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Bowser World 1-1
Last Updated on Monday, 11 April 2011 03:48 Written by Foose Monday, 11 April 2011 03:31
I’ve been playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door recently, and one level that surprised me completely was this: Bowser storming through Mario World 1-1!!!!!
So far the best thing that happened in any mario game to date!
Tags: bowser, Mario, paper, world | Posted under Cool, Funny, Funny Video | No Comments
Rift
Last Updated on Monday, 11 April 2011 11:12 Written by Foose Monday, 11 April 2011 12:44
Are you still addicted to World of Warcraft? Need to take a break from Azeroth? Well, enter Rift, another MMORPG that was released in March of 2011 that is already rivalling the World of Warcraft.
The setting is a planet called Telara which is under attack by different worlds, thus creating rifts: Unstable areas of elemental instability that represent the intrusion of elemental planes into the land of Telara. Once opened, these rifts begin to spawn monsters that proceed to march towards important points on the map. It is then up to players to defeat these monsters and to close the rift. If rifts are left unchecked, the invading monsters will eventually conquer large portions of the map, killing and significantly impairing the players in that area. Entering the area surrounding the rift will trigger a prompt that allows the player to join a public group, rather than forcing the player to manually create a group. Players sealing the rift are rewarded for many things including healing, attacking and buffing. The severity and locations of the rifts are entirely dynamic. Rifts of six different types (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) are possible, and rifts of different types will oppose each other. In addition, Non-player characters hostile to the player may engage rift invaders.
The characters are fully customizable, and include classes such as Warrior, Clerk, Rogue or Mage with over 12,000 weapons to equip.
So far its made for the PC, but sadly for us Mac users, we’ll have to emulate Windows… or Boot Camp it.
After initial purchase, Rift requires a monthly subscription fee for continued play, or buying prepaid game cards for a selected amount of playing time
Check it out here at their homepage: Rift
Cloud computing is here!
Last Updated on Friday, 8 April 2011 01:48 Written by Enki Friday, 8 April 2011 01:47
It’s basically “A device that can fit in your hand will easily handle any VDI or extreme 3D graphics modeling use cases and everything in between. Multiple users can now connect to and utilize any amount of horsepower stored in safe, controlled environments.” (Quoted from EVGA, click to see their client!)
In other words, it’s a box solely with the purpose of connecting the user at home to a bigger computer that will run everything you want it to, and it’ll display the result on the screen. No more need to buy expensive hardware, but let the cloud do all the processing for you! Also all data will be kept on the cloud so no worrying about data loss, as well as security will all be handled by the cloud computer. This is a new hassle-free workstation!
The client box users will buy is small and very portable, and just as an example, here’s the new EVGA’s PD02.
Here’s a really detailed video explanation by EVGA Teradici (click the name for video)
-Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with EVGA. This article is meant solely for promoting cloud computing. It just so happens EVGA released a client recently so it was picked as an example. All credits for video and picture goes to them.
Military Crowdsourcing: DARPA releases public game to gather and research submarine warfare tactics
Last Updated on Monday, 29 December 2014 10:52 Written by servbot_kill Thursday, 7 April 2011 04:07
You too can now take part in a DARPA project without having to get a Ph.D in physics or material science. The agency, responsible for a swath of futuristic technologies made in the name of national security (though the Internet ultimately ended up for porn) released a simulation game to the public very recently. The simulator is intended to reproduce the conditions of submarine warfare in ACTUV, a new anti-submarine drone the agency is also constructing; no word on a release date for that. Why release the sim to the public? DARPA hopes to crowdsource the evaluation of effective and ineffective tactics used on ACTUV before they go and write the AI software for it. So get up on those leaderboards— one day, the sub drone an enemy fights could, in fact, be you!
… Or at least a record of your tactics.
Tags: crowdsourcing, DARPA, submarines, thelaststarfighter | Posted under Cool, Games, News | 1 Comment
Pen vs Sword
Last Updated on Monday, 4 April 2011 01:03 Written by Enki Sunday, 3 April 2011 06:21
Is the pen mightier than the sword? Geico gives a nice senario in a commercial that’s actually cool:
Got another relating to funniest beer commercials, should have been on the top 10 we had earlier. Read entire post to see!
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