Nerds Amalgamated

Kids these days aren't having a punt on the horses, they're betting on esports. The problem is, they're literally kids. Shady gambling companies are preying on underage children. A scarily close supernova might have caused an extinction event. Luckily, it wasn't completely aiming at Earth and it happened 2.5 million years ago. Which is good, because I was worried it would cause movie delays. Wait,...

A UQ student has shown that paradox free time travel is technically possible. Dr Fabio Costa and Germain Tobar have published a paper showing how the universe will reprogram itself to account for a time traveller's actions. In other words, whatever action you take, the universe will find a way of making sure that in the end, the same results occur. So much for killing Hitler, then. You've heard ab...

It's past your bedtime, somewhere. A new paper from UCLA collates all the reasons why we sleep. So if you get in trouble for sleeping at work just tell your boss science told you to. Facebook is coming to lock down your Oculus Quest 2, but this isn't the only issue with the Quest 2. House Atreides is being adapted into a graphic novel. Meanwhile, She Hulk is being adapted to TV with the excellent...

Take a look at the phosphine, clouding in the atmos. Oh man, wonder if we'll ever know, It's the craziest news, is there life on Venus? It's been a long time since Sid Meier first put keyboard to code, but these days he thinks he wouldn't even play his seminal work, Civilisation, if it hadn't been created nearly 30 years ago. Is he a boomer saying kids have no taste, or does he have a point? Rick...

First I was afraid, I was petrified. Thought I'd never be carbon sequestered. But the scientists don't care. They don't need a basilisk (or catchy disco songs) to petrify CO2 in industrial waste. The technological singularity wasn't supposed to happen like this. TF2 bots have decided they don't need us meatbags anymore and are going to war against hackers. It's only a matter of time before the bot...

What do you do with your food waste? Hopefully, you can compost it and grow new food. But if you had industrial amounts of orange peel, what would you do with it? Recycle lithium batteries This sounds like a fake life hack, but it's real. Resident Evil is adding a third alternative timeline to the plot, with a Netflix series. DJ hates the sound of it, there's a lot of odd character decisions comin...

What metal based wind instrument can DJ play better than he can pronounce? It also doubles as a fire detection method, but that'll all make sense later. The Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthorne is joining the small, but dedicated, ranks of creators to open their franchise to community development. The Fazbear Fanverse initiative introduces projects by community members with the full s...

Once more unto the breach... We finally have a cast list for Del Toro's Pinnochio, featuring some huge names like Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard and David Bradley, AKA David Bowie, the kid from Stranger Things and the first Doctor. How do you stop kids from seeing things they shouldn't on the internet? How does Roblox maintain one of the highest child safety ratings of an online community? Lots of m...

You can call us whatever you want, just don't call us late for dinner. Although late for releasing the episode, yeah, that's fine. Epic are going to war against Apple and Google. Microsoft and Stadia are joining the battle against Apple. Only the courts can decide if Apple should be allowed to control everything on your phone. Stallman was right. The 9th Doctor is back in Big Finish for a series o...

Deviboy has gone missing. What nefarious act has the DJ performed? Where is our co-host? Don't worry, he isn't dead, just busy. It's enough to make your butthole clench. Or it would be, if you were a frog. A species of beetle has been discovered that used predator defecation in order to escape being lunch. It's a bit gross, but points for style. It's time to enter the future and go entirely digita...

It has happened. The DJ kept within the time limit. This week the Professor took a sabbatical and its Dev-i-boy’s last episode before he takes his own sabbatical. We saw some big big leaks from Nintendo which might have some massive reveals such as a Luigi in Mario 64. Could this help or hurt Nintendo, who knows but one is for a certain we might some leaks from other companies in the near future....

Has Professor finally found a way to keep DJ in the time limit? Some say yes. Can a smile really make you think better of someone? What if it would make you think worse of them? This study looked at the perceived trustworthiness of people with various disorders, but the Nerds think it's not particularly rigorous. Microsoft Flight Simulator will come with a physical edition including a lovely hardc...

First, Dev-i-boy found a list of Valve games that never came out. These games were created in the dark times before Half Life: Alyx was announced, and include some interesting looks at what Half Life 3 could have been. You can't go to Comic-Con this year, but you can watch it online. There's a great program with tons of shows including comics, television and gaming news. It's also probably the mos...

