From Cinefix:
The third and final installment of our saga about Peter Jackson’s saga based on JRR Tolkein’s saga is here! Without further adieu and no restraint on spoilers, What’s the Difference?!?!
Previously on GAS:
–Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – What’s the Difference?
–Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – What’s the Difference?
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These are exactly the kind of dice I wish I could have used back when I was playing Dungeons and Dragons. Since they are heavier than tradional dice, they roll differently and I’m sure bring a certain sense of satisfaction when thrown.
This high quality role playing dice set has a beautiful finish. The gaming dice set have numbers clearly carved on them. This Set of 7 Dwarven metal dice with designs is solid and rolls really well. Q-Workshop’s polyhedral dice set is ideal to add more fun to dungeons and dragons board games. These well crafted unique dice will be the envy of all your friends! Includes: 7 polyhedral metal dice (Black).
[Dwarven Metal 7 Dice Set Black, Polyhedral Role Playing Dice]
From Eclectic Method:
Video Games Weapons Remix -ed into a song beat music tune. Guns and various weapons cut up in a video rhythm to make Drum & Bass FPS breaks. What weapons are missing and should definitely be in Version 2?
The latest version of Amazon’s Echo will have a seven inch touchscreen that can double up as a videophone.
The addition of a screen on the $230 device fulfils three main roles. The first is to give a visual element to the Alexa assistant while retaining the hands-free convenience. For example, as well as getting audio instructions for a recipe, the idea is you could glance at the screen to see how the prep should look at each step.
While it is a touchscreen, the idea seems to be more about having hands-free as a key component, rather than this simply being a bizarre way to start with a speaker and wind up with a tablet computer. (The Echo Show weighs more than a kilogram, so certainly is not a tablet replacement.)
The second purpose is video calling. The Show can make video calls to other Show devices or to smartphones running the Alexa app, along with voice calls to other Echo speaker devices. It’s not entirely clear what gap that is meant to fill given hardly anyone who drops $200 on a device like this won’t already have access to a service like Skype. However, using the Echo Show for video calling certainly seem much simpler than firing up Skype for the same purpose.
The third role is as a screen for security cameras. As seen in the video below, the device could be used to monitor a sleeping baby or what your kids are doing while playing in the basement.
As with smartphones and apps, the success of the system may well come down to whether third-party developers can come up with genuinely useful “skills” to take advantage of the video features – and whether enough people buy the device for developers to consider that worthwhile.
In this episode of “It’s OK To Be Smart,” host Joe Hanson investigates how closely related we all really are.
Basic math tells us that all humans share ancestors. But you’ll be amazed at how recently those shared ancestors lived. Thanks to genetic data in the 21st century, we’re even discovering that we really are all descended from one mother.
In this comic, artist extraordinaire and professional geek Julia Lepetit from Dorkly tells the world why she thinks some nerds should not be allowed to have any money, ever.
And for those who are wondering, yes, this $75,000 Alien statue does exist and you can buy it right now on eBay.
AND YES! IT EVEN COMES WITH FREE SHIPPING! :)
[Source: Dorkly]
In honor of Star Wars Day, which was on May the Fourth last week, Youtuber The Beardless Man built a Star Wars bike/skate helmet based on a character that is so far pretty much underrepresented in the world of Star Wars helmets: K-2SO. Here’s a video tutorial showing you how he built the whole thing.
A man seeking free chicken nuggets has set a new record for the most retweeted post on Twitter. Carter Wilkinson’s tweet has passed the 3,430,249 retweets of Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie — and his poultry plea has paid off.
Wilkinson acted after cheekily asking Wendy’s last month how many retweets he would have to get to earn free nuggets for a year. Either Wendy’s had already established a corporate policy on that rather specific issue or its social media team doesn’t have to go through a lengthy review process as only a matter of seconds later it replied with the target of 18 million.
Wilkinson then screenshotted the exchange and urged followers to “HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS.” It’s not quite clear what the tipping point was when the post went viral, but it happened within a couple of days and major brands were soon jumping on the bandwagon, furthering its reach.
While it’s possible the retweets would have eventually stalled, the prospect of beating the record was enough to keep the momentum going, and a playful appearance by Wilkinson on DeGeneres’ talk show was enough to put it over the edge.
While the target of 18 million retweets certainly seems far out of reach, Wendy’s has granted Wilkinson his free nuggets anyway as a reward for breaking the record. It has also donated $100,000 to an adoption charity. Meanwhile Wilkinson has attracted more than 100,000 followers and used that platform to promote breast cancer charity Pinnochio’s Moms On The Run.
Youtuber Ginny Di has just released this adorable Harry Potter-themed version of Sam Cooke’s classic, “What a Wonderful World,” that she filmed with a few friends at her house and on the local college campus, and the result is quite catchy! Check it out!
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