#sf0

[paper-mario-wiki]

YOUR MISSION:

the next time you enjoy a meal in your home, eat it viscerally and animalistically. this need not obligate eating it "viciously" or "violently", though the interpretation is left up to the agent.

if it's a sandwich, let it fall apart. if it's not a finger food, make it one. rip it apart. food sustains us. the matter you ingest becomes you, the process need not be beautiful. embrace this extant part of the universe into yourself in the way that feels most natural to you. approach the meal like you've never seen what humans eat and you werent instructed on what to do with it.

this action is worth 10 points.

#text #random thought #shoutouts to the retired players of SF0 #what a game

[sketchycryptid]

Been a minute!! Updated a few character study drawings of Krystal, using markers + pen.

Her new boyfriend is just a little shorter than her, but she doesn't seem to mind :)

#krystal #kursed #fox mccloud #foxstal #star fox #star fox zero sequel #SF0 sequel #starfox zero #starfox #fan art #sketch dump #kemono #furry art

[chewpacabras]

Not my hyperfixation bouncing between Fox + Krystal and James + Vixy aaaaaaaaaaarrrgh 😵‍💫 😭

it doesn't help that I want to draw narrative parallels between them since I hc Fox having many of Vixy's mannerisms and neuroses despite being a near-dead ringer for James

#foxstal #fox mccloud #krystal #james mccloud #vixy reinard #star fox au #star fox headcanons #sf0 sequel #star fox

[vintagerpg]

The first Star Frontiers adventure, SF0: Crash on Volturnus, is included in the box set. Spoiler: the players crash on Volturnus and have to seek safety. The scenario ends with them coming through a trial by combat in order to join a native tribal group. SF1: Volturnus, Planet of Mystery (1982) is the first stand-alone Star Frontiers module and it picks up where SF0 left off. Jeff Easley’s cover sets the stage, depicting humans encountering the alien tribe, the Ul-Mor. They are octopus aliens riding dinosaurs. That’s a pretty strong start, gotta say.

SF2 reminds me a bit of Isle of Dread, actually. There is less a plot or central dungeon to explore, and more a bunch of regions and factions. This makes sense, since the primary motivation is still survival or escape. But increasingly, exploration becomes central, and also revenge, as the pirates who caused your crash are in the area as well. Lots of weird aliens, lots of fighting, lots of non-combat encounters too. There is a lot to do on Volturnus!

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #Star Frontiers #Jeff Easley #Tim Truman #Volturnus

[jula483]

Rhett and Link at NC State, May 5th

Sources: x / x / x

And links to watch their commencement speeches: 

Link (starts 25:38) - https://www.youtube.com/live/yaOB36C-sf0?feature=share&t=1539

Rhett (starts 55:45) - https://ncsu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=47bf7bdb-9664-4b6b-ac2c-aff500fe27a0

#rhett and link #they were giving their commencement speeches #and then toured the buildings #SO FUN #they look so good #omg #but link in a SUIT #OOOF #he looks like a preacher in the first two pics #lol #link's mullet definitely looks better with longer sides #they're so cute touring their buildings and everything #awww #i just love seeing them in the wild like that #but i literally refused to look at people's faces while watching link's speech #lmao #a room of strangers reacting to our lovely strange link and his speech? that's too much for me #and his speech was really SOMETHING #my post #mullet #mullet link

[jaguarmen99]

7: ウィズコロナの名無しさん 2023/01/19(木) 08:11:38.78 ID:7NN9KW7x0.net 時代の流れを感じる 11: ウィズコロナの名無しさん 2023/01/19(木) 08:12:15.94 ID:YUwhbaUI0.net 休刊とか往生際悪いな 廃刊しとけ 198: ウィズコロナの名無しさん 2023/01/19(木) 08:45:50.86 ID:FLvNG+Zz0.net >>11 雑誌は休刊=廃刊みたいなものらしい 12: ウィズコロナの名無しさん 2023/01/19(木) 08:12:20.83 ID:pHPq1+Sf0.net よし、次はAERAだなｗ

週刊朝日、休刊へ ｜ 保守速報

[greatfcx]

Looks like a certain studio was at least somewhat involved with the SF0: TBB short after all... guess they spoiled me twice, it seems... :3 🤞

#permission to land granted || ooc #believe me i wish my brain would chill on it too lmao

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

tumblr can't die before paper-mario-wiki finishes the sf0 reboot, since that's the only other place i would ever make an account. mattirondacks please put your temper tantrum on hold

[federalnecromancer]

that sf0 post is making me so fucking weepy lol. have been keenly feeling how the miserable economy is killing craft and discovery and art. making shit is so fucking expensive. artists used to be able to be poor AND make shit. now we just have to be poor. this is coming from someone who makes his shit for basically no money and out of garbage but like - christ! you used to be able to pay your rent in a US city for a couple of days of work, not 3 whole goddamn weeks. the jesters and wondermakers of this country have been priced out of making shit good for the people around us. christ.

