Awesomes of the Internets

Arkenbrien · December 18, 2014, 4:27pm

thelazyjaguar · December 18, 2014, 11:48pm

today’s xkcd comic gets an honorable mention…

Arkenbrien · January 8, 2015, 3:06pm

Linky: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fugitivegames/into-the-stars

Looks kindof cool.

Topperfalkon · January 8, 2015, 11:53pm

Mmm…very tempting. I’ll try and remember to look at this again after I get paid

mattk50 · January 9, 2015, 10:28am

why does this autoplay? thats annoying.

Arkenbrien · January 9, 2015, 3:30pm

Scared my socks off first time.

I have no idea why it auto-plays. I just inserted the link for the kickstarter page.

Runiat · January 9, 2015, 6:50pm

Try indenting by 4 spaces. Should hopefully keep Discourse from automatically converting and playing. Will involve slightly more copy-pasting, but oh well.

Lomsor · January 9, 2015, 7:26pm

Just tiping something in front of it works too:

Test: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fugitivegames/into-the-stars?ref=video

hrobertson · January 9, 2015, 8:14pm

It’s Kickstarter’s fault.

I’ve opened a ticket with Kickstarter and I’ve reported the issue here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-a-kickstarter-page-with-a-video-shows-just-the-video/21473/4

Arkenbrien · January 10, 2015, 4:05am

I’ve fixed it. I did it both ways @Lomsor @Runiat

hrobertson · January 10, 2015, 1:03pm

Using four spaces makes it no longer a link…

Arkenbrien · January 13, 2015, 1:54pm

A couple more games to keep an eye on:

http://fracturedspace.com/

Also, a neat article from PCGAMER giving the heads-up on upcoming titles:

Arkenbrien · January 16, 2015, 12:51am

Talk to an AI.

Nos_Fi · January 19, 2015, 5:45pm

Couldn’t resist to compare this recently released video of a real galaxy:

…with the old “Infinity - Procedural real-time galaxy model” video:

I think next time we need more stars - or at least brighter ones…

hrobertson · January 19, 2015, 8:29pm

I don’t think the comparison is valid.

I believe I-Novae are going for Milky Way numbers of stars, ie about 300 billion (3x10¹¹). The Andromeda galaxy has over 3 times more at 1 trillion (10¹²) stars.
In addition, that photo will include many stars in the Milky Way between us and Andromeda (obviously including the big brighter ones).
Also, the model does not include dust which I think does a lot of reflecting and refracting and I imagine has a significant affect on the observed brightness of the image.

Finally, if your perspective was more like the Infinity video (ie inside the Andromeda galaxy looking outwards), I expect your view would be far more similar.

I’m sure @Kichae will correct me if I am wrong and will be able to educate beyond my assumptions.

Nos_Fi · January 19, 2015, 10:50pm

Of course it’s not valid. The infinty video says that directly at the beginning - “No fancy rendering effects - only colored dots”
But as I said in the opening sentence: I couldn’t resist to compare them because maybe one day that’s how it might look like ingame

hrobertson · January 20, 2015, 10:40am

I think you missed my point… Even if the 2nd video was re-made in the future using a 100% realistic I-Novae engine, it wouldn’t look like the 1st video because the two perspectives are so different.

We can agree that we would both love to see the I-Novae engine as realistic as possible.

cybercritic · January 20, 2015, 4:02pm

Dawn probe is getting close to Ceres, it’s some 400k km away.

Kichae · January 20, 2015, 5:32pm

There aren’t any fancy rendering effects in the Andromeda image, either. With the exception of the dust lanes, everything in that image is a coloured dot.

Bentware · January 21, 2015, 7:24am

Catch that clip on The Daily Show with a woman and a man calling The Moon “planet Moon” and thinking it may be a star?