Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
It is not over. Chernobyl spread radioactive particles across Europe and beyond. The fire in reactor #4 burned for over a month, releasing massive amounts of radionuclides which then would fallout and embed into the #ecosystem.
37 years later we still find food contaminated with Chernobyl fallout every year. Often with cesium-137 which is very adept at transporting in an ecosystem once the particle has deposited from the fallout cloud.
I fear that tomorrow or Thursday we will witness the largest #nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.
The #Kremlin has repeated today that it expects that #Ukraine will blow up the #Zaporizhzhia#npp. That is of course Russia-speak for the fact that they are planning to do this themselves and blame Ukraine.
When the enormous disaster at #Chernobyl happened, it involved only one reactor. The nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia has six reactors. If #Russia decides to blow up all six, it would be one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen.
I truly hope that I am wrong and there are reasons for Russia not to do this. Mainly that the #fallout would spread to Russia itself (as well as the occupied Ukrainian territories that it has now illegally annexed), it would expose Russian soldiers to radiation poisoning and it would serve little tactical purpose.
But this is Russia. They have consistently done things during this war that made little sense, from starting the invasion in the first place to blowing up the dam at Nova Kakhovna, which left #Crimea without its main source of drinking water. So, blowing up the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is not at all unthinkable, especially now that Russia is losing this war.
John Mastodon's laboratory sometime in the mid-1950s. The photo is of James "Pip" Boyer, testing an early Mastodon interface on a portable phone prototype.
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I'm a retired novelist who adores story-driven games (PC, PS5, Xbox) and roleplay. You can find several of my social gaming handles in my bio. I founded and help run a roleplay guild in #WowClassic, and I post a lot of stuff about my current playthroughs of various games including:
Morning Folks! While I shared some of this on the podcast yesterday, I spent some time this morning talking about my early impressions of #Starfield after some thirteen hours in the game. I'm really enjoying myself, but also spend quite a bit talking about some of the failings of the game systems.
Hey #Fallout peeps, my classic FO prints are ALSO available on INPRNT right now - With Free Shipping Through Sunday: Free Worldwide Shipping On Orders Over 30 USD!
My Fallout 3 character is now out of the vault, which means I was able to take some screenshots! And now Kimberly has a playthrough page up.
As noted before, while my site IS primarily an Elder Scrolls playthrough blog (the name of the site IS after all Anna Plays Skyrim), Fallout is going to get its own section just because hey, Bethesda game.
Interested parties can follow Kimberly's playthrough here:
Fresh out the oven, version 0.8.5 of the open source space game #OutFly!
✅ New flashlight
✅ Redesigned HUD, with #Fallout-4-like bars for health/power/O2, and #car-dashboard-like warning lights
✅ New, well-balanced cruising vehicle
✅ Implemented power drain
✅ Much improved texture for #Jupiter
Btw, see how the hat of the #pizza chef doesn't cast a shadow? Because it ain't real! Just an #AR illusion, which you can toggle with <TAB> :)
Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the #Bravo Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.
Here is an article I wrote about how Bravo put the word #fallout into our lexicon.
"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"
Z pewnością twórcom serialu #Fallout udało się na tyle dobrze odwzorować typy postaci z gry, że odświeżając sobie #Fallout4, aż musiałem sprawdzić czy Norm MacLean z serialu i Neil Freund z F4, to nie jakaś rodzina :D
Właśnie przeczytałem, że główny wątek w #Fallout4 jest jedną z jego mocnych stron. Autor tego zdania musi mieć naprawdę nisko postawioną poprzeczkę :D
A poważniej - doceniam w tej grze główny wątek za to, że wybory gracza mają wpływ nie tylko na zakończenie. One sprawiają wrażenie, że mają duży wpływ na świat gry i to jest fajne, chociaż chciałbym więcej.
Fajne jest też to, że cały główny wątek jest dosyć spójny i nieprzesadnie prostoliniowy, ale nie nazwałbym go dobrym. Fajny jest sam początek, wprowadzenie z mocniejszym akcentem. A potem jest... miałko (pomijam i tak to, że zwyczajnie nie lubię wątku syntków)
Nawet zwrot akcji w momencie odnalezienia Shauna (w teorii dobra rzecz) następuje trochę za wcześnie, bo nie mamy okazji znielubić kierownika Instytutu (w sensie konkretnej osoby), żeby odnalezienie Shauna było znaczącym zwrotem.
What makes a really great #videogame#adaptation stand out from lots of mediocre ones? Here's a deep dive. Tl;dr: It's not the special effects, but rather the experience. The main examples he explores are #Fallout (the ne plus ultra of adaptations) and #TheLastOfUs (which is only almost as good, mostly because the game was a bit too cinematic in the first place).
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Retoots appréciés :)
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