Alright, finally we’re getting to something that will feel familiar to everyone: networking! More correctly, the pre-internet computer networking methodology known as BBS’s, via literally dialing a number and putting a phone on the modulator-demodulator – a modem, if you are old enough to remember those kinds of things! This episode shows our friend Billy […]
In a nice bit of scammer news, a man by the name of Sagar Thakkar was arrested in Mumbai as the suspected leader of a ring of IRS phone scammers. I’ve covered a few of these scams before, where people are cold-called out of nowhere and told that they owe some extremely high amount in […]
Psycho Family is a documentary, released April 3rd of 2017, which covers the story of the YouTube video phenomena known as “The Psycho Series.” I covered the gist of the series in my previous article on the documentary, so we will skip that and go right into the review. The Documentary is broken up into […]
On June 6th, 2016, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway ended what would become known as “The Psycho Series”, a 3 year video series that spanned at its core 50 episodes, but in total included well over 600 videos over those 3 years, all of which told the story of a young gamer and his dysfunctional family. You […]
Many of the people I socialize with on Facebook stem from the local anime convention scene. While I’m starting to get burnt out on conventions on a whole, I do still go to them and pay some attention to the scene; at least, when I feel like it. Making the rounds on my feed though […]
YouTube is getting to a point where many content creators are just plain sick of it. There are as many problems as there are people who produce content for the site, it would seem, and many people are finally letting their opinions be known. A much needed vent. Read: https://t.co/xXfFl8YKis — Kim Justice | twitch.tv/kim_justice […]
In today’s episode of “The Jimquisition”, Jim Sterling finally told the story about Digital Homicide suing him over his covering of their video games on the Steam software distribution service. I covered Jim Sterling and Digital Homicide before, sharing a few videos on the subject – if you haven’t seen those articles, they are worth […]
So, in my drive to constantly provide my opinion (for what it’s worth) on everything I like (or don’t like, in some cases) I’ve had the crazy idea to review every single Angry Video Game Nerd episode. That’s right, every single one. Why? Well, why not? Why not detail the evolution of the show, and […]
Now for something completely different and rather amusing, I bring you something quite random I found out about only towards the tail end of it happening: The Facebook page Super Deluxe had a live race between a Tortoise and a Hare, as per the classic story. https://www.facebook.com/superdeluxevideo/videos/417564681921421/ It looks like all the two had to […]
I don’t just pay attention to tech support scams. I find most any type of scam interesting, not just in the actual application of such and spreading awareness of these things, but also the back-end of these scams: where these people come from, how they pull off what they do, and how they skirt the […]
Another video from Jim Browning today, this one another case of him hunting down the people behind a pop-up based tech support scam. Sure enough, much like the previous tech support scam video I shared, a quick bit of detective work on Jim’s part gets him in touch with a very nervous sounding company owner. […]
From the looks of things, tech support scammers don’t hide their tracks well. They use fake pop-up warnings and fake software to scare people into calling and paying for their services, and these pages and software often have traces of the actual owner buried in them somewhere. The people at the tops of these scams […]
A little while back I wrote about the eurobeat music YouTube channel “Eurolovers” being taken down. Following that, I found out that someone had shared it on Reddit, not once now, but twice. Not only that, it has also been mentioned on Eurobeat Prime, one of, if not the top Eurobeat fan site out there. […]
Yep, that happened. During the chaos of Tommy Sotomayor DMCA takedown chaos on the Drunken Peasants youtube channel, we have Complex, an entertainment and news publication with a somewhat urban slant, filing a copyright claim resulting in the blocking of Drunken Peasants episode 309 worldwide. https://twitter.com/DrunkenPeasants/status/809472968938045440 I was only able to watch half the episode […]
I’m not going to lie – I avoid Reddit. Something about open discussion sites of that nature has just never appealed to me. I could go more in depth, but that isn’t the point here. The point is, I don’t go there. The other day, I noticed my traffic was oddly high (and at the […]