any hardcore COD fans itch'n to play it?
Xbox One or PS4, still not sure, but either way i'm sure i'll be playing bungie's new game one way or the other when it comes out... start'n to look pretty damn good, mang.
p.s. start'n to hope all new games come out on PC.
A new book out in Germany reveals how President Kennedy was a secret admirer of the Nazis.The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK's memorable 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold War.
President Kennedy's travelogues and letters chronicling his wanderings through Germany before WWII, when Adolf Hitler was in power, have been unearthed and show him generally in favour of the movement that was to plunge the world into the greatest war in history
'Fascism?' wrote the youthful president-to-be in one. 'The right thing for Germany.'
In another; 'What are the evils of fascism compared to communism?'
And on August 21, 1937 - two years before the war that would claim 50 million lives broke out - he wrote: 'The Germans really are too good - therefore people have ganged up on them to protect themselves.'
And in a line which seems directly plugged into the racial superiority line plugged by the Third Reich he wrote after travelling through the Rhineland: 'The Nordic races certainly seem to be superior to the Romans.'
wow... think my mind was blown a little.
BURBANK, Calif. — In a dimly lighted editing suite here on the Warner Brothers lot, blinds drawn for maximum secrecy and walls decorated with signs and posters celebrating "Star Wars," Indiana Jones and "Game of Thrones," Zack Snyder was discussing his philosophy on the totemic character who arguably gave rise to every fantasy series of the last 75 years: Superman.For too long, said Mr. Snyder, the director of "Man of Steel," a new Superman movie that Warner Brothers will release on June 14, modern-day interpretations of this DC Comics superhero had been apologizing for the outdatedness of his origins; they sought to conceal him in contemporary trappings instead of embracing an essential mythology that, he said, was as bulletproof as the character himself.
"When they try to dress him up," Mr. Snyder said here a few weeks ago, "put him in jeans and a T-shirt or a leather jacket with an S on it, I go: ‘What? Guys, it's O.K. It's Superman. He's the king daddy. You should all be bowing down to him.' "
What his film tries to do, he said, is "respect the S."
yeah man, respect the "S" dude.
i know it's fun to poke microsoft, but i actually thought the video was pretty good... hell, they should come out with some funny "I'm a PC, and I'm a Mac" ads to reverse-rip on apple like they used to do with justin long – well maybe, those were okay at first, but damn i got tired of 'em pretty quick.
i've played around with a couple Win8 tablets at bestbuy, and have to say that i kinda like 'em.
One of the attackers filmed saying: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you"In the footage, obtained by ITV News, he is heard to say: "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
"I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
The attacker, who spoke clear English without a foreign accent, is then seen walking towards his victim, lying in the street in Woolwich, south east London. Another man is stood over the body. The two men were later shot by armed police after a 'serving soldier' was stabbed to death in a 'crazed' suspected terrorist attack.
The young victim in Woolwich, south east London, was said to have been hacked with knives, including a meat cleaver, by two black men in broad daylight.
that's some fucked up shit... saw a tweet on my phone about this, then another about some innocent guy being hacked and beheaded in the middle of the street over there – then i see this video and thought at first how weird it was that the black guy was wearing red gloves, only to realize that was blood. fuck.
on a sidenote, i gotta give props to the brits – at least they come right out and call it what it is, because if that happened over here in the States i'm sure it'd be called some PC shit like "misguided violence" – or anything that doesn't have "muslim", "radical islam", or "terrorist" in it.
in other news...
Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a "word of the year" in 2012, and Tuesday night, its inventor, Steve Wilhite, will be accepting a lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards.Now, almost any fragment of digital culture can be spun up into a grainy, gratifying animation. GIFs provide a platform for nearly everything, it seems — from rapid-fire political commentary to digital art to small moments of celebrity intrigue.
Has any file format received more attention, more accolades (or had more fun) than the GIF?
the debate rages on... hell, even the inventor can't pronouce it properly.
p.s. The Worst Drug (NSFW GIF Site)
LONDON (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs.A U.S. Senate investigation revealed Tuesday that Apple, maker of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, channeled profits into Irish-incorporated subsidiaries that had "no declared tax residency anywhere in the world.
