Wasteland 2 é a continuação  direta do primeiro RPG pós-apocalíptico para computador. O jogo foi a inspiração para a série de jogos Fallout, e o primeiro RPG a permitir que jogadores dividissem seus grupos por questões táticos, a desafiar os jogadores com escolhas morais e fazê-los lidar com as consequências de suas ações.

Wasteland é ambientado em um perigoso mundo pós-apocalíptico no sudoeste americano. Ao longo de aventuras os personagens recebiam promoções, adquiriam novas habilidades e equipamentos para em seguida, enfrentar novos desafios, com resultados que mudavam dependendo da estratégia utilizada para derrotá-los.

O jogo contava com um enredo forte que exigia decisões dolorosas por parte dos jogadores, e um enredo que permitia máxima re-jogabilidade. Wasteland 2, com sua participação e insights, vai recuperar tudo isso e oferecer ainda mais. Será digno de ser uma sequencia de Wasteland, desafiador e gratificante como o original e com toda a capacidade adicional e deslumbramento dos jogos atuais.

Uma curiosidade interessante. Ken St Andre, pai do Tunnels & Trolls participou do desenvolvimento do jogo e emprestou ao jogo sistema do seu RPG.

Fãs de jogos de clássicos para PC podem ajudar a financiar a sequencia de Wasteland através do Kickstarter de Wasteland 2 . O objetivo é arrecadar 900.000 dólares - enquanto este post, era escrito, US$784.715 já haviam sido levantados.

Os fãs poderão dar sugestões durante o desenvolvimento de Wasteland 2 através dos fóruns do jogo.  O Kickstarter oferece os benefícios habituais, da trilha sonora a cópias em caixas especiais e moedas e maps para colecionadores.

Wasteland 2 tem data prevista de lançamento para outubro de 2013. Saiba mais sobre o jogo na página de Kickstarter do Wasteland 2.


Pagina que copiei o texto: http://raccoon.com.br/2012/03/15/wasteland-2/

Pagina do projeto: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

PIZZA CAN BE classed as a vegetable – at least according to a decision made by the US  Congress. Who knew?

American lawmakers have ruled that the amount of tomato paste in pizza sauce means that pizzas can be counted as a vegetable.

The bizarre move, which was decided in a vote on the annual spending bill for the Department of Agriculture, happened for purely political reasons.

The crucial bill had oversight over subsidised school meals, and the department was seeking to restrict pizza, chips and starchy vegetables from the menu for school children in a bid to combat child obesity.

MSNBC reports that politicians had been lobbied heavily by the frozen food industry who didn’t want to see a major revenue stream cut off  given how often pizza is found on the menus of school canteens in the US.

School meals subsidised by the government are mandated to include a certain amount of vegetables and the Department of Agriculture’s plan would have pushed pizza-makers at least partly out of the school lunch business.

The salt industry, potato growers, and some conservative politicians who said that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in telling children what to eat, also lobbied against the change.

After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of  tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.

The Obama administration is fighting to make school lunches healthier in the face of a growing obesity problem across the country.

Fonte: http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282033-Nov2011/

Does downloading child pornography from the Internet deserve the same criminal punishment as first-degree murder?

 A circuit court judge in Florida clearly thinks so: On Thursday, he sentenced Daniel Enrique Guevara Vilca, a 26-year-old stockroom worker whose home computer was found to contain hundreds of pornographic images of children, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

 But the severity of the justice meted out to Mr. Vilca, who had no previous criminal record, has led some criminal justice experts to question whether increasingly harsh penalties delivered in cases involving the viewing of pornography really fit the crime. Had Mr. Vilca actually molested a child, they note, he might well have received a lighter sentence.

 “To me, a failure to distinguish between people who look at these dirty pictures and people who commit contact offenses lacks the nuance and proportionality I think our law demands,” said Douglas Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University, who highlighted Mr. Vilca’s case on his blog, Sentencing and Law Policy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/us/life-sentence-for-possession-of-child-pornography-spurs-debate.html