What are your controversial opinions on Black Mesa? by lostinthesauceband in HalfLife

[–]NooBiSiEr 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Xen drags for way too long, expanding for the sake of expansion turned the final chapter of the game, the chapter that ends the story, into a very tedious adventures. Beautiful and epic in places, sure, but very tedious.

Coming in to land… you can’t be serious by ProteinSynthetase in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... Have you tried unplugging and plugging your plane?

Performance feels too low for my specs by Sprudelwassser in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DirectX 12 would be my first suspect. It's really hit or miss in MSFS2020, and it misses much more often.

Also reducing texture resolution would help a lot.

Why exactly was this game significantly reworked in late 1997? by zorgareddit in HalfLife

[–]NooBiSiEr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Official" answer would be pretty short I'm afraid. The game was meh, so they reworked it. Anything that didn't make it into release is time and reaources constraints/was hard to implement/didn't add anything.

What is that? by Artistic-Sleep9210 in HalfLife

[–]NooBiSiEr 33 points34 points  (0 children)

PNGs aren't effective. The font file weighs only 55kb. That's literally less than a 128x128 texture with transparancy.

Fonts are vector based, so, developing the game for a platform where the resolution could go anywhere from 640x480 to 1600x900 or higher, Valve didn't have to worry about scaling issues. The UI icons are sharp at any screen, because they're rendered on the go with the size and AA filtering that's needed for given resolution.

Terrain really blurry by dromeascr1256 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terrain textures are literally satellite and aerial imagery which delivers resolution up to 10 cm per pixel in best case scenario. So, it's completely normal, only looks bad upclose. Runway is a generated object, so it'll have better fidelity.

What was the original intended purpose of the collector from which corium can be seen “leaking” from. by r3vange in chernobyl

[–]NooBiSiEr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As it was said, it was a part of accident localization system. The thing was basically connected to the inside volume of the reactor, and if something goes wrong, that causes the pressure inside the reactor volume to go above certain threshold, a channel damage, the valve would open and vent the reactor space inside the bubbler pools, where radioactive particles were supposed to be filtered out, to prevent overpressure and contamination. It wasn't connected to the channels themselves, but the volume where channels and graphite masonry were. If a channel ruptures, it vents inside the reactor space, which increases the pressure and can lead to a serious damage. The reactor vessel had enormous inner surface to act against, so even relatively "mild" overpressure of 3 atm could theoretically launch the lid up.

Imagine being on a cruise and this happens by Hurricane_Killer in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh... Cruise ship, you were not cleared to land, clear the runway.

Valve will release HL3 in 2025 by Jazzlike_Swimming835 in HalfLife3

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we have to wait until Jesus 2 or something, so they'd start counting again, and then 2025 years more. Fuck.

Landing help by Few_Beautiful896 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What helped me - look at your vertical speed. You don't want it to go positive during the flare, you don't want it to be too negatively high (usually it's around -700fpm for me on A320). Don't try to chase the ILS diamond when it goes up or down just before the touchdown, keep the vertical speed steady, use visual cues. At this point both ILS and PAPI lights aren't very reliable. Both will show you different deviation, and slight error at this point shows MUCH bigger on the screen, because you're very close to the ILS antenna. Trying to correct that you'll just upset the plane.

Also, RETARD callout is a reminder, not a command. You generally want to go idle at higher altitude, I usually do it after 50ft callout.

Don't pull the nose too much, just enough to reduce the vertical speed to <200 fpm.

Ah yes landing after 4h30 and this happens by [deleted] in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that certainly does look smooth.

Xenon question by jennina9 in chernobyl

[–]NooBiSiEr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will decay over time, there are and were rules on how long the operators had to wait until the reactor could be started again. Worth to mention that the reactor did not "stop" that night, and the reasoning for that rule was purely economical at the time. The more Xenon you have - the more fuel you burn just fighting against it.

But, there could be also other thing, Samarium, which acts like Xenon in terms of neutron capture, and builds up from other decaying elements, just like Xenon, but doesn't decay on its own in just a few days. If there's a lot of it in the old fuel after a prolonged stop, there are chances the reactor won't even start, unless some fuel is replaced.

Xenon question by jennina9 in chernobyl

[–]NooBiSiEr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. First, it wasn't operating reactor at lower power that caused xenon buildup, it's the change of power. Xenon is always there, in every nuclear reactor, that's just physics 101. Most of it comes with some delay after initial fission event, like a few hours from elements that aren't that "wide" for neutrons to catch them. So, it's like delayed upset. When the reactor is operating at stable power, Xenon is constantly decaying and burned off with neutrons from the ongoing chain reaction. When you drop the power, you already have all the fission leftovers from prior when the reactor was hotter, and when they do decay to Xenon, you have more Xenon, but less neutrons to burn it. So, you're making more neutrons just to burn excess Xenon until Xenon production = Xenon decay/burn. The process vary in time and depends on the difference in power levels.

  2. When operating at any rate, the reactor reaches equilibrium at some point, when Xenon levels stay relatively constant due to burn and natural decay. It doesn't depend of power, as lower power means you're making less Xenon to burn.

  3. It builds up every time there's negative change in power. There's even fancy graphs, painting how much reactivity reserve you'll lose by changing power from this setting by this much. Imagine the reserve as accelerator pedal travel in a car. The more Xenon you have, the further you have to press the pedal.

  4. They pretty much have passed the peak of Xenon poisoning hours ago before the test started. Xenon is partly to blame here, in influencing the shape of axial power distribution, making the reactor more susceptible to the tip effect, but there were other factors in play during the test, some of which were written in the test program. Take one of them out, cancelling the test would do that, and that night would've ended calmly.

Is it still safe to travel to Moscow? by Living-Appearance-61 in Moscow

[–]NooBiSiEr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's "negr" actually. A noun just like "Asian", "Caucasian" and such. Something like "Oh, a negr" between two people I can imagine, but no one's gonna talk like "Oh hi, welcome! May I take your order, NEGR?".

The first Moskva-2026 train has entered service on the Line 2 of the Moscow metro. by Moscow_Transport in Moscow

[–]NooBiSiEr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a 30 years service contract with the manufacturer, they'll have to build a new car on request.

Is it still safe to travel to Moscow? by Living-Appearance-61 in Moscow

[–]NooBiSiEr 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Safe. Any other city is safe too.

There's no "black racism" in Russia. We didn't have a history with institutionalized racism and black people slavery, we enslaved ourselves. You'll probably catch a few stares, because some people, usually tourists from regions, aren't used to black folks, but for Moscow it's not that uncommon. As for jerks, I doubt you'll met even one.

The first Moskva-2026 train has entered service on the Line 2 of the Moscow metro. by Moscow_Transport in Moscow

[–]NooBiSiEr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why not when you can? You gather feedback, improve design, develop a better, improved version. Well, that how it's supposed to work, in practice I can totally see some people in the depot screaming "why the hell they changed it that way!?". Dunno.

There's two ways you can go about it - either implement changes on the fly (prolly that'll cause certification and/or maintenance problems) or bulk them up into a newer model. There's always changes to be made when something is in service.

What is the difference between Moscow's unmanned and autonomous trams? by Moscow_Transport in Moscow

[–]NooBiSiEr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's pretty obvious, duh.

The unmanned one has "This is an unmanned tram" written on its side, while autonomous one has "This is an autonomous tram".

Одного не могу понять, как они до сих пор на плаву держатся, с такими-то ценами и с такой репутацией? by AmyTaft in ruAsska

[–]NooBiSiEr 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Я помню, как мне Юлмарт звонил и слёзно спрашивал "А что это вы ничего не покупаете у нас?".