We’re a little worried about what happens when the astral calender hits the new millenium but no ones figured out how to insert another date rune without causing the whole magic circle to start smoking alarmingly.
I think pretty much everything on land would be different: plant induced precipitation, river bank stabilization, carbon sequestration changing the climate and the timing/duration of ice ages and hydrocarbons being ignited by flood volcanism events. All of that would be gone, could even rearrange whole mountain ranges over time by by altering the pressure of glaciers ice on tectonic plates.
Wonder what that capsule is in the foreground, everything else has been shown in advance. Looks kind of like a loot crate power cell but with a different texture.
It still emitted more carbon more to build than most people will emit in their lifetime, kinda like burning the house down but telling everyone its ok because you saved the shed.
So I always check the frame’s themes before writing this bit and apparently one of hers is arachnid… Not what I would’ve given her, but it’s what we will go with. The chain spider mistress herself - Khora!...
Totally forgot about Khora outside a loot frame, gonna see if I can make a crazy cat lady build using venari, a kavat with duplex bond and the sand kavats from inaros’s subsume. Should total 8 kavats I think.
Its worth mentioning that the 12 years was not at all productive. The first 6 years was basically just two guys with rough concepts, only 6 years of actual dev time. Then about 3 years in they got a new creative lead on the project who decided to scrap essentially everything and start from scratch on a whim. Then the devs get the release date the same time we do which is 2 years earlier than they expected having assumed that they’d get around 5 years of actual dev time since being made to start over.
So yeh there was a lot of screwing around by management.
So he’s effectively been found innocent. If he was a normal person he might be stuck in jail until the trial resumes but since he’s rich this is functionally the same as being found innocent.
The other one is that if we were to disasemble all our planets (we can leave earth alone for sentimental reasons) and rebuild them in shells around our sun we could create as much habitable living area as the surface of every natural planet (habitable or not) in our entire galaxy. Plus the whole thing would fit inside the orbit of mercury which means very low light lag. Why build a galaxy spanning empire when you can just build a galaxy at home and have much better ping?
So I’m doing this calculation as I write this comment so I’m commited regardless of the outcome.
The sun is (roughly) 2 x 10^30 kg
The sun makes up 99.86% of the solar systems mass
That leaves about 2.8 x 10^27kg of mass in the planets and asteroids.
Earth weighs about 3000kg/m^3 at the surface
I’m going to assume the shells are about 1km thick, or maybe 500m but with an extra 500m worth of stuff in a more condensed form as structural support.
So 1km of surface requires 1km^3 of material or 3 x 10^12 kg of material.
Assuming we can get all of the solar systems material and use nuclear fusion to turn all of the gas into heavier elements (I assume anyone dismantling solar systems has workd out fusion) that results in about 9.3 x 10^14 square km of living space. about 1.83 million earths.
The total surface area of the solar system (with rough guesses for the size of the rocky cores of the gas giants is about 9.8 x 10^9 square km.
Since we can’t really detect small planets in other solar systems I’m going to assume they all have roughly the same amount of planet as our own one. So all in all we get just under 100,000 solar systems worth of living surface.
Ok so its actually about 0.1% of the milky way in terms of living space at best. But thats still pretty damn good and its all withing fairly managable lightspeed communication range of just a few minutes delay at worst. And we could get to 100x that if we could do starlifting and removed just 14% of the suns mass.
The European Commission chief said she was “convinced that if the competition is fair” from China, then Europe “will have thriving durable economies”. But she said the “imbalances” caused by state support for Chinese industry leading to cut-cost products threatened jobs in Europe, and that was “a matter of great...
Massive government subsidies that allow companies to more or less run at a loss for the most part. Its the same playbook as Wallmart and just like Wallmart its a sure bet that those prices will go up once the local competition is wiped out.
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
I kinda just assumed that was how it was meant to be interpreted and the other stuff was just crappy writing. The mention that Zion had been destroyed multiple times kinda implied it was just another matrix.
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won’t be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Shadowruns actual rules aren’t so bad, character creation is crunchy but you could fit all the non matrix/spirits combat stuff onto maybe 2 sides of a single A4 sheet. The real problem is the editing, that information is spread across the entire rulebook so badly that sometimes it even feels like the information was cut off mid paragraph.
"Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?"
If life never emerged on Earth, would the continents still be more or less the same today? In other words, does life affect the formation and movement of continents significantly?
Soon, Miners. Soon. (clan.akamai.steamstatic.com)
Just a small teaser artwork that got released today....
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Weekly Warframe: Khora
So I always check the frame’s themes before writing this bit and apparently one of hers is arachnid… Not what I would’ve given her, but it’s what we will go with. The chain spider mistress herself - Khora!...
Water Tank Tank (shota.nu)
Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam (www.eurogamer.net)
Scientists have figured out way to make algae-based plastic that completely decomposes (abcnews.go.com)
Weekly Deep Dives Thread - 9th May 2024 (lemmy.world)
Deep Dive | Bronze Hideout | Crystalline Caverns...
Substitute Weekly Deep Dives Thread (regular only)
I’m not sure where Cliff went but since I’m doing the deep dive I figured I may as well upload this (Missing your weekly post cliff!)...
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Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios (www.pcgamer.com)
Trump's Classified Documents case postponed indefinitely (apnews.com)
Shaming (lemmy.world)
Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself (youtu.be)
EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports (www.theguardian.com)
The European Commission chief said she was “convinced that if the competition is fair” from China, then Europe “will have thriving durable economies”. But she said the “imbalances” caused by state support for Chinese industry leading to cut-cost products threatened jobs in Europe, and that was “a matter of great...
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works (hackaday.com)
5e has an advantage of not requiring doctorate in quantum physics to run (ttrpg.network)
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won’t be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.