“Would have?” The United States already had a heavy-lift rocket with five times the payload capacity of the Shuttle.

Challenger happened because an o-ring in one of the solid rocket boosters froze in the abnormally cold January air, allowing extremely hot gases to blow a hole in the external tank, igniting the hydrogen. The Energia booster doesn’t have solid rocket boosters. In their place are liquid fueled boosters which can be…

1. Yes they did. They also did that with the atomic bomb. Instead of being pissed off at them for being better at espionage, we should be ticked at the CIA. Don’t hate the player etc.

2. That worked out well. So 40 years later, we’re going back to what? Oh yeah, disposable launch systems.

3. That’s the point. NASA was…

I’m not sure it’s about prostitutes being inherently bad, rather than simply being about how they weren’t typical girlfriends in that it was clear to everyone that the relationship was obvious transactional. And as I keep saying, just because you (not you) would find that sort of relationship demeaning, that does not…

It’s not really all that surprising that nude photographs would be required to work in a club inspired by/affiliated with a skin mag, though. Although publishing her pictures as payback was lame.

Yeah, that’s totally wince-inducing. But it’s really not that different from “candy is dandy but liquor is quicker” and other things of that ilk. I mean face it, that’s a big reason men offer to buy women drinks. And it’s not like giving someone roofies, or the drugs Cosby used. Those are intended to make a woman…

Right, because that was absolutely the point of telling the Armistead Maupin story. It had absolutely nothing to do with simply sharing an entertaining tidbit about the drug under discussion.

Forget the ridiculous third reason for a moment. Why do there seem to be so many otherwise intelligent people who don’t seem to understand that the vast majority of the time it’s not appropriate to act on your sexual impulses? Literally everyday of the week I work with and walk by women that I am attracted to,…

After reading this thread, I’m now hoping the dog is the only playable character. Fallout 4: Boston Doge, such bomb, many vault, very survive. Wow.

The rumor is your character wakes from cryogenic sleep in the Wasteland, so this might make a lot of sense. Character creation/tutorial sequence set in the pre-war 50s then you get into a cryo-tube, get frozen and suddenly/instantly wake in the Wasteland.

Perhaps you can purchase prewar memories at this memory den place?

GTA doesn’t have you killing random civilians. You can do it, but every mission has context. The overall theme of GTA is absurdity though. It’s satire of American culture, and going on a spree like that is contextually relevant. GTA does take a stance, although V was the worst in doing so and is the freshest in…

Tail wagging the dog. Shitty, repetitive game courts controversy, gets controversy, all the awkward kids buy the game in rebellion against the controversy, defend the shitty game as a work of genius.

Not as an objective. The point of GTA isnt to commit mass murder. Its a fantasy sandbox that says “what if there were no consequences to your actions. Hatred just says, “isn’t killing terrified defenseless people fun, guys?”. There is no attempt to provoke some kind of deeper thought. Intentions matter. GTA isn’t…

GTA felt a lot smoother, and that you could actually play it in different ways. You could go on rampages, but not feel that that is the ONLY way to play in GTA. This game felt very... I guess you could say it felt very forced. Like a “LOOK AT THIS! YOU ARE MR EVIL FOR EVIL’S SAKE!!!!1 REVEL IN THE SLAUGHTER! LOOK AT…

Which was also bullshit. Steam doesn’t have to sell everything thrown at them. They were within their right to refuse it and Hatred was free to be sold elsewhere. A privately owned store refusing to sell something is not censorship. The U.S. Government going to the developer and shutting them and the game down that…

Seems it’s a top seller just because of the coverage and controversy leading to the release, as everyone just had to see it for themselves. The game was rather dumb, and as I played it I was like “Why am I doing this again? This is pointless, and does shock for the sake of shock.” I’ve seen more convincing daytime…

Cost. RLG’s cost more than FOGs, and when you’re on a tshirt fundraiser budget you use whatever equipment you can scrounge.

No need to circumvent SA for speed calculations. SA introduces a pseudo-random wandering path that doesn’t jump around within its bounds. At 60 mph, the distance between position updates (~26m) is roughly half the average SA error (50m), so speed calculations will be pretty accurate, especially if you build in some…

Speaking as a GIS student...who are we kidding, there’s nothing for it but to say I have a brain erection. Also, I’m glad Selective Availability is no longer a thing, the idea of being stuck using GPS only for speed (I presume you stayed within the legal confines of the time for academic credibility purposes) is…