Next up: Skyrim. “Hey, you. You’re finally awake.”

Welcome to the world of Monster Hunter.

Such an upgrade over the previous two. Three whole cities to explore, plus the countryside. They managed to stream the world data from the disc as you moved about, so no more loading screens between islands like III and VC had. This was the first GTA where you could swim, so water was no longer a death trap, and the first to introduce skills, so you could swim further and faster as you got better.

It fits, English and JavaScript are both three languages in a trench coat.

That’s what I was reading on Wikipedia at the time, it’s since been changed to commander TBD. Aleksandr Gorbunov is unbumpable, as he’s flying through the seat swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos, so he’s been moved from mission specialist to pilot. Ars is reporting that they’ve heard that original commander Zena Cardman has retained her seat, but I guess it isn’t official and there’s some concern with some at NASA that neither Cardman nor Gorbunnov have flown in space before. NASA hasn’t flown an all-rookie flight since Skylab 4, the last crew to visit that station.

I feel bad for Nick Hague and Stephanie Wilson, the two SpaceX Crew 9 crew members who were bumped to make room for the returning Boeing crew.

EDIT: Looks like there’s some disagreement in NASA as to which American gets the commander’s seat, see below.

It was intentionally not specified. NASA wanted two dissimilar spacecraft so a flaw with one wouldn’t ground the other. If they had specified a common space suit and an issue came up with it, then both Dragon and Starliner would be out of action.

How do they get 40 years? The first Ninja Turtles game was released on the NES on May 12, 1989. That’s only 35 years by my reckoning.

Yeah, unfortunately, SpaceX is streets ahead of anyone else in the launch industry in terms of reusability and, in turn, price. In a purely capitalistic system, they’d be putting everyone else out of business, but the US government wants a second source vendor, so ULA stays around, and foreign governments want independent access to space, for a combination of national security and pride, so the Russian, Chinese, Indian, and European space agencies keep on trucking.

Setting the release schedule around vacations and holidays. Sounds like the devs have a respectable work / life balance.

Being able to dock is one of the critical mission requirements. I wonder if this mission will be considered a successful test, clearing the way for scheduled crew rotation flights, or if NASA is going to make them do it again.

The big thing to differentiate 7D2D is every seventh night you’ll be besieged by a zombie horde. You spend the week reinforcing your defenses, stockpiling ammo, and upgrading your gear, then you’re tested. If you’re interested in this kind of game loop, it’s worth a in-game week or two. Like many of these games, they’re more fun with friends.

Originally they had planned on two more seats in the Crew Dragon behind / below the commander and pilot, but when they switched from a powered land landing to a parachute splashdown, they had to adjust the angles of the seats & the travel in the seat suspension. Those changes required them to drop the second row of seats.

Maybe. There are only four Crew Dragons. One’s attached to the station right now, and one’s had its docking equipment removed in preparation for the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission. That leaves two. I’m sure one’s already in prep for the next regularly scheduled crew rotation. A rescue mission would mean either leaving two of the astronauts scheduled to fly that flight on the ground to leave open seats for the Starliner crew, or a special mission using the last Dragon.

This population density map will probably help explain the difference.

I see commuter rail lines out of Chicago, Boston, and New York, at least.

Also from VT. We were wondering what the red spots we were seeing near the 5 o’clock position were. I had guessed they were flares, thanks for confirming.

For those that missed it, the flares & prominence were visible to the naked eye as red dots.

While there were a ton of GI Joe toys, the series was a few years too early to get beat-em-up arcade games the way that the Ninja Turtles or the Simpsons did. This new game looks like it’d fit right in at a Chuck E. Cheese in the early 90’s.

Because it’s peer-to-peer, there’s no server to take down; it still works if you can find DS owners. These days, it’s mostly cons like PAX, and even then, not like it was in the heyday.

The numbers are close to, but not quite, what Wikipedia has. They’re using 2018 UN estimates, which includes the entire metro area, not just the city proper. I’m assuming OP is using a more recent version of this data, as it’s at least 5 years old at this point.