Close to home or not, you don't just can it. You delay it, release it six months to a year later. Anything else is simply insulting to all those who worked on it. But this is the typical Japanese knee-jerk reaction which pisses me off like nothing else.

Yeah canning it seems a bit extreme when it is supposedly complete. You think that, with the corporate politics involved, there's no chance of it seeing the light of day now?
It seems like these plans have been delayed by the government in the hope that people will conserve energy under their own initiative. But there's no way of knowing how successful that's going to be. Especially given the damage the infrastructure must have sustained.

Hard to tell. When the pedestrian streets of Akihabara (where the streets are closed to vehicular traffic on Sundays, National Holidays, etc.) were canceled due as a response to the Akihabara Massacre, it wasn't until January of this year that it was reinstated. Some 2 and a half years later. So it's highly likely that the game will either not get a release at all or will see a release in a year or twos time. I expect they'll just simply forget it even exists.

Unless of course, a significantly large enough number of prospective purchasers mount a campaign to get it released. At least that worked for getting a local release of Oblivion, so that *could* theoretically work.


Well, our area was lucky, but Yamanashi and a few others did have their power cut. So again, that could go either way. Just have to take it one day at a time. In the meantime, I have my PSP charged and Zettai Zetsumei 3 ready to play (I actually bought my PSP for that game) so that's partly why I'm pissed about #4.

Anyhow, makes doing work during the day problematic due to not knowing for certain if power is going to be cut or not.

Add on the aforementioned lack of food, bottled drinks and gasoline along with the expected large quake sometime by Thursday and a possible similar quake within the next 30 days or so... And well, it's really pissing me off when things like games -- much needed entertainment -- are being effected.

Yeah I know, I could have it far far worse, I could have had my house collapse, I could have lost anything. As it is, we're in a quiet state of fear that that could theoretically still happen. The not knowing really eats away at you.

Do you have an uninterruptible power supply?

That's the thing. Even if your home is relatively unaffected and there is no significant radiation leak etc there's still the matter of supplies - something that seems to already be strained to breaking point. Hopefully international aid will help.

I'll probably get very pissed too not being able to play games if I were in your situation, even when essential supplies are running low. Guess it's a lifestyle for me instead of a normal hobby.

No. Too expensive and it wouldn't really help with the modem or lighting, etc., anyhow >_>
Indeed.

But at least it would stop you from losing work if the power cuts out unexpectedly. I have seen some reasonably priced ones around, but I don't know how good they are and if they'd adequately support a fairly power-hungry desktop. But then even if you could just use that to save your work it's better than nothing.

I think PC hardware stores here are yet to understand the meaning of that phrase U_U

Really? You'd be looking at less than £50 here and under the circumstances it goes without saying it would be worth the investment.

Average price here seems to be around £120 via Amazon who currently cannot guarantee stocks or delivery. They have couple at around £50 via Market Place, but that's hit and miss as to how reliable the sellers are in my experience.

Very true. You'll probably get the item... eventually. But then at the moment I bet the postal service isn't up to much if it's operating at all.

Can anybody explain to me why a decision was made to place a nuclear power plant, no screw that, several nuclear powerplants right next to the sea? In Japan?

You'd think it'd be wise to place them well inland so that you won't have to worry about the possibility of both a catastrophic earthquake and a tsunami at once. Or am I missing some deep technological reason the power plant had to be placed there?

A meltdown is imminent in at least one of the plants right now. Apparently. Not that I trust the world's media to report accurately on a situation like this.

If it goes bang half the radius is at sea?

Hard to pump them full of sea water if they're stuck up the top of a mountain/volcano in the middle of the country.

LOL very true, looks like stonebro just got hit with a muppet stick.

having said that as long as theyre near a decent sized water supply they would be ok, though perhaps building tham on the other side of the island and thus further away from the fault line may have helped but thats the great thing about hindsight.