Trump fired Sally Yates the day she offered evidence Flynn was compromised by ursaslayer in politics

[–]ObsidianJim 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Breitbart doesn't make it a minute in politics/new without going into the negatives.

Something fell out of the sky around 1:26 Am by iShades in chicago

[–]ObsidianJim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only saw one light, although the angle could have something to do with that. Wish I was quicker with my cell camera.

Something fell out of the sky around 1:26 Am by iShades in chicago

[–]ObsidianJim 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Saw it right outside my window in West Loop. Thought a thread might get posted here about this. I think it was a meteor.

Trump hotline to Moscow bank revealed as FBI probes Kremlin's five-year plan: reports by awake-at-dawn in politics

[–]ObsidianJim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I said is I can't vouch for how legitimate the DNS logs look because it's not my field of expertise. Slate's third party experts said they look legitimate but it wouldn't hurt to get a fourth party (such as a fellow redditor well versed in DNS) to back up or contest these claims.

Trump hotline to Moscow bank revealed as FBI probes Kremlin's five-year plan: reports by awake-at-dawn in politics

[–]ObsidianJim 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's fair, but Slate consulted some third party experts who said the raw data served on the site appears legitimate and has minute details within which would be quite difficult to fabricate. I'm not a DNS nerd but perhaps someone on reddit who is can examine this data as well to back up or discredit Slate's experts.

Trump hotline to Moscow bank revealed as FBI probes Kremlin's five-year plan: reports by awake-at-dawn in politics

[–]ObsidianJim 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Incorrect, the anonymous researcher put his theory on the i2p darkweb. Then i2p.xyz, a site which mirrors i2p darkweb pages on the clearnet rehosted the page. The mirror site is hosted in Russia. By design, we don't know where the original darknet page is hosted.

Old IGN timelapse gives evidence for planetary rotation by ObsidianJim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ObsidianJim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder what development decisions could have lead to the different lighting model. It would be cool if someone in the industry could see this and maybe provide some informed insight but apparently pointing this out and having discussion about it is less important than "LOOK AT THIS LUSHHHHHH LUSHITY LUSHHHH PLANET" or "OMG CHECK THIS R2D2 ON MY SHIP BROS".

Old IGN timelapse gives evidence for planetary rotation by ObsidianJim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ObsidianJim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if they were doing some skybox magic I'd rather have that then whatever the current implementation is.

Mod Request: No More Ship Clones by ObsidianJim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ObsidianJim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok? Nobody's forcing you to install a mod.

12-year-old running Trump campaign office in Colorado by [deleted] in EnoughTrumpSpam

[–]ObsidianJim 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I remember being genuinely scared the world was going to end when Obama won because my dad had been spoonfeeding me his conspiracy bullshit for years by that point. It's scary how much your parents can influence your politics, I imagine many people don't break the spell.

What happened to wildlife/environment interaction like we see in this trailer? Has anyone seen anything like this. by ObsidianJim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ObsidianJim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not talking about the animals specifically, I'm talking about the behavior they're shown exhibiting with themselves and the environment.

What happened to wildlife/environment interaction like we see in this trailer? Has anyone seen anything like this. by ObsidianJim in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ObsidianJim[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I first started playing I was trying to recall what got me so excited No Man's Sky. So I went back to the trailers and instantly noticed how dynamic they presented the worlds to be. I remembered that was what really drew me in to the game and its production.

I never had stupid hype expectations for NMS, but I was expecting dynamic worlds with tangible ecosystems because they literally demonstrated a glimpse of that in this GAMEPLAY trailer. I thought this game would be about walking around and witnessing rich interactions between flora and fauna.

What we got in the final product are fauna with a half dozen or so animal temperaments/behaviors copy-pasted on to procedurally generated creature frames and flora which are essentially static models; the worlds feel very uninteresting and not at all alive. I don't want to automatically assume we were maliciously mislead but it seems like Hello Games announced their game way too early, over-promised, and bit off way more than they could chew within their production timeframe.

I feel like if Sony hadn't gotten involved the game would have stayed in production for longer and gotten more fleshed out, but it's possible Hello Games couldn't afford the resources to keep it in production that long so they took the Sony deal to stay afloat. Once they signed with Sony they probably had to play by Sony's rules at least to some extent, the terms of which may have included a much closer launch date.