Author: champ
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Taking Cleveland All the Way in Retro Bowl
I mentioned there’s no sports to watch on TV, so I’m playing a lots of sports-themed video games these days. My current favorite: Retro Bowl. As their tagline says: play football like it’s 1987! Retro Bowl is a very charming “retro style” arcade football game for NFL fans and dreamers everywhere. You play a very…
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Sports in the Time of Covid-19 – There’s Nothing to Watch
Being a sports fan in the time of Covid-19 and the Coronavirus is tough. There’s nothing to watch. I know a friend who watched a replay of the 2019 Master’s golf tournament. How bored do you have to be to re-watch golf? So I was excited when the Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, started…
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Going for the Nether Portal Speed Run
I was reading someone’s MineBlr (a Tumblr Minecraft blog) and they were talking about how they were trying to get to the Nether as quickly as possible in a brand-new Minecraft survival mode game. Basically, it’s a Nether Speed Run. There are lots of ways you can move as quickly as possible to get what…
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Watching the All-English Champions League Final
I’m watching the All-English Champions League Final being played in Madrid. It’s Liverpool vs. Tottenham in an all-English match. Neither team was expected to be here. Liverpool created a stunning upset of Barcelona, after being behind 3-0 following the first leg. At Tottenham put away a strong and young Ajax team. So far the match…
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Taking Notes with the Cornell Method
I take a lot of notes. It’s a habit I developed in college and one that I continue using to this day. I take notes on conversations I’ve had, I take notes about books I read, I even take notes about TV shows and movies that I watch. I used to take notes free-form with…
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The Indianapolis 500 is Today
It’s Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and you know what that means: it’s the running of the Indianapolis 500, one of the best-known auto racing events in the world. 2019 marks the 103rd Indy. The biggest concern today is the weather. Thunderstorms in the area are expected and that might delay or even prevent the…
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Fortnite – Will it Ever Die?
Fortnite was the Game of the Summer in 2018. Here we are, almost a year later, and it shows no signs of stopping. It made its way into Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and recently, Elon Musk declared that Tesla would port Unreal Engine and Unity into its cars so that among other things, you can play…
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Discord Chat – Why It’s the Greatest
Discord is the greatest VoIP service available. Discord is a free voice plus text communications platform targeted typically in the gaming market. It goals to coordinate with the ease of usage of present chat clients similar Skype plus mix it with the power of servers with manifold rooms and role consents offered through voice clients…
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Kickass Torrents – Any Alternatives
So I would never, and I mean never use a Torrents site to download illegal copyrighted content. I mean, who would? But with all the main torrent sites getting shut down, in theory it must be hard to find any good Kickass torrent alternatives. It’s a tough time to be a torrent site. The owners of Kickass,…
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Barcelona Wins Copa del Rey Again
Third year in a row for the Catalans. FC Barcelona won the Copa del Rey last night, 3-1 over heavy underdog Alaves. It must have been bittersweet for the team, though. They narrowly lost La Liga to arch-rival Real Madrid, and they’re missing out on the Champions League final to boot. It was the final…