👾 8-bit Christmas movie and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-12
By goz
Happy Clock Tower Day! The Hill Valley Clock Tower was struck on November 11, 1955. To celebrate, kick back with a Pepsi Free, listen to Davey Crockett, and try not to kiss your mom.
8-bit Christmas
Looky what we have here, a new Christmas movie based in the 80s centered around the Nintendo Entertainment system. The movie 8-bit Christmas (kudos for the title, by the way) centers around the quest to win an NES for Christmas. After watching the trailer I got string vibes of The Princess Bride, A Christmas Story, and Jingle All the Way. As an aside, Jingle All the Way is growing on me as a yearly movie watching experience.
Neil Patrick Harris stars in what could be a great movie to add to the Christmas Movie rotation. I’m hoping they pull it off, although I would have rather had a movie from the early 80s centered around the Atari 2600.
Internet Travels
Geek
- Introducing "VoIRC" - voice-chat over IRC - YouTube - Is there anything IRC can’t do?
- YouTuber Builds $10,000 Gaming PC Inside A Mini Fridge
- The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory - YouTube - I liked the first several seasons of TBBT, but in retrospect, my affection for the show may have covered up the many issues with the show. The video has been out for awhile, and I don’t really disagree with any of it.
- Hacker Typer - When you want to look like a hacker.
- Viral Pokemon TikTok shows shiny hunting has gone too far - Dexerto - A new term I learned this week, shiny Pokemon.
Retro
- 9-foot Atari joystick claims world record as largest : NPR - Forget Nintendo’s Ring Fit, this is the exercise controller I want to use
- Atari Jaguar FMV Adventure is coming to the Xbox - Full motion video was all the rave in the mid-90s.
- The high cost of software in the 1980s… | The Robservatory - Kids these days have no idea what software costs
Technology
- Mac Wallpapers - Every background for every Macintosh OS release
- Microsoft Edge celebrates customers moving to IE mode, Linux, and new search innovations - Microsoft Edge Blog - Interesting times we live in, when Microsoft is releasing Edge for Linux
- An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition | Meta - Yeah, whatever Meta/FB!
- Starlink nightmare: Moving service location a few feet delays orders until 2023 | Ars Technica
- Drone used on Electrical Grid Attacke
- These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops | WIRED
- Disney+ will slash your HDTV’s black bars with IMAX Digital update | Ars Technica - Disney+ is killing it on getting screen ratios correct for their shows.
- Hacking group says it has found encryption keys needed to unlock the PS5 | Ars Technica
Pop Culture
Science
- A 14-year-old mathematician wins the Broadcom MASTERS competition : NPR - Another new word for the week, antiprime
- How I Grew Up in The Coldest Town on Earth (-71°C, -96°F) Yakutia - YouTube - I don’t mind some brisk weather, but -96°F may be a little much
- Children who don't eat eggs before first birthday more likely to develop egg allergy - Study Finds
- A broken toilet on SpaceX capsule means astronauts will return to Earth in diapers : NPR