JoeSchmuckatelli Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 17 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said: It’s good I was impressed with how far they had come when I tried Science! when it came out... But then some of the game breaking bugs were still present and made me quit again. I'm waiting for the first Colonies build to try again. 2025? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Fluffy Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: I was impressed with how far they had come when I tried Science! when it came out... But then some of the game breaking bugs were still present and made me quit again. I'm waiting for the first Colonies build to try again. 2025? I meant normal KSP. Thread Tax: Ichthyotitan is the largest known marine reptile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: I was impressed with how far they had come when I tried Science! when it came out... But then some of the game breaking bugs were still present and made me quit again. I'm waiting for the first Colonies build to try again. 2025? Uhh ... you haven't read the latest news? No fun facts to be found there, I'm afraid. Rather the opposite. EDIT: To put any reader who might only follow this sub-forum up to speed: The studio that developed KSP2 has been disbanded as of April 29, the developers laid off, and the community managers are apparently no longer employed there either. There hasn't been any official announcements yet, but things are not looking good for the future of the game. Edited May 3 by Codraroll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryaja Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) "fun" fact: most color printers print your computers metadata in faint yellow dots that can be decoded. This is why yellow ink is needed for printing monochrome pages. Edited May 4 by Ryaja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Interesting, if print yellow-on-black instead of black-on-white, will it jam the metadata reading? Or if use a yellow textured paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryaja Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they had ways of finding where the ink is even if the paper matches it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 15 hours ago, Codraroll said: Uhh ... you haven't read the latest news? No fun facts to be found there, I'm afraid. Rather the opposite. EDIT: To put any reader who might only follow this sub-forum up to speed: The studio that developed KSP2 has been disbanded as of April 29, the developers laid off, and the community managers are apparently no longer employed there either. There hasn't been any official announcements yet, but things are not looking good for the future of the game. Wow. I've avoided the game subs because they've been nothing but arguments between doomslingers and polyannafanbois for the last year. Looks like one side won the argument. The frustration I align with is towards the industry pushing games into publication / open to purchasing when they are clearly not ready. KSP2 should have never released (EA is repurposed bovine waste CorpSpeak) until it was in the state of the game with ForScience! That was a worthy EA state. The Alpha build released in Feb 23 killed the game. Sad. FWIW - Cities 2 is in the same state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 1 hour ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: The Alpha build released in Feb 23 killed the game. The 2K-wide cutbacks is what killed the game, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) 4 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: FWIW - Cities 2 is in the same state. Nah, Cities 2 is currently playable without gameplay-destroying bugs, it actually has most of the features it was advertised with (although a few of them are poorly implemented) and its much-delayed mod support is at least partially up and running. The Traffic Manager mod was released to the public yesterday. It appears able to crawl, slowly but steadily, out of its early-access heck. KSP2, after more than a year of development, has still only managed feature parity with KSP1, but is troubled by certain bugs its predecessor solved years ago, and the advertised sequel features are absolutely nowhere to be seen. Judging by the type of content they chose to feature in the developer diaries, there was essentially zero progress on adding more star systems, multiplayer, or extraplanetary colonies (except orbital structures, where it appears they have had a 3D model, at least). I'm starting to suspect that Take-Two pulled the plug because the game wasn't anywhere close to what its marketing had promised, and wouldn't be there even with multiple more years of development. Edited May 4 by Codraroll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 European and American battlefields and cemeteries were dug up en masse to use the human bones in sugar production; XVIII-XIXth century war graves may be gone entirely. Waterloo was a particular hotspot, with production started in the 1830s, and battlefield "harvesting" widely reported. https://www.science.org/content/article/now-we-know-where-dead-went-did-grave-robbers-plunder-battlefields Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 A map of the lesser known features of Red Square as of mid-1940s. Object №1 is a courtyard VIP bunker, Object №25 hosted government offices, and Object №16 is an unrelated facility that exploited several existing shafts and ended up an NKVD VHF comm post. All are still under the same agencies and closed off, but paperwork on their construction has been declassified and located. Not shown is the later eastwards tunnel with a battery-powered train that contitutes the entirety of actual "Metro-2" - Object №100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Hopefully not another Carrington level event with our present reliance on the grid. But on a more cheerful note, it should be quite the sight for many, including myself, that haven't seen the aurora except in vids. According to the map I am hoping to see a decent portion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Fluffy Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 1 hour ago, darthgently said: Hopefully not another Carrington level event with our present reliance on the grid. But on a more cheerful note, it should be quite the sight for many, including myself, that haven't seen the aurora except in