Flash is dead. Long live Flash. Kongregate has decided to shut their doors to new releases. This is truly the end of an error. Let's move on to something more secure now. After decades of trying to get around the web filter at school to play weird indie games, kids will have to find something else to do. The Atari VCS is due to come out soon, and it's a horribly overpriced set top box. The hardwar...

The Nerds Amalgamated fishing trip is coming up, and we'll be going to Pluto for some ice fishing. Could Pluto have underground oceans with alien fish, and will they taste good with chips? Unfortunately it'll take a really long time to get there to find out. Maybe we'll have FTL by the next fishing trip. Metal Slug is back, again. SNK have plans to make some new Metal Slug games and not just work...

This week, Deviboy returns from his exile, and Stephen from Comics2Movies and XCT joins us to discuss a new comic. Devi brings news from the far off land of Nintendo. It's time to get your cameras out for the New Pokemon Snap. Apart from Nintendo's hopeless naming, it's shaping up to be an expanded photography game for the new generation. We all hope they fit in the fun easter eggs and interaction...

Finally, a way to read comics in class without your teacher complaining! Real life scientists are producing educational comics to teach cool science stuff. And they're FREE! Check them out, they have some pretty good explanations for a bunch of different topics. The FDA has recognised the ability of video games to help with therapy and greenlit a game for treating ADHD suffers. I can't wait for a...

Never look at a solar eclipse. Unless you're wearing badass solar eclipse glasses and taking cool photos. Night Sky Pix sent us an article about photographing the upcoming solar eclipse, and it's so in depth we'll need to get it back from the Challenger Deep. So, if you live in the right places, get your camera and your solar filters and get snapping. SimRefinery is the least well known Sim game o...

Hi diddly ho fans, welcome to our new episode... A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a meteor crashed into a planet. This week we talked about Chicxulub, yes that the asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago left behind more than a legacy of mass destruction. Out of the ashes, comes a nostalgic game….we talk about DAYS OF THUNDERRRRRR!!!!! An old NES game that was remade from sc...

Congratulations SpaceX for their sucessful manned Crew Dragon mission to the ISS. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. It's not as great as Steve Austin's bionic eye from the Six Million Dollar Man, but it's pretty cool. Scientists have made a bionic eyeball inspired by the actual working of the human eye. This cool tech isn't ready to go in a human head yet, but when it is we ca...

Nanoo Nanoo. Ryan Gosling is going back to space for Andy Weir's next book, which isn't even out yet but is already casting actors. This one has a working title of Project Hail Mary and features a lone scientist on a spaceship trying to save the world. Slightly higher stakes than The Martian, but Andy's books are always great. Astronauts are also going to use pee to build houses on the moon. Let's...

This week we invite our special guest Shaun Keenan, creator of Xtreme Champion Tournament (in which mythical and legendary heroes face off) to share his thoughts on some news from San Diego Comic Con. Kicking things off, the Nerds discuss Nintendo's itchy DMCA trigger finger, they’ve taken down the tragically short-lived DirectX 12 Super Mario 64 Port. This was a fan work based on the Mario 64 dec...

Welcome, to the World of TOMOROOOW! What does listening to a podcast have to do with listening to your boss? Science is now showing benefits to virtual meetings. Which means one day, even your boss might be replaced by a voice over the wire. This still doesn't mean you can get out of wearing pants. Wonder Woman's director thinks DC shouldn't follow the tried and true MCU formula. Sure, it worked f...

Encounter! Roll initiative! Not that it matters, talking is a free action and we'll talk your ears off. Starting this week, Valve's integrity has been called into question over Esports. Yes mum, Esports are real sports. The Flash needs to stop messing with the timeline. It's 2011 again, and Green Lantern is getting a TV series, written by one of the comic authors. And there's two lanterns, so the...

As the year slowly slips away and the autumn leaves remind us of our inescapable mortality, it's time for another episode of Nerds Amalgamated. First up this week, Valve is leaking and blowing off some steam. The entire source code for TF2 and CSGO has been leaked, and Valve News Network's source has some interesting rumours about Half Life 3. The PS5 finally has a release date and a price. It's f...