[Victerius]

I have only one question. Does this mean that we are getting closer to a cloud-hosted ultimate map for games like Call of Duty and Ace Combat?

I want to dogfight over Ohio, land at Offutt to play Warzone in Omaha, then take a MRAP and drive to NY.

[teraflop]

1:1 scale multiplayer world maps have existed for decades, e.g. in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The difficulty of making a "large" map comes from what you want to simulate and in how much detail, not from how big it is per se.

[chmod775]

This pretty much.

ED has an approximation of the entire milky way in an MMORPG, where you can visit individual planets of around 400 billion star systems. These are obviously "generated" except for maybe a few handcrafted systems like Sol.

The problem really isn't "size".

[shostack]

And sometimes you don't need to simulate. MSFS pulls in live metar data, though previously they used Meteorblue forecast data.

[Etching]

Since I can't reply to the RoP thread, you said, "Is this about the brown-skinned male Elf and the brown-skinned and beardless female Dwarf? This horse has been beaten to death and back on YouTube and Reddit, and the consensus is that it's fine and faithful to the texts." This is absolutely ASININE in how in accurate it is. The show is BARELY related to the works it is allegedly based on. And brown people aren't the problem, since Haradrim/Easterlings exist in Tolkien's Legendarium. Where is Celeborn? Why is Isildur around 1500 years before he was born? Why is Durin III Durin IV's father, when the dwarves only allow one person at a time to be named Durin due to their belief that each Durin is a reincarnation of the previous one? Why is Gil-galad able to pardon Galadriel (for killing orcs) when it was the Valar who banned her from Valinor, and she isn't pardoned until three thousand plus years later when she rejects the ring. Why is her motivation to get revenge when in the text her motive is to create her own kingdom to rule (kind of like Satan in Christian theology, which is why she's interesting, since her primary conflict is her own pride versus her own wisdom). Speaking of wisdom, why is she a petulant, hot-headed teenager when she's thousands of years old? Why is she going around hunting orcs when what she was doing on Middle-earth in the Second Age ruling various places and being immersed in Elvish politics (and of particular note, her issues with Celibrimbor and Annatar). Why is she going around swinging her sword like an anime protagonist? She might be tall and athletic, but there is scarcely anything written about her in battle, save for her bringing down the walls of Dol Guldur (which typically is done with magic, or a wrecking crew, not an anime sword). Why is she attempting to swim from Valinor to Middle-earth? Why is she in Númenor when she literally never went there?

There's a LOT more I could ask about her, and that's just one character. This show is fan fiction LOOSELY based on the writings. VERY loosely.

That is all. I'll enjoy my ban now.