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The future and my experience with Laser's...

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Shared on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 07:26

First off I'm not a big fan of the "Survival Horror" genre. I've played some of the well knowns like Resident Evil, Silent Hill (the first one), Fatal Frame and now Dead Space. There's something about that feeling of being helpless that I just can't take... anyway, my newest trek into this genre brings me to Dead Space. This is my 2nd time playing said game. Reason being, because I got so scared the first time I ever played it, I traded it in after beating the second chapter. The ambient noises, the feeling of being alone and helpless...all things I dislike about the survival horror genre. But here I am playing it again like some asshole that didn't learn the first time. But the level of fear is not what compels me to write this... oh no, its anger.

So here I am last night in all of my space engineer beastlyness roaming around the USG Ishimura at the end of chapter 4. At this particular point I must (or as I'm told to by this dude) "shoot incoming asteroids" so they don't rupture the hull of the ship. The hulls integrity starts at 85%, I believe. If it drops to 0%, guess what? Yep, I die. So I am to ward off these giant asteroids with a laser turret. 10 times it takes me to do this. Why? Because the goddam laser overheats. Because there are so many damn asteroids coming at you, you can't keep up. Explain to me how in the fuck in the distant future we can:

1. Crack entire planets
2. Have badass Plasma cutters...that don't overheat.
3. Have entire colonies on other planets
4.These awesome neon-glo suits
5. Build ships the size of a small planet, and house hundreds of thousands people...

But someone can't build a fucking laser that doesn't overheat? Fuck me. I was so pissed last night, I don't even know what shit was spewing from my mouth... plus I had been drinking.

So (dangerous enough) this got me to thinking. Why in every game does the "Laser" overheat. All it is, is a concentrated beam of light right?

Mirriam Webster defines it as:
: a device that utilizes the natural oscillations of atoms or molecules between energy levels for generating a beam of coherent electromagnetic radiation usually in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared regions of the spectrum .

Its a beam with no reciprocating parts like a gun. So why in every game does the laser overheat? Maybe you all have an answer.

And being the glutton for punishment Iam, I have pre-ordered Deadspace 2... can't wait.

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CrypticCat's picture
Submitted by CrypticCat on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 09:33
"light" doesn't just is. It's generated energy, so either the source is hot enough to generate light, or gets hot generating light. The source must thus cooldown. Small beams don't generate much heat, but a laser that can destroy asteroids is probably generating enough heat to melt through the bulkheads. So yeah... it has to cool down. Be glad they're slight of hand with the cooldown as well. A laser like that would probably need a day to cool down.
OutcastB's picture
Submitted by OutcastB on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 09:37
"light" doesn't just is.... Huh???
CrypticCat's picture
Submitted by CrypticCat on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 09:58
Yes. Laser is essentially a bundle of concentrated light. And light does not exist by itself, it has to be generated. The light you see outside is generated by the sun. The sun is hot enough to generate light. It's also what's killing the sun, but that problem is not acute for another million years or hundred. The principle to generate a laser-beam is different though, there electricity is used to generate light, so that means that whatever is being put on a current to generate the beam gets to be hot. The idea that you can use a laser to generate an asteroid is possible on paper, but the installation required would probably be bigger than the ship needing it, but most importantly, it would generate so much heat that it could probably be used for like less than a second before needing a very long cool-down period. And then I'm not even talking about the engine the ship would need to generate the electricity required to fire a laser that can destroy an asteroid...
CrypticCat's picture
Submitted by CrypticCat on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 10:03
of course: "The idea that you can use a laser to generate an asteroid" should be "destroy an asteroid" meh
IamDank's picture
Submitted by IamDank on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 10:39
I like turtles
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Submitted by ladynightshade on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:12
You like, think and stuff when you are playing. This is some philosophical and seriously scientific shit. When I'm playing, questions I come up with are things like, why are there bathrooms on the Normandy but no one goes to the bathroom? And how big is Master Chief's junk?
OutcastB's picture
Submitted by OutcastB on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:21
Turtles are crazy awesome...
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Submitted by OutcastB on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:23
Why the fuck are there bathrooms on the Normandy... All the times I have gone in there I have not seen 1 person dropping a duece... Ahhh the mysteries of the universe.
Arvind's picture
Submitted by Arvind on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 12:01
There is no light without heat. As for the Normandy's bathrooms, it's so the general crew has a place to spank it. After all, they don't have any privacy in their racks.
OutcastB's picture
Submitted by OutcastB on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 13:28
What about LED's they barely give off any heat... flourescents as well.
ZeroSuperman's picture
Submitted by ZeroSuperman on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 13:38
Outcast, You, me & Dead Space 2 Multiplayer if you're on Xbox. And if you REALLY want a piss and hsit scary experiance in the first one, play it with your surround sound on, but just loud enough to faintly hear the echos of something moving up behind you... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Submitted by wamam87 on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 18:41
MC's junk is HUGE!!!! ...i too like turtles.

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