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Forum Games / Re: Comment on the Previous Signature.
« on: January 14, 2010, 05:26:43 AM »
"Oh shi- Cross shaped bed!?"
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: January 09, 2010, 03:53:48 AM »
"Oh god... Oh god the water is rising... HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!"
"Elite Beat Agents are... GO!!!"
"NO!!"
"Elite Beat Agents are... GO!!!"
"NO!!"
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Off The Wall / Re: See ya later!/Welcome back!
« on: January 04, 2010, 06:57:22 AM »I actually found it on the Touhou Wikia page...
Still, thanks~
Ah, I didn't think it'd still be up there, since Gensokyo.org took everything down. Huh. Neat. ^_^
Awww, poor Hobo Reimu.
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Off The Wall / Re: See ya later!/Welcome back!
« on: January 04, 2010, 06:17:52 AM »Ah, thanks.
*searches*
I can toss it up on Megaupload or Mediafire or something for you. I have it in a convenient zip file thanks to a big torrent of Touhou doujin. It might be hard to find it alone since Gensokyo.org archived all the older scanlation releases in said torrent.
EDIT
Here it is.
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Off The Wall / Re: See ya later!/Welcome back!
« on: January 04, 2010, 05:41:48 AM »
Image is from "Touhou Rich Miko" by Ennui Akadako. ^_^
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Off The Wall / Re: See ya later!/Welcome back!
« on: January 04, 2010, 04:59:42 AM »
I kind of forgot I had an account on here. Whoops.
Well, I wasn't around much to likely be remembered, and I was last active April of last year, but users online count ++ I guess. ^_^
Well, I wasn't around much to likely be remembered, and I was last active April of last year, but users online count ++ I guess. ^_^
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Forum Games / Re: Make up a Crazy Lie about the Above Poster
« on: April 06, 2009, 01:46:31 PM »
Has a diet consisting exclusively of live mice
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Off The Wall / Re: Do you write?
« on: March 23, 2009, 04:54:15 AM »
I do not just write. I am a writer. ... A writer who has trouble putting words to the page occasionally, because he stupidly surrounded himself with shiny, noisy things that steal his attention span away from being productive, but when he does write, he puts his soul into it. His twisted, blackened, evil soul, made evil, blackened, and twisted by writing horrible, horrible stories about people getting unpleasant things jammed into their eye sockets and getting squeamish people to read it for laughs... And somewhere along the line, Machina started talking about himself in the third person.
Machina has no idea why.
In the area of original fiction...
One of my big ones is a series of short stories set in a universe I've been working on since middle school. Hard science universe, as in "inertia and no friction means ship moves like it damn well should" with a few "wait, what" elements like FTL, telekinesis, human-aliens, and the occasional realistically done giant robot. It's also my universe where I'm doing most of my conlanging, and several of the languages are developed to the point where simple sentences can be formed. Some species created by my best friend show up, but as a whole the universe is my work. I'm planning on setting up a free site to dump several stories in this universe on, namely the ones I don't feel like pulling the "bombard publishers with it" song and dance with.
Another space story, nowhere near hard science, is one originally developed with a friend, but she pulled out and left it with me. No name for the universe, not much work done, but it involves a three way war between humans, angels, and demons, in space with magic-powered spacecraft, and several factions of bloodthirsty fairies attacking all sides equally, boarding ships and raiding worlds so they can butcher and eat the crew or populace, then glassing the world and fluttering back to their homeworlds. A bit of background work done on it, but it's kind of back burnered.
There's also a fantasy story. But given that my irrational hatred of Tolkienesque elves is kind of evaporating, I should avoid it...
Then the spy story. ... I suck at titles. James Bond type stuff, with three spies taking part in a conflict between two major organizations.
Fanfiction...
The big one is in my signature. Intentions is a redo of an earlier Rockman fanfiction, also called Intentions, that I wrote myself into a corner on and decided sucked, so I needed to redo it. It's still up on the old Bob and George forums, but it's mangled due to several reinstalls and restorations of that board. The Intentions of today revolves around a conflict between causality and destiny, with events going differently in the past (just after MM8) leading to a drastically different future despite universe's attempts to steer things more toward being like canon. The main sequence of Intentions takes place in the X era, where after things were "kind of mostly" like they "should" be up through the equivalent of X4, everything after that is thrown out the window aside from a few small victories that fate can claim over causality.
Another big one is some work I'm doing for a free Ultima Online shard. I'm prohibited from saying too much, except that I'm completely reconstructing the Ultima Online backstory for a new shard, because as good as the original UO backstory was, the developers who came after launch couldn't write. At all. So for the new shard, they had their resident Story God (actual title) pen a new backstory. Since I might be the only Ultima fan here, I'll just leave it there.
Transformers: Darkest Hour. Grimdark Transformers. 'Nuff said.
Those're the big ones... I also write some short stories unrelated to any other works from time to time, but like most of what I do, it either doesn't get finished, or I file it away somewhere and refuse to release it.
Machina has no idea why.
In the area of original fiction...
