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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: July 02, 2014, 02:10:24 pm »
Quote from: Toaster on July 02, 2014, 12:00:01 pm
Try it in a corridor next, where its greater manoeuvrability is limited.

Keep in mind that this thing is at least as big if not bigger than the battlesuits it's fighting. Its manoeuvrability is going to be a lot more than limited.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: July 02, 2014, 02:23:41 am »
What I'm concerned about is if it's just one shiny alien can opener.

And what the hell it/they does/do.

Because it/they is/are going to get shipped back for me and the guys to figure out what it/they is/are, what it/they do, and how we can build you guys guns out of it/them. And that's not in order of priority.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: July 02, 2014, 02:14:11 am »
So I know I've posted in these threads before (though a search doesn't turn me up on this one). But right now, I have specific troubles based around choosing parts for a computer I want to build, mostly from 3 different people saying I should do 3 different things (though I suspect that the one guy who might know best for me is someone I haven't asked - and I'm actually talking about a specific guy, much like that sentence sounds like I'm not).

The issue revolves around the CPU. At first, I was considering an AMD FX series - 8-core processors (note - only 4 L2 chaches - the second guy said they're basically half-sized compared to other cores), and would probably get one with at least 4GHz. This was encouraged by a friend who happens to own one and loves it. Then Kriellya told me that with what they knew, it's roughly equivalent to an Intel i7 core that's hyperthreaded, and that the i7 is going to be more efficient with non-multicore capable programs. Then a guy I know personally who's also fairly knowledgeable about these things told me that I would be wasting money (and computing power) going with an i7, and recommended an i5 (and use money saved to possibly upgrade my graphics card up from a 560Ti to something with a bit more punch (though this card's been running everything I want at max anyway)).

I want to build a computer that will hopefully last a long time - and by last, I mean perform with gratuitous power. Any help?

And, cost-wise, I'm looking at the following:
AMD FX-Series: $170-200, possibly $270 if I want to go up to 4.7GHz (depends on the cost once I have everything else sorted, as does things like a new graphics card)
Intel i7: $320 (which nets 3.7GHz)
Intel i5: $250 (3.4GHz)

This does not include motherboard costs, which are somewhat more for Intel chips, such that I can find.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Hephaestus Techland: Let the testing commence.
« on: July 01, 2014, 01:29:06 am »
((It was a joke with Radio from the plug.dj - see how many people get confused by not only my avatar changing, but the fact that it's an animated representation of a hypertoroid. Stare at it some more indeed.

I did have the intent on changing it back a the day after - kinda forgot.))

I don't think most of it was tested at all - there wasn't really all that much time, at the time. I personally don't see much reason to use normal sods over the robotic kind - the only major issue I can see with it would have been cost, except that's kind of irrelevant here, with the facilities we have. The only cost is time. Now, if Miyamoto wants us to send him some biological sods, that's up to him - but for our planetary forces, I think we can do without.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Hephaestus Techland: Let the testing commence.
« on: June 30, 2014, 11:35:01 am »
Decompensators for Will - would it be possible to make one, without any new scans, that simply detects any activity that would indicate that Will is being 'tested' and disrupts it? Essentially, in gameplay terms, making it completely impossible to roll for Will, substituting a normal failure (not a critfail - more an automatic roll of 2 or 3) or another side-effect (unconsciousness?) instead.

Also, listen to that speech.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 27, 2014, 07:32:48 pm »
Congratulations, Peicewise, you have moved approximately 7233408000 kilometres without realizing it.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 25, 2014, 07:25:33 pm »
Quote from: Empiricist on June 25, 2014, 06:18:18 pm
Is it too soon to start suggesting that we grind up a few Grate corpses and try to make a manipulator using them?

I believe it's been suggested before.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 25, 2014, 02:48:09 pm »
Towards the bottom of page 177, and the beginning of 178.

To elaborate on why the supplier was horrified, consider that 0.1mL is considered a severely toxic dose (by the OSHA), and said dose can pass through most lab-grade protective gloves (and skin, of course) with ease.

And they were considering using the stuff as rocket fuel. They ended up just spraying pure mercury into the combustion chamber as propellant with other fuels.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 25, 2014, 02:11:22 pm »
Quote from: syvarris on June 25, 2014, 01:51:51 pm
Oh, something I've been wondering since I started reading Ignition

Where did you get it? Every copy I've seen for sale is absurdly expensive, and I have yet to find an online version.

Also (you should get this, if nobody else does): Dimethyl Mercury.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Hephaestus Techland: Let the testing commence.
« on: June 25, 2014, 02:04:28 pm »
Quote from: Sean Mirrsen on June 25, 2014, 12:40:34 pm
((For PW's benefit, summing up the RemoTee unit:

Spoiler: Sketch (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Description/Abilities (click to show/hide)
I'm not being too optimistic about this thing's usefulness, am I? >_>))

((In my opinion, very. In Simus' opinion, it could work, but you're really overcomplicating it. And the chemical grenades - I made one as a, 'let's see what the GM will actually let me do in terms of strange and highly dangerous loads' thing. I'm not really sure how useful they'd actually be.

