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“Thank you for a warm hand on a cold morning.” From Venture,  September, 1965

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This is like some indiana jones shit

Gary Carr will play the first black character on the fourth season of ITV's highly acclaimed costume drama, "Downton Abbey."

Carr will play Jack Ross, "a charming and charismatic young man" in the eight-episode season whose role “will bring interesting twists to the drama," said executive producer Gareth Neame in a statement.

The addition of a black character was announced in February responding to criticism over the show's lack of diversity.

Carr's previous experience includes roles in BBC series "Bluestone 42" and "Death In Paradise."

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If you've decided 2013 just isn't your thing, and you'd rather be playing games of yore for the entire rest of the year, then GOG.com has you covered for no more than $68.52. That's how much the online retailer is selling a collective of 28 discounted EA classics, with the likes of the Ultima, Wing Commander, Populous and Dungeon Keeper series all at 60 percent off.

Of course, you don't have to be disillusioned with the calendar year to take advantage of these deals, nor do you have to buy the whole lot. Each individual game is priced $2.39, and they include Sim City 2000 Special Edition, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Bullfrog's brilliant medical sim Theme Hospital - you still can't beat a Bullfrog intro video.

The offer ends at 9PM PT on Monday, May 6 (midnight ET).

GOG lines up 'Classic EA Convoy,' 28 games at 60 percent off originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 03 May 2013 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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glittertitties:

so the “damn boy” tank comes in other styles and colours and I really want this one omg

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Still under the impression that video games are strictly for kids? Hilda Knott would like to have a word with you. And perhaps a game.

The 85-year-old British gamer has been mashing buttons for 40 years — roughly the life of the video game industry – and is showing no signs of slowing down.

We’re not talking about just a bunch of boring PC card games, either. In a video interview with the BBC, Knott, who turns 86 next month, shows off her formidable gaming setup, including a sweet 65-inch HDTV and a brand new Playstation 3 Superslim. She discusses her love of Grand Theft Auto IV, which she had a “hilarious” time playing with her 94-year-old-aunt.

Knott acknowledges that her deep love of gaming has helped her stay mentally fit, because “a lot of them have puzzles, working out how to do something.”

She isn’t joking, either, as the video shows her playing the niche tactical role-playing game, Disgaea 4. That’s hardcore. This lady is a gamer, through and through.

And while many of her fellow octogenarians credit games like Wii Sports for keeping them physically active, Knott’s favorite part about playing video games will sound more familiar to the Halo crowd.

“Finding something new in the game,” she says. “Getting on to the next stage, or the next event. And the achievement of finishing it.”

With 40 years of gaming under her belt, we imagine she’s finished quite a few. Hats off to you, Hilda!

How to properly defeat a dragon. Poor guy was just nerd glazing….

I should be enough for him.

Male Neckwear is a handy guide created by UK-based illustrator Stephen Wildish of Wildish&co that will provide assistance when you are stuck choosing an appropriate necktie for the day.

image via Stephen Wildish

The Movement #1 - I was skeptical about The Movement at first back when DC comics announced it as part of a pair of new series focused on the fractious class and political divides in modern-day America. These could be comics that felt horribly out of touch if the execution stumbled.

The first issue’s out and I can say that there are ingredients here that I like: crowd-sourced social justice that approximates how technology gets used in the real world and a cast of new characters that riff on the X-Men/Teen Titans/adolescent alienation template.

But, Simone deals her protagonists an extremely easy hand by making their milieu fictional—which isn’t so weird since it’s DC and their comics generally don’t happen in real-world locales—and by making the cops and their political ecosystem seem totally reprehensible. From the little bit that we get in this first issue, Coral City makes Gotham seem like a paradise.

First issues are tricky, since they have to sell a new series’ premise in a tightly compressed way. I generally like most of Gail Simone’s writing, particularly her deft hand at interpersonal dynamics and her skill sketching out her characters’ emotions. Freddie Williams III’s art can run hot or cold for me. I’m okay with the exaggerated faces and proportions that seem to be a hallmark of his style but the art here feels too drenched in ink. I’m not sure if that’s Williams, inker There’s enough here to make me want to read through the first story arc.

