This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Messages - BaconShelf
Pages: 1 ... 525354 5556 ... 358
1591
« on: November 18, 2016, 06:34:30 AM »
Just got all the collectibles and codex entries for the campaign. It was a grind, but it was worth it for that flashy revolver, and the Black Bess Landship skin.
The codex is pretty cool. It's a cool thing to have.
1592
« on: November 18, 2016, 06:32:27 AM »
So is Trump going to claim Mars and Europa as territory of the US?
Sent from my LG-H810 using Tapatalk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Not going to last, in all likelihood.
I'm counting on it for my scifi to make any sense.
To be fair there's a fi part in scifi
No fi. Only sci.
1593
« on: November 18, 2016, 06:32:00 AM »
Would it make more sense to start out with a fuel depot in that zone in between Earth and the moon, then work towards asteroid mining for resources, then a moon base which is similar to the International Space Station, then branch out from there?
If we were sensible, we would have established an orbital propellant depot beforr going to the moon. Once you're out of a planet's gravity, you're halfway to anywhere, and building a refuelling station in orbit is a logical choice. Moon base is kind of useless beyond scientific research, though. From there, stations largely depend on where you're going. A refuelling facility on Deimos requires a lot less fuel to get to than Mars while being onoy a few thousand km away (Gravity is so negligible there you could dock your spacecraft on the moon itself), and also opens up the outer system. I also recently read a thing talking about far-future colonisation of Mars, and its moons. Of interest is Phobos' 6000km orbit above Mars itself, which combined with Mars' lower gravity and lack of atmosphere, could allow a tether to be constructed going down into the high atmosphere. You could launch fromn your surface base in a supersonic jet, dock with the cable (Phobos makes about 4 transitions around Mars a day so launch windows are common) and then get an elevator ride up to Phobos. Similar cables could be constructed going up out of the gravity well and on Deimos to make the cost of getting to Mars' outer orbit very low. It's obviously an extreme engineering feat but compared to making an orbital tether going into GEO with our atmosphere and gravity, not as extreme as you may think
1594
« on: November 18, 2016, 12:50:10 AM »
italian master chief
1595
« on: November 18, 2016, 12:49:22 AM »
So is Trump going to claim Mars and Europa as territory of the US?
Sent from my LG-H810 using Tapatalk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Not going to last, in all likelihood.
I'm counting on it for my scifi to make any sense.
1596
« on: November 17, 2016, 03:18:57 PM »
>adblock
>not ublock
what is ublock
Adblock except they don't sell ad space and is much more efficient on the processor
so, still degenerate
Yep. I only have it installed because wikia crashs my laptop because of how many fucking video/ sound/ animated adverts they paste all over the fucking page. Everything else I disable it for.
1597
« on: November 17, 2016, 03:15:07 PM »
>adblock
>not ublock
what is ublock
Adblock except they don't sell ad space and is much more efficient on the processor
1598
« on: November 17, 2016, 11:44:16 AM »
They added X markers too
1599
« on: November 17, 2016, 11:35:45 AM »
When are we getting a Fallout card game?
Didn't one of the New Vegas special editions come with a deck of cards?
I got these when I went to the Bethesda FO4 launch celebration last year 
1600
« on: November 17, 2016, 10:02:07 AM »
We need to bring to back Grade retention
wait, is that seriously not a thing in the UK?
Unfortunately no, people generally progress onto the next academic year regardless of their grade.
what's even the point in giving people grades then?
We don't do end of year tests here. We have one set of tests at the end of Secondary School (GCSEs) where if you fail you have to redo them, and passing them lets you go on to A-Levels where you have to pass them to go to uni.
Those are at 16/17/18. Before then you don't really do much testing. Or at least, I never had to do tests.
Wut
I had end of year tests at my school but they were used as an indicator as to how well a child is doing so that the following year they could fix classrooms into 3 tiers, 1, 2, 3, with 1 being the smartest.
I never had end of year tests. They just used how well you were doing in general to sort you by class. Before Year 10/ starting GCSE stuff, anyway. Once I started that tests were common.
1601
« on: November 17, 2016, 09:49:38 AM »
The meme bunker is impervious to updates.
The Meme Bunker's only weakness is destroyed airships.
1602
« on: November 17, 2016, 09:45:21 AM »
We need to bring to back Grade retention
wait, is that seriously not a thing in the UK?
Unfortunately no, people generally progress onto the next academic year regardless of their grade.
what's even the point in giving people grades then?
We don't do end of year tests here. We have one set of tests at the end of Secondary School (GCSEs) where if you fail you have to redo them, and passing them lets you go on to A-Levels where you have to pass them to go to uni. Those are at 16/17/18. Before then you don't really do much testing. Or at least, I never had to do tests.
1604
« on: November 17, 2016, 04:37:19 AM »
The new update is cool for the Operations overlay. It doesn't show the paragraphs anymore and instead has a few cool new overlays, as well as showing all the key cities in that region.
I'm just happy the attackers have been given a buff in Ops. I'd have preferred that advancing a map gives you an extra reinforcement wave, but giving more lives is cool too.
Tbh, I think the attackers had it fine until they reach the final point in some maps. But I suppose the evidence showed otherwise.
I rarely advanced to the second maps on Conquer Hell, Iron Walls and Oil of Empires (third map there). Though me and Desty played some Kaiserschlacht last night and managed to break through both St. Quentin Scar and Amiens in one run with no retries. I think Ops could use some individual balancing per-mode, honestly. Iron Walls is just ridiculous (in no part because of the meme bunker at B objective in Sector 3) and I've never played Empire's Edge on that, and I've only played on Sinai Desert once so maybe the attacker thibg is good there. I haven't played much CH though because I dislike both Ballroom Blitz and Argonne Forest. I don't find either map to be particularly fun in general.
