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u/maxame Feb 08 '13
An invader's life:
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u/MetalOcelot Feb 08 '13
Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!
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u/user93849384 Feb 08 '13
Interesting fact about the game and how the invaders speed up as you killed them. This was not programmed into the game. The hardware was so slow that the more invaders you had on screen the slower the game would go. As you killed them there was less logic to process so the game increased speed. The creator left this in the game instead of programming to compensate for speed up as you killed them.
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u/A_Polite_Noise Feb 08 '13
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Feb 09 '13
Its called a scissor maneuver. I am curious as to how the chute deployed and made enough drag to unload that thing...
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u/MrPieGuy Feb 08 '13 edited Feb 08 '13
Edit: OP won Battle #50 on /r/photoshopbattles
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
If you look at my user/name you will see we are the same person.
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u/MrPieGuy Feb 08 '13
Haha! I'm an idiot, I upvoted you during that battle as it was amazing, assumed it was someone reposting work. Welp, nothing to see here, though that thread is pretty interesting.
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13 edited Feb 08 '13
Thanks for the diligence. It is kind of funny to see some of these comments about how unrealistic the physics of it are. I guess out of the context of the parameters of that contest, it is a bit strange.
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Feb 09 '13
You should post hippie van you shopped to r/trees!
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u/lains-experiment Feb 09 '13 edited Feb 09 '13
Good idea. I've tried posting shops I've done to different parts of Reddit but they usually flop. This is the first one that took off outside our PSB club.
Thanks for the original image:)
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Feb 09 '13
Maybe I should post my winning shop.
Hint for my photoshop: I picked the boat picture for the contest... and I'm seriously impressed with what you and everyone else there have managed to do with it. Congrats from the person you dethroned!
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u/lains-experiment Feb 09 '13
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Feb 09 '13
I posted my entry for the bald eagle contest into /r/MURICA. It was recived well but I was still completely shocked when a user posted this a few days ago.
Good luck to you too man, see you in the ps battlefield.
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u/caltheon Feb 08 '13
Username related to Serial Experiments Lain? (My favorite anime series ever)
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u/lains-experiment Feb 09 '13
Yes, mine too.
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u/RunLoganRun Feb 09 '13
Good series ... I have to admit, I enjoy introducing new people to it and watching them try to figure it out the first time through.
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u/Grantonius Feb 08 '13
If they are being dropped from space, how is that parachute blown open? Why even have the parachute if they drop them before even entering the atmosphere?
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u/Kowzorz Feb 08 '13
Space parachutes. Duh.
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
Their advanced alien technology is beyond the comprehension of our feeble minds. Space parachutes!
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
Parachutes won't open in vacuum, but they do open in thin atmosphere if you have some speed. There are some parachutes which are opened by rockets (of course, very little rockets), those parachute could be opened from space.
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u/fooesus Feb 08 '13
Agreed, this picture doesn't really make sense. A plane dropping the invaders with parachutes from space and on a platform..
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u/Moonstrife Feb 08 '13
Wasn't this the winner of the last photoshop battle? (/r/photoshopbattles)
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
Yes, That was me. Just thought people outside r/PSB might appreciate it.
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u/From_the_year_2212 Feb 08 '13
Reminds me of extreme altitude skydiving that picks up in the mid 2030's. Those brave enough can take a ride into space at about 50 miles up and jump from a similar opening in the rear of the craft. As they are falling back they see circles on their HUD and try to pass though them for points or whatever.
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u/Tvacgamer Feb 08 '13
Hey man did you make this? This is amazing :)
Cheers, Tony
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
Yes, it was for a r/photoshopbattle last week.
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u/Tvacgamer Feb 08 '13
Are you cool if I link to it from our (Amazon.com Video Games) facebook/twitter page sometime this weekend?
Cheers, Tony
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u/otonik Feb 08 '13
this is so cool I'm using it as my Facebook cover page. Should I mention anyone or a link to the artist?
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13
I made it. But I'm not tell you my real name. It's from a r/photoshopbattle last week.
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Feb 08 '13
This was the winning entry for one of the competitions on /r/photoshopbattles . please give credit !
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Feb 08 '13
Parachutes don't work in space.
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u/fooesus Feb 08 '13
I don't know why this has so many downvotes, Indubitableness is correct.
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Feb 08 '13
Damn it, now that you've complained about downvotes on my comment I have to downvote myself.
Thanks, faggot.
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u/Roflcoptarzan Feb 09 '13
Funny, I was singing "Space Invaders" by Face the Rail under my breath when I clicked on this.
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u/dredawg Feb 09 '13
I dont think that space invaders would be dropping out the back of a C-130 Hercules
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u/Xatom Feb 09 '13
Why would a C-130 be used for dropping extra terrestrial life? There is no way the jet engines would get enough oxygen at this altitude.
If this picture were accurate we would have to accept that the government had established near earth orbit jet airplanes and was in collusion with extra terrestrials.
Why exactly would aliens need to use our airplanes? They clearly have superior propulsion and can avoid acceleration due to gravity. They can survive space.
The photo suggests the aliens were on earth to begin with, then an airplane had to bring them up into orbit. This is because airplanes cannot go into space.
So the aliens were lying dormant in earths crust... ?
Is earth the homeworld of the space invaders?
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u/Aaronmcom Feb 09 '13
The game would be so fucking easy if you could just shoot consistently, instead of having to wait for your bullet to go off the screen.
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u/HosonZes Feb 09 '13
What type of air drop platform is that? Where is the ejector chute? Is this a gravity drop?
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u/rgalan Feb 09 '13
They would be perfect and more realistic/closer to the game in white, why use green?
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u/Spoggerific Feb 08 '13
That parachute would be useless that high up. Furthermore, if you drop something from up in orbit, it doesn't just fall back down to Earth - it stays in the same orbit as the parent craft. The dropped object will need to apply retrograde thrust if you want it to come back down before its orbit decays naturally.
You could at least try to make this realistic.
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u/lains-experiment Feb 08 '13 edited Feb 08 '13
First-Parachutes won't open in vacuum, but they do open in thin atmosphere if you have some speed. There are some parachutes which are opened by rockets (of course, very little rockets), those parachute could be opened from space.
Second-The invaders obviously are fully maneuverable space crafts on their own and can fly exactly where needed.
Third- the original game obviously followed all the laws of physics. (it was such a realistic game)
and forth-Fuck me for making some original content for Reddit, right. Go back to up-voting your old re-posted memes.
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u/caltheon Feb 08 '13
It's a self opening solar sail / power array to make sure the invaders are at full power once they enter position.
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u/Spoggerific Feb 08 '13
It was a joke, dude. A joke. I was realistically analyzing an image that was obviously not intended to be taken seriously for humor.
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u/itshurleytime Feb 08 '13
FWIW, I used to be a loadmaster on that plane, the C-17, and I've done boat drop as shown in the original photo
The amount of actual work, from rigging to loading to inspecting to preflighting an aircraft to the actual drop, that goes in to dropping a single boat is immense. I can't imagine how much work dropping a fleet of space invaders would take. Assuming that the Space Invader weighs about 20k lbs, there is probably far too much restraint applied from the platform to the invader. Additionally, the parachute you see in the photo is just the extraction chute, which pulls the platform out of the aircraft. It should be rigged with a timer which removes a pin from the top of the payload which releases the parachutes connected to the top. I don't see any parachutes on the top of this invader.