Ranr 462 / The Law Isn't About Justice, But Normality.

Mass Effect will be released on the 26th of January.

















Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

Shit that would be cool! I'd be able to play as a sentry standing in the sun all day guarding the camp.










It is so interesting to fantasize about moon colonization. This must be what people in the 70s had felt when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. Now that water ice on the moon is confirmed, it just seems so likely to happen, similar to what the moon landing inspired.

Sooner or later they may start sending materials there in unmanned spacecrafts. Certain things that a colony would need that aren't exactly fragile can be sent separately so that the astronauts can just drive around on a rover and pick them up. The moon is so small, and with the lack of air resistance and gravity, it probably would take a day or two to circumnavigate the whole satellite. Dumping stuff there before sending people would make sense. It doesn't even matter where the parcels land, as long as they do.

Another benefit of doing that would be the increased cost-efficiency. Since these materials aren't living humans, they don't need as many safety mechanisms. If they don't shatter upon impact, there really aren't many issues to consider. At most the problem would lie in whether it would rebound at the Moon's escape velocity. Since the numbers in such matters are usually quite large, a rebound at 2.38km/s doesn't feel impossible to me.

You know, they still haven't mentioned if there is enough water to create an artificial habitat (in the forms of water and oxygen and hydrogen). There would be more in the form of hydroxyls in the rocks but it's much harder to extract them than melting the lunar ice.

But if they do so, squeezing water out of a rock will no longer qualify as a metaphor for an impossible task.











Finished Dragon Age: Origins. This game is superb. I don't use this word often to describe anything, but this game deserves no less. The complete absence of major bugs, the exciting battles that keep you on the edge of your seats spamming SPACEBAR SPACEBAR SPACEBAR, the complexity of the various relationships, achievement awards that recognize deeds that are actually hard to accomplish and other features just makes this game amazing.

Of course, having the steamy Witcher-style stuff to replace the sex scenes would have been a better idea. Just because I picked a Dwarf doesn't mean I want to see him in his loincloth. Thank goodness I didn't pick a female dwarf!

The developers also recognized that looting is fun purely for the action itself. Finding good loot is nice but not an important issue. Hence even at the end, past the point where you can find a NPC trader, you can still find chests filled with useless crap. But it's still fun to open boxes just for the sake of finding something.

The only thing I didn't like is the camera angle. Using the mouse wheel a PC player (there are other versions on consoles) can switch between a third-person view (from behind your character) to an isometric view (from above at an angle). The thing is that when you are controlling a single character, the isometric camera is locked. It is unlocked only if the player is controlling the whole squad together. Hence it was rather inconvenient when I was giving battle orders in the isometric view.

Overall this game feels better than Mass Effect. It is completely unthinkable for them not to make a sequel. The next game, though, will not be held in the same time and kingdom. That I am sure, after seeing the ending of this game.

Tried playing again immediately as a Mage, but I think it's going to take some time before I get used to not being able to open locked chests. As the Rogue I had the Lockpick skill raised as much as I could, so I practically wiped clean every room I enter. Now as a Mage that can't be done anymore.

After this game, my expectations for Mass Effect 2 has been raised. Can't help it because DA:O was just that good. At the very least, I don't expect frequent crash or major bugs in ME2.













I never thought one could get famous by sitting around in one's underwear, but apparently you can! This guy just lives on the street, bumming around in his briefs all day and he has a Wikipedia page and even a TV interview.