One of my big ones is a series of short stories set in a universe I've been working on since middle school. Hard science universe, as in "inertia and no friction means ship moves like it damn well should" with a few "wait, what" elements like FTL, telekinesis, human-aliens, and the occasional realistically done giant robot. It's also my universe where I'm doing most of my conlanging, and several of the languages are developed to the point where simple sentences can be formed. Some species created by my best friend show up, but as a whole the universe is my work. I'm planning on setting up a free site to dump several stories in this universe on, namely the ones I don't feel like pulling the "bombard publishers with it" song and dance with.
Another space story, nowhere near hard science, is one originally developed with a friend, but she pulled out and left it with me. No name for the universe, not much work done, but it involves a three way war between humans, angels, and demons, in space with magic-powered spacecraft, and several factions of bloodthirsty fairies attacking all sides equally, boarding ships and raiding worlds so they can butcher and eat the crew or populace, then glassing the world and fluttering back to their homeworlds. A bit of background work done on it, but it's kind of back burnered.
There's also a fantasy story. But given that my irrational hatred of Tolkienesque elves is kind of evaporating, I should avoid it...
Then the spy story. ... I suck at titles. James Bond type stuff, with three spies taking part in a conflict between two major organizations.
Fanfiction...
The big one is in my signature. Intentions is a redo of an earlier Rockman fanfiction, also called Intentions, that I wrote myself into a corner on and decided sucked, so I needed to redo it. It's still up on the old Bob and George forums, but it's mangled due to several reinstalls and restorations of that board. The Intentions of today revolves around a conflict between causality and destiny, with events going differently in the past (just after MM8) leading to a drastically different future despite universe's attempts to steer things more toward being like canon. The main sequence of Intentions takes place in the X era, where after things were "kind of mostly" like they "should" be up through the equivalent of X4, everything after that is thrown out the window aside from a few small victories that fate can claim over causality.
Another big one is some work I'm doing for a free Ultima Online shard. I'm prohibited from saying too much, except that I'm completely reconstructing the Ultima Online backstory for a new shard, because as good as the original UO backstory was, the developers who came after launch couldn't write. At all. So for the new shard, they had their resident Story God (actual title) pen a new backstory. Since I might be the only Ultima fan here, I'll just leave it there.
Transformers: Darkest Hour. Grimdark Transformers. 'Nuff said.
Those're the big ones... I also write some short stories unrelated to any other works from time to time, but like most of what I do, it either doesn't get finished, or I file it away somewhere and refuse to release it.
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: March 16, 2009, 07:10:07 PM »
"Oh, I'll give you all chocolate alright... Chocolate so good it might be considered... killer..."
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: March 15, 2009, 11:19:22 PM »
"CLEANING STOP! But, wait, I need to clear off desk space for the third system to complete my triad of awesome... NEVERMIND THAT! CLEANING STOP!! ROOM CLEANING STOOOOP!!"
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Anime & Manga / Re: Old anime movies
« on: March 14, 2009, 09:17:53 PM »
Macross Plus also had a movie version.
Perfect Blue is about a year older than Mezzo Forte. It's a psychological thriller about a pop idol who decides to move on away from music and runs into some problems.
Perfect Blue is about a year older than Mezzo Forte. It's a psychological thriller about a pop idol who decides to move on away from music and runs into some problems.
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: March 14, 2009, 08:41:07 PM »
"A writer who cannot, even for reasons of perfectionism, put words to the page is useless. I am a useless writer, I don't care how brilliant I think I am, if I delete every paragraph I write for not sounding right, I'm no higher on the totem pole than those script format kiddies who consider typing a complete sentence and accomplishment. ... I depress the hell out of myself..."
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: March 10, 2009, 04:43:39 AM »
"Blasted modem! Stop dying! I have writing to avoid doing by slacking off on the web!"
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Rockman Series / Re: Rockman Science Hour - Theory, techbabble, and handwavium, oh my
« on: March 07, 2009, 10:18:21 PM »
Writer's block. Time to fish out my pseudo-scientist hat.
The thing is, data is an abstract concept. Without a medium, there can be no data, similar to how you can't have a drawing without something to draw on. Now, in the Classic/X/Zero-verse, the existence of a non-physical medium for the storing and retrieving of data becomes a canon fact as of the middle of the X-series, with its existence being likely from the beginning of the Reploid species. This, of course, being the DNA Soul. The events of Xtreme 2 are enough evidence to suggest that DNA souls exist in the material universe as some kind of energy-based storage medium containing the "genetic" data of the Reploid as well as their memories.
In the EXE/RNR-verse, prior to Kotobuki, and after the fact, all data was stored on physical mediums, and cyberspace is a rather abstract representation of the data being stored on those mediums. However, once RNR came into the picture, we had the AM and FM beings, which, like the DNA Soul, represent a non-material medium for the storage of data that exists within the physical universe. However, the wave beings also possess another quality that makes them very relevant to the Kotobuki incident: the ability to convert matter into energy (granted, while ignoring the ratio given by the famous relativity equation) as witnessed by the transformation of humans into wave entities. Now, we know that the creations of humans in the EXE/RNR-verse are compatible with the wave entities, given how RNR Rockman entered physical systems as an Earth-made navi would, so it's not too far of a stretch to make the assumption that the Kotobuki incident ended up re-creating the matter to wave transfer process. Despite the two hundred year gap, we don't see that much technological progress in the EXE to RNR transition. Particularly in the operation of computer devices, they just get smaller.
