Ben “LOAF” Lesnick
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Member, fraternal order of goofy looking doofuses with impossibly pretty wives. (he/him)
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Dear Twitter pals: you can always find me through wcnews dot com, the last website. And if you want to talk about nothing with some of the most aging dorks there are, join our Discord:
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The X-Files is on TV, everyone is screaming about Hillary Clinton and there’s a bug in Pentium chips. Thanks to all involved for helping me achieve my dream of it being 1994 again.
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The Paramount+ account posted this picture on YouTube and I think it needs to be preserved for posterity.
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Carrie Fisher's Leia is why my generation grew up knowing women were leaders, bad-asses and equals. To me, she's royalty. RIP.
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@InkyPoker
@NotABigJerk
Excuse me, but "virtue signaling” and "power hierarchy”? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that.
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Happy birthday to Wing Commander I, which was released 33 years ago today! It marked an epochal shift in how computer games were played, made and sold... and I guess you could say it has been pretty big in my life, too!
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Come on Bethesda, give the people what they want: a new Commander Keen
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Here are the amazing takeoff and landing sprites from the original Wing Commander. Along with the cockpits these were absolutely essential in establishing the player's ship in their head (and showing-not-telling damage after a mission!).
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I like that one of the first signs that we’re looking at an evil alternate Picard is that he collects Star Trek memorabilia.
Some weapons in Picard's collection include:
1: Jem'Hadar kar'takin blade
2: Cardassian phaser
3: Bajoran phaser
4: TOS-era phaser
5: Reman disruptor pistol
6: Jem'Hadar phaser
7: Mid-2280s 'assault' phaser
#StarTrek
#StarTrekPicard
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It's hard to believe but Wing Commander III was released 25 years ago today! Happy birthday!
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There’s a lost Wing Commander game out there, somewhere. The SNES port of Wing Commander II was finished but never published. Please spread the word and someday we’ll find it!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WING COMMANDER! The first Wing Commander shipped 28 years ago today.
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In my day you didn’t have to pay two separate admissions when you wanted both epic space battles and anthropomorphic cats.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The original Wing Commander was released 30 years ago today... and space has never been the same!
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Our favorite used bookstore posted that they had received a bunch of Frazetta prints and so we went at lunch to check them out. This one came home!
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RIP graphic designers?
Corel Gallery 1993 can create a logo in seconds.
Here is how to create any logo for free using clip art:
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“They could never afford to show Cetacean Ops in live action!!!” Ahem:
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Remember when folks would troll Star Citizen saying it was “selling jpegs”? Now those ships are flyable… and /actually/ selling jpegs is somehow the biggest fad in the world?
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Here it is, the greatest product I have ever seen. By a wide margin.
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Art from a t-shirt given to Origin Systems employees in the mid-90s, not long after the EA buyout. It predates the Borg sphere introduced in First Contact!
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Some of us were into visually stunning, shockingly expensive and ultimately unnecessary TV show prequels to beloved properties before it was cool.
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Happy birthday to Wing Commander II, one of the greatest games ever made! Thirty years ago today we learned that our friends were all dead and that everyone else in the galaxy now hates us.
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Is this coming week the first time we’ve had Star Trek, Star Wars and Marvel shows all air new streaming episodes? What a rare opportunity for the most unpleasant people in the world to let us know how much they hate three things at once!
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It's our anniversary! Four years ago I married
@ballroom_blitz
in the rain and we have had more than our share of happiness since.
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HERE IT IS! I am now the very proud father of a 35mm theatrical print of the Wing Commander movie. I never dreamed I’d get a chance to own one!
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I hope everyone gets a chance to be as happy as we have been these past SIX YEARS! ♥️♥️♥️
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Hello everyone! Great news today: if I make it through the night without a fever, I'm headed home in the morning!
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Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your kindness. My vision is slowly but surely coming back and I can see enough to tweet again!
