Dragon’s Lair
Had you been loitering around arcades back in 1983, you’d have seen an astonishing looking game called Dragon’s Lair. Grabbing some change from the kiosk, you’d immediately rush over to the machine, shovel in all your cash and quickly realise why no one else was playing it… Dragon’s Lair’s incredibly cartoon-like visuals (created by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth) came with a very high price – game-play.
Due to the game using a laser disc instead of the more traditional PCB board, the actual gameplay was incredibly restrictive. Dragon’s Lair consisted of a series of episodes, each of which involved you making a quick decision by pressing the joystick in one of four directions. Make the right choice and you’d watch hero Dirk successfully negotiate his way through a short cartoon; fail and you’d be privy to one of his many different animated death scenes. Sure, you may have been given a fair few lives with which to test out the trial and error game-play, but after seeing Dirk crumble into a pile of bones for what seemed like the hundredth time, you soon realized that Dragon’s Lair was fool’s gold. Still, there were plenty of masochists out there who did enjoy it and, as a result, Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp was released in 1991. Game-play (if you could really call it that) had made no progress whatsoever and even a new version of the original game – that included several missing screens – entitled Dragon’s Lair: Escape From Singe’s Castle, did very little to hide the sheer hollowness you felt when playing this piece of gaming history. Mind you, I do applaud them for this undeniably technically important break-through for videogames, even though I still haven’t finished it yet!
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Who Fucking Cares
Seriously, you’re all thinking it. Who Fucking cares is Michael Jackson is dead. The fucking drugged up, plastic surgery addicted, boy loving pedophile should have died many years ago.
I’ve officially gotten fucking sick of hearing about him. I know we forget all the bad shit a person did when they die, but in some cases, fuck that, he was scum. I hope some of the children he abused get to piss on his grave.
Wacko Jacko Halloween Mask
You’re all thinking it, so don’t fucking flame me with your holier than though shit, he was a bad person, and his karma finally caught up with him. Also, isn’t putting that much plastic in the ground, or even burning it, bad for the environment?
Jackson Without Makeup
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Rocktober 16th.
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Jesus on a Raptor
Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book!, originally uploaded by The Searcher.
Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book!
Dad, did dinosaurs really exist?
Sure they did, son. The Bible says so. They didn’t call them “dinosaurs” back then, but instead they were known as “leviathans” or “behemoths”.
But, my science teacher says dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Is that true?
Of course not, son.
Then how old are they?
Well, let’s see. The Bible tells us [from Adam and Eve’s family tree] that the Universe is only a few thousand years old. So dinosaurs had to have lived within the past few thousand years. That’s simple logic, son.
Oh. So that means they were on Noah’s Ark?
Absolutely! The Bible says two of every animal were brought [by God] to the ark. Dinosaurs were animals. So, using your logic again son, dinosaurs had to be on the ark.
Huh. So how come scientists say they’re older than that? and died way before Jesus?
Well, son, they just make that up. Dinosaur bones don’t have labels on them to tell how old they are. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist saw dinosaurs die-
Dad!
No I’m serious. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view.
That’s sad. But I thought scientists were smart?
Sure, but they don’t know everything. So they have to make stuff up to fit their beliefs. While you and I, we have the facts, straight from the Bible.
I don’t want to be a scientist!
Ha! That’s ok, son. It’s better to be right, than smart. C’mon, wanna learn how to flip burgers like your Dad?
Yeah!
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Worst Parents Ever
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Stand by Me – Campfire Story
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More on Nikola Tesla
You can thank Nikola Tesla for helping you read this. Before his harnessing of the energy of Niagara Falls, most electricity was transmitted via direct current. Tesla pioneered the use of alternating current that is used in our electric grid. Check into the documentary film excerpted above for more info and links.
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Toad Has Been Giving Us “The Finger” Since 1985
Super Mario Bros. is the most popular game of all-time and as we already know — the first 7 castles that Mario or Luigi go through, the Princess is not there. Instead, we bump into an old friend saying, “Thank You Mario! But our Princes is in another castle!” Really? Is that the way this little bastard mushroom says thank you?
Now lets look closer…
This is not an edited pic. This is from the actual 8-bit sprite of Super Mario Bros. when you zoom-in. That punk Toad!! He has been flipping us off for almost 25 years!
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Train vs. Tornado. Guess who wins!