If it is, in fact, light it would move at the speed of light. It's likely a similar case to the Star Wars case of turbolasers not being lasers.
Where problems occur is the question of which is the true Gemini Beam: Its representation in the games, or Super Adventure Rockman's take? (Which, I admit, I've only seen from the opening, but it appears to behave like a true laser.)
This is actually another viable explanation for Gemini Man. However, if Gemini man has another fully operational body, sustaining them both isn't really a problem any more than sustaining one body, destroying one would be a matter of structural damage. Thus, dispersing a body that you spend the energy and materials you created wouldn't exactly make sense. There's also the problem of two brains, which while doubling his processing power, would inevitably create problems.
Let's say Gemini Man creates an identical robot body, doubling every element of his design. For this body to function at the same capacity, all of its autonomic functions would have to be active. Its core would be outputting the same energy, and to control its body, the clone would be thinking, just like the original. Now, this works well because he's a perfect copy of Gemini Man, and thus would behave the same way. However, without some kind of infrared or radio communication between the two, the two may have completely different reactions to the same stimulus and thus step on each others toes, so to speak. Simple enough, add a radio or infra-red modem. This, however, creates a slight reaction time lag, because both copies have to transmit their reactions to the stimulus and come to a solution of what to do. This takes time, which is a precious commodity when you have a homicidal blue robot wanting to kill you and eat your soul to gain your special power. In either case, either coordinating actions or leaving the potential for conflicting reactions, with the addition of more clones, Gemini Man would run face-first into the brick wall of diminishing returns in regards to his combat effectiveness.
Now, there is another option with the perfect clone idea. Only have one Gemini Man "thinking" at a time, and controlling the others via said radio or infra-red modem like puppets. In this case, however, Gemini Man would require a very powerful brain to control another body in addition to his own, and if his currently active body is the one that's destroyed, it creates a potentially lethal lag during which the puppet body's brain has to boot up. There's also an issue with the more powerful processor: To gain that huge boost in performance, Doctor Wily would likely have to overclock the hell out of Gemini Man's processor, which would create huge amounts of heat. This... actually isn't too much of an issue, because it provides an alternate reason for the spikes on his helmet: heat radiators.
... Which creates the amusing mental image of Gemini Man catching a heat seeking missile with his face...
However, even with the hologram conjecture, the question of which Gemini Man is the real one is still irrelevant. It's a principle I like to call Schrodinger's Copy. Another good name would be the Naruto Effect, given how clone battles behave in that series.
Put simply, in a work of fiction, if you are facing four copies of an individual, and you fire three shots at three of those copies, each shot will hit one of the fakes. Similar to the cat in the box that is both alive and dead until the box is opened and the cat is observed, until the shot is fired and connects in a killing blow, each of those images is both real and fake.
The hologram also works with Gemini Man's hatred and weakness to snakes.
Snakes possess keen non-visual senses, and it's likely that Snake Man and his Search Snakes possess IR sensors. Now, a hard light hologram likely possesses a very different infrared image than a solid Robot, and thus a snake would be able to tell which is the real and which is the fake if it is indeed holographic. As for the physical weakness...
... I'll need to think more on that. For now, all I can think of is "LOL game mechanics"
Maybe some kind of psychosomatic reaction?
Heh, forgot about the little thing floating around the room after the hologram ends. So it likely does contain the plasma cannon.
The question would be "why Bubble Lead?" (Without resorting to "LOL game mechanics")
We know the projector in the ceiling is a holographic projector, and while it's protected from attack, it also shuts down when the alien is defeated. (On an unrelated note, it's possible the projector played a role in the prototyping and creation of Wily's Robot Masters at the time. The room does look like it would be well suited to that purpose.) While it is possible this is just narrative law in effect, if we look at the weapons Rock possessed at the time we notice something: Bubble Lead is a transparent/translucent looking sphere, relevance being that curved, transparent or translucent surfaces refract light very well.
Jumping into the realm of thinking way too much, each time the bubble hits the alien, the screen flashes. Sure, it's a general damage effect, but in this case it could be thought of as refracted light being scattered about and the projector having to compensate, and to do so, the computer running the system would have to think a bit harder, and generate a little more heat. Eventually, all of this compensation for the effects of the Bubble Lead would overheat the system, causing it to break, thus the loud whine after the battle while the holographic effects are ending.
Doesn't address if it's the orb or the big dome that's projecting the alien, but meh. ^_^
You say that like it's a bad thing. ^_^
That might actually be a power issue.
Using the Zero example, his saber seems to be separated from his main power source when being wielded, thus returning it to his back, likely to recharge, when not in use.
I need to find that topic...
Leverage and force are still science. ^_^
True, the X6 sprites for Zero have his saber remaining straight, and the 3D games tend toward the rigid blade.
