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Epic. There must be at trick to those homers I haven't figured. I keep my frames locked at 30 in D1x for mouse control, but the homers are just impossible for me. I can manage the first and usually the second one, but between the triplicate fire and the huge blast, he usually gets me. Even somewhere...

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I actually haven't, that I remember. I'm not sure. I remember when I first started playing the game that way, I was going to go through it and do every level . . . and when I got to level 11, I stopped cold for a month. And then I kept going and stopped dead at levels 19 and 20. As in, gave up. For ...

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I get that he needs some boundry constraints on w and dt. I know my EoS would not be improved by those values being arbitrarily large.

Also, I'm not sure P belongs in the denominator for all possible values . . .

Overall, I like it. Reminds me of indexed.

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My top 3 are levels 11, 19, and 20. They all share some similar tactical challenges. - The energy is waaaay out there from the start. On 19 and 20, it's hard to get to it on your first life. On level 11, if you're not careful it's possible to run out of ammo entirely (vulcan, energy, AND missiles) b...

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In the 'hardest robots' thread, I mentioned playing a lot of D1 cold start levels. A couple other people have mentioned doing the same, which makes me smile. I wonder how common the practice is . . . Which level do you think is the most difficult as a cold start, and what are the major tactical chal...

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Not true. He has to wait to scream before he can shoot, meaning you can win a quick draw at close range. If you're using vulcan yourself and are very quick on the draw. Not that I exactly recommend that approach. But it can work. Edit: Correction following testing: You can beat him in a quick draw w...

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Kilarin wrote:
ccb056 wrote:I'll stick with my 4096 bit public key-private key aes encryption.
Very efficient, but no fun to crack.

Seriously. That sort of thinking leads to just getting a concealed carry permit instead of studying martial arts for 20 years.

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I have a couple cryptographic questions: 1. Drak, how was the coordination done to make sure that the proper sheet of the pad was used? I don't know. I've always figured it was indicated in cleartext at the top, and Moscow had a book of them. Seems the most practical thing to do, and you don't real...

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How about something cryptographic that isn't a cipher? I'll even throw in some historical relevance. In the 1940s, Soviet spies in the United States corresponded with Moscow using a cryptographic system known as a One Time Pad. OTP is literally the perfect code--completely unbreakable. Most codes ar...

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Heh, here's something I've never gotten about the Star Wars vs. Star Trek debates--they always work out to The Federation vs. The Empire. That's weird to me because the Empire is the baddie. I mean, Trekkies talk about who the Enterprise could take on, not who Q could take out. LOTR fans are always ...

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It looks to me like your wash undid a lot of your drybrushing. The shading doesn't follow the contour of the model very well--see how you have lighter colors in crevices and darker ones on open panels or where you'd expect overhead light to hit the model? That, and the uneven shading from the black ...

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"nuclear launch detected." I can't think of too many other words/sounds in games that evoke as much sheer terror as those three. I concur. Heh. Yeah. Or, how about a half dozen siege tanks going up? Lothar and I play team games a lot -- he's terran, I'm zerg; whenever I hear tanks going u...

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We don't have laws forbidding alcoholics or obsessive/compulsives from getting married so the selective interference in the lives of homosexuals compared to all the other people with unusual traits is based on something other than protecting society. It seems to be built more on protecting religiou...

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(I apologize for the tldr nature of this. I don't have time to make it short. I'm just trying to do the right thing and respond to folks who directed questions at me--I can't come close to commenting on the rest of the thread. Find your section, I guess, if you really care about what I have to say. ...

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So, here's something funny. Women are complex. Men are complex, too. We don't understand each other, and I'd argue most of us don't even understand ourselves. Romance is difficult. Relationships are really complex. There are people who claim to be relationship experts, but it's not like there's real...

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This has been all over the internet. If you haven't seen it, I won't spoil it for you, but it's pretty awesome. Susan Boyle - Britain's Got Talent (I guess Britain's Got Talent is some kind of British version of American Idol? I don't know. I don't really watch TV. This was worth watching, though.)

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Well, believe it or not, music occasionally has a place for these out-of-tune notes. They're called Quarter Tones or maybe Blue notes , if you're not very precise. Personally, I think music is learned, like language. What's out of tune in one context is part of the scale in another--it's all a quest...

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I really can’t understand why the international community is putting up with this *****. Because attacking folks in international waters is a good way to get accused of war crimes . More nations are sending aircraft and warships to patrol the Gulf of Aden. But none of these nations are willing to g...

