There’s a game idea I’ve had for about 20 years, and for some reason (*cough* Phaser HTML5 game engine *cough*) I’m revisiting it. The basic play design, even the playfield, has remained surprisingly consistent, although now the humour is even more puerile and the art style draws inspiration from Roger Ramjet. Especially for the cutscenes.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, I wanna talk about this because I want to.
This is what modern US schooling does to children. There’s more to the Internet than Facebook, pornography, and captioned cat pictures you know.
Now, you ever notice how when astronauts go onto other planets the sky (universe) is always black? So, if there were life on other planets, for example, their sky would always be black .
The reason for that is because in space there isn’t enough gas for light scattering to occur. [Source] [NASA] [And a third]
Also, when astronauts “went” onto the moon, some placed a flag into the surface of the moon.
- How can you place a stick, whether it be plastic, metal or steel, into a huge, hard rock?
The moon isn’t a solid rock: From The University of Tennessee website: The Moon is coverered with a gently rolling layer of powdery soil with scattered rocks that is called the regolith; it is made from debris blasted out of the Lunar craters by the meteor impacts that created them. Each well-preserved Lunar crater is surrounded by a sheet of ejected material called the ejecta blanket.
- Wouldn’t the lack of gravity cause the flag to float away?
The moon has enough mass to have its own gravity well, roughly 1/6th that of Earth.
Just wondering.
Wondering is nice, but eventually you have to do research like I did.
I’m sure it’s nothing a few tens of thousands of dollars couldn’t cure.
If you aren’t smiling within a minute, you’re dead.
Or, Honesty in Fantasy Titles.
Personally I read all four of David Eddings' The Blue McGuffin series, and I enjoyed the Pern books up to All the Weyrs of Pern, which was a natural ending to the series.
After a while though, I began to notice much of fantasy and sf can’t escape the Comedy Troupe Take the McGuffin on a Road Trip format.
Out trolling for pwotenshul Tumbwa fwends, I found dis. It funny.
1958 Bulgemobile Catalog - Bruce McCall
Wasn’t this from National Lampoon? I’m sure I saw it in a NL collection.
For some reason I have bid on a storied Toshiba netbook called Penny.
I’ve wanted a lappy for some time. The idea being that I can use it for writing, coding, a little Minecraft and basic gaming, and of course DJing, without having to be tied to the Big Rig in the spare room.
The Big Rig, in any case, will still be the go-to for hardcore gaming and Second Life. It’s just that instead of running both Virtual DJ and SL, there’ll be a lappy dwarfed by the Numark.
C'est, as they say, la vie. My parents will probably disapprove for a bit, but screw that. Penny the laptop will be my Christmas pressie to myself.
Three years ago to the day Dave Jenkins posted the “Five-Step Party” model of the lifecycle of social networking sites:
Commenters have observed that there is an alternative Stage 3: Collapse due to scaling issues. However I’d argue that this is actually a technical case of Stage 5.
Sometimes I wonder, with the reliable problems of inventory lag, region crossing lag, chat lag, unreliable search, ditzy viewers, and in my experience, purchasing lag, the perpetual gray issues, the incoming Teen Plague, a succession of pie-sky CEOs and managers, if Second Life fits this mold.
If it does, I’d say it’s hovering somewhere between stages 4 and 5. The rise of technically inferior but promising alternatives like InWorldz and OpenSim promises ‘a different darker smokier club’ for those no longer enjoying SL, but of course getting out with your identity and/or inventory is difficult.
But that is a post for another time.
