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Special: Night Time Nerds


Posted on 10/24/2016 at 07:18 PM | Filed Under Feature

I really enjoyed this! I'll be sure to take a look at Jordan's show sometime. As a science major and science person in general I'm convinced there's life all throughout the universe, including in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our solar system that we haven't discovered yet. The problem is that when people think of extraterrestrial life they immediately go to sci-fi space faring life. As far as anyone can tell, intelligent self-aware life is rare with us as the only example so far, sort of an aberration, although evidence continues to come out that there are sea creatures that are far more intelligent than people have given them credit for in the past and exploring the sea is pretty much like meeting aliens for the researchers doing that work.

There are a lot of dumbfounding things that happen out in the seas that remain unexplained, like gigantic glowing masses that immediately make you think it must simply be bio-luminescent creatures, but it would require many trillions of the known small glowing creatures we know about to create that kind of luminosity. I'm always interested in situations like that where even the most logical scientific explanations seem far-fetched, so it might be something completely new about the natural world that we haven't learned about, which gives me a super science boner. 

It's surprisingly likely that life could be present right at this moment in sub-surface oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa because Jupiter's gravity causes tidal stretching that heats the planet enough to maintain a massive ocean beneath the icy surface and cause gigantic water eruptions on the surface that have been observed, and also the necessary chemicals for life are present and have natural mechanisms that circulate it from the surface down through the oceans, and there's an energy source obviously as I mentioned earlier; all the building blocks as we know them are there. If we found evidence of life in our own solar system beyond Earth it would be pretty conclusive that at the very least simple life must thrive all over the galaxy and universe because there are literally billions of systems out there that are similar to ours, so we don't appear to be that rare, structurally.

I also love indulging in ghost stories, those are the types of movies, games, folklore, and 1st hand accounts that creep me out the most. I don't believe in any afterlife, souls, or spirit energy. But there are obviously a plethora of unexplained macabre phenomena that people have been experiencing since time immemorial, and even though the majority have explanations, there's a percentage that have no explanation at all, and the same thing goes for UAPs. There have to be reasons out there we haven't discovered yet, so I like to try and find a balance between keeping an open mind and utilizing the scientific method to avoid fooling myself into believing things that aren't accurate. There are some theories in science, like parallel universe theories, that creep me out or boggle my mind because of their possible implications. In general, I always find that no matter how creative human imaginations are, mother nature is always far more inventive and weird than anything we can come up with. The actual physical universe around us that you can learn about through science is totally nuts and stupefying on its own, no mythology needed.

Look, an old fashioned stream of consciousness wall of text from yours truly! This episode was fun, it got me in the mood to ramble so hard

Nintendo Reveals New System, Switch


Posted on 10/21/2016 at 06:26 AM | Filed Under Feature

My body is ready

Five Things Mass Effect Could Improve On


Posted on 10/21/2016 at 06:23 AM | Filed Under Feature

I actually got the new Doom this past week and just installed it on my pc! I'm so ready, I want to get through it soon so I'm prepared by the time everyone is talking about GOTY.

When you brought up No Mans Sky it made me think of having control of whatever the Normandy equivalent is in Andromeda and flying it down through the atmosphere and choosing a landing area right before you press the trigger and drop the Mako down onto the surface. You always see that in the cut scene in the ME games, it could be fun to actually have control of that process. In No Mans sky you can only explore one star system at a time and zoom around to the planets within, then when you're done you pick places to warp to on the larger map. The way you explore solar systems in No Mans Sky is basically the Mass Effect galaxy map but experienced from first person instead of overhead with the little ship to control. It could be cool to have that kind of exploration in Andromeda. I love the galaxy map and if it aint broke don't fix it, but exploring the systems from the point of view of the player's ship could be fun. Doesn't necessarily have to be 1st person, that might not make sense, but just have the camera behind the ship and be able to zip around the system and land at will when your scanners find cool stuff to investigate