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lol, these are the sort of answers you would get from math geniuses . . . While 66 / 10000 may be exactly correct and may answer the original question, it's not really something the intellect can easily grab on to. What I would do in this case is take the decimal -- .66%, or 0.0066 -- and put it in ...

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I think his analysis is dead on. I particularly like his point that the problem isn't greed, but greed decoupled from healthy aversion for risk. In trying to make the world safe, we've made it dangerous. I do fear a government trying to save us from problems of its own creation. I don't think it's a...

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This talk is Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference a week or two ago (Mar. 13-14). He's talking about what's happened with the economy and what's going to happen. I know it's over an hour long, but it really is worth your time. The guy is very insightful and funny, especially if you're in...

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Wow, everybody voted for the driller? He's not too bad. If you know where he is, one homer takes him out. Keep them hot if there's one in the area, and things don't get too bad. Yeah, he's nasty if he gets the drop on you, but so are half the robots in the game. My #1 bad guy is the homing missile g...

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Fantastic. Thank you for the link. ------------------------- At the very end of the video, he enlightened me about something. He was talking about the nurses, and said that they hadn't wanted to test their intuitions. It makes sense. If they were wrong, they'd been hurting a lot of people unnecessar...

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Well, Sirian did it for a while. You're old school if you remember any of this.

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I'm pretty sure Lothar and Drakona live in Seattle, as well. Indeed. Well, technically Tukwilla. If you were looking in South Seattle, I'd totally recommend the place where we live. It meets most of your parameters and is just generally pretty awesome. Not if you need to work up by Queen Anne, thou...

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Helmet-mounted displays are nothing new . They offer a lot of advantages, but one of the big ones is really intuitive high off-boresight targeting. Being able to shoot at something beside or behind you is an advantage any Descent pilot ought to be able to appreciate! Here's a little history from the...

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Well, the silly response is that the question is a non-sequitur. If humanity never interacts with or sees something, we'll never know it exists. Dark matter doesn't count, see, because we know about it. So, all those things we don't know we don't know about? Why did God create them? We don't know th...

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for Drakona to say that it should be legal to purchase/own/use military assault rifles, machine guns, tanks, and other military hardware is nothing short of insanity. What's insane about it? Serious question. In writing my previous post, I wound up asking myself what hardware I was comfortable with...

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But you can bet your bottom dollar, the disarmament of the general public is a goal of a hella lot of organized people, they just plan to do it legally, a little at a time. I don't disagree, I just don't think that the people with the agenda are actually thinking about preventing an overthrow of th...

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There's no sense in having citizens armed against their own local government, in my opinion. I find this odd, since the primary purpose of gun ownership is to protect us from our own government. The founding fathers saw this because they recognized England's attempt to disarm them in order to maint...

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Auditorium is a browser puzzle game, with pretty lights and music.

I enjoyed it, and thought others here might, too. Check it out.

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Gah. I just watched that like four times looking for the smiley vulcan. Darn you, lax internet grammar expectations!

But otherwise, lol.

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That's totally Wushu material right there . . .

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If they go to war, how long do you think it will be before someone launches nukes on the other? Never. A nuclear attack invites a nuclear reprisal, and so would never be undertaken except by someone who thought they would gain by that excange--that is, someone who had nothing to lose. Conflict scal...

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. . . 6 rules for snow driving . . . 7) If you drive a stick, practice clutch-only starts. Don't use the gas until after the car has started rolling. (Lots of people seem to have a habit of revving the engine up slightly because they think it'll die if they don't. It won't--just be gentle. Usually ...

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30/33. Better than I thought I'd do, since I generally consider myself ignorant of civics and US history. I got #7 wrong, which is funny because I had to memorize the Gettysberg Address in middle school. Apparently, I've forgotten it. I got #8 wrong, but it was just a blind guess anyway. I don't rea...

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Yeah, I keep hearing people say the game needs more movies, needs more levels, needs more monsters, needs more guns. I don't think it does, though. It's not a question of having more stuff, but of having the right stuff. What we have has been polished to a mirror shine. It's not the usual cycle of g...

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A story of pwnage, for your amusement.

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fliptw wrote:I have yet to lose

Then you're not playing it right.

Just got through it with 3 players on expert (we killed the AI and didn't rescue it). Many, many losses. Even the win was brutal. And awesome.

I love this game.

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Woot! Zombie apocalypse! Lothar and I have been playing Left 4 Dead obsessively for the last week or so. Or, I should say, we've been playing the demo obsessively. That should tell you something about how much fun the demo is. The teamwork aspect of the game is hardcore . Almost every single time we...

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