food court bailiff posted:

Someone more familiar with 3D modelling software than I am please explain how they weren't able to convert .stl files into something else. Like....everything is capable of reading STL files*. I am pretty sure I can poo poo out some procedurally generated 3D object in OpenSCAD, export it as an STL, open it in Blender, modify it or do whatever and then probably export it to any number of other file types, all for free, in like fifteen minutes, while watching Netflix on my other monitor. You need to set a unit scale but past that what's the hold up on the technical side?


*Literally everything, I mean the basic file standard supports human-readable ASCII.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

It funded.

some loving LIAR posted:

If a lawsuit doesn’t involve an explicit question of federal law, it cannot be tried in federal court unless the amount in controversy exceeds $75K and none of the parties on one side of the suit are residents of the same state as any of the parties on the other side.

A state court will look to its own civil procedure code to decide whether or not it has jurisdiction over a case. As a matter of federal constitutional law, the only limit on whether a particular party can be sued in a particular state’s courts is whether that party has the necessary minimum contacts to justify it. For Palladium, that would mean asking whether it had pervasive contact with the forum state (as it would have in Michigan) or whether it had enough limited contact regarding the subject matter of the dispute with the forum state (e.g. by advertising or knowingly reaching out into another state to do business).

inklesspen posted:

Whatever happened to that RPG where you get superpowers from numbers stations, so the logical conclusion is to team up with christian militias to fight the man?

quote:

The Old Men: A collective of libertarian militants, many of them veterans of foreign wars, who have declared war on an executive branch they believe has overstepped its Constitutional bounds and is emulating the very regimes that so many of their brothers died fighting.

The Faith: A fringe religious movement that became radicalized once it perceived the Regime's actions as an all-out assault on Christendom, thrusting the Faith into what they perceive as a final apocalyptic battle, the very Tribulations mentioned in the Book of Revelations.

The Makers: A loosely organized collective of entrepreneurs, industrialists, and venture capitalists who have decided that the Regime's interests no longer coincide with their own. Some are appalled by the Regime's actions on a moral level, some see it as just another federal grift of unprecedented scale.

The Party: The political and activist vanguard of a worker's revolution. They espouse the Marxist view that history is the continual struggle between the proletariat (i.e. workers) and the bourgeoisie (i.e. business and land owners). They see the Regime's excesses as the natural progression of capitalism.

Faced with an extreme emergency (which each group would define differently), these factions that otherwise detest one another now form a fragile popular front against the fascist Regime. It is important to note that none of these factions necessarily represent the socio-political zeitgeist they come from. The Old Men, for instance, are somewhat anomalous in the citizen militia subculture. They reject the white nationalism of many of their peers, not because they aren't racist (some of them are), but because they see dogmatic loyalty to the builders of an ethno-state as a sickening form of statism and surrender. The Party, likewise, has a tenuous relationship with many of the groups that compose the global Socialist movement. Dedicated to worker solidarity, freedom of movement, and the eradication of borders, they find themselves at odds with the Kremlin-apologists among them who cheer on Russian Imperialism.

Kai Tave posted:

This game continues to look real dumb, which is disappointing.

Kai Tave posted:

This game continues to look real dumb, which is disappointing.

Mors Rattus posted:

We need three different right-wing factions and only one leftist one. That is a proper and correct accounting of those who would resist.

Mors Rattus posted:

We need three different right-wing factions and only one leftist one. That is a proper and correct accounting of those who would resist.

Mors Rattus posted:

Yeah, it feels like all the criticisms from within the Kickstarter period have turned out to be spot-on.

Hiro Protagonist posted:

In non-Palladium news the people behind The Veil have a new cyberpunk rpg on Kickstarter, Hack the Planet, using Blades in the Dark. It's heavily based on climate fiction, a genre of sci fi imagining how climate change will affect the future. Instant back from me. I am so down for this.

Kai Tave posted:

This game continues to look real dumb, which is disappointing.

Dawgstar posted:

So, uh, you've got far-right Christians, far-right militia, captains of industry and what the Right thinks unions are working together and by their powers combined you have Stigmata?

Mors Rattus posted:

Are they still keeping up the line that the Regime is politically neutral, has no place on the right/left axis, and that they are themselves not hardcore rightwing libertarian types?

Mors Rattus posted:

Are they still keeping up the line that the Regime is politically neutral, has no place on the right/left axis, and that they are themselves not hardcore rightwing libertarian types?

Foglet posted:

As per the quoted table, the Regime looks quite fascist, and as the factions move along the arrows towards alliance with it, they themselves become (even more) fascist as well.
I mean, the game's subtitled "This signal kills fascists", that doesn't leave much wiggle room.

Foglet posted:

Cannot say I'm impressed by not one but TWO blatant bootleg copies of Adam Jensen right in the first two art samples after the cover. gently caress's sake, people, weren't you presumed to have more creativity than that.


They look like ugly collages with ugly filters applied, but in my book that's more forgivable than ripping something off that openly.

Kai Tave posted:

This game continues to look real dumb, which is disappointing.

neaden posted:

Adam Jensen is just a genderbent Molly Millions so they are just stealing from Gibson like most cyberpunk.

Foglet posted:

I meant the precise visual style down to details like the shape and positioning of facial seams and hexagonal stamps, as well as the design of prosthetic arms and hands. You cannot be serious saying "but that's how all cyborgs look in general", my optical recognition systems are practically screaming the 'distinct similarity' alarm signal.

Bieeanshee posted:

I like how nobody spotted 'tenants' instead of 'tenets'.

neaden posted:

Adam Jensen is super generic so yeah, I think you're seeing something that isn't there. The art is bad though.

Mors Rattus posted:

Are they still keeping up the line that the Regime is politically neutral, has no place on the right/left axis, and that they are themselves not hardcore rightwing libertarian types?

Foglet posted:

Let's just all conclude that AJ, while potentially a jerk, at least wasn't a fascist and got his implants the good old honest-to-God way instead of growing them from a suspicious radio signal of dubious origin like some sort of Tetsuo the Iron Man.

Kai Tave posted:

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Man I've never been happier about not backing something. What a shitshow.

Mr.Misfit posted:

By dying and having his body used against his will by his ultra-capitalist libertarian boss who thought it better to use his point man/chief of security a controllable murdermachine than let the poor man rest in peace after dying to a bunch of murderhobos?

dwarf74 posted: