I totally appreciate how awesome this video is, but it seems to me that an aircraft might not be the smartest place to be in the middle of a lightning storm. But hey, what do I know, I’m just one of those weird people who likes not dying.
Actually, aircraft are quite safe from lightning. It is estimated that each commercial aircraft gets struck about once a year, but the lightning gets safely conducted over the skin of the plane and never makes it inside. Much better than standing under a tree.
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We all know that Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms shut down last week, but what exactly were they working on? Many people (myself included) have wondered if they’ve just really been screwing around these last dozen years. However, evidence has surfaced that proves to the contrary.
The video doesn’t actually look half bad. If it were finished, it might be something that I’d check out. Certainly not what I would expect from 12 years of development, but worth a look. Something tells me that this isn’t the last we’ll see of in-game Duke footage.
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There has been a bit of controversy surrounding the state of multiplayer action in Dead Rising 2. First there’s no mention of it, then a rep from mental mill (the middleware developer for the title) let it slip that it was indeed in the game. Shortly thereafter another mental mill rep tells us that the last guy misspoke. All of this over multiplayer? Sheesh. Not sure why it was such a huge secret, but Capcom development head Keiji Inafune finally confirmed once and for all that there will be online multiplayer. Now was that so hard?
In other related Dead Rising 2 news, there’s an awesome new trailer for the game. Left 4 Dead is a great zombie game, but you don’t get to strap two chainsaws to a stick or wear a moose head. I can’t wait. Check out the trailer after the jump.
My main computer is pretty fast, with a nice overclocked Core 2 Duo, speedy RAM and a kick-ass video card. Unfortunately it does have one piece slowing it down. While my hard drive is SATA (none of that ancient IDE crap here), I’d love to switch it out for a faster SSD drive. My main issue is that the speed gain just doesn’t justify the price. But what if price was no object? Just what could you do with say, 24 top-of-the-line SSD drives? You can open the entire Microsoft Office suite in half a second. You’d have transfer speeds topping out at 2GB. You’d even be able to make the kick-ass video seen above.
We don’t spend all our time at the Convention Center, or inside hotels. No no… we also spend an ungodly amount of time getting to and from these places. Here’s what that looks like.
I was really hoping I’d stumble across another website this year that made it easy to watch those classic Christmas TV specials that have been kicking around since the 80′s. But not in my wildest dreams could I have hoped for a website as awesome as A BeTaMaXMas.
I usually don’t have much patience for flash-only websites, but that’s not the case here. The site is done up to look like the basement TV room we all had growing up, complete with a Christmas tree, a Star Wars poster, wood paneling on the walls and most importantly, a B-Tronics TV and betamax deck playing nothing but awesome 80′s Christmas shows and commercials. Seriously, whoever put this together went above and beyond the call of duty.
At times the picture can be a bit snowy (just like I remember) but that can be easily fixed by adjusting the antennas perched atop the set. There’s even a classic TV Guide you can click on that shows what’s currently playing, and while the selection of channels is limited, it looks like there’s more than enough content to keep me distracted until New Years. And now back to the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special…
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How many times have you watched a movie based off of a popular video game franchise, only to be rewarded with a steaming pile of crap? My guess is just about any time you’ve seen a Uwe Boll film. Sure, there have been a few good video game flicks here and there but rarely do I ever get too excited over one (though the Tetris movie sounds riveting). However, this Mega Man fan flick actually looks pretty cool.
Sure, I don’t have a lot of faith in the big robot battles being all that great, but you have to admit that this looks incredible. For a fan film not designed to actually bring in any cash, they’ve obviously put a lot of time and effort into this thing. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that there’s a little more behind this than were being told, but either way, color me impressed.
If I worked in a cubicle farm, this is how I’d like to spend my Friday afternoons. Plus, the video features (among other impressive Nerf weaponry) the incredibly awesome Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 (not due to be released until fall of 2008) in action:
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I was really hoping I’d stumble across another website this year that made it easy to watch those classic Christmas TV specials that have been kicking around since the 80′s. But not in my wildest dreams could I have hoped for a website as awesome as 
