Our long national nightmare is over: Thanks to HBO and Silicon Valley there's finally an app that will tell you if the object you pointed your phone's camera at is a hot dog or not. For fans of the show, it's a cute joke, but everyone else might be a...
This isn’t Rick and Morty‘s first crossover, and it isn’t the first time that Adult Swim pimped out Rick and Morty to promote something, but even their sponsored content is must-watch TV. Besides, a crossover with Alien: Covenant is a perfect paring. Check out the video below, and just remember kids, don’t abuse drugs and alcohol—unless you are frequently attacked by facehuggers.
A brewery worker at BrewDog decided to print a very unique date as the expiration date on their Punk IPA beers. Unfortunately, that date was a little too ambiguous to legally sell in the UK leading to the recall of around 200,000 beers. Don't worry though, the guy who did it was named employee of the month.
When Star Trek Discovery is going to make it to the airwaves is anyone’s guess. Until then, though, we’ve got what looks like the next best thing: Seth MacFarlane’s spoof of the franchise, The Orville.
Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt and Shi No Numa from World at War; Kino Der Toten, Ascension, Shangri-la and Moon from Black Ops; and Origins from Black Ops 2 are all included.
This DLC is digital-only, and requires a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, obviously. As a bonus, anyone who purchases Zombies Chronicles will receive extra goodies which were detailed in a previous post.
Zombies Chronicles releases on May 16, first on PlayStation 4. For eight days beginning with release, Treyarch will host an ‘8 Days of the Undead’ event for all Black Ops 3 players on all platforms.
This includes double XP, a new calling card, weapon camouflage, new GobbleGums, and more stuff.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Zombies Chronicles will run you $30 or the regional equivalent. It’s expected PC and Xbox One players will be handed the content once the usual 30 day exclusivity period ends.
Gonna download this to the hdd just in case I wanna play it again.
The makers of the horror game Alan Wake said today that they’re pulling the game from Steam and Xbox Live Monday because of a music licensing issue. Although you can keep the game if you own it, you won’t be able to buy Alan Wake again as of May 15.
The startling "public service announcement" broadcast by Arizona's CAVE 97.7 FM for two years is now off the air.
"Never keep paper pictures, tapes, or films of naked juveniles where anyone else can find them," is the advisory PSA that late-night listeners to CAVE frequently heard, narrated by station owner Paul Lotsof. "In many cases, the penalty for possession of pictures is worse than the penalty for murder."
Lotsof went on to give very specific advice about how to avoid child porn charges:
Full details of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles have been revealed.
Activision has confirmed the remaining details about the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 add-on, Zombies Chronicles.
The expansion, due for release May 16 on PS4, is priced $30. Typical Call of Duty add-ons cost $15, but Zombies Chronicles comes with more maps than any DLC before it.
Zombies Chronicles includes eight maps, with remastered audio and visuals, as well updated AI. The pack also allows the use of custom weapons, something the original games did not.
Here’s what’s included:
From Call of Duty: World at War: Nacht der Untoten (Abandoned Bunker), Verruckt (Wittenau Sanitorium), and Shi No Numa (Jungle Swamp)
From Call of Duty: Black Ops: Kino Der Toten (Theater of the Dead), Ascension (Soviet Cosmodrome), Shangri-la (Exotic Jungle Shrine), and Moon (Lunar Base)
From Call of Duty: Black Ops 2: Origins (WW 1 France)
This DLC is digital-only, and requires a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. As a bonus, anyone who purchases Zombies Chronicles will receive:
20 Vials of Liquid Divinium
Two All-New Whimsical GobbleGums
Exclusive Zombies Pack-a-Punch weapon camo
Black Ops 3 Zombies Chronicles PS4 dynamic theme (pre-order exclusive)
Starting May 16, and for eight days, Activision will be hosting the ‘8 Days of the Undead’ event for Black Ops 3 players on all platforms. You’ll be able to earn double XP rewards, as well as other bonuses like a new calling card, weapon camo, new GobbleGums, and more.
Activision has not yet revealed regional pricing, or announced release dates for other platforms. Call of Duty add-ons usually come to PC, and Xbox One a month after the initial PS4 release. Catch the trailer above for a look at the enhanced visuals.
Adult Swim recently shared a video where Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon challenged Justin Roiland, show creator and voice actor, to go method in shooting a season 3 scene where Rick gets really, really drunk. Talk about a contact buzz.
In honor of May the Fourth this year, LEGO enthusiast Iain Heath (aka Ochre Jelly) has created a series of ugly Lego star wars characters to add to his already existing line of REJECTZ Lego creations.
From Iain Heath:
Previous REJECTZ collections include Super Heroes and Disney Princesses. The inspiration for REJECTZ came when LEGO recently released their BrickHeadz range of sets, which was their first attempt at brick-built characters. Compared to the kinds of characters builders like myself have been putting out for years, their effort seemed like kind of a mockery, so I set out to see if I could craft ones that were even uglier than theirs – but ugly in a good way!
At a safe distance, lightning can be one of nature's greatest shows, but big electrical storms are even more incredible when seen from space. Astronauts on the International Space Station get a very exclusive view, but NASA's new GOES-16 satellite is making that perspective available to everyone. It recently captured a huge electrical storm as it swept across the eastern United States.
The newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), launched last November, hangs out 22,300 miles over the Americas and collects weather data for agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's still getting settled into its orbit, but the first video from its Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is a strong debut. The short video captures an April 28–29 storm that spawned a whole lot of lightning, a couple of tornadoes, and a blizzard in Kansas. The GOES-16's infrared camera offers another view of the storm.
