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a star destroyer in the same orbit as the iss would be like 15 times bigger.

yea, but i think at that point it stops being a space suit and starts being a very bad spacecraft.

im getting tired of people on the ground in scifi films looking up and seeing large spacecraft floating stationary overhead. i know star trek/wars has tech magic that makes anti gravity possible. its silly to explain that to somone who has seen the dot sized iss zoom across the night sky. they should at least make an attempt to make the technology seem feasible in both its usage and its exhibition.

my game engine is still a clunky mess and i still have no idea what kind of game to make with it. im also getting stupid in my old age.

i think i spend more time talking about games in forums than actually playing them.

have you read the dsm-v. its got something for everyone. p.t. barnum would be proud. it certainly drums up business for the mental health industry.

according to the dsm-v, everyone is crazy.

after further research ive decided that any possible upgrade for $600 would actually be more of a sidegrade. this build is also not as old as i thought it was. might be better to upgrade the thermodynamics, memory, and storage on my existing system than to try a cpu/mobo upgrade. think with some hax i could get a 140mm aio in this thing, but id need to get some custom cut acrylic and re-engineer the whole front panel to make that work. the 8086k can in theory turbo all the way to 5ghz with the right kind of cooling, but likely not a single 140mm rad. id have to get it out of the sff case for anything more. only other optin i can think of is to just buy the cpu and get the mobo at a later date, but i hate to leave perfectly good hardware lying around for months. not buying anything will just lead to cash entropy and the inability to buy anything.

if i go with a 3800xt i have about $130 left over for a mobo. coming up from an 8086k im not sure thats a good enough upgrade. seems i could afford a 5800x if i could find them in stock. these mobos are all really pricy, and none of them support ryzen 5000 series out of the box.

wonder if i can top my 8086k build with my stimulus check. core components only. could probably use my existing ram since were still on ddr4. pcie 4 would be nice too. would need just a mobo (mini itx probably otherwise id need a new case) and cpu (maybe cooler as well).

i think i liked for all mankind more. too much drama in the right stuff, i did like the movie though. historic dramas tend to be revisionist and full of stuff that probably never happened. alt histories are much more interesting and you dont have to worry about getting it wrong. also for all mankind focuses more on the space stuff than on drama. the right stuff maybe gave us 10 minutes of space stuff in the entire first season.

typical conversation normally suffices for most. i usually have the complete opposite problem where i actively avoid detection. fading into the background is something that has become second nature to me. i kind of like it, its sort of like a personal cloaking device. he could just be a tad extroverted (which usually one does not associate with asds, but i suppose its possible), yet so socially awkward that he has no other means of interacting with the outside world. i remember when i had my bike gig some 12 years ago (turning boxed bikes into working bikes, the dread of every mechanically inept father on christmas eve). id listen to extreme metal in the back of the stock room. nobody complained. everybody wanted my job too, and the cashiers used to hit on me a lot. the work was kind of backbreaking though and i had to stop. it helped that i could make a lot of money in a very short amount of time, and that my boss was in another state.

idk but ocd is a lot more severe than people give it credit. im pretty sure my mom has it, and she treats any minor interruption (like misplacing a pen or taking too long on her sudoku) to here routine as a life threatening emergency. then she panics and makes the situation many times worse in the process. eventually she tires herself out and thus ends the crisis, until the next one. with frequencies on the order of hours to a couple days. id actually shoot for perhaps a mild autism spectrum disorder which would explain the social awkwardness . a pinch of narcissistic personality disorder could explain the need for self announcement (though there are many others that would account for this behavior, like an attachment disorder) . its entirely possible the noises he makes do come from a song or tv show. there is no limit to the amount of annoyances those two things can produce. he simply appropriated them as his personal theme noises for making entrances.

theres is a secret fishing mini game in the game. i think scott manly or somone else did a video on it. but i dont remember the particulars of how to get it.

i think the engine is capable. playing with kerbal konstructs and using the terrain decals to flatten terrain for base construction, that kind of thing could be modified to create smallish craters. but its a little out of the scope of the game. the asteroid day features were added to play around with the asteroid capture and redirect mission. its not meant to go all free navy on kerbin.

i finally got around to watching it and its ok for what it is. exploring paths not taken.

lets see i got some brandy, a space mouse wireless. an $80 cable, and an oculus quest 2 branded paperweight stuck at a setup screen (i knew about the facebook thing, but i didnt know i needed an android device, which is funny because the quest 2 is supposedly an android device). where did i leave that brandy. i got my mom some doll clothes and i put the led strips in her miniature display case. the cats "helped". there are the addressable sort, but i didnt have time to program any fancy lighting effects due to living with a bunch of sleep thieves.

humans act like apes a lot of the time and we let that slip. the head ape gets to be your boss or the presedent or the ceo of some mega corporation. everyone else is expected to jump through their hoops. do something the others dont like and expect to live on the fringes of society. elevated cats would still be cats, typical feline behaviors would continue and might actually be morally appropriate. leaving hopefully dead prey on the floor, marking of territory would likely continue, bathrooms would probably be build with dirt floors rather than tile, and a shovel would replace toilet paper. they could probably adjust to human plumbing, but the technology wouldn't be as intuitive. i guess its a question of whether or not you are integrating them into your society or if they are developing one of their own.

she already does that. lol. this cat has made it clear that i am her hooman.

idk, our youngest would probably leave to explore the world. our oldest would probably be a serial killer. the one on my lap would probably want to get married, but 20 is a bit young for me. now if we translate their "cat year" ages, the lap cat would be a more suitable age, the serial killer would be in his mid 90s and would be too frail to actually kill anyone. the youngin would probably still leave being of the adventurous sort.

figure as a way to move asteroids it would work. you would just be heating the surface rock, preferably as evenly as possible so as not to rip it to pieces with thrust asymmetries. you might use multiple nuclear shape charges all going off at various times such that the radiation hits the surface all at the same time. keep in mind the warheads never actually touch the asteroid, jsut used as high powered nuclear flashlights. a few coordinated blasts ought to be enough to deflect the asteroid away from or towards earth, whatever your desired outcome may be.

as someone who dabbles in electronics, let me say that radio is frikkin voodoo. voodoo i say! the fact that humans were capable of making it work in an era before computers is absurd. let alone use it to detect objects or bent it away so that objects cannot be detected. to intentionally cause interference to the already voodoo radio communication, and then for us to somehow counter that is freaking amazing. nothing in the sci-fi space could possibly compete with the amazing accomplishments in using radio to do stuff that we as humans have already done.

il have to watch those later.

well "no monkey ever heated a frozen burrito" is kind of the theme for the whole series. probibly not helping with your hunger though, especially if that burrito is loaded with bacon.

watched the first 3 episodes. you could say i was blown away by the time the 3rd one was over. in a world where star trek discovery is spoon feeding plot crumbs, the expanse served up a 2 pound steak with a pound of bacon on top, with a potato and beans which also are loaded with bacon.