Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
It is not over. Chernobyl spread radioactive particles across Europe and beyond. The fire in reactor #4 burned for over a month, releasing massive amounts of radionuclides which then would fallout and embed into the #ecosystem.
37 years later we still find food contaminated with Chernobyl fallout every year. Often with cesium-137 which is very adept at transporting in an ecosystem once the particle has deposited from the fallout cloud.
I fear that tomorrow or Thursday we will witness the largest #nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.
The #Kremlin has repeated today that it expects that #Ukraine will blow up the #Zaporizhzhia#npp. That is of course Russia-speak for the fact that they are planning to do this themselves and blame Ukraine.
When the enormous disaster at #Chernobyl happened, it involved only one reactor. The nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia has six reactors. If #Russia decides to blow up all six, it would be one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen.
I truly hope that I am wrong and there are reasons for Russia not to do this. Mainly that the #fallout would spread to Russia itself (as well as the occupied Ukrainian territories that it has now illegally annexed), it would expose Russian soldiers to radiation poisoning and it would serve little tactical purpose.
But this is Russia. They have consistently done things during this war that made little sense, from starting the invasion in the first place to blowing up the dam at Nova Kakhovna, which left #Crimea without its main source of drinking water. So, blowing up the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is not at all unthinkable, especially now that Russia is losing this war.
John Mastodon's laboratory sometime in the mid-1950s. The photo is of James "Pip" Boyer, testing an early Mastodon interface on a portable phone prototype.
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My Fallout 3 character is now out of the vault, which means I was able to take some screenshots! And now Kimberly has a playthrough page up.
As noted before, while my site IS primarily an Elder Scrolls playthrough blog (the name of the site IS after all Anna Plays Skyrim), Fallout is going to get its own section just because hey, Bethesda game.
Interested parties can follow Kimberly's playthrough here:
Morning Folks! While I shared some of this on the podcast yesterday, I spent some time this morning talking about my early impressions of #Starfield after some thirteen hours in the game. I'm really enjoying myself, but also spend quite a bit talking about some of the failings of the game systems.
Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the #Bravo Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.
Here is an article I wrote about how Bravo put the word #fallout into our lexicon.
"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"
Hey #Fallout peeps, my classic FO prints are ALSO available on INPRNT right now - With Free Shipping Through Sunday: Free Worldwide Shipping On Orders Over 30 USD!
Fresh out the oven, version 0.8.5 of the open source space game #OutFly!
✅ New flashlight
✅ Redesigned HUD, with #Fallout-4-like bars for health/power/O2, and #car-dashboard-like warning lights
✅ New, well-balanced cruising vehicle
✅ Implemented power drain
✅ Much improved texture for #Jupiter
Btw, see how the hat of the #pizza chef doesn't cast a shadow? Because it ain't real! Just an #AR illusion, which you can toggle with <TAB> :)
I'm a retired novelist who adores story-driven games (PC, PS5, Xbox) and roleplay. You can find several of my social gaming handles in my bio. I founded and help run a roleplay guild in #WowClassic, and I post a lot of stuff about my current playthroughs of various games including:
Co jakiś czas trafiam na jakieś materiały i filmiki dotyczące Fallouta (serialu i gier).
To jest ciekawe, że w grze, która miała jeden z najlepszych systemów wyborów, który realnie wpływał na zakończenia oraz świat gry, ludzie jako "kanoniczne" przyjmują tylko jedną linię historii i zakończenie :)
Heute ab 20:00 im Stream: Wir spielen das #Fallout RPG von MODIPHIUS. Eevie leitet und es spielen: Mháire, Bananepic, Weteeff, Walker und Moritz! twitch.tv/orkenspaltertv
Das fantastische Teaserbild stammt von der ebenso fantastischen Schlipsheim https://www.instagram.com/schlipsheim/
Le documentaire "The Atomic Café", sorti en 1982, a eu une influence considérable sur les thèmes, le ton et l'esthétique du premier #Fallout.
Le film est entièrement disponible sur YouTube dans une version restaurée et mérite le coup d'œil. C'est un regard sur l'Amérique de la guerre froide, sa paranoïa et son obsession pour l'atome.
I played a lot of (too much of?) #Fallout 3 and NEW VEGAS from the late aughts through the early 2010s but it’s only on seeing the TV series and replaying FNV that I realized: hey, the worst bastards in the setting are all revanchists, accelerationists, or revanchist accelerationists.
I think it’s because the TV series really hammers the point home in a way that the games maybe don’t, even though it’s a strong through line in the series.
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