Critical Failure Dice Sets: Exclusive Coupon Code For GAS Readers

We wrote about those amazing Critical Failure dice sets a few times in the past on GAS, and this week, the creator of the dice have offered us an exclusive coupon code for you guys. I now have a set of these at home, and they are ABSOLUTELY as gorgeous as the ones you see in the picture above. They’re also very well balanced and have a satisfying weight to them. Rolling them is truly a joy!

This week only, get 10% off your order on the MARS Dice Etsy shop by using promo code DICEGEEKS.

The Complete Official Story of Sonic the Hedgehog in Three Minutes [Video]

All the sonic games, except not quite all of them, but most of them, all crunched together into one super duper official chronology of the story of Sonic The Hedgehog, in 3 minutes.

[ArcadeCloud]

CATS Movie Gets a Nightmarish New Trailer [Video]

Here is the new trailer for the upcoming Cats movie, which is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I don’t know about you guys, but I still think it’s as nightmarish as the first one.

[Universal Pictures]

Badass 10-Year-Old Japanese Drummer Girl Rocks Out to Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Bulls On Parade’

That young lady is very good at what she’s doing. Just watch her as she performs Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Bulls On Parade’ on her drum set.

And here’s a video of her performing Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ when she was 9:

Most impressive!

Subscribe to her on youtube here.

[Via Geekologie]

I Ain’t Scared of No Dog! [Comic]

[Source: Dogs on the 4th]

A Visualization of How Fast Light Is: It’s Actually Quite Slow [Video]

Check out this video by NASA scientist James O’Donoghue showing how fast… or horribly slow, the speed of light actually is.

In a perfectly empty vacuum, a particle of light, which is called a photon, can travel 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), or about 670.6 million mph (1.079 billion kilometers per hour). This is incredibly fast. However, light speed can be frustratingly slow if you're trying to communicate with or reach other planets, especially any worlds beyond our solar system. To depict the speed limit of the cosmos in a way anyone could understand, James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, took it upon himself to animate it. The situation gets downright depressing when you start looking outside the solar system. The closest-known exoplanet, called Proxima b, is about 4.2 light-years away from us (a distance of about 24.7 trillion miles or 39.7 trillion kilometers).

Free Sailor Moon Condoms: In the name of the moon, protect yourself against STIs!

Did you know that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare gave away Sailor Moon-themed condoms in heart-shaped packages last month? The condom were distributed in partnership with Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi at STI prevention events throughout Japan and had the text “prevention of STI” printed on the packages.

The same ministry has also used the Sailor Moon brand to spread public awareness about chlamydia, HIV, and syphilis in the past.

In the name of the moon, protect yourself against STIs!

[Via Neatorama, otaku usa magazine]

Picture credit: Naoko Takeuchi via Otaku USA Magazine

Softbody Tetris [Video]

YouTuber C4D4U gives us an experimental animation featuring Tetris played with what appears to be gummy candies or jello jigglers. He talks about “rendering textures,” while the rest of us are mesmerized and can’t stop watching. The whole video is frustrating on many levels. Tetris is such a familiar game that we can’t handle the rows not disappearing when they are filled. And we can’t handle not being able to control where the blocks fall. Seeing them scooch into place after their turn is over is bothersome, too. Also, gummy candy is such a familiar thing that we can’t handle not eating it. Metafilter calls it “profoundly unsatisfying.” Yet that frustration is due to the realism, so you have to admit the animation experiment was successful.