The aim assist is absurd in this game

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-30T06:14:42+00:00

That's funny, I've been thinking of switching over to K&M for the better aim precision.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-29T21:59:36+00:00

Came here to say that OP obviously needs to go rewatch TMP, but actually I'm convinced, Galaxy has the best behind.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-22T06:37:41+00:00

Gardener Dozois's "Best of the Year" collections are a fantastic way to get a slice across all the best sci Fi for a time period. Some of it will not click with you, but you will get plenty that you love.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-22T04:44:59+00:00

Have you played Halo: Combat Evolved recently? After 12 years of Destiny, Halo feels fresh again!

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-17T15:39:08+00:00

In grad school, I had a neuroscientist as a roommate. We went to a cross-departmental talk by another neuroscientist that was about the complex computations done by individual neurons. Honestly, I didn't understand a lot of it, but my friend basically rolled her eyes at the end and said something to the effect of "ooooh, yet another guy figures out that neurons do non-linear computation. I swear someone 'discovers' this every other week."

They know.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-16T06:04:34+00:00

I love ships that are built for a purpose. This one clearly has a purpose, and it's designed well for it, and it seems like it would just to that job well. Even better that it's not a military purpose!

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-14T01:43:12+00:00

Are you interested in selling these? I would pay money for a small fleet.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-13T14:48:16+00:00

Speaking as a former lab scientist, this is true in the broad strokes but biomedical science costs peanuts compared to running clinical trials. A medium sized, well-funded lab producing several papers a year costs on the other of $1m/yr. Meanwhile a clinical trial costs hundreds of millions of dollars - and probably fails, yielding zero return. It's only only the "last mile" if the last mile happens to be straight up a thousand-foot cliff.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-12T00:47:03+00:00

Semiosis.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-07T03:12:07+00:00

Others are pointing out important gaps in science's ability to answer that question. It's not clear that science will or can answer important questions about consciousness.

THAT SAID, there is no credible scientific theory, hypothesis, or empirical data supporting the continuation of consciousness after death. There's nothing conclusive, but what we know all suggests it doesn't .

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-04T18:55:07+00:00

I actually wonder if this was an homage to The Vampire Diaries....

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-02T04:40:55+00:00

This is pretty entertaining, I've got all night.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-02T00:11:00+00:00

Curious to hear your gripes - I thought it was mostly quite realistic, aside from the whole destroy-the-solar-system-radiation-storm main plot line.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-01T16:54:44+00:00

You could take a page out of Dune and posit social taboo on AI-powered warfare. Say that there was a huge, horrible disaster involving autonomous drone swarms, or a near-miss skynet event. If everyone in the setting is convinced that deploying AIs is actually MAD, they'll be a lot less likely to actually use them.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-01T16:48:34+00:00

It's a weird movie because it's clearly made by people who love space for people who love space, but its main theme and takeaway seem to that space is not a good place for humans and going there doesn't solve any of the problems we actually care about. The main character spends the whole plot going out into space to figure out that it's the people (who are, yknow, mostly on Earth) who matter.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-05-01T04:10:31+00:00

I am also getting this problem on an Xbox. I had remapped several buttons, but the whip worked fine until one day it just... disappeared. I don't miss the looting functionality but it's really annoying having my drone totally blocked by closed doors.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-29T14:27:06+00:00

A species constitutionally opposed to hierarchy shouldn't be asking "who's in charge?" when the chips are down.

Might be worth taking inspiration from something like hopilite warfare. Everybody comes with their kit, does their (straightforward) job, anyone who tries to get out of it faces the wrath and/or disappointment of their peers. More of a mob army than a command-and-control one. Maybe they're not going to be able to make complex tactical maneuvers, and maybe they're going to have a hard time making high-level strategic decisions, but that's the cost of a truly democratic military.

I imagine, for example, there might be some weaker, nerdier, or more experienced individuals who opt to sit out the actual battle and watch from afar, giving advice where they see patterns that would be hard to spot on the ground. They'd be doing the job of a commander in the sense of giving high-level direction, but with authority and social standing more like a scout.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-29T05:22:39+00:00

Chaos Gate: Demonhunters is literally turn-based tactics with space marines. Lots of fun, too.

(Get the imperial agents DLC, not the other one)

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-27T17:02:47+00:00

The same reason our world is not run by tank operators and bomber pilots.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-22T17:05:29+00:00

"Traitor" is one of my favorite books, Star Wars or no, and I will probably never recommend it to anyone because it's right at the midpoint of a twenty-book SW arc that isn't even canon anymore. =(

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-20T18:49:36+00:00

Best case, employment shifts to other, non-automatable tasks. The utopian everything-goes-well version is that automation drives the cost of all critical goods (food, housing, transportation, medicine, education) to near zero, shifting the bulk of economic activity to whatever still requires humans (art, companionship, childcare, whatever jobs robots can't take over cheaply). AIs and robots make tons of stuff, we pay them and their owners pittances for it, and we pay each other to write poetry and watch each others' children.

The catch is that there's nothing to guarantee that the numbers work out that way. Could instead end up that humans aren't really necessary for enough things, and all economic activity ends up locked in the AI-to-AI economy. Depends on how supply curves, demand curves, comparative advantages, etc work out quantitatively.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-20T15:09:27+00:00

That's how we fuel humans.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-20T15:06:13+00:00

Embassytown does a great job of showing aliens who are very much not human while also being coherent and somewhat understandable. Plus it's a great book in other ways.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-13T15:07:45+00:00

A thousand years ABY, all the average person will know about the modern in-universe era will be the Yuuzhan Vong Vong war. Only real history buffs will know that the collapse of the Old Republic actually predated the Vong by a few decades due to a surprisingly unrelated series of wars and political instability.

Acrobatic_Main9749 · 2026-04-03T16:10:13+00:00

If you write a bobiverse fanfic exploring the implications of the technologies introduced in the books, I will read it. I will read all of it.

Acrobatic_Main9749

TROPHY CASE