This is the last time DJ is ever allowed to talk to me about the Snyder Cut.

It's finally out. Are you happy now? It's in 4:3 because Superman is vertical when he stands up, which is true for basically all bipedal creatures. It probably wouldn't have happened without lots of people complaining on Twitter, so go watch it if you like superheroes who don't lie down.

To get all the characters you want in an EA FIFA game you could spend tens of thousands of dollars, or you could just go to the black market and get an EA employee to sell you one for a few thousand dollars. Because nothing says your product is reasonably priced than a thriving black market where the street price is more than most people get paid in a week, for a virtual character you can only use for a year. Maybe you just really hate surprise mechanics.

Cone Snails have learnt the art of catfishing. Using mating pheromones, they attract single worms, who expecting a romantic night out, become the main course. Nature is brutal.

This week, DJ watched the Snyder Cut. Please, make him stop talking about it. PLEASE. Professor vanished in a bottomless cave in Spelunky.

The Origin of Zack Snyder's Justice League

- https://comicbook.com/dc/news/zack-snyder-justice-league-origin-revealed/

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/movies/zack-snyders-rough-and-tumble-ride-with-justice-league.html

EA Gate

- https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-03-13-ea-suspends-all-discretionary-fifa-ultimate-team-content-granting-indefinitely-amid-ea-gate-scandal

Hunting Prey Using Cone Snail Venom

- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cone-snail-venom-sea-worms-pheromones

- https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabf2704

Nerdful things

DJ

- Zack Snyder’s Justice League - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Snyder%27s_Justice_League

Rating: 4.5/5

Professor

- Spelunky - https://store.steampowered.com/app/239350/Spelunky/

Rating: 3.5/5

Other topics discussed

Zack Snyder's Justice League (often referred to as the "Snyder Cut" is the 2021 director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film Justice League. It presents Justice League—the fifth film of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and based on the...

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Well, it's a bad week for Microsoft based businesses. Hackers have breached more than 30 000 businesses and it'll take a lot of fingers and toes to count up all the damage they've done. Luckily, we have a new Switch model to look forward to. The leak shows a model with an OLED screen. But will they finally fix the joycons?

Ensign, Warp speed 10. We'll have to give him a few years for the drive to be finished, but a new model for an Alcubierre drive seems very promising. And once warp speed is possible, we can go anywhere. Maybe even far enough out to catch the traces of the original broadcast of the lost Doctor Who episodes. Yeah, that one's probably a stretch.

Christopher Eccleston has finally chosen to return to Doctor Who, in a series of Big Finish audio dramas. The series shows all the signs of being a quality Big Finish production, including some great returning cast members.

This week, DJ dove into some video game history with a documentary about Jack Thompson, and Professor booted up the retro OS themed Kingsway.

The Future of the Nintendo Switch/Microsoft Hacked

- https://www.whathifi.com/au/advice/nintendo-switch-pro-everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-oled-nintendo-switch-2

- https://gamerant.com/nintendo-siwtch-pro-2022-hardware/

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-08/microsoft-outlook-hack-white-house-patching-not-enough-backdoor/13226262

A Real Working Warp Drive

- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35728928/scientists-say-physical-warp-drive-is-possible/

New Dr Who Audio Drama Details

- https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-big-finish-shares-christopher-eccleston-return-details/

Nerdful things

DJ

- Absolute Mad Lads - The Video Game Lawyer, Jack Thompson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rnyZThWlQ4

Rating: 4/5

Professor

- Kingsway - https://store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kingsway/

Rating: 3.5/5

Other topics discussed

The Sun - Elon Musk's epic Cybertruck 'bulletproof' window smash fail

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWwImDX3ks

Nintendo Switch (a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. The console itself is a tablet that can either be

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Now the robots are coming for the writers' jobs too. The first AI written play has been performed. And it gets dark and raunchy. BONK. Go to Hornybot jail. GPT is a really amazing piece of tech.

Bethesda are being sued for advertising the season pass as containing ALL the Fallout DLC. Players are upset that it doesn't contain the Creation Club content. Does this look like a man who has had ALL the DLC? Frogwares are saying you shouldn't buy The Sinking City, because the publisher pirated the game. This is some wild publisher drama. Apple demanded sales data from Valve. Valve didn't want to give it over, but the judge says Apple can have a little sales data, as a snack. This is all in defence of Epic's lawsuit about monopolising the app store.

