Recent content by UMID

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    Gallery: Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Are a Mystery to NASA

    I'm betting on something like this, too. Read somewhere that a theory as to why Ceres is so near-spherical for its size is that it's mostly ice around a rocky core. I was actually at an astrobiology conference all last week. Somebody presented a poster on Ceres, but sadly there was nothing...
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    Methane in Martian Meteorites Might Mean Life on the Red Planet

    Am I the only one who feels it's excessively cheap of the Guardian to use a red-tinted random heightmap instead of an actual Mars globe? Not like we haven't had maps of the martian surface for like a century or anything ...
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    Do Ya'll Listen To Scores?

    Oh yeah, my man Mansell! Love his work, especially from Moon and the Fountain. And I basically got into anime because of Susumu Hirosawa (Paprika) and Hiroyuki Sawano (Kill la Kill)
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    Dragon Age: Inquisition Review - Monumental

    I was always going to play it eventually, but from this review it sounds more interesting than I dared to hope! Army-level command elements is what I've always missed in my RPGs. I'm going to need some way to get rid of those horrible plastic haridos, though.
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    Star Wars: Rebels Review: The Force Is Strong with This One

    Couldn't agree more. Feels like gratuitous Disneyfication to me. The Ghost crew seems like they could be interesting tho. What bothers me most is the dialogue and general sound editing. In the 7m clip there, almost all you hear is music, engine sounds and clipped speech. No background noise...
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    Poll: Morrowind: Should I get it?

    I've been replaying Morrowind for a few weeks now. I can recommend setting the difficulty low starting out, and ramping up as your skills improve. Because as TristanBelmont stated, the frustration of being weak in combat can easily put you off the game. For my part, I'm actively trying to...
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    Poll: Kill La Kill - Is it any good?

    I'm slowly getting over a mild allergy to anime, and I have mainly KLK to thank for that. It takes all yer standard anime weirdness, angst and recycling of footage, and turns it up to 11. It's kinda like playing soccer with a tennis ball, after you've gone through that, everything else seems...
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    The Old Gods

    It's because we're too busy playing gaemz! ;) Alt comment: I didn't choose the Lurk Lyfe, the Lurk Lyfe chose me! I thoroughly recommend CK2. It's full of power trips: taking the Holy Land, founding your first empire, assassinating a whole dynasty ... Try a multiplayer game with friends who've...
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    The Old Gods

    Oh, I wanna do that! I usually play Sweden or some vassal, and the damn Danish insist on being a huge boulder in my path to the continent. I will have my revenge ... In The Old Gods, I came pretty far with Svithjod. You start out needing just one more territory and a wad of cash to found the...
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    Music you enjoy in a language you don't understand...

    I usually listen to music that I don't understand when I want to space out for a while, and Tinariwen is always trippy: And then there's Ja Sha Taan by Fun Da Mental, from the best titled album ever: "Erotic Terrorism" ^^ Epic!
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    Poll: Should scientific research be competitive or collaborative?

    Contemporary research is a mixture of both, as scientists compete for the funding they need to carry out their projects, but collaboration on various levels is highly valued and actively encouraged. As someone mentioned in the thread, nobody wants to be sitting on pieces of the puzzle when they...
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    Racism in Skyrim?

    For an interesting read on the interbreeding issue, find the book "On Racial Phylogeny" (in game, that is. It's even a Restoration skillbook, so worth looking up for that too). For one thing it explores the origin of the humanoid "races" of Tamriel a bit, but it's also written in the style of a...
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    What kind of OS do YOU use? The big survey.

    Windows 7 on the gaming rig, for the heavy games. Mac OSX on the Macbook, for lighter games, working and programming. Xandros on an Asus EEEPC, to have a native UNIX environment to test code on, and just to complete the trifecta =)
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    Games for Mac's

    In addition to the ones Mr. Lemur mentioned, there's WineSkin [http://wineskin.doh123.com/Information.html], which uses "wrappers" to run programs in a kind of Windows microenvironment ... When it works, it works pretty well. There's a bunch of games listed on the site which have finished...
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    Question: What the Hell IS temperature anyway?

    As has already been stated, you can't really translate temperature into energy/vibration/something directly; you need to nail down a bunch of other factors before you can say something meaningful about the effect of temperature change. Ahem. *Straightens lab coat, produces blackboard from...