One of the goals in the rocketry ethos of SpaceX is reusability – This past year they have seemingly mastered the art of landing a booster back on Earth and, if need be, onto ocean barges (quite an incredible thing when you think about how rough ocean waters are). Later this evening, they plan on …
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April 2017 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Wow, I’m late as anything for this one. The video was uploaded about a week ago, but I just now went back to see it – looks like I missed it when it was uploaded. In any case, time to cover another months free games on Xbox Live. Edit: I originally published this with the …
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GameStop Store Closings – Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen
Gamestop announced that sales for the last quarter of 2016 – That is, the holiday season – were much lower than they expected. So much lower that, to help buffer costs, the company is planning to close about 3% of its stores worldwide, which equates to somewhere around 150-250 stores, depending on your source. This …
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Some Mild Burnout
It was bound to happen, sooner or later – I’m starting to get slightly burnt out on writing about some things. Oddly, of all the things it could be, rocket launches. Not classic ones, far from it, but current ones. It’s all the same stuff, really, and while each launch is unique to watch, it …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 5: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Episode Review
Here we have the episode that blew up and made James and his game review series the phenomena it became: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES.
Of Course The Nintendo Switch Has Had Record-Breaking Sales
The Switch is certainly the hot system we all expected it to be; reports are that the console has sold better for its launch than any other system in Nintendo history, and some say that it is going to outsell the Wii, the top selling console in history, as time passes. Let’s take this in …
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The Saturn V Rocket And The F-1 Engine “The Conquest Of Space”
2017 marks 50 years since the first flight of the Saturn V rocket, the booster which not only helped put humans on the Moon (6 times) but also put America’s first (and only) space station, Skylab, into orbit. In use for only 6 years, the Saturn V launched a total of 13 times, performing it’s …
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Re: The Power Of Blogging
Blogging is a somewhat dead medium. It used to be the most popular form of expression on the internet – today, YouTube has pretty much supplanted it, and the “vlog” (video-log) format has supplanted what information blogs once provided. Sure, a video can be more enjoyable than text, in some cases, but there is a …
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Bits And Bytes – Program 2: Ready-Made Programs
Returning to Bits and Bytes, we step into the land of ready made programs: that is, software that you just put in and run. You don’t have to write it yourself in basic. Of course, this is how computers are for us today, naturally – we have everything we could ever need, and probably more, …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 4: Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Episode Review
Next up in what was at the time “The Angry Nintendo Nerd” we have a review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the NES.
10 Years Of Xadara – What’s The Point?
So, I’ve explained to the best of my ability just what the name “xadara” actually means (if anything) and the origins and story of the website itself, but one question still remains: What’s the point? Indeed, that’s the question that is probably most important, but can be answered so simply, What’s the point? Well, there …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol. 1 No. 1
Getting back onto the video game scene, we have the first proper video in the Game Players magazine gametape series. There are about 10 of these to come, with me already having covered the Super Mario Bros. 2 tape, and the Power Glove tape. This video features the games Double Dragon, Bionic Commando, Milon’s Secret …
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10 Years Of Xadara – What Exactly Is “Xadara”?
I’m sure it’s a question that’s come up to people who stumble across this site: What is Xadara? Does it have some kind of meaning? Is it just a name? How do you even pronounce it? Where does it come from? Might as well cover it all, for those curious. Let’s begin! What is the …
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10 Years Of Xadara – A Condensed History
That’s right, this little hole in the wall website has been around for a whole decade! Call out from work, school, or whatever you have going on and get ready to party! No, actually, don’t do that. Be a responsible person and continue your normal life. Seriously though, it has indeed been 10 years to …
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EchoStar 23 Successfully Launched On A Falcon 9 Booster
This morning was the successful launch of of the EchoStar 23 communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on a Falcon 9 booster. This is the second launch of a Falcon 9 from LC-39, and the 3rd successful launch since the September 2016 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket on LC-40. It looks …
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