In a nice bit of scammer news, a man by the name of Sagar Thakkar was arrested in Mumbai as the suspected leader of a ring of IRS phone scammers. I’ve covered a few of these scams before, where people are cold-called out of nowhere and told that they owe some extremely high amount in […]
Update: The plugin has indeed had version 4.8.1 released, which seems to fix the issues present in the original 4.8 release. This article is being kept as is for archival sake as a reminder to be careful when using new software in a production environment, at least on day zero. Update 2: In testing the […]
On June 6th, 2016, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway ended what would become known as “The Psycho Series”, a 3 year video series that spanned at its core 50 episodes, but in total included well over 600 videos over those 3 years, all of which told the story of a young gamer and his dysfunctional family. You […]
Blogging is a somewhat dead medium. It used to be the most popular form of expression on the internet – today, YouTube has pretty much supplanted it, and the “vlog” (video-log) format has supplanted what information blogs once provided. Sure, a video can be more enjoyable than text, in some cases, but there is a […]
As is well known by now, both through general discussion and via many YouTube videos, the actual game cards for the Nintendo Switch taste terrible. The games are physically tiny, similar to a thick SD card, and would be very easy for a child to swallow. Nintendo’s answer to this problem is to make the […]
This article is more for the interest of local people who were fans of this particular FYE store, moreso than the average reader, but I still thought it worth publishing here for what it’s worth in the long run. While I do know people who were involved in the store, everything I propose here in […]
Ah Sears. For most Americans, when you think of home appliances or tools, Sears invariably comes to mind. The over century old company used to be the ultimate in providing everything you would need, and then some. Today, it’s nothing more than a shell of its former self, amazingly owned by K-Mart of all companies, […]
Now for something completely different and rather amusing, I bring you something quite random I found out about only towards the tail end of it happening: The Facebook page Super Deluxe had a live race between a Tortoise and a Hare, as per the classic story. https://www.facebook.com/superdeluxevideo/videos/417564681921421/ It looks like all the two had to […]
YouTube sometimes throws videos my way that are a departure from the usual gaming and tech, yet aren’t too far off that mark at the same time. In this case, a suggested video from Euronews on the subject of people who, for whatever reason, live inside of cyber-cafe’s in Japan. Rather than having an actual […]