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Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: is business the real monster, or are the giant monsters?
Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday (well, Tuesday now, because we were off yesterday), I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, we admire vast landscapes, a horrible glob of dog, weird offices, giant monsters, and so many more interesting and attractive indies. Check ’em out!
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Museum creates giant ‘Donkey Kong’ cabinet with a little help from Nintendo
The Strong National Museum of Play in New York unveiled an absolutely massive Donkey Kong arcade cabinet that’s nearly 20 feet tall. Donkey Kong is co-starring in the biggest movie in the world right now, so it is only fitting that he also gets an equally gargantuan arcade cabinet.
The museum indicated in a tweet that Nintendo actually helped out with the massive cabinet, which makes sense as the company is protective of its IPs. Donkey Kong, after all, was the first appearance of a certain Italian plumber, even if he went by the names Jumpman and Mr. Video back then.
The impressively large arcade cabinet will be available for actual play by museum visitors once it is fully installed on June 30. As you can see in the design, there is a control interface at a normal height so you don’t have to climb a ladder to reach the joystick and buttons.
As part of our June 30 expansion, The Strong will create the world’s largest, playable Donkey Kong arcade game. The game will stand nearly 20-feet tall and will be available for guests to play! Thank you @NintendoAmerica for providing input on the project.#DonkeyKong#Arcadepic.twitter.com/xQhsRVvCib
— The Strong Museum (@museumofplay) April 10, 2023
This could be the tallest arcade cabinet in the world, but there has been no formal proclamation to that end. In any event, it is certainly bigger than the 16-foot high NBA Jam cabinet that overlooked CES 2020 and the similarly-sized Tetris cabinet that holds the current Guinness world record.
The Strong National Museum of Play is dedicated to gaming in all of its many forms and is home to the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Every year, the museum inducts new games into this hall of fame, with 2022 getting stone-cold classics like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Dance Dance Revolution.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/museum-creates-giant-donkey-kong-cabinet-with-a-little-help-from-nintendo-180205910.html?src=rss
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Watch Brock Lesnar F5 7ft 3in giant Omos as he rubbishes WWE exit talks at WrestleMania 39
BROCK LESNAR hinted he is not leaving WWE with a decisive victory at WrestleMania 39, which could lead to a rematch with Omos.
Lesnar opened WrestleMania and defeated his gigantic opponent at the SoFi Stadium in Hollywood, California.
https://twitter.com/WrestleOps/status/1642683651732262913?s=20
Reports suggested that the UFC legend was on his way out of Vince McMahon’s promotion and said goodbye to colleagues backstage.
The American bruiser has been signing short-term contracts ever since his return to the wrestling giants in 2012.
And all of The Beast’s deals tend to end at each season’s WrestleMania before he pens new terms a while later.
This might still be the case this season but the 45-year-old hinted he is in no way done with WWE.
Lesnar overcame the 7ft, 3in giant Omos, who dominated the opening stages of the match.
But the 10-time world champion soon turned the tables with a series of German Suplexes to The Nigerian Giant.
And the ex-WWE Champion finished the monstrous superstar off by hoisting him over his shoulders and delivering a thunderous F5 that rocked the ring.
After the match an incensed Omos was caught on camera telling his manager MVP that “this isn’t over”, which means the two heavyweights will lock horns again soon.
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WWE wouldn’t have booked Lesnar going over one of their most rising stars while on his way out of the company.
The wrestling giants also wouldn’t have Omos hinting at a rematch if the former Universal Champion was quitting.
It is very common in professional wrestling for departing wrestlers to go out on their back before rolling credits.
But Lesnar tends to perform only on major pay-per-views, which means the WWE Universe may not see him again until SummerSlam on August 5.
Toasters, pulleys, wheels and giant hats: the coolest Alt Ctrl games at GDC 2023
Alt.Ctrl.GDC is a regular fixture at the Game Developers Conference, and this year I spotted some properly incredible creations from its largely student-led group of exhibitors. There was a big focus on co-op games and time trial demos in this year’s cohort, with nearly every stand having some sort of whiteboard pinned up that was constantly being scrubbed out with new fastest lap times and corresponding visitor names. There was also lots of friendly hooting emanating from them as well, as mates and strangers attempted to co-ordinate their gaggles of limbs to steer various game characters in the right direction.
