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Interesting Non-Game Stuff

Started by Strolen Dec 25, 2005 412 posts Locked

  1. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #281
    New BOOM (rail-gun) coming!

    http://news.yahoo.com/navy-railgun-tests-leading-ship-superweapon-2020-201003095.html

  2. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #282
    Railgun.

    Speaking from a person in the military whose job currently is the storing of explosive munitions...this is a horrible idea!! Not like you need specialists to stack and maintain a bunch of metal that is launched be electricity!?

  3. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #283

    Railgun.

    Speaking from a person in the military whose job currently is the storing of explosive munitions...this is a horrible idea!! Not like you need specialists to stack and maintain a bunch of metal that is launched be electricity!?


    Which opens the door for adventure; a new weapon arrives on the market, advanced enough to make ordinary soldiers/specialists jobs obsolete. Rather then retire quietly a group of these specialists hires a group of runners (I.E the characters) to do a little sabotage of the prototype weapon and give them a little more job security.

    Breaking into a high tech military compound and subtly disabling the new super weapon before demonstration day won't be easy, but that's why their being paid a small fortune, either in cred or explosive ordinance from the back room of the supply compound.  8)

    On a non game related note I wouldn't worry too much about being out of a job any time soon, the cost of these things will keep them suitably obscure for a few more decades at least, especially with the surplus of explosive ordinance they already have stored up and ready to go.  :up:

  4. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #284
    http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/03/07/heavy-rain-devs-kara-trailer

    This really blew me away.  Tears if you would believe it.  I'm too tired it seems.

  5. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #285
    I would order a model with longer hair.

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    #286
    "This is really an example where reality and the past have exceeded the imaginations of Hollywood."

    He described the enormous vertebrae as, "sort of like if you saw a mouse skull the size of rhino skull."

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/monster-titanoboa-snake-invades-york-224358461.html

  7. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #287
    Oh look, it's the Onyx Serpent.

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    #288

    "This is really an example where reality and the past have exceeded the imaginations of Hollywood."

    He described the enormous vertebrae as, "sort of like if you saw a mouse skull the size of rhino skull."

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/monster-titanoboa-snake-invades-york-224358461.html


    It's... beautiful... I want one as a pet :D

  9. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #289
    http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/17/buried-treasure-world-war-ii-spitfires-to-be-unearthed-in-burma/?hpt=hp_t2

    The last hope for Humanity!

  10. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #290
    The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us!!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/26/naked-man-eating-victims-face-killed-miami_n_1548359.html

    The officer...approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him.
    The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.


  11. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #291
    Next time a description of a plain potion vial, or a non-descript genie bottle, or a blah demon flask, or some other such vessel, just won't do....show your players this.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/BLW_Pilgrim_Bottle%2C_about_1560-1570.jpg

  12. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #292
    Zhot!

    http://www.army.mil/article/82262/Picatinny_engineers_set_phasers_to__fry_/

  13. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #293
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167731/Britains-Atlantis-North-sea--huge-undersea-kingdom-swamped-tsunami-5-500-years-ago.html

    Iceage is just too cool.

  14. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #294
    Enter the Zombie Zone - paintball.

    http://www.aldergrovestar.com/news/171064271.html

    Official site:  http://www.zombiecombatzone.com/faq

    Apparently they are booked out this season, and are on the other side of Canada from me... Oh well.

  15. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #295
    That is awesome. I want to do it NOW! Great that they do it at night too. You could really get into it.

  16. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #296
    cool cave images for your campaign needs.

    http://shifu.people.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=16597

  17. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #297
    Those are truly awesome!

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    #298
    That crystal cave in Mexico is so rad. I'm imagining wizards going down there to focus their energy.

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    #299
    Those remind me of my trip down into the Underground Salt Museum. I spent half of the time admiring the place, and the other half thinking, "Man, this would be an excellent setting for a horror game." Pure darkness is quite rare, and I hadn't ever experienced it until I went down into those caves.