Have you ever wondered what happens when a freight train drives through a tornado?
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Open a Banana like a Monkey
There is a strong chance that you’ve been opening bananas wrong your whole life. Take a cue from our simian friends and start opening a banana with the efficiency of a hungry monkey.
It’s possible you’ve been opening bananas the most efficient way, but more likely you’ve been opening them—like we have—the completely backwards and frustrating way. Most people start by grabbing the stem of the bananas and using it like a pull tab to get the banana open. This usually works with a somewhat high degree of success, high enough to keep people doing it and writing off the occasional banana opening mishap as problem with a faulty banana and not a problem with their technique. Watch the video below to see a demonstration of how monkeys open bananas:
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‘Sit! Stay! Snuggle!’: An Iraq Vet Finds His Dog Tuesday
Tuesday is a so-called psychiatric-service dog, a new generation of animals trained to help people whose suffering is not physical, but emotional. They are, effectively, Seeing Eye dogs for the mind.
Tuesday’s master is an Iraq war veteran suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Boxer/lab pup angry at squeaky toy
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The Elder Scrolls II Released as Freeware
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Released as Freeware . The download (Fileshack) requires DOSBox to run; the linked article includes instructions for running the game under DosBox. Also related are DaggerXL, a game engine being developed to update / enhance Daggerfall for modern systems, and The Daggerfall Workshop.
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The headscarf martyr
Marwa el-Sherbini testified in a German court against a neighbor who had called her a “terrorist” because she wore the hijab. As she spoke, the man she had accused walked across the courtroom and stabbed her 18 times. In the Muslim world, she is now being referred to as “the headscarf martyr.”
Marwa el-Sherbini had been pregnant at the time. When her husband rushed to her side, he was also shot. Marwa died soon after. Her husband remains in critical condition. There have been protests in countries such as Egypt and Iran against what they perceive as European racism. The attacker was also an immigrant. There has been little press coverage of the murder in the Western media.
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Jacob’s Ladder
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Happy Birthday Nikola
This Studio 360 episode is a wonderful place to start in today’s appreciation of “the father of electricity.”
Born in a small town called Smilian in Serbia, Mr. Tesla is regarded as one of the founders of the telecommunications industry. He passed away in January of 1943 in New York.
Nikola worked hard and long on high frequency radio waves. He was the first to demonstrate the transmission of electrical energy without wires and in 1899 he actually created a station in Colorado where he proved he could receive 1,000 Kilometers away – very clear radio signals. He is the inventor of inductive coupling between two circuits.
Tesla has over 100 patents in the field and all telecom companies owe him a great deal.
When people speak of standing on the shoulders of giants, Nikola Tesla is such a giant.
According to legend, Tesla was born precisely at midnight during an electrical storm, to a Serbian family in his village. That’s the stuff legends are made of. It’s like quite a few American Presidents in the early days of the Republic dying on the 4th of July, which is the American Independence Day.
In 1919 Tesla wrote that Thomas Edison offered him the huge amount of $50,000 (almost $1 million today) , adjusted for inflation if he completed the motor and generator improvements that he had been working on. Tesla said he worked nearly a year to redesign them and gave the Edison company several enormously profitable new patents in the process. When Tesla inquired about the $50,000, Edison reportedly replied to him, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor,” and reneged on his promise Tesla resigned when he was refused a raise to $25 per week.
Thomas Edison was a shrewd businessman and genius in his own right. Tesla’s had a salary of only less than 20 dollars a week. That would have been worth like over 50 years of pay for him had Edison kept with his promise.
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Hey Dicklesss
"Yes, it's true... This man has no dick."
Ray: “Everything was fine until our power grid was shut off by dickless here.”
Peck: “They caused an explosion!”
Mayor: [To Peter] “Is this true?”
Peter: “Yes, it’s true… This man has no dick.”
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Why girls don’t Fart.
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Single Ladies Dance gone wrong
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Futuristic Movie Timeline
Futuristic Movie Timeline
#6 In A Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts
No one really pays much attention to what year sci-fi movies take place. I thought it would be interesting to arrange some classic films about the future into chronological order and see what we’d find. I’ve also charted the years in which they were released as well as the current year. This is by far the geekiest thing I’ve ever done.
*please note: I only included movies in which Wikipedia knew what year they took place.
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