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Off Topic / Re: Disney announces to replace Tower of Terror DCA, with a Marvel ride

« on: May 10, 2016, 08:32:27 PM »

The ride is probably going to be the same track and everything, they're just re-themeing it.
A lot of people don't even know what the Twilight Zone is anymore...

You're entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or, some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples. It could also be something much better.

Prepare to enter .... ....... (the scary door actually)

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Off Topic / Re: Moto X "missed alarm" bullstuff

« on: May 10, 2016, 04:35:34 PM »

They do go off but you probably slept through them

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Off Topic / Re: How the hell do I make this 2D logo a 3D "coin"

« on: May 09, 2016, 01:00:46 PM »

You'd have to do it yourself. The way most 2D-3D programs work is using the image as a height map, and that one is chock full of gradients and light shadows that forget up the whole thing.

The little shine on the earth rises about 4x as high as the rest of the badge when turned to 3D.

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Games / Re: Battlefield Megathread

« on: May 09, 2016, 12:28:12 PM »

The Battlefield series has always had Authenticity moreso than realism.

I'm trying to decipher what this means but my fancy dancy universe expanding processor is telling me that this is self-contradictory, and you're stupid.

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Off Topic / Re: Nvidia GTX 1080, apparently "twice as fast" as GTX 980 and Titan X

« on: May 07, 2016, 04:12:17 PM »

the 9xx prices will probably drop when the new cards launch

might give me an excuse to SLI my 970 then

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Off Topic / Re: I now have the most topics out of anyone here (+ Petition)

« on: May 06, 2016, 11:28:43 PM »

ill kick your ass mother fu*ker

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Games / Re: New Battlefield 1 Trailer

« on: May 06, 2016, 09:56:13 PM »

Watching the Call of Duty trailer for the first time, I was like "I don't understand why people always rag on the graphics. It looks fine."
And I still hold that standpoint. It does look fine. 100% passable.

But DICE, even for some polished in-engine trailer, sure knows how to make something look beyond passable and dear I say it, maybe even life like. The colour, the smoke, the dust on the peoples faces. I appreciate how far they go to make something look good when they really don't have to go that far.

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Off Topic / Re: 2016 USA Presidential Race News & Discussion (KASICH DROPS OUT -- NEW POLL)

« on: May 05, 2016, 12:54:53 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: 1991 VG is coming to earth in 2017. (Space probe)

« on: May 05, 2016, 02:35:40 AM »

This thing shows up every 25 years so before 1991 it would have shown up in 1966.

American craft that had reached heliocentric orbit within a similar timeframe.


Soviet Union craft that had reached heliocentric orbit within a similar timeframe.

The possibility is definitely there, especially with lots of the lost soviet craft.
Spent stages could've easily followed a similar heliocentric orbit and eventually come back.

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Games / Re: Has my wish come true? (Battlefield 5)

« on: May 05, 2016, 02:24:12 AM »

I would love to see WW2 again solely because graphical technology has come so far since the last major frontline WW2 game, and it'd be awesome to see in glorious 4k sepia tone.

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Off Topic / Re: 1991 VG is coming to earth in 2017. (Space probe)

« on: May 05, 2016, 02:21:56 AM »

from what I understand the fascinating part about the object was its rotation speed, and how with a normal object its size centrifugal force would tear it apart - not its orbit

I haven't found any sources that make such a bold claim.

While it obviously is spinning rapidly enough for the light variations to be noticable, that doesn't mean it's spinning so fast that it'd be ripped to shreds.
I'm on the side of that it's probably an old rocket ejecta. If its spinning fast enough (and since it's made of relatively reflective steel), the variablity would make sense in that case.

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Off Topic / Re: 1991 VG is coming to earth in 2017. (Space probe)

« on: May 05, 2016, 02:14:17 AM »

It's not moving fast enough to not get pulled in though.

But, it is. (Due to how orbital mechanics work).

It's on a heliocentric orbit very similar to the one Earth has. Plenty of these objects exist for every planet (jupiter especially).
The chances of this happening obvious are low, but it can happen, and has probably happened millions of times in the earths history.
This object is also passing 280,000 miles away from the earth, which is about 15% over the distance from here to the moon. At that distance (and the relative speed it would be traveling), it might be thrown off by a couple of degrees in orbit, but since it follows a similar heliocentric path it'll be back eventually (in 2017).

Whether or not it's an old spacecraft from the races or just a big rock, that's to be found out. The chances of it being alien in origin however are slim to none. The discoverer only brought that up as a possibility to disprove it.

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Off Topic / Re: 1991 VG is coming to earth in 2017. (Space probe)

« on: May 05, 2016, 12:36:16 AM »

i don't think that is how orbital mechanics work

No, not at all.

If anything it's a rock similar to the trojans of Jupiter

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Off Topic / Re: Nbrown townan Garden Scene

« on: May 04, 2016, 09:23:41 PM »

Was it really Jubel? can you ignore this? It's deep down in your soul crawling up to cloud your mind again.

sorry i grew up in BC where we beat up the french

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Off Topic / Re: Nbrown townan Garden Scene

« on: May 04, 2016, 08:27:52 PM »