To me main downside is that the raw values are less intuitive; much easier to think of colour and transparency as separate quantities. However, if your tooling/interface spares the user from thinking about that or they're okay with blending those concerns the added flexibility is very nice!

1: this totally jives with my memories of the effect from the show. It's good.

2: I see the snap; feels like the moving/transparent version alpha blends into the solid one? Maybe that works better if the frequency/amplitude of the distortion fades more gradually to 0 at the sync point

Okay, I just did a first run, and I can confirm that this game is fun and clean in early access.

I don't disagree, but IMO a very strange warship! Sleek, with big windows and curves that wouldn't be out of place on a cruise liner.

Haha, not a coincidence! That painting by Boris Vallejo was our north star when we were designing Peregrine, our hero ship. It felt like something we hadn't seen a lot of in modern sci-fi art.

Hopefully, Peregrine feels like that painting; is it a yacht? A fighter jet? Dunno but it's *neat*!

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I programmed in C++ for over a decade before using C# for the first time. Haven't touched it since and I am *so much happier* for it.

Not only is C# just nicer to use than anything else I've tried, but C++ requires a whole set of ingrained best practices just to avoid the worst landmines.

I'm struggling to parse the paper, but I think the scale is wrong for that? Fossil fuels + industry is ~38b t/yr, the paper shows 2.4b t/yr net diff in arctic from 2001-2020.

So, it sure isn't *helping*, but not apocalyptic I think? OTOH I'm not well read on where the tipping points are.