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Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Mirificus posted:

You've dug up some grief-inducing stuff tonight oh boy

I have to fight the urge to punch myself in the head

# ? Dec 19, 2016 22:58

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 01:37

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

tooterfish posted:

Well this is bullshit.

Deckard was a replicant, he should be loving dead of old age.

There's a scene in this new one where Deckard's like "I want more life fucker" and Tyrell goes "Okay, sure, that seems reasonable"

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:00

aleksendr: May 14, 2014

tooterfish posted:

Well this is bullshit.

Deckard was a replicant, he should be loving dead of old age.

There are many diverging theory on the subject. The director cut imply that, yes, he and Rachel are replicants, enjoying the little time remaining to them. The Theatrical release imply that Deckard is human, while Rachel is a replicant but without the "time limit" gene built in her as she is a special prototype designed for corporate use only, so she might have many more years of life before she breaks down. The original story by PKD imply that Deckard is also , if very confused, human. The most accepted fan theory is that he and Rachel are both reps, but with a longer lifespan than the 5 years usually allowed to the production model.

I personally like the story better if he is human beceaus it allow him to exist as a contrast and empathise with the reps he hunt, asking himself is he is any different and if not why should they not be allowed to live. The movie make a better "mind gently caress" if he is a rep but then its just machines hunting machines while the human overlord watches. With 3 cuts of the movie and the original book having different answer i guess you can pick the answer you love most witout guilt over acepting the original author intent.

But if he is a Rep, there is nothing preventing "him" of being another copy of the good old "Deck-Ard V3.2.3 Mod B" model for police investigation in the new film.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:01

intardnation: Feb 18, 2016; I'm going to space!

Mr.PayDay posted:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/12/19/star-citizen-fps-module-star-marine-gets-new-trailer-details-a-ign-first

"Blizzard does a lot of this honing behind closed doors. It takes them quite a while, to hone and iterate. Then they release something, and generally it plays really well," Roberts said. "I think we're just trying to do the same thing, but much more public. We're inviting the community to participate in that. Here's what we think works well, and if it doesn't work well we're looking at it and adjusting it, and honing it, iterating it. It's very different than I've done stuff in the past."

ya but nothing works well while u pay urself blizzard $. that is the loving issue dickwad.

i cant wait for this to implode and shitizens stalk him. hey chris - steal enough for private security the rest of your life? that is the only question u have to answer.

PS chris kinda enjoying battlefield 1 for eight bucks - no 15k dipshit and it works well.

intardnation fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Dec 19, 2016

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:13

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

XK posted:

All throughout my childhood, my mom always claimed I liked meatloaf. Even today she'll say I used to like it. I've always hated meatloaf. It completely baffles me.

My relatives have the same problem with me: Both my sister and my mother occasionally have to suffer when I accidentally bring something I'm absolutely sure they like. Only to re-learn yet again, nope they hate that poo poo. And have always hated it. :downs:

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:20

MedicineHut: Feb 25, 2016

Mr.PayDay posted:

What was this supposed to even do?

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:21

Cao Ni Ma: May 25, 2010

MedicineHut posted:

What was this supposed to even do?

Nobody loving knows

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:24

nawledgelambo: Nov 8, 2016; Immersion chariot

MedicineHut posted:

What was this supposed to even do?

Just ask a citizen. 90% of all of them seem to theorycraft their dreams from buzzwords like this all the time.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:32

Fat Shat Sings: Jan 24, 2016

DogonCrook posted:

"We already model atmosphere and different room volumes, so if a door opens or a window gets broken, it will start to remove the atmosphere from the volume," Roberts said. "That is all part of what we're trying to do for 3.0 which will allow for depressurization. People getting sucked out, or things getting sucked out. If you have a suit on you'll be okay. If you don't have a suit on, you'll asphyxiate."

