Justdaveisfine

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I've seen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Patience.

I've taken up several hobbies (game dev, gardening, woodworking, etc) where results aren't always well seen until weeks, months or even years after starting a project.

Everyone seems too interested in getting results fast and now, and the world seems all too keen to sell you something to try and make that happen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

I don't keep checking to see if I'm being followed, but assessing people nearby seems to be practical awareness.

Its probably some baked in survival skills.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

So actually to add onto this, this was bothering me so I had to look into it further:

I was very incorrect - Hyperspace isn't a pocket dimension per se and you can hit things while moving through hyperspace. The reason they 'sometimes' get past shields is because shields have a refresh rate so it may be able to phase through if you get it just right.

I'm more with you on this now, its a little ridiculous that no ones really tried to weaponize hyperdrive engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As far as I know all droids in Star Wars have free will.

Han Solo gambled and won the Falcon from Lando (who appears well off), it was definitely too expensive for him to have bought normally.

I think the hyperspace battering ram is funky, but I believe it was less that it was a good tactical idea and more of the First Order being extremely arrogant by not having their shields up, not using a tractor beam, and not just sending a smaller ship forward to close the gap and blowing it up.

I think the movie wanted to show that they were savoring the victory and were willing to draw it out as they believed the rebels were drowning in hopelessness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

As I recall, hyperspace is like a pocket dimension. They just speed up a whole lot to enter hyperspace. So you can't collide with things 'in hyperspace', but only as you're going really fast while transitioning to hyperspace, which is quite a bit more limited in capability.

Hyperspace drives are expensive, and droids are sentient (so its still suicidal). Using it as a weapon would be like having an shotgun in an fps game, where the first 5 feet is extremely lethal to really big targets, whereas anything after that is a waste of time. Also each shot is $10k.

The real question would be why didn't she just splat against the cruiser's shields as they established that was a problem in the previous movie (when they need to hyperspace through the shielding of that planet), unless they had a Galaxy Quest moment where they forgot to flip the shields on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

They only have 7 days to fix the licensing or their licenses are revoked? Is Unity that hard up for cash?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It is not. Kdenlive is still pretty stout for what it is, but has some rough edges compared to DaVinci Resolve.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I had correctly guessed she drowned, so I checked downstream of the thinner and shallower (waist deep) river side of the island, which was closer to the town.

But no. She drowned upstream of the island trying to cross the river at its broadest point and further out of the town, apparently.

I think Bethesda just wanted me to finally use up those potions of water breathing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That quest here to find the missing sister is just the worst:

No map marker, quest giver gives misleading directions, the 'obvious' cave leads you through a completely unrelated dungeon, only way to finish the quest is find an incredibly small alchemist pouch buried in mud underwater in a strong current surrounded by tall foliage, only quest rewards are alchemy ingredients.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah they're centipede mechanoids. They're usually very old/ancient when you find them, so I thought they fit well for this meme.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

...Skipped?

You mean, saved the best for last?

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