Anime Schoolgirl posted:

i'm gonna stream starfield and tell everyone it's star rail

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

i'm gonna stream starfield and tell everyone it's star rail

Epic High Five posted:

Is that one of those gacha games where it's singleplayer only so you can't even show your conspicuous consumption off? That remains one of the biggest puzzlers to me, wondering which part of why that's so dumb is the worst part.

sebmojo posted:

pc gamer too, but i wouldn't call it a super negative review.

Koirhor posted:

shroud has been stuck in the ship builder for 45 mins lol

Mr Hootington posted:

Shroud sucks

Gumball Gumption posted:

Apparently Todd talked up all the accessibility features that they're focusing on in an interview a while ago but the only thing he actually mentioned was adjusting font size and a big font mode.

Big font mode is the only real accessibility features it shipped with. Love that guy

FirstnameLastname posted:

The structure of Saturn is somewhat less interesting because of the lower mass and internal pressure and because of the relative paucity of useful observational data. It now appears that metallic hydrogen is marginal (but probably not absent) in Saturn and that there is a larger enrichment of heavy elements than in Jupiter.

For the purposes of modeling the outer envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn, it is of great interest to know what the composition of the “excess” heavy material was. One plausible suggestion is that this is no more than the general solid material stable at that heliocentric distance in the Solar Nebula. In that case, the elements enriched in Jupiter would include all the rock-forming elements, including S, plus H2O ice, and possibly ammonia. Saturn would have enhanced abundances of all of these, plus possibly methane. If this simple explanation were correct, then the only elements that might be enriched in accessible parts of Jupiter would be sulfur and oxygen (as H2S and H2O) and possibly N as ammonia. Of course, these species and possibly methane as well could be enriched in the outer envelope of Saturn. The other heavy elements are probably of little consequence for modeling observable portions of either planet.

The presence of an extensive liquid, electrically conducting mantle on Jupiter has obvious similarities to the liquid, electrically conducting outer core of the Earth, which is the source of Earth's magnetic field. In addition, ionization of hydrogen by the high temperatures and pressures in the molecular mantle may provide quite significant electrical conductivities even there.

Based on plausible internal structures and the convective mechanism for heat transport, it is reasonable to attribute the source of heat to the continuing tail-end of the collapse phases of both Jupiter and Saturn. It is possible that the heat is derived from the growth of the metallic hydrogen mantle, which is associated with slow shrinkage of the entire planet at a rate of 1 mm per year; indeed, these two mechanisms are in no sense mutually exclusive or even competitive, either being a logical consequence of the other.

A typical internal model of Jupiter is given in Fig. V.4a. The density discontinuity at the molecular H2 to metallic H transition at 0.76 rJ is clearly visible, and the core of heavy elements is obvious. Only about 0.01% of the volume of the planet experiences a gravitation acceleration l

Figure V.4. The interiors of Jupiter and Saturn. The pressure, density, gravitational acceleration, and temperature are given as a function of radius for typical internal models. a illustrates the great importance of metallization of hydrogen on Jupiter. b is a “pie” diagram of a likely internal structure for Saturn. Note the smaller metallic hydrogen region and the helium-rich layer formed because of the limited solubility of helium in fluid metallic hydrogen. It is not clear whether helium would mix with the icy component or how well the ice-forming elements will mix with (dissolve) the rocky core materials. The boundaries between these layers are thus merely schematic, and no distinct boundaries may exist.

Figure V.4b is a comparable internal model of Saturn. Note the much lower pressures deep in the gaseous envelope. Even complete absence of a metallic H mantle would not prevent the electrical conductivity from being large, because, as in the envelope of Jupiter, high pressures decrease the width of the gap between the filled molecular orbital of H2 and the lowest-lying (unfilled) conduction band. Further, species much more easily ionized than H2 are present in trace amounts deep in the lower atmosphere. When high temperatures are combined with high pressures, thermal excitation of electrons across the narrowed band gap becomes possible. Thus even the absence of a metallic H region on Saturn would not preclude the generation of magnetic fields by an internal convectively driven dynamo.

smarxist posted:

gently caress the person who talked about orb of creation ITT because i dumped like 20 hours into that and just kinda had to walk away from my infernal machine because a peek down the barrel didn't really have anything interesting approaching

my bony fealty posted:

so starfield unsurprisingly sucks mega rear end, whats next to be disappointed by?

smarxist posted:

my bony fealty posted:

so starfield unsurprisingly sucks mega rear end, whats next to be disappointed by?

Mr Hootington posted:

Critics score: 88%
Audience score: 94%
Goon score:

my bony fealty posted:

looking good and sloppy for an rear end face game

Mr Hootington posted:

the shooting and movement are very subpar, maybe little old Fortnite ruined my game expectations but this is not worth $70 as it is now

Mr Hootington posted:

*yawn*

Mr Hootington posted:

Critics score: 88%
Audience score: 94%
Goon score:

Lostconfused posted:

Oh cool you can Starfield already, screw waiting 5 days.

Schmoe Cwead posted:

is this post about totk?

oh wait it has a 96% critic score lol

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The hoarding is slowing me down, googles no help anyone have the carryweight console command and does it block achieves?

Norton posted:

everyone seems fine with the $30 fee to play starfield on labor day weekend so i think they should see how far they can go with the concept. horse armor was mocked but now people pay $1million USD for csgo knife skins so clearly the market just needed to be developed and normalized.

the next big game should cost $1,000 on release and go down in price $5 a day so people can choose what price point works for them based on how eager they are to play the game.

SirSamVimes posted:

I'm down with waiting two thirds of a year to play major releases for free

SirSamVimes posted:

I'm down with waiting two thirds of a year to play major releases for free