1605
« on: November 16, 2016, 05:11:48 PM »
I'm thinking of stopping my driving lessons. I'm not really enjoying it all that much, especially considering I have to pay for them.
I just learned how to drive with my dad. Didn't enjoy it that much either, but fun isn't exactly the point here.
Ehh. I find myself really nervous while driving and even after doing it for a few months I don't really feel like I've improved all that much. I don't really have that much of a problem using public transport. I prefer being able to sit back and listen to my ipod for an hour or whatever. I'm only really doing driving because my parents want me to.
1606
« on: November 16, 2016, 05:05:25 PM »
I'm thinking of stopping my driving lessons. I'm not really enjoying it all that much, especially considering I have to pay for them.
1607
« on: November 16, 2016, 02:53:54 PM »
Holy hell, just write some books already. Fallout and TES have so much lore behind them that you could go full Halo and write some books with it. They DID do a book or two in TES, but I wish they did more.
Actually, since TES is their baby, yeah only stick to that. They'd mess up Fallout canon even more.
I read those elder scrolls books. They weren't bad.
1608
« on: November 16, 2016, 09:43:41 AM »
1609
« on: November 16, 2016, 08:58:05 AM »
Poor Ske7ch
It's the face you make when you realise the average age of the fanbase is younger than the first game
1610
« on: November 16, 2016, 08:56:22 AM »
FORGE IS BACK UP
>dlc and microtransactions Fuck 343
1611
« on: November 16, 2016, 03:12:19 AM »
The new update is cool for the Operations overlay. It doesn't show the paragraphs anymore and instead has a few cool new overlays, as well as showing all the key cities in that region.
I'm just happy the attackers have been given a buff in Ops. I'd have preferred that advancing a map gives you an extra reinforcement wave, but giving more lives is cool too.
1612
« on: November 16, 2016, 03:09:46 AM »
You should probably just make a new survey, because otherwise people will be filling out the same bit over and over again.
1613
« on: November 15, 2016, 11:27:30 AM »
If you liked Skyrim, don't have a PC, never played the DLC or any combination then I'd say get it.
1614
« on: November 15, 2016, 01:52:02 AM »
Why Europa though in particular? Even though I know both are a ways down the line, I wouldn't mind seeing NASA direct resources to exploring Titan personally.
As it stands, Europa is likely the most likepy place off of Earth to find extraterrestrial life, microbial or otherwise. But yes, I'm a big proponent of exploring the Chronians over the Jovians. In general, I think Saturn is more useful to us. It's Van Allen belts are less intense as Jupiters which means many of its moons are no more irradiated than space is already and will be manageable with our radiation shielding. Plus, Titan is pretty much a free source of hydrocarbons for fuel and polymer industries. Saturn has a crap ton of freaky shit going on. Plus saturn's rings are relatively densely packed so we can get the space battles we won't get in the asteroids.
1615
« on: November 15, 2016, 12:47:49 AM »
I don't exactly know why he's so interested in Europa, though. Great location, no doubt, and a stunning view, but if he's interested in the subsurface ocean (If he even knows it's there, which I doubt he's been informed on), it's through like seven miles of ice that's harder than granite. There isn't a whole lot to gain from a Europa mission until you find some way to drill through several miles of ice with something small enough to load onto a rocket, and I'd suspect that's quite a ways off.
But Mars, hell yeah. Let's get that ball rolling.
There's also the issue that you get your yearly radiation dose in about an hour on Europa, so any facility would have to be incredibly automated. Humans simply cannot go there. Which, if we're talking about finding life, isn't exactly a terrible thing.
1616
« on: November 14, 2016, 04:40:31 PM »
If NASA gets more funding because of this I will consider this an upside to Trump being president.
More likely the money from environmental science stuff will just be put into the space program instead.
I don't really think climate change can be stopped by anything other than geoengineering efforts at this point, and Europe will be the one paying for those.
Also, we've got GMOs to protect us for the next 4-8 years.
Praise monsato
1617
« on: November 14, 2016, 03:39:07 PM »
If NASA gets more funding because of this I will consider this an upside to Trump being president.
More likely the money from environmental science stuff will just be put into the space program instead.
Fucking fuck
the planet's already fucked beyond saving
space exploration is literally our only hope to survive
I can't think of a situation in the near future where sending people into space would be anywhere near as efficient as toughing it out on Earth. Overpopulation? You'd have to transport hundreds of thousands offworld every day just to keep even with population growth. Global Warming? Flooding and the like would be disastrous, sure, but I don't see how going into space would be any easier. Nukes/ Asteroids/ Supervolcano/ whatever? Living in a bunker would still ultimately be easier. No disaster event would be threatening enough to make living on Mars or something more profitable than living in a similar bunker on Earth, with the added bonus of being able to scavenge and recover existing infrastructure. Even if it came to the worst, Earth still has an atmosphere, radiation shielding, liquid water and livable temperatures which aren't present anywhere else in the solar system. Going into space is cool and I'm a big advocate for extraterrestrial resource extraction and whatnot, but until we have the technology it's a meme that isn't viable nor practical.
1618
« on: November 14, 2016, 03:22:56 PM »
A single metro-esque map is fine. And people want trenches for the WW1 experience - I mean, there's a reason people like Kaiserschlact above the other operations. It's the only one that provides a good amount of trench warfare.
1619
« on: November 14, 2016, 11:37:12 AM »
If NASA gets more funding because of this I will consider this an upside to Trump being president.
More likely the money from environmental science stuff will just be put into the space program instead.
1620
« on: November 14, 2016, 10:52:13 AM »
Formal petition to keep them banned
Sign below:
BaconShelf
Pages: 1 ... 525354 5556 ... 358
|
Show Posts