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Great, thanks. £2 a pint on the cask ales and a free buffet. There were a few school parents there, too, but we all agreed on an 'I won't tell if you don't' arrangement.

Yeah! Lifting pints. (See previous post!)

I'll see your pencil and raise it. (It's about the only thing I can raise this morning!)

And so the deed is done. Thrustmaster ordered and Beta access purchased. I feel like I've taken a huge step forward into the realm of Geekdom.

And...???

Judging by the on-screen shenanigans, I think VeryPC staff randomly test drugs! Just say NO, kids!

Aye-aye, captain. I will make it so.

I'm already into injury time! Just waiting for something to finish installing then I'm offski. One of my local bars is having a 10th anniversary bash tonight, with drinks reverting to 2004 prices. Should be a good 'un. Edit: @VeryPC_Colin_M, you've got to sneak the pencil into tomorrow's video at some point.

OY! Get on your lazy backsides, stop working and get back to skive!

*3 posts all day???? This must surely go down in history as the quietest VeryPC competition day EVER!!! (*Not including this one - before the pedants crawl out from the woodwork!)

D'jer know what? I'm gonna do this thang. I'm gonna buy me a Thrustmaster, download the Beta and blast me some Thargoid scum! (And if I really am useless at it, won't it be a great Christmas present for my 16-year old nephew?) :dance:I can't believe I'm getting so excited about a computer game!

I hear you, brother. I think @ict-direct John's was built by the Magratheans! My laptop has an i7-4710MQ 2.5GHz CPU, 8GB DDR3, Nvidea GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5. Think that should be good enough to run it according to the Beta system requirements. Now all I need is a decent joystick, as I don't think my old Quickshot 2 would be up to the task! Was looking at that Thrustmaster one @ZeroHour mentioned earlier in the thread. I don't want to spend loads in case I just give it up as a bad idea, but I think I can cope with £35 or so. Also, to Beta or not to Beta? That is the question.

More closed caption shenanigans. Are they selling scouts at the ferry-boat bake sale or somewhere else? And whom, exactly, did you pull inside of @VeryPC Al?

And later, we can watch the auto-caption scripted video with the auto-captions - in a John Malkovich inside his own head kind of way.

I'm not gonna DARE watch this until all the kids are out of the suite! I KNOW I'm gonna be a giggling wreck in the corner.

Well I'm already in costume. Hurry up, before the next class comes in!!

Hahahahahaha!! Fuel scooping the bounty. Oh, I love it! How can I not give this a go? I can hear the 8-bit strains of the Blue Danube Waltz calling me home.

Nnnnnnggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!! I can feel myself being sucked in. Are there still Thargoids? Tell me there are still Thargoids and I'm in.

Seriously, I think the last computer game I played was Star Wars Pod Racer. This is a whole nother level! But it is Elite...

I was SOOOOOO tempted to buy this game, along with one of those cool looking thrusty joystick things but I know I'd just be wasting my money now coz I'd never get the hang of it. *gutted*

Hey, there are some things in life to which you just can't say no!

You've got no chance. I'm still waiting for the ferry-boat bake sale from last week!

Eeek!! All excited about that! The only problem is games are all dead complicated these days and I'm useless. I just want to pitch, roll and fire!

I've not played computer games for aeons so forgive me if I sound like a dinosaur, but are we talking Elite as in Braben and Bell's landmark space-trading game from the 80s? EDIT: It is! It is! Just watched the vid and clicked on the link. Wow! I used to LOVE that game. I may just have to indulge myself.

Ninja editing skills! EDIT: Wasn't that a Genesis song?