I suppose stylistic change and technological progress are both equally likely. ^_^
I think EXE2's reality - cyberspace overlap event is actually the exact same as the 0-Space. Overdose of server radiation merges two worlds. Overdose of Zero Virus merges two worlds. FM-King Cepheus' immense Z-wave emission turning the real world into waves being very similar.
The thing is, data is an abstract concept. Without a medium, there can be no data, similar to how you can't have a drawing without something to draw on. Now, in the Classic/X/Zero-verse, the existence of a non-physical medium for the storing and retrieving of data becomes a canon fact as of the middle of the X-series, with its existence being likely from the beginning of the Reploid species. This, of course, being the DNA Soul. The events of Xtreme 2 are enough evidence to suggest that DNA souls exist in the material universe as some kind of energy-based storage medium containing the "genetic" data of the Reploid as well as their memories.
In the EXE/RNR-verse, prior to Kotobuki, and after the fact, all data was stored on physical mediums, and cyberspace is a rather abstract representation of the data being stored on those mediums. However, once RNR came into the picture, we had the AM and FM beings, which, like the DNA Soul, represent a non-material medium for the storage of data that exists within the physical universe. However, the wave beings also possess another quality that makes them very relevant to the Kotobuki incident: the ability to convert matter into energy (granted, while ignoring the ratio given by the famous relativity equation) as witnessed by the transformation of humans into wave entities. Now, we know that the creations of humans in the EXE/RNR-verse are compatible with the wave entities, given how RNR Rockman entered physical systems as an Earth-made navi would, so it's not too far of a stretch to make the assumption that the Kotobuki incident ended up re-creating the matter to wave transfer process. Despite the two hundred year gap, we don't see that much technological progress in the EXE to RNR transition. Particularly in the operation of computer devices, they just get smaller.
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Keep in mind, as it is a "laser", it should be light based...
If it is, in fact, light it would move at the speed of light. It's likely a similar case to the Star Wars case of turbolasers not being lasers.
Where problems occur is the question of which is the true Gemini Beam: Its representation in the games, or Super Adventure Rockman's take? (Which, I admit, I've only seen from the opening, but it appears to behave like a true laser.)
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I'm starting to reckon that what GeminiMan does is literally creating a second version of himself. Not just a fake hologram, but an identical robot with mass, to the point that it becomes irrelevant whichever is real. They're two bodies with one mind and identity. As such both take damage and, when it becomes too hard to sustain two, one just disperses the other and takes over as the main body. An extended variation of this would apply to his ability to create more duplicates in Super Adventure.
This is actually another viable explanation for Gemini Man. However, if Gemini man has another fully operational body, sustaining them both isn't really a problem any more than sustaining one body, destroying one would be a matter of structural damage. Thus, dispersing a body that you spend the energy and materials you created wouldn't exactly make sense. There's also the problem of two brains, which while doubling his processing power, would inevitably create problems.
Let's say Gemini Man creates an identical robot body, doubling every element of his design. For this body to function at the same capacity, all of its autonomic functions would have to be active. Its core would be outputting the same energy, and to control its body, the clone would be thinking, just like the original. Now, this works well because he's a perfect copy of Gemini Man, and thus would behave the same way. However, without some kind of infrared or radio communication between the two, the two may have completely different reactions to the same stimulus and thus step on each others toes, so to speak. Simple enough, add a radio or infra-red modem. This, however, creates a slight reaction time lag, because both copies have to transmit their reactions to the stimulus and come to a solution of what to do. This takes time, which is a precious commodity when you have a homicidal blue robot wanting to kill you and eat your soul to gain your special power. In either case, either coordinating actions or leaving the potential for conflicting reactions, with the addition of more clones, Gemini Man would run face-first into the brick wall of diminishing returns in regards to his combat effectiveness.
Now, there is another option with the perfect clone idea. Only have one Gemini Man "thinking" at a time, and controlling the others via said radio or infra-red modem like puppets. In this case, however, Gemini Man would require a very powerful brain to control another body in addition to his own, and if his currently active body is the one that's destroyed, it creates a potentially lethal lag during which the puppet body's brain has to boot up. There's also an issue with the more powerful processor: To gain that huge boost in performance, Doctor Wily would likely have to overclock the hell out of Gemini Man's processor, which would create huge amounts of heat. This... actually isn't too much of an issue, because it provides an alternate reason for the spikes on his helmet: heat radiators.
... Which creates the amusing mental image of Gemini Man catching a heat seeking missile with his face...
However, even with the hologram conjecture, the question of which Gemini Man is the real one is still irrelevant. It's a principle I like to call Schrodinger's Copy. Another good name would be the Naruto Effect, given how clone battles behave in that series.
Put simply, in a work of fiction, if you are facing four copies of an individual, and you fire three shots at three of those copies, each shot will hit one of the fakes. Similar to the cat in the box that is both alive and dead until the box is opened and the cat is observed, until the shot is fired and connects in a killing blow, each of those images is both real and fake.
The hologram also works with Gemini Man's hatred and weakness to snakes.