CDPR still haven't unlocked their computers after the ransomware attack, so it'll be taking a bit longer for the big post launch Cyberpunk 2077 patch. Let's see if they can sort this out before 2077 actually happens.

This week DJ read Keanu's self insert BRZKR and Professor whacked zombies that finally work in DayZ.

Introducing William Shakesbot

- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/kinky-and-absurd-first-ai-written-play-isn-t-shakespeare-it-has-its-moments

Not another Bethesda lawsuit/ Do not buy this game/ Epic vs apple update

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-02-24-bethesda-faces-lawsuit-over-fallout-4-dlc

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-02-26-the-sinking-city-developer-asks-users-not-to-buy-its-game-on-steam

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-02-26-valve-ordered-to-hand-over-sales-data-for-epic-vs-apple-case

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-03-nacon-accuses-frogwares-of-sabotaging-our-investments-in-the-sinking-city

Cyberhack 2077 updates

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-24/cd-projekt-hack-severely-disrupts-work-on-cyberpunk-game-updates

- https://www.cadosecurity.com/post/punk-kitty-ransom-analysing-hellokitty-ransomware-attacks

- https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276664/cyberpunk-witcher-hackers-auction-source-code-ransomware-attack

Nerdful things

DJ

- BRZRKR - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRZRKR

Rating: 4/5

Professor

- DayZ -

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There's nothing funny about NVIDIA's ridiculous CMP cryptocurrency mining cards, from taking chips away from gamers to being single use electronics. Hopefully this goes better than anyone outside NVIDIA thinks it will, but we'll have to see. Maybe AMD will keep their cards competitive and keep out of trouble so we have one consumer neutral producer to buy from.

NASA's Perseverance Mars Lander touched down recently and is sending out awesome high quality videos of the landing and some interesting rocks. Percy really likes rocks.

Game Freak have announced a new Pokemon remaster and an experimental open world game. Nobody cares about the remasters, but Arceus Legends looks amazing. But can Game Freak pull it off? Probably not.

Stephen King's Firestarter is getting a new movie focusing on emotion. Not a bad thing, but it'll have Zac Efron, so the most horrific thing will be his singing.

This week DJ returned to Tsushima, Professor advanced his Kardeshev level and Dev-i-boy got his funk on.

NVIDIA Cypto Mining

- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/

The Landing of Perseverance

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/nasa-rover-perseverance-lands-on-mars/13170902

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-23/mars-perseverance-rover-nasa-releases-high-res-images-video/13178646

New Pokemon Game : Pokemon Legends Arceus

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIA8FKhwl0

Firestarter Reboot

- https://comicbook.com/movies/news/firestarter-reboot-stephen-king-keith-thomas-tease-details-updat/

Nerdful things

DJ

- Ghost of Tsushima - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Tsushima

Rating: 4/5

Professor

- Dyson Sphere Program - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/

Rating: 4.5/5

Dev-i-boy

- FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN' - https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin

Rating: 5/5

Other topics discussed

Elderly patients show no adverse reactions after being given incorrect dose of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-25/coronavirus-queensland-covid-vaccine-dosage-error-aged-care/13188724

COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine incorrectly administered to two patients at Brisbane aged care home

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The Microsoft AI and Gaming summit is about to begin. How long until I get strap on a VR headset and go into a game perfectly designed to keep me interested forever and ever?

Strange creatures living at the bottom of the ocean under a polar ice cap is probably not a big issue, but just in case we should be equipping Antarctic research sites with nukes. It's the only way to be sure.

Facebook and the Australian government are going to war over the proposed laws requiring sites like Facebook and Google to pay news outlets to link to their sites. Big tech really doesn't like this, but the Australian government won't back down.

Finally, a trailer for the Justice League Snyder Cut trailer has been released. It only took years of super fans begging. Let's see what else can happen. Firefly reboot, please?

This week DJ got down to business to defeat the Mongols, Professor picked a really insensitive time to play a game about freezing and Dev-i-boy went back to Uni and ran out of time to have fun.

