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Video Power!

I was not aware of this game show, but as a 90's kid, it would have been my favorite, easily.

If you've not seen it before, I recommend you check it out. It's pretty "rad."

At least check out the theme at the beginning.

Word.

(Also it includes all the commercials, which are an amazing 90's time capsule as well)

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:03am

I __LOVED__ video power as a kid. I watched it as much as I could and really wanted to be on the show. The best part was at the end when the kids ran all over the place and grabbed whatever games they could. I always dreamed about how awesome that would be to be able to grab as many games as possible.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:08am

Watching this show is something else, I had the intro memorized and wow it's got that incredible 90's rap thing going for it.

Word.

I wonder if this guy was hyped on Coffee, he is really amped for each take. Never really noticed that as a kid, I was just really excited to be watching it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:10am

They guy with the guitar isn't actually playing it. The music is all beats and keyboards. He looks "Polly Shore Amazing" holding that guitar though.

Travis Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:02pm

This is so incredibly 90s. I had forgotten this show existed. I wanted to go through that course and grab games. I remember as a kid being annoyed with kids getting terrible games and passing up great ones. At least the winner in this one got Duck Tales and Batman, two of the best.

As for "hyped on coffee"-- I'm thinking another word that starts with C. They cut out all the times he rubbed his nose or sniffed. This was the early 90s after all, everyone was doing it :D

The commercials in this are amazing. I remember some of them. That Honey Nut Cheerios commercial hit me right in the nostalgia.

And wow, the "fashion" choices, and the 90s mullets.

I was a 90s kid, basically. Born in 81, but I came into who I am in the 90s, and feel the most attachment to that decade. It doesn't seem that long ago, but things like this show just how far back that was.

Travis Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:09pm

Huh, I wonder if this was the start of eSports.

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 01/15/2016 at 05:21pm

This and The Wizard

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/15/2016 at 08:11pm

I think it could have been an early start to eSports and I think the Wizard and the Nintendo World Championships really helped that along for sure.

Having the commercials really does make this video something very special, I remember many of these. I always thought that eastport pack was something really cool but it was just a bag that had a Gameboy in it.

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Can You Tell Me How To Get, How To Get To Greenland?

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AdamPFarnsworth gives this an astounding "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

AdamPFarnsworth gives this a "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

Plague Inc. is a strategy-simulation game in which the player controls a plague which has infected patient zero. The player can choose between various game-modes, plagues and viruses, and complete the objective set by the game-mode by evolving the plague and adapting to various environments. The objectives include, but are not limited to: Infecting and killing the world's population with a pathogen, enslaving the world's population with the "Neurax Worm" or converting the world's population into zombies with the "Necroa Virus". However, there is a time pressure to complete the game before humans, the opponent, develop a cure for the plague.

I just discovered this game (it came out in 2012 originally) and have been really enjoying it! Basically you start off with a disease (depending on the level you're playing it could be a bacteria, a virus, a fungus or many other pathogens, each with different abilities) and you control how it evolves to infect and kill the entire human population.

You have three different areas to evolve the disease in: Transmission - How the disease infects people (could be spread by animals or blood or just in the air or water), Symptoms - How the disease affects people (starting with minor symptoms like coughing or rashes, working up to total organ failure) and Abilities - How the disease fights to stay alive (ability to survive in extreme climates and drug resistance to name some ways)

As your disease progresses, humans will notice it. If you develop your symptoms too early, the humans might find a cure before you have time to spread to everyone. But some symptoms also help spread the disease quicker, so it's a fun balancing act to find creative ways to kill everyone off.

In addition to the standard play modes, there are really unique scenarios. I played one called Santa's Little Helper. Here's the synopsis in game: The world is dark and gloomy. Boring governments worldwide have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Humanity has forgotten how to have fun - people dress in grey and spend all their time working. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness. In this scenario, you try to infect everyone with a brain controlling parasite that causes them to be happy. If people get too happy, the government notices and tries to find a cure. You can send planes full of "presents" from infected countries to uninfected countries to spread the parasite faster.

Other scenarios I've played have included a resurgence of the Black Death and the Simian Flu (from the new Planet of the Apes movies). In the Simian Flu, not only are you mutating the virus to spread and kill humans, but you also can work to increase ape intelligence and lethality. Unfortunately the Simian Flu scenario was just a sampling. I'll have to buy the various scenario expansion packs eventually.

