There's a recent tradition of developers screwing with pirates—from releasing enormous, immortal pink scorpions on them, to booby trapping their games with glitches when they get cracked. This weekend, Greenheart Games, creator of Game Dev Tycoon, just blew the curve for everyone. This is fantastic.
Watch the entire music video: http://youtu.be/rHEitsYJnmw
Download the anthem here: http://a.nim.al/15Lf35c
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) discuss a new music video from Jimmy McMillian of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" fame. Tell us whether or not you support Jimmy's bid for Mayor of New York City in the comment section below.
In this paper we examine Google Trends, which is a a real-time daily and weekly index of the volume of queries that users enter into Google. We have found that these query indices are often correlated with various economic indicators and may be helpful for short-term economic prediction.
Tough guy over here.A Brazilian fisherman who accidentally fired a harpoon through his own face survived with minimal brain damage -- and didn't bother to seek medical attention for more than 10 hours.
After Rand Paul's bold and principled stand against drones being used on Americans on U.S. soil, he declared to Neil Cavuto that he's ok with drones being used on a liquor store robber roaming a neighborhood. http://www.inquisitr.com/632487/rand-...
"I've never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on," Paul said. "If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him."
Cenk Uygur breaks down this incredible flip-flop from Senator Rand Paul. Do you think Rand Paul will be running for President in 2016, tell us in the comment section below.
Activists and Internet users protesting the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act -- a cybersecurity bill that passed the House of Representatives Thursday -- have spun the battle as big business interests versus the privacy of individual citizens. If lobbying dollars are anything to go by, they're right: Pro-CISPA businesses and interests have spent 140 times more money on lobbying than anti-CISPA interests, according to the Sunlight Foundation."*
CISPA passed overwhelmingly in the house, despite its promise to allow corporations and the government access to your private data, completely unchecked. It's no wonder after seeing how much money was poured into lobbying for the invasive bill, and who stands to profit. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down with Kim Horcher (Nerd Alert).
Heather Locklear has loads of advice on how to look young ... no, it's not Botox, but it does involve a shot to the face.
It's unclear if Heather is talking about a cream product ... or just an ingredient. It's also unclear if she practices what she preaches and if it works.
But judging by her face ... it could be the funnest beauty treatment ever ... at least for guys."*
Heather Locklear says she uses a special regimen to keep her face looking young: semen. Semen allegedly has "antioxidants" but...really? Is there no better way to smooth wrinkles? Cenk Uygur and Gina Grad discuss.
The great-grandson of the Anheuser-Busch company renounced his membership in the National Rifle Association on Thursday, furious that the NRA helped defeat the Senate bill which would have expanded background checks in response to the tragedy in Newtown."*
Republicans in the pocket of the NRA soundly voted down background checks in the Senate, to the anger of many. 91% of Americans support background checks, but conservatives went out of their way to favor the gun manufacturers lobby over the will of the people. What telling words did lifelong member Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family brewing fortune, say as he resigned the NRA? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
CNN on Wednesday backtracked after badly botching a report that a "dark-skinned male" had been arrested in connection with the Monday bombings of the Boston Marathon.
At around 1 p.m. ET, CNN's John King came on the air to say that "law enforcement sources" had told him that a suspect had been identified based on surveillance video taken from a Boston Lord & Taylor department store."*
There was no suspect arrest Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing, but CNN reported that not only had police captured a suspect, but that he was a "dark skinned" male. Wolf Blitzer even went on to imply that the suspect in the FALSE, baseless report was foreign. Who faces consequences for CNN's huge mistake made in haste to get the "breaking news scoop?" Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Oops they did it again? It's another day, another GOP gaffe, another condemnation stemming from all sides of the political spectrum, and yet another sexist remark that makes feminists everywhere want to claw eyes out in frustration."*
New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Hansen referred to women as "vaginas" in an email to his colleagues. Did he apologize for referring to women as only their genitals? Not really, but he's sorry if you "feel" that way. Cenk Uygur and Gina Grad (Pretty Good Podcast) discuss.
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Nintendo will release a new Legend of Zelda game for Nintendo 3DS based on the world of A Link to the Past later this year, the company announced today. A sequel to the Super NES original, the game will feature new mechanics, including the ability for Link to become a 2D drawing and move along walls.
Mars One, the ambitious (some might say crazy) project that aims to make the red planet's colonization into a successful reality TV show, will begin accepting video submissions for its first batch of astronauts in July. In an attempt to separate serious candidates from dreamers, the company plans to institute an entry fee that will vary depending on your native country. It's reportedly going to top off at $25 though, so hopefuls won't need to take out a second mortgage to plot out their departure from Earth. The mandatory fee is also a means for Mars One to secure funding for the actual trip and Mars colony buildout."*
Inspiration Mars is accepting applications for a couple to take a 501 day trip to Mars and back. Is it safe? Would you want to apply for this possibly deadly trip that won't actually land on the red planet? Cenk Uygur and Dave Rubin discuss.
The military justice system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been dogged by charges of secret monitoring of proceedings and defense communications, became embroiled in a fresh controversy Thursday when it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of defense e-mails were turned over to the prosecution."*
In what is seen as a desperate attempt to keep Guantanamo Bay prisoners in their cells, emails with sensitive information from their defense attorneys were turned over to the prosecution. How else were the prisoners compromised? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Has the porn industry abandoned Los Angeles?
It seems that way, if you consider that the organization that handles permits for movie shoots has only had two requests for adult films this year, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Compare that to the roughly 500 permit requests that the organization told the news outlet it usually receives every year, and you get an idea of how dramatic the falloff in adult film production has been in Los Angeles."*
In the past November elections, Measure B passed in Los Angeles County, which forced pornstars to wear condoms in their movies. Has that affected how porn is made? Yes, but not how voters expected. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Host, TYT University), and Catie Lazarus (Employee of the Month podcast).
"As runners in the Boston Marathon charged over the finish line Monday afternoon, two bomb blasts released orange balls of fire into the air, lifting runners off their feet, killing at least three people, injuring more than 130 others, and driving Boston and the nation once more into the grim work of responding to terror."*I hadn't seen that footage, so it's pretty chilling.
Two explosions at the Boston Marathon has killed 2 people and injured many, and have caused a panic nationwide. We know it was a planned attack. We suspect terrorism. But we have no idea who the perpetrators are and what they represent, but it shouldn't matter whether the attackers were foreign, domestic, conservatives, or liberal-- a culprit is a culprit. As Cenk Uygur explains, we should seek justice, but never lose our senses of rationality.
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
75 people died today in the Boston metro area. And yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that. The explosion today wouldn't even be noticeable on a graph.
That's not to suggest that the right response is to be calloused to bad things happening, but it's extremely important to have that perspective if you're thinking about how to fix those bad things (and if fixing them is worth the opportunity cost).
...in fact, what I want to really encourage you to remember is that horrible things are happening around the world on a continual basis - so continual that they're not considered newsworthy. But the continual horrible things that aren't newsworthy tend to be the things that are much easier to fix - like child mortality from malnutrition, preventable diseases spread because of lack of access to clean water.
So if you take some time to mourn something tragic today, maybe also take the time to mourn the 20,000 children who will die today (and tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day) because of easily fixable problems...and maybe think about what you can do about it.
