Think music festival and visions of mushrooms dance in your head.
It's far from shocking that some festival goers boost their musical experiences with substances. Drug emergencies even disrupt some events, such as New York's 2013 Electric Zoo, which was shut down early after two attendees died from overdoses.
The substance and addiction resource Drugabuse.com analyzed Instagram posts to find out which drugs people mentioned the most when referring to their favorite music festival. Over 3 million posts were analyzed.
For starters, the most Instagrammed music festival turned out to be Electric Daisy Carnival. Not surprisingly, EDC had the most posts mentioning substance abuse, too — over 40,000. And out of all the substance-related posts for Marley Fest, 82% included mentions of marijuana. MDMA was the most popular for EDC and Ultra, and cocaine for Coachella. And the before-mentioned Burning Man sees quite a bit of DMT.
You probably don't was Deadpool anywhere near your mom — or a baby for that matter.
Ryan Reynolds, who plays Marvel's antihero, tweeted out a very special Mother's Day message that comes straight from his character's heart. Or what passes for his character's heart.
Only a sarcastic, foul-mouthed mercenary like Deadpool could craft such poetic, honeyed words.
Ryan Reynolds' wife, Blake Lively, is also a proud mama this year. Lively and Reynolds welcomed a baby girl, James, in December.
This trick works on any gun in the PC version of GTA V, and we're here to help you make that magic for yourself.
As Mon Mothma in Return of the Jedi might put it, many cars died to bring us this information ....
There are two key steps to setting this up. First you need Script Hook V, a handy little file that makes GTA V mod-ready. Download the latest version here, open up the ZIP archive, and copy the two DLL files — ScriptHookV.dll and dinput8.dll — from the "bin" folder to the root folder where you have the game installed.
If you play using Steam, the folder location probably looks something like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Grand Theft Auto V
One important note before you proceed:
Neither of the DLLs overwrite anything that's already in the folder, but Script Hook V breaks your ability to play GTA Online. Mods are cleared for use in the single player and "Director" modes, but developer Rockstar Games doesn't allow them to be used online.
Once you're done playing with mods, you'll need to delete the two files and reset the game before you can use GTA Online again.
Now that that's done, head over to the Vehicle Cannon download page on gta5-mods.com and download the mod. Open up the archive and copy the lone file you find there — vehicle cannon.asi — to the same folder you dropped Script Hook V into.
That's it! Fire up the game (remember to start it in single player), travel to whichever lovely vista you'd like to use as a backdrop for an apocalyptic number of car explosions and press the F11 key to activate the mod. Then just shoot any gun in your inventory and enjoy the fireworks.
You'll know the mod works if you see white text pop up in the top left corner of the screen after you hit F11 (though the flood of cars exploding out of your gun barrel is a dead giveaway as well). You can press F11 once for a "normal" rate of fire and a second time for a "fast," though we couldn't see much of a difference between the two.
Pressing F11 a third time turns the mod off, though you'll still need to remove Script Hook V if you want to get into GTA Online.
There are tons of other scripts (the type of mod that Script Hook V enables) on the gta5-mods website if you're feeling adventurous. A lot of them amount to cheats, but there are definitely some intriguing possibilities. Like the one that causes spontaneous chaos in the world. Or the one that turns you into a Jedi Master.
Let us know if you try any of these mods out and please, share videos!
Tech news has been busy this week, with Oculus finally confirming a release date and Google releasing the schedule for its upcoming developers conference. So you may have missed some of the week's best new apps.
Luckily, each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and
updated apps. This week's list includes an app that lets you play
classical music on a piano, a social app from the creator of the Sims and a weight-tracking app.
Check out the gallery, below, to see our top picks. If you're looking for more, take a look at our last roundup here.
Into the Circle
Into the Circle is one of those simple games that is
trickier than it seems. The premise is somewhat like darts, in that you
want to perfectly aim and time shots to make it into the circles, with
extra points for landing in the center. But the speed and angles get
progressively more difficult as the levels advance, which takes the
games from simple to frustrating very quickly. Keep an eye on: The circles in the distance. If you
overshoot your next target, you can still continue provided you make it
into a circle somewhere on the board.