vids. According to the map I am hoping to see a decent portion When exactly will it happen? Like UTC/GMT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 5 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said: When exactly will it happen? Like UTC/GMT It was supposed to begin two hours ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted Friday at 01:58 PM Share Posted Friday at 01:58 PM Tell me you've never played with LEGOs without telling me you've never played with LEGOs You might need this to control the boostback and landing burn of your LEGO F9. But more seriously, for your LEGO Mars rover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted yesterday at 02:40 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:40 AM Dogs in Roman frescoes and mosaics were symbols of fidelity, and were sometimes painted/inlaid looking straight at the viewer as if to say "This won't end well": https://livyarrow.org/2024/04/12/new-pompeii-images/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted yesterday at 05:16 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:16 AM There are numerous Sheela na gig statues across the Europe, from Ireland to Czechia, made in "High Middle Ages", and all explanations are equally stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted yesterday at 05:46 PM Share Posted yesterday at 05:46 PM What kind of statues? "Sheela na gig" sounds like a rapper's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted yesterday at 08:59 PM Share Posted yesterday at 08:59 PM 15 hours ago, kerbiloid said: There are numerous Sheela na gig statues across the Europe, from Ireland to Czechia, made in "High Middle Ages", and all explanations are equally stupid. Well... I just learned something about medieval history. Probably can't teach it at my school, even though I do talk about some of the crazy shtuff the Normans got up to back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 10 hours ago, Vanamonde said: What kind of statues? "Sheela na gig" sounds like a rapper's name. Wiki describes, but unlikely to post the images. Definitely not a kind of official Christian discourse. In the kinda totally Christian medieval Europe. I could understand the story that gargoyles are kinda visualisation of wordly demons sitting outside of the church. But this doesn't look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago Yak-24 began as just two Mi-4s with a new hull and gearbox. Although it had a completely casualty-free service life, it was notorious for vibration at high speeds, to the point where air controllers complained that the pilots slirred their words beyound legibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago (edited) 8 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Wiki describes, but unlikely to post the images. Definitely not a kind of official Christian discourse. In the kinda totally Christian medieval Europe. I could understand the story that gargoyles are kinda visualisation of wordly demons sitting outside of the church. But this doesn't look like. This would be an excellent question to pose to Jonathan Pageaux of The Symbolic World podcast. As for gargoyles, many think they represent that even many of the "monsters" on the fringe of reality understand who is really in charge, even if the monster falls far short of being an exemplar follower, so they face outward protecting the church and those who enter, serving good rather than attacking it, in the capacity that they can. You typically will not see them inside the church or gazing inward toward the church as they do not deem themselves worthy and they know their gaze is predatory and frightening. St. Christopher is often viewed as a representative of this aspect. Many soldiers returning from a warzone to normal society completely exemplify this aspect and its related struggles Edited 11 hours ago by darthgently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago (edited) 4 hours ago, darthgently said: As for gargoyles, many think they represent that even many of the "monsters" on the fringe of reality understand who is really in charge, even if the monster falls far short of being an exemplar follower, so they face outward protecting the church and those who enter, serving good rather than attacking it, in the capacity that they can. I would doubt that this kind of protectors is typical for the setting, and at the same time they look very similar to some other figures from another camp. Spoiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish_Beast Recom Sanctuary (Ossetia) Stereotypical Viking stuff Actually, I believe that the "Gothic architecture" was derived from this kind of architecture. Just on growing in size, it was ancesting the idea of both lateral support and the gargoyle-like figures, which were, for mysterious reasons, considered significant, as from the figured log tips they evolved into the separately made figures. Spoiler Spoiler , and thus the gargoyles look like something very... from pagan times not from the mom's pagans, but from the unpleasant real ones, something agressively barbaric, rather than protective. Also notice the difference between the rude and thus probably old gargoyles above and the fan-service toy gargoyles from XIX century and later, added to match Victor Hugo's descriptions. Spoiler The latter ones are just ugly-looking garden dwarves, while the former are functional, or at least simulating the functionality of a rain gutter. Also, they look similar to the sheela na gig, and are looking like both are to pour some liquid onto the humans below. Basically rain, but if have a cistern on top, then any mysterious goo. Just some of them are functional, while others are decorative (or ceremonial). In any case, they look like something from dark fantasy, ancested from pagan reasons and ideas, and for unclear reason not destroyed through the whole epoch of inquisition, crusades, knight orders, and so on. Both don't look like a strange local tradition, but are unified across the Europe (and the sheelas look quite thematically for some Indian temples). The real medieval was much more grimdark noir time and place, much closer to Disciples rather than to Heroes of Might and Magic or Age of Empires. Spoiler *** P.S. Had read a couple of short stories by Giordano Bruno. A very specific way of thinking... Edited 6 hours ago by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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