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Will post rational thoughts from gamers too, the kind you least expect. As ever, submit below.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
because apparently being a girl is demeaning, as is being gay. We´re still doing this people ? -.-
…The GIFs here are a decade old. Literally, 10 years old. What do you mean ‘still’?
They were old ten years ago.
(Source: redvsbluegifs)
Eurogamer commenter feels let down with the Wii U’s storage space after the revelations about LEGO City.
We a little pissed about the storage issue too.
(Source: eurogamer.net)
Nuclear waste as a power source sounds like a great idea
Some MIT researchers have found a way to use nuclear waste as a power source.
America alone produces about 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste annually and our best solution for disposing of it: bury it deep in the Earth. However, a pair of MIT scientists believe they’ve found not only a better way of eliminating nuclear waste but recycling the deadly detritus into enough clean electricity to power the entire world until 2083. Win, meet win.
via gizmodo.com
Powering the entire world for the next 70 years our building stockpile of nuclear waste sounds like an awesome idea. I just hope someone actually gets this moving. The article even describes the new technology as cheap.
The company claims that each reactor will be capable of generating 500 megawatts of power at a price of $1.5 billion apiece. That may sound like a lot but realize Westinghouse’s new AP1000 light-water reactor only produces double that output and costs a cool $7 billion. What’s more, these reactors are expected to be small enough to be constructed at a factory and shipped whole to the installation site where they can start chewing through the $7.1 trillion worth of untapped electricity sitting in our nuclear stockpiles.
And, of course, someone had to slip in a SimCity joke in the comments.
Nuclear power even works in the new SimCity (and nothing works in that game) so I’m all for this solution, as long as the plants aren’t run by EA. (blueshoe40)
It’s that last quote…
About Sim City
So I dreamed about Sim City last night. Or something. At least, when my alarm went off, I had it in my head that I was sending Fix-it Felix out on missions to repair the various zones, and that I was worried I wouldn’t have enough time to do it. I couldn’t figure out how to hit snooze, either.
I knew that I had to, so I could go back to sleep, but I think I was worried about leaving the city un-zoned. Which … I don’t even know. Especially since I was thinking about this while I was clearly awake and looking at the red numbers on my clock.
I guess I must have still been partially asleep.
Strange but not too strange in terms of gaming dreams.
I hope the next Fallout title is as *rigorously* checked for bugs as the others. It’d be a shame to not see things like this anymore.
Couldn’t think of something to get for Josh for his birthday… until today at about 9:45 am while at work.
Now, my husband has that lovely kind of rage where he has destroyed countless controllers due to “fucking cocksucking fucking shitbags” in the game… (I am of course toning down the language he uses and not adding the sound effect of punching the walls)
So at lunch, i ran to Best buy, got a wireless controller… ran to the craft store, and grabbed a shadow box… then on my smoke break put this together for him.
He was pleased. I’ll probally spraypaint the shadow box sides red at some point and add a chain with a tiny hammer for aesthetic .. but not bad for 45 minutes effort. ;)
Thoughtful gift that.
Being a gamer means suffering anxiety attacks when you’re about to face what you know is a brutal boss.
Word.
Dude comments on Edge article.
Editor’s note: I’m kind of in agreement with dude, though the article has since been updated to say “Lulu from Final Fantasy X”.
(Source: edge-online.com)
A response to Bungie’s statement today that no one plays shooters with a mouse and keyboard anymore due to Halo.
Games are usually for fun, enjoy-ability or escape, there’s nothing worse than being reminded in-game that you cannot afford something, or that you haven’t worked hard enough at the game to enjoy the best stuff.
Unfortunately, it’s not the customer they are trying to please, it’s the shareholders.
bboyZA in response to Dead Space 3 micro-transaction news.