It was excellent fun, and I sampled a bunch of games that used toasters, intricate pulley systems, papier-mache tree stumps, bike wheels and more in place of your typical controllers and mice and keyboard. There were also plenty more I didn’t get to try out, mainly due to time, and you can see the full list over on GDC’s website. For now, though, here are some personal highlights of what I saw, including the largest bowler hat I think I’ve ever seen in my life.
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Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware
On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware, alerting users who had them installed, and suspended the company’s official app. In the last couple of weeks, multiple Chinese security researchers accused Pinduoduo, a rising e-commerce giant that boasts almost 800 million active users, of making […]
Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch
What is sargassum? The giant blob of seaweed hitting Florida
Great news for fans of seaweed that collects on beaches in colossal heaps, and stings people’s eyes, nostrils, and throats with a stench like rotten eggs: mass quantities of the algae known as sargassum are once again accumulating on Florida’s shorelines. And there’s reason to suspect that human-caused environmental havoc may be to blame.
In fact, in live views of Florida’s 2023 spring break festivities, you can watch the sargassum pile up in real time. Below, you can see part of a miles-long streak of sargassum running down Fort Lauderdale Beach. If you tune into this livecam early in the morning, you can watch attendants drive farm equipment over it, apparently to break it up and make it more manageable, since there’s clearly too much to remove.
Yes, these sargassum accumulations are new
This didn’t used to happen.
Historically, sargassum was known to float in giant brown rafts in a section of the North Atlantic named the Sargasso Sea in honor of sargassum. Sargassum beds are established and diverse ecosystems, and they’re home to (if you’ll excuse my editorializing) the most underrated predator in the ocean in terms of sheer viciousness: the sargassum fish.
But according to a 2015 report by Jeffrey Schell, Deborah Goodwin, and Amy Siuda published in the magazine Oceanography, waters in which sargassum had not previously been dominant were, all at once, producing gobs of the stuff. It was suddenly piling up as high as a meter deep on sections of coastline — including tourist beaches — in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as on the coasts of West Africa and Brazil.
“We noticed the seaweed looked different from the Sargassum fluitans or S. natans with which we were familiar from 20 years of sailing in the Sargasso Sea, the Caribbean, and Florida Straits,” the report said. In other words, this appeared to be an unprecedented accumulation of an unprecedented type of sargassum.
Humanity’s ecological havoc may play a role in sargassum accumulation
Further study is needed before anyone can say with confidence exactly what’s causing this apparently new phenomenon, but scientists are on the case.
Oceanographers now know from studying satellite views that this sargassum comes not from the Sargasso Sea, but from further south: a patchy stripe the width of an entire section of the ocean dubbed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. In 2018 oceanographers explained to The Atlantic‘s Ed Yong that the belt seem to draw on river outflows in Brazil and West Africa that dump agricultural fertilizer into the ocean. This in turn may have supercharged seaweed growth, transforming occasional patchy collections of sargassum into the huge, self-perpetuating seaweed monster we have today.
Eckerd College oceanographer Amy Siuda told Yong this state of affairs “is likely the new normal.”
Sargassum is a growing problem
NASA satellite photos show bigger and bigger blooms, with an increasing number of record-breaking years since 2011. Last June, over 24 million tons of sargassum materialized in the Atlantic, which broke the previous record set in 2018. University of South Florida oceanographer Brian Barnes told the South Florida NBC news affiliate that 2023 looks like another monster year. “We’ve observed over the last several months that the bloom is getting bigger. It’s likely be as big as or if not bigger than the bloom that we saw last year,” he said.
Oh, and that rotten egg smell comes from hydrogen sulfide, which, health officials told the local news in Florida, can do more than just sting people’s eyes and noses. Too much exposure can cause “headaches, poor memory, tiredness and balance problems.”
And while some sargassum is known to be eaten by humans, according to the Florida Department of Health no one has any business eating this sargassum, “because it may contain large amounts of heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium.”