Epic Default Productions

So, in our long standing tradition of being late, I’m going to throw everyone else under the bus. This is late this week because our staff didn’t get me any comments until Saturday night…and I slept until I had to go to work Sunday afternoon.

For those of you drooling over this week’s picture, that is the album art to my debut Chiptunes album, which you should all go and download now. And maybe throw me a couple of bucks to get some merch made *nudge nudge*

AAAAAnnywayy,

Hit the jump for some comment-tastic news!

PA Guys are influential!
Time released their 100 most influential people of 2010 and on it are a pair of gamers from Seattle who do a little comic…and charity…and awesome gaming festival

JonnyNero: Could this mean that we could see them be interviewed by Barbara Walters in the future?

Cuzza: Recognition for making dick jokes and playing video games CONFIRMED.

Qs23: Why is this year any different then any other year?

JakePrime: If it’s ever us, we’re all doomed…

Wear Gaming As a Badge on your sleeve
The Boy Scouts of America now have an award for gaming

JN: Lifetime Achievement Unlocked!

C: Pity there isn’t a “Play a multiplayer game of Halo 3 without smacktalking like a dipshit or Banshee-whoring.” requirement for the badge.

Qs23: And another pointless Cub Scout Badge

JP: Sure, now they take my suggestion. That’s more than 20 years too late!

Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s Home
And it continues! Police in California entered Jason Chen’s home to confiscate computers and other equipment acting on a warrant.

JN: Want to crush all media under your thumb…there’s an app for that

C: You run a tech blog? What a coincidence, I sell other peoples belongings! (credit: Scott Adams)

Qs23: Hm… Epic Default is a tech blog…

JP: This is not gonna end well…

Ummmmm….
Portland Mercury has an….interesting cover

JN: I really want to know how their readers came up with that.

C: Well I’M hard now…

Qs23: And this is what you get when you put the internet in charge

JP: Awesome – something that leaves you in a state of awe or wonder

Bungie and Activision Team Up
Bungie announced this week that they have signed a 10-year publishing deal with Activision

JN: Goddamn…now what the fuck am I going to do about my personal boycott

C: You have a boycott too? It’s easier to think that it is still Bungie just Activision are putting the disc in a box and plain paper wrapping and I’m picking it up in a trenchcoat and fake beard. That is how I’m getting Blur too.

Qs23: Wait… is the boycott on Bungie or Activision? And you could just buy used. The developer gets nothing from that purchase.

JN: It’s a boycott against Activision, but I love Bungie. It’s a traingle…of headshots

JP: Well, since I’m mostly a console gamer anyway, I don’t really care.

NASA Fail
NASA tried to launch a telescope with a balloon…NASA just wasted many millions of dollars they don’t have

JN: And we wonder why people want to keep cutting their budget.

C: OK, nobody let the rocket scientists near the wine coolers again.

Qs23: So NASA gets beat by a single Brit?

JP: Hopefully it wasn’t a failure to convert from feet to meters; I would hope they learned that lesson last time…

Scientists to create a star…on Earth
In attempt at harnessing the power of nuclear fusion as an energy source, scientist in California are going to fire a gigantic laser at a very small target in the hope that they can recreate conditions more extreme then our own sun.

JN: And the pinkies reach the lips in 3…2…

C: This project is being sponsored by Mountain Dew – IT’S LIKE THE SUN BUT MORE EXTREME!

Qs23: Another flash in the pan coming from Cali? What a shocker.

JP: Here’s a cheaper idea, detonate another hydrogen bomb, same basic concept, probably a lot cheaper. We want to get rid of those things anyway, why not do it for science!

Steve Jobs: “Flash Sucks”
Meanwhile, back at Apple, we find their fearless leader stating an opinion on a form of software.

C: Steve, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas buddy. No

Qs23: Apple talking about openness? Pots and Kettles.

JP: Currently typing this on a windows computer that uses: Pidgin, Firefox, Thunderbird, Foobar, GIMP, and Notepad ++. How’s that for open, Steve?

Augmented Reality Flooring
A new type of flooring has been developed that essentially provides full sensory feed back should you use it.

JN: I wonder when Ty Pennington is going to get his hands on this.

C: Great, just what I need, yet another excuse to hurl violently on the floor when drunk. Now the floor really is moving under me!

Qs23: Coming to a movie theater lobby near you!

JP: One step closer to a holodeck!

This is what could be happening while you watch our totally awesome billboard
The Netherlands have a problem with people attacking Public Service Employees. To advertise awareness and to get people to help, they came up with a neat billboard.

JN: I’m waiting for the day that there’s actually someone getting beaten underneath that billboard

Qs23: I’m waiting for the day that we don’t have to worry about somebody beating up the people trying to save them.

JP: Another step closer to a holodeck!

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