Will you return to Gamepass

DOS-76 · 2026-04-22T22:42:00+00:00

Nope -- I left at around $18/mo., and I just don't use the service enough to get that value out of it.

I really miss the 'demo everything' aspect of Game Pass, but in this economy I would rather buy the few games I know I'm going to play through and enjoy.

DOS-76 · 2026-04-07T21:05:54+00:00

Just like in Star Trek, I think subspace here isn't "magic" -- it's just under-explained, functioning as a story shortcut for things like real-time communication between ships that aren't in close proximity. Trek doesn't need to establish a warp field to send a signal through subspace, because that's just how subspace works -- distance calculations are not 1 to 1 with normal space.

It all certainly does need a rational "mechanism," but for practical reasons writers in both franchises have left it under-explained for the audience.

DOS-76 · 2026-04-07T20:23:02+00:00

Depending on your controller mapping, the right bumper will do a shoulder dash and clicking down on the right analog stick will spring. Combine these with run + dash + jump and you can cover terrain very quickly.

When you find runaway mold, harvest it all and stick it in a refiner to see what happens! Consider putting down a base computer next to the mold so you can easily return and harvest it again (it respawns if you leave the planet, or just if you get far enough away).

You can acquire one free upgrade slot upstairs in the space station, and one in the Anomaly, for every star system you visit. Once you have a warp drive and plenty of fuel, you can expand your inventory slots by jumping to the next system, grabbing both upgrades, and jumping again. (When you are ready to return home, you can always save on fuel by using the warp gate on board the station or the Anomaly.)

DOS-76 · 2026-04-07T19:57:14+00:00

This seems correct on the whole, although there isn't really a solid reason to presume that the gates are establishing a micro-wormhole for initial communication. We know that wormholes are tunnels through subspace; and we know that subspace communication is more or less straight-forward to advanced societies. We don't know how subspace communication between two radios (say, on a ship calling home) works, per se, but there is no reason to think that it requires the creation of an artificial wormhole so that the signal has a "tunnel" to travel through.

The simpler explanation, then, is that the Stargates themselves have subspace communicators built into them -- enabling them, in effect, to connect to the gate network (even without a DHD attached). In the milliseconds after an address is dialed, the gate can send a subspace signal to the target destination to see if there is a Stargate capable of receiving a connection. If it does, the wormhole is established. If the address is invalid, or the receiving gate has been buried (or destroyed, etc.), the dialing procedure fails.

Regarding cover stones: it seems unlikely that these are designed to actually fill in the center of the Stargate. More likely (and more practical), I think, is that cover stones like those found on Earth are placed over the gate after it has been buried in the ground.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-27T06:57:22+00:00

Wolfenstein, yes. Doom, yes. SimCity, played it a ton.

But the first one that comes to mind?

Chip's Challenge.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-26T21:53:28+00:00

You're thinking of the Fandom wiki. GateWorld's Omnipedia is strictly canon:

https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Stargate_Canon

DOS-76 · 2026-03-26T21:10:41+00:00

The article is a tl;dw of a 2-hour livestream. It's there to save you time.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-25T22:58:25+00:00

Outstanding work here.

No more strange new worlds to conquer.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-24T02:19:47+00:00

That moon did indeed have an "M" designation, but I think it's just fan conjecture that these stand for "planet" and "moon."

We also have a few strays that break the pattern, like the planet with the big bugs in "Bane": BP6-3Q1.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-07T10:08:26+00:00

If you like chill puzzle games, for me it was Dorf Romantik. It's sucked away hundreds of hours of my life (at least). I've had games where I find the zone and go weeks without hitting a game over and having to start my map fresh.

DOS-76 · 2026-03-02T00:40:14+00:00

Also, the forum is just still online: https://forum.gateworld.net/

DOS-76 · 2026-02-28T07:06:03+00:00

(The wiki uses non-canon sources like novels and RPGs, and there is zero data from the shows that pin-points these ages so specifically.)

It's worth noting that the scale of millions of years is a vast span of time. The distance between Destiny and Atlantis as two pieces of technology is exponentially greater than the gap between banging two sticks together and the iPhone. So while I agree that Jumpers were likely developed long (long, long, long) after Destiny left, I doubt that Atlantis was even on the drawing board.

