Venus proper tilset

[(XBOX)Closegato]

2 minutes ago, Mastikator2 said:

This could be us

But no, terraforming :(

im starting to rhink people dont read my comments 

venus isnt completely terraformed and the terrraforming machines are starting to fail so this still possible

[Mastikator2]

5 minutes ago, (XB1)Closegato said:

im starting to rhink people dont read my comments 

venus isnt completely terraformed and the terrraforming machines are starting to fail so this still possible

I read them, I just wanted to give a small taste of how cool a real venus tileset could be.

BWT that last picture is based on REAL Venus terrain. That's what it would actually look like. Sort of. The sky would be dark red.

[Zoretor]

PIcs! What a novel idea!

 

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! THERE'S your true Venus environment... It's not all fire n' brimstone, but close. Also, a tad more green-tinged (gotta have some cool acid storms/clouds in there somewhere).

You go Venus! You go grrl!

(someone with tha' Photoshop skeelz please fuse any of these with a pic on a Corpus Ice Outpost area)

Edited August 2, 2016 by Zoretor

[Cyndocrit]

I really wonder how the Corpus would dress in such a hot climate. Would be nice to see them in different armor or uniform fitting for Venus.

[Rex13568]

11 hours ago, Tuxie said:

Lazy handwave, read up on it.

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A Hand Wave (also memetically called "Scotch Tape") is any explanation involving the backstory, a retcon, or a use ofphlebotinum, which is noteworthy for its lack of detail or coherence. The name comes from academia and techy-land, where a person explaining a process on a whiteboard gets to a part that is not well defined or important so just waves their hand around to indicate that Stuff Happens, then moves on to the important goodies.

 

Typically, the use of this trope is an indicator of bad writing; a good author is able to explain plot points with the utmost detail without interrupting the story's momentum.

 

But sometimes, it's better to gloss over something trivial and get on with the story. Tropes Are Tools. When skillfully done, a handwave can make things plausible enough so that the audience achieves a Willing Suspension of Disbelief. It can also just turn the whole detail and its inexplicability into a joke. Scotch tape may not be strong, it may not be pretty, but it may be much better to have some sort of explanation than to have nothing at all.

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By extension, handwaving is used in literary, film and other media criticism of speculative fiction to refer to a plot device (e.g., a scientific discovery, a political development, or rules governing the behavior of a fictional creature) that is left unexplained or sloppily explained because it is convenient to the story, with the implication that the writer is aware of the logical weakness but hopes the audience will not notice or willsuspend disbelief regarding such a macguffin, deus ex machina, continuity error or plot hole.

The fictional material "handwavium" (a.k.a. "unobtainium", among other humorous names) is sometimes referred to in situations where the plot requires access to a substance of great value and properties that cannot be explained by real-world science, but is convenient to solving, or central to creating, a problem for the characters in the story. Perhaps the best known example is the spice melange, a fictional drug with supernatural properties, in Frank Herbert's far-future science-fantasy epic, Dune.

Hand-waving has come to be used in role-playing games to describe actions and conversations that are quickly glossed over, rather than acted out in full according to the rules. This may be done to keep from bogging down the play of the game with time-consuming but minor details

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Handwaving is frequently used in low-quality debate, including political campaigning and commentary, issue-based advocacy, advertising and public relations, tabloid journalism, opinion pieces, Internet memes, and informal discussion and writing. If the opponent in a debate or commentator on an argument alleges hand-waving, it suggests the proponent of the argument, position or message has engaged in one or morefallacies of logic,^[2] usually informal, and/or glossed over non-trivial details,^[2] and is attempting to wave away challenges and deflect questions, as if swatting at flies. The distraction inherent in the sense of the term has become a key part of the meaning.^[2] The fallacies in question vary, but often include one of the many variants of argument to emotion, and in political discourse frequently involve unjustified assignment or transference of blame. Hand-waving is not itself a fallacy; the proponent's argument may incidentally be correct despite their failure to properly support it.^[2] A tertiary meaning refers to use of poorly-reasoned arguments specifically to impress^[7] or persuade.^[1][7]

The New Hacker's Dictionary (a.k.a. The Jargon File) observes:

If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is bogus [i.e., incorrect]. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand.^[2]

The implication that hand-waving is done with the specific intent to mislead has long been attached to the term, due to the use of literal waving of a hand – either natural-looking or showy, but never desperate – byillusionists to distract audiences and misdirect their attention from the mechanisms of the sleight-of-hand, gimmicked props or other trick being used in the performance. This meaning has become reinforced in recent decades by the influence of Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, in which the fictional Jedi mind trick involves a subtle hand wave with mystical powers – that only work on the weak-minded – to disguise reality and compel compliance. Consequently, there is an implication in current usage that a hand-waver may be craftily intending to deceive, and has a low opinion of the intelligence of the opponent or (especially) an audience or the general public. The labels "Jedi hand wave" and "Jedi mind trick" themselves are sometimes applied, in a tongue-in-cheek way, to this manipulation technique in public discourse;^[3] US CongressmanLuke Messer (Republican–Indiana) use of it in reference to President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union address generated headlines.^[8][9]

In an unplanned debate or presentation, an off-the-cuff essay, or an informal discussion, the proponent may have little or no time for preparation. Participants in such exchanges may use the term in reference to their own arguments, in the same sense as an author admitting a minor plot flaw (see below). When the proponents use the term, they are conceding that they know an ancillary point of or intermediate step in their arguments is poorly supported; they are suggesting that such details aren't important and do not affect their key arguments or conclusions, and that the hand-waved details should be excluded from current consideration. Examples include when they believe a statement is true but cannot prove it at that time, and when the sources upon which they are relying conflict in minor ways: "I'm hand-waving over the exact statistics here, but they all show at least a 20% increase, so let's move on".

In formal debate competition, certain forms of hand-waving may sometimes be explicitly permitted. In policy debate, the concept of fiat allows a team to pursue a line a reasoning based on a scenario that is not presently true, if a judge is satisfied that the case has been that it could become true

Ok i did my reading and the point is?

i would rather have the new content the devs promised that they forgot about because they got distracted by things they did not have to change.

[XRosenkreuz]

On 8/1/2016 at 9:08 PM, Cyndocrit said:

I find it interesting that the node on top of Mars use the Corpus Europa tileset because it's supposed to be the north pole of Mars. Anybody else caught that little detail?

Mariana on Earth now uses the sealab tileset, too.