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It's probably historically inaccurate, at least. Recording of events back then was pretty hit-or-miss. In Fist of Jesus, players take on the role of Jesus Christ and Judas as they fight off hordes of zombies with a swordfish, pulled-off body parts,...

Werewolf Simulator (The Dreaming Djinn/Top Ten Software - C64 - 1988)

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Southern California farmer Tony Dighera of Cinagro Farms has developed a method for growing pumpkins shaped like the head of Frankenstein’s monster. Dighera creates the “pumpkinsteins” by growing the pumpkins in plastic molds. He was inspired to create them after successfully replicating the square watermelons that were originally developed in Japan. His entire first crop of 5,500 “pumpkinsteins” has been sold to retailers for this year’s Halloween season, and he plans on growing 30,000 to 40,000 next year.

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At Apple’s latest Town Hall event—you know, the one livetweeted by Dr. Ruth—developers Jeff Boudier and François Lagunas faced an autocorrect faux pas while showing off the capability of the iPad Air 2′s Replay App. I think they handled it remarkably well. It could have been a lot ducking worse.

(via Death and Taxes)

Previously in Apple

• Apple Is Going to Trial for $350 Million Over… iPods?
• Samsung Proves Its Robot Butts Are Better Than Apple’s in Hilarious Phone Bend Test Demonstration
• Apple Caved and Gave iTunes Users a Way to Delete Their Free U2 Album

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The BBC is doing the U.K. primary educational system a big break, setting the Doctor up against his biggest challenge yet: teaching the U.K.’s new programming core requirements.

The game comes as part of an initiative on the BBC’s part to engage in a different large-scale educational project every year. This year’s was World War II, but starting in 2015, the BBC will shift focus to support England’s new Computing curriculum for primary and secondary schools through a variety of multi-media programming. And that includes The Doctor and the Dalek, an online game featuring the voice of Peter Capaldi and plenty of characters from Doctor Who. The game was written by Phil Ford, whose previous credits include “Doctor Who and Wizards vs Aliens,” and will feature the Doctor in an uneasy alliance with a Dalek (a somewhat familiar situation for viewers of this season’s episodes).

The game will also feature a bevy of logic and programming puzzles, so start planning your 2015 procrastination schedule. The real question is: will it become a new generation’s The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis?

(via Variety)

Previously in Doctor Who

• Doctor Who Recap: “Flatline”
• Doctor Who “Flatline” Trailer and Images: The Tiny TARDIS Has Landed
• Doctor Who Recap: “Mummy on the Orient Express”

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Google got super-wicked-cool artist FKA twigs to star in and direct this “concept film” showing off Google Glass and what it can do. Google Glass is both featured in and used to create the film. Which, yeah, no one’s ever used Google Glass to create a wacky art film before, so that’s cool. But also, will Google Glass ever be cool? Not even FKA twigs can make it look cool, and she’s, like, the coolest person on the planet right now.

(via The Verge)

Previously in Google Nahhs

• Alamo Drafthouse Officially Bans Google Glass From All Theaters
  
• Can Google Glass Solve Privacy Problems With This New Augmented Reality Browser?
  
• Google Glass Valentines Day Proposal Video Is Romantic, Awful
  

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I’ve made a brand-new Nicolas Cage Colorforms-style Adventure Set. You get 9 reusable vinyl cling stickers, and a double-sided backdrop to arrange and re-arrange your scenes. The accessories this go-round are rocket boots, keytar, sombrero, Gryzzblyzzyx, golden idol, and basket of kittens, and the play environments are “outer space” and “jungle ruins.” And it’s fully-compatible with the original 2009 set!

AND I have a whole new storefront too (store.brandonbird.com). It’s now possible to browse by item type, search by keywords, use payment options other than Paypal; basically everything a store on the internet made in the last five years should be able to do. It’ll also make it easier for me to track inventory, send shipping notices, etc. Check it out!

alcrego:

More buildings

does not mean

more living.

‘Girl with a Pierced Eardrum’ by Banksy

Banksy, Bristol

Frans Hals, Portrait of an unknown man with a skull in his hand, ca. 1611

seasons-in-hell:

Johann Georg Leinberger, 1729 – 1731
-edited.

