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That would be really large for me. I like < 20

Something they changed last week caused all my mods to break so I had to fix them all and test and such. Got me in the mood to play again so got with a friend that can run a server and off we went! Game is in a good spot now. We used to have 20+ mods just to make it playable. I think we...

What is Astra?

All the energy requirement figures are from the point of view of an outside observer. Shipside there's no magical increase in acceleration cost. Path lengths contract and time dilates but it doesn't really make any difference shipside. A few miles of ice on the front of a long slender ship is...

They are doable with a few big breakthroughs: Need electricity based non propellant propulsion. Several are in the works but who knows if they are actually real. Fusion. 20 more years? 😆 The aforementioned space infrastructure. Need mining / smelting / welding in space. A way to do cooling...

Going to be very orange! Is that Assen where the motoGP bikes go?

That makes me guess they've got some propellentless propulsion in the works. I've always thought scifi books gloss over the details of huge ships. I could see even small tidal forces creating wobbly oscillations in all but he highest of orbits. Like a shipquake.

My friend that wrote the "What Remains" books recommended "Senlin Ascends", the first in a 4 parter about the old Tower of Babel. It is really flowery tasty reading. I devoured the first 3, but 4 isn't out for another couple months.

I did notice in the last few matches of this months tournament (the countdown cup) they referred to him as just Cowboy a few times. That's going to be a hard habit to break. I'll bet at least one or two casters will call him McCree without thinking.

There's alot of voice lines to redo, or just cut

I didn't watch the Gamescom stuff but a friend linked me this. I suspect vast quantities of mind altering substances inspired this:

That's the best fan fiction I've read in awhile.

Gura's already getting into organ harvesting

I have a powerful urge to do the "Rain in spain lies mainly in the Dain must be slain" thing

Transmeta had 2 huge fridges full of free tasty beverages.

Hah no not in a row. It was a month here a month there. We'd get a big contract and they would catch us up a bit etc. Small places are unstable and get jerked around alot.

I doubt anyone bothered to file for anything. Every small game company I ever worked for missed paychecks. My last place owed me a year's salary.

Fascinating stuff about superold artifacts and scientists being jerks

Do those use the basic heat exchange electricity generation that a RTG uses? Or do they turn steam turbines or what?

Well in gamey terms it was more for planets with thinner crusts. It is an engineering challenge. Need better heat resistant materials etc. And someone that just wants to do it to say they did. It would probably never pay off financially.

It is something I've looked into, mainly for gamey reasons. There have been several attempts at digging super deep holes and none of them went well. Getting industry into space is probably easier. The gamey reason I looked into it is because I loved Starwars Galaxies mining. They never...

That is gold thank you. I had another bad accident with the taming stuff. When I mobilize for a big defense I normally swap them into armor and gather them up. This time I just left everyone armored for the duration, but I'll still see if they are in the middle of eating or if they badly need...

We will eventually be forced to expand into space or find some way to mine the mantle. I've been designing a survival style game with more realistic details on crafting and as said above there's a huge chain of dependencies. Alot of processing uses big electrically charged tanks to separate...

I made it off world with the Stellarch. It was brutal. I forget how many days it was but the first day was chill. Then 3 mech raids that were 6 hours apart. Just as the medics finished patching people up and their heads hit the pillow another one showed up. Then the pirates and gangsters...

Read House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds. In that future humanity is mostly self absorbed and content with telescope images. But a few staggeringly rich people are bored and decide they want to see and experience the entire galaxy. Given the vast distances and years it takes just to get to a...

Hmm they do that if the pen isn't enclosed. Sometimes the animals will make a bid for freedom and your handlers will go round em up. It is comical to watch.

It started to turn a little bit more city favoured when the home games got rolling. Then covid messed all that up. I really wanted to see home games in Paris. The french are nuts. The world cup games there were so awesome.

This stuff: Gave an announcement in game as well as the discord channel. There's not a single thing from Velious in there.

Did they not bother with Velious cheevos or has nobody taken down a single raid target yet?

The overwatch league is one of 3 sports I follow (the others motoGP and formula 1) so I have strange taste I guess. They made a few critical errors: Ignored the existing "scene" when starting. Before all the city based teams you had teams like fnatic and cloud9 and ninjas in pajamas etc...

Reading the descriptions on the Marine armor and particularly Phoenix, I think these are a homage to Joel Sheperd's spiral wars book series. My 40ish days of volcanic winter are over. I ping ponged between starving and having so much food I couldn't store it all. Now I've got 1000+ insect...

Well I guess everyone in the shuttle starved. The shuttle vanished and they all appeared dead on the ground and I got like 50 points of negative goodwill.

7 out of 15 colonists were slightly angry that I replaced my ruined kidney with one from the enemy that shot me. I got a bugged shuttle crash mission. Killed all the bad guys, good shuttle arrives to pick people up, everyone gets on board. Says it is still waiting for Damiane. There's no...

I don't have the religion stuff yet, but I'll check next time I have a prisoner. Yea no option for enslave. Maybe that comes with religion.