Looking at you, No Man's Sky
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Always one of my favorite parts of that episode.
You can see a decent bit depending on terrain in most places, more if the terrain is higher than surrounding areas, but she pops out of a crack, looks around and sees ice for a few hundred yards, and gives up.
In fairness, without direction, some form of marker, or obvious landmark, wandering around in a blizzard would have been death for both of them... Not that they would have been able to walk to civilization even if they DIDN'T have injuries...
Still though, they've experienced varied terrain in plenty of planets, so assuming the whole planet is ice is something Sam would have corrected someone else on in a heartbeat. (and also made the argument that for all intents and purposes, for them it may as well be a whole planet)
I wonder how much better we could have had it if the location budget were like 4x what they had. Eventually you start to recognize specific rocks in the quarry... My wife likes to call one rock Terry because it has two vaguely eye-shaped holes, and "because it's terrible how often they use that place"
Can you share which one is Terry? I'd like to watch out for him when I inevitably rewatch the show.
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No man’s sky also did it because of lazy. People may have forgotten, but that game released as pure hot garbage and only got better after tons of updates.
It's still pretty trash. Every update adds new boring activities but the core gameplay loops still get old quickly and the game is an endlessly scaling grind to nowhere. It's "redemption story" is drastically overrated.
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"Wait wait, you're from Doloron? Oh my god, I work with someone from the Swamp Planet!"
"Why does everyone call it that. It's a planet with one or two famous swamps."
"What was it like growing up in a mud hut?"
"We have other ecosystems! You know, mountains, fields, outlet malls..."
"How did you get to school? Bark canoes? On the back of a swamp snail?"
"No, like everyone else... In hover cars."
"Is it true you all have eggs sacs? Take off your pants."
"No I'm not taking off my pants!"
"Aha! We got a swamp monster here!"
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! (sigh) 50 years ago, Dread Trooper scouts landed in a swamp on our planet, and for some reason didn't bother exploring anywhere else. If they had gone one mile to the left, they would have found some beautiful beachfront condos. But they didn't. And now... we're the (air quotes) swamp planet. How do you think that makes me feel?"
"I uh..."
"Don't say anything. Let's just eat our lunch in silence."
"... Is that moss!?"
"It's a delicacy!"
Hmm. Still no resolution on the egg sac question, though.
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They didn’t film Stargate there
What’s that got to do with you saying the only deserts Canada has are cold and boring?
There’s even tropical deserts fyi.
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Laughing in Metroidvania.
"This is all one castle."
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What’s that got to do with you saying the only deserts Canada has are cold and boring?
There’s even tropical deserts fyi.
See what I originally replied to?
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It's still pretty trash. Every update adds new boring activities but the core gameplay loops still get old quickly and the game is an endlessly scaling grind to nowhere. It's "redemption story" is drastically overrated.
It has millions of players who enjoy it.
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No man’s sky also did it because of lazy. People may have forgotten, but that game released as pure hot garbage and only got better after tons of updates.
Nonsense, those of us who weren't plugged into gaming journos 24/7 enjoyed it on release. I couldn't have cared less that it didn't have multiplayer or whatever. I wasn't even aware of any controversy at the time.
There aren't that many first person space exploration games outside of nms and elite and nms is much easier to get into. It was fun, and still is
And I don't count starfield because starfield is just a loading screen simulator
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This just absolutely delighted me.
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Star Trek: Every planet is either a set or within driving distance of Los Angeles
Within the TMZ, thirty mile zone, because union rules say you have to pay transportation time for workers above that limit.
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Whereas Horizon Forbidden West packs all of these into a patch of North America a few miles across (except that the cities are abandoned). The DLC adds a volcanic section.
Edit: the end-credits is a fly-through of much of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjufECOeHk -
Can you share which one is Terry? I'd like to watch out for him when I inevitably rewatch the show.
It's a large boulder (the size of a small boulder) about 4ft wide, never seen more than waist height, a little closer to one of the "walls" of the quarry.
I'll have to find an episode with it. It's mostly visible after season 1 and before season 8 or 9. Idk what happened to uncover/bury/move it, but it does move like twice during the show, even though I'm positive it's an actual rock and not a prop.
I want to say the first time I noticed it was during the episodes where they're trying to rescue Bra'tac and Ry'ac from the mine? After tretonin was developed. (Ry'ac says "it is hard to ration that which you do not have" when Bra'tac pretends to be taking his tretonin)
When I see it again, I will definitely post to Chevron 7.
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It has millions of players who enjoy it.
And millions of people enjoy trash mobile games that throw microtransactions at you every couple of minutes. Popularity is not an indicator of quality.
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Also there have been eras in earths history where it was basically like one of two environments. Like before the continents emerged from the oceans properly, or the several snowball earths, or the multiple times a super continent formed and created swamp land and desert land because of the fucken Appalachian mountains.
Yeah, the holocene is a weirdly varied time period for climates. Grasslands and similar ecosystems are pretty new geologically.
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Monobiomes are probably the rule and Earth-like continental planetoids with diverse topology are probably exceedingly rare in the universe.
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Whereas Horizon Forbidden West packs all of these into a patch of North America a few miles across (except that the cities are abandoned). The DLC adds a volcanic section.
Edit: the end-credits is a fly-through of much of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjufECOeHkthat's the nice thing about california.
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See what I originally replied to?
Yes they said desert or Canada, so the person said Canada also has deserts, to which you said, “only cold and boring”. Which I nicely corrected you on.
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Whereas Horizon Forbidden West packs all of these into a patch of North America a few miles across (except that the cities are abandoned). The DLC adds a volcanic section.
Edit: the end-credits is a fly-through of much of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjufECOeHkIs it the Pacific Northwest? Everything in OP's pic is within driving distance.
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But the planets in our solar system, except Earth, have not a lot of different biomes. To me this is one of the proofs leaning toward the simulation theory. Why make different biomes if your players and NPCs are only on one planet?
Earth also had periods of being a molten or frozen mass.
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Is it the Pacific Northwest? Everything in OP's pic is within driving distance.
Bits of California, Nevada and Utah all squished together.
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