Interesting Links for 20-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• Gut microbes trigger autoimmune disease later in life (in mice)
  (tags: immune_system bacteria )
• If I played for 2279 hours straight then I could complete my Steam Library! (Maybe when I retire)
  (tags: games )
• What If Justice League Meetings Operated Like A Dilbert Comic?
  (tags: comics superheroes dilbert funny )
• The tech behind Smaug's attack on

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Phew! Only 644 hours for me!

(Though how do they calculate it? I have surely spent far more than that on some games, especially builders like the Civ series.)

[andrewducker]

I assume they look at the time it takes, on average, for people to play the game?

Or possibly there's some data somewhere on how long people take to play games through?

[chess]

They use http://www.howlongtobeat.com/ which uses user-reported lengths of time (in several categories, like 'main story only' and 'completionist', which it then averages in some fashion to make a single average time)

[philmophlegm]

2279 hours is significantly less than the amount of time I put into Football Manager 2012...

[andrewducker]

Yup - you definitely _can_ spend a lot longer. Heck, I've spent 100 hours on Dark Souls now, and I can see that if I'd not used a walkthrough, wanted to try all the different options, and got into multiplayer it could easily be five times as long.

[ext_2864067]

*looking sheepish*

...3172 hours left.

Damn you, Steam sales. Damn you to hell.

[dreema]

Aww, the steam thing doesn't like me, says it cannot find my name

[ext_2864067]

You need to put in your steam ID, not your username.

Open Steam on your PC and go to your profile. Right click on your profile page and click 'copy profile url'. The long number at the end of that is your ID.

[dreema]

Cheers, tried that and also tried the sign in through steam (tried that originally) still doesn't like me :( Oh well, probably best i don't find out. Having 26 days of leave to use up by the end of March and knowing probably wouldn't be a good combo.

[ext_2864067]

Regarding Battle of the Five Armies: yeah, I can see where Weta are coming from, being a bit hurt about not being in the running for awards there, however it's a sad truth that one awesome bit won't get you an Oscar nomination if the rest of the film doesn't hold up.

Also, I think the Oscars are a bit jaded with the Lord of the Rings movies, not entirely unlike the rest of us by now.

[andrewducker]

As a note, that's not a Weta person complaining - it's Wired Magazine (part of their Australian editing team).

And I wouldn't expect it to get an Oscar for the movie - it wasn't that good. But as VFX goes, I was expecting a nomination for the impressive work they did.