Lol the airlock didn't fool anybody but chris it seems.

quote:

RIKER: You were right. Somebody blew the hatch. They were all sucked out into space.
DATA: Correction, sir, that's blown out.
RIKER: Thank you, Data.
DATA: A common mistake, sir,

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:39

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Fat Shat Sings posted:

Well, someone or something is getting sucked in the verse.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:42

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Daztek posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/welcome-to-sc

This is a push for 2 million citizens by alt accounts, don't think it's going to work out that well.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:43

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

XK posted:

All throughout my childhood, my mom always claimed I liked meatloaf. Even today she'll say I used to like it. I've always hated meatloaf. It completely baffles me.

Yeah.. I love yellow cake with vanilla frosting, that's the only thing I've ever requested when my grandmother used to bake me cakes still.

Never once got one. Every year, a week before my birthday she would call and ask what I wanted. I'd tell her: yellow cake and vanilla frosting.

Then she'd come down for my birthday with a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. 'This is what you told me!' She would always get upset because someone would say something, usually not me.

To this day she swears I told her I wanted chocolate/chocolate ever single year.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:44

radd: Jun 16, 2001; Super Spacefortress

Beet Wagon posted:

I've introduced beets to a couple friends who swore up and down they hated them based on some half remembered thing from their childhood only to realize they are actually doubleplus good. Memories are funny that way.

True Australian burgers have beet on them.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:45

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Mirificus posted:

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:49

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/809841856259362816

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:49

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

grimcreaper posted:

Yeah.. I love yellow cake with vanilla frosting, that's the only thing I've ever requested when my grandmother used to bake me cakes still.

Never once got one. Every year, a week before my birthday she would call and ask what I wanted. I'd tell her: yellow cake and vanilla frosting.

Then she'd come down for my birthday with a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. 'This is what you told me!' She would always get upset because someone would say something, usually not me.

To this day she swears I told her I wanted chocolate/chocolate ever single year.

Maybe she knows you're a nuclear terrorist and doesn't want to provide you with uranium?

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:50

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

radd posted:

True Australian burgers have beet on them.

All of my burgers do too. Sometimes pickled, sometimes just roasted. Burgers without beets are a shell, hollow like death.

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:51

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.

Actually, other than the fact that it's missing a key component (Near-instant communication between star systems, except it's incredibly expensive and the equipment is controlled by a bunch of culty pseudo-religious whackjobs) that's not all that dissimilar to the way communication works in the Battletech universe...

# ? Dec 19, 2016 23:53

DogonCrook: Apr 24, 2016; I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters

Beet Wagon posted:

Actually, other than the fact that it's missing a key component (Near-instant communication between star systems, except it's incredibly expensive and the equipment is controlled by a bunch of culty pseudo-religious whackjobs) that's not all that dissimilar to the way communication works in the Battletech universe...

They should have copied braben so when they drop all these features they can just say "oh those features were just design discussion, we enjoyed your theory crafting but we arent going to use it".

E: meant to quote beer.

DogonCrook fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Dec 20, 2016

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:00

Generation Internet: Jan 18, 2009; Where angels and generals fear to tread.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.

lol if you ever thought they could pull that off/it was an original idea

here's a slice of the 2007 Mass Effect codex:

quote:

Communications
Real-time communication is possible thanks to networks of expensive mass relay comm buoys that can daisy-chain a transmission via lasers.

Comm buoys are maintained in patterns built outward from each mass relay. The buoys are little more than a cluster of primitive, miniature mass relays. Each individual buoy is connected to a partner on another buoy in the network, forming a corridor of low-mass space. Tightbeam communications lasers are piped through these "tubes" of FTL space, allowing virtually instantaneous communication to anywhere on the network. The networks connect across regions by communications lasers through the mass relays.

With this system, the only delay is the light lag between the source or destination and the closest buoy. So long as all parties remain within half a light-second (150,000 km) of buoys, seamless real time communications are possible. Since buoys are maintained in all traveled areas, most enjoy unlimited instant communications. Ships only suffer communications lag when operating off established deep space routes, around uninhabited outer system gas giants, and other unsettled areas.

