Great thought, and they could be linked somehow. The bone degradation that occurs due to time in space is structural in nature. The bone loses density in the same way it does when affected by osteoporosis, and thus becomes weaker and more susceptible to fracture. Bone marrow is a type of tissue that exists in the…

For just a moment, I thought you were going to refer to why this year, alone among all the flu shots I've received, I felt like my arm around the injection site had been hit repeatedly by a fist for two days after receiving the shot. I was really hoping there was some interesting reason for it rather than the nurse…

I just played AC2 a few weeks ago, and I wish they would have warned me the QTEs were coming up. Most cutscenes didn't have one, then they'd just randomly throw one in there, with a pretty short timer. The worst was when Leonardo goes in for a hug... it was a longish cutscene and my hands were just resting on the…

I'm a huge FF fan, and a huge MMO player, but FFXIV was pretty boring. I put in a few weeks of work but could just never quite get into it. The mechanics all feel extremely old by current MMO standards. The combat was slow, the fetch quests were tedious, and there were all kinds of unintuitive little issues with the…

Yep. The best, hands down, no contest.

Oh awesome. I got the Reeve but never the Orma. I had no idea they worked that way when used together.

PvP in Dark Souls is done by invading the world of another person and attempting to kill them (they may be waiting for invasions and thus looking for pvp, or they may be just playing through a zone with no intent to pvp, no way of knowing until you've invaded). The guy who made this video invaded someone who was named…

The ending was the worst part. I played a few hours of the game a year ago, and quit in boredom. A couple months back I reinstalled it and started up where I left off. I felt like I had quite a bit left to go, then suddenly the game ended maybe 90 minutes of play later. It was so abrupt and underwhelming, I had a hard…

The shooting felt good with a couple weapons, notably the shotgun. True to id style.

that's got an extra d: ddx!

This gif thread is probably the most impressive demo of how great google fiber is since I had it installed a few months ago.

The ouroboros lookalike on the cover is just so appropriate.

A lab mishap in Ochem a few years back released a bit of hydrogen chloride gas into the room. After experiencing what it feels like to have even a tiny bit of that crap in my eyes and down my throat, I wouldn't want to get within a mile of the fluorine equivalents.

I would completely support Nintendo's effort to revitablize the game manual practice. I always enjoyed the manuals that put in enough time to write interesting backstory for the game, and bios for the characters. I actually saved all of my favorites from growing up. I've got original manuals for the SNES Chrono…

You know, as infamous as it is, that only ever happened to me once. I was getting off of a deer-hut ladder in the middle of nowhere, and both of my legs broke. I actually crawled around a half mile to the nearest town, then crawled from house to house looking for stims to heal up my legs. I spent around two hours…

I put in a ton of hours with DayZ, and it is blowing my mind right now just how accurately this tiny chart sums all of those hours up.

I'd like to add: a good dry rub can really work wonders with wings. I use equal parts paprika, salt, pepper, and cayenne. That will make for some crazy spicy wings, so you can play around with the cayenne amount (or I've substituted in some Black&Red before to good effect, or just use a tsp of cayenne if you don't…

FISH!

Yeah I'm not quite sure where I stand on it... on one hand I like that it gives developers a cash infusion that might help them finish up a nearly-done game. On the other hand, a lot of games seem to be doing this early in the dev cycle, in which case it isn't really an alpha/beta, but rather an unfinished game that…

Alpha. And it has been in alpha for quite some time now. At the rate it is going, it won't leave alpha anytime soon.