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The idea behind AI Wars is that you need to expand slowly and cautiously, sometimes ignoring enemy systems in between you and a greater prize. Get too aggressive, and the AI will smash you into paste. Warp point defense is a strong part of gameplay, as attacks can and will come from multiple directions at once. And these are the EASIER AIs.

You get Skyrim, but the game is bugged so that everyone constantly makes arrow-to-the-knee jokes.

I wish I had an old-fashioned cannon.

In other words, give it to your best champion as a handicap. Alternatively, give it to the any nobles that start making unreasonable demands.

Offer the Succubus the Golden Ring!

Put on the ring and go West

Quote from: Sirus on December 25, 2011, 09:35:21 pm

How about a play on the old "immovable object meets unstoppable force" scenario?

Imagine that in the depths of space there is a massive void station. It is currently located in between stars, maintains it's exact location relative to the center of the galaxy, and is utterly indestructible and immovable. Several wars have been fought over possession of the station, due to it's strategic value as a fleet base.

Elsewhere, there is another object. This one moves at a constant speed and is affected only by gravity. It smashes straight through anything in it's way, from ships to planets to entire stars. Computer calculations indicate that at some point in the future it will hit the space station, and no-one knows for sure what will happen when that time comes.

Hmm. In my logic they would cancel each other out and create a shockwave that would most likely annihilate the entire universe and collapse space-time upon itself...

That was the general idea, yes

Alright, I recently bought a new laptop which, on paper, looked to be better than my old one in every single way. Shortly thereafter, I discovered just how bad Intel integrated chips are, but that's not the purpose of this post.

Anyway, like the old laptop this one is connected wirelessly to the home network. The router is nothing special, but I discovered that this laptop gets some insanely slow download speeds, at best getting 120 kBps and more frequently closer to the 20-30 range, and downloads will sometimes fail. It doesn't seem to be the ISP or router, as identical downloads on the old laptop get better speeds and never fail. It also seems to use an inordinate amount of processor power, as watching a video or playing a game during a download causes stuttering sound and freezing the image.

But as I type this, Bittorrent is blazing away at a merry 400kBps upload speed, when the same file (a perfectly legal one, thank you!) downloaded at the previously stated best speed. What the hell? Should I have the network card inspected, in case it's faulty?