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 	are corrections if they're necessary - contrary popular (with him)
 	belief, Knghtbrd has in fact been known to be wrong sometimes.  He
 	isn't afraid to admit it either (most of the time..)
-	
-<H2>The fastest SotC update ever!</H2>
-	<P>This update is so close to the last one posted a mere six hours
-	ago that most of you reading it never even saw the last one.  Don't
-	worry, anything important is being retained in this update.
 
-	<P>Palisade is among the living believe it or not and we finally
-	have his votes for the logo contest.  He's pretty much it so the
-	good news is that we should very soon have a new logo!
+<H2>Mega2k support in QuakeForge committed!</H2>
+	<P>You read it here first!  (unless you didn't)  QuakeForge now works
+	100% with Mega2k.  I spent several hours trying to tune the flight
+	physics for the airscout so they work the way people would hope.
 
-	<P>I also had mention in the last SotC that the website updates
-	itself whenever any of us checks in a change now.  It's very nifty
-	and is helping us get the new site layout done faster.  Something I
-	didn't mention before is that we have somehow managed to convince
-	twisted to work with us on spicing up the page a bit while keeping
-	it functional and efficient.
+	<P>While you MAY be able to connect to a QF server running it with a
+	standard 2.3 or 2.4 Id Software release QuakeWorld client, I won't
+	recommend it.  The first time an airscout goes flying you're likely
+	going to confuse your prediction code something terrible!  As always
+	our implementation is open to other projects (I've sent Endy of QSG
+	a copy) and when he gets it working in QWF he'll be making the patch
+	available to all of the QSG projects which will hopefully make this
+	a non-issue.
 
-<H2>QuakeForge and Mega2k, redux..</H2>
-	<P>We all owe Yanster big for helping us get in contact with Ambush
-	of MegaTF tonight.  He was in #QuakeForge for a few hours talking to
-	the guys present at the time.  Among them were Mercury, Deek, Endy,
-	and devkev.  I was there too, but I was and am half dead from sleep
-	deprivation so I can't say I'm totally coherent then or now.
+	<P>Look for a real playable QF server running Mega2k as soon as
+	Ambush is ready for beta testing.  I'm running a test server now but
+	you're not going to get a good game going on my DSL connection so
+	it's mostly been there for testing airscout physics.
 
-	<P>The guys in the channel helped Ambush get MegaTF build with qccx,
-	which was pretty cool I think since qccx is looking like one of the
-	most interesting quakec compilers out there to us and will probably
-	become our preference once qcc is released under the GPL.
+	<P>I might have to put up a screenshot of dyerfort's ducks, they're
+	a quack!
 
-	<P>Mercury was talking with Ambush about support for Mega2k in
-	QuakeForge.  I can't say where that's going yet because the
-	discussion hasn't reached conclusions yet.  Still, the discussion I
-	thought was so improbable is happening.  That's a good thing for the
-	entire community I think.  I'm glad to be wrong this time.
+<H2>Emminent release of 0.2.0</H2>
+	<P>You may or may not know this, but I've deliberately held off from
+	finishing 0.1.2 because I've been busy tracking down bugs and things
+	for 0.2-d..  The reason?  It's time to release.  Or at least, it's
+	time to declare it time to release and fix the remaining obnoxious
+	buglets.  They're not overly complex but there are several of them
+	to fix.
 
-	<P>What I said before about making sure that every engine can
-	support MegaTF, I meant every word of it.  I will do everything
-	humanly possible to ensure that the features needed become
-	standardized and that all of these engines are intercompatible at
-	the protocol level.  And securely too - what's it matter if all the
-	rest of this happens if any person can just cheat their way to
-	highest scores?
+	<P>I won't give a release date because if I do I promise we'll miss
+	it.  Most of the core project people are Debian Linux users after
+	all.  (if you don't get it, don't worry..)
 
-	<P>Right now what seems to be necessary is time.  I still think
-	people who care should make sure they're heard so MegaTF knows that
-	Mega support in other engines is important to you.  That goes double
-	if you only have one engine for your platform to choose from.
-
-<H2>The actual technical stuff</H2>
-	<P>If you're still here after all of that, I'm impressed.  Release
-	of 0.1.2 hasn't happened yet, but could really anytime now.  Mostly
-	I have just had other issues on my mind.  Plus I don't want to give
-	too much false hope here, but I really think a release of 0.2.0
-	isn't all that far off.  I've been focusing my efforts in that
-	direction.