Creators of isometric adventure Stasis, Cayne and recent Beautiful Desolation
have some neat concept pics of famous games in modern isometric clothing.
The Crusader or the Commandos would really deserve such pretty clothing.
list of all the pics
http://thebrotherhoodgames.com/labs/
dolphin devs do more wizardry, i enjoyed this article about it.
Most interesting part imho is the perf between OGL/Vulkan and D3D. Theyâre seeing ~24% to 30% decrease in perf for OGL/Vulkan - my guess is due to the lack of an optimizing shader compiler (though Vulkan does have an optimizer if youâre willing to jump through a bunch of hoops).
Adam Savage Explores Davidâs Lair in Alien: Covenant
I didnât even know I could appreciate haiku
I donât know if this has been posted anywhere yet⊠but I find this Nuclear energy technology to be rather fascinating. Especially given itâs implications for use in space.
Aaand a little video that explains a bit about the tech in a 5 min compilation.
Many lengthly videos available elsewhere as well.
Curious to see what you people think!
Nuclear 
Thorium Reactors are pretty rad ⊠yeee
I did some presentations about them back in school.
They are nice and all. But also have their drawbacks. There are some test reactors.
Sadly people kind of failed to invest in nuclear technology twenty years ago when they should have built good final deposits ⊠its reputation sadly is kind of broken now ⊠maybe people will allow for new technology related to the old one.
It doesnât look good here in central Europe though. 
Remember watching some documentary about it few years back. âThorium dreamâ or something like thatâŠ
It looked quite interesting and i was kind of puzzled why wasnât it widely used since if i understood correctly one has to feed it to continue the reactionâŠunlike classical chain reaction which has to be constantly slowed not to go critical with boronâŠ
Its a shame.
One of the problems is that the nuclear energy industry has immense inertia. Even if it is a better solution for varied reasons, there is the enormous costs in time and resources to develop it, then the also enormous cost to create the initial infrastructure, then build the powerplants proper, while it may be that by the decade you are ready to sell it, governments wonât be interested anymore for varied reasons (like, say, Germany that in the name of ecology closed non-polluting nuclear powerplants to open ecological abominations that are coal powerplants instead).
So even something like molten salt reactors, that also work with uranium but are much better than previous generations for varied reasons, still struggle to develop as they should. Thorium is even more complicated as you need a new industry for the fuel itself.
Aussie mining companies would love it for sure, once again to the detriment of the aboriginal people. The smarter long term research would be toward nuclear fusion to get it past the point of positive energy gain thus making fission more redundant.
Distributed battery storage will probably become ubiquitous soon anyway. The energy security it would provide outweighs any centralized power source.
Bar a miracle(1), commercial nuclear fusion will simply happen too late for simply taking over the current model. So we will either have to continue with fission, fossil fuels or both. (Renewable energy sources can help some, but not take over the main production - and is not without its own environmental problems, that tend to be put under the green rug.)
The advantage of thorium is that it is much better distributed than uranium, so many more countries would be self-sufficient. Seeing what strategic natural resources tend to do to most nations, this is probably a good thing. On the other hand, you have a point that new mines may very well be carelessly built without respect to local people and environmentâŠ
(1) miracles do happen (Iâm hoping for a breakthrough on proton-boron fusion) but better not count on those, particularly with commercial fusion
Stills from an alternate '80 cyberpunk America
Unnoficial prequel to Blade Runner
Love Simonâs work.
That reminds me I follow a brilliant photographer on twitter who makes amazing cyberpunk style photos out of real life places.
WoW just wow.
I am sounding like a broken record since i already promoted it. (Darkwood)
I have bought it but have yet to play it. (too little time for games) And this is what i just found.
Massive hats off.
With all the networking talk going on the tserver forums (man I should just stop 
) this guy just brought out a basics video about networking in games:
So if you have no idea whatâs all the fuss is about in Weekly Update #76 but want some insight into the general problems around the topic maybe give it a watch.
Terry Pratchettâs unfinished works flattened by steamroller - theregister.co.uk
Thatâs a pretty large part of why it didnât receive the funding that breeder reactors did. It was safe, it didnât produce any weapons grade material, and we were in the middle of the cold war. We needed reactors that could produce the materials necessary to continue producing weapons. If I remember right you can actually feed thorium reactors with radioactive materials which would have accomplished the opposite.
Due to the nature of the regulation surrounding nuclear reactors(In the US at least) itâs very difficult to build a new plant. Without regulators changing the policy to encourage any new reactors, traditional or novel, nuclear is pretty much dead in the US. I donât see those policies changing either because of the public perception and misunderstanding of what nuclear power is. To see the benefits of nuclear power and understand the differences between the weapons and reactors would require a lot of outreach and education on the subject. For this reason Iâm not the biggest fan of nuclear power despite its benefits once built. The cost is arguably greater than building an equal producing wind or solar plant with todayâs 2017 costs. Although Iâm certain if this is the case for economical cost, but with respect to the time and effort required to actually bringing the plant from idea to reality, itâs much easier to build wind or solar plants.
DNA as Data Storage - 214 PETABYTES per gram
A really interesting show this week from BBC Click.
Requires UK BBC Iplayer access to watch.
