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Image 1 — 3 new Tradewars 2002 games freshly banged on DemiGoth BBS (demigoth.com:23)
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▲ 9 r/bbs

3 new Tradewars 2002 games freshly banged on DemiGoth BBS (demigoth.com:23)

DemiGoth is a BBS I started in those early days of the covid lockdown, focused on the nostalgia of the door games I loved playing as a kid in the 80s and 90s. We plug into BBS link to have access to populated classics to include: LORD, Barren Realms Elite, Global War, and more.

But our main attraction has always been our locally hosted Tradewars game server. Today we have rebanged 3 of our 4 games.

Game A is targeted at the classic Tradewars feel from the golden age of BBSes for all your nostalgia needs, but with settings optimized for modern internet play. It features 10,000 sectors with 1,400 turns a day, and is a pretty vanilla setup with default ships, alien traders, and Ferrengi.

Game B is our longstanding casual game. This is setup for those who enjoy the non-PvP aspects of the game but still want to build your space empire. It has a huge universe of 30k sectors, 10k turns per day, rules against PvP raids, and has been continually running for more than half a decade.

Game C is the newest version of the custom edit we've been working on. It features completely redesigned ships balanced around major roles (scout, trading, combat), a galaxy of 30,000 sectors with multiple bubbles to explore and claim, and 20,000 turns per day. There are additionally a number of custom factions and alien races, each with custom ships unavailable to buy from the star dock, to include:

  • Merchant Guild - a pacifist faction with ships specializing in trade efficiency
  • Space Pirates - an aggressive faction with fast ships designed for hit-and-run tactics
  • Outlaw Syndicate - smugglers and thieves specializing in cargo ships with some teeth
  • Primordials - the remains of a fallen empire, though not aggressive, they will retaliate with advanced tech if provoked
  • Quantum Striders - a mysterious extradimensional race specializing in rare transwarp ships
  • Buggers - an unforgiving race of formics who will arrive to colonize the galaxy after day 7
  • Fungoid - hostile and regenerative spore aliens who will arrive to the galaxy after day 14
  • Harbingers - a race of overwhelmingly powerful aliens who will arrive after day 45, bent on destroying the galaxy unless players can stop them

Game D is our limited game designed to perfectly replicate the nostalgia of playing during the BBS days. It includes a small galaxy of only 1,000 sectors, only 200 turns per day, and a 60 minute timer to connect. This is designed for those who want to be able to stay competitive, but can't commit much time.

So join us at https://discord.gg/utCukMA7KZ or point your favorite telnet client to demigoth.com port 23 and come join the fun!

u/Sithra907 — 1 day ago
▲ 20 r/Tradewars

3 new Tradewars 2002 games freshly banged on DemiGoth BBS (demigoth.com:23)

DemiGoth is a BBS I started in those early days of the covid lockdown, focused on the nostalgia of the door games I loved playing as a kid in the 80s and 90s. We plug into BBS link to have access to populated classics to include: LORD, Barren Realms Elite, Global War, and more.

But our main attraction has always been our locally hosted Tradewars game server. Today we have rebanged 3 of our 4 games.

Game A is targeted at the classic Tradewars feel from the golden age of BBSes for all your nostalgia needs, but with settings optimized for modern internet play. It features 10,000 sectors with 1,400 turns a day, and is a pretty vanilla setup with default ships, alien traders, and Ferrengi.

Game B is our longstanding casual game. This is setup for those who enjoy the non-PvP aspects of the game but still want to build your space empire. It has a huge universe of 30k sectors, 10k turns per day, rules against PvP raids, and has been continually running for more than half a decade.

Game C is the newest version of the custom edit we've been working on. It features completely redesigned ships balanced around major roles (scout, trading, combat), a galaxy of 30,000 sectors with multiple bubbles to explore and claim, and 20,000 turns per day. There are additionally a number of custom factions and alien races, each with custom ships unavailable to buy from the star dock, to include:

  • Merchant Guild - a pacifist faction with ships specializing in trade efficiency
  • Space Pirates - an aggressive faction with fast ships designed for hit-and-run tactics
  • Outlaw Syndicate - smugglers and thieves specializing in cargo ships with some teeth
  • Primordials - the remains of a fallen empire, though not aggressive, they will retaliate with advanced tech if provoked
  • Quantum Striders - a mysterious extradimensional race specializing in rare transwarp ships
  • Buggers - an unforgiving race of formics who will arrive to colonize the galaxy after day 7
  • Fungoid - hostile and regenerative spore aliens who will arrive to the galaxy after day 14
  • Harbingers - a race of overwhelmingly powerful aliens who will arrive after day 45, bent on destroying the galaxy unless players can stop them

Game D is our limited game designed to perfectly replicate the nostalgia of playing during the BBS days. It includes a small galaxy of only 1,000 sectors, only 200 turns per day, and a 60 minute timer to connect. This is designed for those who want to be able to stay competitive, but can't commit much time.

So join us at https://discord.gg/utCukMA7KZ or point your favorite telnet client to demigoth.com port 23 and come join the fun!

u/Sithra907 — 1 day ago
▲ 33 r/bbs

3 new Tradewars 2002 games freshly banged on DemiGoth BBS (demigoth.com:23)

DemiGoth is a BBS I started in those early days of the covid lockdown, focused on the nostalgia of the door games I loved playing as a kid in the 80s and 90s. We plug into BBS link to have access to populated classics to include: LORD, Barren Realms Elite, Global War, and more.

But our main attraction has always been our locally hosted Tradewars game server. Today we have rebanged 3 of our 4 games.

