Imps On A Plane

[Linguica]

Anyone with a list of all the systems Doom runs on, now you can add "Airbus A320". Virgin America, the new branch of Virgin Airlines that should start operation once the government decides to stop being xenophobic competition-hating despots, has put up a video showing off their In-Flight Entertainment System, which among other things includes what looks like PrBoom complete with the rainbow of multicolored status bar numbers. Really what is up with that anyway? And the option to have kickback when you fire weapons, seriously has anyone ever in history said "hey this is a neat option I will leave it on"? Anyways so there you go. What's that you ask? Is there any real Doom news? No, sorry.

[Tango]

Oooh, Doom on an airplane. Sounds fun.

[Bucket]

Makes me almost want to go on a plane. Almost.

[DeumReaper]

While the IFE explanation was interesting in itself, when he first said 'doom', my eyebrows went up liek a dog raising its ears after hearing its name. it plays doom.

[Snarboo]

It's not really the plane itself running the game, but rather a server with Virgin's implementation of a Linux platform.

Anyway, does anyone else think that Doom was running rather slow? It's a 13 year old game, you'd think it would run better. :P

[Scuba Steve]

I've had it with these mothafuckin' imps on this mothafuckin' plane!

[Aleaver]

Sounds cool..

And as Harrson Ford once said "Get off my plane!"

[caco_killer]

Scuba Steve said:

I've had it with these mothafuckin' imps on this mothafuckin' plane!

Lol, I wanted to say that.

[VileSlay]

hey, so long as there isn't any "Impse on a Plane" we're good. don't want to join that mile high club.

[Scuba Steve]

"FUCKING IMPS, GET OFF MY DICK!"

[DooMAD]

Portable USB Keyboards eh? I give it a few weeks before those all go missing or get broken. The touch screens might last a few months if they're lucky. And yes, Doom did look particularly choppy and slow.

At least they're making an effort, I suppose. Long haul flights do get a bit tedious and most airlines I've flown with could do a bit more to keep passengers occupied. The whole 'insert credit card here' thing bothers me a bit though. In flight entertainment and food should be complimentary, to an extent at least. They weren't really all that clear in the video about what's free and what isn't. Also, what about passengers who don't have cards?

[Zeroth]

Makes me want an airplane.

[fraggle]

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Linux_Everywhere_An_entire_airplane_booting_Linux_with_pictures

Seems to be the same story.

[sargebaldy]

Since when do record companies have their own airlines? Talk about synergy.

[david_a]

sargebaldy said:

Since when do record companies have their own airlines? Talk about synergy.

Since about 1984.

[sargebaldy]

Well, that doesn't make it any less strange to me. Though I guess the fact that they're also working on space travel kind of eclipses it. I think at some point they're going to change their name to UAC.

[Fredrik]

Speaking of Virgin, has anyone else noticed that Richard Branson = Zaphod Beeblebrox?

[Snarboo]

The resemblance is uncanny.

[sargebaldy]

I didn't know what you were talking about at first. I didn't see a second head, and I haven't seen the film version.

But yes, I can see what you mean.

[fraggle]

Fredrik said:

Speaking of Virgin, has anyone else noticed that Richard Branson = Zaphod Beeblebrox?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/770000/images/_773299_zaphod_beeblebrox150.jpg
http://www.worldtravelawards.com/var/plain/storage/images/galleries/2001_malaysia/sir_richard_branson/2536-1-eng-GB/sir_richard_branson_imagelarge.jpg

I'm not seeing it.