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If you're looking for a funny romantic movie then… Ten Thousand Bedrooms is not that. Much like The Dam Busters, it's clearly a movie designed for sensibilities that simply no longer exist. With an interminable run time, few songs worth listening to and a meandering barely-a-story that goes nowhere slowly. The sets and the exterior shots of 1950s Rome are nice, though! And the cast is certainly compelling, though their characters are not.

Which is to say that Anna Maria Alberghetti is at least pretty impressive! And we've enjoyed learning about her this past week: she was a successful teen music star who became an actress. She's best remembered for her work onstage but she headlined a number of movies similar to Ten Thousand Bedrooms. And she kept her star power for decades; Secret Ops' writers may have best known her from a series of popular salad commercials in the 1980s where she played herself!

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This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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An agreement has reportedly been reached between October Consortium and a coalition of the remaining Powers within the enclave, ending large-scale hostilities in the region.
The "October Accords" formally places HIP 87621 under the custodianship of October Consortium who will act as chair between the remaining enclave powers to ensure neutrality is maintained.
Under the terms, the corporation will also retain responsibility for system security and commercial rights, with authority to defend those interests if challenged.
The talks are also understood to have focused on shared scientific access to Radicoida unica and cooperation on research initiatives following the recent publication of promising genetic findings by Dr Casimir of the Holloway Bioscience Institute.
The coalition involved - an informal alignment of Imperial, Alliance and independent Power forces – had recently announced a

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Our beloved space arcade shooter is like all of us getting older by every year. Thanks to the community and every member of it, this game is relevant and is getting more and more content from its community every year. Like last year, we are celebrating this event with a large 6 Day Event Series with showcases and Server Events across the board, all live-streamed, so if you can't join or are not in the mood to play, you will not miss it.

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Napoleon famously said that "a soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon" and he was most likely thinking of the original Wing Commander. In addition to its famous medal system, Wing Commander I has something not seen in any of the later games: an accompanying achievement-style system that awards players those bits of colored ribbons for specific in-game achievements like scoring five kills or flying ten missions. We decided to take a closer look at this system… and we were surprised by what we discovered!

Many of Wing Commander's ribbons have been mislabeled online for decades for two very good reasons: difficulties and errors in labeling in Claw Marks and a bug that has been with the game since its original version. Wing Commander I has twelve different ribbons that are awarded throughout the game. Two of them are story-related and have actually been given to you before you fly

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We've said it before and we'll say it again... better late than never! Thanks to your suggestions we now have the official slate of nominees for both of our 2025 awards: Fan Project of the Year and Hall of Fame. For Fan Project, pick the one that you believe is most exciting today and for Hall of Fame put your mind back to the early days of Wing Commander and choose which classic fan or project to honor! We encourage you to vote for your choices before March 15th -- we'll announce the winners on first contact day. We had lots of great suggestions this year and we hope your preferences have made it to this stage.

• Wing Commander AllTinker Overhaul Mod - Origin couldn't do it... a generation of fans couldn't do it... but 36 years after the release of the original Wing Commander, AllTinker has done it! They've produced a beautiful patch that limits the game's speed and makes it function as it was intended