Snakes possess keen non-visual senses, and it's likely that Snake Man and his Search Snakes possess IR sensors. Now, a hard light hologram likely possesses a very different infrared image than a solid Robot, and thus a snake would be able to tell which is the real and which is the fake if it is indeed holographic. As for the physical weakness...
... I'll need to think more on that. For now, all I can think of is "LOL game mechanics"
Maybe some kind of psychosomatic reaction?
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By comparison, the alien hologram isn't anything solid, just an image overlaying a holographic protector with weapons-mounted. This projector being protected from all attacks but the Bubble Lead by whatever means necessary.
Heh, forgot about the little thing floating around the room after the hologram ends. So it likely does contain the plasma cannon.
The question would be "why Bubble Lead?" (Without resorting to "LOL game mechanics")
We know the projector in the ceiling is a holographic projector, and while it's protected from attack, it also shuts down when the alien is defeated. (On an unrelated note, it's possible the projector played a role in the prototyping and creation of Wily's Robot Masters at the time. The room does look like it would be well suited to that purpose.) While it is possible this is just narrative law in effect, if we look at the weapons Rock possessed at the time we notice something: Bubble Lead is a transparent/translucent looking sphere, relevance being that curved, transparent or translucent surfaces refract light very well.
Jumping into the realm of thinking way too much, each time the bubble hits the alien, the screen flashes. Sure, it's a general damage effect, but in this case it could be thought of as refracted light being scattered about and the projector having to compensate, and to do so, the computer running the system would have to think a bit harder, and generate a little more heat. Eventually, all of this compensation for the effects of the Bubble Lead would overheat the system, causing it to break, thus the loud whine after the battle while the holographic effects are ending.
Doesn't address if it's the orb or the big dome that's projecting the alien, but meh. ^_^
You're all nuts.
You say that like it's a bad thing. ^_^
A twist on beam weapons in Megaman seems to be that they don't sustain shape for long. In Zero's case his saber usually isn't visible when he's not attacking and if you look closely you can see it flicker out after he takes his final swing. My guess is it can only maintain its shape for a short time, thus the user would quickly turn it on only to attack then turn it right back off.
That might actually be a power issue.
Using the Zero example, his saber seems to be separated from his main power source when being wielded, thus returning it to his back, likely to recharge, when not in use.
Yeah, but the fighting poses are still mostly worthless for robots who mix it up close range at least once in a while. Why the heck would humanoid, class SA hunters be imbeciles at hand combat?
*realizes no one cares*
I need to find that topic...
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Uh, but back on topic.
Leverage and force are still science. ^_^
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About the plasma weapons thing: I always thought that Zero's saber changing shape when he swings it to be a stylistic depiction, rather than the blade actually curving or changing its length.
True, the X6 sprites for Zero have his saber remaining straight, and the 3D games tend toward the rigid blade.
I suppose stylistic change and technological progress are both equally likely. ^_^
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Fan Creations / Machina's Writing and non-drawing art
« on: March 07, 2009, 01:01:08 AM »
I am Machina Kyrios, Director of the Intentions Project and Legendary Slacker. Emphasis on that second title.
Since I've started working on Megaman stuff again (after taking winter off for working on hard SF) I figured I might as well make a thread. ^_^
Two things to start out with. First is Awakening, the first main sequence arc of Intentions which hasn't been updated since October thanks to said winter break. Hopefully I'll have the second chapter up soon, but hey, now it's there. The current Intentions project is a reboot of a previous version that was around for a few years on other communities. I wrote myself into a corner, got sick of all the plot holes, and decided to restart things with as manyminio contributors from the last project brought into the new project's fold as I could. Maybe this time I'll update more than once every few months. (Break aside! Doesn't count!)
And the second is a mechaniloid design.
Just a Maverick mechaniloid series that popped into my head during a period of writers block that I decided to render. It doesn't have a proper name yet, other than just being called a sentry, but already has two variants. Standard, with twin plasma cannons, Deluxe, with a dual plasma cannon and a chainsaw, and MD (guess the initials) with twin miniguns.
Just a simple little model and render.
Since I've started working on Megaman stuff again (after taking winter off for working on hard SF) I figured I might as well make a thread. ^_^
Two things to start out with. First is Awakening, the first main sequence arc of Intentions which hasn't been updated since October thanks to said winter break. Hopefully I'll have the second chapter up soon, but hey, now it's there. The current Intentions project is a reboot of a previous version that was around for a few years on other communities. I wrote myself into a corner, got sick of all the plot holes, and decided to restart things with as many
And the second is a mechaniloid design.
Just a Maverick mechaniloid series that popped into my head during a period of writers block that I decided to render. It doesn't have a proper name yet, other than just being called a sentry, but already has two variants. Standard, with twin plasma cannons, Deluxe, with a dual plasma cannon and a chainsaw, and MD (guess the initials) with twin miniguns.
Just a simple little model and render.
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Forum Games / Re: CTRL+V
« on: March 01, 2009, 10:03:15 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMHGoLzc27Q&feature=related
^ Ware koso wa~ Ware koso wa~ BARAN DOBAN!!
