#fusionposting

[starheirxero]

fusion is so peak u guys please. grips the table. like not even just in context ti steven universe. fusion is so good y'all. characters need to fuse more often. i'm me and you're you and now you're me and i'm you and we make a new thing and we now have a bond deeper than anyone can imagine because we have melded brains. and ☝️ this doesn't necessarily always have to be a good thing for anyone involved. btw i'm psychologically normal

[somerunner]

I have to be honest, I still don't understand why inertial confinement fusion has so much research going into it. Neither ICF nor MCF (magnetic confinement fusion) are suuuuper close to commercial viability for energy production, but in my mind ICF makes less sense. What are you going to do, fire a beam of hohlraums into a pulsing laser? During downtime, fire gold-absorbent mist into the room and pump it back out? You gotta be losing thousands on all that gold, even if you're breaking even on heat.

[wallnoises]

also like, Fusion is such a linear game compared to the rest of the franchise that when you place it against the other titles in the series, which place greater emphasis on independent reign and world exploration, it’s almost insultingly straightforward

[somerunner]

Me: Whatever happens, don’t startle the hydrogen. It’ll fuse and then we’ll be in a whole lot of trouble.

The magnetic containment field: no actually you have to try really hard to get hydrogen to fuse. It’s not going to fuse just by accident.

Me: how are you talking right now

[somerunner]

Tokamak: Is there any shape better than the torus?

Stellarator: Well maybe if you give it a little twimst I'll like it more

[wallnoises]

This is a very good retrospective review. Seeing one of my all-time favorite games analyzed from the perspective of another Metroid fan who wasn’t introduced to this game until much more recently really offers a lot of compelling points and criticisms that my rose-colored glasses wouldn’t have made as clear to me. Despite its uniqueness and unmistakable identity, there are some parts of the story that do feel a bit undercooked (which, admittedly, I’m only just beginning to fully comprehend the loops and turns and twists of despite having been a lifelong fan of the title and having played through it countless times), and it could have stood to go the extra mile in some other areas as well. 

[wallnoises]

tbh one of my happiest memories is from playing metroid fusion as a child and it was like. such a small thing but whenever i think about it it warms my entire soul and makes me feel all nice

i was playing the game in my living room in like winter of 2003, i think i recall being in a place in-game that was ice-themed and in addition to the quiet atmosphere and the soundtrack putting me into a state of blissful calm, i remember someone pointing out that it was snowing outside. i looked up and the entire earth was covered in a blanket of white and i could just see the snow silently drifting down outside of the window. whenever i revisit that mental image i’m reminded of why life is beautiful and worth living and i guess that’s a rather weird way of coming to that conclusion but that’s why this particular game has always held a special place in my heart and always will

[wallnoises]

hmm not bad