Entertainment

Beyond Black Mesa

Rush Retrospective — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:35:57 GMT

I'm just going to leave this here.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPb1Xw0K_Q&feature=player_embedded

Farmville worth more than EA

DarkAstraea — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:01:59 GMT

"Zynga, the creators of the popular hit Facebook game FarmVille, should be happy today as the company's worth has passed that of EA (Electronic Arts)."

I lawled...EA has been going down hill for a while now.

[Clickeh]

Cooking with USB Ports!

DarkAstraea — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:52:30 GMT

Ever stuck between choosing what to plug in? Your computer or a hotplate? Well look no further! For the solution is right here!

[Mmm....meat..]

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan

Troop — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:46:18 GMT

I couldn't get the embed to work :(.

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

Destroy websites with Asteroids!

DarkAstraea — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:49:10 GMT

Have you ever visited a website and been so frustrated by the content, layout, or adverts that you'd love to destroy it? Well, now you can. If you head on over to the erkie GitHub page there's a JavaScript bookmarklet you can drag and add to your bookmarks toolbar. Then just visit any website and click the bookmarklet. An Asteroids-style ship should appear that you can move around with the arrow keys. Press space and it will start firing bullets which destroy page content.

(Clickeh)

This thing is so awesome! Just bookmark it and open it on a page you want to destroy >=D

Note: does not work well on {MC} site cause it has a dark background.

Facebook sues social media site

DarkAstraea — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:23:13 GMT

"The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Facebook has sued a tiny start-up called Teachbook.com over the use of 'book' in its name. The start-up, which has two employees, aims to provide tools for teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other resources. 'Effectively they're bombing a mosquito here, and we're not sure why they want to do that,' Teachbook.com co-director Greg Shrader told the Tribune. Facebook said its use of 'book' in its name is 'highly distinctive in the context of online communities and networking websites.' Facebook apparently is alleging that no other online 'network of people' can use the word 'book' in its name without violating its trademark."

(ROFLMAO REALLY!?)

This is seriously priceless...they sure have the balls to claim over the word 'book'.

Oregon Trail: The Movie

Troop — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:31:38 GMT

Check it out

http://mashable.com/2010/08/02/faux-oregon-trail-trailer/

Protonic Reversal

TyPhOOn — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:16:51 GMT

A buddy and myself came up with a concept for a tv show last year. After exploring many avenues we decided to start a company and make our own web shorts. Although our original show is going to take some time to develop we are creating some other shorts. So we bring to you our first.

Humphrey and Spud. Just a rock and a potato, and their adventures in the world. Looking to premier Monday eve.

Join our Facebook fan page Here.

You can also visit our web site. But this is set up for getting our own clients at the moment.

EA Announces Paid Demos prior to Game Launches

DarkAstraea — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:56:55 GMT

Kohato brings word of a new Electronic Arts marketing strategy that aims to start monetizing game demos. According to industry analyst Michael Patcher after an EA investor visit, the publisher will start selling "premium downloadable content" prior to a game's release for $10-$15 that is essentially a longer-than-usual demo. Patcher said, "I think that the plan is to release PDLC at $15 that has 3-4 hours of gameplay, so [it has] a very high perceived value, then [EA will] take the feedback from the community (press and players) to tweak the follow-on full game that will be released at a normal packaged price point." He also made reference to a comment from EA's CEO John Riccitiello that "the line between packaged product sales and digital revenues would soon begin to blur."

(Good Luck With That)

No comment....pirates are us!

Pure Pwnage TV Show

Troop — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:55:34 GMT

Here's a link to Pure Pwnage, the new TV show which originated from the internet show.
Click here!

It was pretty funny and there were some good laughs but I'm not sure it really lived up to my expectations. It was the first episode anyway so maybe it will get bettter.

A bit of recognition at last...

ParaDOX — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:13:37 GMT

Click Me!

What Stormtroopers do on thier day off

ParaDOX — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:52:36 GMT

What do they do? Hmmm...

Click ME!

New Adidas Star Wars for 2010

ParaDOX — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:50:10 GMT

Check them out here

Which are you favorites?

Contest: Name that Sample!

ParaDOX — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:45:45 GMT

Download the Rocket Arena Soundtrack and listen to the track "Ultraviolence". There is a voice sample in it. Where is that sample from?