Five Things Mass Effect Could Improve On


Posted on 10/21/2016 at 01:29 AM | Filed Under Feature

Failed to make your point. Reloading is still king. Ask revolver ocelot. Boom

Five Things Mass Effect Could Improve On


Posted on 10/20/2016 at 03:25 PM | Filed Under Feature

Ditch heat sinks? This whole article is now invalid :p

Heat sinks and generally reloading make sense because eventually you're going to run out of raw metal to shave and accelerate. You wouldn't be able to shoot infinitely and just worry about overheating. Also heat transfer and newton's law of cooling don't work so fast that you could just rapidly heat and cool a barrel or shooting mechanism like in Mass Effect 1, it makes sense that you'd have heat sinks that you could rapidly transfer out so you didn't have to wait for the hot one to cool down. I'm sorry but any attempt to justify infinite shooting and no reloading is bubkiss. I will stand up for heat sinks till the day I die, come at me lol

Episode 99: The Return of Angelo Grant


Posted on 10/17/2016 at 04:17 AM | Filed Under Feature

Welcome back, Angelo!

Chrono Crossing 2005

We all know Resident Evil 4 is the only real choice and all other games are just fighting for 2nd place, but since I know RE4 is guaranteed to get a mention, I'll pick Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Stealth is my favorite genre and Chaos Theory is one of the better games in the genre. The level designs are excellent and still hold up to this day, with each one having a distinct theme and unique atmosphere. The stealth mechanics are also robust, well thought out, and polished. The combination of being able to play the entire game non-lethal, and having a story and level designs that work together to nail the feeling of solo-infiltration, all come together to create a game that is super entertaining for people who want a stealth game that's all about espionage and sabotage. Indigo Prophecy and Condemned Criminal Origins are also amazing 2005 games, remind people they exist and don't let them be lost to time!

Stage Select

This probably doesn't count as a cut-scene but it's a very early and vivid gaming memory of being genuinely scared. When I was young I had a Pizza Hut demo disk with a Parasite Eve trailer that terrified me and made me never play the game. It starts out with a creepy opera singer watching her entire audience spontaneously burst into flames, and then a Ghostbuster's 2 style goop shoots out of the sewers and then the goop brings a T-rex skeleton to life, and right after that it brutally mutates a rat. I still won't play Parasite Eve.

Parasite Eve trailer

Been Awhile...


Posted on 10/15/2016 at 04:46 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Nice to see you, Kay. I've just been buying and hording horror games to celebrate spooktober, but I haven't even played any

Pixlbit Questionare: Nintendo 64 Edition


Posted on 09/28/2016 at 03:30 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I was big on the N64 as a kid but the only game I still play on a fairly regular basis is Mario Kart 64. Other than that I also loved the Zeldas, BattleTanx, Pilot Wings 64, Body Harvest, Starfox, and some of the wrestling games that came out for it for WCW and WWF

Episode 97: NWP x TnB


Posted on 09/26/2016 at 06:15 PM | Filed Under Feature

Chrono Crossing 2007

Holy wow I can't believe I'm not picking Mass Effect (which is the best single player experience I've ever had in my life) or Halo 3 (the best co-op experience I've ever had), but I'm totally choosing the Orange Box, which is kind of a cheat answer. For the price of one game I was able to play Half Life 2 and all its expansion packs, plus Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Having all of these games on one disc for the price of one game was incredible. But not only was the Orange Box an amazing value but literally every game it contained ended up becoming some of my favorite games of all time.

Chrono Crossing 2006

I'll have to choose Gears. Gears of War dragged the whole genre of third person shooting forward more than a few steps. Every aspect of the technical design in Gears felt chiseled by people who not only understood game design but also how to program the engine in order to make it feel exactly the way they wanted. The characters had weight and impact while being sharp and responsive. Even things like reloading felt good in Gears. Nowadays we take all these small details of a game's feel for granted since most third person action games in 2016 feel at least decent, but go back and compare Gears to its contemporaries and you'll notice the difference. Now that Gears has influenced every 3rd person action game for the past 10 years it's easy to look back and see the flaws in the original game, but in 2006 it was incredibly fresh and super rad. Plus, you could saw guys in half and kick their giblets around. You're lying to yourself if you don't pick the game with giblet soccer.

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The game universe I would want to live in would be Red Dead Redemption. I would either be a train engineer or run a small farm in that world, and I could probably avoid most of the violence that occurs between John Marston, the governments, and bandits. Luckily there are no aliens, disease, dystopia, and no apocalypse Red Dead.

Happy Birthday PixlBit!


Posted on 09/25/2016 at 05:21 AM | Filed Under News

What's Pixlbit?! Never been here a day before in my life Tongue Out

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