916, against Entente planes that came from "neutral" Greece.

"... On 16 August 1916, there was a rally in Athens, where with the support of the allied army, which had landed in Thessaloniki under the command of General Maurice Sarrail ..."

" ... After a naval blockade to major coastal Greek cities and threats of bombardment of Athens by the Entente's ships, King Constantine accepted a self-exile to Switzerland on 11 June 1917. ..."

Seems Greece was officially neutral until june 1917 (three years), but the Entente would not let them, and helped Venicelos to gain power.
I have to admit Greece was obviously not neutral ...

Greetings,
Catfish
 
Leave the trenches for Christmas

Hey, Gousgounis and Catfish
The trenches of the old days are long filled up again, and I am very happy, that the formerly conflicting parties are now joined in a Europe, that, although it's still far from perfect, seems to be stronger in these days of economic desaster, than anyone would have expected only a year ago (speakers lungs fill noisely with fresh air).
I think, we all have more important problems to face, than the old empires had then, and I think, we're all in the same boat now, so let's sail it through the coming storms.
Tomorrow night, it's the birthday of the good man on the cross. Holy or not - some of his spirit wouldn't hurt. Let's fill up the trenches in our minds.
Amen! Olham
 
Olham54 said:
Hey, Gousgounis and Catfish
The trenches of the old days are long filled up again, and I am very happy, that the formerly conflicting parties are now joined in a Europe, that, although it's still far from perfect, seems to be stronger in these days of economic desaster, than anyone would have expected only a year ago (speakers lungs fill noisely with fresh air).
I think, we all have more important problems to face, than the old empires had then, and I think, we're all in the same boat now, so let's sail it through the coming storms.
Tomorrow night, it's the birthday of the good man on the cross. Holy or not - some of his spirit wouldn't hurt. Let's fill up the trenches in our minds.
Amen! Olham
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Amen!

Merry Christmas to all!
 
Merry Christmas!
Legion, HERE is a tutorial. It is for the VERY basics though :ernae:.
THIS site is great for more advanced stuff..
 
I'm the hero of Kvatch. That's what they keep telling me anyway. I'm bouncing between Oblivion and OFF myself. I'm a sneeky, thieving bow marksman of a wood elf. I have a nice house where I live in Anvil and it's a heck of a good time.
 
Hey, Gousgounis
Can you make these links a new thread? Cause, I had halfways promised some people to write a guidance for PHOTOSHOP. And if this is what they need, I wouldn't have to...

Hey, RICKITYCRATE
Must I get worried now? Or is it just a lack of understanding - I don't understand anything...?...???...?...
 
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