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Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:45 am

Love the light idea.. just want to know now if it's got recyclable bits, and how long it's life expectancy is. If they can make it last several years and allow most of it's components not become waste.. it'd be great!

terkio · Post by **terkio** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:45 am

This is about the same, already available for less than $5.
http://www.decathlon.fr/mini-dynamo-xs-id_8119500.html

IMHO, the gravity stuff is a money skeme spiced with political corect.
............ To achieve this we launched a fundraising campaign ..............

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:02 am

I thought of this guy too.. I have two of them after all for emergency.. I test them every few months to make sure they still work. However, if you own one.. you know the light doesn't last 30 mins.. not in your biggest dreams.. You need to turn it constantly to get it's brightest setting, and it's reduced setting lasts baout 5 mins. This gravity element makes it more convenient, and likely WHY it lasts as long as it does.. I'd like to see it last longer.. if they can be having it go at least an hour before having to pull the chain to reset it'd be better.. and again.. this guy doesn't break down either.. it'd end up on a garbage heap in about 5 years if used every day. Which is what I'm hoping these guys make sure doesn't happen with theirs.

Seriously Unserious · Post by **Seriously Unserious** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:33 pm

I like the concept of the gravity light, and the way their testing by giving a prototype version to villagers in underdeveloped countries -- the people who need them the most -- rather then just testing them on middle class developed country residents who would likely only use them on rare occasions, like during a blackout or while camping, for example.

I agree with cow's points as well, high quality manufacturing and building them to last is critical, as is refining the design to get an hour of life out of a single charge would also be helpful.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:09 pm

http://starcrush.com/anne-hathaway-samu ... n-sad-off/

Battle of the depressing Christmas movies!

MasterWuuf · Post by **MasterWuuf** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:04 pm

beowuuf wrote:http://starcrush.com/anne-hathaway-samu ... n-sad-off/

Battle of the depressing Christmas movies!

I watched the entire 'episode' Beo. Yipes! I fear those two have entirely too much time on their hands.

P.S. I must admit that they both looked good in short hair. Ha.

Joramun · Post by **Joramun** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:02 pm

http://www.locomalito.com/maldita_castilla.php

All of his games are top notch retro-gaming.

Joramun · Post by **Joramun** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:36 pm

Adamo wrote:Sun Dog - Frozen Legacy video (Atari ST):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUT0gRVqW4

http://www.ftlgame.com/

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:48 pm

Yep, when FTL game was first announced, I thought, "Hmmm, SunDog ripoff!" but the designers deny it:
http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=640

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 2:00 am

Firefly deleted scenes: River wanted to marry her brother!
http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/1/4/fir ... other.html

Seriously Unserious · Post by **Seriously Unserious** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:41 am

Man, that was a good series. I'm still upset with Fox for canning it like they did. It had the potential to be one of their best weekly shows and that network just went and sabotaged it. I still, to this day can't understand why. The creator of Firefly, Joss Whedon, also produced one of the most popular tv series of the 90's, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a personal favorite of mine, and Firefly had all the signs of being just as big a hit for the 2000's.

In fact on the topic of Firefly and it's creater, here's the Wikipedia article on Joss Whedon.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:51 pm

Very strange chemical reaction - a freaky little video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ritaljhhk7s

Seriously Unserious · Post by **Seriously Unserious** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:11 am

that reaction looks like some sort of bizarre alien plan or fungus growing in a time lapse video. Definitely a bizarre chemical reaction for sure.

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:18 pm

It's quite monstrous looking, isn't it!

This Ballad of Dungeon Master still makes me laugh. What on Earth was Barton on when he made this?

http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/3862

Seriously Unserious · Post by **Seriously Unserious** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:03 am

that's pretty funny

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:53 pm

Doom 3 Gangnam Style:
http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

Note: Won't work in IE, you need a decent modern browser like Chrome or FireFox.
Note 2: They don't dance in time to the music, it's just a loop, but funny nevertheless

MasterWuuf · Post by **MasterWuuf** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:02 am

Gambit37 wrote:It's quite monstrous looking, isn't it!

This Ballad of Dungeon Master still makes me laugh. What on Earth was Barton on when he made this?
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/3862

Quite monstrous? How about quite mushroomy.

Post by **linflas** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:26 pm

Kickstarter for a french sci-fi / geeky / absurd second season. They are subtitled and speak english at the end. Looks cool

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/der ... the-sequel

Subbed excellent first season here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nztz7MWn ... Vq&index=5

Post by **linflas** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:58 pm

1 hour and twenty minutes of AWESOMENESS (ok, that may be a bit long)

http://youtu.be/5G0j_Huv2Fg

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:57 pm

http://www.int33h.com/test/dm/

Joramun · Post by **Joramun** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:07 pm

beowuuf wrote:http://www.int33h.com/test/dm/

Weird and awesome : aweirsome.

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:10 pm

Hah, nice! I didn't bother with testing the Facebook login, just played normally. Obviously incomplete (no inventory or fighting) but some spell combinations work and includes voices speaking the runes -- though differently named. Apparently they're from Skyrim. Interesting to see if it's developed further. How did you find this?

EDIT: I tried the FB login and it included Zyx and Linflas!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:26 pm

Someone on the Lone WOlf forums posted that guy's Monkey Island game, and I spotted the familiar DM link below and went O.O.

Post by **linflas** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:29 pm

that is absolutely incredible !!!

oh_brother · Post by **oh_brother** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:55 pm

Wow, impressive! You have to admire the devotion that DM causes in so many people 25 years on (and clearly not just this forum, since I imagine whoever did that is not from here).

I also liked the Monkey Island one! http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:10 pm

Yup, it's pretty cool (the money island one). Works well as far as I played it, grinding one of the pirates for his insults

Seriously Unserious · Post by **Seriously Unserious** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:43 am

That was a great find. I tied the DM demo and am impressed with what the developer has so far. I also took a look at the bubble bobble demo and that brought back memories of playing that game in the arcades way back. Another one I took a look at was the shadow of the beast demo, looks good and actually makes me want to find a copy of that game to try it out. It's one of those old classics that I've known about for a long time, but have never played.

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:29 am

Fantastic photo set showing all of life on earth, yes, even the heart-breaking things too:

http://imgur.com/a/gR84L

I dare you not to be moved by some of these.

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:47 pm

Great pics... Thx

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 9:58 am

Huh, just for anyone else out of the loop like me, there's an American remake of 'House of Cards' with Kevin Spacey on Netflix, only on Netflix, all 13 episodes released at once, and the first episode for free. And I'm sure last time I looked in to Netflix it was blocked in the UK, but appreantly not anymore! Very cool.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/House ... s/70178217

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