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[cuddlefish]

(7:26:59 PM) Yang: Oooh
(7:27:13 PM) Yang: Half-Life 2: Orange Box will be $25 at Best Buy this Fri/Sat
(7:27:20 PM) Yang: I am so there.
(7:56:34 PM) Me: You're getting Half-Life? [This surprised me because I assume Half-Life has something to do with nuclear weapons, possible nuclear winter, and Yang and me have both talked about how that scares us deep down inside]
(7:58:34 PM) Yang: Yeah, but only for the articles

...

L2 was down for the better part of the day last Wednesday and I...really didn't hesitate to jump to RO. Bam. New server. People are nicer. They drop more awesome junk in town (6 Ring of Minor Spirits etc. dropped all at once by someone who I guess DIDN'T NEED THEM) and they invite more people to join their guilds. I'll still play L2. I'm not done with L2. It's just astonishing how much I can find to do in RO, too.

Comments

[narugami.livejournal.com]

I want to play the Orange Box for Portal because it sounds fun but there isn't a version for PS2. :/

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

It's all a mystery, which is also to say I have my head too far up my MMORPGs to see anything. >_> Yang was mostly attracted to this Orange Box because it had lots of games that came with it.

[yangvalyang.livejournal.com]

Half-Life 1 from ten yrs ago was about a bigass government nuclear research facility that accidentally opened up an interdimensional rift.

You play as a physicist who fights his way thru all of the aliens and zombies.

Half-Life 2 picks up 10-20 yrs later down the storyline when he gets taken out of stasis and the world is now ruled by ALIEN OVERLORDS.

Yeah, there's actually not much radioactive material in the storyline. It's mostly just the mysterious sample that caused the pivotal rift in the beginning of H-L 1.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that was informative.

Now I have to figure out whether heard your description of Half-Life 2 in a dream I had, or one of those stupid video game review shows.

[runan.livejournal.com]

I...I just cannot get myself to accept RO. I guess the graphics kinda turn me off. The reason I love L2 so much is that it just LOOKS so nice.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Oh, nono, this is not an attempt to convert you to RO. I'm sorry if it came off that way. I agree, RO is less immersive and more mainstream, and some people don't like it. It's certainly not the only game of its caliber in town, but it might be the easiest to reach for. And so once again it's become my furtive little habit. T^T

[rune-devros.livejournal.com]

[crazy physics mode]Half life is the time it takes for half a sample of radioactive material to decay.[/crazy physics mode]

Also, Portal is supposed to be an awesome game.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know, I've read some things that discuss how inconvenient nuclear waste is because the materials have long half-lives.

Why would they talk about halves, though? Why not just the whole sample? Does the rate of decay change at some point?

[the-olive.livejournal.com]

So if you start with a sample of 1 kg, after one half-life, you have 1/2 kg. Then after two half-lives, you have 1/4 kg, then after three you have 1/8 kg, and so forth. Radioactive decay happens at a rate of 50% of the sample per half-life, rather than, say, a constant 1 kg per hour. They don't use the whole life because the whole-life is infinite, and thus unhelpful.

Soooo in one sense, the rate of decay changes constantly, from 1/2 kg per hour to 1/4 kg per hour and so on, and in another sense, it's constant- each atom always has a 50% chance of decay per half-life.

[rune-devros.livejournal.com]

N = N_o * e^(-l*t)

Yay for exponential decay laws.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: I don't even know what the letter stand forrrrrrrrrrrrr

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

O-oh. I think I understood that for a second...so radioactive stuff...lasts forever? But it gets really small so it's not a problem. ._.

[rune-devros.livejournal.com]

The way exponential decay works is the decay rate (how fast the atoms are "converting" is the best way to put it, the actual mechanics of that are... complicated) is really fast but slows down the less stuff there is. You start with a very rapid decrease in amount of your sample at the beginning, but one of the properties of an exponential curve is that it doesn't ever ever every go to zero (until you extend time to infinity). However, for all our purposes at some point the radiation becomes so small it won't even register in our detectors.

[xephyris.livejournal.com]

The Orange box has Team Fortress 2 doesn't it!? I don't suppose you could buy a copy for me if it's so chea-

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

I'm not the one buying it! He is! ^^; I have no plans to go to Best Buy on those days! ...I'm going to be at the other house and probably incommunicado. ~_~

[yangvalyang.livejournal.com]

Those ads for Team Fortress 2 are hilarious! The "Meet the Soldier" one has the funniest monologue about Sun Tzu ever.

[narugami.livejournal.com]

Say, Robin, when are you going to NY? Yesterday I met an old classmate who invited me to come stay with her, and she lives in NYC so maybe I could time it for a time when we can meet up.