Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Ironmonger]

P-21 might be a little difficult. Sneaky and explosions don't really seem to be things that can be easily translated into car.

I was just thinking that. Plus, I'm not sure if he would be called masculine or feminine despite being male.

[iLateralGX]

Tesla Model S. Electric car, therefore minimum volume. Looks a good combination of feminine and masculine. Win win.

Spoiler:

[Ironmonger]

That works. Rampage would be one of those Death Race cars, maybe a demolition derby vehicle.

[iLateralGX]

I am thinking of Twisted Metal. For some reason when I think Rampage, I think Darkside.

[Ironmonger]

That actually makes sense. Incredibly strong, tougher than nails thanks to her armor and regeneration, and reasonably fast. Lacunae might be a hard one.

[iLateralGX]

That actually makes sense. Incredibly strong, tougher than nails thanks to her armor and regeneration, and reasonably fast. Lacunae might be a hard one.

Funny, I actually thought about Lacunae as a car a while back. I came to the conclusion that she would be a Koenigsegg Agera R

Spoiler:

Instead of white, it should be her color.

[O. Hinds]

@CamoBadger:
I've just finished the story. It was a rather interesting situation to look at.
...I'm really not good at this "reviewing" thing unless I spot problems, sorry...

[Ironmonger]

Funny, I actually thought about Lacunae as a car a while back. I came to the conclusion that she would be a Koenigsegg Agera R

Spoiler:

Instead of white, it should be her color.

I was thinking in the wrong direction. I was trying to match her magical prowess up with a vehicle when I should have been focusing on the fact she is an alicorn, the high-performance model of the pony line.

I imagine Scotch Tape being a S10 work truck, Blackjack describes her as not being very pretty but not ugly. An S10 would fall into the description and it could be used for utility/carrying tools with the proper modifications.

[iLateralGX]

Funny, I actually thought about Lacunae as a car a while back. I came to the conclusion that she would be a Koenigsegg Agera R

Spoiler:

Instead of white, it should be her color.

I was thinking in the wrong direction. I was trying to match her magical prowess up with a vehicle when I should have been focusing on the fact she is an alicorn, the high-performance model of the pony line.

I imagine Scotch Tape being a S10 work truck, Blackjack describes her as not being very pretty but not ugly. An S10 would fall into the description and it could be used for utility/carrying tools with the proper modifications.

Rampage and Scotch would be real eyesores in this group.

[Ironmonger]

Stronghoof. XD

[iLateralGX]

I know you already had one for Deus. But when I started thinking about Twisted Metal, I remembered a car called Warthog.

[Ironmonger]

Manslaughter could pass for at least someone in PH. It's a creepy enough vehicle.

[iLateralGX]

Now I wanna play Twisted Metal Black. I might just fire up the ol PlayStation 2 emulator.

[Ironmonger]

That game was aaaaaaaaaaawesome. Twisted Metal was pretty revolutionary when it came out, it was probably the first vehicle game where you didn't race or do anything fancy, just blow everyone else to kingdom come.

[iLateralGX]

That game was aaaaaaaaaaawesome. Twisted Metal was pretty revolutionary when it came out, it was probably the first vehicle game where you didn't race or do anything fancy, just blow everyone else to kingdom come.

I remember playing that game when I was like 9. It really scared me. It was a huge turn away from the previous Twisted Metals that I owned on the PSX.

[Ironmonger]

Not me! I couldn't get enough of that game, but to be fair I'm not bothered by a lot of things. I kinda grew up with media depicting destruction, I saw Terminator 2 at age 3. xD

[iLateralGX]

Not me! I couldn't get enough of that game, but to be fair I'm not bothered by a lot of things. I kinda grew up with media depicting destruction, I saw Terminator 2 at age 3. xD

It was different.

One of my first games for the PSX was Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, so hey, I know the feeling!

EDIT:
Just saw this on the MLP subreddit.

Spoiler:

I REALLY LIKE IT.

[Ironmonger]

[iLateralGX]

I was six years old and I had a game with tits, guns, killer pigs from outer space and whole bunch of babes.

