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Colin Furze’s Epic Apocalyptic Bunker Project [Video]
Inventor Colin Furze built himself the ultimate man cave, which also happens to be an apocalyptic bunker! Check it out!
8 Types of People Who Take Photos with Cosplayers [Video]
There’s probably more than that, but here are 8 types of people who take photos with cosplayers, courtesy to the always awesome Stella Chuu!
Don’t forget geeks, don’t be a convention creeper!
Tinder [Comic]
7 Videogame Visions of the Future Humans Have Completely Ruined
Truth is, humanity will probably destroy civilization, so these 7 video games were probably not that off about the future. Just being honest.
Tags: future, gamer, the future, video games
8 Star Wars Games You Should Play Before “Force Awakens” Comes Out [Video]
We are all super excited about The Force Awakens next month, so how do we bide our time while we wait? Well, you could play these 8 awesome Star Wars games to really get you pumped up and remind you why that galaxy far, far away is one of our favorites, real or not.
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An Emoji Is The Word Of The Year
The Oxford English Dictionary (EOD) has selected a specific emoji as its word of the year. Meanwhile Twitter appears to be considering following Facebook in allowing a range of emoji to replace a simple “like” button.
The OED selected the emoji pictured above, known in words as “Face with Tears of Joy.” It said the image “best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.”
According to the dictionary’s staff, using an emoji as the word of the year for the first time was appropriate because the level of usage more than tripled between the summer of 2014 and 2015. The rise was from around 2000 usages among every billion words Oxford Dictionaries monitored in print and online to nearly 8000 usages per billion.
Several other tech words made the shortlist for this year, including sharing economy, ad blocker and Dark Web.
Despite the award, there’s no guarantee that the emoji will wind up being included in any of the Oxford dictionaries.
Meanwhile a developer build of the Twitter app reportedly includes a range of emoji available to respond to a tweet. It’s not yet clear exactly what effect making such a selection will have; in this test set-up, any reponse is simply treated as a “like”, shown by a heart icon.
The testing comes only weeks after Twitter caused a furor by replacing “favorites” with “likes” though the fuss seems overblown seeing as the only practical change was a star icon being replaced by a heart icon.
Facebook is already publicly testing a system where users can choose from six emoji responses (each of which would be tallied up separately on a post) in place of the traditional thumbs up icon for a “like” response.
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The Good of the One: A Wonderful Tribute to Spock and Leonard Nimoy [Video]
A fantastic musical tribute to Spock and Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931, February 27, 2015) by the always amazing Melodysheep of “Symphony of Science” fame.
Live long and prosper, my friends.
Honest Trailer: Star Wars – The First One [Video]
Destiny – The Taken King: Loot Rage [Video]
Because nothing is worse than getting gear at the end of a quest that’s a huge downgrade from what you’ve already got…
Warning: language.
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