11.3k ThomasRoderick Comments

  • NT6-35 "Flying Sabre" 5 months ago

    @BoredDeffy
    Eh, as far as non-furry beastfolk go I'd personally prefer those with both animal and human ears.
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    A small nation with a tiny carrier (that pushes 25kn tops) fending off an enemy for four years? Either they got copious amount of foreign aid or Lochiwa isn't that much larger than Nekoshima.
    ... and which species is Lochiwa again? Using real-life biology as reference, both rodents and avians would have some serious amount of grudge against cats while both canids (esp. those of the canis genus) and avians (large birds of prey) are known to prey on cats, so...
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    ..
    ... yes, I'm even worse of a nerd and also a worldbuilder, too bad I'm too stuck in making *everything* in my worldbuilding as logical and consistent as possible so...

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  • NT6-35 "Flying Sabre" 5 months ago

    @BoredDeffy
    IIRC in most works involving cat-humanoids the presence - or lack thereof - of their human ears are rather Schrödinger-y, aka hidden behind their hair and tend to remain a mystery untill someone/something proves either to be true.
    The joke about Nagoya dialect came from its tendency to use "-ya" sounds so Nagoya folks are often jokingly said to "speak like cats".
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    .... Tom's Overthinking Time™: the Felis as a genus are great ambush predators but rather poor pursuit predators, so Boom-and-Zoom designs may play better into their strengths than dedicated turn fighters.... granted, given the cats in question are based off *Imperial Japan* them winning might not be great for everyone else involved....

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  • NT6-35 "Flying Sabre" 5 months ago

    @BoredDeffy
    Oh, oops, duly noted.
    .... BTW, are they actually feline humanoids (colloquially "catboys/catgirls") or are they humans with Nagoya accent and weird hats?

    Also... Hayabusa specs and canopy with an A6M oil cooler intake?

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  • NT6-35 "Flying Sabre" 5 months ago

    Furry Zeke?

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  • Clip Cannon 5 months ago

    @50CalChicken Thanks!

    +1
  • RNS Great White 5 months ago

    ... you sure it's a Great White instead of a Hammerhead?

    +2
  • Drag Coefficient 5 months ago

    @Subsere
    Yurp! Actually b/c I can't find the legacy pic on the SP site I had to get a low-res pic from google then use every tool under the sun to enhance it back into what it should look like...

  • XA-21 "Longbow" 6 months ago

    ... right, quick question, I'm pretty sure I've seen a plat called WizNick before...

    .... nvm, found the thread.

  • What is a fork? 6 months ago

    @Rob119 I mean, if two toothpicks are used to hold food between them without puncturing the food, they're chopsticks, and if a pair of chopsticks is used to hold the food by puncturing the food they make a fork.

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  • What is a fork? 6 months ago

    @Rob119
    Given I have the tendency to use a pair of toothpicks (of all things) as both makeshift forks and makeshift chopsticks, who am I to judge...
    Yup, I'm pretty sure we're gonna get burned on the same pyre... made of chopsticks.

  • How to convert explosion scale to kilograms? 6 months ago

    Found a chart specifically meanr for this job: @ReinMcDeer's WEAPONS BALANCING DATABASE.

  • What is a fork? 6 months ago

    @Rob119

    then.... what's a spear? A onek?

    It's a skewer.

  • What is a fork? 6 months ago

    I'm from a chopstick-using culture as well, but my family had been using them to stir drinks (and to pour liquids) along with their intended role since, well, forever. As the saying goes, "if it can only be used as intended, it's defective", afterall.

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  • Bunker Target 6 months ago

    @Badplanesmaker Given this is WC's third account....

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  • Engines, Thrust, and Fuel Flow rates 6 months ago

    @32
    I just used the engine's innate "Thrust" output.

  • Engines, Thrust, and Fuel Flow rates 6 months ago

    @Graingy

    Large legacy prop engine
    Wait what

    Refer to SIMPLECHEATS II.

    Did you use FT to find the fuel use rate?

    Yes. a label with {-rate(Fuel) * your total amount of fuel} .

  • Jpeg-60 6 months ago

    We have JPEG now... should we expect PNG and GIF soon?

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  • Junkers JU.310B | Two years later, I'm alive! 6 months ago

    Welcome back my guy!

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  • Drag Coefficient 6 months ago

    @Ku

    At 100%, the spring constant of Shocks is approximately 49603

    ... N/m, right?

  • Drag Coefficient 6 months ago

    @Subsere The area of the aircraft exposed to the airstream. Or, basically, the total external area of the aircraft.

  • F-100D Super Sabre 6 months ago

    @Erionh ... or a vacuum cleaner.

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  • Mig-21 'Fish Bed' 6 months ago

    .... pretty sure when the Mafia said someone will be "sleeping with the fishes" they didn't mean it this literally...

