Announcing Our Pokémon TCG Holiday 2024 Daily Pull Shorts November 30, 2024
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Happy Holidays everyone! A new tradition in the Maniac household has become keeping a daily gift calendar during the holidays, and this year we’re going to be opening the Pokémon TCG Holiday Calendar! Today, we’re announcing we’ll be posting a new unboxing short on YouTube every day until Christmas!
What will be pick? What do the promo cards look like? Stay tuned each day for a new video and find out. Don’t get used to seeing Maniac’d face for this series as daily pulls will be done with a first person camera!
Maniac Talks About Bullying November 17, 2024
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It’s Sunday but today we’re not going to talk about gaming history you should know, we’re going to discuss one of the most serious topics this website has ever discussed, bullying. Some of you may have guessed that I personally may have had some experience with bullying in my earlier days. For the sake of the internet, we’re not going to talk about my experiences. However, we are going to talk about what advice I could give to the parents of bullied children.
Due to several factors we’ve decided to age restrict this video. Thank you for your understanding.
Meta Quest 3 Unboxing November 8, 2024
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Maniac took the plunge and decided to replace his Meta Quest Pro with a brand-new Quest 3! This new Virtual Reality headset will let you play any games from the Quest library, as well as many PCVR titles. It features a higher resolution screen, Mixed Reality depth sensors, and a faster processor than the previous model Quest headsets.
Let’s take a look in the box and see what we got!
Lost Media Follow Up 1 (FOUND) October 19, 2024
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For those of you who have been following our Lost Media videos, we have some updates for you today!
Avatars Offline can be watched here. Vernon Wilmer’s Star Trek My Experience has been archived. Rest in Peace, Vernon.
Memories of Maniac – Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad October 15, 2024
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Let’s talk about a show that was literally 30 years ahead of its time, shall we? Let me take you back to the early-to-mid 1990s. A production company discovers they can make a literal fortune broadcasting already produced Japanese television shows. They discovered if they cut out the action scenes and filmed original footage with recasted American actors, as long as they wrote a compelling story young audiences would flock to watch it.
A company called DiC, famous for children’s programming in the 80s and 90s, decided to throw their hat into the ring and produce their own American superhero action show. They based their series on a Japanese show about a cyberspace superhero at a time when computers were gaining popularity in the west. They cast it with incredible actors, including a young Matthew Lawrence. They wrote some pretty special original episodes using tropes that, while considered quaint now, were fresh in the 90s. Oh and of course they made Tim Curry voice the villain.
The show was called Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad. Despite few people remembering it (it had a limited run of just over fifty episodes over the course of a year), Maniac LOVED the show, and now he’s going to share his unscripted feelings about it thirty years after it originally broadcast, and talk about its enduring legacy, and how well it predicted the present day. This video is nearly an hour long so buckle in people, and let’s SAMURAIZE, GUYS!
Lost Media – Halo Outpost Discovery’s Ring Experience Dome Video October 14, 2024
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In 2019, six cities in the United States were allowed to enter the Halo Universe for one weekend. A Halo-themed mini-convention called Halo: Outpost Discovery took place, and people who attended were able to check out interactive Halo experiences inspired by the franchise ranging from a simulator to an escape room. Today, we’re going to talk about one piece of media created specifically for the event, projected onto a custom dome screen, which covered the in-universe history of Halo, as well as shown a brand-new Halo ring inside and out.
The experience was absolutely done with respect to the franchise and despite the fact that the projector’s bulb was not set to its maximum possible brightness, the video brought this long-time Halo fan to tears. Since Outpost Discovery 2019 wrapped, no other Outpost Discovery has taken place, and the Ring Experience dome video has not made any appearances online. Let’s talk about it.
Maniac’s Kitchen – JOYRIDE Sour Blue Strips Review August 30, 2024
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Welcome back to Maniac’s Kitchen, where we discuss food for gamers! Today, we’ll be doing another initial taste test. JOYRIDE candy is finally getting a wide distribution, and we were able to get our hands on a few bags of the new sour candy. Today, we’ll be trying Blue Raspberry Strips for the first time! Well, we like sour candy and blue raspberry is one of our favorite flavors. Let’s see how we like it in this initial unscripted taste test!
Maniac’s Kitchen – Trader Joe’s Spicy Garlic Noodles Review August 9, 2024
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Welcome back to Maniac’s Kitchen, where we talk about food that’s perfect for gamers! Today, we’ll be doing a live review of Trader Joe’s new Spicy Garlic Noodles! We’re going to see how easy they are to cook and try them out for the first time in glorious 4K HDR!
Apple Pencil Pro Unboxing August 3, 2024
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If you purchased either an M2-powered iPad Air or an M4-powered iPad Pro, you’re going to want an Apple Pencil, and the model you MUST-HAVE is the Apple Pencil Pro.
Maniac got the chance to unbox a Pencil Pro with his new hands-free camera. Let’s take a closer look in the box!
Lost Media – AT&T’s Lost EPCOT Simulator Ride July 29, 2024
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Welcome back to Lost Media! Today we’re going to be discussing one of the most popular forms of LM, Theme Park Lost Media! However, today we won’t be talking about a ride that was shuttered or a show that was closed, we’ll be discussing something most people, including Disney and AT&T historians, have no idea ever existed.
the mid-90s, EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth was sponsored by AT&T, and as the sponsor they offered a unique attraction many fans of the company may not even be aware existed. A small motion simulator in front of a large screen was located in Spaceship Earth’s Network Neighborhood. If you had the chance to try it out, you’d find yourself shrunk to the size of an electron and ride across AT&T’s communication cables.
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