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- Wed May 15, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Forum Issues
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2533
Re: Forum Issues
Haven't noticed a problem here, but the Stars in Shadow forums have been out of service for a while now.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Replace Alex With a Gigachad Who Acted Like A Gig... How Would The Story Be Different? Funny and Serious Answers Welcome
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3867
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:58 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
- Replies: 120
- Views: 783611
Re: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
My long video game experience taught me that it's always more enjoyable to shoot the explosive barrel next to an enemy than directly the enemy. (Unless the enemy in itself has exploding parts that can be targeted, then it's equally enjoyable.)
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
- Replies: 120
- Views: 783611
Re: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
You cannot "turn" a high altitude interceptor into a ground attack aircraft. That would be a totally different machine then. That's exactly what happened with the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. High-altitude interceptor turned into a ground strike aircraft. With a pretty telling record of striking the...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 223: Most Fortunate!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 242018
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:39 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Terran Ship Classes
- Replies: 52
- Views: 113745
Re: Terran Ship Classes
Well, the Japanese also built a pair of 20,000 ton aircraft carriers and called them "helicopter destroyers," so let's just say that nomenclature is not their strong suit. It's because postwar Japan's constitution forbids ownership of offensive war weapons. That's why the Japanese military is calle...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Terran Ship Classes
- Replies: 52
- Views: 113745
Re: Terran Ship Classes
I think that's more or less the distinction between destroyers and frigates in today's navies. Some navies (including, according to Wikipedia, Canadian, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish navies) do not make a distinction and call everything a frigate. Which has some amusing complications, because ...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242498
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Warriors, workers, and a Queen. And a hivemind. Forget about the Umiak, the Loroi were the real ant-people all along!
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider humor thread
- Replies: 188
- Views: 926001
Re: Outsider humor thread
Alex speaking always smartsKeklas Rekobah wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:28 amBeryl: <query how know you when Alex speaking smart>SpoilerShowFireblade: <first words "Loroi says to me">
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider humor thread
- Replies: 188
- Views: 926001
Re: Outsider humor thread
Not much of a free thinker, eh?
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:46 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Why FTL Starships Should Never Land On A Planet....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32581
Re: Why FTL Starships Should Never Land On A Planet....
Also, I've been playing a bit of Elite: Dangerous lately, and I had no idea that frame shifting within a planet's atmosphere created fallout. I've been irradiating all kinds of newly discovered bacterium... Well that was true in Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters. I don't know if the...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Why FTL Starships Should Never Land On A Planet....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32581
Re: Why FTL Starships Should Never Land On A Planet....
Considering that FTL travel is fictional, an author can make up whatever energy requirements they want. Exactly. The method of FTL travel, its energy cost, as well as the actual energy storage capacity of the starship, are all dictated by plot as a true hard-sci-fi story would not have FTL at all a...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:17 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242498
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
What would be the reaction of Loroi if humanity were not just unreadable, but it would create a field of emptiness completely denying and literally turning off telepathy and ability associated with telekinesis, moreover at an arbitrary distance, would it be a fear of disgust? Or all at once? Given ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:05 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
- Replies: 15
- Views: 50945
Re: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
"Domesticated sentients" kind of gets us into gray areas of the definitions of both words. If an intelligent organism has no free will, is it really "sentient," and if it does have free will, is it really "domesticated?" Oh, oh, is this where I get to be the pedant that points out sentience does no...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
- Replies: 15
- Views: 50945
Re: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
Those domesticated animals are a bit strange. It seems as if the Soia specifically made them for a civilization of a much lower tech level compared to what they had. Especially since they lived in spaceships where you can't keep cattle around. They are mysterious and unknowable, and it's possible e...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 38
- Views: 165253
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 38
- Views: 165253
Re: Merry Christmas
IO SATURNALIA!
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 2:46 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242498
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
If a low ranking civilian of a guild receives better pay and accommodations than a warrior of analogous rank, I’m surprised that the state has managed to hold onto its warriors at all. I understand that warriors fight for honor and duty but Wouldn’t a warrior who realizes that a civilian is getting...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 2:27 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5242498
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Did Beryl ACTUALLY see human pornography or a rendition of it from Alex's Historisn possesed pad? We have no reason to assume she saw anything but the desktop screen with its icons, as the Historian app minimized itself , and probably no latter than when she said "let me see". She also hasn't learn...
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 11:11 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: MoO II races and their parallels in Outsider
- Replies: 76
- Views: 92717
Re: MoO II races and their parallels in Outsider
I'm not sure that custom factions work thematically in a historical setting, but regardless I think mechanically it's hard to do if the game isn't built for it in the start. Civ games go through too much history to truly be historical. Most of the factions are just beyond silly for a 4000 BC start....