Feb 13, 2009
Feliz año nuevo... y Feliz Cumpleaños Darwin!!!!
Nov 19, 2008
Review: Fallout 3

Ese es el titulo de la canción de The Ink Spots que forma parte del repertorio de Galaxy News Radio una de las 2 estaciones más activas de Maryland, Virginia y Washington DC. El titulo parece ser un recordatorio del estado en el que se encuentra el mundo post apocalíptico de Fallout 3, que a pesar de ser una tierra desolada, árida y en ruinas, tiene mucho por ofrecer.
Por momentos el combate se puede poner un poco predecible ya que la variedad de enemigos no es tan amplia, pero el arsenal si lo es. Armas de combate cuerpo a cuerpo como un bate de baseball o un mazo; de energía: Pistola de Plasma, Rifle laser; convencionales: rifle de asalto, escopeta; armas pesadas: Lanzallamas, Lanzacohetes o el Fat Man que dispara mini bombas nucleares (esta en particular se ve genial usándola con el VATS)
Pero lo que se nos queda en la mente cuando dejamos de jugar es el mundo de Fallout. La música, humor paranoico e iconografía de los años 50, cuando el mundo se encontraba en tensión por las bombas atómicas (especialmente en Estados Unidos). El hecho de poder irse por ahí, o por allá, la soledad que nos rodea con edificios destruidos, fabricas abandonadas y especialmente las misiones que algunas nos dejan con ese sentimiento de “eso está muy torcido, no lo voy a hacer” o que tienen resultados improvistos o incómodos.
Si nos ponemos a buscarle los errores al juego, por supuesto que los encontraremos, como la vista en tercera persona, gente muerta contestando un intercomunicador, un PNJ que no reacciona cuando a la persona de a la par le vuelan la cabeza con un sniper. Pero errores aparte el juego en si es ambicioso y sería un desperdicio no jugarlo. Y cuando lleguen a Megaton que escogerán? Ayudarle al Sheriff a desactivar la bomba nuclear en el centro del pueblo o instalarle un detonador e irse a una distancia segura?
Lelouch is NOT dead
Come on people you can call me a fanboy all you want but at least I took a moment to use my brain and analize everything that happened during the final chapter of Code Geass R2. And still 9 weeks later some of you still can’t get it through your hard heads.
In the first episode of the first season, when CC was shot in the head, Lulu touched her hand and was able to have a vision of things that had happened and the contract. Present day after Suzaku “kills” him, Nunally touched his brother’s hand and saw what he had planned.
Jeremiah would have never agreed with a plan that involved killing the person that gave his life purpose and meaning. And he knew all the secrets of the Geass thanks to the cult.
When CC is talking while lying on top of the hay cart, she tilts her head back a bit and raises her voice saying “right Lelouch?” obviously talking to the cart driver.
Bottom line: Lulu and CC are having sex freely in the country side.
La ley del Vigilante
Aquí los que estamos detrás de las barras somos nosotros los ciudadanos ya que las leyes parecen proteger a los asesinos, asaltantes, ladrones en general. Cometen robos y los dejan libres a los dos días… 27 arrestos y liberaciones después finalmente cometen asesinato, algo que se hubiera prevenido si lo hubieran dejado en la cárcel a la primera. Y es que la mayoría de los casos son así, una persona con antecedentes que nunca han podido dejar preso por más de 3 días termina matando a alguien. Un ciudadano toma la ley en sus manos y defiende su casa matando al intruso y en ese caso si llega la policía, se lo lleva y lo encierran no se cuanto tiempo.
Hace poco hubo uno de esos ejemplos en el que un hombre muy bien conocido por la policía le disparó a un niño como de 9 o 10 años para robarle unas monedas… y es que todos se sienten hombrecitos cuando andan armados, pero no son más que un montón de cobardes que merecen ser castigados como se debe.
Yo en ese caso apoyo más la ley de Moisés: Ojo por ojo…
La foto corresponde a un grupo de Vigilantes en Missouri, USA. Entre 1883 y 1889 se dedicaron a proteger el condado al que pertenecian. Esta foto es de la pelicula de 1919 basada en ellos.
Jul 3, 2008
Countdown to the Future part 2
So civilizations new "Rosetta stone" was born in 1982 and has been funded through out the years by international collaboration. More than £5 billions have been spent on its development, as usual there are those who criticize spending so much money on a project that interests only a minority, but they do not understand the importance of where this might lead humanity. And well, if they want to talk about money... a lot more is spent maintaining the war in Irak for a few months, and this is true, whether they like it or not.
Even though I mentioned something about the destruction of the world, this is not likely to happen. The possibility of accidentally creating a black hole that will make us implode is out of the question, and has already been ruled out by the people at CERN. Alas, we could have been set adrift to another dimension...
I now include the words of Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at an University in Ohio.
"Cathedrals were designed to celebrate the glory of God as manifested through the human spirit in words, music and art. The LHC has been engineered to celebrate and proclaim the glory of the natural world, and of our remarkable ability to comprehend it, as manifested through experimental science.
Science, like great art, music or literature, compels us to reassess our place in the universe - to question where we come from, and where we are going. To turn our back on these questions is to dismiss our cultural inheritance. We should thus consider continuing our explorations of the universe as a cultural imperative."
High school students these days might not study about the aqueducts in ancient Rome, but one hopes they will still marvel from the ability of those ancient civilizations to apply their knowledge to their needs, thus creating wondrous cities and governing systems. Let us hope the LHC will be a part of our legacy for future generations.
Apr 23, 2008
Code: Free Will
This world is sick, not only environmentally, but politically. We have reached a point in which decisions are taken not for the good of the people, but for the good of a single person. We rely on politicians because we do not have other options. Democracy itself might be deceiving. Socialism or Capitalism, no matter the system, they follow the same end: making rich, powerful people even more wealthy at the expense of us, their priceless and foolish little pawns.
I must now write about a certain TV show called Code Geass. An anime in which main character and former heir to the throne of Britannia, Lelouch, takes revenge against his own empire amidst the hostile environment of repression that has been imposed in the once called land of Japan. His weapon: a powerful ability called Geass, capable of making the target follow any order given, thoroughly and without hesitation. Quite useful indeed.
My conclusion: If the greater good can be achieved by taking away the free will of the people and specially the one of those with power; even going against the "gift" that was granted by "God"...so be it!
Feb 17, 2008
Countdown to the Future
Anyway, I am honored that the most ambitious project has my age. Twenty five years ago it began, and now between June and July this year will make it's prime time debut. The project that may reveal to us the truth behind dark matter and cosmic dimensions; of why matter won out over anti matter.
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider), being the world's biggest particle smasher, will create a simulated Big Bang that will, hopefully provide answers on how our Universe was created and what "cogs" make it turn. Including the hypothesis of the Higgs Particle.
Why is this important for World Domination? You will find out in a near future... for now, let's just sit back and enjoy the show of physics.




