Yes, we all know that Uncharted 4 will be insanely beautiful, but sometimes, when you are watching a new game with an amazing frame rate, it can be hard to realize just how much detail was put into the characters and animations.
For that reason alone we grabbed this pic off Imgur to show you all in high detail and up-close, just how amazing Uncharted 4 is going to look. Yes folks, it finally happened. Graphics have officially almost surpassed real life.
I was never a huge fan of Batman Beyond (it was awesome, I was just already too old), but this Batman Beyond skin from Arkham Knight makes me think we might need a Batman Beyond movie at some point because that looks super badass and intimidating on-screen (and looks way cooler than it did in the cartoon).
Not a version of the Batman I would want to mess with. Not that I would want to mess with any version of Batman, actually. Just saying, red eyes really takes him into nightmare territory pretty quickly.
When four-year-old Sawyer Dunlop first heard Groot speak in the amazing Guardians of the Galaxy movie, he instantly connected with the character. Sawyer suffers from Dyspraxia. A condition that affects a child’s motor functions and can impair their ability to speak, among other problems. Sawyer’s Dad, Josh, started noticing some amazing changes in his son after they saw the film. You can read the full message above in the pic, but here it is for those who don’t want to squint:
Hi James…This is in response to your recent post about Guardians being released a year ago and the effect it has had on my son. My son is four years old and has a condition known as dyspraxia, which not only interferes with motor skills but speech as well. When Guardians came out Sawyer could only say about three words and would communicate to his mother and I by other means. When he saw Groot, something clicked inside him and he connected with him on a level I haven’t seen. He began to mimic him and he would use the word “Bah” for a lot, but after he saw the film, he would change the tone in which he said it to convey a different meaning. He would also start saying Groot for many things as well. Since that, he was finally able to go to a speech class and it has helped amazingly. I just wanted to thank you though, for a script and movie that was written so well that a four year old, three at that time, could connect with someone who had the same language barrier.
We all knew Guardians was a magical movie. The truth is, we just didn’t know HOW magical until now. And I guess that part at the end of the movie when Groot says “WE are Groot” rings with a lot more truth than any of us knew at the time.
Available from Think Geek, these come in strings of 10 lights: five covering their eyes and five pouncing on any signs of movement. The best part is that you can set the lights to blink, though whether that improves your chances of survival on a dark night remains to be seen…
Sandi Preston has owned the Astoria, Oregon home used for the filming of The Goonies since 2001 but after getting up to 1,500 people a day taking pictures there, she’s finally had enough…
When your RPG takes a nautical turn, why stick with a dull old D20 when you can throw this three-inch Kraken die from Nvenom8 Designs? It’s available in eight metal variants or eight plastic colors.
“Lightning3” by U.S. Air Force photo by Edward Aspera Jr. – United States Air Force, VIRIN 040304-F-0000S-002 or unbroken-link (or VIRIN 060822-F-1111A-001). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightning3.jpg#/media/File:Lightning3.jpg
Google has confirmed that four lightning strikes led to a tiny amount of permanent data loss in its online cloud processing service. It appears to be an extremely unlikely freak incident, though Google says it will continue to work to reduce such risks.
The incident took place near a data center in Belgium where Google carries out some of its work for Compute Engine, which offers virtual machines for processing on a scalable, pay-per-minute basis.
The four lightning strikes didn’t hit the center itself but rather hit a local electricity grid. That led to a “brief loss of power” at the data center, rather than any hardware being fried.
For the most part battery-powered backups did their job. Around five percent of the disks had some sort of failure as a result of the outage, though Google engineers were able to recover data in virtually every case.
The only irreversible problems appear to have come in the very few cases where the power outage caused an error right as the system was carrying out a “snapshot” backup.
Google says this led to a few recent writes being unrecoverable, meaning a permanent data loss equivalent to less than 0.000001% of the total disk space. The BBC believes all affected customers were able to restore the data from their own backups outside of Google.
In one sense it’s a reminder that even with the best organization and protection, data you have stored at somebody else’s facility is vulnerable (though the same is true on your own machines.) But it’s also a good illustration that with a sturdy enough set-up, even an unpredictable shock doesn’t cause that much permanent damage.
Takeshi Kamisato is one of the world’s leading Yo-Yo tricksters, but in this clip he shows off his skills with the spin top. It may actually be even harder than it looks: one poster noted that “Almost everything about learning how to spin tops defies logic, is counter-intuitive, or is otherwise generally frustrating. It’s all backwards, I tell ya! ”
