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The Little Mermaid wasn't our usual sort of movie but it would be hard to argue that it wasn't both a fun and artful movie. This week, Democracy is again dead because we're following the club's birthday boy rules and letting ace-1 choose from the movie queue! And he has, perhaps predictably, Miloš Forman's Mozart-derived drama Amadeus (1984)! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along. Please note that due to Amadeus' run time we are starting at 9 PM Eastern instead of 10 PM, one hour earlier than usual.

Our main connection to this film is the Wing Commander IV introduction which features a ship named Amadeus which is destroyed by Seether in a test of the flash-pak. The Amadeus is a Clarkson-class ship, the Confederation transport type introduced in Wing Commander III, which features medical segments instead of cargo pods. Its "class A" distress call says that it is an unarmed Confederation

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We need a doctor! That's because today we thought it would be fun to look at the medical samples the TCS Midway intercepts from the Nephilim in Wing Commander Prophecy. It's the scene right before T'lan Meth E2 where Lt. Cmdr. Finley explains to Casey that the samples show "single nucleus, double-helix DNA, S-7 Ribosomes. I'd swear, if I didn't know any better, these were animal cytologic scans, er...tissue samples, Casey. Very thorough tissue samples, possibly human." We took a close look at the scene and found that the screen plays a 15-item loop consisting of 13 distinct images (two are repeats)... but we don't know enough about biology to make any sort of an educated guess as to their actual source! Do you know more?

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Last year, Cybot078 posted a collection of environment models that included a hangar that anyone can use. His original post kicked off a discussion of how the Galaxy freighter from Privateer should scale to Star Wars' Millennium Falcon. They created a big set of comparison images at the time:

And here's the newly posted comparison:

What do you think of the scaling? You can let Cybot know in this thread.

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Treasure from the forums! Greg14 was kind enough to post a vintage Wing Commander review from the November 1990 issue of France's Génération 4 magazine... and they were kind enough to translate it into English for everyone, too! We absolutely love when folks find and share old Wing Commander articles with us. Merci!

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Ever since Didier discovered this game at the Chicago CES last June, he has been jumping every time he hears its name. Imagine him literally leaping nearly a meter high — about his own height — in the testing room! I'll spare you the details and let him introduce what may well be the game of the year.

Since June, when I had the chance to see at the Chicago CES a piece of software that was then called Wing Leader, not a week went by without me asking for news about its progress. Well, it has finally arrived and, believe me, quite a few people are going to regret owning only an

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There's no two ways about it, you've got to love Indiana Jones. Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most seamless adventure movies of all time and it was the perfect choice for a crew of movie clubbers that needed a familiar distraction.

Our somewhat flimsy reason to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark was that the Privateer 3 pitch claims that the game will be more like Indiana Jones than Top Gun. Which… great, go hit a home run. If your game is like one of the greatest movies ever made then that would absolutely be quite an accomplishment. Sadly, we'll never know!

We also mentioned in the introductory post that Raiders of the Lost Ark is #3 on the list of Chris Roberts' favorite movies that was printed in an early issue of Point of Origin. At this point, we've watched Star Wars, Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Highlander and Back to the Future. The Terminator and Jaws are in the movie club

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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 The Little Mermaid (1989) 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!