TEAM RESEARCH GROUP

Author: Research Boss

  • Reddit Inside Jokes: – Dinosaur Head Furniture

    Reddit is full of
    On Reddit you have to watch for the birth of front page items. We will walk you through how they become popular. Here is one example the Dinosaur Head Furniture.

    It begins with one photo which was put up by Reddit user (friends_with_llamas)

    Titled:
    My two friends (who are dating) decided to get a place together. The girl and I left to buy some things for the bathroom and we came back to this…

    One Reddit user with the top comment (Gimli666) posted

    Of course a request to create an animated gif was another comment.

    Later in the day Reddit user (isawablacktriangle) posted that exact animated image.

    Titled: Ellie! Ellie! Look!

    My two friends (who are dating) decided to get a place together. The girl and I left to buy some things for the bathroom and we came back to this…
    byu/friends_with_llamas infunny

    To summarize in the end. People feel they are part of the inside joke when they see the new animated gif. I remember the story from earlier before! To feel that connection lets you feel you are part of an inside joke or a community. Of course others may not know what is going on so they read the comments to get some context.

  • Do Not Buy a Car From Nissan

    Do Not Buy a Car From Nissan

    – In 1998 we bought a Nissan Pathfinder. The car had multiple issues and car problems (we should have learned our lesson here)
    – In 2004 we bought a Infiniti g35 (Infiniti is Nissan if you did not know). This car practically exploded on the freeway and died out.
    – In 2009 We foolishly bought this Nissan Murano. 4 Nissan Dealerships, 4 Car mechanic shops, over 10+ visits to all these shops. Everyone pretty much said you are out of luck. No one could figure out the problem.

    Symptoms:
    – You will accelerate and nothing will happen. Even if you floor it the car will rev, but will not move.
    – The high pitch sound is the most annoying while driving. We demonstrate this in the video.

    DO NOT BUY FROM NISSAN! HORRIBLE Car quality. Horrible Service. Only buy if you want headaches.

  • Top MAC and PC Gaming Mouse

    Top MAC and PC Gaming Mouse

    Logitech G700 Gaming Mouse

    *this is the one we tested in the labs. A new version of this is out

    We did a lot of research and even though the Logitech software does not play nice with Mac. We found the gaming control center still works and we are able to use our G700.

    The reason why the Logitech G700 Gaming Laser is our top pick for performance mouse. Whether you are using it for graphic design, or gaming, or even if you just want less effort on the computer. This mouse is great.

    It has a wireless mode, or if you prefer wired mode. In the wired mode it charges the battery for you to go wireless. Out of batteries but no wire to charge it? No problem you can swap the battery for a normal double A.

    The new model design looks great, but we do miss the old sleek look better.

  • Top Iphone Cases. Which One is the Best?

    Criteria for the research was basically:

    • Slim, we do not want a bulky phone coming out of our clothes.
    • Protection, our previous case saved our phone from 3 different drops out of a car.
    • Functionality, can it double as a wallet? kick stand? What else can it do. (more…)
  • Top Gaming Mousepads

    Top Gaming Mousepads

    Trust me when we say our Battlestation is geared with the finest equipment. Yes I am running 4 monitors, SLI video cards, gaming professional keyboard equipped with LCD, professional gaming mouse with weight control. Yes my battle station is magnificent, alas something is amiss. I go for the kill in one of my popular games but what happened? My mouse fly’s away from me, was it my spasm? Did the game crash? No it was my old mouse pad slipping out from under me. I didn’t even know that was a possibility. I decided to look up the top mouse pads and I narrowed it down to these two.

    Razer Vespula Dual-Sided Gaming Mouse Mat

    Razer Vespula Dual-Sided Gaming Mouse Mat (Dark Grey)

    This mouse pad is great because you can easily swap between a smooth surface, to a slightly rougher surface if you need more precision to speed. It also comes with a wrist guard which helps me on long gaming marathon sessions. My only gripe is that the way the mouse pad looks is not that great. I feel like I want to live in the Matrix or something.

