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Ask veteran gamers about the least eventful title you can play and they'll probably mention Desert Bus. The legendary minigame from the unreleased Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors has you driving from Tucson to Las Vegas on a featureless road... in...

Proud dad: 'son cached his opportunity'

Wannabe techies take note: A five-year-old kid from Coventry has passed Microsoft's Certified Professional exam.…

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The latest iteration of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. hits stores Nov. 21, but if you're yearning for a game that brings you back to simpler days — like, say, when you were sitting in high school math class — this version is for you.

A user called Hayleia at Omnimaga, a website dedicated to calculator- and PC-game programming, created a stripped-down version of Super Smash Bros. Melee for the TI-83 and TI-84. That's right: You can play Smash Bros. on your calculator.

Here's how it looks:

Right now, the game's only playable characters are Fox and Falco, but it's open source, which means you can tinker with the code. Hayleia's looking for help, too. The creator isn't going to add any more characters, but said players can create their own by modifying the code Read more...

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We've been promised airless, puncture-proof tires for -bloody-ever by this point. But pump-haters, your time is arriving: starting next week, a factory in Piedmont, SC is going to start pumping them out.

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The EarthBound fanbase is an ever growing blob of sweetness and joy. Just when you think you've seen how far it can go, it gets even bigger and even more happy. Did you know that the game was #10 on the Wii U eshop charts last week, beating out awesome games like Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Shovel Knight, and Super Mario Bros.? Not bad for a turn-based comedy/drama RPG that was once considered a flop. 

As well as the game has done on the Wii U, I'm more impressed with how well its fans have done on Kickstarter. Fangamer's upcoming documentary/CD/book/zine project has been a runaway hit, collecting over $200K with about six days of its Kickstarter campaign left. With that $200K milestone, Fangamer has announced they'll be throwing a EarthBound/Mother convention next summer. It will be a relatively lean and mean event, with a cap at 450 attendees. About 300 of those tickets will be made available to backers first, leaving the rest of to hope that the remaining 150 tickets don't sell out instantly (which they will). If it's a big enough success, they may turn it into a yearly thing. 

While crowdfunded games don't seem to be finding the same success that they used to, crowdfunded things about games appear to be doing better than ever. Maybe Fistshark should plan a convention stretch goal, something that rhymes with Don John perhaps...

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THE TRUTH OF NATIVE AMERICANS BEFORE THE GENOCIDE

Gotta put this on blast.
We never needed a white savior.

I hate this country.

What I learned from this video:

• 100 million Native Americans died at the hands of white colonists

• Instead of planting crops the colonists spent their days digging random holes in the ground looking for gold. They started starving and dug up Indian corpses to eat. They took Indian prisoners and forced them to teach the colonists how to farm
• Native Americans had massive cities with tens of thousands of well constructed houses, intricate water canals and large merchant areas.

• The Native Americans used soaps, deodorants and breath sweeteners while colonists never bathed or even took of their clothes

• There was a delousing policy with the mantra Nits create Lice; nits being Native American babies, so their goal was to kill every Indian, including babies 

• In the 1700’s 80% of the Federal Budget went towards eradicating the Native American population so they could take their developed farmland

• Colonists leaders went town after town killing men women and children under the approval of George Washington

• "Pursue Indians to extermination" -Thomas Jefferson

• California governor (1849-1851): “extermination must continue to be waged until the Indian becomes extinct”

The main factor which prevented Native American extinction was the fact they were used for slave labor. The most prized Native Americans were young girls who were said to be valued for labor and lust (that one white dude in your ethnic studies class that says he’s 1/36th Cherokee?)

In modern times children were forced into Indian Boarding Schools whose goal was to “Kill the Indian in them”. It was federal policy. They were beaten if they used their native tongue, they were forced to dress and style their hair like whites 

This country was literally built on terrorism and mass murder. White people are savage terrorists.

Until, this is taught in schools everywhere- “history class” is merely a racism propaganda course.

Things to marinate on this “holiday” weekend

This is my cousin Oskaar. I told him WA [Western Australia] is about to vote on daylight savings, and that most people would vote against it. About a week later, Oskaar sent me this.

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Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba brought in $1 billion of sales in about 17 minutes of its Singles Day sale — Singles Day being the equivalent of Black Friday in the company's home country.

Compared to that, it took quite a long time for sales to get to $2 billion.

[01:00] In a little over an hour, the #1111sale exceeds USD 2 billion in GMV; 45%+ of it coming from mobile #Alibaba #singlesday #China

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Singles Day began in the early 1990s, and it's a numerological holiday: it celebrates the four 1s in the date, 11/11. Something of an anti-Valentine's day in China, the day is marked by parties and outings for single people — as well as a torrent of online shopping. Alibaba brought in $5.75 billion on Singles Day 2013 Read more...

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 Today in “putting stuff onto things on which they don’t belong,” we present a user, xyq058775, and his exciting admission that he installed Windows 95 on a brand new iPhone. He used a tool called iDos, an open source DOSBox-like app to install the OS. He found that most of it worked fine but he was unable to upgrade to Windows XP. And we can assume he was also able to play… Read More

MMS support has always been a sore spot for Google Voice, but it looks like the long journey is finally over. Today, Google announced that not only has Verizon joined the club, but MMS can now be sent natively.

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When was the last time a champion speller rolled up to a Bee in a Ferrari? Never. If you really want to guarantee your kids make something of themselves one day, you'll want to forget board games like Scrabble and focus on building real-world skills. Not only does Robot Turtles teach a love of Herpetology (the study of reptiles) it also teaches them the basics of computer programming—aka coding.

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