Not to quibble, but at $25,000 it seems more like a kilogrant than a megagrant.

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Well, if there's time travel involved, I don't see the difficulty with being both a prequel and a sequel.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySooo . . . physics is accurate, but astrogators not only don't have computers to keep track of things, they can't even jot down co-ordinates in a notebook. Um, sure.

I can go into detail into science behind that. Tracking coordinates in Rings is hit hard by butterfly effect - ringroids collide with one-another all the time, and even if you record location and velocity of everything around a point that interests you, your measurements will not be ideally precise, and you don't have full data on composition of everything in vicinity to predict all the movement in long term. Errors accumulate over time, and telescopic visual identification is not really feasible for small objects.

Ultimately, astrogator doesn't don't have a coordinate but a quite complex probability-of-location function that degrades over time. On a side note, the time an astrogator can track a location is skill-dependent - good one can predict where POI is over a course of a month.

That's reasonable, but seems to me there are limits to how far something can wander how fast. I mean, a thing in the ring is not going to double its velocity. In theory, collisions could slow it down drastically--except to be in the ring orbiting, things it collides with have to be moving in the same general direction at similar speeds. Masses of different minor gravitational pulls would have unpredictable effects . . . but only up to a point: There have to be some "attractors" in the chaos sense, or the rings would stop being rings. Even with no astrogator at all, you should be able to manage a sort of gradually growing blob of "where it might be"; you might not know where it is, exactly, but you know it's not on the far side of the orbit from where its previous vector would put it.
Certainly though a month seems more reasonable than two days.

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So, what about the cheating at cards? How'd that go?

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Sooo . . . physics is accurate, but astrogators not only don't have computers to keep track of things, they can't even jot down co-ordinates in a notebook. Um, sure.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyEveryone keeps talking about memory leaks causing performance slowdown, so I'm sure it's real, but I've repeatedly played for hours on end without noticing anything.

how much memory do you have?? I'm temporarily only with 8gb of ram, (because one module died on me), which is the game requirement and top shows it's using 11gb. Some ppl over the steam discussion page are also suggesting that it has problems with AMD systems, not sure if it is a gpu or cpu problem, it happens on windows too. For me it's unplayable, I'll wait till they fix it, but if it was another publisher I would be asking for a refund, I just can't play this, hopefully harebrained schemes will fix this.

I'm on an AMD GPU, so if it's a problem with AMD it's presumably CPU. Ummm, I've got . . . a fair amount of memory? Pretty new computer, just a few months old, so.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)

Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.

My guess is, Gabe traveled there once and also had food that poisoned him, so no Valve products for Norway!

Don't you have that delicious fermented fish?

That's us their friendly eastern neighbour of Sweden that have the famous fish (surströmming) that you can find in every "let's puke" video on the Internet :)

Doesn't Iceland also have a couple of weaponizable fish delicacies?

They have Hákarl which is a type of shark that they air dry for 5 months that are told to smell heavy of ammonia.

I found an old "review" comparing the two (since I have unfortunately never been to Iceland I have not tried the Hákarl) https://demislw.com/2014/03/09/its-a-fork-off-the-worlds-foulest-food/ [External Link].

Common mistake that foreigners do with Surströmming is that they open the can in the open, we Swedes always opens the can under water (in say a bucket or a filled bathtub) since it's highly explosive and you do not want pieces of the "sauce" anywhere since it's close to impossible to clean up.

I've heard of a case where some people wanted to prank newly-weds by placing an open can at a random location in their house while they where away on their honeymoon with the intent that they would go home and look for hours to find where that strange smell where coming from.

It all ended with these people having to pay the costs for a total renovation since there was no way to save furniture, wallpapers, carpets and so forth, everything was completely ruined.

This shit is not be played with :)

edit: I'm adding the conclusion from the "review" I linked to in case no one wants to read the whole thing (I do recommend that you do it though, it's a very fun and interesting read)

There is no reason for people to feel they need to eat Surströmming at all, ever, for any reason. If I had to chose between eating Hákarl every day of my life or eating Surströmming one more time, I would still go with the daily shark. It was horrible in so many more ways that Hákarl wasn’t. I walked away from the shark dish in November feeling like I’d touched the edge of the Universe, but in reality, I hadn’t come even close. This is by far the worst thing a human can ever eat. I’ve accidentally eaten dog-shit before – this was worse. I’ve accidentally sipped some urine that had been congealing in a plastic drink bottle for several months – this was worse (but only just – in a remarkably similar ball-park). Don’t try this, thinking it’s going to be cool. It’s not going to be cool trying something so gross. It’s going to be horrible. You are going to vomit. You are going to wish you’d never gotten yourself into this in the first place. There’s no silver-lining to the experience, apart from the thought that perhaps, eating it with Swedish locals, already fully tanked on very, very strong clear spirits, you’re just drunk enough that you keep more of it down than I did. Horrible. Words can’t describe it.

That was hilarious.
Sounds like a common mistake of Swedes is, they open the can.

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Quoting: BeamboomI don't understand why it shouldn't work - it's just using standard streaming protocols. I mean, yeah sure things happen, but this is almost like celebrating that a website working on Linux too. If I am allowed to be a bit stingy here. :)

Hah. Remember Flash?

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Quoting: scaineI loved Transistor's version of "easy" mode. The base game is played evenly for a while, but you quickly accrue optional "Limiters" which change your, or your enemies capabilities, making each encounter harder. The flipside was that each Limiter added to the experience you accrue from each encounter, so playing a harder battle reaped slightly better rewards overall. You were in control at all times, and it felt seamless, because the Limiters were placed like Functions, so you didn't have to escape out to a control panel and change a slider from "normal" to "easy" - it was all done in context to the main game.

Yeah, that was cool. And it was a fairly solid menu of limiters--some of them were like "Sure, I can totally handle that" and others I was thinking "Somewhere, there is a person who can handle this, but that person is definitely not me."

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: sub

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)

Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.

My guess is, Gabe traveled there once and also had food that poisoned him, so no Valve products for Norway!

Don't you have that delicious fermented fish?

That's us their friendly eastern neighbour of Sweden that have the famous fish (surströmming) that you can find in every "let's puke" video on the Internet :)

Doesn't Iceland also have a couple of weaponizable fish delicacies?

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