Private Message me your answers so that we can see how many people can get the answer.

I'll post the answer in a few days if no one knows.

Click Here to download the Tracks.

Gamespot: All Time Greatest Video Game Hero

DarkAstraea — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:25:57 GMT

Although this is kinda late, but the results were in a month ago =P There are some funny match ups XD Masterchief got pwned in the first round by Bubble Bobble (Epic game)

(Click Me!!)

And the winner was.............

GORDAN FREEMAN!!

IT Guy vs Dumb Employee

ParaDOX — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:47:46 GMT

Here is a funny video about an typical IT guys day at work...

Warning!!! Some profanity

IT Guy Vs Dumb Employees

CStriker - An Intense Action Scene

ParaDOX — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:44:19 GMT

Looks like someone already made a movie with this track :)

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The video was made by Hondaking230

A little Heart pumping draumatic action video my friend and brother and i made over Feb Break 2009

Very cool!

If you want to download the original audio file you can get it HERE

New Machinima

Shank — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:52:41 GMT

I will be making a machinima using Halo 3 to the song ParaDOX has made

these are my thoughts

Like I said before I was planing it being on the Halo 3 map Last Resort.
I wanted almost every if not every gun shot matched up perfectly with the song.

Got a group of 3 guys that have to get in the base and rescue the hostage. (Like a every hostage situation) :)
After killing many terrorist, we get to the hostage and at that point in the song it plays "Lets get the hell out of here"
Then they start moving to a safer location and go out the side door into the open.
At song time 0:41 (The sniper shot) its going to be a sniper vs sniper situation. I want this scene to be kinda like the beginning of the movie Wanted
So after that they are moving to Camp Froman (A small fort with two levels.)
Now from after the sniper scene, it will start showing enemy targets moving in on their position (Because it wont take that long for the group of 3 to get to the lower level of Camp Froman.
Have to get in the reloading the shotgun. (Epicness)
Then right after that you hear some foot steps (Theres a gun on the upper level of Froman.
So they throw a grenade up top and you hear the grenade hit the ground. Blows up and kills the guy up top.
Then as he says "Stick together team" he gets shot in the shoulder from the open door, and of course he says "I'm hit"

Now this is where one of the spots I don't know what path to take.

1) After when he says "I'm hit" here is another shot, then a dying sound. I'm not sure if I want the guy who got shot in the shoulder to die.

Or

2) He takes cover when he says "I'm hit" and a second teammate looks out the other door and takes out the terrorist who shot the guy in the shoulder.

Then after one of those it goes in to shaking camera mode to give it that action scene feel. It s a huge battle to the beach where the Hornets (Air vehicle) are waiting for Evac.
When all the shooting is over there are more foot print sounds. So they see the Hornets now and when the hostage gets aboard, you hear "The hostage has been rescued."
And it will show the pilot and play "Roger that'

End.

What do you guys think? Any feedback is appreciated

The Eigenharp

Troop — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:39:27 GMT

I thought this was kind of cool.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8295813.stm

Universe, The Remix

ParaDOX — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:49:17 GMT

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.

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Lyrics:

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it's own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

Toyota's High Tech Wheelchair

Troop — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:05:40 GMT

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Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds — or 125 thousandths of a second.

The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.

Research into mobility is part of Toyota’s larger strategy to go beyond automobiles in helping people get around in new ways.

The new system allows the person on the wheelchair to turn left or right and go forward, almost instantly, according to researchers.

Coming to a stop still requires more than a thought. The person in the wheelchair must puff up a cheek, which is picked up in a detector worn on the face.

Stolen From: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11097

English is a crazy language

Troop — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:53:37 GMT

I thought this essay was really funny. Poor English second language learners!

This is an excerpt written by Richard Lederer describing the crazy rules of the English language! I thought it was worth sharing…..

Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese… One blouse, 2 blice?

Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a “slim chance” and a “fat chance” be the same, while a “wise man” and “wise guy” are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while “quite a lot” and “quite a few” are alike? How can the weather be “hot as hell” one day and “cold as hell” another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault, the silly language doesn’t quite know whether it’s coming or going.

What's your excuse: Chinchilli Day

Troop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:44:24 GMT

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Real Life Gundam

Troop — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:40:51 GMT

Lets not mess with Japan.

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Emoticon Wars

Troop — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:39:13 GMT

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