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Games / Re: Elite: Dangerous - Explore 400 BILLION Star Systems

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:10:08 PM »

slap a couple harddrives on a server and fetch X packet whenever a player requests it.
just like Shores of Hazeron. it works pretty well for a game that simulates 20 galaxies.

yeah, 3000GB for online hosting services is a pretty tiny amount nowadays. And it's not like it's expensive either; Just buy several racks of the cheapest drives on the market, connect them in RAID, and when, say more than 20% fail in a rack just throw all the drives in the bin and buy another set to fill the rack.

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Gallery / Re: FTHC Weaponry - (Taking Requests - Colt Python - NEW)

« on: August 09, 2014, 02:50:41 PM »

I once made some sort of M1 garand that looked like this.

No offense, but that is simply overkill. IMO Furdle has found the perfect balance between the blockish theme and realism. Honestly, I always hated T&T because they looked like something that would come out of a 3d printer, and for a very long time I thought the sounds were broken because they used the brick placement sounds.

Basically, I think you should keep the current theme. they're great, and don't look cheap like the T&T theme weapons.

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Off Topic / Re: Enter Pyongyang

« on: August 09, 2014, 07:50:18 AM »

stopped half way because video editing got obnoxious.

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Off Topic / Re: four signs your harddrive is failing

« on: August 09, 2014, 06:45:56 AM »

So far I have had mine since 2012 and it's still working like the day I got it.

They only wear out when you write to them. And even then, 2 years definitely isn't enough time to tell how reliable something is. I just took in my mum's old computer which has an IDE HDD that has been working ever day for 10 years, and even then my Dad first got it from a university when they were having a clear out of old hardware, so it's even older than that. when your SSD still works after 15+ years I will take back what I said.

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Off Topic / Re: four signs your harddrive is failing

« on: August 09, 2014, 05:34:04 AM »

Ssd master race

Those things wear out faster than HDD's.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:53:34 AM »

good job pulling focus but the framing is a bit awkward

What do you mean?

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Games / Re: Elite: Dangerous - Explore 400 BILLION Star Systems

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:46:27 AM »

I wasn't even saying anything remotely like that? I was saying that such a claim seemed unreasonable
for some reason nobody but death lord thought it might be nice to tell me how it worked. so thanks to him I understand. idk how I forgot about that thing though. I used to play minecraft all the time. I guess I never liked using seeds much

still, though. let's say the seed for an entire star system has to be only 8 letters long. that's probably a small estimate? but even for just that much, 400,000,000,000 star systems would take up 3,000GB. which is admittedly possible, especially for a company that can evidently get away with charging $75 for an unfinished game

It doesn't have to be one seed per star system. It could be one seed per 500 star systems, or 5000, or the entire galaxy. The single seed could be used to generate another 50 seeds, which then go and generate another 500, and then those seeds generate more, and then those seeds are used to generate a chunk of the local map around the player, not the entire galaxy. Of course there is unlimited processing power, but they're limited by RAM, which is usually 8GB. They'd probably only generate the current solar system and any related ones around it.

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Games / Re: What game do you think has the best soundtrack?

« on: August 08, 2014, 05:26:54 PM »

Hotline miami, definitely.

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Games / Re: Counter Strike: Global Offensive Thread v2 - OP by KelBlock

« on: August 08, 2014, 05:22:12 PM »

Lol do people play this game for the sake of playing or loving around with skins nowadays?

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Games / Re: Elite: Dangerous - Explore 400 BILLION Star Systems

« on: August 08, 2014, 05:19:24 PM »

uhh. that isn't really how computer storage works

When you use a seed to generate a minecraft world, it generates a "random" world. You can delete the world, then choose to generate a new one using the same seed, and you would get exactly the same world as before. The world can take gigabytes of memory whilst the seed will take up a number of bytes. You're essentially trading memory for processing power. This is likely why the minimum specs are a quad-core.

Depending where in the universe you are, different seeds are called upon to generate a local world around you that stays the same as before. I can't tell you in any more detail, but this is the concept behind it. The original elite game used this system to overcome the limitation of PC's only having 64K of memory back then.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: August 08, 2014, 04:25:14 PM »

I liked the dog photo, the waterfall and the lilipads.

As for some advice...

The 2nd picture was too obstructed, which is unfortunate because it could of potentially been a really good picture I think. 7th picture was blurry which made it look less professional but still good. insects are always difficult to capture. The first picture is good, but it lacks detail. Perhaps if the bird was taken a little closer. And for the 9th picture, there just wasn't much to look at. just some leaves, and a tower in the background. I think a clean shot with the tower being the main subject would've been better.

Honestly, I really liked the first dog picture, and the lilipad picture was perfect. I would genuinely say that the lilipad is desktop background worthy.

MY TURN:

So after 10 years my mum decided it was time to upgrade. I took her old computer to my room, took it apart and thought that the motherboard was pretty. I always liked looking at complex electronic circuitry because there was so much to look at, particularly with computer hardware as they are often so complex. The PCB is a deep purple colour, the copper tracks being slightly lighter purple. The golden-copper heatsink of the northbridge, and the blue "Elitesgroup" logo all stood out so much that I suddeny felt the need to take some pictures.

NSFW material ahead:









Yes this is sort-of obsessive but damn son, when else are you gonna find a purple PCB!?

If anyone is interested, this is a socket T462 mobo with 2 slots for RAM. it's old, I know, but I'm probably gonna put a linux based distro on it and try to learn how to use the damn OS once and for all.

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Off Topic / Re: Russia will ban ALL imports of food from the US, fruits & vegetables from the EU

« on: August 07, 2014, 04:06:27 PM »

Lol at everyone hating on Putin

I'm just gonna sit by the wayside with a bag of popcorn in my hand and laugh as westerners suddenly realize that they've been getting anti-east propaganda spoon fed straight into their mouth in order to prevent them from realizing what is actually happening, and the situation that they're in.

As Bisjac accurately put it,

you guys act like hes being stupid
he knows what hes doing.

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Off Topic / Re: Russia will ban ALL imports of food from the US, fruits & vegetables from the EU

« on: August 07, 2014, 07:45:58 AM »

Just as a little reminder, news companies exist to make money, not to inform.

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Creativity / Re: [Animation] Lucky Luke Goes Clubbing

« on: August 07, 2014, 03:30:33 AM »

squats != dancing

Other than that this was pretty good.

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Drama / Re: So, what've I missed?

« on: August 07, 2014, 12:54:55 AM »

wow you are such a rooster sucker jesus christ.
Badspot doesn't seem to understand that if your game has a community and it's dependent on the updates (as blockland is) that it needs to be updated atleast once a month or something. But what i don't seem to understand is that badspot traded dirt for stuff. Yes maps looked bad, and yes they caused some bugs. But v21 is worse because before v21 i didn't get any problems. And now blockland is buggier than before. The only reason he updated it was because he hated maps (also he wanted more money). But what i dislike about him the most is how, lets say i get perma'd once or twice. Then i am offically a problem user i should be banned on sight even if i had changed.

No it's not. Blockland has never even once crashed on me. Have you considered that the reason behind why it isn't being updated is because there's nothing to fix?