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I never knew Captain America fought Zechs Merquise ⊟

Looks like he did in this totally legit licensed Famicom game for the Marvel property. Thanks to Atari 5200 Controller for the pic.

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Warning: Profanity-laced lamentations ahead.

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A freshman said she was sexually assaulted at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The school’s handling of the investigation left her wishing she had remained silent.

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The Game Cube can be hit with a sledgehammer and work just fine. The Nintendo DS was specifically designed to be able to survive a 1.5 meter (five foot) drop onto solid concrete without breaking, and one of the company’s bigwigs wouldn’t let it go past the design phase until the design team could guarantee it could survive the drop at least 10 times. In fact, Nintendo products have such a reputation for being impossible to break through normal means that they spawned the term “Nintendium”—an all-purpose phrase given to pieces of technology that survive extreme punishment. For example, take the Gulf War Game Boy, an original Game Boy console that survived having a freaking bomb dropped on it.

Nintendo never advertises their products as being durable, they don’t brag about their Game Boys being bomb-proof or their consoles being tough enough to survive being hit by a car. They just expect their customers to be human and include features to prepare for that humanity. While other companies decide that they’re nice by including a cover to protect the screen of the $600 phone you just bought in case you drop it, Nintendo just builds a device that can survive being dropped in the first place and doesn’t make a big deal about it. Because that’s how a real company does business.

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10 Toys That Are Replacing Cutting-Edge Technology (via strandedonthemainland)

#If the DS had skype all cellphones would be non existent.

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You can now watch acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's slick, post-apocalyptic sci-fi film "Snowpiercer" right at home. That's an extremely rare move for a film such as this, which has a sizable budget, rave reviews and buzz at the theaters.

theodp writes The good news, writes Michael Thomas, is that wired kids are learning chess at an unprecedented rate. Young children learning chess from tablets can quickly become more knowledgeable than their parents. But the bad news, laments Thomas, is there is so much demand for scholastic chess that there are not enough experienced chess facilitators to go around. Could technology like RFID-tagged chess pieces or services like ChessStream.com be employed to referee second-grader chess matches, Thomas wonders, or are more well-meaning-but-not-necessarily-expert human facilitators — a la T-ball coaches — the answer?

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It's surprisingly easy to make it look like you knew something you never did.

This series of tweets is making the rounds following Germany's win in the World Cup final. It's supposed to try and make you think that FIFA is corrupt and the tournament is rigged. Heck, when you take a quick glance it looks very legitimate and convincing -- especially after an emotionally draining game.

There's one problem: It's all fake.

That might be hard to believe. After all, the tweets are time-stamped and you can't travel back to tweet something in the past, but a simple trick can make it appear like you did.

1. Create a protected account

This part is simple. Sign up for a new Twitter account and lock it so people can't read your tweets.

2. Tweet every possible outcome you can think of

A user sits behind their protected account and tweets out every possible score, each outcome. Maybe it's just that Germany will win 1-0, perhaps you go more in depth and list every player scoring. It doesn't matter that you're flooding a timeline, no one will see it.

3. Wait for the result and delete your bad tweets

Now it's all about cleaning up your work to leave a few incriminating tweets. In this case it was easy: Germany will win in extra time, they'll win 1-0, Goetze will score. Get rid of "Messi will score" and "Argentina will win" and the rest of your bad tweets and you're set to execute your plan.

4. Make the account public

Suddenly those carefully crafted comments look like prescience. "Whoa... how did they know?! FIFA must be corrupt!" Nope, it's just one individual with an ax to grind and too much time.

Update:

Ha, someone took a screencap of the account beforehand:

@ChrisVannini @ManVsHandle @FifNdhs yup old screencap pic.twitter.com/QOeHCNd3T8

— M/미타 (@ameyeteaa) July 13, 2014

dukeofmegadeus:

myinnerfrankcastle:

Remember when floppy disks could save/destroy the world?

1MB was a dangerous thing

discovergames:

rmsk8r05:

When cosplay starts to reflect Ubisoft’s game development philosophy.

A+, 10/10

mileysblackfriend:

dont-turn-up-the-light:

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the new Peter Pan and Wendy of the new movie, currently being filmed, Pan (2015).

Levi Miller and Leni Zieglmeier

(due for release 17th of July, 1015)

*pauses mid-celebration bc of the backlash i know this little girl is going to get for obtaining this role*

seananmcguire:

tastefullyoffensive:

"My dog hates having his picture taken." -lawsonj123

Thomas does the same thing.  People demand pictures of cute shit my cats do, and I’m like, “you do not understand, I photograph them sleeping because then they let me take their damn pictures at all.”

rapacityinblue:

bokhyllen:

dezlet:

maxistentialist:

This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write.

Yesterday morning, Josh forwarded me a tweet that said:

TIL: Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, raped a friend of my friend while attending Goucher College. I don’t support CAH.