Featured on the front page of the @nytimes today “Feminist Critics of Video Games Facing Threats” pic.twitter.com/bZuxDtNnu2

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) October 16, 2014

In recent days, #Gamergate has gone from being covered mostly by niche sites to gaining full cultural awareness by the mainstream media. Yesterday, Anita Sarkeesian’s story of harassment hit the front page of The New York Times.

You can read the story in full here, in which they also speak with the man who coined the term #Gamergate, Adam Baldwin. Sarkeesian, like game developer Brianna Wu, is still calling for major players in the gaming industry to speak up against harassment.

“Game studios, developers and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable,” Ms. Sarkeesian said in an interview. Representatives for several major game publishers — Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Take-Two Interactive Software — declined to comment.

Additionally, the New York Times has put out a call for any women who have experienced sexism in gaming to come forward and speak with them about their experiences “related to gender.” If you are interested in speaking with the NYT, be aware that your name and location may be published alongside your comments.

Sarkeesian also appeared on CBS This Morning to speak about #Gamergate, which she calls a “sexist temper tantrum” from “mostly men, male gamers, who are attacking women” because “they’re afraid we’re going to take their toys away.”

And Wu is still standing up to her harassers on national media. Here she is speaking with PBS NewsHour about the “war on women in this industry.”

Of course, while she continues to be vocal about her experiences, Wu is continuing to receive threats such as this:

The campaign to destroy me professionally continues. They’re targeting my game Revolution 60. Please RT! pic.twitter.com/ssQmgktgA1 — Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) October 17, 2014

It is, of course, of the most supreme irony to say, “We don’t harass people on this message board! Let’s prove our good name by mobilizing a massive harassment campaign!”

And though Baldwin is firmly on the #Gamergate side of the debate, Sarkeesian and the #StopGamergate2014 crowd do have some large cultural figures standing up for them.

TERRORISM ISN’T BLOWING THINGS UP. IT’S USING THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE TO COW US AND CONTROL OUR ACTIONS. http://t.co/piK9w1cqNC

— Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) October 15, 2014

Well @AdamBaldwin sure seems like a fucking idiot. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) October 15, 2014

In which @waxpancake chronicles GamerGaters confused as to why their idols don’t want to join their sexist crusade: http://t.co/u0Zd9PeCEa

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 17, 2014

.@assclit I’m not a gamer. The misogyny of “GamerGate” sickened me, which you could have learned with two clicks of research. — Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 14, 2014

Finally, as a follow-up to our post yesterday about Eron Gjoni, the man who sparked the #Gamergate movement, you might recall that his interview with BuzzFeed ended with this statement:

I can’t deny my letter was the spark. I guess I feel compelled to offer an apology to them. But also I don’t know how to do that without taking the responsibility away from people who are actually doing the harassment. But, I guess, let me know how I can make it up to you?

But unfortunately it seems as though he may not be as open to suggestion as previously claimed.

s o c i o p a t h pic.twitter.com/qObm59PrQx

— Killizabeth Simins (@ElizSimins) October 16, 2014

Previously in GG

• Man Who Sparked Gamergate Says The Movement Is “For The Best” Despite Harassment
  
• [UPDATED] Major Video Game Associations Condemn #Gamergate’s Harassment Of Women
  
• Intel Issues Official Statement Over Gamergate Related Advertising Pull
  

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Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice could be reinstated by the NFL within a month, CBSSports.com reported on Sunday.

Colorado health officials want to ban many edible forms of marijuana, including brownies, cookies and most candies, limiting legal sales of pot-infused food to lozenges and some liquids. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment told marijuana regulators that many forms of edible marijuana "are naturally attractive to children" and violate the law's "requirement to prevent the marketing of marijuana products to children."

If you've upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) and you're using the default settings, each time you start typing in Spotlight (to open an application or search for a file on your computer), your local search terms and location are sent to Apple and third parties (including Microsoft). Mac OS X has always respected user privacy by default, and Mac OS X Yosemite should too. Since it doesn't, you can use the code to the left to disable the parts of Mac OS X which are invasive to your privacy.

