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http://www.gofundme.com/3a5f64 This page has been created to help John Young get a second chance at life and to help Donna care for her son. John is doing everything in his power to get a heart transplant. He is selling all of his belongings and risking it all to get the chance for a new heart and new life. Please, help in any way you can. No donation is too small. Thank You for all your help and your prayers. May God bless you. We're also hoping to be able to setup a 24 hour or longer donation live cast with all of our streamers on our Twitch channel. If enough people donated just 50 cents, he and his mother could at least move to Colorado and get started at gettin…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIOMETRIC!!! Have a great day, Bio! Thanks for making new members feel welcomed when they join, too. We appreciate that very much.

So this is a bit of a humble brag but I am going to be gone next week on a 7 day Caribbean cruise with my wife, not that I post alot any way but I am real excited to go, we just signed up for the cruise last week so its pretty short notice. I will post some pics when we get back

I will be going out of town from Friday June 1st and won't be back until Sunday June 10th. I'll have my phone with me to check in from time to time, but if there are any major problems I may not see them immediately. If any site problems arise during that time shoot me an email at admin@gamercide.org or message me in twitter @dateranoth

So you know about the Ouya, correct? The tiny liitle android box that was a Kickstarter success? Ok, here we go. Ouya didn't rent a booth at E3. Not sure exactly why really (I didn't research), but they decided that they were going to have a booth in the parking lot across the street from the E3 convention. COMMENCE DOUCHBAGGERY! Ouya was doing their thing, having their booth and trying to show off their console. However the organizers of E3 (the ESA) apparently didn't like the fact that the Ouya team was attending E3 on "their own terms". With that in mind, the ESA immediately went out and "rented" a bunch of parking spots in the lot Ouya was in and proceed t…

That thread about The Pro got me thinking..that's the first time I've even looked at the Xbox Forums in a LONG time. Brought me back to the days we were nearly all active on them and there were some funny moments..can anyone remember any? I need a laugh.. Anyone remember that girl stalker I had who found me from the forums and posted about? She kept on sending me pics of herself and coming on to me

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGHTWING!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICKLE!!! Have a great day, Mongrel!

Prepare for a Magicka “Surprise”, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Pirates of Black Cove, Defenders of Ardania and Supreme Ruler: Cold War Playable at Event! NEW YORK – February 11th, 2011 – Paradox Interactive has today announced a strong line-up of playable titles for this year’s Game Developers Conference taking place in San Francisco between February 28th and March 4th. The renowned developer and publisher will be showing off a variety of upcoming games including the newest addition to their acclaimed Mount & Blade series entitled Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword and a new tower defense game set in the Majesty universe titled Defenders of Arda…

A teacher in South Carolina is on adminstrative leave after the parent of a 14-year-old complained that Orson Scott Card's classic novel was 'pornographic' The parent of a 14-year-old at Schofield Middle School complained to school officials and the police after a teacher at the school reportedly read to his class from the novel. The parent described Ender's Game as "pornographic", local press reported, and complained about its subject matter. Like The Hunger Games, Ender's Game sees teenagers pitting their battle skills against each other. In Card's Hugo and Nebula award-winning story, though, the hero Ender has been recruited for the Battle School, where Earth's most ta…

“We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience” – Microsoft, Support If you happen to sign into Xbox Live at some point today you might have noticed that there are issues with Xbox Live Marketplace. Those problems are not your imagination and are widespread. Microsoft released a small statement regarding the Marketplace outage on their support page and said that Xbox Live users are experiencing issues when browsing the Games Marketplace, checking out Indie Games from a 360 or Xbox.com, and issues are being reported with the Games for Windows on a PC. Now we can all await the…

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So long, buddy. You'll be missed. =[

Not sure if there are a lot of them here but he wrote a pretty kick *** article about Geek Culture in Wired. Interesting read, if you've got 5 or 10 minutes I suggest checking it out. Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die

Sorry if I missed a post about it. I tried to do a forum search and couldn't find anything. Anyone going to PAX Prime 2012 this year?

