Author: Jack Slater
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The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Dan Benjamin (of many fine podcasts at 5by5) and Merlin Mann (of Back to Work and Roderick on the Line) recently recorded a podcast about the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski is such a great movie in all of its nonsense, and as Dan and Merlin point out we all know a Dude but…
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Where is SimCopter 2015?
SimCopter was an incredible game idea, implemented about as well as 1996 allowed. It felt like the ambulance missions in GTA, plus a little bit of firefighting in the form of buckets full of water, but in a helicopter, and every mission was in the cities you made in SimCity 2000. Unfortunately, at the time…
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Elite: Dangerous Finally on Steam
Crowdfunded space trucking simulator and long-time hold-out, Elite: Dangerous, is now available on Steam. Cashed in the remaining money I’d made from selling trading-cards to get it. At this time Frontier’s (Elite’s developer) Elite: Dangerous doesn’t have any Steam-specific features, and like some games you’re only downloading the initial launcher through Steam. All updates appear to be through the…
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The Talos Principle Review (PC)
What if people were robots who were created from, and routinely yelled at by, an angry god that just wants to be respected and obeyed when he asks you to maybe solve some puzzles without questioning him so much? He just wants you to go along with what he says to do no matter how…
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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X
Dave James reviewing the new $999 graphics card from Nvidia: Inside that chunky chip are 24 streaming microprocessors (SMM) in six graphics processing clusters (GPC). With the Maxwell design running to 128 CUDA cores in each SMM that makes for a grand total of 3,072 cores in the GTX Titan X. Completing the core configuration…