#text. post.

[yenikibris]

Hüseyin Yalyalı, İsmet Özgüren ve Murat Kanatlı siyasal gelişmeleri konuşuyor

[mi6014alishiasmedberg]

ARG

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be influenced by players' ideas or actions.

The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players' responses. It is shaped by characters that are actively controlled by the game's designers, as opposed to being controlled by an AI as in a computer or console video game. Players interact directly with characters in the game, solve plot-based challenges and puzzles, and collaborate as a community to analyze the story and coordinate real-life and online activities. ARGs generally use multimedia, such as telephones and mail, but rely on the Internet as the central binding medium.

There is a great deal of debate surrounding the characteristics by which the term "alternate reality game" should be defined. Sean Stacey, the founder of the website Unfiction, has suggested that the best way to define the genre was not to define it, and instead locate each game on three axes (ruleset, authorship and coherence) in a sphere of "chaotic fiction" that would include works such as the Uncyclopedia and street games like SF0 as well.

Several experts, though, point to the use of transmedia, "the aggregate effect of multiple texts/media artifacts," as the defining attribute of ARGs. This prompts the unique collaboration emanating from ARGs as well; Sean Stewart, founder of 42 Entertainment, which has produced various successful ARGs, speaks to how this occurs, noting that "the key thing about an ARG is the way it jumps off of all those platforms. It's a game that's social and comes at you across all the different ways that you connect to the world around you.”

[paper-mario-wiki]

please consider rebooting the sf0 forum for a new generation. i would participate as would many others

since i made that post, ive actually begun workin on just that.

current team: me (anthropologist and business manager) an old friend (microsoft product manager) a new friend (fullstack web developer) someone ive not met (amazon cybersec specialist)

im mostly in charge of writing the soul of the website right now!

when this thing is worth showing to people, believe me we will

#ask

[sketchycryptid]

One very messy page of Krystal sketches

A little context: I'm exploring how I would imagine her in a follow-up to Star Fox Zero, in which she is introduced as the bounty huntress "Kursed" and allies herself with Star Fox before joining the team.

I'm also bringing back the idea of basing her fur markings + color off of a "silver" fox (melanistic red/common fox, vulpes vulpes), because 1. I find it more visually appealing tbh, and 2. better contrast with Fox's fur markings + color being closer to that of a typical red fox.

Also also:

I'm redrawing this sketch on better sketchbook paper because I just adore how I drew her expression <3

#krystal #kursed #star fox #starfox #star fox zero #starfox zero #star fox au #SF0 sequel #character design #sketches #sketchbook #visual development #fan art

[doloreesperanza]

[tastydregs]

China’s 2 Megawatt Molten-salt Thorium Nuclear Reactor Has Start up Approval

Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered molten-salt reactor. This is the first molten salt nuclear reactor since the US shutdown a test reactor in 1969.

The TMSR-LF1 will use fuel enriched to under 20% U-235, have a thorium inventory of about 50 kg and conversion ratio of about 0.1. A fertile blanket of lithium-beryllium fluoride (FLiBe) with 99.95% Li-7 will be used, and fuel as UF4.

The project is expected to start on a batch basis with some online refueling and removal of gaseous fission products, but discharging all fuel salt after 5-8 years for reprocessing and separation of fission products and minor actinides for storage. It will proceed to a continuous process of recycling salt, uranium and thorium, with online separation of fission products and minor actinides. The reactor will work up from about 20% thorium fission to about 80%.

If the TMSR-LF1 proves successful, China plans to build a reactor with a capacity of 373 MWt by 2030.

In January 2011, CAS launched a CNY3 billion (USD444 million) R&D programme on liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs), known there as the thorium-breeding molten-salt reactor (Th-MSR or TMSR), and claimed to have the world’s largest national effort on it, hoping to obtain full intellectual property rights on the technology. This is also known as the fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR). The TMSR Centre at SINAP at Jiading, Shanghai, is responsible.

Construction of the 2 MWt TMSR-LF1 reactor began in September 2018 and was reportedly completed in August 2021. The prototype was scheduled to be completed in 2024, but work was accelerated.