It made me a better person!

[Ironmonger]

I was playing Starcraft from the 3rd grade up until Starcraft 2 came out. Some of the battle.net custom maps were the bloodiest fucking things anyone ever did see. Especially the Halo mass-attack games, my word, the carnage...

Violent media made me a man!

All I need now is an epic 'stash, a beard, and a good hat. I got the beard part almost covered.

[iLateralGX]

I was playing Starcraft from the 3rd grade up until Starcraft 2 came out. Some of the battle.net custom maps were the bloodiest fucking things anyone ever did see. Especially the Halo mass-attack games, my word, the carnage...

Violent media made me a man!

All I need now is an epic 'stash, a beard, and a good hat. I got the beard part almost covered.

Already got the beard and stash covered. The only hat I own is a fedora, which I do not wear unless I have my full 1920's mafia man getup going.

3rd grade, I don't remember a single game I played back then. Knowing me it either had to do with cars or guns. Or Both.

[Ironmonger]

Already got the beard and stash covered. The only hat I own is a fedora, which I do not wear unless I have my full 1920's mafia man getup going.

I had a fedora but I had to throw it away because these strange particles messed it up. I have a really expensive trench coat somewhere, it would have retailed for probably over $100 but I got it from a Goodwill for $13. I'll probably shave my beard if doesn't grown in completely. It's like strategically place clumps of hair for protection, like herd mentality.

3rd grade, I don't remember a single game I played back then. Knowing me it either had to do with cars or guns. Or Both.

[iLateralGX]

On an unrelated note, have any of you that own Kerbal Space Program played 0.18 yet?

Because it is amazing. Aside from the numerous glitches that is.

[Guest]

@Games, Beards, and Hats
For the record: I learned to game in kindergarten on Perfect Dark for the N64. Also some Mortal Kombat game, I think on the PS1, and one of the Worms games on the PC. I had a beard but I shaved it off recently, it was too long and you could feel the wind pulling on it. Also, they make eating difficult. Also, I was told I looked like a friendly unabomber, and that - when shaved - I look like a young Neil Gaiman. And I like Neil Gaiman better than the unabomber, friendly or no. I do miss it every now and then, though. I don't have any hats to speak of; got hair, and that's enough, generally speaking.

[Ironmonger]

@Games, Beards, and Hats
For the record: I learned to game in kindergarten on Perfect Dark for the N64. Also some Mortal Kombat game, I think on the PS1, and one of the Worms games on the PC. I had a beard but I shaved it off recently, it was too long and you could feel the wind pulling on it. Also, they make eating difficult. Also, I was told I looked like a friendly unabomber, and that - when shaved - I look like a young Neil Gaiman. And I like Neil Gaiman better than the unabomber, friendly or no. I do miss it every now and then, though. I don't have any hats to speak of; got hair, and that's enough, generally speaking.

I've been gaming since I was 2 or 3. One of the Dragon Ball games was my first fighting game along with Tekken 3. Jack is still my favorite fighter. I wanted to try a beard to get that classical warrior look, I've always been told I'd be getting a lot of girl friends and that I'm cute so I thought I'd augment it. Not working out the way I wanted it to. Mostly I need to be less shy around people and not act creepy.

EDIT: Posts like this are what happens when I'm trying to type about a specific subject and my mind wanders off onto something else.

[Harmony Ltd.]

As an alternative to total conversion to H2, piston engine aircraft could be run on biodiesel and turbine engines on the jet fuel equivalent (jet fuel and diesel are already pretty similar, and, though I don't actually know, I expect that making synthetic jet fuel would not be that much more difficult). For longer trips that need to be made more quickly, here's something else from REL.

My problem with biofuels is that as long as they will use arable lands to be produced, they will be properly unsustainable. If it come from algal sources needing only solar power participating to the reduction of CO2 emissions, then okay ; but until then I'm opposed to biofuels on a pragmatic basis.