    SteelSeries 9HD Large Professional Gaming

    SteelSeries 9HD Large Professional Gaming Mouse Pad (Black)

    Now this mousepad was large and although aesthetically it looks better then the Razer counterpart. The only issue is that the mouse pad is a bit thick, our wrist found it troublesome to lay on the pad and the table. The surface material is nice for precision movement, but sometimes it was a bit restricting on movement. Also the way the texture felt, was a bit strange, reminded me of putting your nail on a nail file (okay maybe not that extreme).

    SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface (close second)

    SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface – Large Cloth

    The picture below I am showing my mouse and phone holder for scale.

    SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface - Large Cloth - Best Selling Mouse Pad of All Time - Optimized For Gaming Sensors - Maximum Control

    The HUGE space this encompasses is great, you can make very large strokes and movement and not worry about leaving the mousepad. This is a great second but is essentially a large mosuepad. It doesnt have the smoothest for quicker speed, but this is great for a work environment setting not so much for gaming.

     

    Winner:

    In the end the Razer Vespula won mainly because of usability. I want the precision for my graphics, film work, audio work, 3d graphics, etc etc. And I want the smooth movement for gaming, while also protecting my wrist. The Razer provides all that and its our choice for top mousepad.

  • Warm Bodies (2013) Review

    Warm Bodies (2013) Review

    warm_bodiesJust in time for Valentine’s day.

    A great movie for both men and women to enjoy. A nice take on a romantic love story that mixes both pop culture, and zombie fiction. The story was very interesting and unique in its own way.  Don’t let the terrible movie poster (shown on left) sway you from watching the movie. This movie is great on it’s take of romance, comedy and mixing in with zombies. Would anyone think that is possible?

    Rating: B+ (must see, bring a date!)












  • Hansel and Gretel : Witch Hunters (2013) Review

    Hansel_and_Gretel_Witch_HuntersThis movie was great in terms of the action scenes being very unique. They showed a wide variety of weaponry that mixed with new age technology .

    You won’t find many one liners that will stick to your brain. But the action was quite sufficient

    We suggest watching this movie in 3D because unlike many other movies the 3D was actually eye popping good (they actually had 3D!). Scenes with trees breaking would actually come flying right out at you. Some other movie patrons jumped out of their seat from the flying debris which did make me chuckle to myself. (better dodge that fake tree)

    The makeup and special effects of the witches were great. Famke Janssen (a.k.a. Jean Grey) makes a great villain.

    Jeremy Renner does quite a good performance even though we did find it a bit cheesy when he shoots something and does his pose with the shotgun on his back. Gemma Arterton was spectacular in this movie and from her role in this film made us an instant fan of hers.

    Rating: B-
    TL;DR: It’s quite a short movie and there’s not much story to it. All in all we suggest at least seeing this once.

  • Every day you learn something new

    Every day you learn something new

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  • The Last Stand (2013) Review

    the_last_standArnold Schwarzenegger is back! Finally staring in a movie which he hasn’t done so in 10 years. He comes back as of course an sheriff of a small town.

    If you are looking for a action movie with a lot of story don’t bother. This is just a straight action movie. Lots of plot holes and scenes will make you think What? Why did they do that

    One funny thing if you watch as the movie progresses is Forest Whitaker crooked eyes gets more and more crooked as the movie continues

    Of course it wouldn’t be an Anrold film without some great one liners:

    I’m the Sheriff

    and of course

    I’m to old for this

    Rating: D+ The plot holes and cheesiness was just to much for us to bear and so we ended up not really enjoying this movie. We do however miss Arnold and it made us dust off some of his old classics to watch.
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  • The Mountain

    The Mountain

    Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. l using her.Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.

    But nothing the copy said could convince her

    and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious

    Copy Writers ambushed her

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