Nextbigfuture Was One of the First Online to Follow and Promote Thorium

Nextbigfuture has been following and promoting the revival of Thorium and molten salt reactors for over a decade. Nextbigfuture was covering Thorium back in 2006.

Here is a 2011 interview with Kirk Sorenson.

Molten Salt Nuclear Background

Molten salt and thorium reactors are inherently safer and can have less nuclear waste (aka unused nuclear fuel.) Nuclear fuel is unused because even numbered isotopes are harder to split or react. Fast reactors have neutrons moving at higher speeds (one hundred times faster) needed to cause uranium 238 to react into plutonium.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the United States operated an experimental 7.34 MW (th) MSR from 1965 to 1969, in a trial known as the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE). This demonstrated the feasibility of liquid-fuelled reactors cooled by molten salts.

China has been developing waterless nuclear reactors. Construction work on the first commercial molten salt reactor should be completed by 2030. This will allow the construction of such nuclear reactors even in desert regions and in the plains of central and western China. The molten salt reactor will be powered by liquid thorium instead of uranium.

SINAP has two streams of TMSR development – solid fuel (TRISO in pebbles or prisms/blocks) with once-through fuel cycle, and liquid fuel (dissolved in fluoride coolant) with reprocessing and recycle. A third stream of fast reactors to consume actinides from LWRs is planned. The aim is to develop both the thorium fuel cycle and non-electrical applications in a 20-30 year timeframe.

*The TMSR-SF stream has only partial utilization of thorium, relying on some breeding as with U-238, and needing fissile uranium input as well. It is optimized for high-temperature based hybrid nuclear energy applications. SINAP aimed at a 2 MW pilot plant initially, though this has been superseded by a simulator (TMSR-SF0). A 100 MWt demonstration pebble bed plant (TMSR-SF2) with open fuel cycle is planned by about 2025. TRISO particles will be with both low-enriched uranium and thorium, separately.

* The TMSR-LF stream claims full closed Th-U fuel cycle with breeding of U-233 and much better sustainability with thorium but greater technical difficulty. It is optimized for utilization of thorium with electrometallurgical pyroprocessing.

*SINAP aims for a 2 MWt pilot plant (TMSR-LF1) initially, then a 10 MWt experimental reactor (TMSR-LF2) by 2025, and a 100 MWt demonstration plant (TMSR-LF3) with full electrometallurgical reprocessing by about 2035, followed by 1 a GW demonstration plant. The TMSR-LF timeline is about ten years behind the SF one.

A TMSFR-LF fast reactor optimized for burning minor actinides is to follow.

The TMSR-SF0 is one-third scale and has a 370 kW electric heat source with FLiNaK primary coolant at 650°C and FLiNaK secondary coolant.

The 10 MWt TMSR-SF1 has 17% enriched TRISO fuel in 60mm pebbles, similar to HTR-PM fuel, and coolant at 630°C and low pressure. Primary coolant is FLiBe (with 99.99% Li-7) and secondary coolant is FLiNaK. Core height is 3 m, diameter 2.85 m, in a 7.8 m high and 3 m diameter pressure vessel. Residual heat removal is passive, by cavity cooling. A 20-year operating life was envisaged but the project is discontinued.

The 2 MWt TMSR-LF1 is under construction at Wu Wei in Gansu in a $3.3 billion programme. It will use fuel enriched to under 20% U-235, have a thorium inventory of about 50 kg and conversion ratio of about 0.1. FLiBe with 99.95% Li-7 would be used, and fuel as UF4. The project would start on a batch basis with some online refueling and removal of gaseous fission products, but discharging all fuel salt after 5-8 years for reprocessing and separation of fission products and minor actinides for storage. It would proceed to a continuous process of recycling salt, uranium and thorium, with online separation of fission products and minor actinides. It would work up from about 20% thorium fission to about 80%.

Beyond these, a 373 MWt/168 MWe liquid-fuel MSR small modular reactor is planned, with supercritical CO2 cycle in a tertiary loop at 23 MPa using Brayton cycle, after a radioactive isolation secondary loop. Various applications as well as electricity generation are envisaged. It would be loaded with 15.7 tonnes of thorium and 2.1 tonnes of uranium (19.75% enriched), with one kilogram of uranium added daily, and have 330 GWd/t burn-up with 30% of energy from thorium. Online refueling would enable eight years of operation before shutdown, with the graphite moderator needing attention

Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.

Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.

A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts.  He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.

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