@BlackGearCompany If your mind is powered by gears then you’re an entity unlike any I’ve ever myself encountered. I am afraid I cannot offer much assistance in this regard.
@32 Do you?
@X99STRIKER That's complicated. My ancestry is of the Canadian Shield in the distant past, though there's been Martian material mixed in from the impact that brought my family to Mars. That's why I'm so rust-coloured, like other Mars rock.
Sentient rocks are fueled by nuclear decay, mostly. While the primary isotope depends on bloodline, mine is by and large a mixture of Uranium and Thorium. A fair amount too, considering how much power I can put out.
@deutschFELLA What? I don't have a gender. I'm a rock. I go with people calling me he/him because it's customary in Anglosphere countries, who I deal with frequently.
@SuperSuperTheSylph I... have no idea what will happen. I'm sure I'll be fine, I've survived worse.
@Boeing727200F Not a question.
@keiyronelleavgeek566 Oh, no. We used to have TOOOONNNS of conversations going. Usually I'd be the one who wouldn't respond for ages.
Like, half a year.
A while ago I accidentally pressed the reset button (second time, but far worse).
They haven't been active in a while, so the bits haven't restarted.
It got genuinely hard to keep track of what all the bits were. So. Damn. Many.
@THEOKPILOT What do you mean?
@SuperSuperTheSylph I've been stuck flying around in this autopiloted jet on Earth-1 for ages. I can't even remember how long it's been at this point.
@SuperSuperTheSylph Can't say at the moment, haven't been there in months. I have no reason to believe it's changed much since I was last there.
As I'm rather on the smaller size (understatement, I'm tiny), I live a rather mobile life catching winds to travel the world. Mostly work, talking to people and appointments and whatnot, but plenty of sightseeing too.
Mars's economy is primarily information and industrialized, automated manufacturing. No in-between.
Guess why.
For real, it was supposed to release ages ago...
And then it got pushed back due to not being sure of the polish.
And so on, and so forth.
Now it's technologically outdated and needs major refurbishment. It's a far-future project accordingly
Also, it's Archfiend, not Archfield.
@aMosquito The Martian Union will have a few things to say about that.
An embassy might be permitted, if you have a worthwhile organization they find tolerable, but I wouldn't hold your breath. We've been fairly isolationist since the fall of the USSR.
Scientific bases, with oversight, should be generally allowed once the time comes.
[Waitress, Customers 1 and (2)]
--or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam.
(Have you got anything without Spam?)
Well, the Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam, that's not got much Spam in it.
(I don't want any Spam!)
Why can't she have eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage?
(That's got Spam in it!)
Hasn't got much Spam in it as Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam, has it?
[Waitress, Customer (2)]
(Could you do me eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage without the Spam, then?)
Eugh!
(What do you mean 'eugh'!? I don't like Spam!)
You can't have egg, bacon, Spam and sausage without the Spam.
(I DON'T LIKE SPAM!)
Shh. Dear, don't cause a fuss, I'll have your Spam. I love it! I'm having Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam!
[Vikings & (Waitress)]
...Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam
(SHUT UP!)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam...
[Waitress & (Customer 1)]
Baked beans are off.
(Well, can I have Spam instead of the baked beans then?)
[Waitress]
You mean Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam? [Vikings]
I've never played the first two, tried the Crash game on Switch (got it as a gift), but couldn't get back that damn wall level. Currently lent to someone else, though I still own it.
@THEOKPILOT Long-term play with high graphics just feels wasteful.
Still disappointed that PS5 doesn't get the raytracing option unlocked, though. Would be cool to see. Wonder if it doesn't have the power...
Minecraft is Minecraft. Any attempt to make it "more real" is kinda futile, unless you're doing a photoshoot.
FPS does change gameplay. It makes it smoother and easier to process as movement. Minecraft at 10fps is a slideshow, 20fps is painful. 30fps is about as low as can be tolerated and even that feels off.
It feeds more information, unlike fancy shadows. Smooth lighting gets a pass on the premise that without it the game kinda hurts to look at (and depth is very difficult to judge, especially on stone hills).
