Cannot remember the comments, when I get out of work, will try to copy them over to this thread.
Flipboard is only on the evil Apple products I'm afraid
Flipboard is only on the evil Apple products I'm afraid
Cheers.Cannot remember the comments, when I get out of work, will try to copy them over to this thread.
Flipboard is only on the evil Apple products I'm afraid![]()
...Interesting!Yeah, other than the fact Turkey never ever ever ever had deserts like that, or camels, or women who is covered like that, or all that many mosque's, or talking&walking ducks or pigs.. Oh yeah.. (And no, Ottoman empire didn't have any of those either. Since most of the emperors/ sultans, whatever you call them were bunch happy drunks. They had a taste for fine vines.. I can tell you that much.. Me? I rather have a beer or vodka instead. But i appreciate the vine.. Yes sir.) Thats a complete picture of arabia, with Istanbul name slapped on it. I should be offended or something.... Nah..
HELL YEAH! They all look awesome...I'm going to leave these here. I know I want them, and I am sure Wars will too...
I especially like this one.. Just plain awesome.. I also hope there will be some sawn off shotguns..
I wasn't really offended, since i know you didn't mean anything by it.....Interesting!
I was mostly posting the video for the silly They Might Be Giants song. Never occurred to me that the (obviously) WILD inaccuracies of the accompanying cartoon (from an animated kid's show we had over here, called Tiny Toons) could be seen as offensive.
Cheers for that.
On topic: I wonder if CDPR will make going the bioware route a viable option? Picturing a Solo that uses a bow and muscle-powered weapons for the "silent assassin" treatment, who confounds and befuddles opponents trying to use EMP weapons on him / her.
Perhaps something more like this:By the way, i can totally imagine some corporate guy using something like this:
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Yeah, something like that would work..Perhaps something more like this:
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With regards to your point on lasers; huge flaw in your reasoning.That is an impressive load of butt ugly weapons ;P
Terrible taste in aesthetics aside, basically the rules governing weapons should be the same as the real world, how compact can you make significant power sources?
currently something like a lap top battery can out put 150 watts for like an hour. even at a 10 fold increase 1.5 KW isn't going to power shit like laser weapons or rail guns, chemical explosives are still going to be way ahead on that curve on personal weapons.
Vehicle mounted? that's more likely, as we are at 50 -100 KW storage now, a MW would be a pretty decent driver for a rail gun or laser weapon, a full body replacement carrying one? outside chance because that's going to hit a tonne for the power pack alone.
So it's likely that they will still be using chemical propellant weapons with maybe a magnetic rifling field on really fancy guns.
Given the likely hood of mono-molecular carbon/NNL laminate armor for anyone in combat regularly big soft lead slugs are likely not popular unless you are the lowest of the low.
3d printing on the other hand could mean pretty sophisticated stuff is all over the place.
There is a huge flaw in your argument about energy weapons... First of all, it is really stupid to compare our current technology to the one Cyberpunk has.. Since you do notice that cybernetic implants, the things like cybernetic arms and cyborgs (full body conversion) don't run without power right? So those batteries as it were, have a lot more juice than that, they are really compact and they work for a lot longer than your average battery would.. You can practically say they have a better power source than laptop batteries.. Because the comparison is just ridiculous.. And you can't argue about something that is already in the sourcebooks.. It is in.. That technology exists.. I dislike laser weapons in Cyberpunk as much as the next guy, but if they exist, they should at least look like normal weapons..That is an impressive load of butt ugly weapons ;P
Terrible taste in aesthetics aside, basically the rules governing weapons should be the same as the real world, how compact can you make significant power sources?
currently something like a lap top battery can out put 150 watts for like an hour. even at a 10 fold increase 1.5 KW isn't going to power shit like laser weapons or rail guns, chemical explosives are still going to be way ahead on that curve on personal weapons.
Vehicle mounted? that's more likely, as we are at 50 -100 KW storage now, a MW would be a pretty decent driver for a rail gun or laser weapon, a full body replacement carrying one? outside chance because that's going to hit a tonne for the power pack alone.
So it's likely that they will still be using chemical propellant weapons with maybe a magnetic rifling field on really fancy guns.
Given the likely hood of mono-molecular carbon/NNL laminate armor for anyone in combat regularly big soft lead slugs are likely not popular unless you are the lowest of the low.
3d printing on the other hand could mean pretty sophisticated stuff is all over the place.
So that's what? 5 shots? 10 shots? before that pack is dead, that's going to leave you with 10 KG of hot electronics.With regards to your point on lasers; huge flaw in your reasoning.
The issue isn't "how much power can we store in a battery for an hour?", we are pretty much there with that. The problem is getting the energy pit in a massive discharge.
Lets take a lithium based laptop battery that can hold a 150w/hour charge. If that charge could be expended in 10 seconds, you are looking at 54,000 watts on that 10 seconds. So taking your factor of 10 will produce over 500kw.
That still isn't enough really, although a different storage method could probably hold a much larger initial charge.
So, let's stack 6 of these laptop sized batteries that will probably be using a different chemical, giving them each a 100 fold increase in capacity. Let's discharge them in a 10 second window. That's 32.4 mega watts. Now we are cooking with lasers...
I know, that doesn't stop other peoples eyes being faulty thoughPPS: As far as the gun aesthetics are concerned, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
So put the capacitors in 'magazine', job done. Must be why the game that was written almost 25 years ago specifies that they are capacitor lasers...So that's what? 5 shots? 10 shots? before that pack is dead, that's going to leave you with 10 KG of hot electronics.
Also no, 1 KW is 1000 joules per second. so that's 1,500 joules per second for an hour, you can't really compress it anymore, you can decompress it though, like they do for car batteries. which is why most things these days that are portable can't do much more than 150 watts. dumping in to a capacitor for fast release is totally possible (see coil guns on youtube) but that takes time. time in which you can't fire at shit. I was being really kind offering a kind of super capacitor that could dump fast so it would have a fire rate of >0 per min.
I know, that doesn't stop other peoples eyes being faulty though![]()
I have to disagree.. I think Jersey Shore is the greatest television Sony ever made...Ahh..well, it's his opinion. I wouldn't say it's terrible. I'm not even sure that's possible, unless you really, really think Jersey Shore is the finest television ever made.
cyborgs could totally be using the ATP - ADP conversion that regular humans do, just more of it, given it has a energy density of about 3.4 kj per mole, which is about 450g of the stuff, humans have a bout 250g total in the body on average, a cyborg with 4 kg of it could do a lot more work and just eat a lot to replenish stocks.There is a huge flaw in your argument about energy weapons... First of all, it is really stupid to compare our current technology to the one Cyberpunk has.. Since you do notice that cybernetic implants, the things like cybernetic arms and cyborgs (full body conversion) don't run without power right? So those batteries as it were, have a lot more juice than that, they are really compact and they work for a lot longer than your average battery would.. You can practically say they have a better power source than laptop batteries.. Because the comparison is just ridiculous.. And you can't argue about something that is already in the sourcebooks.. It is in.. That technology exists.. I dislike laser weapons in Cyberpunk as much as the next guy, but if they exist, they should at least look like normal weapons..
And about taste and aesthetics, that's just your terrible opinion...