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[Putnam]

already done and i now have a working GUI for the main dwarf mode viewscreen that allows you to click a button to begin mining

but having it activated ties the game logic to your graphics framerate instead of the other way around

[endlessblaze]

so...what exactly does that mean?

[Putnam]

Dwarf Fortress normally asynchronously does game logic and rendering/input; the FPS is game logic speed and GFPS is rendering/input. When this mouse viewscreen is up, it runs at a rate of ceil(fps/gfps) ticks per frame instead of them being indepenent, so in that case ceil(99/49)==2 ticks per frame. It ties your game logic to your framerate, basically (HISS)

the mod itself is the one thing i've seen whiners complain about the most (lack of mouse support) so i'll either make mouse support for them or show them just how fucked it can be even WITH mouse support heh

[Eric Blank]

On the starwars note: the lore as I understood it is that blasters fire a plasma bolt generated by shining a focused laser beam through tibanna gas. The strength of the laser matters, apparently, as does the composition of the gas, probably some other shit. The lasers job is to excite the gas such that it exits the barrel as superheated plasma and wrecks someones shit before dispersing again. What this means, though, is that you have to get the gas into the weapon. The cartridge is probably both a compressed gas container and battery with enough life to fire that gas until exhausted and like, charge a battery in the weapon itself just to top that one off if there are other electronics. Or at least, that would be how I designed such a system. Having to keep track of batteries and gas canisters separately when you have to change them both regularly would be a pain in the ass.

Now we can all just point fingers and laugh at the guys who designed the sterling SMG, and the new hope production crew for using such a silly thing.

And EA for, more likely than not, making another shitty FPS game sequel and throwing out mandatory dlc that will cost as much as the game itself and add jack shit. YOU KNOW THEYLL DO IT.

[Neonivek]

So I am watching the conclusion to the Storm Hawks but ignore that fact for a moment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here is how it works. The Villain is in a position of being outright superior to the good guys. She has more soldiers, vastly superior technology, a super powered stronghold, and she basically has super mooks.

So the hero collects together every single ally possible (and villains they could recruit) and fight her!... and then... Lose

So a second time's a charm and ignoring the stupidity that allows them to set this up... They are now many times weaker against the exact same forces as last time.

How?
1) They invent a weakness for the Super Mooks (who at this point have been nearly unstoppable if there was as many as one of them) that not only doesn't make sense (allergies) but the characters comment on how it makes absolutely no sense.
2) The female lead pulls out a power from thin air that is super powerful and immediately makes her more powerful then the much more experienced villain.
3) The villain self-destructs because she uses a SUPER DUPER power which for some reason is weaker then the female lead's power (for no reason)... and keeps pumping up her henchman until he explodes and destroys her super duper power.

And all of this while, for some reason, doing perfectly fine against the forces that were unstoppable before hand.

This has to be one of the laziest endings I have seen in my life.

[Sirus]

Saw a video of the new battlefront beta.  Player was on the stormtrooper team.  His blaster had what very much looked like a side mounted magazine, but the game has no reload mechanic that I'm aware of.  This bothered me way more than it should have.

Seriously though, it pissed me off.  I kept anticipating the quick FPS "pull clip away and shove in a new one near instantly", like I could see the reload animation playing in my head, but it never happened.

...

You do realize that EA didn't design the weapons, right?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The BlasTech E-11, primary weapon of Imperial Stormtroopers everywhere, derived from the DC-15 used by the original Clone Troopers, and later replaced by the nigh-identical Stormtrooper One.

It has the appearance it does primarily because of the actual guns which were converted to props--the production crew used modified British submachine guns. That's the real-world reason why it looks like there's a small magazine on the side: that's where the magazine feed was on the Sterling, and they just put a cap over it when they converted them into prop blasters.

So if you're looking for someone to blame, blame the New Hope film crew for using real guns as the base for their prop guns. Most of the infantry weapons have similar appearances (at least in the original trilogy) because pretty much everything was a different conversion of the Sterling. A few that weren't: Leia's pistol was a Vostok Margolin .22LR target pistol with cosmetic changes to the muzzle, a couple of the heavy blasters were based on the MG34 and MG15, the Ion Blaster was a heavily cut down Lee Enfield, stuff like that.

Dammit, I was just coming here to post that.

On the starwars note: the lore as I understood it is that blasters fire a plasma bolt generated by shining a focused laser beam through tibanna gas. The strength of the laser matters, apparently, as does the composition of the gas, probably some other shit. The lasers job is to excite the gas such that it exits the barrel as superheated plasma and wrecks someones shit before dispersing again. What this means, though, is that you have to get the gas into the weapon. The cartridge is probably both a compressed gas container and battery with enough life to fire that gas until exhausted and like, charge a battery in the weapon itself just to top that one off if there are other electronics. Or at least, that would be how I designed such a system. Having to keep track of batteries and gas canisters separately when you have to change them both regularly would be a pain in the ass.

According to the Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology, weapons often held enough gas for several power cells' worth of shots. Only a small amount is actually needed per bolt, and keeping spare canisters of gas on hand would only really come into play in longer engagements. The pistols used by the Tantive IV's crew, for instance, could get 500 bolts per gas charge while only getting 100 bolts per power cell.

[EnigmaticHat]

Look at all the people who are still in denial about the extended universe getting axed   Although... I guess if it was published in one of the supplemental reference books things it might still be canon, its just silly and irrelevant because Star Wars has never been even a tiny bit about how the technology works.  And plus who gives a shit what's in some book .05% of the fanbase has read, its the actual movies that count.  Lord knows if the writers in the new movie(s) want to contradict supplemental materials they not only will, but they won't even realize they're doing it.

Anyway, I went back and watched Battlefront 2 gameplay and it... has that too.  But for some reason the presence of clips didn't bother me in that game?  I think its because the way the gun is animated in the new one draws much more attention to it; it takes up more of the screen, it moves around constantly as you walk or shoot, and it gets pulled up when you scope in.  Also, the old one did have reload animations, but they were used as idle animations.  So the old game still addressed the logical flaw whereas the new one does not.

[scriver]

Star Wars has never been even a tiny bit about how the technology works. 

What are you talking about? Midichlorians was the best part of the original trilogies.

[EnigmaticHat]

Nah, my favorite part was their deep exploration of what a romance would be like between two people who age at different rates.

[LordBaal]

Nah, my favorite part was their deep exploration of what a romance would be like between two people who age at different rates.

Anakin in his mid thirties

[Ultimuh]

Star Wars has never been even a tiny bit about how the technology works. 

What are you talking about? Midichlorians was the best part of the original trilogies.

Don't ever mention the 'M' word. >:V

* Ultimuh slaps Scriver across his hands with a ruler.

[Akura]

Nah, my favorite part was their deep exploration of what a romance would be like between two people who age at different rates.

Different rates? I simply thought that Padamè was just a pedophile.

If I remember correctly, though, Padamè was only sixteen in The Phantom Menace.

[Rose]

In episode 1, she was canonically 14

[Graknorke]

I was going to dust off my EA account and try out the Battlefront beta, but EA won't send me my recovery password. I guess that means I'm saved from having to install Origin, due to circumstances beyond my control.

[EnigmaticHat]

Origin is literally the reason I haven't finished the ME trilogy, that and all the annoying things I've heard about 3, especially the bungled Tali reveal.  Like... I got 2 on sale from steam, why would I go out of my way to download software I don't like to get a game that is probably just going to make me feel worse about the story?