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A new patent from Sony points to pumping new content into emulated classic games. Titled "Suspending State of Cloud-Based Legacy Applications," and published this week, the patent suggests that new objectives can be added "in a format that was not original designed to be in the legacy game."

The patent goes on to say that since the gamer is likely to already know the characters and basic components of the game, they're more likely to play this new content.

To get away with not having to recode and reverse engineer the game, triggers and snapshots will provide information for the minigames. A script from game designers would be combined with these snapshots and triggers to make this new content. 

Is this something Sony is toying with for their pending Gaikai cloud-based launch for PS4? Could they, like, make more crazy sh*t to add to God Hand?

Sony patent covers adding new content to classic cloud based games [CVG]

OK, agora que já tenho a sua atenção, vamos ao samba do crioulo sueco que é esse filme. Ele tem:

• Louras suecas vikings com metralhadoras
• Saudosismo Anos 80
• Clichês policiais até o talo
• Viagens no tempo
• Hitler
• DeLoreans
• Thor

Ah, e um T-Rex.

“VOCÊS TÊM UM T-REX?”

Yes, um T-Rex.

Veja o trailer:

O projeto já foi quase todo filmado em estúdio na Suécia, agora falta só a grana para parte da pós-produção. A meta é de US$ 200 mil, com isso terminarão o filme, que terá 30 minutos e será distribuído gratuitamente nas interwebs.

A boa notícia é que faltando 27 dias pro término da arrecadação, quase 7 mil pessoas já doaram US$ 265 mil, o que torna a meta estendida de US$ 1 milhão, que transformaria o filme em um longa, viável.

A idéia não é revolucionar a indústria cinematográfica, mas mostrar que é possível sim ao pequeno, minúsculo produtor criar sem depender dos mega-estúdios.

Acho interessante aliás, como nos países ricos o modelo de Kickstarter funciona muito melhor. O sujeito tem a idéia de um projeto, pede pra quem gostar da idéia colaborar, e pronto. No Brasil há a postura de pobre mas orgulhoso. São raros os blogs com botões para doações. Nem querendo o sujeito pode mandar um agrado pro site que tanto gosta. Eu mesmo só coloquei um botão no PayPal no Contraditorium depois que percebi que precisaria de muita verba pro meu projeto de clonar a Luciana Vendramini.

Aqui só se faz vaquinha online para fins nobres. É moralmente aceito que você peça dinheiro para castrar crianças e tirar cachorros das ruas e botar em bancos de escola, mas se seu projeto é entretenimento, você se torna SATÃ. Já vi projetos de gente querendo dinheiro pra publicar livro e a primeira pergunta era “quantos você vai doar”.

Brasileiro precisa amadurecer e entender que empreender não é pecado.

Portanto, palmas pro David Sandberg. Kung Fury pode não ser o filme ideal de um monte de gente, mas agora, graças à internet mesmo um ínfimo segmento de público que goste dessas bobagens terá seu desejo atendido.

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What does the cow say? Yes, it says, "moo." But cows, Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart explains, moo with different accents. For the National Public Radio show How to Do Everything, the Captain gave his impressions of Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Nevada and Cockney cows. The Nevada cow, he explains, reflects American speech patterns:

Yeah, a much higher pitch and much more nasal because of course that's how you people talk and of course the cows are influenced by how you talk as you are influenced by the cows.

Bovine readers, share with us your pronunciation of the word "moo."

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Behold the first self-propelled ice sculpture ever—a truck made of ice that actually works! It's a real truck, using 11,000 pounds of ice over a regular truck chassis complete with engine and electrical system. Check out the videos to see how they built it—and how it melted.

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Lovers of classic video games rejoice, the Internet Archive is about to make your new year a whole lot more fun! They’re releasing a beta version of their Console Living Room,  a playable console simulator that when coupled with their Historical Software Collection will make tons of games from the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Colecovision and Bally Astrocade free to play.

Soon you’ll be able to spend your days reliving a time when you were young, or time travelling to before you were born, while playing some great classic games like H.E.R.O., Yars Revenge and River Raid. So quit your job, plant your butt on a comfy chair and play your way through the 80s like a true retro gamer!

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The project took DeviantART member Unrellius 14 months. Inside is every character that appeared in the show, from Finn the Human to Liubot. To view a much larger version, go here, then click on the image. Warm up some Bachelor Chow, because it'll take a while for you to see everyone.

Is the Space Pope there? I can't find him.

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A bit of planning can save you a ton of money when it comes to buying throughout the year. Here’s your comprehensive, always up-to-date guide on the best times to buy everything this year.

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Artist and animator ultimatemaverickx has created a new Mega Man related short film for us to enjoy. The catch? It doesn't actually star the Blue Bomber himself, but an adorable Servbot who happens to don the Mega Man ZX armor.

I would love to play a game like this. Take the best parts of the Tron Bonne game, and mix it with a 2D hand-drawn Mega Man style. Similar to how Prinny on PSP allowed for multiple "lives," each Servbot could be "replaced" upon death.

Capcom could be coming up with ideas like this. Or they could just let the franchise rot and let everyone else celebrate it for them.

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fivelettered:

kellanium:

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-everysecond:

people talking like “doge”

you have a mother fucking god damned brain in your head, use it, you sound like an uneducated little fuck who should go back to grade 1 jesus fucking christ

Very anger. 

Much yell

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The newest update in the highly disconcertingseries of devastating failures that is the Fukushimacleanupeffort is troubling to say the least. Tepco has confirmed that (unexplained) plumes of steam have been rising from the mangled remains of Reactor Building 3. In other words, there's a chance Fukushima could be in the middle of another meltdown.

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The fact that we've kept the number of U.S. states relatively static is nothing short a miracle—there have been hundreds of attempts at state secession over the years. But what if they had all succeeded? This brilliant map depicts that alternative universe, where the U.S. is broken up into 124 different states that stretch from sea-to-shining-sea.

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