I don't normally spend money on mobile games, but this is one I think I will. There's so much variety in play on this, I think I can get a lot of bang for my buck.

I definitely recommend checking this game out if you haven't yet!

The Story, Finally Solved?

I've never actually played any of the Five Nights at Freddy's games, but it's been fun watching MatPat trying to dissect the story as the games have come out. He finally believes he has the story finally solved.

The final video (the main one for this post) is the final theory, and is good on it's own, but it was also a fun journey watching MatPat and the Game Theorists try and figure the games out as they came out, so I'd recommend watching the whole playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOl4b517qn8jl4Lw8H8cDrDkGwf1FtC7I

And of course, now that the story is "solved," there's a new image at http://scottgames.com/ that hints at more on 12/22/15 lol.

War of 1996

We always knew they were coming back

Independence Day was one of my favorite movie experiences in my teenage years, so I'm excited to see what the sequel will bring us. This trailer looks pretty rad, and there's a cool interactive website that shows how the world has progressed since the War of 1996. It's a bit clunky, but cool to click through :)

http://www.warof1996.com/

League of Explorers Announced!

#‎Hearthstone‬’s third adventure, the League of Explorers, has just been announced at ‪#‎BlizzCon‬!

I really hope there's some cooperative play built into this adventure! This week's Tavern Brawl has been a lot of fun.j

jdodson Admin wrote on 11/06/2015 at 08:02pm

OMG GET HYPE!

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 11/06/2015 at 08:07pm

A new keyword: "Discover"
Looks like it'll be similar to the Hunter's Tracking spell?

More info at http://www.theleagueofexplorers.com/

jdodson Admin wrote on 11/07/2015 at 12:41am

All of the League of Explorers cards are on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Hearthstone/photos/ms.c.eJxNkdmNBTEIBDNacWPnn9gOMEM~;yV8lV3MxkTmp~_PUrZvLHLwi54pkOEM8npgMwCi~;IUewFz3uUc88PKEU5F3Ap4QQwP2KB9A~_7L~;Dq7AklAShF1BdoKR4HYBQGGOVrLKgVuweglKMMUAoHFBslAUb5ZgntBTEytBdkyNAsJZGhOQoyzij6gehpmXzBtK4HoEOTAUbZsjGt61c2qXeaKgClUPiCrqK7oJwF5Q6XsyDa4dL62CRbxfrYGgRQGXEVYJRY0NdX~;66f0UuOJIBWaDPCW9EAaCWQ4aPstLcOxTf5H3UsnEc~-.bps.a.1004494409593327.1073741880.498467596862680/1004503259592442/?type=3&theater

JaBo wrote on 11/13/2015 at 12:45am

It's live, gogogo

jdodson Admin wrote on 11/13/2015 at 01:11am

Did you pick it up? I have some guesses as to what cards will be used more.

What are you finding works well from this adventure?

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 11/13/2015 at 02:58pm

Finally beat Blackrock last night. Now I'm just a couple hundred gold away from League of Explorers :)

It seems like this came really quickly, from announcement to launch, compared to the Tournament cards.

jdodson Admin wrote on 11/13/2015 at 07:01pm

It did. I wonder if we should expect two expansions a year from now on?

JaBo wrote on 11/16/2015 at 10:26pm

I did pick it up. Waiting for week 2 content! So far the scarab is better than I expected. a 2 mana 1/1 that gets you a random 3-cost card.. I thought eh, a Novice Engineer is probably better as it gets you a card from your own deck at least. But I like the scarab a lot and lets you choose a card to fit the situation.

Summoning stone is super fun :D https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208365040542948&set=gm.1715695421996195&type=3&theater

Reno Jackson is fun when you're at less than 5 hp and heal to full. I don't particularly like being forced to singleton cards though. Mage is abusing Reno by using the duplicate secret and the copy all creatures card. I had 4 copies in my hand one game lol, but still lost to not having a good closer.

I like Explorer's Hat, works well in the lock and load hunters deck I made to keep me up with spells to cast.

