House of Cards is coming back to Netflix on Feb. 27th, so to celebrate the release of season 3, Bonecage has composed this fun parody based on a Weezer’s Undone — The Sweater Song.
If you want to be Kevin Spacey
Kill your foes and eat tasty ribs
Manipulate the media with your super-cool accent
Lie to everyone
Your time has come
[Bonecage]
Frozen pretty much showed all the world that Disney still will and always will have what it takes to redefine the animated film. You would be foolish to think they do not plan on cashing in on this a bit at this point. Frozen Fever is a short film that will be running before the live-action version of Cinderella, coming March 13th, and this is its first teaser trailer.
Glad we didn’t “Let It Go.” Seems this franchise will be sticking around for awhile.
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Coming June 2, 2015, Batman: Arkham Knight is the epic conclusion to the Rocksteady Batman: Arkham Trilogy.
In the explosive finale to the Arkham series, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn, to destroy The Dark Knight forever. Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady’s uniquely designed version of the Batmobile, which is drivable for the first time in the franchise. The addition of this legendary vehicle, combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the Batman Arkham series, offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City. Be The Batman.
Laser enthusiast Patrick Priebe made this really cool real-life Jinx Gun (from League of Legends) using a powerful 1.6-watt blue laser and a “lightning-in-a-jar” chamber using a tube filled with xenon gas. Be sure to watch the video below to learn more about how he made the gun!
We all know that Neil Gaiman is a brilliant author, but did you know that the man can also compose songs? On Valentine’s Day, the man performed “I Google You,” a funny but sad love song, at a one-night only show in Tampa Bay, FL, along with the help of Amanda Palmer. Check it out!
[Brett Culp Films | Via TMS]
I wish I could go cross-country fleeing right now. Sigh.
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British researchers claim to have achieved a 1 terabit per second data transfer over mobile broadband. But although they used 5G technology, it’s far in excess of what anyone expects to be possible in “real world” use.
The speed was reached by the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. They achieved it in lab conditions using transmitters and receivers they had built themselves and over a distance of just 100 meters.
The researchers aren’t detailing how they managed to achieve the speed, other than to say it’s the result of one of 10 “breakthrough technologies” they’re working on. V3 reports that they plan to carry out non-lab testing on the university campus over the next two years, then give public demonstrations in 2018.
The terabit connection is far in excess of the 7.5 gigabits per second claimed by Samsung last fall as the fastest achieved using 5G technology. However, the Surrey researchers have not made any claims about what speeds people would actually be able to get in everyday use. In fact they say the real challenge will be working on reliability and latency rather than raw speeds.
In any case, increased speed has diminishing returns: web browsing only has to reach a certain speed before it feels instantaneous; there’s no point downloading files so big they won’t fit on your device; and there’s only so much bandwidth you need for streaming before you can’t notice any quality difference. While the Surrey speed is more than 100 times of that claimed by Samsung, it’s unlikely most people would experience any practical benefits.
Even if 5G brings a small fraction of the promised speed increase, it’s also going to require a serious rethink of the way networks package mobile broadband. Verizon’s plan with a 50GB monthly allowance is seen as generous within the industry, but if you really could download over a terabit mobile connection, you’d literally use up the allowance in the blink of an eye.
[Image credit: University of Surrey]
When people think geeks and gaming, they often associate the name with video games. But what a great many onlookers don’t realize is that many board games also have factored into our utter geek fandom. In other words, when not controlling pixels or polygons, these games are the next place you were likely to find us, gathered around a table, Mountain Dew in hand. Here are 10 board games, card games, and tabletop games that geeks just love.
Warning: video below contains a large amount of f bombs and shouting.
A board game that is so famous and well known among geeks, it has gotten expansions. It is a strategy game and one that has amassed a MASSIVE (and sometimes famous) following. Can’t mention nerd games and not mention this one first.
Watch the win above to see just how gratifying a game it can be to win.
You can argue that tabletop games are not board games, but they are. You lay something on the table, and you have little figures that represent you. Even if most of the gaming goes on within the mind, without the tabletop map, figures, and dice, it wouldn’t exist.
Also, if there is THE nerd game beside the one mentioned above, it is D&D and shall remain forever so. All hail the show Community for their AWESOME D&D episodes.
Say what you want about this game being mainstream and I should have brought up the Game of Thrones board game here or something. Nah, games like that would not exist had not Risk laid out the groundwork first (and many, many years ago). A board game about world domination that people play feverishly for hours (and sometimes days)?
Only a non-nerd would’ve skipped Risk. Risk set the tone for many of the games you see now of a similar ilk.
Sort of like Dungeons and Dragons with less imagination, with some elements of some other famous nerd games interspersed, Hero Quest is made even cooler when you realize it was born from the “Warhammer” fictional universe. A universe that still has legs today.
Plus, with a name like Hero Quest, they knew nerds wouldn’t be able to avoid it.
Some people may want to scream hogwash and ask why a game with a sloppy license thrown on it isn’t here. Don’t you realize, Clue is pure geekery. You use deductive reasoning to figure out who murdered someone. While it may be disguised as a mystery, this is a game that would not exist had nerds and geeks not embraced it and made it as beloved as it is today.
Also, can I mention the BRILLIANT Clue movie? Used that video for a reason.
A classic, D&D style game, but played in Victorian era with your enemies being very much based off the work of horror author H.P Lovecraft. Where many of the above mentioned games were player versus player, Arkham Horror makes you work together with a team to fend out whatever horrific beast or gothic terror you are facing off against.
Very creepy and atmospheric, and definitely a must-play for nerds.
More of a card game, but I will put it here to ease the troubled minds of the geeks who may feel the urge to take to our page and mention this glaring omission. It is essentially like Magic the Gathering but with focus more on the strategy and infrastructure than magic and dragons. Speaking of which…
I wanted to save this and the above game for a piece on collectible card games, but it seems the risk of catching heat for the omission is stronger than the need for them to have their own list. If you are on this site, you know enough about Magic the Gathering that I don’t actually need to tell you about this massive, nerd devouring game.
Who doesn’t want to be involved with solving the problem of a massive disease wiping out mankind? Well, I don’t, as that seems awful lofty, but based on the popularity of this board game, many do. Pandemic places you in ultimately what is the scariest and most realistic scenario of all the above mentioned games. You need to save the world. While that sounds cliche’, this time it is from a terrible disease and not dragons or poor infrastructure. What’s so cool about Pandemic is it’s a lot like D&D in the sense that it works best as a co-op game.
Pokemon
‘Nuff said.
So what is your favorite table top, collectible card or board games? Take to our comment thread below and let us know! They might just make it onto a second list.
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