Microsoft A.I Summit

- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/aiandgaming2021/

It Came From Beneath The Ice

- https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-strange-creatures-under-a-half-mile-of-ice/

Facebook vs Australia

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-to-restrict-sharing-or-viewing-news-in-australia/13166208

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-credibility-brought-into-question-health-emergency-news/13166318

Justice League Snyder Cut trailer dropped

- https://www.cbr.com/justice-league-snyder-cut-trailer-new-footage/

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/02/14/the-new-justice-league-snyder-cut-trailer-the-five-most-notable-additions/?sh=364fd65c27d2

Nerdful things

DJ

- Ghost of Tsushima - https://www.playstation.com/en-au/games/ghost-of-tsushima/

Rating: 5/5

Professor

- Frost Punk - https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/

Rating: 4.75/5

Dev-i-boy

- DNP

Rating:

Other topics discussed

Texas weather: Deadly winter storm sweeps Texas and US southern states

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56076686

Burst Pipes and Power Outages in Battered Texas

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Last week we had some terrible ideas. And we are sorry, because we've had more. There's a reason none of us are allowed to work at CSIRO anymore.

The Australian games industry grew last year, following worldwide trends. We've got some interesting statistics on the industry and why it isn't doing as well as it could be.

Last week we spoke about your gut microbiome affecting your parenting skills. Well now we know that your childhood diet has lifelong impacts on that biome. This is making that salad look extra tempting.

CDPR has lost control of the source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3. If I had a dollar for every time a game dev making a game about hacking gets hacked, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't a lot, but it's surprising that it's happened twice.

Australian Game Development Industry 2021 report

- https://igea.net/2021/01/australian-game-development-industry-counts-185-million-in-revenue/

- https://www.consultancy.com.au/news/2954/australias-gaming-industry-grows-to-34-billion-amid-covid-19

Childhood diet has lifelong impact

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210203090458.htm

- https://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2021/01/10/jeb.239699

Cyberhack 2077

- https://press-start.com.au/news/2021/02/09/cd-projekt-reds-servers-were-apparently-hacked-with-the-witcher-3-cyberpunk-2077-source-code-stolen/

- https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1359048125403590660

Superbowl Ads 2021

- https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/super-bowl-ads-2021-we-round-up-the-teasers-and-spots/

Nerdful things

DJ

- EX–Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 0/5

Professor

- Snowpiercer (TV series) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer_(TV_series)

Rating: 3.75/5

Dev-i-boy

- Mermaid Saga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Saga

Rating: 4/5

Other topics discussed

Scary Movie – Whats Up scene

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vfs9ncmHC8

Scary Movie (a 2000 American comedy horror film directed by Keenen Ivory...

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The infamous Gearbox, creator of many mediocre licensed games, has now been bought by the former THQ Nordic, now Embracer Group, owned by Deep Silver, the publisher owned by the Koch Brothers. Yeah, this is why it's so hard to track down the correct owners of game IP.

Before Minecraft and Roblox, there was Garry's Mod. And Garry's back, with a fully overhauled sequel on the Source 2 engine, currently named S&box. Us old timers aren't done kicking yet.

Last week Dev-i made a big deal about Wolfwalkers, and how there's no way it'll win awards because of Soul. Now both are in the running for a Golden Globe.

Next time your stomach isn't agreeing with you, it could be your microbiota gut brain giving you advice. Rat mothers infected with specific E. Coli strains are worse parents than rats with unmodified gut biomes. What else could be controlled by your stomach? Hopefully not your video game preference.

Gearbox now bought out

- https://screenrant.com/borderlands-developer-gearbox-buyout-1-billion-embracer-group/

Garry’s Mod 2 : The Sequel

- https://sbox.facepunch.com/news

Golden Globes 2021

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Golden_Globe_Awards#Nominees

Microbiota controls rat maternal behaviour

- https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabe6563

Nerdful things

DJ

- EX-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 0/5

Professor

- Return of the Obra Dinn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn

Rating: 3/5

Dev-i-boy

- The Cat Returns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns

Rating: 4/5

Other topics discussed

8 Mile (a 2002 American drama film written by Scott Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson. It stars Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger.)

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What does thousands of dollars of VR tracking gear get you? A way to compete in fully virtual breakdancing battles. South Koreans are still at home, and are working hard on creating Ready Player One’s Oasis in order to show off their sick dance moves. And the tracking is surprisingly good.

If you haven’t invested in GameStop, it’s probably too late. If you have, you already know what we’re talking about. Reddit users have discovered an infinite money glitch and are really upsetting the billionaires who aren’t going to make quite as much this year as they did last year. Also, this story developed so much quicker than we expected and most of what we talked about has come to pass.

Google might withdraw their search engine from Australia. Microsoft are probably waiting in the shadows to pounce and be able to claim that someone, somewhere on the planet actually uses Bing.

