In this short clip of an upcoming episode of Mark Hamill’s Pop Culture Quest, the actor gets reunited with his original prop lightsaber from Return of the Jedi and tells us a little more about this piece of geek history. Check it out! [GeekTyrant]
Hideo Kojima is widely considered to be one of the greatest icons in video game development. His enormously popular Metal Gear Solid series introduced a cinematic storytelling to gaming that was revolutionary in its time. But Hideo Kojima’s childhood wasn’t always happy, and his early career as a developer at Konami could have gone better. […]
In a nutshell, walk the full floor plan without spending too much time on specific areas, take a break and eat food, come back and now take the time to look at and read everthing that interests you. [Nick Gray | Via Neatorama]
As humans, we are masters at knowing how to lie to ourselves. We pay a heavy price for this self-deception. [The School of Life]
Let’s continue our look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered here at GaS in 2016 as well as following up on later developments. In March the Department of Defense launched a challenge for “white hat hackers” to try to breach their computer systems. Sensibly enough it was limited to approved US participants […]
Watch as Theodore Roosevelt fights Winston Churchill in the latest episode of Epic Rap Battle of History! [ERB]
The video game ‘E.T, The Extraterrestrial’ for Atari 2600 is considered one of the biggest flops in gaming history. Yet the game’s designer, Howard Scott Warshaw, says he couldn’t be prouder of that honor. This is the story of an awesomely bad video game. [Great Big Story]
From Neil Gaiman: The Worldbuilders charity passed its stretch goal of a million dollars, so I lit a whole bunch of candles, put on a coat once worn by a dead brother in the Stardust movie, and I read Edgar Allan Poe’s poem THE RAVEN by candlelight. [Neil Gaiman | Via Io9]
A translation company is advertising for an emoji translator. The ad, which gives the impression of being legitimate, is seeking somebody to provide “the human touch where translation software is inadequate.” Today Translations says it has a network of 3,000 linguists covering more than 200 languages, but doesn’t yet have a dedicated expert for what […]
How far away can you possibly get from every other human on the planet? The answer is actually quite far, there are a lot of extremely remote places left in the world and some of them have actually yet to be reached by anybody in all of history. [RealLifeLore]