Nuclear Monster

  • Wilson Rothman has this review of a new printer series from Epson:

    Epson’s new move is a sly one. Rather than compete on price, the printer maker is dropping the cartridge issue entirely. When you buy an EcoTank printer–for instance, the ET-2550, which closely resembles Epson’s XP-420–you fill up its four-chambered reservoir with ink from plastic containers included with the printer. There’s a satisfying feeling of dumping all of that ink into the tubs. You then let the printer prime itself and your ink worries are over.

    This is fascinating. Everybody hates the current state of printing at home and generally at work it isn’t much better if you’re using fairly standard printers there, too. These printers are already up for pre-order. I can’t believe I’m thinking about pre-ordering a boring printer. Right now my HP printer is a piece of complete garbage, it’s so bad that I’ve named it appropriately:

    Incredible Piece of HP Shit

  • Evan Lahti has this article on how much he loves Splash Damage’s Dirty Bomb:

    At its peak, when some popular streamers and YouTubers were being paid to play it, Dirty Bomb was drawing as many as 13,000 concurrent players. I didn’t get swept up by that initial wave of attention, but I wish I had: Dirty Bomb, still in beta, is one of the best multiplayer FPSes you can play today.

    I like its rhythm. I like its map flow. I like that one of the characters has an ever-replenishing grenade launcher that I never have to reload. Here’s why I think Dirty Bomb is worth your time.

    I’m going to have to check it out.

  • Brian Ashcraft has a translation of a report from Nikkei about how Konami treats their employees. Unsurprisingly, it’s awful. Your next game fails after a string of successes? You’re now demoted to scrubbing toilets, cleaning gym equipment, or making slot machines.

  • If you want to skip the waiting line to force the Windows 10 upgrade from 7 or 8 today, follow this link and click the buttons. I did this successfully on both a laptop that runs Windows 7, and one that runs Windows 8.

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