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- 2016-08-04 12:03am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: SDN Starship Design Commentaries
- Replies: 244
- Views: 72062
Re: SDN Starship Design Commentaries
Mass Effect has an arms limitation treaty in place. So if the ship becomes a little bit more expensive (in one form of cost or another), but in return you get to drastically increase the amount of time the ship is available, that seems like a major victory. So having room for maintenance inside the ...
- 2016-01-11 06:56pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
Cruiser kills are really easy and can be gotten in the process of self-defense while gunning for DDs in cruisers. It's destroyers that are utterly amazingly soul-crushing.
- 2016-01-10 12:20am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
Once you get into the bogue with the fighter fit it's pretty trivial to get the mission. I'm just annoyed because the DD mission is not something the game is prepared to handle at all. A mission to go hunting a moderately scarce class that is always going to have the choice of whether or not you get...
- 2016-01-09 01:02am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Scientists say we are in a new epoch.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4062
Re: Scientists say we are in a new epoch.
If you were to dimiss these arguments and/or only put it down to nuclear testing, I'm not sure a since 1610 or 1945 are really long enough to put the "epoch" label on it. In the case of this definition, it's not as if nuclear tests are even happening anymore (for the main part), and they ...
- 2015-12-28 01:03pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 289525
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
Unless other gods don't vote.
- 2015-09-20 01:20am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Has anyone tried Skyforge?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1832
Re: Has anyone tried Skyforge?
It's interesting enough. Tanking is a bit weird because heals in combat don't exist, support classes put up a ton of shields instead. Also the devs seem congenitally incapable of making costumes that don't have a feature or twelve that are just mystifying and make the whole thing goofy. Other than t...
- 2015-08-19 10:06pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: 3D XPoint storage "1000 times faster than SSDs"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3243
Re: 3D XPoint storage "1000 times faster than SSDs"
Intel's also announced that they're going to be selling 3D XPoint drives under the Optane brand in 2016. So it's presumably a lot more mature than some of us were thinking.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9541/inte ... t-products
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9541/inte ... t-products
- 2015-05-15 02:27pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
The gun layout is nice. The gun count is not.Rekkon wrote:I thought the Myogi was fine. Its additional range over the Kawachi was certainly welcome. Perhaps I ended up running away a disproportionate amount of the time, but two aft turrets never bothered me.
- 2015-04-18 04:40pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: Precoltian Repeaters
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8726
Re: Precoltian Repeaters
But so you guys will love this, I stumbled upon the first Browning gas operation patent from 1982 a few months ago. Its a freaking lever action rife with the worst piston ever attached to the muzzle. But it seems this gun really worked; I suppose that's not surprising looking at it. This explains t...
- 2015-04-18 02:14am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
The Yubari has one redeeming feature in that her AA guns are better than most tier 5 ships get. It's a situational perk though and beyond that she can struggle to do the damage you'd want from her. That is less of a problem than practically the entire ship being a citadel. The damage output is low,...
- 2015-04-17 09:02pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
Yubari sucks, Sims is fun and Grimyashy is really good when you get the feel for it.
- 2015-04-16 11:21pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ‘You shouldn't have f---ing ran’
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8930
Re: ‘You shouldn't have f---ing ran’
How are tasers in police use shot and in the general case of pulling a gun instead of a taser, do you think it would make a difference to not have them shot by an index finger trigger if they are?
- 2015-04-14 05:52pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Pirates get can legally get Window 10 for free.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2900
Re: Pirates get can legally get Window 10 for free.
Microsoft really wants everyone to have access to its app store.
- 2015-04-11 06:13pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
Pay to win crews the game? What game are you talking about? I have only ever spent money on a bomber crew (actually, I think the gold I used was free, so I didn't actually spend anything), and I have no problems winning with a fighter or a tank. WT ain't perfect by any means, but pay to win isn't a...