I haven't abused Djinn of Zephyrs too much yet, but I can the see value, and a 4/6 for 5 isn't the worst if it comes with free potential spells. Was awkward once when I cast control magic on enemies creature and it copied the spell to my Djinn...which then made it not able to attack that turn (treated it as just coming under my control).

AdamPFarnsworth Post Author wrote on 11/16/2015 at 11:10pm

I've attempted to use Djinn in both a Druid and a Shaman deck. I've not found it very useful yet, but I'm still experimenting.

jdodson Admin wrote on 11/17/2015 at 01:47am

I was rocked during one battle by a summoning stone. It was awesome to see.

The scarab looked like one of the more useful cards from the set. Small cards that do useful/unique things are always in style.

JaBo wrote on 12/03/2015 at 09:53pm

So I got the new Entomb card today.... so happy for it.

I used it on enemy Sylvanas today that had taunt on it... oh the joy!

Entomb: http://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/avatars/272/406/27238.png
Sylvanas: http://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/avatars/147/823/33.png

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/04/2015 at 04:28am

So am I right in reading that card in that it's a form of removal that puts it in your deck? If so... I need to pull out my best Bill and Ted voice for a "Whoa" because that's seriously cool.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pwNrOPFFNjU

JaBo wrote on 12/04/2015 at 05:59am

haha, I made a Bill and Ted reference the other day with my co-worker because her significant other's name is Bill and our IT guy's name is Ted... she didn't get it =[

And yes, the card removes it from the board and shuffles it in... I mean, best removal card ever!

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/04/2015 at 06:31am

It costs 6, which is a lot but the effect is incredible.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Multiplayer Fun!

Jack and Rich (from Previously Recorded and RedLetterMedia) play the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. This is also their first stream with a "facecam."

The game requires two players, and you need to print out the Bomb Defusal Manual. One player looks at the screen and describes the bomb to the second player who looks through the manual to figure out what is needed to defuse the bomb. It has a time limit and will explode if you make too many mistakes.

This game looks like a ton of fun. Watch Rich and Jack play it a bit (you can just skip ahead to around 7:30 in the video to see the gameplay.

http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/
http://www.bombmanual.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/

Never Gonna Give You Up, Mario

*Had a longer post written before my browser crashed*

At first I saw Super Mario Maker as just a fancier Mario Paint, but I've been watching some Let's Plays and have seen it been used super creatively. I've seen a Sonic Green Hill Zone Act 1 recreation (https://youtu.be/zmnzh0BHM6w), a level with flying super mushrooms that you're actually avoiding like enemies because you need to be small to continue through the level, and many others.

It looks really great. I will probably pick this up now when it's on sale around Christmas :)

Just Some Rad Music - Synthwave

Recently I heard someone (Jay from RedLetterMedia for those that care) talk about how he listens to a type of music called Synthwave. I looked it up and found out that I really like it. It's been around for a while, and you might recognize if from movies and video games such as Drive and Hotline Miami.

From Wikipedia:
Musically, synthwave is heavily inspired by new wave and the soundtracks of many 1980s films, videogames, cartoons and television shows. Composers such as John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream are frequently cited as influences. The style is mainly instrumental, and often contain 80s cliché elements in the sound such as electronic drums, gated reverb, analog synthesizer bass lines and leads, all to resemble tracks from that time period. However, synthwave incorporates modern production techniques such as sidechained compression and placing the bassline and kick drum prominentliy in the mix as heard in modern electronic music genres such as electro house.

Aesthetically, synthwave gives a retrofuturistic perspective, emulating 1980s science fiction, action, and horror media. In this sense, it can be considered the inverse of vaporwave; while the latter expresses disdain for 80s culture, synthwave expresses nostalgia for it and attempts to capture the era's atmosphere. Examples of this aesthetic may be viewed in films and video games such as Drive, Hotline Miami, the upcoming game Power Drive 2000 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.

A Warrior, a Thief and a Wizard Walk Into a Bar...

http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aw7yQRW_460s.jpg

Just a funny picture :)

George Clooney Batman VS Tom Hardy Bane

Bane was in both Batman and Robin and The Dark Knight Rises. Red Letter Media has mashed up 2 Batman-Bane fights, with Batman from Batman and Robin (George Clooney) and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises (Tom Hardy).

They fit really well together! Enjoy!

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