Nerds Amalgamated

NBA Jam, Bacteria Data Storage, Console Energy Consumption & YoYo Games

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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.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam Space Jam Website (and yes that website is still active…) - https://www.spacejam.com/ The 8 best esports documentaries of all time - https://dotesports.com/general/news/top-8-esports-documentaries-173 The Right Opinion - How One Game Rocked A Community - The Story Behind Hunt Down The Freeman | TRO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSx3Ekx2hTM Tom Scott (Youtuber) - https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay LEMMiNO (Youtuber) - https://www.youtube.com/user/Top10Memes Sean Menard (Director | Producer | Editor) - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4766135/ Bernie Sanders outdoor dining meme - https://dc.eater.com/2021/1/20/22240956/bernie-sanders-sitting-chair-inauguration-outdoor-dining Many A True Nerd - Worms Armageddon – 2016 US Election Special - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEM3wXIB4Oc Johnny Mnemonic (a 1995 Canadian-American cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Robert Longo in his directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren. The film is based on the story of the same name by William Gibson.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film) Prototype (an open world action-adventure video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. Set in Manhattan, the game follows a powerful amnesiac shapeshifter named Alex Mercer who must stop an outbreak of Blacklight, a plague that mutates individuals into hideous violent monsters.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_(video_game) How long is an ecoli generation - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=how+long+is+an+ecoli+generation - http://textbookofbacteriology.net/growth_3.html Long-time nuclear waste warning messages (intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_m...