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari, recently came back to his old home. Today, he joins Atari's executive board. When Atari was on top of its game and making risky, borderline decisions... it was Bushnell behind it. He is the mad genius. Back in the early 70's, his warehouse would be visited by investors and the like. The one thing they all agreed upon, was that the place was scary. It smelled of marijuana, and the assembly line crew all had long, stringy hair. One executive, even found a few syringes on the bathroom floor. Why though? Because Bushnell would take any order, no matter how big. That often meant he had to hire people off of the streets. When Atari went so…

http://groupthink.kinja.com/payback-for-women-who-ve-ever-been-questioned-about-the-472468506 This made me laugh so hard that I had to share.

Tim Schafer is no longer the king of Kickstarter, he handed over his crown to a company called Pebble Technology. They're making an E-Ink display, fully customizable watch called Pebble. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android?ref=category The watch is fully customizable and works with both Android and iOS. You can do everything from change your watch display to check your text messages, track your distance, control your music and much more. What's crazy about this is, they're almost to $4 million and still have 31 days left to go. This could easily jump to $5 or even $10 million. Check it out.

Those of you who know me, know I'm not really a person who shares feelings. You will never be able to go back and find a post of me sharing anything personal that is going on in my life. Sure I've had some hard times in my life but I have never shared them on here. I'm a strong person who just keeps marching and never shares how I'm feeling. I am going to talk about something now, and I don't want sympathy, I feel weird when I talk about stuff I'm feeling. Anyways a few months ago my uncle died, it was pretty unexpected and I was the first one notified so I was the bearer of bad news, which is a first for me. I went to the funeral, and I notice I didn't feel anything. I w…

Retired Pakistani army general Pervez Musharraf is on the run after a Pakistani court ordered the cancellation of his bail application and subsequent arrest. Musharrafis fled the scene in a black bullet proof vehicles immediately following Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui’s announcement that his bail would be cancelled. On Tuesday he was banned from standing as a candidate in the Pakistani elections, crushing his ambition to re-enter the country’s public life. DETAILS TO FOLLOW http://rt.com/news/musharraf-arrest-order-flees-046/ What a weird fucking week!

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If you've signed up a few weeks ago, the second step is now live. Head to the Microsoft Connect site and log in. From there, go to the upper left and click "Xbox LIVE Update Home". From there, click on "Starting 11/1 - Console Registrations". Now go down and click the first link inside of "Step One". Get your "key", copy it and then input that key into your console. It will prompt a small download (under 2mbs). Once that is finished, run the program and follow the easy and quick instructions. That tool will upload your serial number and other information that you once had to input manually. You're done! Validation and admittance comes within 1 or 2 days. Enjoy.

This is incredibly sad. Be warned, if you don't like stories about violence you may not want to read any further. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/116241209.html?c=r Confession: Boy bludgeoned sleeping mom over PlayStation By Joseph A. Slobodzian INQUIRER STAFF WRITER When her 16-year-old son got into trouble last November, Rashida Anderson responded with punishment - she took away Kendall's PlayStation. That proved fatal. Following a 90-minute argument the day after Thanksgiving, police allege, Kendall went into his sleeping mother's bedroom, hit her 20 times with a claw hammer and ultimately killed her. The story of Rashida Anderson's bloody end - as t…

It has been 50 years since Marvel introduced everyone to the world of the Fantastic Four and to celebrate Marvel Entertainment and Zen Studios are releasing a Fantastic Four DLC pinball table on Pinball FX for the Xbox Live Arcade and Marvel Pinball for the Playstation Network. The brightly colored table that features all four members of the superhero team will release on May 17 on the Playstation Network and on May 18 on the Xbox Live Arcade. The table will also contain new Achievements and Trophies for those of you looking to add to your collection. via Zen Studios Tweet This Post View the full article