^ Ware koso wa~ Ware koso wa~ BARAN DOBAN!!
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Off The Wall / Re: Alien sounding names
« on: March 01, 2009, 09:58:17 PM »
Alternate, extremely difficult route:
1. Create language. There are lots of lovely sources for conlanging.
2. Establish naming method for that language. The kind of thing the culture that speaks that tongue would use.
3. Piece together words from that language. The name might mean "[ray splasher] Meadow" in English, but it can sound magical and mysterious untranslated.
and eventually...
4. Get lazy and start making it up as you go along.
1. Create language. There are lots of lovely sources for conlanging.
2. Establish naming method for that language. The kind of thing the culture that speaks that tongue would use.
3. Piece together words from that language. The name might mean "[ray splasher] Meadow" in English, but it can sound magical and mysterious untranslated.
and eventually...
4. Get lazy and start making it up as you go along.
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Rockman Series / Re: Rockman Science Hour - Theory, techbabble, and handwavium, oh my
« on: March 01, 2009, 09:41:11 PM »
Delayed response powers, go! (Blasted writing stuff. Had to distract me from tech discussions.)
Aye, but things like the Kotobuki disaster in EXE2 creates some iffiness. (Regardless of how awesome it was.)
The Gemini Laser's properties seem to suggest it's simply a directed energy weapon that uses some, for lack of a better way of putting it, funky containment effects to give it its bouncing property. I say funky containment effects because the way the weapon behaves doesn't suggest being an actual light-based weapon, namely its speed and how it reflects off of objects that should absorb it. (I know, I know, game mechanics.) I've always held the conjecture that the reason the Gemini Laser and the clone have never been used at the same time was either due to power requirements, or because the use of the Gemini Laser required mobile force field emitters (as in, emitters to create a moving force field, damn ambiguous English language) that would be in use by the clone.
Sourced or conjecture?
Aye, but the part I was driving at was the alien's solid structure and the use of a projected energy weapon. Though, it IS likely that the rest of the hologram contained a force field to keep stray shots from hitting either the emitter or Doctor Wily.
Aye, that's one flaw with the Gemini Laser theory. But it could overcome that flaw by reversing the flow of technology in that case. The principles of the alien lead to the Gemini Laser being possible. (Which, in both the "Gemini Laser created Gemini Man Copy" and the "Gemini Laser and Gemini Man Copy are separate systems" theories, this flow would help explain.)
More than the average person would think. Not everyone here is normal. I'm an SF writer with too much time on his hands. Very little is beyond what I'd think. ^_^
Tremble, feeble mortals, for I wield the laws of physics and a penchant for breaking them for the lulz!
Teleportation might be a good next topic, but Align has already brought up beam sabers.
Well, there are several routes you can go with beam weapons. First is the Star Wars route, which claims that the light sabers they use are a high intensity beam of light that's curved in on itself to make it stop where the end of the blade is. I, however, view this approach as crap. Take a flashlight and wave it at another flashlight. Light does not work that way, but this isn't really surprising because Star Wars writers already fail science forever. Second route is the Gundam route, where the beam sabers are a fountain of charged particles. In Universal Century, this works out because of the Minovsky Particles used. They create a nice blade-shaped field and behave like good little particles. At least it isn't light.
In the Rockman universe, there are no convenient Minovsky Particles to work with. But, as Gemini Man proves, we do have force fields to play with. If we look at the beam sabers used by Zero, Sigma, and Colonel, we see that they have clearly defined edges and maintain their shape except for some bending when swung with considerable force. (Exceptions: The X4 anime intro, where Zero and Colonel's sabers are shown behaving somewhat like they were made of solid fire) This would suggest some kind of solid energy framework, most likely a force field that degrades somewhat toward the end, allowing the "bend" we see,
Now, determining the exact makeup of the blade requires determining how it cuts. If it's due heat, the blade is probably filled with some kind of plasma.
Any thoughts on sabers, Zan? ^_^
I'm of the opinion that both alternate universes operate on the same physics, at least, highly similar ones. A lot of stuff from EXE/SSR actually explain X-series weirdness like the Virus and 0-Space.
Aye, but things like the Kotobuki disaster in EXE2 creates some iffiness. (Regardless of how awesome it was.)
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Yeah, GeminiMan's copies are factually solid, profiles even mention it. I guess it might relate in some fashion to the gemini laser, but I'm not sure.
The Gemini Laser's properties seem to suggest it's simply a directed energy weapon that uses some, for lack of a better way of putting it, funky containment effects to give it its bouncing property. I say funky containment effects because the way the weapon behaves doesn't suggest being an actual light-based weapon, namely its speed and how it reflects off of objects that should absorb it. (I know, I know, game mechanics.) I've always held the conjecture that the reason the Gemini Laser and the clone have never been used at the same time was either due to power requirements, or because the use of the Gemini Laser required mobile force field emitters (as in, emitters to create a moving force field, damn ambiguous English language) that would be in use by the clone.
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(Gemini Laser developed by Dr. Light when he happened upon a special substance that would give a "reaction element" further acceleration. Whatever that means. I would reckon it means the light is just so photon concentrated it becomes solid. Or something.)