Exceedingly high FPS, however, is a complete waste. I've limited my laptop to 85 (out of 144 the screen can supposedly do), and even that's probably excessive.
High-end graphics, unless being used to feed more information to the user (generating actual, not-AI bullshit, frames [to a certain point], increased resolution, etc.), are a waste of processing power and electricity. Unless in cold weather and in the absence of a heat pump, where a conventional electric heater would be working in its place, of course.
@BlackGearCompany If your mind is powered by gears then you’re an entity unlike any I’ve ever myself encountered. I am afraid I cannot offer much assistance in this regard.
+2@32 Do you?
@Solent who?
Phobos is agreed to be Martian territory. Unless permitted, such an act would constitute a severe trespass upon our sovereign territory.
@SuperSuperTheSylph Multiple. At once.
+1I went very far.
@SuperSuperTheSylph getting used as a home run ball by an MS unit.
+1You're hired!
+2omg the dickhooey
+2@X99STRIKER That's complicated. My ancestry is of the Canadian Shield in the distant past, though there's been Martian material mixed in from the impact that brought my family to Mars. That's why I'm so rust-coloured, like other Mars rock.
Sentient rocks are fueled by nuclear decay, mostly. While the primary isotope depends on bloodline, mine is by and large a mixture of Uranium and Thorium. A fair amount too, considering how much power I can put out.
@WisconsinStatePolice ... Wisconsin?
@hpgbproductions Little
@deutschFELLA What? I don't have a gender. I'm a rock. I go with people calling me he/him because it's customary in Anglosphere countries, who I deal with frequently.
+2@SuperSuperTheSylph I... have no idea what will happen. I'm sure I'll be fine, I've survived worse.
@Boeing727200F Not a question.
@EnglishGarden There's a post for that kind of question!
@SuperSuperTheSylph Until this thing finally runs out of juice...
+2Yeah.
@THEOKPILOT The colours... so bright...
@Boeing727200F Never left.
@SuperSuperTheSylph I am in a jar.
+2I have no arms.
@THEOKPILOT Oh, yeah.
I'm on fire again fuck
I tagged them more unpromoted, really. Usually something I found I wanted to show them.
+1@keiyronelleavgeek566 Oh, no. We used to have TOOOONNNS of conversations going. Usually I'd be the one who wouldn't respond for ages.
+1Like, half a year.
A while ago I accidentally pressed the reset button (second time, but far worse).
They haven't been active in a while, so the bits haven't restarted.
It got genuinely hard to keep track of what all the bits were. So. Damn. Many.
@THEOKPILOT What do you mean?
+1@SuperSuperTheSylph I've been stuck flying around in this autopiloted jet on Earth-1 for ages. I can't even remember how long it's been at this point.
Ocean spray sounds
@SuperSuperTheSylph Can't say at the moment, haven't been there in months. I have no reason to believe it's changed much since I was last there.
+1As I'm rather on the smaller size (understatement, I'm tiny), I live a rather mobile life catching winds to travel the world. Mostly work, talking to people and appointments and whatnot, but plenty of sightseeing too.
Mars's economy is primarily information and industrialized, automated manufacturing. No in-between.
Guess why.
Seagull sounds
Ship's bells sounds
Hearty sailor laugh
FISH!!!!!
@EnglishGarden Enstrarch. I already said that.
@Boeing727200F njo
@SuperSuperTheSylph oui
+1FISH!?!?!?!
@X99STRIKER I have no idea.
Probably not long.
@DeeganWithABazooka Sentient rocks do not have eyes, no.
Instead, the entire surface functions as a photoreceptor, giving omnidirectional vision.
For real, it was supposed to release ages ago...
And then it got pushed back due to not being sure of the polish.
And so on, and so forth.
Now it's technologically outdated and needs major refurbishment. It's a far-future project accordingly
Also, it's Archfiend, not Archfield.
@Boeing727200F ... Now listen here you little shit-
@Boeing727200F But you didn't ask a question.
That was a statement.
@Boeing727200F That's not a question.
@Boeing727200F Have you tried looking in you sock drawer?
@SuperSuperTheSylph Not to any significant degree.
+1I mean he's funny, but I don't watch much.
