Recent content by McKitten

Squad is a marketing company, Kerbal was only a side project started by one guy almost as a hobby. With almost the entire KSP team having left Squad anyway, it makes perfect sense to sell off the game and it's very unlikely they'll make other games.

It doesn't do that either. W7-X ist not a fusion reactor, it is a plasma containment test device. There will never be any fusion done with it, the point is to test if the stellarator design can efficiently contain plasma. To test that, they create plasma with microwaves and then observe how well...

It's pretty funny how news about SpaceX keeps harping on about them being "private sector". There's nothing private about them, SpaceX is a government contractor, every contract they get is from the government and every cent they earn comes from tax money. It's not even new. NASA has had...

Trademark law is not as fickle as often claimed, there is no chance that a short lapse in claims or similar minor things would ever cost Sony the trademark. That being said, at this point I'm quite sure they're doing this intentionally for the publicity. Also: Fuck you Sony for not...

This article is pretty terrible. If you're getting into number-crunching in D3 there's a lot more factors to consider. For example on-hit effects that obviously trigger more often with higher attack speeds, stats like AP on crit that counteract the higher resource use and, most importantly of...

Not really. That's the risk you take on Kickstarter. People always forget that supporting a Kickstarter is not the same as placing a pre-order. Supporting a project that fails is a risk you simply have to live with. If you don't want to take that risk, place a normal pre-order or wait until it's...

So, is this going to be the repeat of "Censorship" doesn't mean what most people mean with it OR what the technical definition is, but only what Moviebob, the authority on definitions of all kind says it should mean? Yeah, i usually like The Big Picture, but the last one on this topic was so...

It is not even the need to improve graphics that is driving the cost of triple-A titles upwards, it is the competition to have the very best graphics possible. While technological progress makes graphics at the cutting edge better, it also makes graphics at the cheap and better. Case in point...

Sooo.... fools getting ripped off? Sounds to me like perfect libertarianism in action. I thought that's what all those bitcoin fans liked so much.

It is perfectly possible to disapprove of actions while at the same time having the opinion that they are an individuals right. I disapprove of people taking (certain) drugs and think that it is an unwise decision they shouldn't make. But that doesn't mean that i think they shouldn't be allowed...

Fixed that for you.

The theory is rubbish. The sort of fixed monogamous relationship (aka marriage) we think of as the standard isn't something that has been done by all humans throughout history, let alone by our ancestors from far enough back to have an influence on our physical evolution. Heck, a lot of the...

Again, there is no absolute coordinate system. There is no good reason why a time machine would keep stationary relative to the sun, or the milky way, or the local supercluster rather than keeping stationary relative to earth.

There is no absolute coordinate system, there is no more reason for you to end up in space than there is for you to not end up in space.

Timetravel is kinda like faster-than-light travel in that it simply doesn't work with fundamental laws of the world we live in, so you'll have to pick something that gets thrown out. In case of time travel you have two choices, The first is you throw out any notion of free will or even...