What I described is not physically impossible. You trace where the rays go in the field and you apply however many orders of surface correction (in I’m pretty sure any orthogonal set of equations you wish) until you get to a surface that is physically indistinguishable from a Rafael described lens. Yes it won’t be…

It was a really long time I played the game. But I don’t even remember they could be destroyed. All my memories of the little robots is that they completely wreck the demons shit, with me happily following behind them.

Half wrong. These changes and better have been mainstream for decades. They were done numerically and now are done on fast computers at basically zero cost. Also, they made lenses more expensive not less expensive because it is hard to physically make and use the lens described in the equation. They did indeed make…

I am going to bet that it will be a while before the changes become mainstream. Someone has to develop a proof of concept that this formula works in the real world. Then someone has to develop a design a functional lens that uses it. And finally there likely will be a patent that makes it harder for everyone else to…

Image of him at work.

Creepy fucking game.  Loved it so much.

I thought it was pretty obvious that those are humans the Librarian is overlooking and that the controlling mutant (?) power at that point is breeding a new generation. If anything, this creates a Marvel future in roughly a millenia where humans are basically gone but get repopulated in time for a lot of the other…

But after the wonderfully vague “senior leaders” of mutantkind mysteriously perished or vanished, the remnants of authority over mutants decided to work with infamous X-Villain and master geneticist Mister Sinister to establish a new militia of lab-grown mutant soldiers to defend Krakoa and its interests, as humanity…

Hickman is just doing a weirder, more modern version of what previous writers did with the X-Men:

I suspect that the image of Xavier in House of X #1 is a preview of the mutant breeding pits. The characters emerging from those pods resemble Scott and Jean, but they may be something else.

I had to do a double-take when I read the headline “15 Years Later, I Was Finally Brave Enough To Finish Doom 3". Has it been 15 years? Man.. It feels just like yesterday when an imp appeared out of nowhere in the dark while I was holding the flashlight.. *shudders*

The damn zombies in the dark. I don’t know how far I got into Doom 3 before I gave up but it wasn’t very. I’ll get around to it now that the BFG edition exists and they fixed a lot of goofy decisions.

yeah, I remember being among those bitching about the flashlight thing. It’s like, “guns in 2004 have equipment rails you can mount a flashlight to, why don’t military weapons in the future have them?”

Hey thanks for convincing me to skip this particular re-release. I had repressed that memory

I also just stopped playing back then. There was a dark tunnel, and I just didn’t want to go in there.

I’d been so pumped for the game and I expected play through it in just one or two sittings. Instead I found myself in the same boat as you and many others where fear required frequent breaks. Hell was the worst. I couldn’t see anything. The monitor I had was really dark even at the highest brightness level and I could…

Doom 3 has a great VR mod. The Fully Possessed mod. It’s better than Doom VFR.

just gave me chills remembering this. Nope! nope! nope!

I also played the game in 1 hour stints. I had already graduated college and was employed. It wasn’t a game for unwinding after a long day because the game was a bit too stressful for all of the reasons you listed.

<whispered> “They took my babies...”