My thought about H2 is that our economy in the one or two decades to come is going to shift from being oil-centered, to being H2-centered - as a mean to stock the energy produced by all the renewable but discontinuous energy sources such as wind or solar power.

So as we are going to have the infrastructure to deal with H2 as a fuel source, why not extend it to commercial aviation ?

Also, any thoughts on making balefire equivalents to casaba-howitzers? I was just roughly thinking out a duel between an Alliance ACSAW (Alliance Command and Support Airborne Wing) and an NCR Hurricane-class cloudship, and a balefire CH warhead on an air-to-air missile would be useful for getting through the Hurricane's AAA.

Folly is already a megaspell shaped-charge.

[Ironmonger]

I really gotta look into this stuff...I mean even as a tech-savvy man who firmly believes in the power of industry (religious mode activate!) you guys sometimes speak techno-jabber as far as I'm concerned.

[Frost]

I sometimes have a beard. Only when I'm too lazy to shave.

Meanwhile, I'm now the owner if a DPMS A-15 model AR-15, with squid-grip handguard, Troy folding battlesights, one-point tactical sling and grip-pod

[Ironmonger]

You find an automatic weapon in your sandwich. Sub machine gun. Yes I know that was a horrible pun.

[O. Hinds]

As an alternative to total conversion to H2, piston engine aircraft could be run on biodiesel and turbine engines on the jet fuel equivalent (jet fuel and diesel are already pretty similar, and, though I don't actually know, I expect that making synthetic jet fuel would not be that much more difficult). For longer trips that need to be made more quickly, here's something else from REL.

My problem with biofuels is that as long as they will use arable lands to be produced, they will be properly unsustainable. If it come from algal sources needing only solar power participating to the reduction of CO2 emissions, then okay ; but until then I'm opposed to biofuels on a pragmatic basis.

Sourcing from algae is one of many possibilities. We could also get it out of biowaste that would otherwise go to, well, waste. The exact methods are still being worked out, but there are, as far as I know, plenty of good options.

My thought about H2 is that our economy in the one or two decades to come is going to shift from being oil-centered, to being H2-centered - as a mean to stock the energy produced by all the renewable but discontinuous energy sources such as wind or solar power.

So as we are going to have the infrastructure to deal with H2 as a fuel source, why not extend it to commercial aviation ?

If it's practical to extend it to commercial aviation, sure. The problem is that, if H2 planes require the wing-body design and thus required significant modifications to all airports servicing them (and that's before we even get into the need to equip the airports to actually handle the hydrogen)... it would be good if that was practical, given that design's other benefits, but, depending on just how extensive the alterations would be, I'm not sure that it would be thought so outside of some big crisis. There's also the safety/security concern; airplane crashes are bad enough now, but if a plane crash also meant the possibility of big tanks of cryogenic hydrogen suddenly being more bowls of explosively-boiling hydrogen gas that's mixing rapidly with atmospheric oxygen and probably in proximity to an ignition source... This is what finally convinced me to give up on my old nuclear spaceplane idea; even if the reactor could be made safe and practical, "giant fireball making lots of radioactive steam" was still a possible failure state.
Also, while this isn't an argument against hydrogen planes, I'd just like to point out that having infrastructure to deal with gasoline as a fuel source doesn't mean that our airliners run on it.

Also, any thoughts on making balefire equivalents to casaba-howitzers? I was just roughly thinking out a duel between an Alliance ACSAW (Alliance Command and Support Airborne Wing) and an NCR Hurricane-class cloudship, and a balefire CH warhead on an air-to-air missile would be useful for getting through the Hurricane's AAA.

Folly is already a megaspell shaped-charge.

Well, not really. Folly uses part of the energy release from a moonstone/starmetal annihiliation event to power a containment field that focuses the rest of the energy into a beam; even if the containment system is counted as a megaspell, the weapon is still completely useless without the moonstone and starmetal (and possibly also the Flux, if a substitute can't be found), and moonstone, starmetal, and Flux are all quite rare. I'm looking for something just as mass-producible as the balefire bombs from the Great War.

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