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Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Comment Re: Actionable? (Score 1) 350

So do you expect him to be an incel because some women might be offended by a written request for a date? How else is he going to get sex with prostitution outlawed? He's a fat greasy nerd that doesn't exactly have babes beating down the door. Got to cast a net

Nobody has the right to demand sex. Sex isn't an award. And one should be able to go to a tech conference for the tech. It's really not that complicated.

Comment Re: Capitalists no more? (Score 1) 286

Right, replacing infrastructure which can output a predictable amount of energy 24/7 with power sources which fluctuate massively depending on environmental conditions ... that doesn't change anything at all.

We're replacing it with a power source that doesn't make environmental conditions fluctuate, moron.

Comment Re:Fake story (Score 2) 355

Any polyatomic gas is a greenhouse gas. If it's airborne and has three or more atoms, it qualifies.

Low energy infrared photons (like those emitted by a body at 300K) can cause bonds to bend side to side in a flapping motion.

Oxygen and nitrogen are diatomic molecules. They can stretch, but there's no way they can bend because there are only two atoms. So they're transparent to IR emitted from the ground and are not greenhouse gases. Molecules that can bend need three atoms or more, like carbon dioxide, which gets hit by an infrared photon and moves like a bird flapping its wings before reemitting it. H2O is also a greenhouse gas but its long term atmospheric concentration is stable over the long term and doesn't rise year over year. Methane is a potent gas because it's tetrahedral and its single bonds are easier to flex than e.g. the double bonds in CO2.

HFCs and CFCs also have tetrahedral shapes with single bonds, but they're more potent greenhouse gases than methane, because the fluorine and chlorine atoms distort the charge concentration and give the molecule a dipole moment that makes it better at scattering photons. They also provide it with more possible bending motions.

I'm not sure why this article is talking about illegal fluorotrichloromethane being a greenhouse gas. It's illegal because it destroys stratospheric ozone. Gram for gram, sarin is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, but that's not why it's illegal.

Comment Greenhouse gas (Score 2) 355

The article is poorly written. Yes CFCl3 is a potent greenhouse gas (and so is ozone actually), but the issue here is the ozone destruction, not the greenhouse effect. One shady factory in China manufacturing CFCs will warm the earth about as much as the factory next door legally manufacturing HFC. Sarin is a greenhouse gas too, but that's not what makes its release newsworthy.

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