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I second that. Between their EMP griefing and just plain hideous appearance, I cannot stand those things. No reaper - not even the ghost - creeps me out when I turn around and end up face-to-face with it anywhere near as badly as a… -
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"Thank you for calling TSF. TSF - your light in a dark universe. All of our agents are currently assisting other callers. Your call is important to us. An agent will be with you in 9...9...9...9...9..."
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Yeah...ever since about 1970, that's all Hollywood. The whole "single ping" thing is just too inaccurate to provide any information other than "hey, there's something down there...er...somewhere."
Active sonar uses a "sweep" - a rising p… -
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In the interests of full disclosure, objects in animation are smaller than they appear.
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Oh, Anomaly...always so optimistic. Thinking one planet will clear that debt...
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The Crashy McSplodey.
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All good points, and I've never had a problem with the "put him in debt so he signs it all away" hypothesis on Alterra's motivations. My equally sleep-addled mind failed to come up with another reasonable source for your bill:
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Not sure I'd agree there, @Talanic, my friend.
All that glitters is not gold...Gold is scarce - relatively speaki…(Quote)
Agreed and agreed. Paul practically gave me whiplash. "Cool! Now I can finally hear Paul Torgal. Maybe like a Ricardo Montalban doing Khan or...or...Scrooge McDuck? What the...?" in Computer voices - unimmersive? Comment by scifiwriterguy April 2018(Quote)
You've never dealt with a corporate legal department, huh?(Quote)
Doubtful. The design of its head looks like it'd be unable to survive without the buoyancy-neutral environment of water. Pull that thing out of the water and it'd probably deflate like an octopus. Which, in the case of the benevole…(Quote)
Works in cars, doesn't work for subs.
Cars recapture a fraction of their energy because an electric motor and an electric generator are basically the same thing. Run current into it and it'll spin an axle. Spin the axle…Whether an asset is in-game or on its own doesn't make a huge difference in terms of security; it's the work of a couple minutes to snip out any background that might be near whatever asset and put it effectively on its own again. If you release scr…For your wiki, establish templates, make them such that they can be expanded if needed (modularity is key in any programming project at any level), and stick to those templates. It keeps things from getting unnecessarily messy as fans decide to add …(Quote)
Tardigrades are native to Earth, discovered in 1773 in Germany. They're no more a xenomorph than a duck is.
…Personally, I don't find the computer voices immersion-breaking, but rather the people voices. Someone from a "Mongolian" company has an Edinburgh accent? Last I checked, Scotland was a long, long way away from anything describable as Mongolian. The…(Quote)
Nice plan, @zontwitch.
Just bear in mind that if the problem is a fish model stuck inside the Seamoth's geometry, then it'll just become a …(Quote)
This thread is over a year old. Please avoid necroposting for this very reason.
@Foxy, could you shut down this thread, por favor?(Quote)
Just not Clippy, please.
"Hi! It looks like you're trapped on an alien deathworld and have contracted a fatal bacterial infection! Would you like help with that?"(Quote)
Sounds like it would take tons of patience, but it should do the job!
...and I think I have the tie @zontwitch is wearing. Jerry Garcia?Don't think the Cyclops trick is going to work; if he's down in the Jellyshroom caves there's no way to get a boat that size down there.
If Slippy is right under the entrance shaft, you could try nailing a few floaters to him and seeing …With any microbe as protean as Kharaa, significant mutation is practically a given. For it to change radically enough to give rise to what's seen in NS2 - particularly given what it does to organisms way back in Subnautica - it's firmly sci-fi, but …I guess the response question would be "for what?"
For an aquarium? Hoopfish look great, as do Reginalds.
For feeding into a bioreactor? Crabsnake. You miserable jump-scaring [redacted]s will now power my base.
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Absolutely, almost 100% probable.
It's important to acknowledge that oceans - at least as we know them - have several distinct layers, and the organisms that live in each layer are defined by them. Quick and dirty, the …Rebooting doesn't cause a loss of data. It's shutting the machine down and turning it back on; you're describing formatting the drive and rebuilding the system from zero. Doing that to fix a graphical glitch would be like burning down a building and…(Quote)
Welcome to the forum, @LEgGOdt.
What Jamin is so delicately trying to say is "don't necropost." Once a post is off Page 1 and/or more than ab…(Quote)
Give that fellow a cigar! I do believe that's an excellent explanation, given what we have to go on.
That said, I have one of my own for you. I'd posit that, originally, the Mountain Island and Floater…Early game was eased up a fair bit, mainly with fragments being redistributed for key tools and parts. But you'll probably still encounter difficulty obtaining more obscure blueprints, and some resources are an outright pain to gather in any kind of…(Quote)
Very, very much so. This is brilliantly done.
Only one question occurs to me, @chriswmackey, if you'll indulge me. Given the appa…(Quote)
It should be a lot more stable without adding mass, that's for sure.