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Happy birthday, Wing Commander! Origin shipped the first game 31 years ago today. In the distant future…
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Hey everybody! They're taking me off IV antibiotics today. If my numbers look good tomorrow, they'll send me home. Send good thoughts!
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In the absence of a cause of death, I choose to believe that Ms. White died bravely rocketing her F-35 jet into the alien mothership, saving us all.
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I'm extremely sad to pass along the news that Klavs (aka Adam Burch) has passed away unexpectedly. He was an incredible artist, a true giant in the Wing Commander community and a friend.
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Maybe I have anxiety because Sierra games taught me that making any single mistake will immediately kill you.
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Hey everyone! Again thank you so much for the love. Progress is a little slow here, but it's better than getting worse! I'll be back :)
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It’s high time for a schlocky ‘90s style action movie where an aging superstar actor has to steal a space shuttle from a museum to save the world from an evil satellite or something.
Discovery’s final mission completed.
Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center today in 2011, completing STS-133, its 39th mission and final spaceflight.
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I just heard Twitter allows us to post pornography now! Enjoy—
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First night out in a long time! We are going to the movies! And I can see them!
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No one in the history of the universe has been happy to have to read a pinned tweet.
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I am so sad to report that our beautiful boy has passed on. Teaky was the most special cat I have ever known. I will strive to treat all beings with as much unconditional love as he gave us.
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Whatever your feelings on the Luna 25 crash, I think we can at least admit that Russia still holds the record for coolest looking moon probe. Lunokhod 2 looks like it was fully capable of fighting Doctor Who.
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Hello everybody! I’m sorry for the radio silence, I’m in the hospital fighting an infection. I’m okay and it’s nowhere near as bad as last time, just a pain to get through. All Wings Considered will resume as soon as I’m flight ready again.
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The secret is out! I’m so excited that CIG surprised with a very fancy new work computer. Looks like you’ll be seeing more of me in the ‘verse!
This Talon, printed in the amazing artwork of
@squadron_42
&
@RobertsSpaceInd
is for one of its first employees, the dedicated Community Manager
@banditloaf
. May it armor you in the battles to come, Sir!
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We announced Star Citizen five years ago today at GDC Online in Austin! Look how young we were:
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It’s an absolute unit! The 3.5” low density version of Wing Commander II holds the record for number of floppy disks in a WC release at 14.
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If you’re a huge secret grump like me, you’re probably sick of people telling you how delightful Return to Monkey Island is. Well, terrible news: it is exactly as great as you’re sick of everyone saying it is. 🏴☠️
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A big part of getting old is looking back and fondly realizing how most things you grew up with were obviously designed by furries.
We’re heading all the way back to 1984 with these three LEGO FABULAND® sets. Shout out to anyone who remembers these cute critters. 👀
#LEGOLookback
#TBT
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This is French Fish! He kept me safe through many surgeries when I was young, now he's back to work his magic again!
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Happy birthday to Wing Commander IV. It was (finally) released 28 years ago today!
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Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes! Have a great night, I’m off to eat this entire cake. 🚀
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Did you know that System Shock began life as a lore-heavy Wing Commander spinoff called Alien Commander?
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@megynkelly
The only aspect of this that even begins to approach true censorship is the fact that they couldn’t actually name the song that.
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I'm so excited to be home! Thank you all, will catch up soon. Current mood:
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Hey everyone! Not quite up to tweeting, but wanted to thank you all for the love. Got a bit of a road ahead, but I can do it. Love you all.
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Have I always been this cool? Well, here's an actual high school photo.
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I want to especially thank
@discolando
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Wing Commander II! The original MS-DOS version was released 29 years ago today. At the time it was like nothing else in the galaxy, pushing both technology and narrative in games to totally new places... and it made Wing Commander a universe!
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THRILLING ART NEWS! It turns out that the amazing cover to Wing Commander: End Run was NOT painted by Paul Alexander (as credited)... but David Mattingly! And... HE SELLS PRINTS AT HIS WEBSITE!
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Good/terrifying news: we are now on for surgery on Friday morning! Cross all appendages.
