#258 – Krypton Cousins
This week Cer and Ray tackle some subjects that are fairly new to them, such as E-Sports and Virtual Reality, and of course we can’t go a night without Bacon News.
Show News
- Photo contest – http://thesundering.net/contest
- December Winner – No one!
- Will be announcing the Annual winner during next week’s show, last chance to play catchup
- Have until Friday ⅛ at 11:59:59 pm ET to send in catchup photos
- 60 Days Warcraft Game Time
- $20 J!NX Gift Certificate
- Warcraft Mount of your choice (Warforged Nightmare excluded) from the Blizzard store
- Warcraft Battle Pet of your choice from the Blizzard store
- $20 Battle.net Gift Card
- $20 Steam Gift Card
Bacon News
- Baby reacts to bacon for the first time (play video)
Geek & Random News
- Pizza manager declares war!
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-woman-gets-vulgar-note-on-dominos-pizza-receipt_56846743e4b0b958f65b3ec7?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
- A domino’s manager, apparently in response to an earlier complaint, put the message “Fuck this cunt” on her receipt. The customer in question even ordered a second time, and the manager against wrote “Fuck this cunt”.
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-woman-gets-vulgar-note-on-dominos-pizza-receipt_56846743e4b0b958f65b3ec7?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
- Disney creates robot capable of scaling walls
- http://www.geek.com/news/disney-has-created-a-robot-that-can-drive-up-walls-1643411/
- Made from 3d-printed parts
- Uses two propellers to maintain balance. One to “stick” to the wall, and the other to stabilize the robot’s position.
- http://www.geek.com/news/disney-has-created-a-robot-that-can-drive-up-walls-1643411/
Gaming News
- What’s your New Year’s gaming resolution?
- Any games you need to finish?
- Any games you wanted to play last year but never got around to it?
- 2016, the year of virtual reality?!
- http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35205783
- HTC Vive joining existing virtual reality products in a few months
- Businesses, schools, and even doctors may use VR for further interaction with their customers/patients.
- Is VR really the next step for gaming? Is it too big of a leap?
- http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35205783
- Warcraft Movie Tour in China
- Activision Blizzard Purchases Going Out of Business MLG for $46 Million
- http://esportsobserver.com/mlg-sells-substantially-all-assets-to-activision-blizzard-for-46-million/
- Earlier this year Blizzard started their own esports division headed up by Mike Sepso, a co-founder and president of MLG
RAY
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CER
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XIA
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Mr Hasu
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