So, in the event you have been living under a rock and not been aware, there has been, over the past few months, a massive backlash against YouTube and its content ID system, known as “Where’s the Fair Use” ( #WTFU). Any search on that tag shows video after video, post after post, tweet after …
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May 2016 Xbox Live Games with Gold
Microsoft released the new Games With Gold video for the month of may, and sadly, I have to say this months Games With Gold listing is not as good as it could be. The titles present don’t look bad, but at the same rate, they don’t strike me as anything to leap for. Let’s look …
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30 Years Later: The Chernobyl Disaster
On the morning of Saturday, April 26th, 1986, at 1:23 AM local time just outside the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, reactor #4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station exploded, releasing several tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere, covering both the area immediately around the power station but also depositing dangerous amounts of material in …
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Cutting Back on YouTube Content Creation (Part 3)
Getting feedback on YouTube videos you upload is a great thing. Seeing that your how-to video helped someone fix a broken device, or knowing someone smiled at that video of your cat playing is wonderful. It’s great to know someone watched and took the time to let you know what they thought. Even just a …
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Cutting Back on YouTube Content Creation (Part 2)
As touched on in my last article, one of the major elements of this YouTube burnout is the sheer time it takes to create a video. While an article could take all of 15 minutes to write, a video with the same content might take upwards of 2 to 3 hours to make, under less …
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Cutting Back on YouTube Content Creation (Part 1)
As some of my readers may know, and certainly virtually all of my close friends are aware, I produce content on my YouTube channel. YouTube Content Creation, or really, making videos of any kind, has been for the better part of a decade something I have always wanted to do, and in the past few …
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Life On The Space Station Mir
The Russian Space Station Mir orbited the Earth from 1986 until 2001. Over that time, it served as ever-expanding space laboratory where research on a wide variety of subjects was conducted. The legacy of the Salyut space station series before it, Mir was designed with multiple berthing ports for expansion modules, allowing for more specialized …
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Microsoft is Ending Production of the Xbox 360
A decade ago, on November 22nd, 2005, Microsoft released its second console, the Xbox 360, onto the world. Featuring an enhanced version of the growing Xbox Live online service, and far surpassing the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube of the previous generation, the system was met with massive demand and popularity, this continuing strongly for …
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We Close When We Close
I don’t talk much about my day to day life on here, but a situation the other night had me wanting to write an article on, as silly as it seems, the fact that, yes, stores close for the night. To establish the setting, it was just a few minutes before closing time, on a …
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Titanfall 2 Teaser Trailer
Titanfall, released in 2014, was quite the unique game. A typical online first person shooter with a unique twist – giant battling robots mixed in with on-ground troops. Throw in some unique weapons and parkour elements in-game, and you have a release that I enjoyed. The game wasn’t as well received by everyone, however. Titanfall …
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First Orbit
In 2011, for the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarins flight in Vostok 1, a film, titled First Orbit, was released which told the story of the flight in an incredibly unique way: from the perspective of Gagarin himself. The International Space Station, having a core of Russion components, orbits in the same inclination as Vostok …
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35 Years Ago, Columbia – The First Space Shuttle Flight
On April 12th, 1981, 20 years to the day from Yuri Gagarin’s history making Vostok 1 flight came the first flight of the Space Transportation System, more commonly known as the Space Shuttle. It was pure coincidence, as the Shuttle was originally scheduled to fly in 1979, but delay after delay, even up to the …
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55 Years Ago, The Flight of Vostok 1
The year was 1961. The Cold war was at it’s peak intensity, and both the Soviet Union and the United States were rushing to prove their technological superiority by putting a human into space. It was 3 years since Sputnik, since Explorer 1, and in that time both United States and Soviet booster, life support, …
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Dear Parents: Modern Game Consoles Demand Internet Access
Working in game sales for the day job, I quite often have parents buying new video games, and new game consoles, for their children.That’s great, let the younger ones game on cutting edge hardware for their time, just as I did in the 90’s. The thing is, it isn’t the 90’s anymore. Gaming hardware is …
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The End of the Playstation 2 and Final Fantasy XI on Consoles
March 31st, 2016 marked the end of an era of gaming. Final Fantasy XI, the first MMORPG in the nearly 3 decades old Final Fantasy series had its console servers for the Playstation 2 and the Xbox 360 shut down on that day. For the 360, it was just one of many games on the …
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