No mention of Legend of the Galactic Heroes?
No, the original for PC.
X-Wing was the original, and then TIE Fighter was based on the same basic engine but with Gourad shading. X-Wing vs TIE Fighter reused the models but added textures. X-Wing Alliance represented the outer limits of what you could do with their CPU driven engine, and after that 3D accelerated games started appearing, like Freespace II and Independence War.
Trying to imagine how much you would rage about classic TIE Fighter.
Or SMAC. You'll have a network node and be building your first colony pod and Miriam will roll up on you with twenty infantry.
Yes, games were harder back in the day. It was good.
Thread about Workflows
Expected thread about high performance asynchronous data buses in highly parallelized game applications.
Got thread about how stupid artists organize their stupid work.
Immensely disappointed.
And tomorrow Google will announce sunsetting both and replacing them with a hitherto unannounced third app store and sixth wallet system.
Starting to think they must give new employees a copy of Old Yeller in their welcome packet.
DC power cannot be transmitted over long distances. This is the original problem that caused AC to win out.
There are two forms of load, inductive and resistive, and two corresponding types of power, reactive and real. If we use a rowboat analogy, real power can be thought of as the oscillation of the oars back and forth, while reactive power becomes the force of the oar pushing the water. Of course, the oars only push the water in one direction, then they're lifted and repositioned to push again.
In DC power, real and reactive power are indistinguishable. Voltage and current push in one direction all the time. It's only AC power where the rowboat analogy comes into play. So, WHY DO WE USE AC?
Simply, current cannot be made to flow over vast distances. We learned early on that you cannot transmit DC power over much more than a few miles without starting to suffer unacceptable transmission losses (we're not talking a few percent here; trust me on this, there's no solving THIS problem without cheap hot superconductors).
Now, both AC and DC motors require a net current in one direction (inductive load, satisfied by reactive power). But current can't be sent very far. So the solution is capacitors. In areas too far from a spinning generator to receive reactive power from the generator, utility scale capacitors are used to create local reactive power loops, satisfying the inductive load.
Some rubes at this point suggest making all load resistive, by putting capacitors in all your appliances. This is not practical. The people who are opposed to it are the insurance companies and their associates like UL. Capacitors... explode. And big ones require a lot more care than the tiny ones that drive your computer fans.
like whats your end game here?
State mandated ejection of women from the workforce.
Preposterous you think. Can't be done.
Germany did it. China is going to do it in the next decade or so. When the chips are down, liberty will yield to necessity. And once one country does it, more will follow.
It will happen because economically it has to happen. The two full income household was an unsustainable situation that is as disruptive to first world population as the fucking black death was.
I'm really surprised by the power of the blast.
I'm guessing you've probably never seen a grain elevator explode in person. I have (although it was a looooooong time ago).
Anyway, the difference between a fuel air explosion (deflagration) and a detonation is that a detonation produces an omnidirectional overpressure wave. A confined gas explosion in a house won't. It is creating pressure; it will push on the walls and ceiling but as soon as the pressure finds an outlet (usually by ripping the roof off the walls) the acceleration stops. In this way the house is behaving more like the cylinder of an engine and the roof is acting like a piston.
This is why a bomb in a house tends to leave a crater (or at least, a cleared area surrounded by debris) where a fuel explosion tends to leave a big pile that's fallen in on itself. A very, very small bomb might produce the same effects, but it won't flare up as soon as it gets more oxygen.
What is the likelihood of a bomb here?
Low to zero. This was deflagration, not detonation.
Here is another gas explosion for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWAui49J1mM
women in post apocalyptic settings do not view wearing makeup as a large priority
We have a very realistic view of dating and relationships.
The biggest mistake the feminist media made in the last three decades was not shutting down the 50 Shades fandom the second they saw it. Trashy harlequin romance is nothing new, but allowing a trashy harlequin romance stripped of all pretenses to reach the level of cultural awareness was devastating.
The company that got the E-4B contract instead... was Sierra Nevada.
At this point it's entirely possible that Sierra will also launch their DreamChaser BEFORE Starliner. Both vehicles have launches planned for April 2024. Any further delays by Boeing and they could wind up being last to reach the ISS.
Is this Atelier stuff
Without looking I very much doubt this is in any way related to the Atelier series.
For the non-weebs... In anime circles when one speaks of Atelier, they're generally referring to the LOOOONG running series of games by Gust (now part of Koei Tecmo) that began on the PS1 with Atelier Marie: Alchemist of Salburg, an RPG in the mold of early FF or SO but with a bit more crafting emphasis. Generally speaking, Atelier games are what you'd expect of JRPGs, although the original's premise was fun (the OG Marie being a magic school flunk out alcoholic on academic probation).
Seen both, seen gaiden/etc, have the books...
Still recommend the remake for its better pacing in the opening episodes. The OG run is not something you throw at people trying to win them over.