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Some of you Old-Timers may know each and every one of these games. I certainly don't! 😮 You can press the right-arrow key to skip from game to game and do not have to listen to 26 minutes of violin music. I saw nothing for any version of Wolfenstein, but did notice Doom, a COD, L4D, TF2...and I forget the others. The tunes might bring back memories for some of you. 😄
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AdoretTV came out with a educating video again: Yes, we all know about AMD-s rebranding of Tahiti GPUs from HD 7xxx to RX9 3xx and some other things other companies have done also but this is just interesting view on Nvidias history and how they have put break on innovation of technology (and still doing- asking to disable async compute altoghether). Especially interesting in the light of this: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-discrete-gpu-2020-raja,37289.html
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Naomi Parker Fraley, who was the inspiration for the iconic "Rosie the Riveter" passed away today at age 96. She worked in a Navy Machine Shop in Alameda, CA as a lathe worker during WWII. Her photograph was taken by an Acme photographer, while she was working at her lathe with her hair tied up for safety. The iconic poster was used to represent women who worked in factories during World War II, and came to be a symbol of feminism and economic power for American women. However, the inspiration for "Rosie the Riveter" has been erroneously reported and was under dispute for quite some time. A claim from a Geraldine Doyle who worked as a metal presser in 1942 often seemed to be the most plausible. However in 2010, after the death of Mrs. Doyle, a scholar named Dr. James Kimble decided to do some detective work about the iconic photograph and poster. After six years of research, he was able to determine that it was actually Mrs. Fraley who was the inspiration for the iconic "Rosie the Riveter" poster after finding a copy of the photograph with a caption stating “Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating.” Naomi Fraley is survived by her son, six step-children, two sisters, and several grand and great-grandchildren. May she rest in peace. Source: New York Times Obituary.
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You man where wierd guy, but you did very well with your music and made huges step in music history. RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trEhVq8wTQg The Bio History of Michael Joseph Jackson began when he was born on the 29th of August 1958 in Gary, Indiana. He was the 7th of nine children. (brothers: Sigmund "Jackie", Toriano "Tito", Jermaine, Marlon, Steven "Randy", and sisters Rebbie, Janet and La-Toya Jackson.. In 1977 Michael made his first film debut when he starred in the musical 'The Wiz' playing Scarecrow with Diana Ross in the lead role of Dorothy. It was at this time Michael met Quincy Jones who was doing the score for the film. Michael teamed up with Quincey Jones as his producer for his first solo album with Epic Records. The album titled "Off The Wall" was a big success around the world and the first ever album to release a record breaking 4 No1 singles in the US. In 1982 Michael Jackson released the world's largest selling album of all time, 'Thriller'. This album produced 7 hit singles, breaking yet again more records, and went on to sell over 50 million copies worldwide. Michael was keen to use music video or short films as he called them to promote his singles from the album. He worked with the best directors and producers, using the latest technology and special effects for the hit song 'Billie Jean' The short film 'Thriller' used the latest make-up artists technolgy combined with fantastic dancing and cherography, to produce a 14 minute video, with a start, a middle and an ending. So successful was this video that 'The Making Of Michael Jackson's Thriller' became the world's largest selling home video combined with soaring album sales. In 1983 Michael performed the now legendary moonwalk for the first time on the 'Motown 25 years' anniversary show. This performance alone set Michael undoubtable into the realm of a superstar. In 1984 Michael won a record breaking 8 Grammy awards in one night. The awards were for his work on the 'Thriller' album and his work on the narrative for the 'ET Storybook'. On December 9th 1984 at the last concert of the Jackson's Victory Tour, Michael announced he was splitting from the group and going solo. In 1987 Michael released his much awaited third solo album, titled 'Bad', and lauched his record breaking first solo world tour. 1988, Michael wrote his first autobiography, Moonwalk, talking for the first time on his childhood and his career. At the end of the 1980s Michael was named 'Artist Of The Decade' for his success off of his 'Thriller' and 'Bad' albums. 1995 saw Michael release a fifth solo album, 'HIStory', which was a double album, first half new material and second half half greatest hits. Michael toured again over a legs covering a 2 year period. In between legs of the tour on November 14th 1996, Michael married for his second time to Debbie Rowe who was a nurse that Michael had met in the treatment of his skin pigment disorder. Together they had their first child Prince Michael Joseph Jackson jr born on February 13 1997 and a daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson born on April 3rd 1998. In 1997 Michael released the remix album 'Blood On The Dance Floor' which also contained 5 new song linked with a 38min film "Ghosts". This film Michael played 5 roles using the latest special effects and make-up artistry, combined with his dance and music. In September, 2001 Michael celebrated his 30th anniversary as a solo artist with two concerts to be held in New York, USA. Many artists such as Whitney Houston, Usher, Destinys Child, Shaggy and many more performed there own and Michael Jacksons past songs. Michael then reunited with all of his brothers and performed there biggest hits. Michael then went onto perform solo some of his biggest hits. In October 2001 Michael released the album 'Invincible' releasing only 2 singles including the big hit "You Rock My World". Shortly after the albums release there were rumours of a rift with Sony Music and a clear lack of promotion of the album. The second single "Cry" was released with a very poor music video which did not feature Michael and no other singles were released. In November 2003 a new single "One More Chance" was released as a single and was also a track on new compilaition album "Number Ones". In March 2009, Michael annouced a shock comeback tour at the O2 Arena in London to start in July 2009, intially for 10 dates but the total grew to a sold out 50 dates with over 750,000 tickets sold. All sold tickets sold out within minutes of being released. On June 25th 2009 Michael Jackson died suddenly of a reported cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU Now we remember you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpU08DkJ7g
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Discovered after viewing Limp/SMOK's FA post:Wolfenstein the new order gameplay 13 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ScWJ-rjMs&feature=player_detailpage I don't recall early game audio as being as bad as shown in the first 2D games. My first experience was with Wolfenstein 3D.
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While looking on reddit, I found a nice set of general pictures of history: http://imgur.com/a/ASQcx WARNING: A few those pictures display dead people , which can be disturbing. But most of them contain non violent iconic events and or famous people. P.s.: A little reminder: Samuel Clemens = Mark Twain
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Remembering those who lost their lives and those who fought and survived the D-Day landings. Including the 3 Warren boys who went through hell that day. One who is my gaming and real life namesake, doc, who earned a battlefield commission for taking out 9 in a bunker without firing a shot. Now you know where I get my knife skills in ET.
