Neb on 13/8/2010 at 00:57
If we're being asked "what is Icarus?" then I'm going to guess that either metaphorically or literally the city flies too high. The finale will involve a boss fight while the entire thing plummets towards the ground.
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Provided enough buoyancy, a floating city is entirely possible, if not at all practical.
Further reading - (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_nine_(Tensegrity_sphere)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_nine_(Tensegrity_sphere)
Chade on 13/8/2010 at 00:58
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Provided enough buoyancy, a floating city is entirely possible, if not at all practical. But lifting an object with a high center of gravity entirely from the base is just stupendously idiotic. One strong gust of wind and... oops, lost another one!
Maybe it has your ego in the basement?
EDIT: Fuck, I can't do this snark shit. I agree with you ZB, although I doubt anyone actually cares about centre of gravity.
catbarf on 13/8/2010 at 01:01
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Provided enough buoyancy,
Assume a building is 10,000 tons (pretty light for a multi-story building). To keep 10,000 tons of skyscraper buoyant and have at least a narrow safety margin, you'd need a sphere of helium about 400m across.
So yes, their center of mass is retarded, but that's certainly not the worst of it, and it's no dumber than panoramic glass windows on an underwater building.
Scots Taffer on 13/8/2010 at 01:13
Bizarre and confusing. Really the only words that come to mind after watching that.
And sorta cool, I guess, but trailers for the Star Wars prequels prove that you can make anything look half-interesting.
Malleus on 13/8/2010 at 01:41
Quote Posted by catbarf
...it's no dumber than panoramic glass windows on an underwater building...
...that gives a distorted view of what's behind it.
Oh, the trailer ... it did nothing for me. In fact I'm so uninterested in this game, that I'm not even gonna bother posting in this thre... wait
ZylonBane on 13/8/2010 at 02:10
Quote Posted by catbarf
Assume a building is 10,000 tons (pretty light for a multi-story building).
To be fair, we don't know what the buildings are made of. Fictional super-strong, super-light materials are plausible enough.
Jason Moyer on 13/8/2010 at 02:50
I'm still trying to figure out how the political aspect of the game is going to work in any way. At least in Bioshock you could say "of course Rayndian philosophy would never have practical applications, people are assholes" and in Bioshock 2 you could say "of course Marxism would never work, people are assholes" but I'm not sure what the equivalent would be here. "American imperialism would never work...oh, wait."
Scots Taffer on 13/8/2010 at 03:04
Oh wait, what. Isn't the proof of American Imperialism crumbling all around us and hence, if that was the political thrust of the game's message, be a very timely one?
june gloom on 13/8/2010 at 03:09
Maybe they're trying for a political message the average gamer would actually understand.
Pardoner on 13/8/2010 at 03:27
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
but I'm not sure what the equivalent would be here.
"What goes up...", etc.
