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When he's not playing video games, James Plafke is usually working or attending the gym, two activities that aren't widely associated with someone who has video game tattoos. Ancient scrolls uncovered decades ago suggest that his writing style is reminiscent of Mark Twain and a bit of Danielle Steel, but a chosen few know the truth -- he actually employs a sophisticated writingbot that writes for him while he sits back and wonders if anyone will find out he does that.

Posts by James Plafke

New The Last of Us Trailer [Video]

We’re moving further away from Uncharted 3 as time moves on, and the franchise has left us needing some sweet, sweet Naughty Dog projects on which to set our sights and hearts. We’re pretty excited about Naughty Dog’s upcoming original, The Last of Us, ever since we saw it premiere at the VGAs. There’s a new trailer to whet your appetites, and it involves a truck barreling through everything it can hit. Check it out.

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Verizon to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans

We knew Verizon was removing unlimited data plans in favor of tiered pricing plans, but as a very cheesy, extremely repeatable line in a certain movie once said, “Not like this.” Verizon CFO Fran Shammo has declared that Verizon will be nixing all unlimited data plans that have been grandfathered in. Yikes.

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Geekolinks: 5/16

Aaron Sorkin to Write Sony’s Steve Jobs Movie

We knew Ashton Kutcher will be playing Steve Jobs in an indie biopic, and we also knew Sony was planning a rival Steve Jobs movie. It turns out Sony has brought in the big gun to pen their rival flick, as Aaron Sorkin is now set to pen the screenplay. It’s obvious we’re big fans of Sorkin here at Geekosystem, slipping in mentions of Sports NightStudio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and his upcoming HBO show The Newsroom whenever we can (just like that, actually!), so we’re thrilled that he’ll be handling the movie adaptation of the life of Steve Jobs. After all, he did a pretty solid job handling another famous tech figurehead, Mark Zuckerberg, in his Facebook movie, The Social Network. You may have seen that.

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Kids Reenacting The Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” [Video]

In honor of the passing of Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, otherwise known as MCA, James Winters and family made this adorable video of little kids reenacting the music video for “Sabotage.”

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The Science of the NBA

Though you may turn up your nose at the very thought of basketball, and would much rather dive into things that piss off Alan Moore, or control a robot made in 2012 with a 1983 computer, the NBA playoffs are in full swing, and wouldn’t you know it, there’s a bunch of science going on.

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Geekolinks: 3/15

Multiple Groups Beat Diablo III in 7 Hours, Single Player Beats It In 12

Though Diablo III only released less than twenty-four hours ago, you can imagine that after waiting twelve years for Blizzard’s next clicktastic, hack-and-slash crawler, fans went hard in the paint. Like with new World of Warcraft level caps, there are always people who try to get to the “end” first, whatever the end is in any scenario. So, it’s probably no surprise that reports are surfacing around the web that multiple groups have already beaten Diablo III, and not very long after the 3 AM EST release time. The most compelling reports state that a single player beat the entire campaign in twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes, and two multiplayer groups, one of which comprised of four players, each have tackled the campaign in seven hours.

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CBS Greenlights a Comedy About Groupon, Called Friend Me

There are two fairly amusing pieces of news regarding a new show that CBS has greenlighted. One, the show is a comedy about two guys who work at Groupon. Two, the show is — for some reason — called Friend Me. Remember, it’s a show about two guys who work for a company that deals in group coupons, not some kind of social networking. Also, depending on how amused you are by McLovin, a third amusing facet to this tidbit of television news is that the it’ll star Christopher Mintz-Plasse as one of the two Groupon buddies.

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Spork Chops are Spork Chopsticks

We’ve seen different variants on the tried-and-true chopsticks, some of which are purely aesthetic, while others are trying very hard to improve your chopsticking endeavors by adding more useful utensils. The above pair of Spork Chops, with one stick topped with a small fork and the other topped with a spoon, ventures to make your not-sticky-enough Chinese food a little easier to deal with. These things are only $3.99 each, so you can order up a bunch if they revolutionize your day-to-day largely Asian food related lifestyle.

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