Hot take: a “skip boss” button or a flat-out invulnerability toggle is not a good solution to the problem of playability.

This does seem likely to evade most anti-cheat protections, but it also seems likely to fail in the market.

Yes, but that would likely have a tremendous false-positive and false-negative rate.

I think you might have hit the nail on the head with “bad localization”.

As it so happens, I’m working on a retro-y, pixel-y, jRPG myself. And I have some Opinions about how fonts in such a game ought to work.

Shit, making a pixel font isn’t even hard. Having never made a vector font before in my life, it took me about a day to learn the tools well enough to convert a bitmap pixel font I’d made into a .TTF. Then another day or so to redo it in a way that still looks right at the “native” res, but if you render it at say 4x…

Ah, that’s clever. Chemically, it’s still taking the same amount of energy, but since it’s making use of heat that would otherwise be wasted, it could be much more efficient in practical terms.

I mean, nuclear reactors are a pretty good source of electrical power, if you can get one built without running into a NIMBY wall. And because they generally don’t like to be ramped up or down quickly, they often end up producing more power than the grid needs. Electrolysis (or desalinization) is a good way to soak up…

The full (and only three-page) article, thanks to the power of piracy: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0360-3199(96)00031-6

So, liquid hydrogen is a fairly common fuel in the rocket industry. The strengths and weaknesses of it are well-known. It’s not the craziest thing I’ve ever heard but my gut feeling is that this doesn’t seem advantageous.

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Well, part of it is that Valve paid to use the Quake engine. So to the extent Id was diminished, they were compensated.

Now someone needs to go through Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends, and see if the same flicker is used there. Because yep, those are also Source-derived. Pretty heavily modified, but still Source.

Personally, I’m talking that up to Elon shitposting. “lol wouldn’t it be cool if your license plate flipped up and had a little rocket behind it?”. He’s a shitposter, he spouts random crap all the time. (If he were just a shitposter, we could just ignore him completely, but unfortunately he also sometimes tells the…

I think, rather than trying to use the rockets to directly increase acceleration, they’ll instead be used to increase downforce. Have the thrusters pointing upward (nozzle towards sky, exactly opposite of how a space rocket points), use them to increase downforce during the first part of the acceleration.

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This part is intended to be the crew capsule.

While hydrogen is very inefficient on a per-liter basis, in theory it should be very efficient on a per-kilogram basis. A gallon of even liquid hydrogen doesn’t pack much power, let alone a gallon of gaseous hydrogen, but that gallon will weigh next to nothing.

Nifty tip. But it seems I have to go past half-screen on my monitors - it needs to be less than a third of a screen width to trigger. And it also needs me to reload the page for images to show. And the comment box is broken.

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