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TF2 continues to get more awesome.

Awhile back Valve and Adult Swim started a colab during “Pyromania”. If you signed up for Adult Swim’s newsletter you would get a genuine Robot Chicken hat. Then later on there was a TF2 sketch on Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdu_ZXHS-c

But it doesn’t end there. Today at the TF2 blog and Adult Swim it’s been announced that some Adult Swim items will be making an appearance in a future update.

I’ve never purchased anything from the Mannco store, but this is tempting. 😀 It would also be nice to see the scouts as Hank and Dean, Dr Weird for the Engie, Harvey Birdman for the spy, Black Dynamite for the Demo and… I could take an entire day naming them off!

Are you fucking serious?

Because we’re not stupid enough yet…

A sixth grader brought a gun to school to protect himself in case of a shooting. Here’s the aftermath.

KEARNS, Utah – A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday.

The 11-year-old boy allegedly told other students his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.

The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out of his backpack during recess Monday morning.

“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow 6th grade students.

Granite School District officials say students didn’t notify teachers about the weapon until 3 p.m.

“Once the teacher knew there was a weapon in the classroom, the student was apprehended in 30 to 45 seconds and immediately brought down to the office and the police were on site within five to 10 minutes,” said Granite School District Spokesman Ben Horsley.

Granite School District sent a pre-recorded message via telephone to the parents of West Kearns Elementary students at 5:30 p.m. By then, some of those parents had already heard about the incident from their children.

God bless America. :usa: :headdesk:

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Cooked tiny shrimp in teriyaki

I decided to make this last night. Made for a good snack tonight. 😀

1/4 cup of sake
3 tbsp of sugar
3 tbsp of soysauce
32 tiny shrimp, clams, or tuna bits

Combine the sake, sugar and soy sauce in a small pan, then add the shrimp and boil for two to three minutes. Take shrimp out of pan and put into a small bowl and continue to boil teriyaki mixture for about 10 minutes until it thickens into a sauce. Return the shrimps to the pan and cook for another minute. Set in a bowl to cool. Serve cold as a side to a Japanese meal or as part of a bento box.

Are you fucking serious?

Well… That didn’t last long.

Instagram is a service that allows people to share pics via their smartphone. They originally reported that they would be selling peoples photos with or without the users permission. It seems not many users liked that though, which caused Instagram to buckle down.

Instagram apologized to its users today, saying it will “remove” language from its legal terms that would have let it sell users’ photos or use them in advertisements.

Sometimes you can’t trust anything with “gram” in it.

Are you fucking serious? / Gaming2

Why rent when you can pwn?

If you use redbox and rent for one of your consoles you might want to read this.

I ended up waiting at the McDonalds around 20 minutes for someone to answer the phone, and they gave me three free rental codes (worth $1.20 each, note the game rentals are $2.00/night) to make up for it. I ended up trying to rent Black Ops II again at the same Redbox location, and the second disk had also been replaced by paper! The third and last disk in the machine, however, ended up being fine.

So I called the next day as well and got three more free codes for the second disk. So it definitely appears as if someone was trying to defraud Redbox of multiple copies of the game, possibly with a stolen credit card as well because every time you rent a disk, you need to swipe a credit card. I ended up paying a total of around $3.60 and got the game rental and four remaining rental codes which expire in 45 days, which is not a bad deal overall for me. This appears to be their standard operating procedure, as I have had issues with scratched DVDs and when I called they did the same thing. I’m satisfied with their response, and it’s unfortunate that someone is trying to take advantage of Redbox.

Sigh… Didn’t even try to make a direct copy.