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I’m sorry, Ubisoft, I really want to play The Division and Anno 2205, but your conference and it’s obsession with memes is really getting on my nerves.

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So far this has actually been a nice E3. Low on cringe, high on games.

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ME4 officially titled Mass Effect Andromeda. Slightly smug at the moment.

During the Mass Effect 4 “presentation”, they said that you’d be exploring totally uncharted space because players wanted to go somewhere new.. And, while not 100% completely explored, the Milky Way galaxy was pretty much tapped out. The galaxy was neatly carved up into different zones of...

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One of our cats passed away; had to be put to sleep Saturday. She was 14, had an apparently aggressive cancer. Have not been great since.

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Saw Treasure Planet for the first time today. Instantly among my favorite Disney flicks. Don’t think I’ve ever seen sci-fi done like it was done in this movie, or if I have, I can’t recall.

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Another galaxy, called it

Rumor: Next Mass Effect details leak through survey Reddit Thread on r/masseffect

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Battlefront 3 trailer happened today. Was cool, but then information began to flow:

- no space battles - 40 (20v20) players (less than battlefield 4 even on ps4/x1, what the fuck) - NO CLONE WARS ERA FACTIONS, MAPS, VEHICLES, ANYTHING. NOTHING. NO BATTLE DROIDS, NO ARC TROOPERS. I am not a happy camper.

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I think I’m fic’d out. All I’ve got left is this one last ME story in my drafts that’s been there for like, almost a year because I don’t know what to do with it. As always, open to suggestions. Fucking EA better have a damned trailer for ME4 this fucking E3 I swear to god

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Not the WHOLE time, stopped playing it about 2 months ago. After that I was thinking ‘it’s been a while, what the hell do I say if I came back’ and just kind of avoided this for a while. Soooo...yeah.

But yeah, nice to be back. We should catch up on skype when I can talk.

h-hello

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Yeeaaaaaah. Not exactly proud of the time I wasted on Destiny.

h-hello

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h-hello

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Have you ever written Traynor/Kelly? For some reason I thought you had.

HAH, you remember that, do you? You’re right. I did write some Traynor/Kelly, though it was short and not at all really in character. It was the last piece of a series of requests I did on the Mass Effect General threads on /vg/.

I’m pretty sure it started like this: an anon (who later came up with the posting name “TraynorNeverFindsLove” or TNFL) requested that I come up with a story where Traynor unsuccessfully hits on EDI. I liked the request and so wrote it up.

Then the same anon had the idea of a series of sorts, where Traynor tries to hit on the ladies of the Normandy crew and then some. Liara, Miranda, Jack, Samara, Kelly, even Aria (though that one was more like Aria scaring the hell out Traynor).

They were fun to write, but I don’t think they were at all very in character, and in some respects missed the marks completely. I still have the screenshots somewhere, but it’s been months and months since I’ve looked through my old MEG requests, and I’ve actually forgotten which folder I’ve put them in. I’ll dig around for the series and post them up as they are. I don’t feel like retyping them in their entirety.

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based on this

also Titan is best Hunters and Warlocks can gtfo

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Until yesterday, everyone in the international community was laughing at this engine and its inventor, Roger Sawyer. It’s called the EmDrive and everyone said it was impossible because it went against the laws of physics. But the fact is that the quantum vacuum plasma thruster works in the lab and scientists can’t explain why.

Sawyer’s engine is extremely light and simple. It provides a thrust by “bouncing microwaves around in a closed container.” The microwaves are generated using electricity that can be provided by solar energy. No propellant is necessary, which means that this thrusters can work forever unless a hardware failure occurs. If real, this would be a major breakthrough in space propulsion technology.

Obviously, the entire thing sounded preposterous to everyone. In theory, this thing shouldn’t work at all. So people laughed and laughed and ignored him. Everyone except a team of Chinese scientists. They built one in 2009 and it worked: They were able to produce 720 millinewton, which is reportedly enough to build a satellite thruster. And still, nobody else believed it.

Now, American scientist Guido Fetta and a team at NASA Eagleworks—the advanced propulsion skunkworks led by Dr Harold “Sonny” White at the Johnson Space Center—have published a new paper that demonstrates that a similar engine working on the same principles does indeed produce thrust. Their model, however, produces much less thrust—just 30 to 50 micronewtons. But it works, which is amazing on its own. They haven’t explained why their engine works, but it does work:

Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma.

The entire idea that we have found something that seems to go against the the principle of conservation of momentum just seems crazy to me. But the fact that it has worked for two independent parties can’t be denied. That’s the laboratory speaking. Then again, perhaps both labs made a mistake. I’m sure this will be tested by the Russians and the Europeans too, but at least I’m glad we are working on it.

But the fact that we may be witnessing something completely new, something that may push us forward into sci-fi territory once again, is very exciting. http://ift.tt/1xKDEkb…

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  via Gizmodo

Can I just say that I hate whoever made the headline for this article because honestly I was expecting some fucking news on that fucking warp drive and when I read the headline I immediately inferred HAPPENING and then was disappointed but still somewhat impressed  anyway

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ah!  you reminded me i don’t think i ever posted these but yeah like a couple months back there were those 2 days I was super into miranda/traynor lol

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43 days until I can play Destiny again

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Day 1 without the Destiny beta: kill me