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- Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:19 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: What Scifi Planet Hopping Via Scifi Spaceships Would Really Be Like
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3659
Re: What Scifi Planet Hopping Via Scifi Spaceships Would Really Be Like
"Warp" style technology could be lifting off and landing without blowing things away if we assume that the "warp" effect is essentially buoyancy, like a balloon that uses anti-gravity rather than density differential, or that the "warp" is using traction/friction along a 4th spatial dimension rather...
- Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:49 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: TV/Movie Drectors You Would Not Let Direct An Outsider Based Show Or Movie Even If They Gave You A Million USD
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8009
Re: TV/Movie Drectors You Would Not Let Direct An Outsider Based Show Or Movie Even If They Gave You A Million USD
What about Ankama Animations?
This is from 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOH2Ocy778
I feel like they could get close to the visual aesthetic, and have really good cinematography and effects.
This is from 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOH2Ocy778
I feel like they could get close to the visual aesthetic, and have really good cinematography and effects.
- Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:06 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: A Measure Of Altruism
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2206
Re: A Measure Of Altruism
The Loroi probably have some kind of altruism stemming from empathy. If I remember correctly, one of the side-files mentions there's a race that the Loroi have basically self-banned themselves from being around because the race is so susceptible to sanzai that they automatically become thralls even ...
- Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:00 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: TV/Movie Drectors You Would Not Let Direct An Outsider Based Show Or Movie Even If They Gave You A Million USD
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8009
Re: TV/Movie Drectors You Would Not Let Direct An Outsider Based Show Or Movie Even If They Gave You A Million USD
Benioff & Weiss. I agree with picking Uwe Boll, he hates movies. Disney I can understand, for moral reasons. Spielberg I'm not sure I agree on. Sure he did Ready Player One and War of the Worlds, but he also did E.T. and Saving Private Ryan. He has some potential upside, it's more of a gamble than a...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 64864
Re: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
From the 15k, how much do you pay yourself? How many hours do you have available? It's plausible to make a completed game using cheap Fiverr sellers, but it requires an absurd amount of "producer" hours to scout, communicate, organize, etc. Fiverr is good and cheap, but it is slow. You can potential...
- Tue May 25, 2021 6:23 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 201: Wordly posessions
- Replies: 34
- Views: 39607
Re: Page 201: Wordly posessions
My theory on the boarding party:
SpoilerShow
It's not a true Umiak ship, but something controlled by the Historians.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:12 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 191: SHIK!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 30910
Re: Page 191: SBIK!
I don't think there's even been a pink-haired one shown on the shuttle at all.
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:00 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: This is cool and a first for humanity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4113
Re: This is cool and a first for humanity
Are all those wobble calculations why hyperspace jumps are risky in Outsider?
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
Or trucks.
Optimus Prime was a truck.
Optimus Prime was a truck.
- Sat May 23, 2020 7:38 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
In a sufficiently advanced society with sufficiently available resources, I can see the submarine branch of the Navy choosing to do that. The aviation branch might protest that air-deployed sonar can easily find something with a profile that massive, and they can drop torpedos on it without risk as ...
- Sat May 23, 2020 6:33 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
So, I went to read up on the Japanese WW2 Submarine Aircraft Carriers to see what led to the creation of ridiculous, massively expensive, highly specialized, low-benefit vehicles with lots of existing lower-tech counters creating a lot of risk for their use. I thought there had only been three subma...
- Sun May 17, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
I went on the Boston Dynamics site to try and find out why they're making a bipedal/humanoid robot. Part of the reason seems to be just "pure" research (like how finding out that butterflies taste with their feet is a form of "pure" research). But, when describing their goals and what Atlas (the rob...
- Sat May 16, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
A mecha would have a smaller targeting profile for orbital attackers.
You're gonna wanna stack all those arms and guns.
But then it becomes tippy.
You'll want stabilizers.
Legs maybe?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're gonna wanna stack all those arms and guns.
But then it becomes tippy.
You'll want stabilizers.
Legs maybe?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Mon May 04, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
In the military domain, there's a check and balance that's suitable in all cases, and it's actual conflict. If you make expensive, impractical, over-engineered weapons while the other side makes efficient, cheap, reliable weapons, you're going to lose. The example of the M2 Bradley works here as we...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:02 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 130998
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
Personally, I'm fine with the "matching a neurally-piloted vehicle form to the pilot's form enables higher action pace and broader action options by cutting out brain-command translation delays and providing a familiar toolset that enables more complete exploitation of the pilot's creativity" line o...