They actually did something similar to the grandparent's suggestions with the Orc AI for the battle scenes in the 2nd and 3rd LotRs movies (yes, IAAKiwi). They just had a whole lot of characteristics, with acceptable levels of variation between each orc, and then they'd press play and observe how those characteristics played out. They found that some orcs would retreat once they started losing the battle.
Did anyone else read the summary as a copyright infringement of Star Control? The quote translations really seemed to fit what the Ur'Quan are all about...
From TFA: "A 20 to 50 meter asteroid exploding over a major city could result in a significant loss of property and life." Good to see they have their priorities straight...
If you collect and bury CO2, you're effectively removing oxygen from the atmosphere. So a machine that does this is stupid, NO MATTER how efficient it is, because most life requires oxygen for respiration (I'm not worried about carbon sequestration because of several reasons, one of which is the ratio of 1 C atom per 2 O atoms). Trees, although they might take up more room and be less efficient in terms of volume and space than these machines, are free and give us oxygen, and look good while they do it.
Non-persistence is one of the major things that has kept me out of MMOGs. The only MMOG I have played was Tribal Wars, which is persistent. Realism (of which persistence is an important part) in games is what makes the game good for me. By which I mean, fantasy-realism or sci-fi realism or whatever.
If it worked like that, don't you think the military would use red camo? This kind of thing will only be useful when the FPS is the run-and-gun type, with little to no stealth or cover gameplay. Airsoft is too close to milsim for it to work like that.
...if the receiver dish is on the moon. This strikes me as a really good way to get a big power supply on the moon without having to land lots of heavy crap (eg, nuclear reactor components or acres of solar panels) on it, which is (still) difficult and expensive.
A grain of nanolimestone? I suspect you meant sodium chloride. I should revoke your chemistry licence for that, really, but your number is much lower than mine...
Agreed. Most of taste is actually smell. Also, smell is the only sense that taps directly into the hindbrain, which is why people react so instinctually with it...
I lived in a dark rural area of the Southern Hemisphere, and let me tell you, I have never seen anything in the night sky even approaching the size of the full moon...
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They actually did something similar to the grandparent's suggestions with the Orc AI for the battle scenes in the 2nd and 3rd LotRs movies (yes, IAAKiwi). They just had a whole lot of characteristics, with acceptable levels of variation between each orc, and then they'd press play and observe how those characteristics played out. They found that some orcs would retreat once they started losing the battle.
Mod parent up. It may not be serious, but it's a good idea anyway.
Did anyone else read the summary as a copyright infringement of Star Control? The quote translations really seemed to fit what the Ur'Quan are all about...
It's not hard to quote incomplete excerpts out of context from poor translations, but well done anyway...
I think you'll find that anything in sandwich form is better than without bread...not necessarily good.
From TFA: "A 20 to 50 meter asteroid exploding over a major city could result in a significant loss of property and life." Good to see they have their priorities straight...
If you collect and bury CO2, you're effectively removing oxygen from the atmosphere. So a machine that does this is stupid, NO MATTER how efficient it is, because most life requires oxygen for respiration (I'm not worried about carbon sequestration because of several reasons, one of which is the ratio of 1 C atom per 2 O atoms). Trees, although they might take up more room and be less efficient in terms of volume and space than these machines, are free and give us oxygen, and look good while they do it.
Non-persistence is one of the major things that has kept me out of MMOGs. The only MMOG I have played was Tribal Wars, which is persistent. Realism (of which persistence is an important part) in games is what makes the game good for me. By which I mean, fantasy-realism or sci-fi realism or whatever.
Start reading the title as, "How to check yourself before you wreck yourself"? I did.
I was the same way with "The Electric Kid". Good stuff :)
The problem is the availability of the reactor's containment vessels themselves, ALL of which come from a single factory in Japan, which already has a huge backlog of orders. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/14/1238233
If it worked like that, don't you think the military would use red camo? This kind of thing will only be useful when the FPS is the run-and-gun type, with little to no stealth or cover gameplay. Airsoft is too close to milsim for it to work like that.
WTF? More strawman arguments? IAAC, I have no trouble with electrons, and I hate epistemological nihilism.
Was that in Soviet Australia?
Size, availability of materials to construct it out of, and, as TFA pointed out, a stable platform to work from.
Yes.
I understand it was the apple of knowledge of good and evil, rather than immortality. Unless you're in some weird cult.
Anyone know if this is why www.schlockmercenary.com is down?
Everything We Still Don't Know is awesome :) Google videos I think...
...if the receiver dish is on the moon. This strikes me as a really good way to get a big power supply on the moon without having to land lots of heavy crap (eg, nuclear reactor components or acres of solar panels) on it, which is (still) difficult and expensive.
A grain of nanolimestone? I suspect you meant sodium chloride. I should revoke your chemistry licence for that, really, but your number is much lower than mine...
Agreed. Most of taste is actually smell. Also, smell is the only sense that taps directly into the hindbrain, which is why people react so instinctually with it...
If you propagate and direct them outside of the missile, you get a stripe of sonic destruction! :]
I lived in a dark rural area of the Southern Hemisphere, and let me tell you, I have never seen anything in the night sky even approaching the size of the full moon...