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Post by satoh on Apr 9, 2016 1:07:27 GMT -5
There's an aspect I didn't consider when I wrote that.
What is cars and such only cost a small amount simply due to being relatively simple technology compared to... well just about everything else. If you consider the kind of technology people have ready access to in DASH, namely reaver parts, building a refrigerator, (something that uses a lot of complex gas exchanges to pull heat out of one place and put it somewhere else, and then allow that gas to cool off before repeating the whole process) is comparatively harder than building a car (a box with wheels that turn on their own).
A refrigerator has a lot of things that would have to be built from small parts or rarer reaver parts to work, because it relies on mechanics reavers don't usually employ to work. A car however... only needs to roll around. Reavers, almost all of them, have some kind of motorized joint in them.
Many reavers even have levitation engines of some kind or another, meaning even airships are based on fairly recognizable technology.
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Post by satoh on Apr 1, 2016 23:00:39 GMT -5
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Post by satoh on Mar 25, 2016 23:28:13 GMT -5
I would not denigrate Kirby with unwanted physical contact.
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Post by satoh on Mar 23, 2016 14:55:22 GMT -5
Well, if what I've been lead to believe is correct, it'll look like this.
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Post by satoh on Mar 22, 2016 14:35:44 GMT -5
WiiU's ending production this year. NX to be formally announced later. WiiU's sales, compared to the original Wii have been abyssmal. WiiU 12mil, Wii 101mil, with 70mil in its fourth year.
NX will not be based on Wii concept, and will be something completely different. Late Pres. Iwata stated that the NX is intended to be region free.
None of that surprises me. I always felt the WiiU's concept was a poor attempt to milk more from the Wii by adding a silly thing. Also making the console a hybrid of handheld and console concepts was a bad idea. It was a shot in the foot to require the 'controller' to be charged or plugged (like a handheld) in order for certain features and activities to work. But in the end that last part is merely my conjecture. However, I have noted that not very many interesting games have been talked loudly about for the WiiU, suggesting to me that there weren't truly that many anticipated titles. I heard a lot of talk about a very small number of games prerelease, and then heard nothing about them after... contrary to other consoles which I've heard consistent talk about before and since release of games. 3DS games for example, I hear people regularly talking about. PS4 as well. And PC. Less about the Xbone, but still more than WiiU.
Take all of that as you will.
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Post by satoh on Jan 25, 2016 2:31:24 GMT -5
I showed up about 3 hours after it was posted... never saw the board though. I only commented on it later.
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Post by satoh on Jan 24, 2016 3:43:45 GMT -5
Showed up.. looked around... waited... never found the board... kinda disappointed I remembered to look for it when there supposedly was one up, and missed it anyway.
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Post by satoh on Jan 21, 2016 14:08:59 GMT -5
Really the whole reason they threw out Pluto was because of numbers-vanity... They couldn't fathom allowing so many objects to all have the title of 'planet'. One person used the argument that 'there's no way kids are going to sit around and learn about all 400,000 of the things orbiting the sun', which is a faulty logic, because he's assuming anyone actually cared about them that didn't have an astronomy degree BEFOREHAND.
You know we used to have a lot more planets. At one time we officially had 13, with Ceres and Erys among them. They were both deemed too unimportant or small to matter and promptly dismissed. No one I know was even taught about them at all.
One of the arguments about keeping the number of planets in the low digits was that it would be easier to get kids into the science, but I would like to put forth something based on experience with people who aren't looking at things scientifically.... EG: anyone who is a science teacher and only a teacher. Which is most public school instructing representatives btw. These people only teach the most important things... the things on the curriculum 99% of the time... the things that make it to the curriculum for astronomy are "Things called planet, the sun, and the moon". No other objects are ever discussed unless a student brings it up first, and that's usually handwaved because the public school teacher doesn't know anything about them.
So in fact, by taking away the word planet from pluto, and erys, and ceres, and all the kuiper belt objects... even though astronomers "think they're just as cool if not even more important scientifically, to our understanding of the universe," everyone else sees them as "not important in the least, because [NOT A PLANET]."
And scientists would further argue that we should be trying to root out that marginalizing logic from people's minds... but that too is a failure to comprehend simple human nature. People don't want a big complicated universe with lots of things way more important than the planets... they want a simple universe they can quote from on queue, and moreover they don;t even want to have to do that. Marginalizing anything that isn't simple and elegant and neatly tied up is just the way human beings are naturally... Science is a method to turn people away from what is considered normal, and make them scientific... which seems to have the effect of making a lot of really intelligent people, forever unrelatable to everyone else and vise versa. (Which is another thing scientists don't comprehend... They don't grasp why so many people find science unapproachable... its not because of science... its because of scientists. Its the very nature of being told "no, you think wrong.")