It's been eight years since Sleater-Kinney played their farewell show in August 2006. And after side projects (Wild Flag, which featured two of the band's three members) and television shows (hello, Portlandia), the band's getting back together. They've announced a U.S. tour, which starts next February, and a new album, No Cities to Love, out January 20, 2015. Here's the first song off that record, "Bury Your Friends."

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Check out this aquarium feeder project from Brian Laebens on instructables!

Picture of The all in one box aquarium feeder

Hi i am Brian from Belgium

For several years now i owning a large 400 liter aquarium.i was always fasinated by fish in all colors and shapes.keeping fish happy wil require a bit effort.like keeping the thank nice and clean.trimming the plants.the once in a week water change. ect…

also fish like to eat

But i have a pretty bussy life.Sometimes i am away for the entire week.Water changes can wait.And the plants can survive a skipped trim job.But fishes do need food once a day.And there is no one to do that in the house so i purchased a automatic fish feeder.

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Jade Raymond, best known for helping produce Assassin's Creed and a number of other major Ubisoft games like Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs, has left the publisher after ten years, Ubisoft announced today.

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“We could crowdfund an X-Files movie,” Gillian toldBloomberg TV. “That (funding issue) is ultimately what’s keeping it from happening — other than Fox giving the go-ahead, which is not a small issue.” Fox is where the original series became as popular as it did and made both Duchovny and Anderson science fiction stars. Gillian Anderson has already appeared in two movies based on the television series, but the second film, released in 2008 flopped at the box office.

A young woman complaining of abdominal pain and nausea who had traveled to Africa arrived at a Long Island hospital fearful that she had contracted Ebola. She did not have the virus, but the pregnancy test was positive. The woman had been to South Africa, more than 3,400 miles (5,400 km) from the three West African countries enduring the worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the trip ended six weeks prior, or twice the potential incubation period for Ebola infection.

So, my foray into the world of 2.5d dungeons continues ...and this time I thought I'd try something a little different:


As you can see, I've managed to create a nice little rubble pile (that can also be used to represent a collapsed passage) using just paper, cardboard, and a little bit of glue.

And although it looks a little complicated, it's really quite easy to make ...so if you'd like to have a go at making a few of your own, here's how I went about it...


As always, the first thing you'll need to do is download and print out the pdf file that I've created for this piece.

Once you've done that, simply glue one of the floor tiles to a piece of thin (single corrugated) cardboard, and cut it to size.




To make the boulders, the first step is to scrunch up a few pieces of scrap paper into vague rock-like shapes as shown below.




Then, cut out a piece of the rock texture (supplied in the pdf) large enough to wrap around one of the rocks, and crumple it up - to give it a nice uneven texture.




Next, apply plenty of glue to the back of the paper, and wrap it around the 'rock' like you would if you were wrapping an oddly shaped parcel (try to do this so that the edges of the paper end up on the bottom of the rock).




It's also worth noting that if you end up with any little off-cuts (which you most probably will), you can fold/scrunch these up to make little stones.




For the wooden beams, simply cut out a few different size/thickness pieces of cardboard, and enough of the wood texture (provided in the pdf) to wrap around them...


...then cut, fold, and glue the paper in place around each piece.



Once you've got several rocks and beams finished, it's just a matter of deciding where you want to place all your little bits and pieces...


...and glue them all in place.




And that, as they say, is that! :)


Note that if you've not been keeping up with my recent 2.5D dungeon posts, then here's a few links to some of the other stuff I've been creating (with step by step instructions about how I made the various pieces):

We are asked to be a part of other people’s kickstarters sometimes. Sometimes for free, sometimes for pay. Some of these projects are made by people who like our work and think that our involvement will enrich the experience for their backers: and that is a GOOD reason to involve us. SOMETIMES, THOUGH, what these people are really asking is: “Will you promote my project to your fans and make them all back my project just because you are involved?” Don’t do that. That is awkward and weird, especially when you’re asking us to do work you don’t actually care about.