@aMosquito The Martian Union will have a few things to say about that.
+1An embassy might be permitted, if you have a worthwhile organization they find tolerable, but I wouldn't hold your breath. We've been fairly isolationist since the fall of the USSR.
Scientific bases, with oversight, should be generally allowed once the time comes.
I think I once had over 70.
+1Monarchii.
pemiz
+1Run! It's nondescript lizard!
+2If you've ever wondered anything, now's your chance.
[Waitress: Terry Jones & Customers: Eric Idle and (Graham Chapman)]
..have a sit here, dear.
(Alright.)
Morning.
Morning.
Well, what ya got?
Well, there's egg and bacon,
Egg and Spam,
Egg, bacon, and Spam,
Egg, bacon, sausage, and Spam,
Spam, bacon, sausage, and Spam,
Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, bacon, and Spam,
Spam, sausage, Spam, Spam, Spam, bacon, Spam, tomato, and Spam,
Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, and Spam,
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam--
[Vikings: Fred Tomlinson Singers]
...Spam, Spam Spam Spam
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Spam
Lovely Spam, Lovely Spam!-
[Waitress, Customers 1 and (2)]
--or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam.
(Have you got anything without Spam?)
Well, the Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam, that's not got much Spam in it.
(I don't want any Spam!)
Why can't she have eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage?
(That's got Spam in it!)
Hasn't got much Spam in it as Spam, eggs, sausage and Spam, has it?
[Waitress, Customer (2)]
(Could you do me eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage without the Spam, then?)
Eugh!
(What do you mean 'eugh'!? I don't like Spam!)
Shut up!
Shut up!
Shut up! [Vikings]
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely
Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely
Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely
Spam, Spam, Spam, wonderful
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam
Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Lovely- (Spam, Spam, Spam...)
[Waitress, Customers 1 and (2)]
Bloody Vikings...
You can't have egg, bacon, Spam and sausage without the Spam.
(I DON'T LIKE SPAM!)
Shh. Dear, don't cause a fuss, I'll have your Spam. I love it! I'm having Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam!
[Vikings & (Waitress)]
...Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam
(SHUT UP!)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam...
[Waitress & (Customer 1)]
Baked beans are off.
(Well, can I have Spam instead of the baked beans then?)
[Waitress]
You mean Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam? [Vikings]
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
+2Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
[Vikings]
Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-am
Lovely Spam (Lovely Spam)
Lovely Spam (Lovely Spam)
Lovely Spam (Lovely Spam)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
hi sam
+1I've never played the first two, tried the Crash game on Switch (got it as a gift), but couldn't get back that damn wall level. Currently lent to someone else, though I still own it.
Oof.
I don't play much either, but PS4 became... intolerably slow.
@THEOKPILOT Long-term play with high graphics just feels wasteful.
Still disappointed that PS5 doesn't get the raytracing option unlocked, though. Would be cool to see. Wonder if it doesn't have the power...
Minecraft is Minecraft. Any attempt to make it "more real" is kinda futile, unless you're doing a photoshoot.
FPS does change gameplay. It makes it smoother and easier to process as movement. Minecraft at 10fps is a slideshow, 20fps is painful. 30fps is about as low as can be tolerated and even that feels off.
It feeds more information, unlike fancy shadows. Smooth lighting gets a pass on the premise that without it the game kinda hurts to look at (and depth is very difficult to judge, especially on stone hills).
Exceedingly high FPS, however, is a complete waste. I've limited my laptop to 85 (out of 144 the screen can supposedly do), and even that's probably excessive.
@PlaneFlightX Heh, that's funny.
I see the Murder Drones fixation died overnight. Heh.
Draws more. Doesn't impact gameplay.
High-end graphics, unless being used to feed more information to the user (generating actual, not-AI bullshit, frames [to a certain point], increased resolution, etc.), are a waste of processing power and electricity. Unless in cold weather and in the absence of a heat pump, where a conventional electric heater would be working in its place, of course.
Messy bloody problem.
+1Can be hard to tell the right-wing grifters from those genuinely trying to help.
@aMosquito hm.
+1Oh? What’s that about?
+1News to me tbh.