New 3DS, Old Nintendo

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Nintendo is not bringing the non-XL new 3DS to America. This bothers me heavily, but the main reasoning behind this strategy can be credited to Nintendo thinking that we are already spoiled with the XL and that putting the regular version on store shelves will result in wasted shelf space. This is nothing other than a classic case of Nintendo of America taking their feedback to incomprehensible levels.
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Book Club x The Girl With All the Gifts

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Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.

When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite. But they don’t laugh.

Melanie is a very special girl.

The second book up this month is The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey, obtainable through Amazon, iBooks, and Google Play. It’s a spooky new take on the zombie genre sure to make it impossible to sleep through these chilly October nights. This novel features guns, psychotic behavior, and a ton of mind games. Let’s get started!

Same as last month, there will be a podcast up on the first of November, a discussion following it, and we’ll vehemently encourage you all to read along with us even if it requires deadly force, but we do it out of love.

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Culture Milk Book Club Podcast 01

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We’re back! We also never left! We’re here with our first round table podcast where we discuss the sci-fi adventure novel Illusive by Emily Lloyd-Jones. We spent the month of September reading the book, taking notes, and poorly recording ourselves when talking about it, so here’s the final product. Although this is our first foray into podcasting, and our first recording is a bit rough around the edges because of it, we’re still excited to share it with you all. And we’re excited to have you listen to it!

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Book Club x Illusive

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When the MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers. Seventeen-year-old Ciere Giba has the handy ability to change her appearance at will. She’s what’s known as an illusionist… She’s also a thief.

After a robbery goes awry, Ciere must team up with a group of fellow super-powered criminals on another job that most would consider too reckless. The formula for the vaccine that gave them their abilities was supposedly destroyed years ago. But what if it wasn’t?

The lines between good and bad, us and them, and freedom and entrapment are blurred as Ciere and the rest of her crew become embroiled in a deadly race against the government that could cost them their lives.

The first book up this month is Illusive, a sci-fi adventure novel by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Amazon, iBooks, Google Play). Super powers, criminals, and a deadly virus. All of us were intrigued by the plot, and with a tagline that compares the story to X-Men and Ocean’s Eleven, we couldn’t pass it up.

We’ll have a podcast up on the 1st of October and a new book announced then as well. We can’t wait to see what you all have to say about Illusive at the end of the month, and we’re excited to follow the online discussion along with it!

# Book Club #Literature

Culture Milk Book Club!

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Everyone loves books, right? Of course. A literal 100% of people on this green and luscious Earth love reading books. Knowing that, it is my pleasure to announce the Culture Milk Book Club! The team consists of me, Brittany Stevens, and Gianna Gargiulo. Each month, we’ll be reading and discussing a new book from a specific genre. And each discussion will feature a guest reader to facilitate our literary dialogue. But to kick things off for the first month (and to undoubtedly iron out some kinks), it’s just us! It’s going to be fun and exciting for anyone who loves books everyone. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, you can be a part of this. All you need is a copy of the book in any form you choose and the ability to read it. That’s it. We’ll officially start the Book Club on September 1st and begin a new book on the first of every subsequent month. We’ll end each month with a small podcast acting as a round table discussion. You can read along with us and contribute in the comments and on Twitter too. Everyone is invited to join us!

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Retro Physical

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Retro gaming is something that I’m relatively new to. Playing older consoles, growing a collection, modding them to look better, enjoying the games themselves solely for the fun factor – it’s all exciting. In experiencing these games, the realization of my obsession is rooted well beyond the games themselves and more in the ability to own physical cartridges, pop them in, and play the games as they were originally intended to be played.

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Write Creatively II

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Creating is something that everyone can do. We can all look at a problem and innovate upon or transform it into something that doesn’t fit the mold of what was once standard. The trouble, however, is that nobody is doing it. As a writer, I find myself running into this very problem. I do things that are considered creative within my field, but people will often assume I only do one thing. That couldn’t be further from what I’m trying to persuade you to believe.

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Unread — RSS for iOS 7 & Giveaway!

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Jared Sinclair is mostly known for his previous offerings in the App Store: Pillboxie is a medication management app (Jared’s a registered nurse), and Riposte is an innovative App.net client — co-created with Jamin Guy — that demonstrates some incredibly original mechanics that make it a favorite among users of the ADN platform. Some time ago, Jared announced that he was working on his own RSS app specifically for the iPhone. All he teased was a splash page, but folks who were familiar with Jared’s previous work immediately grew excited. For good reason. Released today, Unread enters the RSS arena, which is largely dominated by the darling Reeder. That could change today because Unread is far and away the best RSS app I’ve used on iOS.

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Short Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

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Due to the subject matter this film is a hard sell for me – it’s just not my type. That said, Leo and Jonah are both fantastic actors who put on some of the best performances of their careers. However, when watching the film, it felt like osmething better described as a modern Tarantino-esque spinoff of The Great Gatsby. Although, that may be due to residual bits of Leo’s performance in the Luhrmann adaptation earlier this year.

There are definitely genuine laughs, but a lot of the humor is so coarse that it borders on The Hangover-level scenarios that are just hard for me to get excited about (read: midget dartboard). The best moments are when the actors have a chance to open up: the pen scene at the diner, for example.

Technically, this film is a mess and the editing is pretty awful (probably due to the extremely rushed release schedule – it feels like a solid rough cut, especially toward the beginning). Prieto doesn’t bring much to the table, lighting or composition-wise, and the music never quite fits the way it could for this kind of film. As a whole package, it just doesn’t deliver the way I’d expected from a Hollywood legend.

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A Gameboy That Plays 3DS Games

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I bought a 2DS. Upon ordering the handheld, I knew exactly what I was signing up for and what the system could and, ultimately, could not do. However, after purchasing the little brother to the 3DS XL, there’s so much left to be said. There are no reviews that talk about the obvious differences in usage between one and the other. I see great reviews of the product itself as a standalone, but it lives in a family alongside a stepbrother who looks a little bit like it and an older brother who pretty much hands down his clothes directly to him. It’s a weird metaphor, but you’ll understand it soon enough. read more »

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