Game A is targeted at the classic Tradewars feel from the golden age of BBSes for all your nostalgia needs, but with settings optimized for modern internet play. It features 10,000 sectors with 1,400 turns a day, and is a pretty vanilla setup with default ships, alien traders, and Ferrengi.

Game B is our longstanding casual game. This is setup for those who enjoy the non-PvP aspects of the game but still want to build your space empire. It has a huge universe of 30k sectors, 10k turns per day, rules against PvP raids, and has been continually running for more than half a decade.

Game C is the newest version of the custom edit we've been working on. It features completely redesigned ships balanced around major roles (scout, trading, combat), a galaxy of 30,000 sectors with multiple bubbles to explore and claim, and 20,000 turns per day. There are additionally a number of custom factions and alien races, each with custom ships unavailable to buy from the star dock, to include:

  • Merchant Guild - a pacifist faction with ships specializing in trade efficiency
  • Space Pirates - an aggressive faction with fast ships designed for hit-and-run tactics
  • Outlaw Syndicate - smugglers and thieves specializing in cargo ships with some teeth
  • Primordials - the remains of a fallen empire, though not aggressive, they will retaliate with advanced tech if provoked
  • Quantum Striders - a mysterious extradimensional race specializing in rare transwarp ships
  • Buggers - an unforgiving race of formics who will arrive to colonize the galaxy after day 7
  • Fungoid - hostile and regenerative spore aliens who will arrive to the galaxy after day 14
  • Harbingers - a race of overwhelmingly powerful aliens who will arrive after day 45, bent on destroying the galaxy unless players can stop them

Game D is our limited game designed to perfectly replicate the nostalgia of playing during the BBS days. It includes a small galaxy of only 1,000 sectors, only 200 turns per day, and a 60 minute timer to connect. This is designed for those who want to be able to stay competitive, but can't commit much time.

So join us at https://discord.gg/utCukMA7KZ or point your favorite telnet client to demigoth.com port 23 and come join the fun!

u/Sithra907 — 1 day ago
▲ 59 r/Veteranpolitics

Trump DOJ’s first-ever Antifa case sees judge ‘send a message’ with 100-year sentence in ICE shooting Critics fear prosecution of nearly two dozen people serves as ‘template’ to go after antifascist protesters

A U.S. Marine who shot and wounded a police officer outside an immigration detention center has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison after the landmark prosecution of more than a dozen protesters accused of “Antifa”-linked terrorism.

Seven other demonstrators received prison terms ranging from 30 to 70 years during sentencing hearings in Texas on Tuesday, and another group of convicted protesters could face similar sentences in their hearings next week.

The charges were among the first against anyone accused of being a member of Antifa, a longtime boogeyman for Donald Trump’s administration as it searches for legal tools in a wider crackdown against left-wing dissent and protests against the president’s immigration enforcement arms.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of two federal judges overseeing proceedings, said 30-, 50-, 70- and 100-year sentences against eight protesters in what critics have called a politically loaded test case against the militant antifascist movement will “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology,” according to the defendants’ committee.

Benjamin Song, a Marine Corps reservist who was convicted of attempted murder for shooting and injuring an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center last year, said in a statement after his sentencing that he tried to stop the officer from shooting a “running, unarmed protestor” to “prevent what happened” to Alex Pretti Renee Good, two Minneapolis demonstrators who were fatally shot by federal agents earlier this year.

“Now, 21 people have been arrested, have been persecuted, have been punished. For knowing me or being my friend? This is wrong,” Song wrote. “This is mass punishment. Collective punishment. This is guilt by association. This is injustice. … It may be my friends today but it will be your friends tomorrow.”

His attorney said they will appeal the sentencing.

“There is no ‘appropriate’ sentence for a wholly fictitious crime,” Lydia Kosza, the wife of Prairieland defendant Autumn Hill, said in a statement. “These draconian sentences bear no connection to any notion of due process.”

The case involves 22 people charged with state and federal charges after a demonstration in solidarity with detainees at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, 2025. Prosecutors accused the group of launching a premeditated terror attack against the facility.

Song and Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda and Elizabeth Soto were convicted of rioting, providing material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to use and carry an explosive as well as the use and carry of an explosive, which was fireworks.

Song was also convicted on three counts of discharging a firearm. Hill, Evetts, Morris and Rueda were acquitted on attempted murder and firearm charges.

Ruedo was sentenced to 70 years, while Evetts, Batten, Hill, Morris and Soto were each sentenced to 50 years.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record. He did not attend the demonstration.

He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Antifa, short for antifascist, encompasses individuals and loosely affiliated groups in a broader militant subculture — often physically confronting far-right groups in the streets — rather than a specific organization.

But the the Justice Department has opened a wider investigation into the movement, which Trump and prosecutors are calling a criminal “enterprise” that can be prosecuted like the Mafia.

Administration officials have repeatedly tied acts of political violence to Antifa, while also claiming without evidence that the movement is being financially supported by groups that support Democratic candidates — what critics fear is an attempt to criminalize political opposition itself.

Last fall, the president signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no domestic equivalent to the list of foreign terror organizations managed by the State Department.

First Amendment advocates told The Independent that the president’s order acts as a “permission slip” for government actors to target and censor expression and could be used to justify broad and unconstitutional investigations, creating a chilling effect against political opposition.

Tuesday’s sentencing also follows federal charges against 15 anti-ICE demonstrators in Minnesota “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement” during a surge of federal immigration officers in the state.

Dario Sanchez, another defendant facing state charges in Texas, said the Prairieland case has “become a template for silencing political activity.”

“How you engage in politics doesn’t determine whether you’ll be targeted or not, now it’s whether or not you voice your dissent,” Sanchez said in a statement.

independent.co.uk
u/Sithra907 — 2 months ago