/sf/ - Science Fiction

>>777

nice trips, me

why thank you, me

"Powered armor" is more correct, as you said, but I still prefer "Power armor". No idea why. Maybe I'm just used to it.

Power armor could be anything included non powered armors. Usually thick and durable.

Powered armor could include light armor which would not be power armor at all.

There's a lot of those in the wallpaper thread.

Made a W40k thread:

>>649

>>632

Never played anything beyond Killzone 1, so I've never seen most of them. But they look good, SS style.

>>639

This tbh.

>>688

What? They really did nothing wrong. Everyone is just mad on them, because they didn't like how cerberus did things. But few thousand people dying is a very small price to pay, if the research could help in saving the entire galaxy.

>>692

Utilitarianism is bullshit, though.

>>56

Anno 2070 and Mass Effect

I wasted hours with the games and hope that eventually a game with an open world will be released where our decisions actually matter. Strategy and building would be a nice touch too

>>466

Dat Nexus: A Jupiter Incident. I played that game for months and months. Modding was fun.

Incoming enemy missile. Our squadrons are under attack. Enemy shields have collapsed. All squadrons have been destroyed.

ayy lmao

>>605

District 9, Blindsight, Old Man's War, Eclipse Phase. I'm sure I can come up with more, but not now.

>>697

Anyone else remember David Brins battle with Peter Watts?

>>474

>Sound in space

I'm always assuming that if it is within the command center of any ship it is simulated to reduce the visual information that needs to be displayed

>>685

>Humanoid aliens is probably just a way to have the aliens seem more likeable, our natural insticts would make anything too different from ourselves seem too foreign to ever be likeable.

Yeah, anthropomorphic bias. I think it's more about laziness and budget, though. It's not easy to make strange aliens seem likable, but it's definitely possible. The prawns from District 9 were fairly likable, for example. I also remember an episode of Star Trek, where Spock was reading the thoughts of some strange alien blob whose family was killed. It was a very powerful moment, but don't ask me about any of the rest of the Episode.

>>687

maybe some humans are a lot like a blob

>>689

/fit/, is that you?

>>691

I've never really /fit/ much but i am /fit/

why would people even be blobs

the hard muscular body is so much more pleasing to be, thick girls are not blobs btw

The warp in warhammer is pretty cool, as there's a risk of demonic possession and eternal damnation associated with it.

>>664

i like that

>>676

FTL in Warhammer means that you basically jump through the dimension hell is located in. It's the same way psionic powers work: You tap into the powers of a dimension that includes hell, so if you fuck up, you end up being the vessel of a demon.

Hyperspace, what do you guys recommend as points to keep in mind for developing a ftl method for a story?

FTL was pretty cool in Old Man's War. Basically, you went to an alternate reality in which you already existed in a different spot.

>>679

Familiarize yourself with different theoretical methods of FTL-travel, like the Alcubierre-Warp Drive, travelling through another dimension and so on. Pick the one you like the most, establish the rules for it in-universe and figure out what to do about relativity.

So… is this anything other than a shitpost? Am I missing something?

once when i was on acid, a bug similar to this one landed on my right hand. i inspected it closer and thought "wow, this is like a futuristic self functioning city on a far away planet.. hi alien friends!" at that moment, the bug waved it's right paw in a sort of salute.

magic

>>264

The artist is Alex Ries.

>>671

Thanks, mane! Looked that guy up now. According to a superficial search, his other works seem to be really cool, too.

Who writs this shit?

>>593

A god among men.

>>612

Ali should be a closet homosexual.

>>563

but is it really sentient? a colonist from pluto heads towards the inner regions to find out!

>>583

upon arrival he too appears like he will fall victim to it if he does not defend himself

>>608

Then. He realizes it is not sentient. It has learned to consume steel which most ships are made of in this time. He does not go after his brass pirate ship. He is fast, and he gets inside.

>>566

The more different ideologies we get in this setting the better.

Now shut up with your squabbles. The word of the anon above you is law, obide it and don't be a dick.

If you want to enter your own ideology in the setting do so. Noone is stopping you expect yourself.

>The Refugee crisis in Europe escalated quickly. In the Year 2020 the amount of refugees spiked due to an extreme winter hitting the middle east causing most of the remaining population to flee the war torn region to survive. Even the poorest of the poor tried their luck. However the Turkish government closed it's borders and began shooting upon those who dared to cross into their territory.

>This move was greatly debated, but it could not stop the fleeing masses to find other ways into safety.

>on the 7th of December 2020 the Israeli government issued order 8824, which allowed the use of UAVs against "foreign invaders crossing our borders".

>With nowhere left to turn, the situation turned desperate and the remaining population was now forced to either cross the deserts deeper into the east and face the risk of freezing/starving to death or being killed in one of the many conflicts that have arose since the fall of the Iraqi-government and the seizure of the area by Iranian, Saudi-Arabian and Turkish forces

>or trying to build/buy a boat in the Mediterranean-sea and crossing over to Europe or the already overflowing northern Africa.

>Casualties were great and only after about 75% of the fleeing population was killed or sold into slavery by one of the many slaving gangs roaming the area a treaty was reached that allowed a safe passage corridor into siveria

>The Russian government accepted most of the population in order to populate most of the extremely remote areas far north and east, the only catch was that the passage was extremely costly and almost every refugee had to take extremely high loans from the Russian government which essentially enslaved them to the state for generations to come

>>526

Limited nuclear strike on the US around 1989, 1992 (is when the strike occurs in the universe of the book).

Its US v Soviet Union. Limited nuclear engagement is caused by the US deploying an ICBM kill system so advandced it scares the Russians into a "use them now or never be able to use them" scenerio.

The book describes the initial strikes and the days after through the eyes of the main character, then picks up 10 years after. The entirety of the book is third person autobiography, IE the main character has written this book describing his experiences. The book chronicles his travels around what remains of the United States, now several different nations all suffering from endless maladies caused by the war, and discusses all the things he finds and sees.

And yes, California is a communist nation state in the aftermath. With internment labor camps.

>>527

Sounds nice. I like post-apocalyptic stories, and I'm fascinated by the concept of a nuclear winter.

>Limited nuclear engagement is caused by the US deploying an ICBM kill system so advandced it scares the Russians into a "use them now or never be able to use them" scenerio.

Project Plut much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

>>528

Sounds pretty redpilled. I often hear that sci-fi has been taken over by dirty libruls. Hell, my favorite author, Peter Watts, is kind of one.

>>636

The protagonist was the kind of fedora who changes every instance of the word "G-d" to "evolution" in religious pamphlets and then tells RationalWiki that they make a lot more sense now. I think he's been shut up pretty good by the space-creationists, though. In fact, I found their case pretty compelling. Assuming that super-intelligent AI's exist, why not just sit back and believe them when they tell you the exact mass of a binary star-system somewhere in an alternate reality? Letting two or three scientists read over it before you publish the results in a journal would not help things at this point, really.