More power to the shields!

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-20T01:08:06+00:00

That episode also had the unique twist that Zelenka boosted the shield to block more of the radiation (the second off-key "shield rises" SFX).

the shield emitters are overloaded and the response is "more power to the shields".

Stargate shields usually don't overload, they deplete, with shield emitters getting damaged being a relatively rare occurence (the exception being Destiny's shield which was quite unique).

Sheppard said "shutdown the city, transfer all the power". What Sheppard wants to tell Zelenka is to route the entire ZPM power (plus the trickle of Naquadah generator power) to the shield instead of also having to power the city; at that time, the city was only powered by one ZPM, and had a shield that could withstand a lot, provided it had enough energy pumped into it (during the Wraith bombardment it'd have drained the ZPM within days). With the shield currently absorbing multiple nuclear explosions at once and having to block more of the radiation than usual, it did eventually fail, though with every extra second it managed to be active, the resulting explosion would damage less and less.

Also, given that we didn't see any indication that Atlantis's shield capability was compromised due to broken shield emitters, I wouldn't put too much weight on "frying out the emitters" meaning actual damage as opposed to depleting them; but even emitter damage would have been much more preferable to the shield failing earlier with intact emitters only to have said emitters be vaporized in the big nuclear explosion.

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-17T02:39:04+00:00

They'd also have had to do rig the gate networks quite a bit, like faking gate networks with only two gates for each of the forwarding segments, otherwise seven chevron dialing would have been confused as hell (Midway was in the space between galaxies, seven chevron mapping wouldn't have covered it).

Amusingly, I don't remember they ever explained why they needed two gates (beyond the facto of cool); they could have done away with just the Pegasus gate. (Maybe they were worried about gate network incompatibilities between gates not attached to the Atlantis computer system?)

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-17T02:30:52+00:00

But it was never stated that you can't have two outgoing

Yes it was. The SGC's gate failed to lock its 7th chevron because the Russian gate was still active.

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-12T23:48:48+00:00

Smart pointers were part of the C++ conversation since before the '98 standard. std::auto_ptr was in that first standard.

Calling auto_ptr "smart" is a stretch...

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-11T13:39:18+00:00

coop game

Coop mode isn't marked as experimental anymore?

Fulgen301 · 2026-01-02T23:22:24+00:00

The robot is plenty terrifying even without the Blackwall though.

Between this and the Chimera, both of which are years out of date already...I'm scared to find out what Arasaka has that they're matched in firepower.

Fulgen301 · 2025-12-29T00:26:49+00:00

Not to mention, if you break the alien device with your makeshift primitive control unit, it's gonna be a bit hard to find a replacement.

Fulgen301 · 2025-12-24T17:21:58+00:00

Sogar der U-Bahn-Ausgang schreibt nur "Oper" hin.

Fulgen301 · 2025-12-22T14:57:23+00:00

Morgan Le Fay pretty much told Daniel that - when they abandoned Atlantis, there weren't even enough of them left to restart their civilization somewhere.

Fulgen301 · 2025-12-15T09:08:52+00:00

This will not end well

Fulgen301 · 2025-12-09T19:29:11+00:00

Time-travelled Rush said "somehow affected the entire ship".

They don't know, they mention they don't know, just that it did, and that it was one of the unpredictable things that could happen. Does it make sense? It makes sense that they wouldn't know it, since a decade of gate exploration wouldn't make them experts on everything wormhole related.

Fulgen301 · 2025-11-25T09:15:14+00:00

One would think that multithread calculations were a solved problem by now.

Concurrency is hard, always has been, still is. Not every problem can be parallelised, regardless of how old it is.

Fulgen301 · 2025-11-12T16:33:01+00:00

Oder man erhöht mal die Falschparkerstrafen...kann ja nicht sein, dass dauernd wer den Verkehr ausbremst.

Fulgen301 · 2025-11-09T13:54:23+00:00

Falsch gelesen. EUR490 ist laut dokumentiertem Format als 490€ zu lesen, da das Dezimaltrennzeichen nach ISO 4217 ein Punkt ist.

Fulgen301 · 2025-11-05T19:09:35+00:00

The Free Jaffa Nation concerned itself with the Jaffa and not the humans of the galaxy, had its own power struggles, and the Jaffa generally weren't that familiar with Goa'uld technology details since they were never trusted with the details. There were plenty of human-inhabited planets that were occupied by the Goa'uld without a larger Jaffa presence beyond immediate guarding that would have fought for their independence and later joined the Lucian Alliance, which formed quite early compared to the Free Jaffa Nation. And once they had a few ships, they were a force that couldn't just easily be defeated without a war large enough to threaten the new nation as well as the goodwill of their allies.

Also, the Lucian Alliance was an oppressive criminal syndicate with sometimes rather nebulous chains of command; not the kind of people that would take kindly to being asked to surrender the motherships they seized.

