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MBehave wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:22 pm

But Gigachad cares not for Physics, time, or space... so the universe cares not for Physics, time, or space.

The end

I think you went a bit beyond Gigachad here and reached to, like, Yottachad or something.

My long video game experience taught me that it's always more enjoyable to shoot the explosive barrel next to an enemy than directly the enemy. (Unless the enemy in itself has exploding parts that can be targeted, then it's equally enjoyable.)

You cannot "turn" a high altitude interceptor into a ground attack aircraft. That would be a totally different machine then. That's exactly what happened with the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. High-altitude interceptor turned into a ground strike aircraft. With a pretty telling record of striking the...

Krulle wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:51 am

will they be able to use this ship to shoot at the other ships, and thus disrupt the invasion a bit?

If they're not sure they can open back a door if they close it, they're probably even less sure about being able to use Umiak weapon systems.

Well, the Japanese also built a pair of 20,000 ton aircraft carriers and called them "helicopter destroyers," so let's just say that nomenclature is not their strong suit. It's because postwar Japan's constitution forbids ownership of offensive war weapons. That's why the Japanese military is calle...

I think that's more or less the distinction between destroyers and frigates in today's navies. Some navies (including, according to Wikipedia, Canadian, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish navies) do not make a distinction and call everything a frigate. Which has some amusing complications, because ...

Arioch wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:28 am

I guess I should probably start calling them "workers" rather than civilians, as that probably gives more of a sense of the social distinction between workers and warriors.

Warriors, workers, and a Queen. And a hivemind. Forget about the Umiak, the Loroi were the real ant-people all along!

Keklas Rekobah wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:28 am

Beryl: <query how know you when Alex speaking smart>

SpoilerShow

Fireblade: <first words "Loroi says to me">

Alex speaking always smarts

Not much of a free thinker, eh?

Also, I've been playing a bit of Elite: Dangerous lately, and I had no idea that frame shifting within a planet's atmosphere created fallout. I've been irradiating all kinds of newly discovered bacterium... Well that was true in Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters. I don't know if the...

Considering that FTL travel is fictional, an author can make up whatever energy requirements they want. Exactly. The method of FTL travel, its energy cost, as well as the actual energy storage capacity of the starship, are all dictated by plot as a true hard-sci-fi story would not have FTL at all a...

What would be the reaction of Loroi if humanity were not just unreadable, but it would create a field of emptiness completely denying and literally turning off telepathy and ability associated with telekinesis, moreover at an arbitrary distance, would it be a fear of disgust? Or all at once? Given ...

"Domesticated sentients" kind of gets us into gray areas of the definitions of both words. If an intelligent organism has no free will, is it really "sentient," and if it does have free will, is it really "domesticated?" Oh, oh, is this where I get to be the pedant that points out sentience does no...

Those domesticated animals are a bit strange. It seems as if the Soia specifically made them for a civilization of a much lower tech level compared to what they had. Especially since they lived in spaceships where you can't keep cattle around. They are mysterious and unknowable, and it's possible e...

Bamax wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:14 am

Of course if Alex was purely interested in romance based off difficulty alone... Stillstorm takes the cake... seconded by Fireblade.

Based on difficulty alone, I'd give the cake to Dave.

IO SATURNALIA!

If a low ranking civilian of a guild receives better pay and accommodations than a warrior of analogous rank, I’m surprised that the state has managed to hold onto its warriors at all. I understand that warriors fight for honor and duty but Wouldn’t a warrior who realizes that a civilian is getting...

Did Beryl ACTUALLY see human pornography or a rendition of it from Alex's Historisn possesed pad? We have no reason to assume she saw anything but the desktop screen with its icons, as the Historian app minimized itself , and probably no latter than when she said "let me see". She also hasn't learn...

I'm not sure that custom factions work thematically in a historical setting, but regardless I think mechanically it's hard to do if the game isn't built for it in the start. Civ games go through too much history to truly be historical. Most of the factions are just beyond silly for a 4000 BC start....

A precise enough TK should be able to just generate sound waves directly, no need for a theremin or other instruments. Maybe just a simple membrane that they can vibrate, just like how we do it except with a loroi's mind instead of an electromagnet. Precise control would allow to play music. Power w...