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Oh shit that was Battle Engine Aquila. I loved that game

It would make for a pretty cool setting for a story though. Set in the near future, first crewed missions to Venus find petroglyphs recording the last days of their ancestors

Kool aid powder has been on sale for nearly 100 years, I think it already is the old-time version of itself

Oblivion's levelling system was beyond fucked. The optimal way to play in terms of power is to pick primary skills that you know you won't use and then go out of your way to only level those once you've levelled other things enough to get maximum value out of the level up. Or, alternatively, just never sleep so that you never level up and play the entire game at level one.

Obviously if you don't enjoy it then that's 100% valid, but at least in terms of understanding what to do it's totally okay to play DRG without understanding anything beyond "shoot bugs and do whatever thing mission control most recently asked you to do". There's no need to play at a higher hazard if you don't yet know or just don't care to know about how to set up your weapons for maximum effectiveness or how to counter each type of bug and so on. Just play at whatever hazard you find fun and try things out until you find what you enjoy. There's no class or weapon that is non-functional without some other component. No wrong choices, so to speak. They're all just degrees of better and worse at any given job, and if you try something out on a mission and it doesn't work then the absolute worst possible penalty is just that you fail that mission and only get a little bit of xp and cash instead of a bigger amount.

I've not looked at your comment history at all, I was just making a silly joke about how you wrote "Murcian" instead of "Murican". No harm intended

Must be really difficult being from Spain and only knowing English

Surely this can be spun as saving Israeli lives for those people? Sure, it's going to save way more Palestinians, but you'd think it can be marketed as "I brokered the deal that saved the Israeli hostages"

A 1m square tower that size would only be 4,169 m ^3 . Mauna Loa is mostly basalt, which weighs about 2.9 Mg per m ^3 . This tower would therefore weigh about 12,000 tonnes. You'd need almost 6 billion of those towers to get to the 70 trillion Mg figure.

Mauna Loa's actual mass is probably about three times that number because of the density of the rocks in it, but in terms of orders-of-magnitude estimation it was about right.

Fuck me I totally misread the title. My bad.

~~Cape of Good Hope. Horn is the one at the southern end of South America. That said you're still right that it remains a dangerous route, even with all the advantages of modern shipbuilding and weather forecasting~~ ignore me I am apparently illiterate

It's a signed integer, meaning it has the same amount of space for negative numbers as it does for positive ones. Late 1901 is the same amount of time away from Jan 1st 1970 as early 2038 is