From video games to television, science and technology to the spy, and even a glimpse of the fantastic, here are five pieces from deviantArt.com that are simply extraordinary.
Declassify >Small Oddities
Dreaming Big with Science Fictions that I would like to see as Science Fact
With the news of researchers at the University of Rochester developing a “three-dimensional, transmitting, continuously multidirectional cloaking” device, it’s time to dream big.
This cloaking device is being related to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak but, in truth, cloaking or invisibility has been a part of Dungeons & Dragons, science fiction, comics, gaming, and literature well before J.K. Rowling put pen to paper.
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Old School Magic: Urza’s Destiny Completed the Urza’s Block with Uncompromising Class
Urza’s Destiny was released on June, 23rd 1999 as the last expansion for the Urza’s Block. It was the first expansion to fully embrace the new rules introduced in Classic Sixth Edition, because it was the first set released since Classic Sixth changed the game of Magic: the Gathering.
Declassify >I Suggest You Read I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real & Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman
He’s written fiction, non-fiction, and essays about music, death, history and pop culture, but now Chuck Klosterman has turned his attention to villains with I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), a book published on July 9th, 2013 and reprinted in paperback on July 1st, 2014.
Before we get into the book, let’s first look at the definition of the word villain, a noun. According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, Villain is “a character in a story, movie, etc., who does bad things,” “a person who does bad things,” and “someone or something that is blamed for a particular problem or difficulty.”
Declassify >Retro Gaming Revisited
Digging into the Battle Tested PC Gaming Classic of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Almost a decade before Warcraft became synonymous with World of Warcraft (WOW), the juggernaut of massively mutliplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), and a year before Blizzard would dazzle the world with Diablo, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness ruled the gaming industry.
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