As someone who frequently complains about the lack of gore in these popular military first person shooters, you can’t imagine how happy I was to see full on head exploding in Medal of Honor sniper gameplay video. I would also point out the feel of “power” when your shot hits and just destroys the other [...]
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Animals are Smarter Than We Realize
The world is an incredible place. @frank06 tweeted this video, and I thought “Oh great, a monkey figuring out a puzzle. Who cares.” – Then I watched the 1min video and realized it was a monkey figuring out a puzzle that would have stumped me. I didn’t feel great about myself after watching that video, [...]
Deus Ex: Human Evolution Gameplay Trailer
For folks that love the Deus Ex universe (I didn’t play the 2nd one, I just recall that it was a bit of a let down) it looks like we are going to get the Deus Ex sequel we always wanted in the form of Human Evolution. In the new gameplay trailer play special attention [...]
Apocalyptic Storm Hits Beach in Helsinki
That barely even looks real to me — some CG right out of the latest super hero movie. What I found most interesting, as a testament to human nature, look how close the storm has to get before everyone clears off the beach (including the birds). Animals (us included) seem perfectly willing to ride calamity [...]
Ace Combat: Assault Horizons Looks Awesome!
I used to love flight sims when I was younger (8-12). I had different sticks I used to use, Falcon 3.0 and 4.0 were my shit and does anyone remember F-117A? That game made me a man fully qualified to fly a military aircraft… at least I thought at the time. Given this, pedigree, you [...]
Happiness is a Moral Obligation
Watch this first, it’s only 5mins: Now, I’ve never heard of Dennis Prager, but a friend that I respect sent me this link and honestly, I agree with everything Dennis said. I think it’s a pretty eloquent argument for working on being happy. I also think he had a very interesting take on the entitlement-epidemic [...]
FFmpeg’s VP8 Decoder 62% Faster Than Google’s
The FFmpeg team has completed the initial implementation of their new VP8 decoder and early benchmarks are showing it up to 62% faster than Google’s own VP8 decoder: libvpx. A few weeks ago we covered the announcement that the FFmpeg video-codec team had decided to build their own VP8 decoder and did an initial implementation [...]
SWTOR Multi-Player Combat a Different Kind of Tactic than WOW
A lot of people are trying to compare BioWare’s new MMO, Star Wars The Old Republic (SWTOR) with the MMO standard set by Blizzard’s beefcake revenue generator, World of Warcraft (wow). Sure, they’re both MMOs and they both offer the opportunity for PVP and cooperative play, but that’s about where the similarities end. First off, [...]
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Incredible New Physics Engine at Ubisoft
Update #1: The author (that’s me!) jumped to an incorrect conclusion that just because Thiago, the author of the Lagoa Multiphysics engine, is an Ubisoft technical lead, this didn’t necessarily mean that the engine was Ubisoft’s property and going to be integrated into their game-engines in the coming years. Sorry guys, I got too excited; [...]
Kitten vs Watermelon
I don’t know if you’ve seen this before… I’m not sure I care… you should watch it again, it’s adorable. SPOILER: It’s a kitten wrassling a watermelon.
Using Your iPad as a Second Monitor with MaxiVista
MaxiVista allows you to use your iPad as a second monitor for your computer (for $9.99). Using what I imagine is some form of VNC, MaxiVista lets you quick bond your iPad to a broadcast source like your desktop or laptop and treat the iPad as a secondary desktop display: For things like fullscreen video [...]
Double Rainbows Will Mess You Up
Caught this via @DonMacAskill, this guy is a SmugMug customer and I guess woke up one morning to a complete, end-to-end double-rainbow with colors so vibrant he says it looked more like half of a “plate” of color across the sky than two rainbows. I was ready to shrug the video off, but dude starts [...]
Funny Animated GIF Compilations
TwistedSifter has 4 great animated GIF compilations that they put together up if you want to check them out. If you aren’t familiar with animated GIFs, they are just funny/short scenes from movies people take and animate and typically use as signatures in forums or something like that. Also a lot of these have some [...]
FFmpeg Team Implements a WebM/VP8 Decoder in 1400 Lines of C
Some quick background on the state of video codecs: H.264 is the most popular video codec for online and offline (Blu-ray / HD captures) videos H.264 is encumbered by patents and licenses required for usage, administered by the privately held company MPEG LA. Online video publishing/creation/distribution and popularity is increasing at an astronomical rate Companies [...]
Otto Ross and the Lindy’s on 4th OMFG Burger Challenge
For those that don’t know Lindy’s on 4th is a burger joint in Tucson, Arizona that has a 12-patty and cheese burger challenge called the “OMFG” that was featured on the TV show Man vs Food. Upon airing of that episode a friend of ours named Otto Ross insisted that the challenge was no problem and [...]
How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Disk 1 Blu-ray Won’t Play in 60GB PS3 Fix
Update #2: Success! After continuing to mess with this problem and the workaround below not doing the trick, I kept reading online and finally found a solution that works. I love you misio121! When your disk gets to the “Upgrade your firmware” notice screen on the disk Start randomly pressing R1/R2 and X all together [...]
Monkey Has His Way With a Frog
So “thanks” goes to Ben Vanik for sending this one in. A little monkey at the Honolulu Zoo grabbed a frog in it’s pen, pried it’s mouth open and forced the frog to give him… the good stuff: The most disturbingly funny part of the whole video is when he’s done violating the frog, he [...]
Upcoming Game ‘Devil’s Third’ Looks Awesome
For the gamers out there that are fans of Stranglehold (but maybe thought the game didn’t deliver on the vision) or even HL’s classic The Opera Mod, a new game by Tomonobu Itagaki – the Dead or Alive creator. When I first saw that, I thought “What can a dude that loves half-naked chicks and [...]
What Happens When BP Spills Coffee
Big thanks to Todd Williams for this awesome video showcasing what happens when BP spills some coffee in the office:
Unnecessary Censorship – Lost Edition
I usually find these “unnecessary censorship” bits clever and rarely hilarious, but this one is hilarious and that is why I’m sharing it with you. This is 2x as funny if you are a Lost fan and familiar with some of these scenes just because of how intense they originally were when you were glued [...]
Tommy Carruthers – Incredibly Fast Fighter
For those of you that are fans of martial arts you’ve probably watched all the Bruce Lee “speed” videos on YouTube where you can see how fantastically fast Lee is. This is a video of Tommy Carruthers that looks to be pretty damn fast as well when demoing strikes: Watching another compilation video of his though [...]
Funny Opera Browser Speed Test
I suppose Google put together a Rube-Goldberg “speed test” of the Chrome browser and Opera decided to 1-up them with what I found a hugely entertaining and funny “Opera Browser vs a Potato” speed test video. A lot of what I found to be gold about this video was that it’s more like an SNL [...]
Kane & Lynch 2 is Looking Cool?
1. Looks surprisingly good… check the scene where they are running up the collapsed bridge towards the bus… the sky lighting is almost perfect and makes that scene and the bus/bridge look ultra realistic. 2. The sounds are BEAUTIFUL… check out how solid and powerful the gun fire and body hits sound… me likey! 3. Not quite as [...]
GDC: Sony Announces ‘Move’ EyeToy-based Motion Controller for PS3
Sony has announced the PlayStation Move – also know as “Sony’s Wiimote” or “PlayStation Ice Cream Cone” as I like to call it. This new motion control for the PS3 from Sony is a hybrid between Microsoft’s Project Natal and Nintendo’s Wiimote. The physical design and layout of the controller duplicates what is essentially the [...]
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