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Ultra-Mega-Hyper High-Def Gaming
Yowsers – Quake 3 on 24[!] monitors. It takes 12 Linux servers running parallel processing to power that badboy, but whoooo dang, that’s a sweet rig!
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Video Games: The Proving Grounds For Our Next-Gen Soldiers
Blackfive has a nifty piece about a new addition to the U.S. Marines’ arsenal – the M-32 “Six Pack” grenade launcher. Whereas our soldiers and Marines have previously been restricted to using the single-shot M-203 under-barrell grenade launcher for indirect fire in the past, experimental fire teams equipped with this six-shootin’ badboy now have a…
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Will Wright Is A Madman, A MADMAN, I Say!
If you’re not immediately familiar with the name Will Wright, you’ve probably never played Sim City, The Sims, etc. If you do know his name, you’re probably cursing it at this very moment for the countless hours you lost to his addicting creations. Well, prepare yourself for even further profanity-laden tirades, as he’s been hard…
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Monty Python + Battlefield 2 = Virtual Hilarity
Once again, denizens of the Intarweb prove to us all that they have far, far too much time on their hands: How Not To Be Seen: A Rendering of a Classic Python Sketch in Machinima. Heh.
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New Unreal Tournament 2007 Screenies
Hammina hammina hammina! GameSpot’s got the goods. Yowsa.
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Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?
Some days I’m downright ashamed to be a resident of the Philly area, particularly on days when our local news makes the national news. What am I on about? Well, ABC 6 “Action News” ran a promo for an 11 O’Clock News story trumpeting the “dangers” of the Nintendo DS and warning that “predators” could…
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Doing My Part In The War On Terror
During the 2004 election cycle, Lefty bloggers of varying stripes took to labeling Rightwing pundits (such as myself) “chickenhawks” and, less-commonly, the “101st Fightin’ Keyboardists”. Their claim was that, if we supporters of the WoT were to be non-hypocritical, we should head immediately for the nearest recruiting station and request to be shipped off to…
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Mainstream Media – Easy Targets For The Onion
Heh. The Onion takes the media’s “disgruntled soldier” meme and does it one better – Call Of Duty 2 Gamer Wonders If War Is Worth Dying 79 Times For: “After weeks of fighting for every pixel of ground and seeing 180 degrees of carnage in every direction, you start to wonder if it’s really worth…