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Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 fan builds a coaster that takes 45 years to ride

Jul31
by on July 31, 2019 at 12:24 am
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Earlier this year we told you about the Roller Coaster Tycoon fan who built the world’s most masochistic theme park ride. The coaster, called “Wild Mouse,” was a near-endless loop that circled a virtual theme park some 600 times, a 12-year ride. Marcel Vos, the creator of the coaster from hell just one-upped himself, building a ride he’s appropriately calling “45 Years in Hell.” As you may have guessed from the name, Vos has now created a coaster nearly four times as long as his original — which he assumed was the longest ride possible within the game. This one…

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Twitch bans, then unbans streamer after accusing him of fraud

Jul31
by on July 31, 2019 at 12:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


A Twitch streamer named Craig “NBDxWilliams” Williams was recently banned from the streaming platform and then reinstated today. His struggles with the platform, and Twitch staff’s confusion over Williams’ streaming setup, shine a light on how Twitch flags potential problems — and how anyone who’s not streaming strictly games or podcasts might run into similar problems on the site. Twitch streamers who use the site for monetary purposes do so by becoming Twitch partners or affiliates. Twitch partnership is usually exclusively reserved for the streamers with the biggest audiences and a consistent streaming schedule — you have to work for…

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Quantum Darwinism may solve the question of whether God plays dice or not

Jul30
by on July 30, 2019 at 7:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insights


Quantum Darwinism (QD) is a spooky explanation for objective reality that ties together the work of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. It tries to resolve the glaring differences between the quantum and classical worlds by theorizing that reality, as we experience it, is just the imprint left behind from God‘s dice as they bounce around the universe. The reason science enthusiasts are all atwitter with discourse on QD this summer is that, despite the fact the theory’s been around for over a decade, it’s only recently passed enough experimental tests to lend it credence beyond the realm of…

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Some gamers think white phosphorus is too heinous for Call of Duty

Jul30
by on July 30, 2019 at 7:05 pm
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is adding a few goodies to reward players who maintain a killstreak — one of which is the deadly white phosphorus. As you might expect, the addition of the horrific chemical agent as a prize for good play isn’t sitting well with everyone. Activision revealed today that killstreak rewards are back, and they include the usual buffs — armor, tanks, and an area-of-effect smokescreen. The latter is apparently white phosphorus — the announcement also mentions that it’ll harm anyone who gets too close. Purely from a gameplay standpoint, it sounds like a good way to…

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