Also, uh - you might want to inform Simus before you start giving production orders. She'd probably approve a prototype anyway (though likely with comment), but she wouldn't be too pleased if you just did it without even telling her that you were working on something like that.))

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Hephaestus Techland: Let the testing commence.
« on: June 25, 2014, 03:22:38 am »
Hmm... how is it that it's 'eating' stone and metal, yet seemingly neither excreting similar or beginning to become composed of similar? And, why exactly it's trying to get deeper. Surely not just for protection, if anything it's making itself more vulnerable by exposing itself.

Aresteve, could you contact Steve and see if we can get into contact with the people who actually went into the thing before the Sword left? While I'm sure footage from their cameras is available regardless, I want to know what they have to say about it, if we can get that information.

And Saint, that's something, certainly - now if we need something more substantial than the drones Anton's made up, we can take one of those down from here. Doubtful we'd need to, but it's another option we have. Also, the people back on the Sword might find it useful, once you refine it so the user need not already be in a braincase. Especially so for anyone in Avatars. You can go ahead and make what prototypes you need.

Does the MkIV decompensator use a different style of detection to the other 3, or is there something else that makes it more accurate at detecting and stopping abnormal activity? And is it possible to modify a currently existing detection parameters without needing new patterns entirely, say going from detecting out-of-bounds activity in one pattern to detecting and activating on any activity involving that pattern?

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 21, 2014, 10:05:18 pm »
Quote from: syvarris on June 21, 2014, 09:44:11 pm
Quote from: Xantalos on June 21, 2014, 09:22:19 pm
Yeah, but we have the ARM version of Weyland-Yutani running the place - they'll keep samples.

Not really.  Technically, Simus is the one running the place, and she's pretty... careful about dangerous and poorly understood things.

Now, Saint would be all for keeping some around to experiment on.  But you probably don't want him to be in charge, because he would love to use Xan as a test subject.

I swear, I posted what I did about the alien power source thing in the Hephaestus thread before I read that bolded part.

And who says we can't use Xan (Or whatever the stored one will want to be called) as a test subject?

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Hephaestus Techland: Let the testing commence.
« on: June 21, 2014, 10:03:12 pm »
I don't see much point in a thermobaric bomb, Anton - from what I know they act just like conventional bombs, but with a more compact warhead and a more sustained blastwave. And they can suck all the oxygen out of an enclosed space, killing anyone unlucky enough to live through the blast.

That's interesting news, Saint - no damage beyond the brain... Well, it's enough for me to declare that particular artefact a high-level hazard. Nobody enters the room I have it contained in, for the time being, especially not any of us. As for Grate's lack of an implant, I'm not surprised - it could be a side-effect of his 'immortality' that his body always comes back without implants or other augments. That's just a theory, though, and one I'd rather not tested, 'immortality' or not. We'll get him fitted when we can, along with the rest of the workers, if we're going to keep them.

Pull up all the different levels of decompensators and see how they work, exactly, and what facilities would be needed to make new kinds.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 18, 2014, 05:36:28 pm »
Quote from: Unholy_Pariah on June 18, 2014, 05:26:10 pm
Quote from: Xantalos on June 18, 2014, 05:08:41 pm
I would've, but total painkiller means you no longer have a sense of touch and thus can't handle anything without extreme difficulty.
True, but not necessarily so.

Theres a condition where you can still feel pain but you arent bothered by it at all, painkiller might do something similar.
Of course if thats not the case and it does kill all your pain receptors, you wont know when you need to pee and that could be embarrasing.

You've got some weird anatomy going on if you're using pain to know when you need to pee, man. I would think mechanoreceptors (Lamellar corpuscles, I think, are the ones involved in sensing pressure - which, I think, is probably the first sensation involved) would trigger before nociceptors.

Quote from: Radio Controlled on June 18, 2014, 01:40:31 pm
Say, Pyro, did you ask for that information, or did pw propose it? And if first, why did you want it? Not like you gonna be able to use it for a long time. Or just to rub it in our noses  :P

PW proposed paying me in information - thing is, with current rank and station, I have access to pretty much anything I want to know and probably more (It might sound a bit facetious, but I think that, if Simus wished, she could probably get Steve to tell her the same things he's telling Miyamoto. She may not be a General, but she is in control of what is pretty much the revolution's only source of supplies). It was actually suggested in the DJ chat that I ask about Nyartefact labels - and why not? It's harmless information for me to have, now, and it will be amusing seeing you guys try to work it out.

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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: June 18, 2014, 07:11:18 am »
Quote from: SeriousConcentrate on June 18, 2014, 07:07:34 am
Dude, just... just don't be Taricus, Pyro. That 'I know more than you and I'mma hold it over everyone' thing annoys me to no end.

Only so much I can tease you guys with so little extra information - I can seriously say that you guys are on the right track with mostly everything except lines and an additional shape factor, and some nuance with both colour and shape, but not much else.

And really, I'll cut it out entirely if you like (really, asking me isn't going to get you anything but - but I won't without prompting). Still going to suggest combinations, though.

Quote from: Kedly on June 18, 2014, 07:07:43 am
I didn't say something I shouldn't have did I? I get the feeling I might have, and for that I'm sorry D=

Nah, you're good.

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