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  1. Tuco

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Morrowind holds up pretty well on a replay, in my opinion, because I consider it to be one of the last of that era of CRPGs before everything got WoWified (for better or worse) with more hub-centric quest markers and also because the modding scene is very strong for it. So it plays more like a...
  2. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Even if they made it persist on level cap increase it's still a uninspiring bonus. If you're the guy leveling up a bunch of alts, level speed is probably not a big concern for you anyway. And if you're trying to be efficient there are just too many advantages when having them split onto...
  3. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah I wouldn't be shook if I was SpaceX. If they can keep delivering on Starship over the next couple years it's all just noise. The fulcrum for this is the Artemis mission that SpaceX is already participating in, but will probably end up carrying as their solution is shown to be wayyyy better...
  4. Tuco

    Factorio

    I resumed my Space Exploration / Krastorio 2 playthrough last night. I'm rebuilding the entire thing using city blocks. I avoided doing that the first time because I liked creating artisinal factories, but am giving in because I'm looking at the impact of increasing levels of upgrade modules...
  5. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Not that you need me to tell you this, but a key difference is that SpaceX probably had a meeting where each department was asked what risks were present in the launch and all of them said something like, "Bro we've made like a hundred improvements since this piece of shit was made and it's a...
  6. Tuco

    Fires of Heaven and our continued disappointment

    But seriously, can't wait till my kids are old enough so I can hermit-poopsock a new MMO.
  7. Tuco

    Fires of Heaven and our continued disappointment

    SMELLS LIKE OLD BITCH IN THIS THREAD
  8. Tuco

    AI music

    music noun mu·sic ˈmyü-zik 1a: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony choral music piano music recorded music b: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having...
  9. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    For me it's about 0%. Going to space sounds miserable and I'd rather someone more useful do it, even a civilian who contributes nothing to mission.
  10. Tuco

    The Mandalorian

    Finally got around to watching season 3. This whole season suffers from really messy writing between the storyboards. I think I've posted this before but I'm pretty sure they developed this show from something like the storyboards they show during the credits, and build everything around a...
  11. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    If they executed that launch 100 times, I wonder in how many of those times it gets blown up before it clears the launch tower. There are absolutely massive forces at play, but it seems like all the forces would push the debris away from the launch vehicle. It's too bad they blew it up in...
  12. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    https://esawebb.org/images/potm2302b/
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    The Astronomy Thread

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    The Astronomy Thread

  15. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Seasonal servers like other games have are kinda hard because of the absolute massive amount of content from classic to live. I don't really know how you'd do it without cannibalizing each server or making the pace so fast that players spend inordinate amounts of time dealing with the changes...
  16. Tuco

    The Metal Thread

  17. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah. I gotta imagine there is so much SpaceX garbage for Starship / Super Heavy booster that anything out there right now will probably of limited value. Even parts of the Starship / booster itself. The boosters that participate in Artemis missions could get $$$. But some rando car damaged in...
  18. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I think this is one case where they really should state their reasoning behind the change.
  19. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Yeah. I stressed it a bit a few weeks ago about something I was working on related to suspension dynamics in vehicles. At a surface level it described things just fine, but when I started getting into details it just started making up bullshit soft-body physics word-salads that would be...
  20. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Yeah but if you're a layman, double checking stuff may be beyond you. In this case it got the # wrong I think. I don't have the legal knowledge to say it got the rest of it correct, but trust the tweets that say it was close enough. Colorado Revised Statutes | Article 21.5 - SELF-SERVICE...
  21. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Gotta take brass balls to actually live that as a small business owner and law layman. Imagine generating chatgpt legal documents, selling a tenants stuff to save a few hundred $$$ and then getting sued for tens of thousands in because the tenant had a world-class Pinky and the Brain memorabilia...
  22. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  23. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    As a concept, competing for mobs is great in a game designed for PvP. EQ is not that. Top-tier groups pulling dirty tricks against each other in EQ by training eachother, using showeq, SWATing each others, sniping streams, whatever, gets meta and is kinda fun, emergent gameplay. But for most TLP...
  24. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    This is similar to my armchair designer idea I posted recently. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/whats-your-favorite-idea-to-handle-resource-contention-youd-like-to-see-tried-in-a-tlp.290004/page-3 Just dropping the respawn times of a lot of early zones to 25% would fix a...
  25. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

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    The Astronomy Thread

  27. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    From 2020
  28. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The owner is probably having some awkward conversations right now, but there's also a bajillion dollars of more sensitive infrastructure closer to the blast zone. The dude's car is pretty minor compared to what they need to repair.
  29. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm just a layman but doesn't it seem weird to build so much stuff that gets BTFO during launch? If you're launching these things every few days, how can those nearby structures not get distintegrated?
  30. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I wonder what kind of stresses were applied to the structure during the flips and whether the kaboom was an intentional detonation or result of structural instability from being spun around. I also wonder if absorbing that kind of stress for that long would be feasible in a traditional aluminum...
  31. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    New approach for the Boring Company? Just land one of these boosters to start a new project.
  32. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  33. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    They're actually redoing the UI engine right now, biggest feature is supporting 4k monitors. I wouldn't let a shitty UI block you from playing though, since I doubt it'll get thaaat much better in the next few months. Test Update 03/21/2023 - Discussion | EverQuest Forums To answer your...
  34. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    This is super cool, but there's a few problems with this. First being, well, us gamers. Second being that "improve the lag" just isn't going to get that much better. There's a tremendous amount of calculations that happen between the prompt and response. Streaming the prompt, pre-canning the...
  35. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    git gud But seriously, I spent almost all my time on gold/platinum as infiltrator and didn't have to deal with sync kills that much and never spent that much time reading whine forum threads about the game. Whenever I rofl'd around as vanguard I played on easier modes partially because of...
  36. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    My brother in Christ the amount of death I wrought upon the world with my black widow would drown your contemptable failure of a life in blood.
  37. Tuco

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    What was the #1 player complaint?
  38. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    of course they are
  39. Tuco

    Investing General Discussion

    Hi Ambiturner and RonTheDude, I'm about to enact a poorly veiled attempt to get you to stop derailing the EQ thread with whatever this conversation is about.. Your take on *reads other thread* Budweiser couldn't be further from the truth. You're merely falling for the amateurs' folly of fitting...
  40. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    FTE aside, the legacy parts are kinda confusing. The two big ones, making AoCs character locked and making items heirloom seem like QOL changes more than an experimental ruleset. But the focus on them for this TLP seems like it's intended to cut down on people having multiple subscriptions...