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EU Hearthstone players get free packs to compensate for connection issues
The best way to say sorry is with free stuff.
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What's on your HDTV: 'Mad Men' finale
After seven seasons (the last one stretched out as far as it will go), AMC's flagship series Mad Men is coming to an end this weekend. While some will say goodbye to Don Draper and the rest of the crew (Google Play put together a "fan experience" to ...
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The first solar bike path is producing more energy than expected
Back in November, SolaRoad launched a test bike path that generates energy through solar cells embedded in the concrete. It sounds like an outlandish idea, but it's apparently paying off very quickly. The company has revealed that its road has genera...
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Game of Thrones continues to break piracy records despite HBO's best efforts
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Every date this week, and a good portion of the following one, is a palindrome.
Every date this week, and a good portion of the following one, is a palindrome. Is this an emergent feature of our largely arbitrary calendar system? Absolutely. But our brains are wired to seek out patterns, even meaningless ones, and it sure is fun when we find one—let alone ten in a row.
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Clean Corroded Car Battery Terminals with Coca Cola
If you ever find yourself with a car that won’t start because of corroded battery terminals, you can get yourself going again with just a can of Coca Cola.
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The only technique to learn something new
I had a friend who wanted to get better at painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right. She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent lights, filling out paperwork all day. Read the rest
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I am so down to play as Trish in Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition
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Transformers Fixes A Pair Of Glaring Combiner Wars Errors
Two of the biggest problems with Hasbro’s nostalgia-fueled Combiner Wars Transformers line so far were a helicopter named Alpha Bravo and a pickup truck named Off-Road. Thanks for filling in, guys—your replacements have arrived.
It’s not that fans were intolerant of a helicopter filling in for a fighter jet in the Autobot’s Aerialbots team or a pickup truck taking the place of a sports car in the Stunticons. It’s just that they didn’t quite fit in. And they brought property values ways down. And we didn’t want our young robots going to school with them.
Wasn’t it bad enough the Aerialbots had to make due with a Stunticon in their line-up?
Well it’s all water under the bridge now, as Hasbro releases a pair of figures specifically aimed at letting us fans move on to fresh complaint topics, like Protectobot Groove being relegated to chest plate duty.
Available exclusively at online retailers starting this month, Quickslinger and Brake-Neck are the solution to Superion and Menasor’s phantom limb problem.
Quickslinger (or Sling Blade, as I call him) is a pretty horrible rename of Slingshot, one of the original flying five. He’s a repaint of the more appealingly-renamed Firefly (from Fireflight) with a sexy new sunglasses-sporting head.
With his power combined, he makes Superion a great deal more Superior, as seen in this lovely image from our friends at Tformers.com.
Meanwhile, at the Decepticon base, Off-Road has been exiled to a lonely place on the shelf, somewhere behind the Happy Meal toys, as Brake-Neck née Wildrider takes his rightful place.
Brake-Neck is a repaint of Combiner Wars Dead End, so we know he’s quality, even if his name makes absolutely no sense. I get Breakneck, but Brake-Neck?
At least he makes Menasor look mighty fine, as demonstrated by this dynamic picture from Ben’s World of Transformers, home of the elder statesman of Transformers reviews, Benson Yee, who I’ve been reading since newsgroups were a thing.
Much better. Almost makes up for his tiny little head and horrible crotch. Menasor, not Ben.
It’s nice to see a company like Hasbro sticking up for not only its hardcore fans, but also the online retail community, which is always looking for ways to keep collector’s out of the Walmarts and Targets. Mistakes were made, jets and helicopters living together, mass hysteria, but now everything is going to be alright, until the next thing goes wrong.
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It Took 10,000 LEGO Bricks To Build The Millennium Falcon's Interior
Singapore-based LEGO builders Titans Creations made a 10,000-brick model of the Millennium Falcon. The focus here is on its interior.
It’s a massive 3’7”-by-3’3” set with 24 lights built into the hyperdrive, the cockpit, and the corridors. All of this took two months to complete, and the result is much bigger and detailed than the official UCS Millennium Falcon.
Here are some close-ups and a larger version of the whole build below so you can zoom in. Check out Titans Creations’ Flickr or Facebook page for more pics and for a video of the creation.
To contact the author of this post, write to: gergovas@kotaku.com
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F2P mobile game makers, there's a new publishing program for you
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Watching these guys climb a 2165-foot tall tower made my nerves go crazy
God almighty, I can’t feel a damn thing in my body anymore because watching these two maniacs climb the still under construction 2165-foot tall Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen, China is the most blood halting thing. When completed it’ll be the 2nd tallest building in the world and the tallest building in China.
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We're one step closer to navigable 3D pictures of real places
If you've experienced a VR representation of a real place, chances are that you've just been looking around a static, 360-degree panorama of a room. OTOY believes that the days of the fixed-camera 3D picture are now done thanks to light-field technol...
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Triumphant Tories vow to ram through mass spying bill -- you can stop them!
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How We Learned Chlorine Gas Is Not An Effective Cold Remedy
We know that chlorine is incredibly dangerous if inhaled. It destroys lung tissue, causing people to asphyxiate on their own pulped lungs. It was used as a weapon in World War I, and soldiers were terrified of it. .So why did a US President and a good chunk of Congress get gassed with it as a medical treatment?
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