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  2. Posted

    6 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Monster lists are a huge problem in convincing science fiction stories spanning large numbers of planets and environments. They really need to be very extensive in order to avoid repetition, not to mention varied in nature. In the earlier mentioned Star Wars: the Old Republic, a big problem is that so many monsters look like one another even on planets halfway across the galaxy from one another. This is of course partly because of the game engine -- good models take time to create and you can only have so many unless you are prepared to spend ludicrous amounts of money and programming time on them.

    …Humanity has existed on this planet for thousands of years…

    There's the problem, then. Lots and lots of invasive species.

  8. Posted · Edited by Drachefly

    What have you written, Prof. Tomoe? Most of my stuff is OC Remixes of older stuff, so assuming you're writing actual game soundtracks, I probably haven't got it

    Here's the beginning of the top tier (153 in all, I show first 34) (unless marked as OST or another source, all are OC Remixes):

    Devil's Advocate  - Touhou (a pretty straight remix neatening up U.N. Owen was Her)
    Thanks for Dinner - Uru
    FML (If I Could Drift Away) - Gitaroo Man
    The Shredder - TMNT 4
    Mute Radiology - F-Zero
    Trauermarsch (Last Dungeon) - Balance and Ruin album - FF6 <- hilarious if you know your Mahler
    Livin' Large! - the imaginary game Cheetahmen II
    Magnet Man Goes West - Mega Man 3
    Lavos Battle dnBoss - Chrono Trigger
    Planet Red Alert - The Precursors Remix Pack for The Ur-Quan Masters
    Fierce Battle - FF6 OST
    Orbit 1 - The Precursors Remix Pack for The Ur-Quan Masters
    Voices Broken - F-Zero
    GAUNTLET!! - (one guess)
    House Leaves - Crystalis
    Pharoah Land - Lifeforce
    The Unbroken - Cave Story
    Spoiled R0TT3N - Super Meat Boy
    When All Hope Has Faded - Chrono Trigger
    Dancing Madly (First Form) - FF6
    Cleansing Required - The Precursors Remix Pack for The Ur-Quan Masters
    Dancing Madly (Second Form) - FF6
    Nirvana - Earthbound
    Team Making - FFT OST
    Space Grind - Delta
    Thin Glow - Stunt Race FX
    Reich Lake - Sonic the Hedgehog 2
    Oppression - Cave Story OST
    Epitaph - FF6 OST
     

  9. Posted

    I'm going through my video game music list and trying to demote things from the second tier, which is a bit fat; and also categorize them a bit by putting them into secondary themed playlists, and also break up runs of songs from the same game, and otherwise pair things up in a sensible fashion.

  17. Posted

    On 1/20/2017 at 1:02 AM, mlooney said:

    My Italian twin now seems to owe Vodafone 35 and change Euros.  Must have burned up some airtime in his Bugatti Veyron.  I hope he paid is ticket off as well.  He does seem to have a more exciting life style than I do.

    I am missing the post where you introduce what is going on here.

  18. Posted

    > I don't remember a government takeover of healthcare ever being popular.

    I don't remember a government takeover of healthcare ever being on the table, let alone enacted into law.

    The apparent lack of compromise on healthcare is laughable considering they started with the compromise plan - essentially the Republican counteroffer from the 1990s health care debate.

  20. Posted

    The main direct effect you get from having a bunch of line blockers keeping the first 30000 feet gravity-free is that you no longer have a time limit on operations there - it becomes more like orbit. So, you can use a more efficient rocket. But since this is the first stage, it hardly makes a difference.

    But the indirect effects might end up being pretty significant - you are going to have one HECK of a wind kicked up around the edge of the zone. Air will come in the bottom and find that it's suddenly facing much lighter gravity, so it expands upwards; at the top, it conversely suddenly finds that it is much too dense for the altitude it is, and it comes down. I expect this would become stronger over time, up to some limit; it is not clear to me how fast it would be, but it could be a very strong updraft. Maybe instead of firing a first stage rocket at all they let out parachutes and have that accelerate them up to the first 150 mph or something. Only fire up the rockets when you've reached peak upward velocity off of the wind.

    … and again that's insignificant. The KE of 150 mph is just not that much compared to orbit.

    BUT that's assuming the line blockers have a short range. Why would they? If they're blocking the lines like the name implies, they could cast a long-reaching gravity shadow up from where they are. And the wider the area, the further the shadow. Maybe it all comes back eventually, but you only need to make the region of effect teardrop-shaped (or more extremely, comet-shaped) to give ships a nice long upwards path. The tail would be pointed directly away from the attractive body, so the ship would have to stay above the column… in this case it might end up cheaper to go to Geosynchronous than Low-Earth orbit.

    If you don't like that idea, let the line-benders operate much higher. Balloons can operate all the way out to the edge of space. Let them go up 50 km. That would be long enough that maybe a low thrust, high specific-impulse first stage would be a good idea.

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    16 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Someone on another forum said something on the order of "it's disconcerting to have a Republican politician, once elected, show some inclination to do what he claimed he would do while campaigning... but I could get used to it".

    'Some inclination' shouldn't be too surprising since our previous president showed some

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

    (NOTE: whether you agree with a promise is irrelevant to this following bit:) He did every reasonable action within his power to close the prison at Guantanamo, but that really required Congress, which did not go along. There are a lot of 'compromises'  on there, and several outright successes.