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Games have done a lot for me over the years. Life lessons, life-saving, storytelling, and so many more gifts have I received from little boxes plugged into my television, so when I wax on about them, it tends to get wordy. Fair warning. Not that games are my entire life, but that's kind of the theme of here, so all the other stuff tends to get thrown on my tumblr or my Facebook, with smaller, more meaningless bits on my Twitter.
Aside from rambling here about games from time to time, I've started streaming now and then on my own Twitch.tv channel, and can usually be found hanging out in chat for MASH TacticS and some of the weekend shows, so long as I don't have work.
Now Playing:
360: Halo: Reach, Soul Calibur V
PS2: Jak X: Combat Racing, Crash Nitro Kart (gotta unlock 'em all)
PS3: Wipeout HD/Fury, Twisted Metal
PC: Indies all day errday, when I have time
Steam: nekobun
Battle:
PSN: strictmachine
Mii: 2610 8366 7890 1412
Gamertag: nekobun
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The Japan Institute of Science and Technology recently took the already badassed science behind quantum levitation, and applied it in the only logical fashion possible: they made a replica track and ships based on the Studio Liverpool, PlayStation-exclusive WipeOut franchise, and raced those mofos. Embedding's disabled for cblogs, so here's a link to the video of them setting things up and letting them run. I'm sure there are plenty more practical applications of this technology, once it becomes practical to implement it on a larger scale, but let's be honest with ourselves. Racing hovercrafts capable of blowing the hell out of each other is important work, and we as a society need to get busy making that a reality, post-haste. 
According to series lore, we've either got five years or about twenty more years (going by Wip3Out or more recent series retconning, respectively) to make this happen. Get crackin', science folk.
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Aaaaaaaaand I just noticed Jordan just posted about this on the frontpage, so once again, my timing is awful. :D
The WipEout video looks a little CGI-ish, especially at the end, but that first link to the quantum levitation site was pretty awesome. If anything could use a major innovation, it's slot-car racing tracks!!
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