Sourced or conjecture?
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The hologram isn't just the alien. The entire room is holographic. The alien simply masks a key component.
Aye, but the part I was driving at was the alien's solid structure and the use of a projected energy weapon. Though, it IS likely that the rest of the hologram contained a force field to keep stray shots from hitting either the emitter or Doctor Wily.
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Also, if the Gemini's solid nature relates to the Gemini Laser... there'd be no way the alien could employ it; Gemini Laser wasn't invented yet.
Aye, that's one flaw with the Gemini Laser theory. But it could overcome that flaw by reversing the flow of technology in that case. The principles of the alien lead to the Gemini Laser being possible. (Which, in both the "Gemini Laser created Gemini Man Copy" and the "Gemini Laser and Gemini Man Copy are separate systems" theories, this flow would help explain.)
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Either way, this talk of holograms relates a LOT to teleporation, matter waves, wave lifeforms, cyber lifeforms, and cyberspace/substance world crossovers like the 0 space, more than you'd think.
More than the average person would think. Not everyone here is normal. I'm an SF writer with too much time on his hands. Very little is beyond what I'd think. ^_^
Tremble, feeble mortals, for I wield the laws of physics and a penchant for breaking them for the lulz!
Teleportation might be a good next topic, but Align has already brought up beam sabers.
Hmm, hard light... any relation to the beamsabers?
Well, there are several routes you can go with beam weapons. First is the Star Wars route, which claims that the light sabers they use are a high intensity beam of light that's curved in on itself to make it stop where the end of the blade is. I, however, view this approach as crap. Take a flashlight and wave it at another flashlight. Light does not work that way, but this isn't really surprising because Star Wars writers already fail science forever. Second route is the Gundam route, where the beam sabers are a fountain of charged particles. In Universal Century, this works out because of the Minovsky Particles used. They create a nice blade-shaped field and behave like good little particles. At least it isn't light.
In the Rockman universe, there are no convenient Minovsky Particles to work with. But, as Gemini Man proves, we do have force fields to play with. If we look at the beam sabers used by Zero, Sigma, and Colonel, we see that they have clearly defined edges and maintain their shape except for some bending when swung with considerable force. (Exceptions: The X4 anime intro, where Zero and Colonel's sabers are shown behaving somewhat like they were made of solid fire) This would suggest some kind of solid energy framework, most likely a force field that degrades somewhat toward the end, allowing the "bend" we see,
Now, determining the exact makeup of the blade requires determining how it cuts. If it's due heat, the blade is probably filled with some kind of plasma.
Any thoughts on sabers, Zan? ^_^
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Rockman Series / Rockman Science Hour - Theory, techbabble, and handwavium, oh my
« on: February 25, 2009, 04:28:59 AM »
Internal consistency, truly thou art worthy of being called "Savior"
To look upon the Rockman series with the eye of a hard science fiction writer should be to sacrifice one's own sanity, but while the writing suffers in spots, internal consistency confers upon the series the ability to be analyzed, to be studied and dissected until even what was unintended comes to light. There is no element in the main sequence of series that the technological basis of an element, save those in the earliest of classic series games, that cannot be traced to an earlier technology or could not reasonably be created with that technological base. (The EXE/Star Force spinoff tends to be a little more shaky at times.)
As with any analysis of fiction, catgirls will die, wild conjectures will be made, and someone will probably analyze things way too deeply and come to the conclusion that Doctor Cain had a sex change mid way through X4 and put his mind in a Reploid body to become Layer.
And to start things off, I'd like to state the conjecture that Doctor Wily's alien hologram in MM2 and Gemini Man are the reason the various viruses in the X era and the cyber elves can behave like they do.
Looking at both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's copy, we can see that both employ some kind of hard light structure, likely employing force fields of some kind. We can determine this easily by running into either at full force and monitoring how much damage is received. Any amount of damage sustained higher than "none" would support this belief. This is important in that both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's double employ a projected energy weapon of some kind. While it is conceivable that the projected weapons fire somehow originates from the source of the hologram, observation would suggest that doing so would be visible to the player in the same way that the projected energy attack itself is, since that's the kind of thing Capcom is quite good with in those days.
Assuming that the projected energy weapon is a compressed plasma weapon similar to Rock's primary weapon, the use of it by the hologram would suggest sophisticated workings all emulated using force fields. The hologram would have to, using a set of actions that are pure speculation, draw in air, compress down the gasses, possibly filtering out that which it doesn't need, charge it, and keep it contained likely using a short lived mobile force field to keep the plasma from diffusing upon firing. (A technique Rock, X, and all buster users also likely use.) For such actions to be emulated using hard light holograms, it is not that far of a leap to a hologram that emulates a small fusion reactor to supply its own power, a purely light-based computer to provide it with independent thought, and even its own force field and holographic emitters to maintain its own structure.
Of course, it's all the ramblings of one fan. ^_^
Thus, I open these doors to the scientifically minded. Any other thoughts on Rockman technology and science?
