Zanteogo wrote:April 9th

Finally. A new 4X game that is not in early access and does not look like an 8 bit-machine barfed code on my video card.

Without further ado, I shall concentrate on my favorite X of the 4...
-Hardenberg

It's an MMO from BlueByte, the guys responsible for "The Settlers". And it gosh-darn looks like the Settlers online, only that you're focussing on a single character, right down to the same convoluted production chains. (With emphasis on the "cussing" part, read on...) So far, things don't quite loo...

*sigh* Ah yes, the bane of the early 21st century...links to videos about vaguely defined topics, narrated by some guy with a "funny" effect over his voice (or who alternatively has not yet completed voice change, is gifted with an especially grating accent and/or otherwise unable to speak 3 coheren...

This got me to thinking, transcontinental railroad. As the game progresses and expands to meet the players expansion and theoretical increase of capabilities, imagine if you will, a newly discovered system, the frontier. The person who is able to build warp rails to it, and perhaps charge a small f...

The game has docs (93 pages), commands (3 pages), tutorial (97 pages) built-in. You can access them using SHIFT+H, ALT+H, CTRL+H. This single line of text from the steam page neatly sums up everything that is wrong with the Universal Combat (aka Battlecruiser 3000AD) IP. The UI is downright hostile...

Thought I'd pop this here, new Humble bundle is a pile of starwars games: https://www.humblebundle.com/?gallery&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=faf25b4689-Humble_Star_Wars_Bundle&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-faf25b4689-99282653 Some good ones there. I either own(ed) or pl...

Looks good. Suffers from a horrible lack of actual game to play. Not to mention the astonishingly awful track record of every other game in the sandbox survival genre so far. 7DTD is the only one that comes to mind that actually is (somewhat) fun, the rest seem forever stuck in early access limbo. -...

Besides the collected works of Lovecraft, which are more like a trip down the memory lane for me, I came across this (slightly dated) bit of SF: H. Beam Piper - Space Viking Well, let me put it that way: Now I know exactly what I'll be once Limit Theory is ready. This has been a rather inspiring lec...

9 months of what amounts to permanent anaesthesia... yeah, what could possible go wrong ? Cryogenic freezing or suspended animation are technologically unfeasible as far as the current state of technology goes. And while zero-G would avoid bedsores, muscle deterioration would be rampant. I'm afraid ...

Amusing though of the hour: What happens it the tether breaks and slams into the ground? There's quite a bit of tether going around, made of strong (and flexible) materials... :twisted: -Hardenberg This is very relevant: http://gassend.net/spaceelevator/breaks/ It's...so...beautiful.... http://i876...

Amusing though of the hour: What happens it the tether breaks and slams into the ground? There's quite a bit of tether going around, made of strong (and flexible) materials... :twisted: But while we're at amusing and (sadly) technically infeasible methods of getting stuff into orbit, there's also th...

Mh, but IS there certainty on the outcome of events? I mean, shit could get intercepted... I think the thing would be more properly described as a schedule - It shows things that would happen, assuming everything works as intended. (If you really want the program to calculate events in advance and g...

Finally! Time for a trip down memory lane...

-Hardenberg

Speaking of vegemite ... I absolutely cracked up at this. Of course everyone else hated it, it was an indecently high concentration of Vegemite in a crust! Only a select few can ingest what amounts to spoonfuls at a time of Vegemite. It's the same with Marmite, Scytale. To appreciate the flavour it...

I can see it working in two ways, both involving business: - You take loan to kickstart your merchant career. - You insure X% of your cargo/ships (NOT your own ship). The first is pretty straightforward. You take X amount of money and you have to return it after Y amount of time with interest. The ...