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I always assumed that the bottom of the dish was made out of concrete, but apparently it's relatively thin and floats above the ground.

Also, the pictures in that article made me feel nostalgic playing Golden Eye on the N64.

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> Also, the pictures in that article made me feel nostalgic playing Golden Eye on the N64.

Recently a mate and I plugged in an n64 to play Golden Eye and spent way too long messing with the cables before realising that it was displaying correctly and that the graphics just weren’t that great. A 15 inch CRT hid a lot too.

We still had a great time - no Oddjob usage per house rules. Using him is cheating.

Glad to hear others used the same house rule. It's definitely cheating.

Our rule was you could pick Oddjob, but if you did everyone got to punch you in the arm.

You'll be glad to know some modders are remaking the game using the Unreal Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55y17rXdt4&feature=emb_titl...

About 10 years ago I regularly played a multiplayer only source engine remake that was ok.

I'm guessing that was an earlier manifestation of Golden Eye: Source?

https://geshl2.com

No - Goldeneye 25 was a completely different project, focusing on singleplayer. Just a couple of days ago it had a takedown notice and its twitter feed is now gone:

https://twitter.com/007GoldenEye25/status/129309061086227251... (the tweet announcing it)

They are now Spies Don't Die, and are making it a 90s-themed shooter that will be reminiscent of, but not a remake of, Goldeneye: https://twitter.com/spiesdontdie

The comment I replied to said they were playing a multiplayer-only version. I'm not sure you're responding to the right comment?

I think I misread the replies, thinking the Source engine remake comment was referring to its parent comment (which was Goldeneye25, not Source.)

Gotcha. Hadn't heard of the projects you linked or the parent. Had no idea there were so many!

Seems likely. And did I really regularly play it? I don't think I actually did. Maybe I just did for like a week and remember it well.

Unfortunately, everything surrounding this remake implies that the project is dead and gone. The Twitter account and the IndieDB entry have both been deleted.

They were forced in to a rebrand a week ago due to legal threats on using the 007 licence. Dev work is still continuing though.

Its made of panels of thin perforated aluminium. See these photos https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-close-view-of-the-perf... and https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Share-Your-Photos-and/...

... and designed to let enough sunlight through that the plants underneath continue to flourish, preventing soil erosion

Huh. I live about 40 miles south of it and I always wondered about that.

> I always assumed that the bottom of the dish was made out of concrete

Probably because you watched Goldeneye :). In that movie the dish looks like it's concrete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtKJpr7N1qc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmDAjRRNXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9tENRDVzA

From the photos it surely looks like Alec fell through the dish...

My immediate thought was that of the "Rogue Transmission" map in BF4.

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