The point of fiction is that you can make up anything you want and people will like it if its entertaining. No one cares that the stuff isn't realistic, you don't see people arguing about poor design in ghostbusters. Also, star wars copied stuff from an older similar style movie which I forget the name of.

Ridiculous, people need to learn to not drag on something that is done and over with. If you're a good author you don't continue a dead guy's novel series which he ended, you write a new story with new ideas perhaps drawing inspiration from hitchhikers guide. Continuing a series that was ended is just a total waste of time. The series was completed, get over it! (also fans of hitchiker need to reed dirk gentlys wholistic detective agency if you havnt already)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game) This game + 3d graphics and joystick controls + newtonian physics ( as in, once you start spinning, you keep spinning and once apply thrust, you keep moving ) would be spend-money-worthy. Actually any space game with newtonian physics would buy spend-money-worthy. There was something like this made by the guy who made X-Plane that you can download for free but that isn't really a game although you can fly around and shoot asteroids with a ship that handled like the space shuttle. With a joystick the setup would be your joystick 3d movement ( the 3rd "d" being twist / rudder ) would control the rotational thrusters, meaning that if you thrust in one direction you'll keep going in that direction until you thrust in the opposite direction to stop rotating. The " " axis would control rotational thrusters meaning if you push the joystick -----> you would spin clockwise and ---- would be counterclockwise. Pushing and pulling the joystick would control attitude, the rudder / twist would do the same thing that an airplane does, turning left and right. The hat-switch would be used to control lateral thrusters. I played the above mentioned game made by the guy who made X-Plane ( Austin Meyer I think? ) with this setup and it was quite a robust and awesome way of controlling a space ship. It's a little more complicated than controls for a plane like vehicle since you now have the option of using lateral thrusters to control the way you move, an analogy would be like saying a plane gives you 3 degrees of freedom but this setup gives you 6 degrees of freedom, well the analogy is not entirely correct but if you play that game mentioned by Austin Meyer or "Orbiter" or any space-flight simulator you will notice the difference. I think this kind of physics / control system would be just pure awesome in a multiplayer combat environment as there are pretty much boundless diversity in ways you could maneuver such a space ship. Also realistic weapons the behave like real lasers and gatling guns found on fighter jets with realistic spread would be cool. Also the fact that the velocities of the bullets would be added to relative velocities and that kind of realism, also the fact that moving fast through a debris field would make relative velocities of debris fast enough to damage the ships etc etc blah blah blah you get the idea...

Is TPB the only torrent tracker? I'm pretty sure that there are lots of torrent websites out there that either link to websites and serve as a torrent search engine or host their own torrents but I'm not sure how many trackers there are. What about mininova, isohunt, torrentz, demonoid, etc etc. A lot of torrents have TPB as a tracker even though they are downloaded from different sites. If I download a torrent from mininova, and TPB goes down, is there a chance the torrent wouldn't work because TPB is down?

I consider myself pretty lazy to the point where I use launchy to launch all apps in windows and don't use mouse or touchpad, instead I use the blue pressure sensing thing that doesn't move in the middle of they keyboard. But having a program do all the stuff mentioned in the summary seems overkill, oh wait a sec, maybe its not laziness, maybe its just idiots who cant figure out how to use torrents? The people who subscribe to podcasts should just go live off life-support.

Interesting, but I don't think there are any botnets that are capable of distributed computing.

Keep saying you'll sell TPB to some company and just keep delaying it so it never actually gets sold, say "we don't own the site, its being sold to company X". Meanwhile TBP doesn't change at all and we are all happy :)

Descent was good but Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 were great too. In particular the epic storyline, intrigue, unpredictability, immersion and voice acting, I feel, is unrivaled even compared to todays games. The missions would start off with really detailed briefings planning how everything should work, making the player think that everything will go according to the briefing, then nothing goes as planned, just like in real life. There were missions where you don't even win or aren't expected to win, whereas nowadays your games are like this "heres the missions go do it, oh you succeeded horay!".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_steel_sky would make an awesome movie.