Well, no one said that all of these tapes would be exciting. Tape 4 in volume 1 of the Game Player’s Magazine tips tapes series is all about sports games. Now, to be fair, many of the sports titles on the NES are quite solid games, they play well enough, they are genuinely fun and […]
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Expedition 51 Returns From The International Space Station
While I’m quite apt to cover launches of missions to the International Space Station, I often times don’t address the fact that 6 months later the Space Station crews return home in the Soyuz craft that took them up there to begin with. Today, the crew of Expedition 51, Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas […]
The One Big Problem In Using A YouTube Video As An Article Subject
As anyone who follows this site will notice, many of the article subjects on this site are videos that are usually, if not pretty much always hosted on YouTube. This isn’t normally a problem, and the worst I’ve had before is maybe a one-off video being deleted, or something that isn’t allowed to be embedded […]
Scamming An IRS Scammer
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 15: Chronologically Confused About Bad Movie and Video Game Sequel Titles – Episode Review
The Computer Chronicles – Storage Devices (1983)
Getting to another episode of The Computer Chronicles today, we have Storage Devices – the way we save our data. Today, we use hard drives with sizes easily in the terrabyte ranges, or solid state drives that while at a somewhat lower capacity provide incredibly fast read and write speeds. Hell, my phone, a budget […]
Destiny 2: Clans And Guided Games
Another video today, this time from Bungie, covering some new elements to the social aspect of gameplay in Destiny 2: Clans, and Guided Games. Clans are now more deeply integrated into active gameplay, funcitioning much like guilds have traditionally in MMO RPG’s for, geeze, probably over two decades now! The basic situation of having a […]
Xbox Game Pass Walkthrough
The Xbox Game Pass feature, which I wrote about a little while ago (see the article here)launches on June 1st, and in preparation for this, Microsoft just (as in, a few minutes before I began writing this article) published a quick video going over how to use the service, in very simple terms. As with […]
WannaCrypt – A Week Later
A week ago, the internet went into an absolute panic over a new virus laying siege to thousands of computers across the world – WannCrypt, often shortened to WannaCry. This combination of file-encrypting ransomware and self-propagating worm wreaked havoc in many businesses during those initial days. Seemingly as soon as it had started, however, it […]
Recording, ’50s Style
While browsing YouTube, I stumbled across another interesting little film worth sharing: In this case, a documentary on a music recording studio “Sugar Ray’s Vintage Recording Studio” which is designed to perfectly re-create the essence of recording in the 1950’s, using vintage equipment and ethos from that bygone decade. This film talks about the troubles […]
WannaCrypt – My Understanding Of It So Far
Facebook And That Little Flower Reaction
Ya know, I thought people had better memories than they seem to. This past week on Facebook, I noticed people talking about a little “flower” reaction, alongside the usual heart, laugh, cry, anger, and all that. This, as you probably know by now, is the “Thankful” reaction, which was introduced last year, just a little […]
The Classic Utility Bill Scam Is Back In Memphis
One particular type of scam that’s rather common are ones involving your utilities, mainly electricity, where they claim you owe a large amount on the bill and you have to pay now. Thing is, you can’t pay with your bank card, they only take cash at an undisclosed location or, to make things simpler, you […]
The Commercial Appeal To No Longer Be Printed In Memphis
Memphis’s primary local newspaper, the Commercial Appeal, will no longer be printed here in Memphis, Tennessee, starting with the April 18th edition. This marks the first time since the Civil War that the paper hasn’t been printed in its home city. This means the end of jobs for 19 people who work at the production […]
Game Player’s Gametape Vol.1 No. 2
It’s time for another Game Players magazine Gametape, the circa 1990 video tape series that told you, well, quite a bit about how to best play many NES games. Corny as ever, this tape covers Ninja Gaiden (pronounced correctly, to boot!), Mega Man 2, Bad Dudes, Amagon, and lastly Air Wolf. The video skips some […]