Lord British Heading For Outer Space - Kotaku Comments

Lord British Heading For Outer Space

taikjoi — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:42:53 MDT

He had a childhood bout with seizures and epilepsy. Hope he's doing better, but he sure looks drawn and ill in this photo. And having only one kidney can't be good. But I'm sure the flight surgeons know what they're doing.

taikjoi

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Tacobake — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:37:12 MDT

I think it's mostly the picture, the angle and the uniform that makes him look kind of skinny. Besides the fact he's standing beside a FREAKING HONEST TO GOD SPACE SHIP.

"We've come a long way, to get from here to there ...."

Do it, man.

Tacobake

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Volomon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:54:07 MDT

Isn't this guy suppose to be making a game?

Volomon

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otakuman22 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:14:48 MDT

I just think it's absolutely fantastic that he's come this far. From selling home brew PC games on the floppy floppy disks in ziploc bags to going into freaking space.

As for thin and gaunt, well he's always been a skinny guy. I think it's a bit of old age and a bit of the fact that he's a pretty well weathered guy. He's travelled the world, explored the oceans, went on a zero-g flight with Stephen "Quake Master" Hawking, and frankly when you do stuff like that, you tend to look weathered.

Frankly, I think he'll be fine. The photo just may make him look frailer than he actually is cause of lighting and angle and all that.

I we've seen recent photos of the dude back from the Tabula Rasa press extravaganza, and he looked fine to me.

All I know is that this guy is like ROLE MODEL material here. Just wish I had a fall back brother to handle the business end of things. I mean Richard's bad ass, but without Robert behind him all this time, I don't know if he would have made it this far.

Still, kudos Lord British. Kudos.

~Otaku-Man

otakuman22

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ShineyBlueShoes — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:33:40 MDT

@Bleentastic: Boo stole my thunder!

ShineyBlueShoes

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Aragashi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:38:12 MDT

Enjoy your cancer... Then again.. He is only gonna be up there for a short while. Not too much for the long term effects, I guess. A mansion...space.. This guy knows how to live.

Space. Serious business.

Aragashi

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Regulus — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:55:53 MDT

*Obligatory Gradius/Salamander Lord British Space Destroyer reference.*

Regulus

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Pound my tom-tom — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:43:45 MDT

ha he was on Tabla Rasa last night talking to people about living in Austin, and answering questions and joking around with the Dev's while they were trying to fix some issues

Pound my tom-tom

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FrigidAir44 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:22:05 MDT

Will somebody kill him in the beta test of the space flight?

Happened in Ultima On-line...

FrigidAir44

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navstar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:04:23 MDT

Oh great -- now I look like a douch for duplicate posts. Ugh... what's up with your comment server being so slow to update? I thought my post got lost.

navstar

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navstar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:03:21 MDT

He's looking terribly thin and gaunt. Is his health okay?

navstar

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navstar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:58:28 MDT

He's looking very thin and gaunt. How's his health?

navstar

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Providence — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:39:17 MDT

Very cool. Hope he has a safe journey. Maybe he'll get a good game idea or two from it.

Providence