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Did it taste like nothing, though, or something?

I haven't had time to reply until now; I didn't want to come back until I had at least done some of the initial analysis of the imagery, and to perform a few rough estimates. Here's what I've managed to observe so far. The clip in question is called 3330A on the WC4 DVD, side B. The...

What with LOAF's 10,000th post, the Dow passing 10,000 again, and the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the New Year rapidly approaching, I can't help but feel that the apocalypse is upon us.

Hey, all this thinking about blackfuel made me think about whitefuel... some properties of whitefuel could include counteracting the effects of blackfuel, so you can spot invisible ships at 5000 light years away and go from 0 to 60 in 1 microsecond. Hey, Confed should have fought the war...

Yeah, I was kidding. Sorry to mislead you. IIRC, you never got to see what a Steltek look like. But I have this vague impression that maybe you did, like in a comm or something. Anyway, I remember something teasing about the Privateer encounter...

From this, I am thinking you do not know the meaning of the word "portable" in the computing context. Fact of the matter is, assembly language isn't much more portable than the machine language of the actual executable. It's equivalently hard to convert an assembly program to run on another...

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We didn't always have ITTS, but it does help a lot. However, when a ship can turn on a dime and go 100000 m/s, well, you'll have problems hitting it, even with ITTS. ITTS only helps when a ship is going on a straight line course and will happily cooperate by running into your gunfire.

Didn't we see it in a cutscene or something blow away Goddard? I get the impression that it was a ball-shaped weapon, maybe with a bit of a tail, sorta like the Midway's bug gun. But it's been a long time since I've watched it.

It looked pretty obviously like a 14 in the picture Psych posted near the beginning of the thread, but I haven't looked at the original footage to see if that image was modified or not. CV-14 to CV-65: Umm, there's no requirement that every CV between 14 and 65 has to be a Confederation-class...

It's obviously a consequence of jump navigation. Space around ships is compressed by a factor of 1000 (due to the distortion of the space-time continuum by the anti-gravitons generated in the jump drives of major ships)... *inserts tongue in cheek*

*cheers* *cheers* *cheers* (The beard, from the NYTimes.com frontpage. Will likely disappear over time, I guess.)

I suppose I should cut the guys some slack because they basically had to follow a set script, and couldn't really branch out without alienating those folks who wanted novelized versions of everything exactly as it happened. I can't really do so, though; there are bits and pieces where they feel...

The mass drivers in WCP/SO should have been bump-mapped. That would have made them more rad. Yeah, I want a high resolution mass driver mod! Which gun is the testicle gun? Are they bump-mapped? Are they capable of rapid fire and linked firing?

Fission reactors actually aren't capable of exploding. Nuclear explosions are a bit harder than randomly piling together some uranium and waiting for it to go boom. It requires concentration and density to get the neutron flux high enough to set off a massive, uncontrolled chain reaction...

Yeah, it was sitting in the water, so conceivably, the crater could have formed an inlet or something. As for buying the WC3 novelization, I mainly interjected that because I've heard it was done decently, so maybe it'll be worth completing that hole in my collection.

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I think that was a pretty good summary of the pros and cons. As for whether or not Confed uses radar, they refer to it several times as radar, at least in WC4 (I was going through the DVD while I was measuring turnrates). At one point, they talk about how Confed has an electronic moat around a...

Umm, I was talking about regular TIE fighters, so saying that folks swear by the more advanced models isn't saying much. The TIE Advanced in XvT pretty much owned everything. The point of the little exercise with the 3 TIEs on 1 X-Wing was to point out that with numerical superiority (which is...

Well, they had glowing balls of death in WCP and WCSO. Well, kinda... the plasma guns were sorta fireball shaped. I do think the lasers look better as beams than little yellow balls, though.