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Automated Etch-a-Sketch Clock

Posted by Robt. Juster - Saturday, March 08, 2008 5:33 PM

Oh Make Magazine... how we love you and all of the awesome Makers that contribute...

Behold, Dear Feed Readers - the coolest thing you'll see all day - an automated Etch A Sketch Clock! 

 

 

Make: Etch A Sketch Clock

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TAGS: Style, Tech, Toys

Man Gets PS3 Tattoo. Yes Really.

Posted by Robt. Juster - Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:20 PM

In the pantheon of regrettable tattoos, this has to rank fairly high... even more so in a few years when the PS4 launches.

 


via Destructoid

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TAGS: PlayStation 3, Videogames

Your Past Has Dysentery: Why Old Games Suck

Posted by Ty Colfax - Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:28 AM


Remember how amazing Pole Position was? Pac-Man? Joust? Have you played them recently? Have you had the disquieting sensation that the games you loved when you were younger kind of, well, suck really bad? Do you like questions that appear to be rhetorical but turn out to be sort of important?
 
After a semi-exhaustive survey of many classic games offered via download, we must conclude that old games suck more than we remember. But the problem isn't the games. It's us.

We're concerned about this seemingly incomprehensible phenomenon, so we did a little research.
 
A study on nostalgia from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology  revealed that, "people are motivated to protect and enhance the positivity of the self-concept" and that, "nostalgia constitutes a benign mechanism through which people affirm valued aspects of the self."

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TAGS: Videogames

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