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Comment Re:list (Score 1) 189

by Midnight Voyager (#30407548) Attached to: NYT's "Games To Avoid" an Ironic, Perfect Gamer Wish List
Arkham Asylum?! What?! Guys- that game is twisted. And brutal. The violence is BRUTAL. I mean, you're not slicing people apart, sure, you're just TWISTING THEIR LEG TO SNAP THEIR KNEE ALTOGETHER. Overlord 2? I guess they totally ignored the foursome... What the heck are these guys on? Do they even glance over these games before they put these lists up? (Answer: Obviously, no.)

Comment So what? (Score 1) 590

by Midnight Voyager (#28933915) Attached to: Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity
...So does classical literature. So do movies. So what? Look, I'm a chick and I really don't mind that there are not exactly 50% of games with female protagonists out there. I don't really CARE about the ethnicity/whatever of the character I play. If there's a choice, by all means, make your game allow for the choice of various different ethnicities, but if not... Seriously, I could not care less. The preset character I became closest to in a game? A nameless, scarred immortal MALE of indeterminate ethnicity. In other words, someone who was most certainly not me. If game designers could just focus on making a fleshed-out, well-dimensioned character, I'd be thrilled. I don't honestly care at all if the character looks like me, as long as I can connect with them. I wouldn't care if a game shipped with a main character that basically WAS me if it wasn't fleshed out well. There is an order to these things. First, fleshed out character. Somewhere around LAST, social diversity. Oh, and didn't you realize? We can't have kids or even sometimes innocent females or old people in games. Someone might kill them! Think of the goddamn children! Do away with that piece of nonsense, and maybe you can have more diversity age-wise. Until then, just bloody deal with it.

Feed Termibot robot exterminator kills termites, heralds terrifying future (engadget.com)

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Termites be warned: Australian outfit Termicam is bringing the noise Predator-style with the Termibot, a dual-tread thermal imaging robot designed to eliminate insects. The bot scoots around inside walls and under houses relaying information from its thermal camera and moisture sensors back to an operator, and when termite (or other insect) activity is detected, it uses a probe to smash the nest and inject pesticides directly where they're needed. While we're not certain we need to help robots perfect the techniques they'll use to ferret out the last remnants of the human resistance, we're not too worried yet -- the Termibot is currently tethered to its operator with a long cable. The designer says a fully wireless version is in the works and will be brought to market later this year, however -- it's being held up while the business experiences some growing pains. Termicam also says they're also looking to expand the uses for the bot to other applications where that thermal camera might come in handy, like bomb disposal and search and rescue -- looks like the PackBot's got some competition.

[Via Crave]

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