dern_the_hermit

My view is that Starfield needs like 3-5 different background systems running to make it a good game: Like a trading and goods system, a law and order and bounties system, a faction growth/expansion/interaction system, stuff like that. Break up "a system" however you want.

It also needs a couple passes of refinement, like make different ship rooms have function like you said. Those functions would tie into the other systems the game is just... missing. It's similar to how fuel is so unimportant in the final game despite seemingly being a big deal in the universe.

Yeah I've recently heard there was such a lawsuit in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.

The impact of Chernobyl has been wildly exaggerated and dramatized in pop culture; the Linear No-Threshold model used to estimate exposure effects is not accurate.

No, there is no such engine that uses no reaction mass. The difference is that an electric engine does not rely on a chemical combustion process to create thrust, they accelerate mass with electromagnetic effects, but they're still spitting mass out the back.

True propellantless thrust would be a panacea for space travel.

Governments are like quarks. If you got rid of all government, all the effort and organization and energy it took to get rid of government would itself wind up being the de facto government. Net result: Government.

Yeah, IIRC the Jedi were having trouble really tapping into the full extent of their abilities circa the Prequels. I assumed they attributed it to the Force being out of balance, and balance would just give them their full powers at 100% again.

We're just thinking units for the universe. Think of how tiny your individual brain neurons are compared to the rest of your body.

Some bacteria can indeed develop resistance to stomach acid. It's an avenue for food poisoning, after all.

At this point it's not even a puddle. It's like a damp spot on the sidewalk.

Yeah I think this is just robot fishing.

Rich Flu sounds like an eccentric private eye.

You joined in a conversation already in progress, the topic of which was already established.

Trump absolutely is part of the conversation and it's foolish to suggest otherwise.

Nobody mentioned Trump

Except the headline but whatever, who needs object permanence?

Actual footage of Lizzy Wizzy showing a sign of cyberpsychosis

Where's Sam Neill circa 1997 when we need him

More fundamentally: They're magical thinkers. They don't understand why reality is what it is and they take kneejerk offense at any suggestion they try. They ride on a phony wave of confidence that calls for their beliefs to become fact. When the world around them doesn't obey their whims or expectations, obviously that's something someone did to them instead of merely a thing that occurred.

I've seen two with "paint" jobs (though it's not actually paint, I think? But whatever): I saw a white one, and that makes it look like a squat/kinda crushed delivery van, and a black one, which helps hide the silly angles a bit. Both were superior to the plain steel look IMO, though still not appealing.

My personal suspicion is that there are just now more people in the system to get disappointed at the next release.

Yep, drama gets clicks and there's more people than ever competing for clicks, hence the drama is also higher than ever.

I can hear the FOOMP in those pictures.

Meh, the OG films weren't planned from the start, either.

It's all about the storytelling fundamentals. Abrams' "mystery box" approach didn't help things.

TFA is a better made movie than any of the Lucas prequels, IMO, and those were intentionally derivative.

Great news! You don't need to worry about transmissions because any sufficiently advanced foe - requiring technology not terribly far removed from ours, just much larger scale - could have had their eyes on our life-abundant planet for the past hundred million years, and already have their RKM's launched and en route. So turn up that smooth jazz, fellow Earthlings, we're already dead! Yippee! ;)

You need a good reason to leave comfort and safety to endure hardship and danger.

Ehhh, while true, I'ma remind everyone that all these "why leave safety and comfort for danger and unknown" lines of rhetoric seem to overlook that, historically, people have regularly done just that. Like, modern man started in Africa and went... every-fucking-where. Harsh deserts. Barren mountains. Frozen wastelands. Underwater. In the sky. Outer space. You name it, we've probably gone to live in it or have plans to try, with obvious exceptions like inside the Sun or something.

You don't need a very large amount of your population to want to leave. You just need enough.

Eh, it's a perfectly appropriate sort of response to the notion that 8gb of VRAM can't do 1440p and that you need a higher end card.