During wartime, comm buoy networks are the first target of an attack. Once the network is severed, it can take anywhere from weeks to years to get a message out of a contested system. In systems where a buoy network has not yet been built or has been destroyed, rapid communication means ferrying information through high-speed courier ships and unmanned data drones.

quote:

Communications: Administration

While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.

The Citadel Council and the Spectres have absolute priority; if they are using all the bandwidth, everyone else must wait. Individual governments and their militaries enjoy the next-highest tier. During wartime, civilian communication can suffer hours or even days of lag. Intelligence agencies study ping time through various systems to predict military buildups.

Below the governments and militaries, bandwidth priority is sold to the highest bidder. Media conglomerates, particularly headline news networks, purchase higher priority to provide their viewers with timely information. Corporations that require timely information and response capability (for example, financial institutions and investment firms) also invest heavily in priority access. The funds acquired through sales of bandwidth are used to maintain and expand the communications infrastructure.

While everyone with a computer has guaranteed free and unlimited access to the galactic extranet, they are last in line for bandwidth and may have to wait for their requests to be processed. Bandwidth resale corporations use investment capital to purchase blocks of high priority access, made available by paid subscription.

quote:

Communications: Methodology

As the population of the galaxy increases and new worlds are settled, timely access for home users and frontier settlements with underdeveloped communications infrastructures is a growing problem. To ameliorate bandwidth issues, a sophisticated array of data caches and virtual intelligence search agent programs are available.

When a user submits a query, it is first routed to the data cache, the user's search agent VI collates mountains of locally-stored data to find the desired material. If the information is not available locally, the query is passed along to neighboring systems, and then outward in an expanding network. VI search agents in those systems replicate the search. If the desired information is found, it is compressed into a "burst" file and queued for transmission to the source system. The burst is assigned a priority based on the number of queries for it; the greater the number of queries, the higher the priority.

When a new solar system is first connected to the net, a selection of the most popular data is installed locally. Though storage hardware is cheap, the capacity required to hold all the data produced everyday by trillions of people on hundreds of worlds is not trivial. It's not economical to store local copies of all the data available on obscure topics just in case.

As colonies mature, older and less-popular chunks of data filter into them as a result of queries and are placed in the local archive. Searches for obscure topics are increasingly likely to produce instant results as the archive grows.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:01

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

The slow propagation of interstellar signals thing was a staple of science fiction in the 1970s. John Brunner used it in a couple of his books. ME seems to have put an interesting spin on it. Maybe Star Citizen will ha ha ha ha ha ha no.

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Just in case this got missed in my previous wall of text:
Christopher Roberts is an anagram for "poo poo Botch Errors Rep", which should be his new job title.

SelenicMartian posted:

http://i.imgur.com/xqJpnMh.mp4

gently caress, the guy on the right makes Stallman look like George Clooney in terms of style. Who shows up for a professional meeting dressed like that?

At least Crobbers has the excuse that he's modeling the t-shirt so his fanboys will buy it.

AlbieQuirky fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Dec 20, 2016

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:05

MedicineHut: Feb 25, 2016

Generation Internet posted:

lol if you ever thought they could pull that off/it was an original idea

here's a slice of the 2007 Mass Effect codex:

Fuckng lol, really?

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:11

Mu77ley: Oct 14, 2016

AlbieQuirky posted:

Who shows up for a professional meeting dressed like that?

Easy. A software developer.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:14

Generation Internet: Jan 18, 2009; Where angels and generals fear to tread.

MedicineHut posted:

Fuckng lol, really?

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Codex/Technology

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:17

Mr Fronts: Jan 31, 2016; Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

Xaerael posted:

HoHoHo, what's this I see? SELF ARCHERING now at CIG?

Stretch goal - linguistic specialists creating alien languages - TICK, DELIVERED

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:19

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

Mu77ley posted:

Easy. A software developer.

That seems hideous to me even by dev standards. I am serious when I say that Stallman dresses better, and that's a fairly low bar not to meet. :colbert:

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:19

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

radd posted:

True Australian burgers have beet on them.

