This qualifies as 'dancing'?

Man I feel old, to me it looks like they are all experiencing a strangely choreographed seizure.

It'll never work. The US watches it's citizens all the time, records their phone data, their social messaging, who they hang out with, where they travel, what they buy and yet so much stuff falls through the cracks.

Now try doing that and more in a county with nearly 5 times as many people in it!

Actually blade thickness has a lot to do with cutting power. Having a nice sharp edge at a good angle helps with the bite of the blade - and a host of medieval and ancient swords had that - but blade thickness impacts how deeply a cut can go, the thicker the blade the harder the hit will have to be.

It's why your kitchen knives are measured in milometers. Beyond that thickness of a blade has a large impact on its weight (katanas are a shorter blade but heavier than most longer swords), how long the hilt needs to be (and katana hilts were significantly longer than the remakes of today) and more.

One might think the thickness is there for durability and certainly the blades were durable, it's why there are still some of the originals around today, but the real reason is Japanese steel wasn't very good and full of impurities while at the same time the Europeans were mass producing steel of a significant higher quality. I hear the Japanese folding process vaunted as the height of sword-making but the real reason they folded the steel wasn't because it was a superior process - it wasn't, pattern-welding was and it was used in Europe as far back as a millennium earlier - but because it helped spread those impurities throughout the steel. That extra thickness helped keep the impurities from ruining the blade as well.

The katana... it's beautiful, fun to wield, unique looking, has a treasured past but it just.. isn't.. a very... good.. sword.

My thought exactly jimnms.

Just about any well made sword could do what that sword did, in fact probably do it better because samurai swords are so thick on the end they aren't that great for cutting, let alone piercing, no matter how sharp they are.

It's just that samurai swords (called that because they were a symbol of the class, but rarely ever used in actual battle) has this mythical air about it. But they aren't actually that great a sword.

I'm quite enjoying it myself, though I've been playing more Just Cause 3 since it came out.

Fallout 4 is mildly better than 3, especially the main story but not nearly as good as New Vegas (talk about dumbed down in comparison) but as other's have said I've always preferred Bethesda's Elder Scroll series.

That said, none of these titles has anything on Witcher 3, the out and out Goty and quite possibly Go/t... century!

This is wrong. The first Death Star was 160 km in Diameter while the second was over 900 km in diameter.

And yes that's how much of a Star Wars geek I am.

I've been using bluesnews as my gaming news website since it's inception (back when it was a Quake 2 news-site). There may be other, potentially better alternatives, with flashier websites & more information or variety; but Blues is still the first website I visit when I hop on my computer each and every day.

To this day it still has that same simple aesthetic, though obviously tweaked and modernized.

Love how he maneuvered around to sniff his bum and immediately knew who he was at that moment.

Then stop playing.. it's not a good game anyway. Just a poorly balanced reskin of TF2 with worse classes and terrible map design.

I suspect that accent is so cringe-worthy because most Americans have never heard a real accent and associate an Irish one with Lucky Charms. So any reasonably accurate accent is going to be misconstrued as British.

That said, they certainly picked a good character actor to play an insane vampire.

Yes for mass storage, nothing beats the capacity of a good old magnetic hard drive. But for anything else, HDD's are hard pressed to approach an SDD in anything but capacity.

This is an example of what happens when law enforcement are taught sociology and psychology and de-escalation training. Where as in the US many (especially urban) police departments teach little more than how to use their new military hardware which end of a gun fire's the bullets. To many believe that they are soldiers in a war and criminals or even regular people - especially minorities - are the enemy.

California farms do not use 80% of the states water. You hear that a lot in the media but it's a false statistic. The real number is more like 40%.

As someone who had to give himself shots for years, it's important to note that they'll hurt a LOT less if you don't tense up your muscles. Keep em loose and you'll barely feel it.

Special for the kid.. not so much for the gorilla who gets to spend the next 35 years locked in a 20x20 ft. room with nothing to do but watch the humans and wait for that next meal that consists of.. salad.

I get it, zoo's do good zoological work, they protect endangered species and (usually) do all they can to make that 35 year stay in a 20 ft. square room something more than the prison that it is.