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Space is vast and beautiful... I need to make a proper gallery with more of my pics in it. (And I need to get some shots of the burning stations in Pleiades while I still can.)

Not sure if you’re aware of this already but From Software have confirmed they’re working on a new Armored Core.

Glad to see some AC Origins in here too. It’s an astonishingly gorgeous game. Bit of my own ‘amateur’ work without any of that fancy cleanup. Makes me actually want to clean it up now...

If they’re big anime fans, why does Mercy’s “super” voice line sound so weak? It needs to be more SUUUUUUUUUUUPEEERRRR!!!!

There’s a line of radical thought which says that marriage is a bad institution, because it encourages people to put themselves into a restrictive normative box. According to this thinking, same-sex marriage is bad because it herds LGBT people into that box. (It’s worth noting that same-sex marriage was originally a…

There are a lot of older LGBT people who were against gay marriage because they saw it as an unnecessary infringement on tradition. In the same way women who support sexist stuff because they think they’ve made the right choices to avoid harassment, these people think they have made the right choice by being discreet…

She isn’t the first trans person to serve in a state legislature. That was Garrison, decades ago.

There’s no reason warp tech is a prerequisite to other subspace technologies. And it’s entirely possible they’ve not developed warp simply because they are literally not capable of leaving the planet anyway.

Yes, it was a subspace signal. They said so in the episode.

Cloaks are always flawed in Star Trek. There’s always some kind of emission that the cloak can’t cover up.

I like the easter-egg level of the untranslated Klingon in DS9's “The Way of the Warrior,” but I also see how incredibly annoying it would’ve been when it aired pre-internet.

I must be the only one who enjoys watching the Klingon scenes in Klingon. It really helps those moments come alive for me.

I know, I know. I’m a huge giant fucking nerd. But listening to people having real conversations in genuine Klingon is freaking amazing.

I was confused about the fate of the Admiral. I assumed it was faked, but then it wasn’t very clear.

As much as I love seeing somebody on a stream—sadly I still haven’t managed to buy the game —scrambling for cover with almost no health, only to have the bullet that would’ve killed them go *Ping!* off the frying pan on their back, giving them enough time to make it around the corner... The machinist in me knows that…

I mean - I don’t think it’s unreasonable to acknowledge that certain franchise properties carry the weight of certain kinds of expectation surrounding them. For comparison, when Star Wars movies come out - the fan chorus of naysaying and fanboying swell operatically, even before the broad ubiquity of social media.…

Found the real answer, they just went with the cheapest lidar on the market right now, only 8grand a sensor. So with those ones it makes sense to use a lot of them. Same company’s highest end ones which people would use to just have one or two are 6figures a pop

Found the sensors: http://www.velodynelidar.com/vlp-16.html

Some of the cheapest on the market at only $8K a pop. So makes sense to just use loads of them instead of fewer of the really expensive ones which can run into 6 figures

its as though someone got really high and said, what if we made, like, a drone, but instead of propellers, we just used, like cameras or something...

There is an amazing field of digital archaeology and preservation emerging right now. I’m a professional architectural archaeologist, so I deal mostly in physical fabric remains, but as a major video game nerd, I can’t help but worry that so much of our intellectual heritage is being lost because of changing taste and…