This is true.

Like everything else in Australia the burgers are designed to make habitation as difficult as possible.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:20

Kephael: Apr 2, 2016

AlbieQuirky posted:

gently caress, the guy on the right makes Stallman look like George Clooney in terms of style. Who shows up for a professional meeting dressed like that?
At least Crobbers has the excuse that he's modeling the t-shirt so his fanboys will buy it.

I wouldn't take a software developer seriously if they came dressed in a suit. In fact, I'd think there were serious culture issues in the environment if they came overly dressed.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:20

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

Mr.PayDay posted:

loving lol. It was literally spoken about on the holiday stream as being worked on and almost but not quite ready , and now it's poo poo canned hahah

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:21

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

~~Star Marine~~ Mega Map in weeks not months.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:25

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

Generation Internet posted:

lol if you ever thought they could pull that off/it was an original idea

here's a slice of the 2007 Mass Effect codex:

And so Beer's last shred of faith in CIG was destroyed

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:27

ManofManyAliases: Mar 21, 2016; ToastOfManySmarts

Can't post for 3 hours!

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The funny thing is that I think it represents the only bit of innovation that I can recall from Star Citizen. Since communication isn't instantaneous in the SC universe data has to propagate between solar systems on jump buoys that traverse points on regular intervals. Most data is transmitted this way and can take hours to go across the galaxy. Folks with data that's particularly critical or time sensitive can serve as couriers, so the end result is a job that's entirely dependent on getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. It also opens up the opportunity to erase data by intercepting buoys, or to have a crime not occur at all if it happens in a region where messages aren't transmitted and all records of the crime are destroyed. There's also some interesting possibilities for hacking messages, getting ahead of your reputation after you commit a crime, and a few other ideas (like how the right to name a solar system is bestowed upon the first player to report the data, not find the system).

It would make for some interesting gameplay mechanics if the whole thing wasn't a loving scam.

You'd likely have better results addressing your letters of concern to Santa then to those news agencies and investigators you were planning on sending them.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:30

Fooma: Oct 15, 2010; nom nom nom

ManofManyAliases posted:

You'd likely have better results addressing your letters of concern to Santa then to those news agencies and investigators you were planning on sending them.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:30

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

ManofManyAliases posted:

You'd likely have better results addressing your letters of concern to Santa then to those news agencies and investigators you were planning on sending them.

Yes. Don't send your concerns and information to every known 3 letter agency that will listen

Please don't

Also yes do it right away , gently caress CIG and crobblers

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:33

nawledgelambo: Nov 8, 2016; Immersion chariot

ManofManyAliases posted:

You'd likely have better results addressing your letters of concern to Santa then to those news agencies and investigators you were planning on sending them.

moma mad you're getting a refund.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:33

Mr Fronts: Jan 31, 2016; Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

https://imperium.news/star-citizen-community-frustration-boils-embarrassing-livestream/

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:36

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

Mr Fronts posted:

https://imperium.news/star-citizen-community-frustration-boils-embarrassing-livestream/

MoMA's been hard at work on the official forums

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:37

Xaerael: Aug 25, 2010; Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/809841856259362816

I did a photoshop joke response to this, but it's so disrespectful I felt like I couldn't post it. =(

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:39

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

Sappo569 posted:

loving lol. It was literally spoken about on the holiday stream as being worked on and almost but not quite ready , and now it's poo poo canned hahah

Finally looked up what the gently caress mega map is:

mega map is the technique to stay in the game and do not load between matches or changing between arc corp, your hangar, arena commander. everything is on one mega map. streaming in and no loading screens needed.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:40

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 01:37

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

peter gabriel posted:

OK I am now more convinced, I may ask again later though when you least expect it

Be sure to mix it up a bit next time.

Asking if a person is heated bread is obviously a no answer. You should instead ask if one of his many aliases that he goes by in online communities happens to be named "Toast". And to keep it easy, you don't even need to imply any specific community. Baby steps.

# ? Dec 20, 2016 00:41

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