50 years ago today, on November 3rd 1966, the United States Air Force launched the 6th Titan III-C booster on a very unique test flight. Sitting atop the powerful launch vehicle was an extension made from a spare Titan I rocket oxidizer tank classified as OPS 0855, built to simulate an orbital laboratory payload, and …
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Time Marches Forward – An Update
Ah, been a while since I really sat down and typed up what’s on my mind in regards to this site, future projects, and what have you. It’s also 3AM and I really should be heading to bed, but of course, I can’t. GO ME right? Anyway, let’s get down to business. I’m happy with …
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Rumor: WiiU Production Ends This Week
I am not one to follow the rumor train – generally they are all just wild fantasies that someone gets wind of and spreads it like fact, when it’s clearly unlikely. Generally though, rumors of the end of production on hardware and software tend to be true more often than not. In this case, just …
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Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X – Day 31, And The End Of Monster Madness!
It’s October 31st, Halloween! Of course, this means it’s also the last day of Monster Madness, not just for this year, but, as it has existed for the past 10 years, for good. James Rolfe has produced the yearly series of 31 reviews at a great expense to his other projects – he has said …
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Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X – Episodes 26 Through 30
This is it! We’re at the last week of October, and the last week of Monster Madness! Tomorrow, I’ll try to do something special, but for now, let’s cover the next (and final) 5 videos from Monster Madness X! More Frankenstein’s monster, more Dracula, and even Rocky Horror Picture Show round out this tail end …
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Non PC DOOM Clones – Nostalgia Nerd
Ah, Doom. Arguably the FPS of the Halloween season, and certainly one of the most legendary games on the PC side of things. With a new release this past years, Doom, as a series, is still alive and strong. Let’s go back, however, to the early 90’s UK gaming scene: The IBM-PC computer architecture that …
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Twitter Is Shutting Down Vine – Good Riddance
Apparently Twitter is losing money at a rate large enough for them to not only lay off 9% of its total staff, but it’s killing off Vine, it’s video sharing service for 6 second looping video clips. Good riddance I say. Sure, some people used vine for more interesting clips; Voice actress Tara Strong, for …
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55 Years Ago, The Flight of The First Saturn Rocket: SA-1
On October 27th, 1961, the first Saturn booster, SA-1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on a 15 minute sub-orbital flight to test the booster. This first flight beget a series of 10 Saturn 1 test flights, 9 Saturn 1B flights, and 13 Saturn V flights. Saturn 1 was a …
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Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness X – Episodes 21 Through 25
It’s coming down to the wire, this last week before Halloween! This is one of the absolute best weeks of the year, with everything reaching maximum levels of spooky horror goodness! It’s also well known to be my favorite time of the year, and for good reason: candy, creepy stuff, and an end to the …
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Sometimes I Hate The PlayStation 2 Controller
I go thrifting often, so often I should (and will soon) start a video series on it. Of course, I’m on the hunt for electronics, and I’ve found some amazing things – that Nintendo Wii that I modded with no issue, my original Xbox that has since been so heavily modded it’s barely anything like …
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CGR Makes A Video Private Due To Negative Feedback About Patreon
Mark, of Classic Game Room, released yesterday another video acting as a “preview” for his patreon exclusive content and it was met, once again, with quite the backlash. His 2 minute preview videos that then ask people to donate on Patreon just aren’t cutting it, and people are calling him out on it. Something I …
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XadaraCast Episode 2 Is Out Now!
[UPDATE – THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN ABANDONED. THIS IS A LEGACY POST] XadaraCast Episode 2 is not only out now, but it has been for several days, and I just now got to writing the official xadara entry about it. Go me! In any case, this is a shorter, more to the point episode than …
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A Minor XadaraCast Update
Just a quick heads up for those of you who are following my new podcast, XadaraCast, I just wanted to provide a minor heads up that I’ve changed the file formats for episode 1 and episode 2 from .ogg to .mp3. For some reason, the .ogg file format isn’t as well supported as it should …
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November 2016 Xbox Live Games With Gold
This months Games With Gold list is something else. Another 4 great games, for free, what’s not to love? Okay, the games range from titles that are probably alright to ones known to be absolutely awesome, and vary in genre, so your mileage may vary. They are, of course, free with an active Xbox Live …
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About Today…
Right now it’s almost 3AM on October 25th, and I’m beginning this mini-article, which will be retroactively dated to the 24th, just to keep up with the perfect month of at least one-a-day posts I’ve been doing October. WordPress is great like that, you can just fudge things if need be. Today has been quite …
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