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It's 100% a proof of concept. Key Objectives Prove powered flight in the thin atmosphere of Mars. The Red Planet has lower gravity (about onethird that of Earth) but its atmosphere is just 1% as thick, making it much harder to generate lift. Demonstrate miniaturized flying technology. That...

This rover and it's helicopter launch tomorrow morning at 4:50am PST. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/launch/

Propellent loading now, could be a static fire on SN5 tonight. Could see a hop next week. Edit: tonights atttempt was aborted

Cuphead coming to PS4 it appears.

I see you caught some Starlink too, heh.

If you're in the ecosystem in some form it's mission accomplished as far as Microsoft is concerned. Series X is just the latest vector. I'll be happy when Sony gets to this point... they don't need to take a loss selling me hardware to get my money.

I played a bit of a preview/beta, I don't know if I can play this game. The spiders. Fuck. Will give it a shot with friends at least, yay for Game Pass.

This makes a lot of sense. tl;dw: without any form of light tracing, modern development and texturing techniques will make games look Halo Infinity look flat. That being said there are also a lot of questionable texturing decisions and art choices (opaque explosions, shielding) Either way...

Next gen indies, some of these look pretty great.

Yeah, poor lighting and no meaningful depth of field makes this looks super bad. Those two things would salvage even this mishmash of different models, colors and textures. 'Early build', lol, we'll see what ships.

It's on Game Pass, will grab it and try it later today.

Epic Game Store summer sale has started. Epic Games Store | Official Site

I largely agree, I expect to get some of that fix at launch with some of the 3rd party titles that won't have PC parity. Madden is probably my biggest guilty pleasure and at least this year the PC release will be current gen. Think we have a lot left to learn about both of these consoles...

70 indie demos have dropped on the Xbox store for a week as part of their summer game fest, including the new Destroy All Humans. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/07/21/id-xbox-summer-game-fest-demo-event/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/game-demos/games/xbox?icid=SSM_AS_Promo_GameDemos

Going free to play, will be delisted from Steam. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/rocket-league-will-soon-be-free-to-play-delisted-from-steam/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social

There's value to knowing the credentials are valid, because then they'll be tried elsewhere.

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/no-need-to-mind-the-gap/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/20/21327589/logic-twitch-signing-deal-exclusive-partnership

So have I just not noticed them much before, or are 31-32 inch monitors becoming a new segment of the market or something? Seem to be seeing more and more of them lately.

Naked eye it was a smudge, my photo is with astrophotography mode on a Pixel 3 XL. Going to take the kids out to see it tomorrow night I think if the weather holds.

JWST launch slipped another 7 months to October 2021. For technical/panedmic reasons. https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-jwst-launch-by-seven-months/

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49340 Beyond Light pushed to 11/10.

This is a comet photo. There are others like it, but this one's mine.

Phyiscal version will be available in Europe. 10 discs. The DVDs in the box contain all of the game world apart from the updates Microsoft and developer Asobo release between the moment the discs are pressed and release. So, when you install, you'll get an update from the server. "... the...

I didn't make it past the first couple episodes. I liked the movie a lot, this just didn't click with me. After Hamilton I'm a much bigger fan of Diggs now, so maybe I'll revisit it and give it more of a shot.

So this looks pretty good. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Audiobook/B086WP794Z

Some Stadia stuff today, via Lots of Great Games are Coming to Stadia This morning, Google announced that not only are plenty of new games coming to the service, some of them from very large publishers, but even a new feature is rolling out starting now. Let’s quickly go over what’s new. For...

Gamestop is a deceptively large company, they've still got 5300 stores in 14 countries.

Yeah, I was expecting the standard edition to be $30 (or perhaps only available with a Game Pass sub), with a few aircraft and a couple airports, rather than 60% of the aircraft and 75% of the airports.

PC release 8/18. 3 versions, $59, $89, $118. The $59 version will be on Game Pass. Not really a fan of these tiers, but I suppose this is nothing for the enthusiasts. Aside from aircraft the number of detailed airports are gated behind the tiers also.

Not sure how it'll work yet, it's been in testing for a while, not sure if it'll have content filtering attached to it or if it's just watchlist/recommendations, etc. FAQ entry Amazon.com Help: What are Prime Video Profiles?

Animated Star Trek on CBS All Access.

Title: Star Trek: Lower Decks Genre: Animation, Comedy Creator: Mike McMahan Cast: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O'Connell, Fred Tatasciore, Gillian Vigman First aired: 2020-08-06 Overview: The lives of the support crew serving on one of...

Has it happened for a long time? Amazon is in the process of rolling out account profiles (so like Netflix profiles) for Prime Video, so maybe that's a bug related to that in the short term.

Launch delayed to Spring 2021, full game beta/demo August 25th for pre-order/beta players. https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/release-update With our August 25th launch approaching, we have been scrutinizing our feature list, taking input from our Alpha audience, and listening to...

My initial impressions of this are pretty good. Haven't played much with it yet but feels better than holding a Switch (without Satisfye grip) https://www2.razer.com/au-en/gaming-controllers/razer-kishi Here's a review. One of the biggest issues is compatibility but I really only got it to...

I'm so weak.

This is how I feel reading Operation Sports as people bitch about the state of Franchise mode in Madden, decrying ultimate team and other modes getting more attention (and justifiably so for the income they generate)... they haven't realized they aren't the target audience anymore and they type...