Recent content by Salubri

I was slightly disappointed with the tanker quest in SF: just NavCom part and FOB FTW. I mean, isn't it plausible that the tanker could have been undocked and steamed to the platform without assistance of the NavCom? You'd just have to find a good navigator and the correct coordinates of the...

I'm not an artist, but I've done a little work with 3d scanners.... Our little, rather cheap, $3000 dollars desktop scanner takes anything between 45 to 180 seconds per scan, depending on the desired fidelity level. For a decent model a minimum of 6 scans, spanning a full 360° are required...

A bit of a review, but mostly another technical benchmarking piece from X-bit Labs.<blockquote>The Medium profile looks better, differing from the more resource-consuming profiles with minor simplifications in the lighting model and the lack of antialiasing, which has a negative effect on the...

Taken yesterday.

I thought 'Fall' stands for Autumn. Autumn starts on Sep 23 and lasts till Dec 21 on the northern hemisphere. Q4 encompasses months Oct, Nov, Dec, so 'Fall' is predominately Q4. The only sense I make out of your deduction is if you were referring to the Irish calendar where Fall is counted as...

I've just started to read the FAQ and this immediately caught my attention: If I remember correctly, the teaser ended with the note: "Fall 2008", which means Q4 not Q3.

I thought it was pretty obvious that I was replying to Sorrow and his statement: Hit points, action points and hexagonal grid maps are perfectly logical game models, if you endeavor to recreate an approximate experience of the real world. I was just making an out of game remark, not a...

I was just pointing out the illogical.

Yeah, but the cutting down of the barrel imparts significant degradation to cartridge efficiency designed with a much longer barrel (or propellant burn) in mind. Even more curious is that the .223 pistol does more dmg than the hunting rifle using same ammo and longer barrel! Rifle ammunition...

First question: Does anyone have an idea of what kind of round is supposed to be fired from the 14mm pistol fire? I know it says armor piercing, but for a 14mm handgun armor piercing doesn't make sense, unless it's firing a sabot flechette round. Perhaps that's why it was relatively...

I was planning to do something like that in the summer of 2008. Since I'll be flyin' in from Europe, I've still not decided whether or not it is better to purchase some cheap (low consumption) vehicle or purchase a 30 days Rail Pass. The idea was to fly in to Washington DC., do some...

You want more Croats? Here you go: He was one of the two music performers we had that evening. I think he just lurks on NMA... But seriously, how many of us are registered users?

About to give a stately speech... Taken 2 weeks ago.

Uups...

Lately, I've been playing Civ 4 multiplayer 1vs1. As it turns out, the games don't take all that long to play out - usually the victor is evident at the end of the first 18 hours of gameplay.