Most instruments on Earth only track cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, but the GLM can track cloud-to-cloud lightning, too, which can help meteorologists track storm severity. Better data can mean earlier warnings, and as anyone who has had to take cover or evacuate in anticipation of a severe storm knows, an extra 15 minutes can make all the difference in the world.
Weather’s a bitch. Back in 1984, a vicious storm stripped the sand off of a picturesque beach in northwest Ireland. And then, around Easter, a freak tide brought it all back. Locals seem thrilled.
Last month, Reddit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn’t know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back.
$20 says that all the anti-vaccination people were all vaccinated as children.
Enlarge / MINNEAPOLIS, MN - APRIL, 28: Lydia Fulton, LPN, administers the MMR vaccine to a child at Children's Primary Care Clinic. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post)
Minnesota is experiencing its largest measles outbreak since the 1990s following a targeted and intense effort by anti-vaccine groups there to spread the false belief that vaccinations cause autism.
As of Thursday, health officials reported 41 confirmed cases, nearly all unvaccinated children from a Somali immigrant community in Hennepin County. The community has for years been a target of anti-vaccine groups, aided by Andrew Wakefield, a fraudulent former physician.
In the early 2000s, the large Somali immigrant population had high vaccination rates. But in 2008, fear that their children were suffering from higher rates of autism swept through the community. Though research later concluded that autism rates were not unusually high in the community, anti-vaccination activists pounced on the panic. The activists held community meetings and invited Wakefield to visit with scared families. Vaccination rates dropped from 92 percent in 2004 to 42 percent in 2014.
As if you needed another reason to grab a cold one, a new study suggests having a few beers relieves your pain better than popping some over the counter painkillers.
It’s a truck! It’s a store! It’s the world’s biggest Rick! Adult Swim is hitting the road in “the Rickmobile,” a vehicle that will be hauling exclusive Rick and Morty merchandise under its lab coat. You can’t actually take a ride in the Rickmobile, but you can marvel at its magnificence.
While I am super tired of everybody's obsession with that stupid fucking song, this is pretty well done.
You can blame Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show for all those “lol you’ve gotta watch this!” emails from your mom that you constantly have to delete. But we begrudgingly have to admit that aliens, Jedis, droids, and Sith singing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” is shockingly well done.
Adam “Armada” Lindgren, considered one of the “five gods” of competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee, has dropped out of this weekend’s DreamHack Austin due to a controller that isn’t malfunctioning properly. Yes, you read that correctly.
At this point, the most common ways to get illegal digital content are no secret. There's peer-to-peer downloading, "cyberlocker"-type sites, and unauthorized streaming sites that demand to put sketchy software on your computer.
But what if you could download Hollywood flicks to a USB drive at a convenient kiosk for just a few cents each? And do so while shopping at your local mall? This sounds like a dream of convenient and cheap entertainment, but it's just one more piracy nightmare for the entertainment industry.
Shit like this that really makes me want to play this game.
Enlarge / Protect and advance the plot, or kill for the lulz? We know which one the community picked.
In the vast simulated galaxy of Elite: Dangerous, a years-old mystery concerning an unknown region of space called the Formidine Rift was poised to take a dramatic leap forward on Saturday. An NPC going by the name of Salomé was preparing for a frantic, fast return to the main inhabited core worlds with information that would advance the mystery’s plot. Elite players could choose to try to escort Salomé to safety, or could try to gun her down.
The event was organized in part by science fiction author Drew Wagar, who has written one of the official Elite: Dangerous tie-in novels. Wagar—with some assistance from Frontier Developments to make the magic happen—would be controlling Salomé's ship as she made her mad dash back to the core worlds; the result of the run would be featured in Wagar’s upcoming Elite novel. If Salomé lived and delivered her message, that’s what he’d write in the book. If she died, the book would be written to reflect that, immortalizing the player character who did the killing.
The stage seemed set for an exciting afternoon of hunting Salomé online, tracking her whereabouts, and participating in some fun player vs. player combat. There were some other “VIPs” flying with Salomé with their own messages to deliver, but Salomé herself was where all the player interest lay.
Law enforcement agencies across the country are raising alarms about the increasing trend of finding heroin laced with an extremely lethal elephant tranquilizer called carfentanil, TheWashington Post reports.
The drug is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, just two milligrams of which is lethal—that’s about one toss of a salt shaker. Carfentanil can be absorbed through the skin, and just a puff from re-sealing a plastic bag can be lethal, raising risks for first-responders. Just a whiff can kill a drug-sniffing dog.
Though authorities are struggling to identify it in overdose cases—and sometimes not trying due to the health risks—carfentanil has been linked to dramatic increases in overdoses, which were already at alarming levels amid the nationwide opioid epidemic.
For two decades, the owner of the Bonanza Steakhouse ran a popular restaurant in Saskatoon, Canada, and in all that time he was never curious enough about the unopened safe hidden in his building to go to the effort of finding out what’s inside.
But recently, the building was a destroyed in a fire, and the safe was liberated. Previously, it had been hidden beneath the floor of the women’s washroom. Once, that room had been the building's office, and when it was converted to the bathroom the safe was basically abandoned. According to the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, the safe hasn’t been opened for about 40 years.
During the demolition of the damaged building, a contractor, Ryan Schwab, came across the safe, and he was possessed by the same instinct that most people confronted with an unopened mystery safe would have—he wanted to know what might be inside?
Schwab told CTVNews that he had a few leads on people who might be able to open it, although he does want to preserve it and install it in his own garage. Neither he nor the restaurant's owner is expecting to find anything dramatic inside, but Schwab told CTV “that if he doesn’t show up to work next week, it’ll be a hint that he discovered gold nuggets inside the safe.”
We’re just relieved that someone is going to open a mystery safe after 40 years. (Dictate 246 of the Atlas Obscura code instructs that you should never let a mystery safe go unopened.)
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