Alexa.com says QT3 is full of poor, stupid virgins.
“Quartertothree.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 74,744. The site is based in the US. The site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Lake Charles (#47) and Indianapolis (#5,644). Relative to the overall population of internet users, Quartertothree.com’s users tend to be under the age of 35, and they tend to be childless, less affluent men browsing from home who have no postgraduate education. Visitors to the site view an average of 2.8 unique pages per day.”
Shout out to Lake Charles and Indianapolis though!
RichVR
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Backing up my C: drive, made steak and mashed potatoes for dinner, vacuumed the rug and started a load of dishes in the dishwasher.
It’s time for a drink. Before I breastfeed a baby or something.
fire
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Pics, or it didn’t happen.
RichVR
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Smartass.
So the backup failed four times. Twice with an external USB connected drive and twice to an internal terabyte drive. Something about not copying a shadow. I’m a hardware guy. I know a bit about Win stuff but all of it is XP and older. Win 7 is new territory to me. All that I can think is that it’s a memory problem with my SSD drive. And also the reason that I was doing a backup. Some areas just can’t be read and so they are throwing an error and Win backup kills itself because it can’t do error correction?
Yeah I know, this is a post for hardware.
Anyway I’d like to do a Ghost (do people even Ghost drives anymore, I am so fucking old) or a straight copy of the drive. But that would leave me with the same errors on the new drive? I’m out of my depth here.
So much for a backup. Anyone need children suckled?
So I’ve been listening to The Last Starfighter sountrack for the last few days, and it got me to thinking…were the ships in that movie really weak/flimsy or is it just me? It only seemed to take one shot to take out a fighter, and a few shots with some missiles to take down a capital ship.
The trainer Gunstar, however, had heavier armor plating that could withstand several direct hits. Why didn’t they all have that then?
To look at it another way, why is it standard in space combat sci-fi for ship armor to be stronger than ship weapons?
Well, I’d think since space is a weightless environment, the weight of the armor of a ship’s hull wouldn’t degrade performance, so it could be made fairly heavy. However, in most space combat situations, there are shields involved I reckon. The thing is, shields and weapons need power, and I’d like the power plant of a small fighter would limit it’s capacity to power either, which is why weapons might not be as powerful as armor, since armor is static.
Just my thought anyway.
RichVR
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Well for capital ships more armor is better. But for fighters, mass is momentum. A heavy fighter is not a nimble fighter.
Houngan
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Why Brian, you disappoint me. Weightlessness has nothing to do with how a fighter would perform, gravity would only induce acceleration in one particular direction, not “weight.” I sentence you to playing Intellivision Space Hawk with full realism turned on.
I would think the amount of thrust would ultimately have more affect on performance than gravity, if a battle was in deep space near no stars or planetary bodies, but hey, I’m always at danger of being wrong. ;) Now if a battle is taking place near a star or planetary body, then sure gravity would have an effect.
You’re describing the standard fictional scenario of today, which lends itself well to military drama and a space version of battleship/carrier combat in WWII…but it could just as easily turn out that weapons are developed that can’t be stopped with shields or armor. Like RAY GUNS. pew pew pew pew
Sadly the problem with ray guns is that they’ve rarely, I feel, been represented properly in most sci-fi.
But yeah, I guess I fall into that trope in my head because it’s one of the most approachable, likely also the one I’m most familiar with.
True space combat would likely not be as close up or as quickly paced as many games have led me to believe.
I remember reading some short story where a civilization discovers another, more advanced civilization at the core of the galaxy and immediately wants to destroy it. So they get ready and develop weapons that will destroy the enemy within the first 9 billionths of a second after their fleet warps in. They try it and are destroyed themselves within the first 1 trillionth of a second (or whatever). That kind of rings true to me. Though the speed of light would have to be dealt with, la la.
Yeah, the most recent example of that sort of thing I’ve read was some of the Lost Fleet series, where combat took place millions of kilometers apart and weapons had to take into account near-speed-of-light relativistic targeting, gravity, time differences and all that other fun stuff. It was pretty fascinating to read.
Speaking of which, the best depictions of ray guns in a movie is in Mars Attacks.
Ohhh, do tell, a Google search came up with all kinds of random wackiness.
You really haven’t seen it Brian? It’s definitely a weird movie but I think it gets knocked unfairly, it’s great fun watching Martians terrorizing the earth. They have awesome weapons and flying saucers, they all look very vintage 50s sci-fi.
Ohhh, sorry, thought you said “descriptions”. Yeah, I’ve seen Mars Attacks, love the movie. Amazing cast.
Oh yeah, I was responding to your opinion that ray rayguns haven’t been represented well in movies. Mars Attacks jumped out at me.
It’s funny. The end is a ripoff of the end of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,” though.
