Time for the next 5 videos in Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X! This year is turning out to be a great one, well planned out with its divisions between classic horror, modern horror, crazy messed up things that make you wonder “what the hell?” and all things in between. This time, we take a look at …
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Jim Sterling and I Feel The Same Way About Virtual Reality
Game Journalist Jim Sterling released a video in his Jimquisition series this week which discussed, quite critically, the current state of, and concept in general of virtual reality. I wrote earlier this year about some of my criticisms of the entire idea, and practical application of VR on a whole. To sum it up, because …
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The Launch of Apollo 7
48 Years ago today, Apollo 7 launched on the first manned flight of the Apollo Program, and the first manned flight on a Saturn 1B rocket. This mission, a planned 2 week stay in orbit testing the Apollo Command / Service Module system with a crew, was the mission originally planned for Apollo 1. 18 …
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45 Years Ago, The Sad End Of The Worlds First Space Station: Salyut 1
On October 11th, 1971, the worlds first Space Station, Salyut 1, burned up on reentry over the Pacific ocean after just 175 days in orbit, and 2 crewed missions to the station. It was the first in a long series of Salyut Stations, a design heritage that would span all the way to the Mir …
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You Asked For It
Social media, by design, is an outlet for people to express themselves, and share their opinions. Anyone with any active social media presence will inevitably see someone, somewhere “complaining” about something, and if you are the average person, it probably annoys you. Hold that thought, for a moment. Them sharing their opinion annoys you, does …
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About That Podcast…
The plan was today to record the first episode of XadaraCast, with my buddy Prince Watercress. That didn’t go as planned. After an hour solid of us trying to record, take after take of the opening, and us having what we thought were 2 good takes until about halfway through, we decided to just quit …
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Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X – Episodes 1 Through 5
As promised when October began, here are the first 5 videos in Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X. Breaking it up into batches of 5 should keep things easier for you all to enjoy the series in bigger doses than daily videos (and also not completely flood my site with James’s content) but also doing a smaller …
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XadaraCast, Coming Soon!
Long time followers of my work, primarily those who follow me on Twitter and YouTube, will remember a little project known as Xadara Gamechat, an audio podcast where I and a friend would discuss gaming subjects, new and old. While a very fun project to work on, sometimes there were issues, and there was content …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol. 1 No. 9: Power Glove
Remember a few days ago when I shared the Angry Video Game Nerd episode on the Power Glove? Well, it was sort of a preview for this video: A full on, sponsored by Mattel, 40 minute video on the Power Glove! Oh man, this thing is a mess. While the video does show proper usage …
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New Posts Are Coming, But First: A Windows 2000 Machine
Hello awesome readers! Today I had a few articles planned, but I got delayed by a wonderful little project today, that being a computer from 2002 that I picked up for all of 10 dollars, and it works fine. Well, it works fine from a machine standpoint. However, the machine, as it was, needed work. …
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The Sputnik Moment
The story of Sputnik 1 is far more than just a simple satellite going into orbit. When Sputnik 1 launched in October of 1957, the United States was caught by absolute surprise. How could the Soviets beat the Americans into putting up an artificial Satellite? What did this mean they could do next? What would …
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59 Years Ago, Sputnik 1
It was 59 years ago today that the world entered the Space Age. On the desert steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan, early in the morning of October 5th (local time October 4th here in the United States) 1957, deep within a missile test range, an R-7 missile took flight. This wouldn’t be a normal flight for …
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Apollo Spacecraft Status Report No. 2 1966 NASA
In 1966, as Project Gemini was wrapping up, Project Apollo was starting to, quite literally, get off the ground – Complete Apollo CSM’s began unmanned flights, and the Lunar Module, while delayed quite a bit, was still starting to become a real machine. Everything was looking to be progressing smoothly before the Apollo 1 fire …
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Voyager 2 Saturn Flyby in 1981 – 1986 NASA JPL Film
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and 2 probes were sent out on missions to observe Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as their moons, rings, and anything else they could discover on their journeys out of the solar system. Voyager 1 was sent on a more specialized mission for only Jupiter and …
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The Power Glove – Angry Video Game Nerd – Episode 14
As I mentioned earlier, it’s October, the time of super spooky things. Wanna know something scary for most Nintendo era gamers? The Power Glove. Produced by Mattel Electronics, The Power Glove was intended to provide a new way to play games on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Most people, however, or so memories would lead us …
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