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    Secret of Mana: A Good Game With The Great Cut Out

    Fire Eyes, Horace, and Carltron. I wouldn't fault the lack of back story for the "real" characters, though. It was unimportant to the story. What and why they were where they were--and what was going wrong--were all revealed during the game, and the only background information needed was...
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    What Just Happened on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

    I get the feeling Civil War is going to be more based on Inhuman registration than the classic superheroes running around. Considering the files we know SHIELD had, and the info dump at the end of Winter Soldier, most of the latter should be public knowledge.
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    Watch the World of Warcraft Documentary Right Now

    Diablo 3 had its share of issues at launch. Always-only was not one of them, despite all the howling about it at the time. The state of the console games attests to this: rife with hacks and dupes. It may have caused some problems very early on, but was definitely the right decision in the end.
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    Escape to the Movies: Gravity

    Her spin is probably the easiest physics in the scene to write off. All it takes is the back of the stand to clip her legs and head over heals it is. Other than that, I guess the ambiguous camera angles give me enough room to not think the direction is wrong (if not a little exaggerated), and...
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    Escape to the Movies: Gravity

    I think I'm seeing the actual problem now. First, the camera does not keep attached to a fixed frame of reference. It releases from the one it was following when she does. Second, you're misunderstanding centrifugal forces. She will not go flying out from it, she'll fly out tangentially on a...
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    Escape to the Movies: Gravity

    That's completely opposite of what would happen. When she detaches herself from the arm, there is no longer a centripetal force. From the arm's frame of reference, she'd be flung away like throwing a discus. With the camera following the arm, and her releasing at the right moment, what they show...
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    Dwarf Fortress is quite fun, lets share stories (Adventure mode or whatever)

    I don't remember why she tantrumed. Surely it was just another stupid complaint with little basis in reality. Regardless, she had kicked someone while doing it, and though it calmed her down it was still against the law. She was sentenced to a beating. To prevent tragedy in an already-tense...
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    Clever Gadget Offers Sonar For The Blind

    This reminds me a little of another system I attended a lecture on. Cameras in a pair of sunglasses have their image converted by a small system, and the output is a pattern of electrical stimulation on a small square grid placed upon the tongue. It's already been used (after a little bit of...
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    Insurance Company Tries to Dodge Sony's PSN Legal Costs

    I think it's more that the first lawsuit is claiming they don't have to pay, and the second is "but if you reject the first one, these other insurers should have to pay, too!"
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    Star Wars Galaxies Players Start Petition to Stop Closure

    You know, in a way, it's strangely fitting, though, isn't it? Fans: "We don't like the enhanced Star Wars! Give us back the original version!" Lucas: "I can't... I sorta drew on it..." Fans: "Give the source code to the EMU projects so they can let us play your now-dead game!" SOE: "We...
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    Israeli Missile Defense System Blasts Threats With Liquid Metal

    From the looks of it the system is small enough to even go on less armored vehicles. Besides, they already do attack those. They just tend to be harder targets to get to.
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    Battery Goo Could Power the Cars of the Future

    So after some additional reading of the MIT release: A) It's a DARPA-funded project and already licensed to a company partially run by the lead researcher and with 16 mil in capital investment. So... would be a little hard for an energy company to buy up and sit on it at this point. B)...
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    Battery Goo Could Power the Cars of the Future

    And for once, I really want to find some published papers to look deeper into some tech news posted here. Even if this ends up not being very economical for use in transportation, it could be a huge boon for the alternative energy industry. Some of the biggest problems with green energy is...
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    The Big Picture: Arch-Villains

    To a small extent, this calls for some Munroe: http://xkcd.com/603/ This is one of those sorts of debates that's just a powder keg. As Bob said, it's not black and white. You can take it a hundred different directions, such as deeper economic issues that lead to people eating more unhealthy...
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    Man Chooses to Swap Disabled Hand for Bionic Replacement

    Was wondering when this was going to pop up. Some exciting stuff happening in the prosthetic field. Once they finish getting the contact probes to stick to the brain (they slide off after a bit at the moment...) we might get to see entire arms like this. I do have to wonder what the battery...