JK Rowling's Harry Potter projects just won’t die. Now HBO are working on a Harry Potter series featuring the Marauders. The original Harry Potter fans will all be adults now, but there’s a whole generation of younger fans so let’s hope HBO don’t make it as adult as Game of Thrones.

This week DJ continued suffering through Ex-Arm, Professor checked out a Wall-E Simulator, the Burnable Garbage Day, and Dev-i watched artistic animated films.

VR Chat Breakdancing Battles

- https://www.roadtovr.com/vr-dance-battle-vrchat-breakdance/

GameStop stocks rising

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-22-gamestop-share-price-reaches-record-high-amid-reddit-user-driven-short-squeeze

- https://gamerant.com/gamestop-stock-reddit/

Google vs Australia

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-25/google-may-pull-search-engine-from-australia-what-happens-next/13086712

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/google-stop-search-engine-australia-news-media-code/13079912

Harry Potter TV Series in the works

- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/harry-potter-live-action-tv-series-in-early-development-at-hbo-max-exclusive

Nerdful things

DJ

– Ex-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 0/5

Professor

- The Burnable Garbage Day - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameon.anohiwa&hl=en_AU&gl=US

Rating: 2.7/5

Dev-i-boy

- Princess monoke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

- Wolfwalkers -

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If you're old enough, you might remember NBA Jam. This old basketball game has enough of a following that modders add new characters based on yearly rosters, and now there's going to be a documentary about NBA Jam and the start of sports video games.

What would you write in 72 bits? Currently, that's the amount of data that can be stored in a self replicating colony of E. Coli. You can't quite fit Shakespeare in there yet, but the team are working on multiplexing the data across multiple cells. 

Is your refrigerator running? You might want to check if your console is. New consoles draw more power than last gen, including significantly more when running video content than a dedicated streaming device.

The Opera Browser developer (Wait, that's still a thing?) now owns GameMaker. Well this is the weirdest development in 2021 so far.

This week DJ continued the suffering of EX-Arm, Professor went back to the flawed Master Chief Collection and Dev-i took the battle to a long time ago in the New Star Wars Battlefront 2.

NBA Jam doco in the works

- https://variety.com/2021/film/global/nba-jam-game-documentary-1234886255/

Info storing bacteria

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00092-1

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4

Next gen console energy consumption

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-14-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-energy-consumption

Opera buys YoYo Games

- https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2021/01/19/game-maker-creator-yoyo-games-bought-by-browser-developer-opera/

Nerdful things

DJ

– EX-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 0/5

Professor

- Halo : The Master Chief Collection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection

Rating: 4.2/5

Dev-i-boy

- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)

Rating:

Other topics discussed

Space Jam (a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and starring basketball player Michael Jordan.)

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We have another long one for you, but that's ok because LucasFilm is back to making games. EA's tyranny is over! Rejoice!

2020 was an interesting year for the games industry. It turns out people really like Animal Crossing when they can't go outside. Gamesindustry.biz have provided a detailed article of numbers from the year in review.

Staying inside might make you crazy. It also makes you slightly more eco friendly. Air pollution dropped massively in places that locked down to avoid COVID. Unfortunately, it's springing back to regular levels, but now there's tons of data to analyse.

There's a list of new anime to come out in "winter" 2021. The weebs in the team like some of it, including Doctor Stone. And they hate Ex-Arm. All looks the same to me.

A LucasFilm comeback and what a comback

- https://www.wired.com/story/lucasfilm-games-star-wars-ubisoft-indiana-jones-bethesda/

- https://www.starwars.com/news/indiana-jones-game

- https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/01/ubisoft-massive-is-making-an-open-world-star-wars-game/

Games Industry year in numbers report

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-21-gamesindustry-biz-presents-the-year-in-numbers-2020

Pandemic reduces air pollution

- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid19-coronavirus-pandemic-air-pollution-ozone-shutdown

- https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3269/2020/

Winter 2021 in anime

- https://comicbook.com/anime/news/winter-2021-anime-preview/

Nerdful things

DJ

– Ex-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 1/5

Professor

- Creeper world 4 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/848480/Creeper_World_4/

Rating: 5/5

Dev-i-boy

- Re:Zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re:Zero_%E2%88%92_Starting_Life_in_Another_World_(season_2)

- GTA 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V

Rating: Re:Zero – 4/5

GTA 5 - 5/5

Other topics discussed

Brazil (a 1985 dystopian satirical black...

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