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For people who haven't been keeping up with the show (my season 5 is mostly snippets off youtube) here's the Battle of Hardhome in Two Parts. Should give you a better idea for the Others' capabilities in this vs. I admit that does show how effective the Others' and the wights are, however obviously...

So far, in the books at least, we haven't seen any particular vulnerability to fire among the white walkers, only to obsidian and Valyrian steel. Fire kills wights, which are something else entirely (basically zombies). Well if Anduril mimics Valyrian steel then Aragorn is potentially the only pers...

I'm surprised and slightly disappointed there isn't already a fanfic based on this scenario yet. I am a patient man, however. I can wait. I knoowww! I've been trying to get people to do this for days. I mean, I have some stuff written up, but it is more 'ideas for a collection of scenes and interac...

Also I seem to recall that Galactica had two jump drives, while the civilian ships only had one... that might also slow down the time between jumps. Though I admit I'm not sure as the number of FTL drives might be due to ship size/mass, or it might be to give a military ship the ability to jump twic...

Ahh, just come back and re read what I put and I realised that when I've said Wights I should have said White Walkers... d'oh

Having not seen any of serie 5 of GoT I can't comment about the Wights abilities. However the battle between 10,000 undead and the defenders of Helms Deep would be a stalemate. The undead have no way to get in (discounting the wights), and unless the defenders start using fire arrows (and lots of th...

The simple answer is that the torpedoes used simply don't have the yield to create sufficient ejecta to disrupt the cloud layer. If they did then the cloud layer would have had noticable and long term changes for the duration of the bombardment and resulting devestation. For reference read about Mo...

*snip* I actually don't think that the Cardassian and Romulan weapons are so pathetically weak, but in the absence of any proof that the clouds were super-dense, it's the conclusion that your own argument actually indicates. Okay - what is it? Are the torpedoes so pathetically weak that we couldn't...

Since I asked about this I've started to reply ME2, and I've noticed that barriers are used more like force fields in Star Trek than anything else. They are used to contain the atmosphere around the helm when the Normandy is going down at the beginning, and Joker seems to have an active barrier arou...

The ME codex specifically states that barriers are not effective against directed-energy weapons. They have ablative armor for protection against beams. Against a pure directed energy weapon, like a Laser, I'd agree. However the majority of other Sci Fi energy weapons seem to have some form of kine...

The ME codex specifically states that barriers are not effective against directed-energy weapons. They have ablative armor for protection against beams. Against a pure directed energy weapon, like a Laser, I'd agree. However the majority of other Sci Fi energy weapons seem to have some form of kine...

So really we could expect kinetic barriers to put up an excellent resistance to energy weapons, espcially particle beam based weapons, within the ships ability to generate enough power to resist. From what I recall of Mass Effect, doesn't being set on fire cause your suit to degrade? There's pyro en...

Inspired by the recent Normandy vs White Star thread, I'm wondering just how effective kinetic barriers would be against the various energy weapons that are seen in other sci fi. So how would they fair against: 1. Goa'ld staff cannons (plasma cannons I believe) 2. Traveller particle cannons (SGA) 3....

I vaguely recall that in ME3 it's mentioned that the Geth (or at least their flagship dreadnaught) had powerful enough laser weaponry to use them ship-to-ship when they are fending off the Quarians. It may not be that effective at long range, but I'm pretty sure it was enough to tear up the Quarian...

From what I recall the only species that uses energy weapons as anything besides PD is the Collectors/Protheans. Just a quick google revealed this http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Codex/Ships_and_Vehicles Contrary to popular belief, Sovereign's main gun was not a directed-energy weapon. Rather, its ...

Fantasy author Terry Pratchett has died aged 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. "The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds," said Transworld Publishers' Larry Finlay. Sir Terry, best known for the Discworld series, wrote more than 70 books over his lengthy care...

Looking at the numbers for Mass Effect this match up should be a white wash. That is assuming of course that the information about the weapons on the White Star is close to accurate. Obviously that assumes that the White Star can lock weapons on the Normandy in the first place, though technology dif...

Thanks for the advice guys.

So basically, what's being said is that 3/4k display's are only really worth it when there is plenty of screen real estate, ala TheFeniXs' 29" monitor.

As much as I'd love to have a Macbook my focus is more in the Windows realm of development, and I don't see the point in buying a Mac and then switching to Windows 75% of the time when I want to do something besides browse the net.

I've been looking around lately at getting a new laptop, for gaming and some dev work of my own (not really using it for work). And I've noticed that a lot of high end machines, whether they be pre-built or custom, are offering 3K or even 4K displays on 15.6" screens. I suppose my question is, ...

I don't think that 4K will have any real bearing on the life of the current console generation, mainly because PC's have been able to render graphics in FHD for years now and the consoles have only just caught up. That and the demand for 4K is only going to be with people after a technology bling fa...

Point 3: not so sure, we see vader warding off blaster bolts quite easily along with his TK feats and superior strength, he is a well known quantity and a serious challenge. Odin OTOH, we haven't seen him DO much, he slayed a Dark elf with hi energy spear with contemptuous ease, and his mere appear...

We know from The Well in Agents of Shield that not all Asgardians' are in the army (since they used everyday citizens as berserker's). So 10,000 spears is likely to just be the standing army or the guard force... Isn't that slightly more than an Imperial Legion? Which is the usual troop capacity of...

PS Odin mentions 10,000 Asgardian spears, so we can use that as a rough numbers count of Asgardians, if they can even partially shield thier city, then if they force the 501st to come down and fight them at close range, they could put a real hurting on them. We know from The Well in Agents of Shiel...

It all depends on just how powerful blasters and Star Wars materials are compared with those used by Asgard/Dark Elves. The higher powers in the nine realms seem to have a level of understanding that is, as stated in the first film, like a combination of science and magic. Every Asgard death was due...