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Hawkeye #10 - This is the first issue of Hawkeye that I haven’t flat-out loved. It follows up on last issue’s switch in tone by introducing a character who’ll likely be a new nemesis for Clint Barton and Kate Bishop. Kavi—the hired killer introduced in this issue—is a mirror image of Clint Barton: a circus orphan who becomes a skilled marksman.

And the more disturbing subtext is that Kazi’s emotional hollowness echoes Clint’s inability to make lasting emotional relationships with women. That stuff is all good but I was missing the lighter tonal aspects that have made Hawkeye a great read. Don’t get me wrong: this book is still one of the best in superhero comics today. But this new chapter will probably be bringing it to a really grim place for the next few issues.

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Superior Spiderman #9 - I haven’t been following this book month-to-month but this issue was heavily hyped as a big one that would piss people off. In it, Slott seemingly closes a significant plot thread that seemed to be the path back to the Spider-Man status quo. (The cover is a big hint.) There’s no doubt that Peter Parker will be back in the webbed costume—maybe even by the time that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes out in theaters—but the way back to that familiar ground might be a tad less predictable.

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What about you? What sequences or covers from this week's comics made your eyeballs happy? Share ‘em in the comments below.

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Fuck. Me.

I can't get over these three douchebags talking about homies and their law professors. Just stop already.

By way of Maciej's excellent tweet.

paper-planes-and-toy-trains:

you are my sunshine

my only sunshine

you make me happy

when skies are gray

you’ll never know dear

how much i love you

please dont take

my sunshine away

A lesson in tradition taught in a less traditional way, How to Tie a Bow tie taught with stop-motion… by a bow tie. 

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24th Anniversary, barrel-aged and madeirized experimental beerContinuing our explorations of the boundaries of beer and its interfaces with and influences by other fermentations around the world, Shadows and Light was conceived over nine years ago. Following research into solera systems and unusual winemaking techniques, madeirization caught our attention as a unique method for the production of wine. We have been taught that dramatic temperature fluctuations, oxidation, and sunlight are all detrimental to beer and wine. How, then, do we achieve successful and delicious products like Amontillado sherry, Malvasia madeira, and Banyuls mutage? And are these and counter-intuitive methods applicable to beer? We began with three base beers – Arquebus, Blunderbuss, and Biere de Miel. Each has low to moderate hopping, higher alcohol content, reasonable to low hop character, and some residual sweetness. All were barrel-aged for some time, and before service several glass carboys of varying shapes and sizes from three to seven gallons were removed from each. This was repeated over several successive summers. In a labor of love and in the spirit of exploration these carboys were regularly carried up from the CBC Barrel Cellar and placed outside, where they were exposed to direct sunlight for days at a time. Warmed to very high temperatures by the sun, the beers also expanded in volume within the confines of the glass. At the end of each day the beers were carried back downstairs to the darker, cooler depths of the cellar. As they heated and cooled, expanded and contracted, the beers would “breathe,” drawing in and expelling fresh air from outside and in the cellar. After eight long years of care the best of these individual carboys were selected and blended back together into two American oak barrels to marry for just over two months before being sent upstairs to inaugurate our newest tank, custom built exclusively to house special beers from our Barrel Cellar. Shadows and Light does indeed reference the oxidized wines of Portugal, Spain, and France, with notes of honey and white wine grapes complemented by malt and caramel. An overall dry palate offers some up-front sweetness, and oxidation plays with notes of almonds, golden raisins, and Oloroso sherry. It finishes with a well balanced acidity. With just a touch of spritzy, frizzante-like carbonation this amazingly complex beer seeks to beguile you and inspire you. Cheers to the spirit of exploration, expression, experimentation, and (of course) beer!

Humanity Explores the Solar System

John Kane scored five jackpots in just about an hour one day playing video poker at a Vegas casino just by exploiting a firmware bug. Now he's facing charges in a federal hacking case.

I'm getting tired of so many offensive ads showing up online that companies later apologize for, often claiming they neither knew about them nor approved them. I don't believe their apologies are sincere, and I wonder if you do.

On the most-read encyclopedia in the world, the history of the tiny Swedish city of Kungälv is written by a mass murderer.