Getting back to the point. Before Tyson kicked pluto out, there was no scientific definition of a planet. He forced a committee to reach a decision on what constituted a planet and incidentally, pluto didn't fit the bill. Nor did it's much larger rounder cousins inside the belt.(the inciting event for why the meeting was called was in fact the larger, closer orbiting KBO, among other similar objects being discovered around it)
I've not read the full report yet, but I have my doubts as to whether its actually a "planet" by definition, mainly because now there is a definition and its apparently somewhat strict.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say "no it isn't."
As a final note, I'm mildly amused that Tyson has gotten irate about the fact that people only remember him for the one thing he did that he didn't even feel was all that important. If he wants people to get over the fact that he kicked pluto out of the important club, he's gonna have to learn to think like a person again and try to win back their trust, because no one else is going to make the effort to validate him, obviously.
RIP future corpse of NDT, who only ever did one thing that was important and everyone hated it. =P
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Post by satoh on Dec 15, 2015 16:48:37 GMT -5
So many kiddies voting. Legacies probably don't care enough. I smell a bit of 'newness bias' in these polls.
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Post by satoh on Dec 2, 2015 16:02:22 GMT -5
You assume our comments were related. You cannot discount the possibility that I was simply sharing a random article I read.
I admit though, I did recall it upon reading the word limber, though that wasn't really the why.
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Post by satoh on Dec 2, 2015 14:05:06 GMT -5
studies have shown that excessive stretching before a workout actually increases chance of injury, and that stretching should be practiced as a cooldown exercise or as its own separate activity not linked to other forms.
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Post by satoh on Dec 2, 2015 12:57:04 GMT -5
concept art... well hm... that's sort of difficult... It's an arcane horror type of creature... which isn't my drawing strongsuit... I gave it a shot though... For the city, Joakim Olofsson did some great artwork that is basically exactly what I imagined.....and apparently gives explicit consent for its use on his deviantart page...which I feel is worth some name dropping. Imagine that as soon as you hit the highway, there's basically just a forest... just outside the forest is this: (by Joakim Olofsson) There's two main reasons I haven't described Kiva or Mita. One has to do with the world building itself, their appearance may become important to a reveal later, the other is because I couldn't work it in. When you're focusing on things from one person's perspective, it feels awkward for them to start describing themselves. Only a severe narcissist would spend all their time thinking about their own appearance. Actually 3 reasons... They might not ever recur in the story at all. The whole thing was one big introduction to the state of the world. Monsters, overgrowth, scavenge-based society.
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Post by satoh on Nov 27, 2015 19:54:01 GMT -5
I spend hours writing, post it on 3 forums and no one pays any attention... Par for the course.
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Post by satoh on Nov 27, 2015 4:26:14 GMT -5
Mechanical Legacy "Scrap" _________________
Kiva crept slowly, carefully over the rubble. It was always best not to attract too much attention, even if there was none to be seen. Crouching near the asphalt, she peered under a long since disused vehicle. It was difficult to see the other side through the brush. Leaning against the rusted frame, she slid along it to the taller end, gripping her knife and pistol tight in either hand. She lunged around the edge as quietly as possible. Clear. She relaxed slightly, standing full height. It had always been dangerous entering the cities. Too many nooks for things to hide.
Finally she made her way into the looming glass structure. These were generally the best places to find parts for circuit repairs. Most of the stuff inside was scrap, but some could be salvaged. The lower levels of the structure, like the street outside, were mostly filled with creeping vegetation, but after cautiously scaling several flights of stairs she came to a level that looked promising.
The floor was mostly bare, and even better, this level had an array of smaller rooms, each outlined by shells of what were probably temporary walls at one time. None were left intact now of course. Kiva glanced quickly over the area, spotting a few desks which hadn't collapsed from wear. Little of any use in the drawers she could open, and most of the computer boxes were too corroded to be of use.
Finally she spotted one that appeared to be relatively clean on the outside. With some effort she noisily broke free the cover and peered inside. Some of the boards looked usable. Her final intrusion had not gone without notice, however, as a loud crash indicated something landing through the hole in the ceiling. Kiva quickly pried a board free from the metal enclosure with her knife and placed it hastily in her satchel. Making for a quick exit, she leapt out the shattered glass window, gripping the reaching vines on the way out. The plants were hardly well attached enough to hold her and they tore away from the building as she fell.
