The Elder Scrolls Online Coming To PS4
I don’t care what some of the haters say, (I swear, Elder Scrolls has one of the most insanely picky fandoms on the planet) I think it looks really cool.
“The Ride” by Rodolphe Guenoden
wow
this is FANTASTIC!
“I’ve noticed a lot of metalheads play Skyrim. I like that.”
Should have used a screenie from this mod: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/3538/? I found it yesterday and thought it was awesome, especially Turisas because they’re all viking and all, and one of my favorites. Though I would prefer if it was just facepaints you could apply to you character instead of having EVERY Nord in the game look like Warlord.
so, about warren ellis’ stormwatch/the authority and planetary…
both jenny sparks and elijah snow were century babies, and jenny sparks died on new year’s eve 1999, at the age of 99, cheated out of one more year due to a collective misconception of how the Gregorian calendar works by most of…
Jenny was the Spirit of the Century, which is a special kind of Century Baby, so somewhat different rules apply. There are many Century Babies, who have powers and long lives, but their powers don’t really reflect anything about the century they were born into. But among any given batch of Century Babies, there is a Spirit of the Century; she is always female, and her powers reflect a guiding principle or discovery of the age she represents. She subtly, without even realizing it, guides the direction of humanity, which other Century Babies generally do not. There can only be one Spirit of the Century alive at once, so she dies as the new Spirit of the Century is born.
Absolutely fascinating analysis about the Antikythera mechanism .
…We report progress in reading a passage of one inscription that appears to describe the front of the Mechanism as a representation of a Greek geocentric cosmology, portraying the stars, Sun, Moon, and all five planets known in antiquity. Complementing this, we propose a new mechanical reconstruction of planetary gearwork in the Mechanism, incorporating an economical design closely analogous to the previously identified lunar anomaly mechanism, and accounting for much unresolved physical evidence.Credit: Tony Freeth and Alexander Jones
Source: The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism. New York University.
Fight The Power!
Happy National Masturbation Month
Look Jason you made it into the science tag
So, a few days ago, my partner on Kentauroi, Christopher Stuck, was gearing up to finally, for real this time, get rolling on the script. He asked for a map of the continent it takes place on. A scribble showing where the capital was in relation to Arran would have been sufficient, because the entire story, at least for the first LONG while, takes place in that peninsula in the NW corner, Arran, and nowhere else. And that’s basically how it started out. 5 minute doodle thrown at him just to outline where the assorted groups of elves and humans made their homes. As often happens with things Kent related, it snowballed….We (it’s very much a collaborative effort) ended up placing it over a map of Earth to figure out just the right scale and place it just right in regards to the equator, (the darkest horizontal line near the south tip. Also plotted are 30 and 60 degrees north and south) the climate, topography, figuring out trade goods and routes, currents, a whole scenario of the Akrotann/imperial elves moving their capital long ago… We actually have other maps in addition to this, but i think this one gets the important stuff across, aside from borders. Chris is doing a more in depth political map, but don’t have that yet. All of this, while probably more than strictly necessary, was far from useless, knowing where everyone comes from is a valuable thing when constructing the story, and now we know things like what sort of trade goods would be coming from the various parts of the empire, and how they’d be arriving, so we can keep everything consistent and everything will make sense. But I felt like it was a shame for all of that work to go completely unseen by anyone but us, so here it is.
You can see that we have what would be an extremely geologically active continent, very ring of fire type scenario, and that’s totally intentional. Volcanic eruptions have played a large part in the history of the story (the human’s old island is vaguely equivalent to Iceland, and they don’t live there anymore because it blew up). And yes, the imperial capital is in the caldera of a supervolcano. It’s probably a bit large.. but pffft. fantasy, i can have i that there was an extremely massive eruption in the past. I don’t think they quite realize what a dangerous place for a city they’ve chosen. The whole area is like Yellowstone, if it blows, it will be utterly devastating.
So basically, there are 3 major races of elves. We need better names for the Sea and Wood elves, we have a real name for the elves from the middle of the continent, but not the other two just yet. But anyway, the Akrotann are in charge, they’ve turned the entire continent into an empire with them at the head. They’re vaguely middle eastern looking, though generally with light eyes, and their culture is kind of a mish mash, but mostly Greek/Roman with some Persian. Sortakinda. The Wood elves are the one you’ll see the most of other than them, they’re caucasian looking, and probably the closest to what you’d think of when you first think ‘elves’. Nature loving hippies, and they’re basically a loose collection of city states. The Sea Elves you will see fairly rarely because they are from so far away from Arran, but there will be a few of them showing up, mostly in the coastal cities, they are black, kind of a Caribbean vibe to them. The humans in the story are caucasian, since, as mentioned, Iceland and all, culture is very Norse inspired. But they represent just a tiny fraction of the humans on the planet as a whole, they’d have as much diversity as humans on Earth if you could see their home continent…. But if we ever do see it, that’s a loooong way off, they’re far across the sea.
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.Chris Hadfield does a cover (with a few tweaks) of Bowie’s “Space Oddity”.
Have a safe flight back to earth!
Well. This was beyond amazing.
Holy crap, this is brilliant :D
awesome!
Wow, that’s uncanny. thought it may be photoshiop but checked and it’s a real bust.
I kinda feel bad for the actor though, he’s probably the nicest guy in the world, but now not only is he forever associated with the little psychopath Joffrey, he also bears an uncanny resmblance to Caligula.
