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I'm sure Arioch is working on it, though quite possibly he's got Other Life Things(tm) going on as well. Happens. Go (re-)read the archives. ;) Updates will come when they come, you can see there's been long dry spells before, even from the home page dates. I do enjoy it when we get a bunch of updat...

A lot of details in Outsider have changed since I posted the first pages in 2001, but not the ending. Outsider isn't Shakespeare, but it tells a specific story. Details, hmm? (Side-eye at the About page, and the 107-page chapter 2... Q: How long is this comic going to be? A: The story as currently ...

Yeah, like me. *I* don't react well to bullets!

Seems like it might make for some possibly fatal (for Alex) jump-scares of the Loroi if Alex does get separated from Beryl or the Loroi otherwise lose track of him, no? Or maybe they can still sense he's there (and certainly I'd think he would 'read' as non-Umiak), just nothing more than a presence....

I am honestly not sure how exactly loroi industry as it is described (some sort of Medieval guild and caste system combination) can produce complex machinery, it requires millions of individuals and huge amount R&D even for relatively minor things today, on their tech level situation should get eve...

Dwarf Fortress just released on Steam today...

--Mithramuse

{snip} And thus my title went from "End-of-Line Measurement Control Services Engineer" to "End-of-Line Measurement Control Services and Static Discharge Prevention Engineer". Awesome. But a raise would've been better. It resulted in our fab becoming the only one on the site to pass all requirements...

I love the Resident Evil reference in the interview portion.

Lots of societal effects from anything like this, to be sure, none of which are touched upon. Though the restoration of function in eyes would be quite useful, for example, rather than doing surgery.

Demarquis wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:28 am

I think you just rediscovered the "Rocket Equation" (https://www.planetary.org/articles/2017 ... ion-part-1). See also (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stat ... yanny.html)

Alternately, try https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/.

--Mithramuse

This is certainly getting attention and discussion in multiple places; for one example I've run into, see "https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/ai-art-and-its-current-limitations/". Largely seems to agree with the discussion so far, though doesn't touch on the question of where the ima...

Yes, they reconned it in one of the 'Fleet of Worlds' books, written with Edward M. Lerner. Basically they reached the conclusion that the Puppeteers were purposefully paying the 'blackmail' money even when not really needed because it might throw people off the trail... something like that. --Mithr...

Mercy Machine wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:45 am

"Ride of the Valkyries" (like a lot of late '60s pop music used in Vietnam War movies/TV) is kind of ruined for me because my brain superimposes helicopter sounds over the music...

Here, have dogs barking laid over top instead.

--Mithramuse

Demarquis wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:07 pm

Sargent Schlock.

I wonder how Loroi taste?

Or the bugs, really.

--Mithramuse

Real space combat would probably be very boring, from a dramatic standpoint. Spacecraft so far away from each other that they are mutually invisible to the naked eye fire laser beams at each others, beams that are also invisible because that's the entire point of lasers, the light is coherent and d...

My question - Alex must know that Humanity is practically useless for combat against any of this crew, so what has Humanity got to offer? A mystery and a prophecy - Might the Umiak have any interest in Humanity? I think it's pretty well been stated that the Umiak's interest in humanity would be sla...

I myself got a chuckle when someone told me the ending involves the war ending somehow and Alex introducing the Loroi to ice cream without yelling them the ingredients until after... as minor payback for all the hardship they put him through. And honestly, that's as good an ending as any for me. Na...

Cthulhu wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:09 pm

gaerzi wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:11 am

Piloting anything requires thinking in Russian.

Nope, Chekov was the navigator, the pilot was Sulu.

Try this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw

Dan Wyatt wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:14 am

Where's Beryl then?

She should be the lone Loroi in the lower right of the group. She would nominally be right behind Alex, and he's mentioned she had a gun in her left hand.

Regarding Beryl, note that Alex says he 'sees' the Loroi. So whatever this input is, it could be his brain is processing it as thought it were from his eyes - kind of like when you are in a truly dark room (or a cave, say) and wave your hand in front of your face. There's no light, you can't actuall...

The Mote books are good for that, but the Langston Field is the big defense there, as far as Bamax's postulates go anyway. The increased surface area of a larger ship gives more area to absorb and store kinetic energy, thus more protection (so long as, say, you aren't trying to fly through an atmosp...