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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2: World's #1 war-themed hat simulator!
« on: December 01, 2014, 01:37:09 pm »
These aren't all great ideas, but how about...

Spy
1. A spy knife that increases run speed, but disables the revolver.
2. A revolver with reduced clip size (possibly even as low as single shot per reload), but lets you lay a small trap that cloaks or activates after a couple of seconds. Maybe the trap deals damage when it's triggered, or stuns. It can be destroyed if it's attacked, or seen if the cloak wears off. It has a recharge time so it can't be spammed.

Sniper
1. Rifle that doesn't headshot, but disables/reduces cloak charge, and interrupts/reduces uber charges.

Engineer
1. A new primary weapon to complete the battle engie set. Shotgun that replaces your normal dispenser with a pocket dispenser. Heals nearby allies a little (lvl 1 dispenser amount?), but doesn't produce ammo. However, it lets you store extra ammo drops and dispenses them automatically.

Pyro
1. Napalm sprayer. Has drastically reduced/no direct damage, but hugely increased afterburn duration and damage. Possibly harder to remove the afterburn effect. Allow it to stick to the ground and walls for a while, and catch enemies on fire as they run through it. Alt-fire creates a longer range spray at the cost of extra ammo. Spray burns so hot, it incinerates projectiles. This weapon is intended to remove some of the pyro's vulnerability by reducing the time it has to spend in such close range, reducing the need to get so close all the time, allows it to suppress movement through an area, and let's it spend a longer time away from support and pickups, while trading off it's up-front damage.
2. Acid sprayer. Less/no afterburn, but penetrates resistance to fire and afterburn effects. Alt-fire leaves a cloud of acid that persists for a couple of seconds. It destroys projectiles and damage anything that runs through it. Maybe does more damage to buildings? Obviously, this would be part of a super awesome cosmetic set with an acid hazmat suit.

Demoman
1. Armor with similar stats to the Heavy's armor from my above post. Makes pure Demoknight more viable.
2. Grenade launcher that doesn't need to reload, but you can only carry 8 ammo at once.

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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2: World's #1 war-themed hat simulator!
« on: December 01, 2014, 12:59:39 am »
I had an idea earlier. What if there was a suit of armor that would occupy a Heavy's primary weapon slot. It gives a passive bonus of crit and mini-crit immunity, as well as immunity to headshots and backstabs,. Maybe it could have other bonuses (depending of balance needs), like bonus health, damage resistance, immunity to afterburn or knockback, etc.

This would mean a few things:
1. Heavy is not complete sniper and spy bait.
2. Heavy would be much tankier in general.
3. Heavy has a reason to use shotguns.

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DF General Discussion / Re: What Would Urist Do?
« on: December 01, 2014, 12:48:54 am »
Try to clean it, but ultimately just track it all over the fortress. Everyone in the hospital dies of infection because all the soap is being used to clean.

WWUD if he had a tiny elf civ living within his beard?

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General Discussion / Re: What is all this national defence guff?
« on: November 27, 2014, 09:05:21 am »
Drunken, what country are you from? I can't help but noticing that you talk about 'their' military, 'their' budget etc etc.
*checks profile*

New Zealand?

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 09:49:17 pm »
Glorious 6-Armed Master Race

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Everyone's pushing something. After a certain point you would have to eliminate all news stations, papers, and websites.
In today's age that is entirely possible; get straight to the source. Failing that, a lot closer.
You act as if first-hand accounts are reliable.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 08:43:25 pm »
I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   :P

They're working on the extra arms bit:

http://www.gizmag.com/mit-supernumerary-robotic-arms/32793/

Robot arms with AI that can sense what you're doing and help out automatically.
Just when I thought transhumanism couldn't sink any lower. They don't even want your mind to control your own limbs.

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Wait a sec, was that the story where the kid had a bb gun with the little orange tab removed? The little orange tab that says "this is not a real gun, please don't freak out!"? I want to know why that tab was removed.

I don't give a YHWH if the tab was removed, which it was, as per usual by kids around the age. Watch the video and say it was a proper response by a trained police officer. Go ahead and come back to me.
It's kinda hard to tell much of anything that's going on at potato camera resolutions, 1-2 FPS, and no sound.

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Wait a sec, was that the story where the kid had a bb gun with the little orange tab removed? The little orange tab that says "this is not a real gun, please don't freak out!"? I want to know why that tab was removed.

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General Discussion / Re: What is all this national defence guff?
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:42:32 pm »
They introduced the secret ballot due to the massive distances between towns and the general lack of education back then and no easy way to collect ballots. Now, fast forward 200+ years when we can talk to people in China in realtime.

The secret ballot is now obsolete. The Electorial collage should be dissolved.
O RLY?

Way I heard it, it was because a secret ballot made it harder to bully people into voting a certain way. You had an avenue of plausible deniability if voting for an unpopular candidate (or at least to the guy looking over your shoulder).


Not that I'm necessarily against eliminating the secret ballot. Every bit of privacy means another bit you can't check for corruption or illegal activities.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:38:10 pm »
I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   :P

That can be organized.

* scrdest takes out a fireaxe.
Dude, don't even joke about something that barbaric. We are a civilized people. You should strap him to the medical table and use the medical laser.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:22:56 pm »
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-health-genetherapy-price-idUSKCN0JA1TP20141126

Kinda neat, despite the initial price.  Gene therapy has a lot of potential to fix a lot of things. 
how soon until somebody demand to develop a cure for autism
Alternately, 'My son/daughter is ginger! I don't want a ginger child! Fix it!'

I think that would actually be doable. Red hair is caused by a defect in the structure of one of the melanins, so fixing the gene encoding it would mean the person would revert to non-red hair. Of course, it's also fucking pointless.
Hooray for eugenics!

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:34:55 pm »
Would it? Do we have any data on what a nuke would do to modern electronics?
The EMP burst could fry older electrical systems with fewer moving parts. Today, there are far more electrical devices, with far more intricate and fragile circuitry and other parts. Further, the vast majority of them (especially civilian stuff) is not at all shielded from electromagnetic interference. We are far more vulnerable to it than we used to be.

But has there been large scale testing? No. Somehow, I don't think that would go over well.




edit: ninja'd

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:12:23 pm »
If the cybernetic revolution ever happens, I will personally lead the rebellion against them.
But what if you're already in a cybernetic world?
Then I'm sure somebody with access to nukes would be sympathetic to my plight. Nukes may kill fleshy organisms, but it can also destroy the cyborgs and disable the mechanical parts with an EMP from a much longer distance. A high-altitude nuclear explosion can have quite a devastating effect on electronics.

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