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    Oh maybe they did then? We played quite a bit today and never unlocked anything beyond a few items at the beginning so I assumed that lockout was still there.

     

    My understanding is that there's now a 15 minute mandatory gap between unlocks but you have to have:

    a. Interacted with the level editor for a sum of 15 minutes

    b. Tried out all the new things unlocked last time.

     

    Otherwise, it falls back to the old one-unlock-per-day pattern as long as you use the editor once a day.

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    It's already been said, but Consider Phlebas is by far the most atypical of the Culture books. I'd really start at The Player of Games, which is the second book, and come back to Phlebas later.

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    That poll is a bit self-selecting since only people who are active on the forums will even see it, and only those with a strong feeling one way or the other would answer the poll. I'd wager that if you put that similar poll on the forums of Elite: Dangerous, or even Broken Age, you'd probably get about the same response.

     

    That being said, I'm pretty much "tough luck" about people losing money on crowd funding. I put $150 into Shadowrun (not actually) Online, and I just ate it.

     

    It also depends on how the respondent thinks about it...

     

    For example, if I got an email that said "Hey, want a refund on your Star Citizen pledge? Click here and we'll do it!" I'd totally do it. But am I upset that that's not an option? Not really, no.

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    I was coming to say that as well as Star Trek, Picardo was in a load of Joe Dante films, notably InnerSpace and Gremlins 2.

    Re. the Cave Johnson soundalike in Portal Stories,

    I believe the official plot summary refers to a "fake Cave Johnson" as being one of the central mysteries.

     

    May I refer you to this Thrilling Adventure Hour episode in which they couldn't book John Dimaggio to play his role as Captain Laserbeam that night, so they recast with Keegan Michael Key for the episode and then made it a running joke?

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    Wow that's a lot of spoiler tags!

     

    Jake I'm pretty sure you won't need to get a PS4 to play No Man's Sky because it is supposed to come out on PC at the same time. Or at least I could have sworn I saw information to that effect during E3.

     

     

    Yeah, they were previously going to launch on the PS4 first with PC following, but are now saying they'll release together.

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    I think syntheticgerbil mentioned this already, but the reason early animation is mostly filled in with black isn't (usually) racial, it's because it was cheaper. Here's a breakdown of how this sort of animation was made (at least at Disney, but it should be pretty similar elsewhere):

     

    1. An animator draws keyframes with major poses

    2. Animation keyframes are sent to in-betweeners, an army of grunts who fill in all the frames between the keyframes

    3. The complete frames are sent to the inkers, who copy the frames from paper onto acetate

    4. The acetate cels are sent to painters, who then fill in those lines

    5. Then the whole thing goes to be photographed, with the backgrounds as separate painting(s) (in multiple layers in the case of Disney's multiplane system)

     

     

    Basically, it's cheaper to have an army of inkers and painters all working in black with occasional spot color than it is to pipeline them through a bunch of colors for each frame. Color usually came from spots or backgrounds.

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    Really, the swinging gondolas suck because:

     

    1) The line is often much longer since people wanna get on those swinging gondolas, and there's only one line, while there are two stationary gondola lines.

    2) You don't even end up getting as good of a view, as you can see in the image, since you never get as high above the ground as the stationary gondolas.

     

    Other way around on #1. There are two loading stations for swinging gondolas and one for stationary, in the middle. The line is longer, but moves twice as fast up to the point where it splits into separate queues for the front and back load. That said, the ration of swingers (ha) to non-swingers in line is usually higher than 2:1, so the total wait for non-swinging is usually shorter.

     

    The key to making the whole thing fun is to put all the heaviest people on one side.