To look upon the Rockman series with the eye of a hard science fiction writer should be to sacrifice one's own sanity, but while the writing suffers in spots, internal consistency confers upon the series the ability to be analyzed, to be studied and dissected until even what was unintended comes to light. There is no element in the main sequence of series that the technological basis of an element, save those in the earliest of classic series games, that cannot be traced to an earlier technology or could not reasonably be created with that technological base. (The EXE/Star Force spinoff tends to be a little more shaky at times.)
As with any analysis of fiction, catgirls will die, wild conjectures will be made, and someone will probably analyze things way too deeply and come to the conclusion that Doctor Cain had a sex change mid way through X4 and put his mind in a Reploid body to become Layer.
And to start things off, I'd like to state the conjecture that Doctor Wily's alien hologram in MM2 and Gemini Man are the reason the various viruses in the X era and the cyber elves can behave like they do.
Looking at both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's copy, we can see that both employ some kind of hard light structure, likely employing force fields of some kind. We can determine this easily by running into either at full force and monitoring how much damage is received. Any amount of damage sustained higher than "none" would support this belief. This is important in that both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's double employ a projected energy weapon of some kind. While it is conceivable that the projected weapons fire somehow originates from the source of the hologram, observation would suggest that doing so would be visible to the player in the same way that the projected energy attack itself is, since that's the kind of thing Capcom is quite good with in those days.
Assuming that the projected energy weapon is a compressed plasma weapon similar to Rock's primary weapon, the use of it by the hologram would suggest sophisticated workings all emulated using force fields. The hologram would have to, using a set of actions that are pure speculation, draw in air, compress down the gasses, possibly filtering out that which it doesn't need, charge it, and keep it contained likely using a short lived mobile force field to keep the plasma from diffusing upon firing. (A technique Rock, X, and all buster users also likely use.) For such actions to be emulated using hard light holograms, it is not that far of a leap to a hologram that emulates a small fusion reactor to supply its own power, a purely light-based computer to provide it with independent thought, and even its own force field and holographic emitters to maintain its own structure.
Of course, it's all the ramblings of one fan. ^_^
Thus, I open these doors to the scientifically minded. Any other thoughts on Rockman technology and science?
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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: February 24, 2009, 07:58:44 PM »
"My momentum while writing has been utterly destroyed by the delivery of smoked gouda to my office. Damn you, delicious cheese! I was making progress! DAMN YOU!!"
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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!
« on: February 24, 2009, 06:47:28 PM »
"... Watch. I don't care. I really can't be bothered dealing with this."
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Forum Games / Re: Make up a Crazy Lie about the Above Poster
« on: February 24, 2009, 06:29:49 PM »
There are only twenty two mets in his signature.
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Gaming / Re: Worst experience while gaming online?
« on: February 24, 2009, 06:25:18 PM »
Story one...
Tribes 2, back during its peak.
Katabatic.
We're outnumbered.
Most of our base disabled.
Assassins are in the base to keep people from repairing the generators.
Everyone else outside is pounding us with everything they could throw to keep us from escaping to break the siege.
A tank just past the mountains with spotters who actually know how to use their damn laser pointers aiming their mortar for them, two bombers overhead with shrike escorts, and not only a mobile base but several deployed inventory stations to ensure they can resupply at any time.
We're outgunned, out maneuvered, and unable to recover. They have us entirely out performed. They're GOOD.
My team's response is not to struggle on, it is not to quit, it isn't even to try to switch teams. No, it's to degrade into a self-destructive orgy of violence, trying to team kill each other while blaming everyone else for the enemy owning us.
Tribes 2, back during its peak.
Katabatic.
We're outnumbered.
Most of our base disabled.
Assassins are in the base to keep people from repairing the generators.
Everyone else outside is pounding us with everything they could throw to keep us from escaping to break the siege.
A tank just past the mountains with spotters who actually know how to use their damn laser pointers aiming their mortar for them, two bombers overhead with shrike escorts, and not only a mobile base but several deployed inventory stations to ensure they can resupply at any time.
We're outgunned, out maneuvered, and unable to recover. They have us entirely out performed. They're GOOD.
My team's response is not to struggle on, it is not to quit, it isn't even to try to switch teams. No, it's to degrade into a self-destructive orgy of violence, trying to team kill each other while blaming everyone else for the enemy owning us.
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Off The Wall / Re: This is why you're fat
« on: February 15, 2009, 10:40:52 PM »
Bacon burger dog with cheese actually sounds pretty good.
... But the doughnut sloppy joes...
... Damn my curiosity!!!
EDIT: AH HA! The problem of keeping the meat from falling through the hole solved without the need for experimentation!
USE BACON!
... But the doughnut sloppy joes...
... Damn my curiosity!!!
EDIT: AH HA! The problem of keeping the meat from falling through the hole solved without the need for experimentation!
USE BACON!
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Forum Games / Re: The "What if" Game!
« on: February 15, 2009, 03:15:51 PM »
Then it'd be really hard to ma- ... write...
What if the top of the page on the board was an infinite loop of 2 Girls 1 Cup?
What if the top of the page on the board was an infinite loop of 2 Girls 1 Cup?