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The 12 dollar retail margin seems extreme and the lack of a publisher assumes cig isnt taking a healthy cut to continue development of the game. I also dont know what sales promotion is and how it is different than the sales promotion they have done for their ships. But the big problem i have...

I think this is pretty specious. Facebook's motivations are unclear but it's likely they want to branch out from social media technology and want to keep relevant in the upcoming meta-verse social media. Short term gaps from their 2billion investment not being recouped in the initial VR release...

I think the $350 was an honest figure produced based on the thought of, "If we can rip apart consumer electronics and shove them together to make a best-in-class VR system for $350, surely scaling up to 1million+ units will allow us to do the same with a much improved system." However as we...

NASA's interns just finished photoshopping a bunch of fake moon pics that I haven't seen before: Project Apollo Archive | Flickr - Photo Sharing! some cherry picked ones stolen from reddit: Some of the Apollo Missions High Resolution Film Scans - Album on Imgur

I don't think so, the length of hose and thus the stopping force increases linearly with time. However it did not affect the speed at the distance travelled so it's likely the device has some mechanism to go at a constant speed up to a certain stopping force. In other words, it travelled at...

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I didn't closely follow either game, so what are the major differences? The only one that I can point out is that Reckoning was set from the start to be a seed-game planned to drum up interest and finances for the larger game, where as S42 was a stretch goal that is now coming out before the...

I think the big reasons you shouldn't worry about whales is: 1. The MMO aspect will probably be semi-limited and optional. 2. I'm betting that pure mudflation will cause the ships bought today by whales to become outdated and easily achievable pretty quickly in Star Citizen. Being able to buy...

Nah, they are extremely comparable. Reckoning was a singleplayer game built to generate revenue and build enough excitement to finish development of a much larger-scale MMO. SC is funded differently but at this point I think it's resting its future on S42 much more than they ever wanted to. If...

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I don't even know why they bothered with invisible walls in FONV. I removed them in my playthroughs and explored outside the map a bit and nothing really bad happened. It wasn't like there were a bunch of quest-ending areas you could get to.

I'd ask a senior coworker or your boss what the general guidelines are for expensing. Often the general attitude people take does not match the employee handbook, but you should be aware of the big pitfalls. Sometimes an employee will cause a bunch of drama with a certain thing and ruin it for...

I actually liked the different ammo types because that was sort of the answer to the DT problem. You had to keep a collection of AP rounds for a few guns in order to kill the high DT opponents.

I remember the giant radscorps being the worst because you encountered them early on. That was a huge part of why hard in fallout was bad. In hard mode they lazily just made mobs into bullet sponges, which was somewhat necessary because it was so easy to simply kite or otherwise attack mobs in a...

I don't remember what either game was like vanilla, what mechanic changes did they make?

I also enjoyed the DC area a LOT more than New Vegas. The DC area captured the chaotic, sprawling and ravaged area of a metropolis more than people give it credit for. It's not the well laid out set of quest hubs with coherent direction and polish. It's a big fucking concrete mess of shit.

BTW: I could be completely wrong about this and in a couple months this thread will be full of all of us posting our baller ass FO4 builds that are unique and interesting.

It's not even that, it's that making a game difficult in a fun way is very hard and requires a combat system that supports it. Dark Souls is oft lauded but few people recognize that making a game that difficult while still allowing for a lot of player freedom and is still fun is super...

The statement I made was a bit sloppy, let me throw it back in the forge and try again. Creating something cool in a game can be fun and engaging if one of the following is true: 1. The combat is both difficult enough such that creativity is needed to win, and fun when it is difficult. 2...

Right, but unless they spend a lot of effort that is uncharacteristic for Bethesda, a non-terrible base + a non-terrible village will win the encounters. Ex: In Fallout Shelter you have the exact same dynamic where Deathclaws invade your base. What's the key to winning? Just throw six of your...

Wouldn't it be better to do that work in orbit?

turns out to work great. Is able to pull a heavy duty 100ft long, 5/8" hose no problem. My only complaint is that the fastest speed is still pretty slow. I have a 60' x 8' strip of lawn that I watered with it with the nozzles pretty much aimed down and the whole thing was a puddle by the time I...

Creativity has a lot more value in a multiplayer game though. In MP building an ingenious base is leading your tribe toward victory over the oppressors. In FO4 you're really just going to be playing dollhouse.

I don't really understand gravity waves, but if the effects of gravity don't emanate from some body of mass at the speed of light in a way that can be conceived of as waves, how else would they travel? Do people think they travel instantaneously through some interdimensional effect? Or is...

No. If there's no expectation of wealth generation it's not an investment in my opinion. The dudes buying underpriced ships and hoping to sell them after supplies run out, that's an investment. But me paying into SC super early just to help a space sim get funded? That's me giving a down...

Hodjs gravity posts were really good. His logic posts with lendbro were shit though

Having a massive white walker vs dragon battle as a cinematic 2 hour affair shown in theatres would be cool, but to be a proper movie you'd need to have a coherent setup which would be annoying. I don't want to see an origin story for 5 different characters I've been watching for 8 years. Now...

72" is not attainable by humans, ~45" is pretty much the softcap. But your point is very true. However there are some strong genetics at play with someone's max vert. I picked it because unlike say, the 40yd dash or benchpress someone in 'good' shape will not improve their vertical leap...

Desirable in terms of its ability to predict a given individual's vertical jump, for example.

Hodj, is it / would it be possible to study the genome of an individual and develop a metric of a desirable characteristic ex: their fast-twitch muscle density?

Based on evidence from Howard T, et all (2015) Fallout Shelter - Bethesda Softworks, after three generations you're good to go.

Wait, before you said I should train my kid on asphalt, now you're saying I should train him on plastic environments? Hodj get your shit together. Ok sorry I'll stop trolling now. I actually enjoy your posts on this subject.

Bridging the gap between professional-knowledge and layman questions of "Can science explain why Samoans are 56 times more likely to be in the NFL than the average population?" is harder than it sounds but it seems like Hodj isn't even making the effort and instead trying to front as much he can...

Sure I get it and agree with you. I just don't know why you keep bringing up minecraft, since Minecraft is not similar to the outpost system. I think it's closer to the tower defense genre.

Yes. Or rather, it's VR sickness. Motion sickness is where you feel motion but your viewpoint doesn't change (because you're reading in a car or something). VR sickness is where your viewpoint changes in a virtual environment but you don't feel motion. There are many (10+) causes of VR...

Not sure what you're talking about, evolution is 100% appropriate to this thread. And Hodj would probably have a lot to contribute on that front.

Yep, that's what I figured they'd do too, since they seemed to be going that route with the 'war readiness level' throughout the game that was heavily tied to your choices. It just kind of collapsed at the end into the star child.

I don't really get the comparison to minecraft. Everything is templated nonsense right? Minecraft is voxelized freedom. Is there really much freedom in FO4's outpost system?

What jurisdiction does the SEC have that would enable them to ban crowdfunding?

I agree 100%. However, the dude who recognizes that his bigotry is due to a given culture is both more correct than a true racial bigot and more able to readjust his opinion and work with members of a race he is generally bigoted toward. There are real bonafide racists that see a given...