She slowed enough to get a better grip at least, allowing her weave back into the gargantuan structure, but her pursuer was close behind. It's shrill scream was no comfort at all as it easily clawed its way into her level. She barely made it into the stairwell before it slammed through the door and straight into the wall behind. With precious fractions of a second gained from its dazed and enraged cry she jumped the barriers, dropping floor to floor, entire landings at a time. Finally she ducked out of the building and onto the street.
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Mita stared intently through the dimly lit digital scope of her rifle. It had been four hours since Kiva entered the ancient city. She cycled the display modes, pausing momentarily with each to register the information she was seeing.
Various colored blobs indicated heat blooms here and there through the streets, now mostly covered with undergrowth.
Bright green images shown barely discernible, save for the shadows which now were clear.
A blue scene devoid of any yellow.
Blackness with speckles of grey.
Finally the view returned to standard color. No sign of Kiva in infrared, nightvision, radio frequency imaging, or motion differential from this vantage. She'd picked the spot with the most cover for herself, but it left her with poor visibility between two dilapidated buildings. The street ahead was mostly straight, but anything could lie around those corners. She cycled through the displays once more. This time she caught some movement. A dust plume it seemed. Switching back she spotted some increased ambient heat on the left, and finally she spotted an EMF signature which could be Kiva, showing as a small yellowish blob near the building's edge.
Silence. It was too far to detect any sound. Finally Kiva rounded the turn onto the street. Mita leaned into the rifle with anticipation.
Closer.
Just a few more steps.
There.
Mita squeezed the trigger and the atmosphere exploded.
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Kiva's legs ached as she scrambled over the mottled brush and pavement, the freakish horror lumbering after. There was a rush of wind and a spatter of hot red fluid, followed shortly by the echoing crack of the gunshot. Kiva's knees gave out beneath her as she gasped and panted. She glared warily at the chaser, fearful its tenacity might animate it once last time. The only movement she could attribute to it was the lazy expansion of its bloody puddle. It had no discernible eyes or nose, but it certainly had teeth. Its head was wide and somewhat flat. Its body was at least three meters, with twice as many legs, each ending in a blade-like spoke.
An indeterminate number of seconds, or hours passed as she lay there staring.
"We bagged a big one this time."
It took a moment for Kiva to calculate the proper form of response her current state of mind, "Took you long enough. Were you hoping to claim me as salvage too?" Kiva nodded to her bleeding shoulder. The shot had clipped her, just through the skin it seemed.
"Anyway, we need to leave before anything else shows up. We'll come back for the carcass after we get you patched up." Mita explained, offering a hand. Kiva stood, and off they limped, back through the forest toward home.
This is part of a world building piece I'm working on right now.
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Post by satoh on Nov 26, 2015 14:33:27 GMT -5
Well, I'd say it's definitely not the same model of Eden destructo box, but while I initially suspected it was just some ruins, further inspection makes that unlikely.
If you look, the tower is canted to the side. I don't believe a ruin could remain standing at all if it took the necessary structural damage to become bent that way (and no ruin we've seen has been aligned on a diagonal, so it seems unlikely to be intentional)...
What this means is that it's likely the object fell from the sky and landed, possibly settling that way over time. To clarify though, Eden was a massive space station (or more likely an array of stations), which launched a comparatively minuscule probe (still huge) to destroy Kattelox.
Eden is most likely a way-station moderating instructions, transport, and reinitialization between Terra and Elysium.
If we assume not all Elysium units are homogeneous (Yuna and Sera are not identical, concept art for megamen show that they don't all look like Juno) then it is entirely possible that not all Eden probes are identical.
It could also be that the Calbania probe is an older model. (Consider that Eden is still active and responsive to Juno's commands after hundreds maybe thousands of years... Eden's technology may actually have been advancing slowly, upgrading, remodeling, etc, even since the Master died. Eden is stated to have workers aboard as well, meaning its not automated. Exploring Eden is enough content for a full game by itself.)
Anyway, getting back on track, I believe it is plausible that Calbania is the product of a reinitialization and that the probe we see is entirely possibly the probe that was used. Possibly a disposable device. I don't believe Calbania's bureaucratic authority is likely dead. Consider that Juno states he was awoken early. This probably means 'hundreds of years before schedule' considering his time scale. If we assume the schedule is set forth by the Master System this means it is likely that all Eden authorities are to be awakened synchronously, meaning Calbania just isn't scheduled for destruction again yet.
IN SHORT: I think this theory has merit, despite initially feeling hesitant about it.
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