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  • When you accidentally build a racer 6 months ago

    ++THE SPICE MUST FLOW++

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  • Curtiss DP II 6 months ago

    @JessaLeih Yet for combustion engines the added engines simply create more complexity and decreases the P/W ratio; electric engines are lightweight and simple in construction but IIRC don't scale nearly as nicely as piston/turbine engines do.

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  • Curtiss DP II 6 months ago

    Electric aircraft? Yes. Traditional combustion-powered aircraft? Most definitely not. IIRC the improved efficiency came from the massive total propeller area... as well as the fact that limiting the prop blades to three or less meant props aren't travelling behind each other's wake nearly as much.

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  • SU-85 6 months ago

    @Jaspy190
    Keks, any later I'd be congratulating you on plat!

  • (5.000 Points special) Thundermax MP-2A 7 months ago

    Grats on Gold me pal!

  • SJ-2M32(Novel Design) 7 months ago

    "Advanced version of S2A Seiko" - same number of engines and wings with little else in common, but yeah, it does evoke the lines of the original....
    Hmm.... some sort of family lineage not unlike the Yank muscle cars (e.g. chevy camaro), I guess?

  • [PLATINUM] Cessna AT-17 'Bobcat' 7 months ago

    Grats on plats Andi!

  • Bestcarsus sus-4 7 months ago

    s u s

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  • The arrival of spring in Japan 7 months ago

    Common concept of spring:
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    Not depicted: allergies, so many fookin' alergies.

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  • BOEING B747-200 7 months ago

    @HungrySu34
    01110111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00111111

  • Clip Cannon 7 months ago

    @MosquitowithaMachineGun
    Why sudden spotlight now... thx anyways.

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  • The Turtle 8 months ago

    Which map did you use?

  • [Used Cars] JTC McLorean 8 months ago

    Something something 88mph?

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  • SSPV 1183 - Snowstone National Constabulary 8 months ago

    ++ LAW ENFORCED BY TANK ++

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  • Tailess Brake Stabilized Unmanned Interceptor 8 months ago

    @Rb2h
    The saved backup: here

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  • Airbus A320-211 Pan American 8 months ago

    Publishing...

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  • Assassin(Rocket) 8 months ago

    .... willing to share insights on the rockets?

  • AI Enemy JagdPanther 8 months ago

    Right, almost forgot it's your birthday. 'Appy Cake Day Juan!

    +1
  • SIMPLECHEATS II, an updated, comprehensive list of all known XML attributes 8 months ago

    Missing dragScale attribute for parts. Seems to be an error given the description of calculateDrag compared the two.

  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @Kendog84
    @griges

    I'm not sure if you can add back custom variables via this method, though.

    Yes. Near the top of the xml file the first section there's a <Variables> </Variables> section, in which the format goes as follows:

    <Variables>
    <Setter variable="VariableName1" function="VariableFunction1" priority="0" />
    <Setter variable="VariableName2" function="VariableFunction2" priority="0" />
    ... etc
    <Setter variable="LastVariableName" function="LastVariableFunction" priority="0" />
    </Variables>
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    Just copy the <Setter variable="... /> parts and you should be all set. Do remember that the variable setter hates any undefined inputs with a passion, so do make sure all parts of the function use inputs that either show up in the variable setter, are vanilla inputs, are outputs from other parts, or are defined by cockpit controls.

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  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @griges
    The input should be " inverselerp(110,80,IAS) /180 ", and the Current Angle should be " flap ".
    Setting the input on the actual flaps to " flap/180 " (instead of dividing the rotator input by 180) would also work, yes, but it'd be more of a hassle, costs more time to set up and more performance to run, and adds another possible point for failure.

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  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @griges
    Right, one other thing: if the variable is designed to store a value until the next update conditions are met, then set the rotator's activationGroup to the update condition, zeroOnDeactivate to "false", and the input to whatever the function calculating the input is.

  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @griges
    Well.... IIRC there was some @Kendog84 guy who used rotators to store the variables, but personally I can't really say for sure about the output precision compared to the variable setter....
    To store a variable with a rotator, divide the original input by the rotator's range, then name the rotator's Current Angle output as the original variable name. Remember the speed of the rotator might need to be very large if the output calls for rapid changes in value.

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  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @griges
    Not really unless you want to use a text editor, I'm afraid....

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  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @griges
    Next time the auto-crediting system bugs out, try contacting the mods or good ol' Seeras to fix it.

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  • [Autopilot_1.9.1] "Zerkk's" ZA 237 'BROSK' 8 months ago

    @MrSilverWolf
    @Seeras
    @crazyplaness

    Could you please make this a successor to this? Thanks!

    +1
  • A Giant Cake 8 months ago

    CONGRATS ! ! !

    🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉

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