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Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by GekkePrutser »

tk75x wrote: post #81
gen220 wrote: post #51

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Reminiscent of the fernsehturm in berlin. [0] It's kind of nice. You can usually keep track of where you are in Berlin, by triangulating around the tower, which is visible from a great distance and in one of the "centers" of Berlin [1]. If you're ever lost, you can just walk towards it, and eventually you'll end up in the one of metro's nexus at Alexanderplatz. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin#/m…

Similar setup in Dublin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin

Ahhh the great toothpick of O'Connell street :)

But really it would have been nice to have something more Irish. I always felt it's out of place there.

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by ogre_codes »

ansible wrote: post #95
ogre_codes wrote: post #82

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There have been 2 outstanding flight simulators on the market for the past ~20 years which more-or-less dominate the industry. X-Plane and MSFS are both excellent and both reasonably affordable. I suspect the lack of flight sims in retail has more to do with the fact that flight simulators are hard to create. When there is established competition with a great rep and decent pricing, it's nearly impossible to break in…

If you want air combat, DCS is the top choice. Because they model very complex state-of-the-art jet fighters, it is also very complex.

All flight sims are very complex, it's sort of the nature of the beast. I think that's the fundamental difference between a simulator and a game. A simulator needs to model reality, a game can take big shortcuts to ease gameplay.

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by GekkePrutser »

Good to see OSM being actively used though.. I really love that project. And the maps, at least here locally, are of amazing quality. When I'm hiking, on Google and Apple maps I'm walking in a grey square. OSM has the tiniest mountain trails. Love it.

And mistakes do happen, hope this one would get corrected though :) And it's not the only one of its kind! Many are seen all around the world.

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by hypertexthero »

piva00 wrote: post #11
bitwize wrote: post #5

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Crashing into stuff is great fun and probably the first impulse of anyone booting up a flight simulation program (especially kids) -- so much so that flight simulation software was the target of a moral panic in 2001 after the September 11 attacks were conducted by crashing real jets into buildings. Some people began to think of flight sims as "terrorist training tools" and call for them to be banned. That's probably…

Market opportunity for an indie developer to create a flight simulator with real collision physics? I'm not sure how complex flight simulators are to develop, I assume that getting real world data for plane characteristics modelling and such are part of the problem but as a project for software engineering I don't know if an indie developer could realistically create such a game.

The best damage model in a flight simulator so far is [IL-2 Sturmovik](https://hypertexthero.com/il2-flight-joy/).

The next game by the developer of Kerbal Space Program Felipe Falanghe is called Balsa Model Flight Simulator and it is already a lot of fun (I am currently playing a closed beta and it should be out soon):

First ground takeoff in a plane I built: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715155254

Midair collision during dogfight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715177161

Action figures in the cockpit: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715210985

I am enjoying [MSFS 2020](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/715725728) but the lack of a damage model and the “Empty Screen of Death” is really disappointing. I hope they add a damage model eventually. Seeing things go wrong without dying or hurting anyone is one of the joys of video games.

Also keep an eye out for [Dead Stick](https://store.steampowered.com/app/771800/Deadstick__Bush_Fl...).

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

eliaspro wrote: post #68
adaisadais wrote: post #8

I love the concept of massive buildings / structures in areas without such but I don’t think the city people would enjoy such buildings in actuality. The massive circular mine in Russia comes to mind (no pun intended).

Next to the medieval town of Rottweil in southwestern Germany, there's the 246m tall thyssenkrupp tower. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Remote_views_o... It was built a few years ago as test facility for elevators, but has also become wow a touristic attraction as it offers a publicly accessible platform.

Similar, slightly older and only about half height thing in Bremen: https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/en/drop-tower/general-informa...

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #88
hinkley wrote: post #71

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Apparently a lot of people were pissed about the Eiffel Tower when it was being constructed. Now you couldn't pry it from their cold, dead hands. (People were also pissed about the twinkling lights installed for the anniversary, but they made them permanent, too)

The more recent-era equivalent is the Tour Montparnasse, which many Parisians believe ruins the skyline of their beloved city, but I personally find it rather beautiful in the same sort of eldritch way as the flight simulator building: https://imgur.com/a/v7AHelJ

Hm. From afar one could mistake it for a cousin of the monolith out of Odyssey 2001 :-)

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by testrun »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #103

Good to see OSM being actively used though.. I really love that project. And the maps, at least here locally, are of amazing quality. When I'm hiking, on Google and Apple maps I'm walking in a grey square. OSM has the tiniest mountain trails. Love it. And mistakes do happen, hope this one would get corrected though :) And it's not the only one of its kind! Many are seen all around the world.

According to that twitter feed, it has been already corrected in OSM.

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by dwd »

As an aside, I was curious how on a few of the trailers they feature out of all the places in the world - Warrnambool (Victoria).

Given, it's a picturesque place (having grown up and gone to school there), but maybe not as interesting as say a low level flyby of the 12 Apostles about 10min flight time back along the coast.

Was there a competition to get your town in the trailer, or one of the developers grew up there and slipped it in?

Re: The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

chrisandchris wrote: post #43
crysin wrote: post #22

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I'd check your CPUs heatsink mounting and make sure the thermal paste is applied correctly. Installing and downloading shouldn't cause your CPU to ramp up to 100C.

So you never used Microsoft AutoUpdate on a Mac, right? Because that‘s the only thing this tool does apparrently. Full 100% CPU while downloading, no matter how slow your network is...

Weirdly common I mean look at Dropbox, 100% processor while syncing. No idea why this is acceptable from such large companies.
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