You can leave Gaming, but you will always be a Gamer…
I fondly remember a time in my life when computer games used to feature heavily in my day-to-day routine. If I wasn’t getting at least five hours a day in on Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament then I was probably either ill or on holiday. However, my last monster-kill streak has long since past and I […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Games, Geekdom, RantsReaction Timing
Newton’s third law is a scientific favorite: “To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.” This law is also the core of competitive gameplay. If I make a move, my opponent must respond in order to neutralize the value of my move. The victor is then the player that takes a step […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, GamesBioCraft: the REAL-time strategy game
“GO GO GO!”. . . “Fire it up.”. . .“Battlecruiser operational.” The rise of real-time strategy (RTS) games back in the ‘90s had such a legacy and cultural impact amongst the male population in the virtual world. Especially in South Korea and the United States, competitive and corporate-sponsored leagues (including participation in Major League Gaming) were […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Games, UncategorizedDownforce is Everything. 2/2 (The “Accidental” Education Garnered From Games – Educators, Take Note)
Perhaps the most elegant example of learning while actually having fun came from a real-time strategy game called Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. But first some gaming history. Strategy games such as Chess, Risk, and Stratego have enjoyed a long heritage. The classic games were turn-based, essentially allowing each player to gather his or […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Geekdom, Rants Game LearningDownforce is Everything. 1/2 (The “Accidental” Education Garnered From Games – Educators, Take Note)
It was during the autumn of 1999 that I fell in love. She was beautiful, complex, tremendously high maintenance, and from the land of the rising sun. Her name was Gran Turismo, and our relationship was tumultuous, fiery, and a constant struggle for performance and power. Horsepower, that is. In a few short weeks, I […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Games, Geekdom, Rants Experience Gaming, Games for Learning, Serious GamesMore Physics, More Skyrim
After doing some further gameplay to explicitly test the physics of Skyrim, I felt the need to do some background on the physics engine at hand. The engine, which many of you have probably heard of before, is the Havok physics engine. This is a collision-based physics engine that focuses on the dynamic interaction between […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Games, Random Stuff, ReviewsDigital Healing 1/2
Bahamut translated means Dragon King. He was a 24-year-old who had been admitted to my service the night before. On checkout rounds I remember being impressed by the sheer multitude of pathologies that were at play in this young man’s body. The primary ailment was lymphoma – a cancer of one of the lymphatic cells […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Hope connects kids Digital Healing, HOPEConnectsKIDS, Warren's GameOn Feminism and Gaming
I’ve started listening to the Weekend Confirmed podcast which is run by the folks at Shack News, a gaming news site / blog from back before blogging was even a noun/verb. The podcast is run by game reviewer/illuminati Garnett Lee, and I began listening after the Totally Rad Show’s Jeff Cannata mentioned it as another […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Geekdom, Random Stuff, Rants Feminism, GTA 5, RockstarLord of Pestilence Profile — Bacteroides fragilis
Description (Healing Blade Lore) Bacteroides fragilis are widespread in Soma. They can live peacefully along the aqueduct, where they feed on the nutrients and other resources that flow down from Buccal Bay, and are among the most common residents below the Southern Dam and near Fecal Outlet. They can even be beneficial to Soma’s health, […]
nerdmed101 Concepts, Soma, The Healing Blade Bacteroides fragilis, Lord of PestilenceMy Summer of Michael Fassbender
Before this summer, I had no idea who Michael Fassbender was. In truth, I had come across his work in Tarantino’s impressive Inglorious Basterds, in which Fassbender portrayed a British spy behind enemy lines passing as a Nazi officer in one of the films more tense sequences. Still, I merely thought of him as a […]
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