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RySenkari

rick007 said:
So Memory Hole is like Bioshock 1?
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Pretty much, though there are some extreme differences. More gameplay similarities than plot.

Pyro said:
The reaction to the iTwin and X-Box 2 makes me wonder if Squaresoft will regret their decision in the long run.
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Well, they've also seen the Wave's successor with the dev kit, so they must've liked what they saw of that.

Roger Redux said:
So the much teased iTwin controllers skipped over the Wiimote phase straight to the full-blown JoyCon?
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Yep, the iTwin controllers are very similar. A big difference is that Jobs won't be forcing motion controls into any games, there will ALWAYS be a traditional control scheme for every iTwin title.
 

CountDVB

I imagine Steve probably went up to Woz and they had a long overdue talk over the past to try and move forward. Maybe alcohol and sad drunken weeping/hugging was involved XD.
 

RySenkari

CountDVB said:
I imagine Steve probably went up to Woz and they had a long overdue talk over the past to try and move forward. Maybe alcohol and sad drunken weeping/hugging was involved XD.
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I wouldn't say it was that heartfelt of a talk, more of a friendly business proposition where Jobs swallowed a small portion of his pride, knowing the goodwill from patching things up a bit with Wozniak might attract some gamer attention from Nintendo/Microsoft diehards. For Jobs it was entirely a business calculation. However, their working relationship COULD open up the way to a renewed friendship down the line. Reggie's friendship with Jobs has had a bit of a softening effect on him, so that could crack the door for something with Wozniak.
 
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AeroTheZealousOne

Beautiful updates.

Pixelworld is TTL's analogue of Minecraft, I think. But yeah, normally not an Apple fan, but they just look awesome. I don't know how, but I am actually rooting for everyone in the console wars now.
 

Unwatered

Ok, whoa. Whoa whoa whoa!

I was still hesitant about the Apple buyout. After E3, not at all! The two Steves and Reggie, up on stage using Joycons on a supercharged Wii with HD output to play an MMO version of Minecraft? AND Sega Rally?!

I'm sold. Mom would be getting nagged for an iTwin all year.
 

thekingsguard

On one hand, my hate for Steve Jobs is no less.

But DAMN if that iTwin doesn't sound cool.

Glad to hear Squarsoft is sticking with Nintendo. And that Camelot is getting work... even if Golden Sun is butterflied away.
 
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Roger Redux

Unwatered said:
Ok, whoa. Whoa whoa whoa!

I was still hesitant about the Apple buyout. After E3, not at all! The two Steves and Reggie, up on stage using Joycons on a supercharged Wii with HD output to play an MMO version of Minecraft? AND Sega Rally?!

I'm sold. Mom would be getting nagged for an iTwin all year.
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RyderWest

Also, despite the actual plot probably never surficing ITTL, anyone want to see my San Andreas film earthquake datasheet that I wrote up?

We can put out ITTL selves as reactions to the descriptions.
 

RySenkari

Those infoboxes are pretty well done and realistic, nice contribution!

RyderWest said:
Also, despite the actual plot probably never surficing ITTL, anyone want to see my San Andreas film earthquake datasheet that I wrote up?

We can put out ITTL selves as reactions to the descriptions.
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Mmm, if you want to, sure. I imagine an earthquake film would be made at some point but it wouldn't be OTL San Andreas.
 

RyderWest

RySenkari said:
Mmm, if you want to, sure. I imagine an earthquake film would be made at some point but it wouldn't be OTL San Andreas.
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Yeah, that film had buildings fall over like paper and somehow implied only thousands of people died. Well, good luck with that.

Well, here it is:

In my estimates, which are probably off by a thousand, I got this based on the films (totally off) progressive underground/surface based magnitude 9+ rupture of the entire San Andreas Fault line from Bombay Beach to Holliester to Point Arena (which is impossible considering the San Andreas Fault can only release energy up to magnitude 8.3 at worst), plus the Megatsunami that hit all along the coast of California because of the progressive rupture and a suspected rupture off the coast (despite it being impossible due to the main fault being landbased and no such fault exists off California, but thats for a film critique based on science):

