At first, the original Star Wars movie was a disaster, but thanks to some brilliant editors, the movie was recut and rearranged to become the classic we all know and love today.
If you want to watch some of the deleted scenes, you can check them out right here.
Gremlins: Recall is an unnoficial sequel to the 1984 classic and tells the story of a company that attemps to medicate Mogwai so that they never transform into infamous gremlins. Naturally, things end up going very badly, and a few of the innocent creatures transform into their evil counterparts.
The film follows Claire as she works the late night shift in her aunt’s diner. When she sees Owen, a Mogwai delivery driver, torturing the cute creatures, she tries to take matters into her own hands, not knowing what they can become.
Puzzle Pod is an ingenious, unique, and fun way to deliver a gift by means of a brain teaser puzzle….and a good way to taunt someone. With a coin slot, it’s also doubles as a coin bank. You set your own personalized combination – a five letter code word. Lock your wrapped or unwrapped gift inside, and then send someone on treasure hunt adventure, Da Vinci Code style. Instead of just the typical gift, create a stimulating intellectual challenge for your friends, family or coworkers to test their code breaking skills. They won’t get your gift until they figure out the solution.
This morning, Columbia has just released their new echo base line of Star Wars jackets inpired by the coats worn by Luke, Leia and Han while they were on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. All jackets are water-resistant and feature Omni-Heat reflective insulation. Available starting today.
Even though we won’t be seeing “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” until June next year, the trailer for the movie dropped tonight during the Falcons/Saints football game on NBC. Naturally, it was available online almost exactly at the same time.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will hit the big screen on June 22, 2018 in the US and on June 7, 2018 in the UK.
Just a quick post to let you guys know that Thinkgeek currently has a huge sale on geeky calendars, and there’s over 40 to choose from featuring themes such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros, Harry Potter, and A LOT MORE! And most are priced at under $10!
Watch as two buffoons stumble into a real life Orc Fight Club and battle a bunch of orc… to the death!
Steam has stopped accepting bitcoin in payment for games. It’s blaming high transaction fees and logistical problems caused by the cryptocurrency’s extreme price volatility.
While one of the selling points of cryptocurrencies is no transaction fees, it is possible to pay a voluntary fee. This goes to the ‘miner’ that creates the relevant block and understandably many miners will give priority to transactions with a fee. That’s led to a situation where effectively the more you’re willing to pay for a bitcoin transaction, the quicker the payment is processed. That’s particularly relevant for online payments for digital games where a customer expects to be able to complete the purchase and download the game with little or no delay.
According to Steam, the transaction fees needed to make bitcoin a viable payment method were around 20 cents when it first started accepting payments; today the average cost is pushing $20, something that is unworkable given the value of the transactions for digital games.
It also says that the price volatility of bitcoin is making payments unsustainable. While the price has generally been rocketing, there have also been short but substantial swings downwards.
That creates the problem where a Steam customer trying to pay the equivalent of, say, $30 for a game will make a bitcoin payment. By the time the transaction is completed, the amount of bitcoin they paid (and Steam receives) may be worth substantially less or more than that $30.
The difference is often so great that Steam has to either issue a partial refund in bitcoin or ask the customer to make a top-up payment, both of which mean another transaction fee. In fact the price volatility is so great than in some cases customers have made a top-up payment, the bitcoin price has changed again, and the total amount Steam has received is still significantly short of the dollar value.
As a result, Steam says supporting bitcoin has “become untenable.” It says it may re-evaluate this decision at a later date.
[Source: Noob the Loser on Facebook]
Sure, sharks and anglerfish might be a little scary in real life, but as mugs, they’re totally cute! Both are microwave save, but only the shark mug can be cleaned in a dishwasher. The anglerfish mug should be hand washed only.
