The “Break it Down” Blog

Roy Jones Beats Felix Trinidad

Don’t know how many boxing fans are out there, but Roy Jones took a unanimous decision win over Felix Trinidad Saturday night (Jan 19th) after knocking him down in the 7th and 10th rounds. The consensus seems to be that while both fighters were well past their primes (by about 5 years each) and Trinidad came [...]

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Nerf Gun Modded to Gears of War Lancer

Kotaku has the poop on this sweet-ass gun mod using a Nerf gun and a Nerf chainsaw. The entire process including pictures of it along the way are included in Forsaken_angel24’s thread over on the Nerfhaven forums. To see a video of this puppy in action, check out Forsaken’s video of making it and then it in [...]

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Happy New Year!

Well it’s 2008 and we are all still here. If you want to post with what your New Year’s resolution was I’d be thankful. Mine is to “live in the now”… which means more than it sounds like. Check out “The Power of Now” for an excellent book that discusses living “in the now”.

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Crysis Physics: 3000 Barrels

For the readers that remember the “Crysis Extreme Physics” post from a few weeks ago, here’s a new one to whet your appetite: Just a reminder, this isn’t a movie recorded at real time. The processing power required to actually calculate all those physical bodies is something that no PC can do right now. The actual How-To [...]

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Extreme Physics in Crysis

These are some pretty sweet physics in Crysis, some of the more interesting stuff (like a giant man made out of 1000s of boxes) start around 2mins in and go to the end, pretty entertaining to watch. NOTE: No computer currently can run these physics at an acceptable framerate, the person that recorded this video did [...]

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