Name: 2016 California & Nevada earthquake and tsunami
Richter scale: 7.1 in Nevada, 9.1 in Los Angeles and 9.6 in San Francisco (according to the film, observation damage however is more of a hypothetical Richter 10 in LA, 11.5 in SF, 9 in NV)
Mercalli scale (estimate based on visual damage):
Nevada: IX to X
Los Angeles: XII to (hypothetical) XIII
San Francisco: (hypothetical) XIII​
Shindo scale: Seven and above, possibly a hypothetical eight (LA, SF, NV)
Epicenter (estimated): Above San Bernadino, California (LA earthquake), near Hoover Dam, Nevada (NV earthquake) and directly over San Francisco, California (Bay Area earthquake)
Main tremor/earthquake length:
Los Angeles: 3 minutes (on screen, possibly 10 minutes)
Nevada: 2 minutes and 30 seconds (on screen, possibly 5 minutes)
San Francisco: 3 minutes and 10 seconds (possibly above 15 minutes)​
Peak Ground Acceleration: Past 1.24g (maybe at around 4 to 5g), extreme shaking and very heavy damage.
Velocity (cm/s): Past 116 cm/s. Unknown exact number.
Major aftershocks: Uncounted officially (three major ones shown in SF, same intensity as main tremor, around 9.5 or higher magnitude, possibly dozens to hundreds more aftershocks in California, either at magnitude 6, 7 or 8 all across fracture)
Tsunami wave height: Estimated 300 feet/91 metres at height at Golden Gate Bridge (270 feet, 82 meters), possibly 330 feet/100 meters to 490 feet/150 meters. Classification of huge megatsunami.
Tsunami damage scale: Grade 5 - Total Damage to (hypothetical) Grade 6 - Utter Complete Damage (assumed title)
Inland Tsunami Distance: 20 kilometers, estimated, possibly 25 to 30 kilometers. Highest crossed distance probably 40 kilometers.
Tsunami speed (estimated): 500 to 800 km/h.
New Tsunami Intensity Scale Grade: Hypothetical XIII.
Buildings destroyed: Unknown, estimated to be above 10 to 20 million, possibly 25 to 30 million structures destroyed, unknown damaged, possibly most to all structually unstable and condemned.
Total death count: Anywhere between 24.5 to 33.3 million, possibly higher even more. Deadliest earthquake in human history (in SA universe), over 2/3 of California state population wiped out.
Greater Los Angeles: About 9 to 13 million? (Est. due to razed, total city damage in film)
Ventura, Orange and San Diego Counties: Unknown, possibly 2 million.
San Francisco Bay Area: 9 to 11 million aprox, possibly more (Implied due to eerily empty city scenes after massive mega tsunami)
San Jose: 1 million to 3 million?
San Joaquin Valley: 2 million?
San Diego: 1 to 3 million? (Based on distance)
Nevada & Arizona: Tens of thousands to one and half million. (Bullhead City est. to be washed over, maybe deaths in Las Vegas)
Rest of California: 500,000 to 800,000, highest possibly 2 million?​
Total injury count: Est. at least 1.5 to 2 times number of dead, possibly 32.7 to 57.6 million injured (including casualties in Oregon, Mexico, Washington, Nevada and other states)
Total displaced: Unknown, possibly millions of people. Estimation possibly 10 million in CA alone, millions more in OR, NV, WA, UT and other states.
Total cost of disaster: Tens of trillions of US dollars.
Status of locations:
Greater Los Angeles: Totally destroyed.
Ventura, Orange and San Diego Counties: Unknown.
San Francisco Bay Area: Wiped from the face of the Earth (de facto)
San Jose: Gone.
Santa Cruz: Gone.
San Diego: Unknown.
Nevada & Arizona: Unknown.
Rest of California: Unknown.​
Conclusion: California is totally ruined. Full stop.
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Unknown

I will say this for San Andreas: at least it's not as bad as 10.5, IMO...

Don't forget to include the rest of the Pacific (including Hawaii, which will begin evacuations as soon as the Tsunami Warning Center finds out about the megatsunami, which might actually reduce the death toll in Hawaii)...
 

RySenkari

It might be better to start up a topic in the Media/Fandom AH forum concerning this, might generate more discussion than it would in here ^_^;;;
 

RyderWest

Unknown said:
I will say this for San Andreas: at least it's not as bad as 10.5, IMO...
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10.5 was the more amateur TV movie garbage one, I think?

Anyway, I think disaster movies ITTL, like IOTL will continue to toss science out the window so no changes there....
 

tornadobusdriver

Random but will powers contain elements of other Shyamalan films as well as the "unbreakable trilogy"? finally watched split and I rlly enjoyed it so its been on my mind..
 

FireAnt

Was 2006 here a big year ITTL for anime like 2006 was IOTL which had Death Note, Code Geass, Haruhi, the first Fate/stay night anime, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time?

(I also like Black Lagoon, Ouran Highschool Host Club, and Welcome to the NHK from this period but those are smaller compared to the first group I listed).
 

RySenkari

FireAnt said:
Was 2006 here a big year ITTL for anime like 2006 was IOTL which had Death Note, Code Geass, Haruhi, the first Fate/stay night anime, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time?

(I also like Black Lagoon, Ouran Highschool Host Club, and Welcome to the NHK from this period but those are smaller compared to the first group I listed).
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We don't have a detailed anime update planned until 2007, so that might end up being the big year for anime ITTL. 2006's OTL anime bumper crop may get hit hard by the butterflies.
 
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