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#1: Feb 23rd 2015 at 6:53:12 PM

While trying to list the amount of times any game can break the laws of thermodynamics, I was wondering out of all the games you played, which ones did not simply break the law, but punch it in the nuts so hard its teeth shot out of its mouth and caused an explosion the size of a large German Shepard, which resulted in the birth of over 30,000 garlic-craving penguins who all came into the world begging the question "What the hell is going on?"

While game mechanics like HP, Energy and charge meters could be given a pass, there are other things that are seemingly infinite, or appear out of nowhere, or are physically unsound which could possibly destroy god-damn everything in the world if it had to obey the laws.

So, for you:

Which game would wreak the most havoc in the world of physics?

Which event or thing in a game do you think would turn the physical world upside down and break every law in existence?

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#2: Feb 23rd 2015 at 7:23:25 PM

I shot the Laws of Thermodynamics in Reno just to watch them die.

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#4: Feb 23rd 2015 at 7:33:50 PM

Portal is pretty high on the list.

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#5: Feb 23rd 2015 at 7:49:06 PM

Honestly that's so many games it seems sort of futile. I can't think of a single game that doesn't take weird liberty with physics.

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#6: Feb 23rd 2015 at 9:45:29 PM

Is it cheating to say Ratchet And Clank?

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#7: Feb 23rd 2015 at 9:50:18 PM

Wow I totally forgot about that one. I don't think there is a game that can outdo that one actually.

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#8: Feb 23rd 2015 at 9:52:28 PM

Gracias, Mark.

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#9: Feb 24th 2015 at 2:18:47 AM

Metal Gear Rising: Revengence is pretty bad about it too. The amount of strength Raiden and the cyborgs are shown to possess is absolutely physics-defying, so much to the point that most armored vehicles and mechs are useless against them, yet it takes a while obliterating other cyborgs. Still doesn't beat the insane physics you'd see in games like Ratchet & Clank though, but that's probably cause the science is Looney-Tunes levels of soft in that universe.

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#10: Feb 24th 2015 at 11:43:49 AM

Dwarf Fortress has fully implemented physics but the implementation means it's not difficult to create a machine that gets more energy out than comes in such as the waterwheel / pump combination.

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#11: Feb 24th 2015 at 12:18:24 PM

Minecraft. Conservation of matter and energy be damned!

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#12: Feb 24th 2015 at 12:38:35 PM

To be fair that law only holds steady in day to day life. Once you get to Relativistic or curved space, it gets hazy. Not unusable, just possible to be bent one way or another by the massive forces at work in things like Black Holes. Not that that affects Minecraft, just saying it's not entirely hard and fast, and who knows what could happen to it as we advance our knowledge of the Universe.

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#13: Feb 24th 2015 at 12:43:16 PM

Considering gravity is more of a suggestion in minecraft, I don't think even black holes would have much of an impact.

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