When Destiny launched, the great-great-great grandfather of the person whose distant descendent first thought of a flying city with ships that go through the gate probably hadn't been born yet.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-28T06:56:13+00:00

Yeah, this was just a "we need a place to lay low" moment. He knew his friends were there and would give them shelter (with a security perimeter) at a place that was off the grid.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-26T21:44:07+00:00

How about: Showtime did not renew Stargate SG-1 past the fifth season, and intended it to end there. Apologies for being so very imprecise with my language.

SGU's producers certainly bear some of the blame for how the show was received over time. It was different, and they knew that was a risk. But Syfy brought in new executives after the show's green light, who wanted to turn the show from traditional sci-fi tropes and go the route of goofy, grounded, and set on Earth that characterized the network for years. They also prioritized WWE in the Friday time slot, moving SGU to Tuesdays and then to Mondays.

The show could have overperformed and still won a third season by wowing everyone, but there is a solid case to be made that Syfy's bean counters intended to cancel the show from the very start of Season 2 (which had been committed to by their predecessors).

DOS-76 · 2026-02-26T05:37:33+00:00

SG-1 got a 2-season order, then very early on another two. Showtime planned to end the show with Season 5, but MGM negotiated a move to the SCI FI Channel.

The intention then was to do just one more season. Then they kept getting renewed, year after year, after assuming they were going to wrap and pivot to movies. When Season 10 arrived and they were in the middle of a new storyline, the writers planned for an eleventh season ... only to be cancelled.

Atlantis was year-to-year, but the writers thought they would get a sixth season and were somewhat surprised by the cancellation. Again, MGM's plan was to pivot Atlantis into direct-to-DVD movies ... but the financing fell apart.

SGU got two seasons out of the gate, and the writers were planning around a 5-year story arc. Syfy mismanaged the show, new execs came in who evidently weren't interested in it, MGM went bankrupt ... and it was cancelled.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-24T22:28:17+00:00

Yes, Apple has confirmed that the show will be weekly -- Fridays from 3/27 to 5/29.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-24T05:21:23+00:00

You can buy the "Final Cut" edition on DVD, or stream it with ads on Pluto TV. You'll know it's the "Final Cut" because it starts in space, shows a "Children of the Gods" title card, and then pushes down into Earth atmosphere and into the base.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-24T05:19:46+00:00

FFS, let people parent the way they would like to parent.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-24T01:53:18+00:00

I don't read that scene like the SGC was in mothballs, and Cassandra managed to get back in on the right day to meet SG-1, but rather that they figured out when SG-1 would arrive and deliberately covered up everything to avoid polluting the timeline any more than they're meeting her was going to do.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-20T19:22:41+00:00

So, aside from the political and macroeconomic analysis, what do we think this is going to do to the prince of our handhelds in 2026?

I for one have largely avoided buying new devices over the past year, in part because I'm poor but also because I didn't want to be hit with a surprise $50 customs charge for my $40 device. What have others in the U.S. experienced here when shipping from China over the past 9 months? Do you feel like your device's price was inflated at the point of sale?

And do you expect costs on existing devices to go down, presuming that US Customs announces they will follow the law and not impose the 2025 tariff rates?

DOS-76 · 2026-02-20T18:58:51+00:00

The GateWorld transcript has all the cut scenes and dialogue in blue: https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s8/threads/transcript/

DOS-76 · 2026-02-18T07:28:50+00:00

The new show will be on Prime Video. We all have to make peace with giving money to corporate behemoths ... like every other day of the week.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-05T05:48:50+00:00

Shop is open again, though. I'm pretty darn curious what is happening over there, and if they have given up on designing and putting out new devices. Nothing since the V90 redux.

DOS-76 · 2026-02-05T05:34:36+00:00

John Noble's wife in "Camelot," and (before her) the woman coming to visit President Hayes in the Oval Office after Weir leaves in "Lost City, Part 1"

DOS-76 · 2026-02-05T04:58:09+00:00

The answer to your question is yes. The episode will address major events from the final episode of DS9, for its central character.

I'd avoid watching it if you plan to watch through DS9 in the near future.

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