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Happy Star Wars Day! Here's the greatest after credits scene of all time:
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This is probably the best photo of Flint and a Kilrathi extra with tiny hands that you're going to see tonight.
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Happy birthday to... WING COMMANDER ARMADA! Armada was released 25 years ago today. It was a spin-off project that added multiplayer, turn based strategy and a true 3D engine to the Wing Commander canon!
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When you are down, be kind to someone else. What is darkness but a reason to shine more light into the universe?
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Eye doctor report! Recovery is going very well. There's blood behind my retina that needs to drain, but it could take several weeks.
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Look at these cuties! Eight years ago I married
@ballroom_blitz
in the rain and I love her now as much as I did that day. Life can be tough but we have got it figured out together. ❤️
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Let’s hear from someone who already successfully defunded the Police.
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Happy anniversary,
@ballroom_blitz
! It’s hard to recognize most of the world we knew back then but my deep love for you remains. Now let’s see what adventures the next ten years have for us!
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Quick update! No surgery needed, but still on IV antibiotics. Could be a couple more days in here. Doing the best we can! Love to all.
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@DavidAGoodman
@Brandon_Bird
(When they out Hercules out on DVD the first set had a contest you could enter to win a trip to the Olympics with Kevin Sorbo and to this day I can’t imagine anything more uncomfortable than the possibility of winning that.)
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Shhhhhh, I think they’re shooting the Game of Thrones finale in my apartment building.
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Today we celebrate off-centered spaceship cockpits: the Tarsus from Privateer and the Kor-Larh from Wing Commander Armada! Today we'd be able to display these double cockpits head on with a fancy widescreen monitor.
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Eye update for the folks asking: still some fuzzy spots and everything is neon yellow... but it's a huge improvement from a week ago!
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ANXIETY GONE! Retina is still on, lens is healing nicely! Thank you all for the energy, it means a lot to me.
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Happy birthday, Wing Commander Prophecy! I’ll say the quiet part out loud: they still haven’t made another space sim this good 26 years later.
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@thomasthecat
You could finish the story on a budget! Do an in-universe documentary with the original cast as old veterans reminiscing about the war in talking head shots.
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I know we have a lot of streaming content to get through right now but do not sleep on a free Rick Steves art history survey.
Check your local listings for “Rick Steves Art of Europe” — my brand-new, six-hour miniseries, airing now on public television across the country.
Where will you be watching from?
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People like to argue over whether Vader knew Yoda was still alive but obviously they would’ve seen each other at the Soul Calibur IV tournament.
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It’s been done.
DARPA selected us to further develop the concept of building a moon-based railroad network that would transport humans, supplies and resources for commercial ventures. Learn more:
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Five years ago I married
@ballroom_blitz
in the rain surrounded by our very good friends and family. It has been as Wordsworth said: five summers with the length of five long winters. ❤️
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@PulpLibrarian
I love Wing Commander, Honor Harrington and Man-Kzin Wars... but it’s hard to top this one:
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I’m so sorry to report that my mother in law Jeanne has died unexpectedly. Please keep
@ballroom_blitz
in your prayers. I will update when there is more information. She loved us so much and the world feels so dark and wrong tonight.
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CBS will cancel the Captain Picard show after internet trolls dig up his old tweets from when he was Locutus.
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We're going to play a little Wing Commander IV on Happy Hour today!
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Currently obsessed with Micro Machines’ 1993 line of non-licensed spaceships. Look at all the lore oozing out of the ship names and specs!
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I call on everyone who ever made fun of the fact that enemy pilot Colonel Blair simply walks into a joint session of congress at the end of Wing Commander IV to apologize IMMEDIATELY.
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Someone is cutting space onions in here! Thank you for the kind note! ❤️
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True happiness is waking up in your own bed after the nap you've needed for ten days! ❤️
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Peep this very metal Wing Commander III Kilrathi concept sketch. I had never seen him before!
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Meatballs are one of the best foods because you can imagine you’re eating one of those floating ball guys from DOOM.
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