Apple said on Tuesday that the arrangements dated back over 30 years and had been negotiated with Ireland's government, which has long angered European economic peers such as France and Germany by helping multinationals to avoid paying tax on sales it makes to their citizens in their domestic markets.
Apple's annual reports show that over the past three years, Apple paid taxes worth 2 percent of its $74 billion in overseas income.
damn man... i wish i only had to pay 2% in taxes. *blink*
If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.With a hard-line focus on the One's television connectivity and a smart decision to actually show off the physical console, Microsoft pulled off a tight one-hour presentation that glazed over the trickier undercurrents at play. But the devil is in the details, and it's now apparent that while the Xbox One will definitely not require a constant Internet connection, as many had feared, it's still the most restrictive console ever made. [...]
Microsoft's Iron Grip
The rumor of a universal always-online requirement was finally quelled, but even more mysterious news boiled up in its place. Microsoft openly revealed that the One will require users to download all games to the console's hard drive to play, but Wired's Chris Kohler reported that to do this a second time with the same disc will require a player to pay an unspecified fee.
Microsoft quickly responded by saying that the Xbox One will "enable customers to trade in and resell games" and that the company will have more details to share later, likely at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next month. But the same spokesperson also added this ominous note in a comment to the game-news site Polygon:Xbox One's support for used games and these other scenarios may not look like they have on previous console generations, and that's what we'll be explaining as soon as we're able.That's as clear as mud, of course. But tacking on fees for re-using an already-purchased game disk could seriously damage the used game market, or even kill it entirely. Not only would used games get more complicated to rebundle and price, resellers would likely offer less for used games in the first place.
That would antagonize retailers and consumers alike. It would be a giant step backward in an era where a game that provides maybe 8-10 hours of gameplay will still cost $60. Such a policy could even boomerang on game developers themselves, since many gamers finance their purchase of new games by trading in their old ones. If the trade-in market vanishes, so does that source of cash for new purchases.
man, the more i read about it, the more i'm on the fence about this nextgen xbox... i have a feeling that the PC gaming market might have a big resurgence in the next few years.
related:
Damon Lindelof says he is mindful of comments that scene with British actor Alice Eve in her bra and pants is gratuitous.Damon Lindelof, the writer of Star Trek Into Darkness, has apologised for a "gratuitous" scene during the new sci-fi sequel in which British actor Alice Eve appears in her underwear.
Lindelof, who is also the co-creator of Lost, took to Twitter after fans pointed out the unnecessary nature of the offending segue, in which science officer Carol Marcus strips down to a bra and knickers while preparing to pull on a special torpedo disarming outfit.
"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," he wrote, adding: "We also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies, [but I] do not want to make light of something that some construe as misogynistic. What I'm saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future."
oh please... really? is this what it's coming to?! personally, i was looking forward to the scene and thought it was too damn short – could've blinked and missed it... if anything, they should apologize that it wasn't transparent.
ugh, whatever.
If you were hoping to play your vast collection of Xbox 360 games on Microsoft's latest creation, we've got a spot of bad news. Microsoft Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten confirmed to The Verge that the new Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility whatsoever."No, there's not," said Whitten, when we posed the question. "The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn't really work from that perspective."
That means that Xbox 360 discs won't work, but also extends to Xbox Live Arcade downloadable titles. Anything that was designed for the Xbox 360 will have to be rebuilt, and it sounds like Microsoft doesn't plan to do so.
Technologically speaking, it's not wholly a surprise that backwards compatibility is off the table. Today, the company confirmed months of rumors that the new Xbox would use an x86 CPU. Games designed for the Xbox 360's Xenon processor simply won't run natively on the new hardware, since the Xenon used a PowerPC architecture instead. Of course, Sony's PlayStation 4 has the same problem: Sony also chose to move to x86 from PowerPC, and the PS4 also won't directly support PS3 games.
you have got to be kidding me, right? WTF.
p.s. Steven Spielberg is Making a Halo TV Series for Xbox One (fuck yeah!)
