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  1. khorum

    Battletech

    glitch would one shot it to the face.
  2. khorum

    Battletech

    Get the April 25th nvidia 397.31 drivers __AND__ the full K-Lite codec pack. I got a new laptop with a gtx 1060 pretty much just to play this game on the road and the loading times/stutters on the nvidia was faaaaar worse than on my desktop. The loading times are persistent even on SSD's...
  3. khorum

    Battletech

    steam dl'ing an 855mb patch but no notes with it... do they resolve the codec DLL fiasco and the long load times?
  4. khorum

    Battletech

    So I got a new laptop since I'll be working for the next few weeks and my old mac is prolly too old to run this fine and suddenly all the bugs ppl talked about that I never experienced on my desktop started popping on up the new laptop. It's a decent laptop, i7 and a gtx 1060 gpu and I put 16gb...
  5. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    Why build a hyperloop when self-driving cars are AT LEAST ten years away?
  6. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    We understand the stresses and engineering for a ring, but building a BIOME like Elysium's is a harder problem. We'd have to simulate cyclical precipitation, which means we have to simulate regular jetstreams, which means we have simulate tidal forces ---assuming the orbital is tidally-locked...
  7. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    you'd need to drag carbonaceous rocks to orbit to produce that much graphene and CNT for those structures. While theyve found a few out there, it's definitely rarer and needs to be refined out of methane/compex organics ice which would require a fairly sophisticated refinement chain to exist in...
  8. khorum

    Battletech

    holy fuck where do I get SRM carriers. That convoy didnt need escorts.
  9. khorum

    Battletech

    you get to refit your mechs soon after the first mission, but the chassis constrain what types of weapons you can mount. Within those constraints there's a TON of depth tho.., i got two ac/5++ than turn the blackjack into an instant knockdown machine and I havent found a reason to take it off...
  10. khorum

    Battletech

    Haven't crashed at all. But im only about 6 hours in. What rep do I need to be at to travel into Liao space? im at Friendly with them now but still no bueno...is it gated by the story?
  11. khorum

    Battletech

    REALLY digging this game. Brings back all the memories but holy FUCK do some of the mech designs look shitty.
  12. khorum

    MasterChef Australia

    Should check out My Kitchen Rules.... Masterchef Australia and MKR trade off airing different seasons.
  13. khorum

    The Expanse

    Syfy won't be able to hold onto Amos for very long unless they lock him into a decade-long contract. He's showing consistent range between this and his film work like in hunger games... that won't be missed by people casting for HBO/Netflix/Amazon projects.
  14. khorum

    MasterChef Australia

    Well if you're ever interested in reality cooking shows check this show out and My Kitchen Rules Australia. The Australians don't fuck around with cooking shows.....this (and My Kitchen Rules) airs like 3 days a week down there. Also if you think "I've seen Masterchef US and this Aussie shit...
  15. khorum

    MasterChef Australia

    My wife and in-laws watch this show religiously. Apparently there's nothing else to do in the middle-of-fucking-nowhere-Australia. This isn't the masterchef format tho. It's very different and MUCH better. It's impossible to understate how huge this show (AND masterchef australia) is down...
  16. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    ULA is licensing Bezos' BE4 engine to replace their russian-made rocket engines so yeah.
  17. khorum

    Iron Harvest

    They have a longer video with gameplay up. Should rename the thread "Dawn of War in the SCYTHE game world".
  18. khorum

    May be an odd question

    Good chance they hire a private security firm. Insurance/risk mgmt would insist.
  19. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    I wonder if Branson slaps a hooker everytime he's reminded he couldve invested in SpaceX instead.
  20. khorum

    WoW Vanilla Emu - Emerald Dream

    H
  21. khorum

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Could’ve been a chunk of Chinese Space Station.
  22. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is apparently ahead of schedule for its 2019 maiden flight. It has a lower max payload to translunar orbit than the FH or the SLS but it's also reusable. That's ultimately the big cost challenge to NASA and the ULA: theyre gonna have two well-funded competitors...
  23. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    2020 for the SLS is lol.
  24. khorum

    The Animated GIF Thread

    so do webm's embed now? http://i.4cdn.org/gif/1521542258183.webm guess not.
  25. khorum

    Stellaris

    It's definitely easier for machine and hivemind civs now.... but relative to pacifist expansionists and xenophiles, they're probably a little BEHIND. Fanatic pacifist/xenophobic inward perfection grew super fast compared to my go-to machine species. My last playthrough was a...
  26. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    They picked the wrong city for that though. Had to spare a few moments balancing the benefit of dropping a comet on LA vs. the harm of a nuclear winter and famine that might follow.
  27. khorum

    Gloomhaven

    you can un-retire retired chars? My Brute is like 4 bandit kills from retirement.
  28. khorum

    Stellaris

    It was the diplomatic component prior to Cherryh. My favorite build is an aggressive rogue servitor build and pre-2.0 organic empires would routinely declare war on me if I got too close. Nowadays I'm not even sure how you'd provoke an aggressive war without totally gimping your fleet and...
  29. khorum

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Or he was one those dogs who piss on two legs. One of our tenants had a pug that pissed like this:
  30. khorum

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    If it drew blood from a human you could’ve made them put it down.
  31. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    Lol why would refueling autonomously be a harder problem than driving from Anaheim to SF? They’ve had this prototype for a couple years and it’s in a couple of their superchargers. My big huge billionaire elevator pitch is a fleet of autonomous fuel tankers that trucks can ping...
  32. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    It’s macabre but this is actually an important step for autonomous transport if the state or the family drag Uber to court. If Uber doesn’t settle it’ll be an important precedent for liability cases involving autonomous vehicles in the future. Uber had three cameras on the driver and two...
  33. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    That’s their insurance crawling up their asshole most likely.
  34. khorum

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Sounds like a fine specimen of the Breed of Peace.
  35. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    They’ve been active since late 2016. Waymo racked up five million miles and Uber’s self-driving fleet has another three million. This would make it the first fatality in 8 million miles and almost two years of service. Conventional taxi services average 18 fatalities per year for passengers...
  36. khorum

    Cunt Wars

    So you’re saying these devs might actually advertise with us?
  37. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    Man, that movie wouldn’t have been as memorable If Skynet was actually Uber and terminators just drove everyone off cliffs and bridges.
  38. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    Someone around here who was an “authority” on self-driving commercial vehicles said we weren’t gonna see them deployed in public for at least ten years. How are they killing people already?
  39. khorum

    Stellaris

    Why wouldnt you just reuse an existing fleet comp for each new fleet and hit the replenish button? But yeah, I used a mix of corvettes with picket/swarm/artillery AI for most of my exterminator build. I think it only really works because the AI is NOT aggressive at all, even at the highest...
  40. khorum

    I, Tonya (2017)

    Between this and Darkest Hour it's hard to tell which was the better MAGA movie. Darkest Hour is almost like a Trump Parable. Churchill was surrounded by libcucks who had the culture and media in their hands and used their deep state ties to undermine him and seek accomodation and appeasement...