Having gone to college with both of these people I cannot understand why he thinks this is something she would make up. All she’s asked for is people to know that this happened.

I’m standing with my friend against her rapist.

Please, please, before you reblog this, read Max Temkin’s response. Read it again, and keep reading it until you see all the things he’s saying. Read it until you see all the things he’s not saying. 

Notice how he never apologizes. The word “if” has to be inserted into every sentence. “IF she felt I did something wrong,” “IF any part of that was traumatic for her.” Notice how he bandies about words like “feminism” and “rape culture”, and how he uses them to divert blame from himself.

“Part of rape culture that hurts everyone is that it makes it difficult to talk about what is and is not consent, and makes it incredibly scary for people to speak up when their boundaries are crossed. It is entirely possible she read something completely different than I did into an awkward college hookup.”

It’s not his fault. It’s rape culture’s fault. Rape culture muddles boundaries. How was he supposed to know that he crossed one? Don’t forget, a huge part of rape culture is the presumption of consent. 

I will continue to be a feminist and an advocate for women’s rights to the best of my capacity. Cards Against Humanity will continue to hire amazing, talented women.

We removed all of the “rape” jokes from Cards Against Humanity years ago. We’ll continue to use the game as best we can to “punch up” and not “punch down.”

In what way is Max Temkin an advocate for women’s rights? Because he removed the date rape card from CaH? Because he hires women? That’s a pretty low bar for advocacy. Google “Max Temkin women’s rights” and the very first hit is this post. There are no records that I found of any activism on his part. 

Even if he were, how does A equal B? What does his hiring practices or the cards in CaH have to do with an accusation of assault? Max Temkin can’t have hurt a woman, because he’s a feminist? Hey, I heard that person isn’t racist because he has a black friend. 

Notice how bad we’re supposed to feel for him. 

I have made a career on the incredible power of social media, and the radical new ability that we all have to say whatever we want to a mass audience. Today I can’t help but feel hurt by those same tools that I love.

He feels hurt! He needs a hug! Never mind that he states outright he’s harassed his victim, sending her at least two messages (one via email, one via FB message) that he’ll admit to. No where in the text does he acknowledge the harm done to his victim, and while he tells his fans not to harass her further, he doesn’t acknowledge that this harassment is taking place, nor apologize for it. Because, remember, this isn’t a post about her assault. It’s a post about how “This is just baseless gossip that will now haunt me for the rest of my life.” Like those poor Steubenville kids with their bright futures. 

But the point where this gets truly disgusting is here: 

I spoke with my lawyer, and she thinks I have a clear case to sue this woman for libel and get a restraining order, but I have no desire to bully or harm her. Additionally, I’m not wild about the precedent that sets for other women to come forward in cases of actual sexual assault.

Part of this paragraph, like the rest of the post, is crafted to earn our sympathy. He could seek legal action, but he won’t, because he’s such a good guy. Look at him taking the high ground (and flaunting it.) Look at him protecting “other women.” 

The truth is, he almost certainly could win a libel suit against his victim. The crime wasn’t reported at the time, and there’s no physical evidence. We all know our courts will go to any lengths to avoid prosecuting and convicting rapists, even in recent cases with clear and unambiguous evidence. What chance does a victim shamed into silence for ten years have? 

But the second, more sinister part of this is the way he throws shade on his victim. Don’t miss the implicit threat. He never says he won’t sue, he says “he has no desire to bully or harm her”. (More than he already has, presumably.) He doesn’t want to hurt her, but again, she’s forcing his hand. If he sues, it will be because she made him. And there’s that subtle dig at the end, too. “Cases of actual sexual assault”. He’s minimizing her experiences to make himself look better. 

All in all this is an epic piece of mansplaining. It’s also super gross.

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dtysen:

At some point in his magnificent, all-encompassing career, Leonardo Da Vinci drew a whole page of cats.

Boston Herald

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A rough cut of "Deep Breath," the first episode of series eight starring Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, is now online after emerging through a BBC Worldwide security breach in Miami.

Cory Loftis @CoryLoftis coryloftis.tumblr.com


james claridades @squeegool squeegool.tumblr.com


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Some grrrls

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You enjoying the game, Jesus? pic.twitter.com/CCajH22J6u

— SB Nation GIF (@SBNationGIF) July 13, 2014

Yeah, that's pretty good sun action there, Brazil.

(via @CJZero)

@bradneely

Right?

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White House: 2014 deficit to drop to $583B STLtoday.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says this year's budget deficit will drop to $583 billion, the lowest level of President Barack Obama's tenure. Last year's deficit was $680 billion. The latest update from the White House budget office is also $66 billion ... and more »

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releasings:

hobbitdragon:

ddollley:

I just made the most inhuman noise

WHEN IT REALIZES THE PERSON IS STILL THERE AND GOES BACK TO BEING ‘DEAD’

oh my god