Daftworks

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  • RIP Facebook…again

    Hello Facebook people. TL;DR for the below. I’m leaving Facebook. Don’t take it personally. All right. Now for the long version. 8 years ago I started a new Facebook account. It was meant to support the development and publication of a book. A marketing tool, if you like. Well, the book is written and more…

  • Dave Hughes: GalCop Historian

    Over the Christmas period, amongst the upheaval of my dad and stepmum’s deaths, something wonderful happened. I was approached by a university lecturer on universe building to provide some information about Elite (you know, that game that I kinda like) to an initiative he was working on. It turned out that the initiative he was…

  • Bye, Facebook

    Posted this on Facebook today.   For those who care: I’ll be deleting my facebook account very soon. I’m thoroughly fed up with game requests, friend requests from people I don’t know or don’t like, notifications about absolute bollocks that I have no interest in and people who post their entire lives on here. I…

  • Rollercoasters to end the year

    What a month. The first part of this post is more of an announcement, I suppose. It is with regret that I report the passing of my stepmother and father, Beryl and Andy Hughes. Beryl died on the 20th December 2012 and her husband Andy died two weeks later on 7th January 2013. Both died…

  • Pledge please!

    Pledge to Elite Dangerous NOW. If this game doesn’t get made I’ll blame YOU. Yes, YOU personally. Look. Trailer to show how awesome it’s going to be…

  • Dangerous…

    David Braben, one of the brains behind Elite, that game that has dominated my psyche for the last 30 years, has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at crowd-funding Elite IV, the long-awaited sequel to Elite that has been bugging people since Frontier First Encounters turned out to be so dire. Not only that, but it…

  • Disney’s Star Wars?

    It’s been a while, I know. Of all things that put me back in front of the blog-o-board, it’s been the recent acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney. So why so quiet on the blog front, Hughesy? Busy times. So many things happening, none of them good. I may go into them on another post, but…

  • Barsoooooooooooooom

    I feel vilified in my beliefs that film critics are knobs. I’ve been a fan of Edgar Rice-Burroughs’ John Carter Of Mars series for a good few years now (even since finding them on the Gutenberg Library) and was quite excited by the imminent release of the film. I was thinking about going to see…

  • May The Fourth Be With You

    Happy Star Wars Day to everyone.

  • The Universe

    Found this on the Oolite forums. Check it out. I demand it to be so. http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/