A study in Cardboard

I suspect that we’ve all battled friends, siblings or imaginary dragons with cardboard tubes wielded as fearsome Swords of Legend. Some of us have probably built forts from discarded boxes, and I bet that one or two have purposed cardboard tubes and boxes into crude but amusing robot costumes.
This kid makes all your shit look [...]

Umbrella of Destruction

Here in London, there’s nothing unusual about people carrying around umbrellas, even if it’s sunny. After all, the weather can change in a second and no one wants to get their bowler hat soaked.
But who knew that all these sensible, brolly-toting bankers could actually be hefting around LETHAL WEAPONS?
Unintentionally hilarious video proof:

Yeah! Yeah, suit dude, [...]

Choose Your Own Decapitation

Here they are. Every single fatality in the Mortal Kombat series. Witness seven minutes of unrelenting mutilation, torture and death. Stop thinking about it as a video game. Start imagining it as one of the many levels of Dante’s Hell. Marvel as the protagonists’ agonized screams eventually take on a plaintive, desperate quality, as though [...]

This Week In Miscellanea/Metal: “Cunning Stunts”

1. GTA 4 stunt jumping: Rusty compulsively hunts jumps. See Rusty jump. Jump, Rusty Jump!
2. Care to listen to some brand new Dragonforce? Stream “Heroes of Our Time” from the new record, Ultra Beatdown, due out August 25th!
3.  Are you like Tanith? Do you seek to release your inner goth? Poisonblack will release A Dead Heavy [...]

Divided Nerds Weep, Cheer as DnD 4th Edition Debuts

Wizards of the Coast have released the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, arguably the most popular tabletop role-playing game in the world. The new ruleset focuses on faster, more action-oriented play - not unlike the current version of the Star Wars RPG played by most of the O514 crew - and is in [...]

Coolness: Now in Robots

Exhibit A:

This is the first step towards exhibit B:

As with all tech, the parts will get smaller and smaller, and function faster and faster . . . Whoa.
What could such robots do? How about scout out a village?

When Pigs Fly

Remember: you’re responsible for where you leave your stuff:

Gaming Skill in Action: More Warbots

Meet Crusher, a 7-tonne autonomous military vehicle. Humans can take direct control if necessary, using an Xbox controller to raise and lower Crusher’s antenna, rotate its camera and fire its onboard machine gun. Stephen Welby, director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office joked that soldiers “could finally put their Halo skills to good use.”
Continuing the theme is [...]

3…2…1… Fail.

Because the FAIL Blog makes me laugh, and in tribute to Tanith’s missile post, I present…

Hope They Kept the Receipt

Oops!