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Quote from: 10ebbor10 on October 04, 2012, 12:23:39 pm

Quote from: Dariush on October 04, 2012, 12:11:51 pm

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on October 04, 2012, 11:02:30 am

Quite close, and I forgot you haven't got an automatically zooming high tech interface. Just suppose one of your crewmembers is really good with binoculars.

Binoculars? Do you really mean that we're like several kilometers away from that ship?

They sneaked up on you by hiding on a local planetoid(which was suprisingly close to the flightroute).  They're about 30 kilometers away, possibly a bit more or less. The fighters are much closer though, and closing in fast.

So yeah, some really good space binoculars.

Oh what. Space is not an ocean. We don't need to see the whites of their eyes to fire them (30 kilometers in space is nothing). Unless we only have visual sensors (which is completely idiotic because we're in space), there was absolutely no way for them to sneak up on us due to radiation and stuff. Finally, planets tend to orbit their suns. That means that unless the 'flight route' (whatever the hell that means IN SPACE) is system-wide, they would have to miss their prey for a large part of the year.

How does FTL work, by the way? Why did we slug along on STL speeds, anyway? And what happened to that merchant?

Meh, PPE'd.

A couple if those were mistakes/humorously-intentioned excuses by the GM, the pirates were using the planetoid as cover. Weren't we going there?

Also, it bugs me when people use "sector" to refer to an arbitrary section of space. A sector is a part of circle defined by two radii.

"Let's just call the police for a prison transport. I'd rather not deal with this guy again."

Tomcat pulled out a cellphone zipped in his front right jacket pocket. He dialed the number for the police headquarters, "This is Tomcat. I have the bomber from the hospital bombing that happened about 20 minutes ago. Could you send a police transport to pick this guy up?" He paused for a moment, awaiting a response. They wanted a location to pick him up at. Tomcat looked around for landmarks and read them out.

((Heh. I forgot that this is semi-freeform RP.))

"It wasn't a bombing! I just accidentally set some stuff on fire...Oh, and FYI, 'inflammable' means it burns!"

Fairly well.

They'd have to be traced by hand, but that little bit of extra effort will turn into an image that works at all resolutions. (And making new vector graphics from scratch will probably take the same amount of time as tracing)

So, instead of modifying a few pixels in a JPEG or some such, a tileset maker would need to trace their 12x16 or whatever designs, then vectorfy them?

An advantage of vector-based graphics would be that it's easier to make large amounts of pictures derived from a base picture, eg. dwarves with different tools or different pieces of clothing. Conceivably the computer could replace clothing and tools in a base picture to generate dwarves with an appropriate appearance on demand. Changing the color of a particular element (eg. a piece of clothing) would be trivial, no matter how convoluted or split up the shape.

It's probably technically possible to have the computer compose pictures of forgotten beasts, based on the raw description, when we supply the body parts (probably not suited for map icons though, but rather for descriptions).

The part about dwarven graphics requires graphics, which Toady has not enabled by default. I'm willing to bet that Toady's more interested in making vanilla, ASCII DF great than adding some probably-lengthy code to make a few pixels for graphics users.
And while procedurally generated FB graphics might be cool... well, it's probably harder than you think, and don't you remember how freaky they can be?

Sharpened rocks.
You know, from knapping.

Nothing. Enlightenment is gained through sloth and stupidity, says Urist McBuddha.

What would Urist do if his last name was McAbraham?

MOVE TO ETABLISH ALLIANCE WITH CHEESE, SO WE MAY Achieve our ULTIMATE GOAL OF TAKING OVER BREAKFASTIA.

[6] You establish an alliance with Cheese. The King of Cheese demands you lift the embargo on meat to dairy groups; bringing this up to the Council reveals that they don't like Cheese. You are kicked out of the High Council.
Oh, and Cheese is cheesed-off. They declared a war on the Baconic Knights.

I posess the pieces of Phobos and form them into a shield in front of me

[6] Wow, you gather all the pieces of Phobos into a shield the size of Phobos! It crushes you. Oops. Respawn?

Use one khajiit as a blunt weapon against the others.
No way this could go wrong!

[2] You cannot escape the marshmallows!

Aggravate people to gain powaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

[5] You aggravate people a lot. [3] You have the power to turn on gaming systems without being near them!

Type 'Gordon Freeman' into laptop.

[1] "Cord on Tree-san." A Japanese tree bound in cords appears.

Medic noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! get Rainblower go to earth. RAINBOW THE DEMONS.

[4] You get to Earth. [4] You rainbow the demons. It's moderately effective!

Use my newfound power to create a sound so terrifying it creates little reality holes in mortals brains, proceed to use this sound on earth.

[3] You create music so bad that brains bleed. Why does your head feel bleedy? Oh, you listened to it as you composed it...[1] Your divine head explodes from blood. Respawn?

Spawn as a sentient chicken nugget with miniature super-muscular arms

Type "Oribital Cannon Target Device and Launch Key" and click create

[3] You are a sentient chicken nugget with muscular arms. As you are not animate, you can't type.

GM Turn:
The monsterhero band [6] summons Dr. Manhattan King Kong, who plays the bagpipes. Oh, the horror!
The khajit stop firing at Praecordia and [6] fire their marshmallow guns at Dr. Kong, who eats them. Dr. Manhattan King Kong goes to sleep on top of them.
The Celloist xenomorphs grab the Cosmic Cello. [6] And some rubble.

Agreed.

Also, why "in excess of XX.XXX%"? It would make more sense to say "in excess of XX%%" or "approximately XX.XXX%."

CREATE NUKE.
CREATE RADIATION SUIT.
PUT ON RADIATION SUIT.
USE NUKE TO BLOW UP WORLD.