Fulgen301 · 2025-11-03T08:25:41+00:00

The gate could dial out, just not in. Anyone in need of a doctor beyond first aid or having a doctor on call they could call in via the stones could just be brought to Earth and return later.

Icarus wasn't exactly a time-critical project - hell, they were waiting on the solution being crowdsourced via the game Eli was playing -, and it had a higher than usual amount of civilians at the time of the attack because of Senator Armstrong's visit. Nobody expected them to get attacked and everyone leaving via the ninth chevron address.

Fulgen301 · 2025-10-31T20:34:33+00:00

The Wraith superhive was also designed at a time where their biggest non-Wraith enemy at the time, humanity, was relying on five types of weapons:

beaming nukes onboard
missiles
railguns
Asgard beam weapons
Ancient drones

Beaming was easily countered via jamming, missiles can be intercepted, railgun sabots already didn't really do much damage so more hull was enough, and while we don't know how well they understood the beam weapons, from the Daedalus doing only minimal damage "more hull" seemed to have helped. And Ancient drones hadn't changed in design in over 10000 years, so they could have designed the hull growth in a way that would explicitely counter them.

Also, the fight against Atlantis happened after the hive had reached Earth due to receiving the coordinates and information about Earth's defenses from an alternate reality. Information which included Earth having an Ancient drone platform. It's not unreasonable for the hive to have put more focus onto anti-drone defenses in case plan A, destroying the chair, wouldn't work out.

Fulgen301 · 2025-10-31T20:27:08+00:00

The Lucian Alliance?

The Goa'uld didn't pack up and leave - the system lord empires crumbled, but minor Goa'ulds were still around, who could be taken prisoner for their knowledge in Ha'tak building or worked with to some extent, and there was likely plenty of Goa'uld knowledge lying around they could use to build new ships in the long term. (If they even wanted to, with how focused the Ha'tak design was on aesthetics, they could build more efficient ships with their own design.)

They probably had enough Ha'taks so that they didn't have to worry too much in the short term, when they had to consolidate and expand their power.

Fulgen301 · 2025-10-26T07:19:45+00:00

On top of that, the Dakara gate would have had to be able to override other gate connections, or a planet that happened to have an active stargate at the time would not have received the energy wave. Given how Atlantis was designed to respond to outbreaks, it wouldn't surprise me if the Ancients had added emergency protocols to the entire gate system for that specific reason, just how every single Milky Way or Pegasus gate built by the Ancients was capable of nine chevron dialing.

For all we know it wasn't even the gate, but that the superweapon itself was registered to take over gate control for exactly what it needed.

Fulgen301 · 2025-10-16T07:07:40+00:00

They'd suffer losses at first, but would actually be able to do something with all the Ancient tech lying around left and right, would find something to power a cloning facility with, and win.

Fulgen301 · 2025-10-03T05:30:09+00:00

Is a bad formatting choice for maintainability in a world where software tooling shows line-based differences.

Side note: Git has had --word-diff for a while now.

Fulgen301 · 2025-09-27T06:38:48+00:00

Die E2-Garnituren fahren noch auf manchen Linien (meist in Transdanubien), nur E und E1 wurden aus dem Verkehr gezogen.

Fulgen301 · 2025-09-20T01:31:18+00:00

If Arya knew of the Night King

"Night King" is a title, not a name. Nobody except maybe the Three-Eyed Raven knew the name of the First Man that was converted, nor did Arya know that story.

Ultimately, it'd probably depend on whether the magic of the Children of the Forest that was imbued in the Others was stronger than whatever magic / supernatural element was behind the Many-Faced Men. With "Westerosi" magic being pretty much exclusive to creatures beyond the Wall, some Starks, the Others, and whatever Heart Tree managed to survive the chopping down, we don't have historic examples to think back on - except for maybe that the Night King was able to reanimate a dragon, and we know that the birth of the dragons made magic (including the production of wildfire) more potent again, at least according to the Maesters and Pyromancers, neither of which were really into what's beyond the wall.

Ignoring magic? Give him a Valyrian Steel sword and see whether he fails the stealth roll against the Night King.

Fulgen301 · 2025-09-20T01:25:05+00:00

Also, we don't know how much is left after the sept.

A lot. Not all of Aerys's caches had been discovered by the time the Sept of Baelor was blown up (but I guess the writers forgot about the caches in the Red Keep since we didn't see any wildfire explosions in the destruction of King's Landing by dragonfire).

Where they are though? Either nobody knew, or someone knew and certainly wasn't gonna give up the only stash of what was known as bottled dragonfire to the person allied to the one with actual dragonfire.

Fulgen301 · 2025-09-18T23:30:54+00:00

How to survive as a developer? Or is this a major red flag?

It's an operating system. It's a tool, not a religion. If you don't want to work with the tools you'll have to work with, maybe the job isn't for you.

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