YouTube Running Slow? Here’s How To Speed It Up… A Lot!
Slow YouTube?
If you’re a gamer, and I bet you are because you’re looking at a gaming site right now, you probably watch a lot of gaming videos on YouTube like I do. There’s lots of reasons to fire up YouTube, like when a new game is announced and I need to view some trailers and research its gameplay or I realy just chill out and watch some people get trolled. Unfortunately, the service has been running really slow lately so I went out on the web in search of something that would sort me out and didn’t cost a penny.
Fortunately, I found just the thing and now YouTube videos are streaming up fast – very fast – maybe faster than I’ve ever seen them so I figured I’d share with all you fine people out there in internetland!
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The N5 Show: Week #27, 2013 – MANEATER! PC Game Developers!
Where did old school PC developers go?
Russell is back in the game for real as we tackle his questions about our MANEATER Kickstarter, which Cody and I covered largely in the last show. He needles us with inquiries, yo. Then we follow up with a check in with our favorite old school PC developers and where they’ve wound up over the years. Stay tuned for adventure!
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Starting A Kickstarter Is Super Easy… Almost: A Tale Of 3 Campaigns
The total didn’t stay that small for long.
It’s 12:14PM. I click on the link in Maki Naro’s tweet, which leads me to his Kickstarter for a new comic series called Sufficiently Remarkable and the total is still $0. Naro is a final-three contestant in Penny Arcade’s Strip Search, a web series in which a dozen artists from around the world (although all American; one living in Montreal) competed for a $15,000 prize and an opportunity to be embedded with the massive Penny Arcade empire. Naro didn’t win, settling for an anecdotal third place, but now two weeks after the show’s finale, he’s highlighting a very important trait in a successful Kickstarter campaign: the necessity for exposure.
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AltaVista is Still Around, But Only For Another Week
That was a website at one point.
Did you know that AltaVista is still around and still receives about 1 million visitors a month? Currently owned by Yahoo, AltaVista will be shut down on July 8th. AltaVista hasn’t really been anything more than a brand for the last few years as the search results use Yahoo. It’s crazy to think that in 1996, Yahoo was actually using AltaVista for its search results. Read the rest of this article…
Monoprice Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Solid as a brick
Let’s face it; Mechanical keyboards give us something we all crave – the tactile sensation and amazing key-smashing sound of something that was built to take abuse… and lots of it. The problem is that lately it is nigh impossible to find a decent mechanical keyboard – one that won’t fall apart the first time you beat the shit out of it in a fit of nerd rage after someone kills you, teabags you and then spams “BOOM, HEADSHOT BITCH!!!” into the chat – for less than the price of a used car. If a keyboard can’t handle the occasional hammer fist or head butt, it’s really not worth any price you pay for it, but even if it can, it’s not worth it if you have to hock your woman’s engagement ring to buy it.
Enter the Monoprice mechanical gaming keyboard; The same type of keyboard you’d buy at many places for upwards of $200 but with a modest price tag of $66.
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Don Mattrick, 30 Years Ago, As A Game Developer Youth With A Sports Car
Oh Don, you sly devil!
Because we’re celebrating Don Mattrick’s departure to Zynga today, I decided to dig down the rabbit hole because I’d always wondered where a guy like Mattrick comes from. In 1983, game developers Don Mattrick and Jeff Sember of Distinctive Software, Inc. went on CBC’s Front Page Challenge to explain their trade as Canada’s first video game developers. The panelists’ inquiries reveal a strange, naive era in which video games are still rare things to be dissected and understood. Let’s take a deeper dive, shall we?
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Goodbye, Don Mattrick! 5 Things The Last Xbox King Brought Us
Yes, he does seem like a used car salesman.
Who called it? We called it. I’ve been asking for Don Mattrick’s head longer than Microsoft’s investors have been asking for Ballmer’s and it looks like now, three weeks after he took the stage in Los Angeles, he’s departing for distant seas. But who is this Mattrick? We’ve talked about him before, but let’s see if we can’t nail down his contributions to gaming down, for better or worse.
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FEZ PRO SHO: Week #26, 2013 – Racism, Killing People And Terminators
LOOK INTO HER EYES.
Oh my. Whether it’s Paula Deen being a racist or one of the Ellison kids resurrecting the Terminator series for no reason, it’s gotta be the FEZ trio making up an agenda as they go along, rambling about everything from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, uh, second coming, or the collapse of Instagram. Keith is still sadly on vacation, but our Del Taco-powered charades are plenty to keep you busy!
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‘The Heat’ Review: Opposites Attract
We have two cops. One’s a prim-and-proper, by-the-book FBI agent; no one likes her because she’s difficult to work with and arrogant. The other is an unstable lunatic who, despite also being good at her job, terrifies the rest of her local police precinct. Through a series of whacky mishaps, the professional federal agent and the wild card police detective end up working together to take down an anonymous drug kingpin. Shenanigans ensue. Director Paul Feig’s follow-up to the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Bridesmaids plays like the American answer to Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz. Is it clichéd? Yes. Is it funny? Absolutely.
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‘White House Down’ Review: Haven’t We Seen This One Before?
A group of terrorists breach the White House and take control of the mansion. The President is trapped inside. The outside world is powerless to do anything. Only one man has the ability to thwart the terrorists and their scheme to jumpstart World War III. Wait…didn’t I already review this movie? And didn’t it suck the first time around?
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