A fair maiden is finally free from the evil Dragon Galadean and is getting escorted home by an adventurer. How will the tale end? Will the adventurer marry the fair maiden? Will he leave her alone and be on his way to new adventures? Find out in this new episode of Epic NPC Man!
According to scientists, today is Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year.
To help customers banish the blues, Green Man Gaming has partnered with Intel to give their customers a massive 25% off PC games including upcoming AAA releases by using promo code BLUE25 at checkout.
That means customers can save 25% off 2017 smash-hits such as Cuphead and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds as well as expansion passes to some of the years top titles including the Assassins Creed Origins Season Pass and the already discounted Middle-earth: Shadow of War Expansion Pass, Star Wars Battlefront II, which you can get for just $26.24, and tons of other new and upcoming games such as Far Cry 5!
If that is not enough, the 25% discount is also applicable to some of Q1’s most anticipated releases including the already discounted Railway Empire, medieval RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance and the upcoming Civilization VI: Rise and Fall Expansion!
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Some curses are worse than others, but I still wouldn’t want to be in this guy’s family line! A comic by artist Henry Tuite.
A badly written and designed drop-down menu was responsible for a mistaken alert that Hawaii was under missile attack according to reports. Local officials will redesign both the menu and the system to reduce the chances of a repeat incident.
The message came from the Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency and appeared on phone screens reading “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” In fact, that’s exactly what it was and it took 38 minutes for the same system to inform readers it was a mistake.
The Washington Post reports the false alarm’s cause was as simple as an employee intending to carry out a scheduled test of the service and choosing the wrong option from the two choices of “test missile alert” and “missile alert”. The system did require a second confirmation click, but the employee either ignored or misread this and confirmed the alert.
To make things worse, there was no standard option in place to send a message recalling the alert as only pre-loaded messages can be sent. (The only option was to block the initial message from continuing to go out to anyone who hadn’t yet received it.) Instead staff had to reconfigure the system to craft a new message saying it was a false alarm and then get “extraordinary permission” to send it, hence the delay.
The incident also highlighted the problem that the emergency alert system is limited to 90 characters, meaning there’s no scope to give useful specific detail or advice.
To minimize the risk of the blunder happening again, the system has now been updated so that one employee triggers the alert and then a second employee must give the confirmation. There’s also a new measure in place to allow a recall message.
In this video from Mr Sunday Movies Alex from the “Star Wars Explained” channel breaks down how force projections work in The Last Jedi and how they relate to Luke Skywalker, The Emperor Yoda, The Emperor and…others probably!
Watch as conductor Christopher Dragon (in a t-rex costume) conducts an orchestra performing John William’s Jurassic Park theme at Comic Con Colorado last year. Seriouly, the tiny arms of a t-rex are just perfect for this job!
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Darth Vader constantly was changing and making minor to extreme alterations to his cybernetic suit following revenge of the Sith and in this video we explore why Vader was never satisfied with his cybernetics and why he chose to always make changes.
When Youtuber Patrick Nan saw an illustration featuring Bruce Lee with lightsabers, he just knew he had to create a similar scene using real footage. The man then took a scene from Fist of Fury (1972) and added a little magic so that Bruce Lee would appear to wield lightsabers Nnunchucks. How how cool is that? Check it out below!
I have to mention that some living organism can tolerate temperatures that go down to 0 Kelvin, namely the Ozobranchus jantseanus, a leech that lives on Japanese turtles, or the Polypedilum vanderplanki (The larva of a fly), which can survive at -270°C by drying itself out completely.
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