  20. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #300
    Zombie Planet!

    http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-planets-rogue-orbit-around-star-shocks-scientists-123306639.html

  21. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #301
    Zombie Ant

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

    A fungus that takes over the ants brain, leads it to an area where it can thrive and kills the ant.

  22. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #302
    Mmmmm, the "Hadeon Eon", what a cool name for an rp  :D

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/10/169047159/the-oldest-rock-in-the-world-tells-us-a-story?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130111

  23. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #303
    That is actually pretty incredible. More about the possibility of water near the Earth's inception, but the name is nice too.

  24. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #304
    Aside from the political side to this, this map looks like it would be a great post-apoc map.

    http://fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/

  25. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #305
    Ooh, my dinky little county (population-wise) gets to be the name of a state? Sign me up!

    How did they decide the state names?

  26. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #306
    They look to be largely based on physical geography - Blue Ridge, for example, and Mesabi after the Mesabi Range.

    The disadvantages seem a little optimistic: I don't think the good people of Hawai'i would take a liking to being in the same state as Portland, OR. As a post-apoc map, I'd separate Hawai'i into its own nationstate, or even the individual islands. But otherwise, it would make for a rad Cosmic Era map, circa-22nd century.

  27. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #307
    Do NOT mess with Stephen Colbert on Tolkien knowledge!!!!

    Stephen Colbert schools James Franco on Tolkien knowledge again! HD

  28. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #308
    18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style

  29. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #309
    Ah, yes. Kacirk.

    You may like this, Myst: http://strolen.com/viewing/Ye_Olde_English_the_Archaic_Word_Challenge

    Where we take the "interesting non-game stuff", and churn it, until it becomes "interesting game stuff" whipped cream. :)

    Go on, pick a word and write a sub, i double-dare you

  30. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #310
    http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/12/18212006-worlds-most-beautiful-eternal-flame-reveals-potential-new-gas-source?lite

  31. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #311
    sokushinbutsu

    http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/01/sokushinbutsu-bizarre-practice-of-self.html

  32. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #312
    No methane? Hmmm...

    http://www.nbcnews.com/science/mars-mystery-deepens-curiosity-finds-no-sign-methane-4B11202946

  33. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #313
    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/what-did-the-continents-look-like-millions-of-years-ago/279892/

    You can use these as world maps as well as it being darn interesting :)

  34. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #314
    Tinfoil backpacks? http://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/das-keyboard-launches-worlds-first-rfid-blocking-bags/

  35. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #315
    Tank support manual.

    javascript:popupWindowSized('http://watermark.dndclassics.com/download.php?order=5077952&id=14544674&bundle_index=0&site=dnd',%20750,%20450)

  36. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #316

    Tank support manual.

    javascript:popupWindowSized('http://watermark.dndclassics.com/download.php?order=5077952&id=14544674&bundle_index=0&site=dnd',%20750,%20450)


    It whined about requiring login to download ebooks.

  37. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #317
    Wierd. Worked on my ipad...

  38. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #318
    http://www.allworldwars.com/T-34%20Tank%20Service%20Manual.html

    Should work better

  39. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #319
    http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6152/20131001/tanzania-lake-natron-animal-statues-africa-flamingo.htm

  40. Re: Interesting Non-Game Stuff

    #320
    Forensic Phenomenon and other weird death-related stuff

    http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4798898/human-brain-preserved-for-4000-years-after-being-boiled

    After reading the story above, I ended up on Wikipedia reading some more, and here are some fascinating terms...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocere How gruesomely awesome is this stuff??!! And why isn't Corpse Wax a "monster" yet?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection Nuff said. ("Angel Lust", great name!)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_birth Gruesome again, i know. But this should also be made into some sort of horrifying undead monster!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tache_noir_de_la_sclerotique The French name makes it sound more macabre doesn't it?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-suicide_smock I've heard of straight jackets, but not these.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiving_vault Can you say temporary undead storage?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign Is there any wonder people have believed in Undeath since time immemorial?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaveric_spasm Ditto.






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