- 2015-04-11 12:15am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Warships
- Replies: 1875
- Views: 510396
Re: World of Warships
In other words... Why WoT is a scam and you should just play War Thunder? :wink: Pay to win crews the game? Frustratingly, they seem to have picked the Erie -class gunboat as the "Tier I" US warship despite the fact that there are other ships older than it that 'follow' it in subsequent t...
- 2014-11-11 10:09pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
- Replies: 1051
- Views: 147104
Re: World of Tanks Mark III
If you're interested, don't know if the thread for this wave of warships apps got linked:
http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index. ... _p__380190
http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index. ... _p__380190
- 2014-10-05 12:53pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Dark Heresy Second Edition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3852
Re: Dark Heresy Second Edition
Yeah, that's a good point.
Understand the ramifications of a point blank ambush on lightly armored guys with a shotgun, and if you decide to do that, have the guy with the most fate take point.
Understand the ramifications of a point blank ambush on lightly armored guys with a shotgun, and if you decide to do that, have the guy with the most fate take point.
- 2014-10-05 01:54am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Dark Heresy Second Edition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3852
Re: Dark Heresy Second Edition
Scrimming a combat with NPCs and maybe a premade or something should be plenty to get the actual mechanics of the game down well enough that people can have a rough idea of what they're doing building a character, and if you're worried about GMing, a premade or something would probably be enough to ...
- 2014-09-29 07:23pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Dark Heresy Second Edition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3852
Re: Dark Heresy Second Edition
Yeah, the inter-weapon balance was ridiculous, I agree there, but getting on the crit chart early was nice because it gave a visceral feeling to the damage and honestly the FFG 40k crit charts are a standout feature of the system. I think if they made a good change to even out the balance between th...
- 2014-09-28 02:39pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Boardgame: Creating Meaningful Faction Quirks for Semi-Coop
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3086
Re: Boardgame: Creating Meaningful Faction Quirks for Semi-C
Actually, one thing that might be worth considering. If you're talking about getting powers in play, it might be worth considering having one or two more than a player can be reasonably expected to get. That keeps choice in the perk selection and would hopefully increase the longevity of the game as...
- 2014-09-28 02:37pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Dark Heresy Second Edition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3852
Re: Dark Heresy Second Edition
I'm kind of torn about the combat. Part of me really liked the new system for combat from a mechanical standpoint, thought it would be very neat to play with and didn't much care about losing a bunch of legacy stuff that wasn't even close to internally consistent or decently balanced. On the other h...
- 2014-09-28 02:33pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Boardgame: Creating Meaningful Faction Quirks for Semi-Coop
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3086
Re: Boardgame: Creating Meaningful Faction Quirks for Semi-C
I'd say three or so bonuses would probably good. Ten screams minor and meaningless or an overcomplex game. Three should be pretty easy to keep track of especially if each player has a card with three spots on it to keep track of it that everyone can look at quickly. This is pretty much me guessing. ...
- 2014-09-28 02:20am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police
- Replies: 106
- Views: 14311
Re: What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police
As long as the benefit of help from the police isn't worth the downside of potentially getting beaten or ending up breathing bullets, don't call the cops. This isn't particularly difficult. The chance of that downside should be low enough that you can safely disregard it in any case because it's lit...
- 2014-08-18 03:14am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: RPG player/character sex question time.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4287
Re: RPG player/character sex question time.
I'm male, and I nearly always play female characters. First time was because I was a hormonal teenager and aesthetic reasons, and after that I realized I identified more with a female character than a not-me male character. Playing a female character avoids an uncanny valley sort of thing where I ex...
- 2014-08-04 06:18pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: The Essential Steampunk?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2284
Re: The Essential Steampunk?
For one end of the genre, I'd have to float Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter, it's got a good smattering of the fantastic end of steampunk but explored by someone who's a bit of a fish out of water when he goes into the unusual. It's very atmospheric and portrays a great contrast between the feel of t...