Pro tip: If you run out of stars and want to get
around the game’s somewhat maddening freemium constraints, kill the app
and restart. It won’t save your previous progress, but it does allow you
to start over without making an in-app purchase or clicking through the
app’s ads.
iOS: free
Image: Gameblyr
Slim
The aim of Slim’s weight tracking app is to help you not only with
daily tracking, but also with small game features like reminders and
in-app rewards for meeting goals.
Keep an eye on: The app also supports Touch ID at login to ensure your data is kept private.
Pro tip: Apple Health integration allows you to
automatically sync your weight from Wi-Fi-enabled scales like Fitbit’s
or Withings’ with the Health app.
iOS: $0.99
Image: Josef Moser
Tastebud
Looking for new music and podcasts to listen to? New books to read?
TV and movies to watch and apps to download? Tastebud users ask for
recommendations and get suggestions from their extended social networks.
Keep an eye on: Your notifications to find out when people you know need a rec or when someone likes one of your suggestions. Pro tip: You can customize your feed to filter out certain categories you’re not interested in.
iOS: free
Image: Josar Media Inc
Thred
Created by the man behind the Sims and SimCity games, Thred is a social app that’s a bit like Twitter cofounder Biz Stone’s Super. Users share brief stories by overlaying text and stickers onto images.
Keep an eye on: The featured section, which has some
of the app’s more popular ideas. You can also switch to an “everyone”
view to get a sense of what all users are sharing.
Pro tip: The app has a neat scroller control that
helps you easily search through your camera roll chronologically to find
photos on any given day.
iOS: free
Image: Syntertainment Incorporated
Touch Pianist
A simple but beautiful app, Touch Pianist takes classical music
you’ve heard a million times and recreates it as a visualization that
you “play” just by tapping on the screen in the right rhythm.
Keep an eye on: The app’s music catalog, which comes
with more than a dozen songs preloaded for free. You can buy additional
scores through in-app purchases.
Pro tip: Don’t be afraid to play too fast or too
slow or mix up the beat a bit; the music holds up, regardless of your
skill level. Tapping farther down on the screen decreases the volume
while moving higher increases it.
Petra Nemcova on the red carpet at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Image: Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP/Associated Press
CANNES, France — Grab your sunglasses and fancy shoes, but leave that
selfie stick behind. It's time for the 68th Annual Festival de Cannes,
the most spectacular, sensational and, yes, snootiest event in the
international cinema calendar.
While Cannes films don't necessarily make a killing at the box
office, their impact is felt in other ways. The work inspires other
filmmakers, influences fashion and gets tongues wagging. But for true
movie lovers, these 11 days in the South of France are nirvana. If you
include the International Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and Cannes
Classics sidebars, close to 100 features will unspool.
Some of which are on the beach, under the stars! Here are some titles we've got eyes on this year:
Raise your hand if you have a working SNES at home. How about an Atari 2600? What about a functional PC from 1990? Didn’t think so.
Gamers love getting new hardware that can play the latest and greatest titles with maxed out graphics and silky frame rates, but that sometimes means that our old favorites get lost to the march of progress.
Luckily, several developers and designers have shined up their code to give their games fresh life. Whether you want to play on your PC, a console, or a tablet, there are eight excellent games of yore that you can revisit on modern hardware.
1. Halo: Master Chief Edition
The Halo franchise has spanned multiple hardware generations since its first game appeared in 2001. The Master Chief edition offers updates to Halo 2, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 3 and Halo 4. That’s a total of 45 campaign missions and more than 100 multiplayer maps. If that wasn’t enough, the collection also has the Halo: Nightfall live action digital series that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians. It’s a must-have for any serious fans of the helmeted hero.
Available on Xbox One.
2. Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition
BioWare’s classic role-playing game Baldur’s Gate got a remaster and more from BeamDog in 2012. The remake spiffed up the original title and its expansion pack with more than 400 improvements. It also added in some fresh content, including new characters, new map areas and a new arena adventure. The team also expanded the available platforms to include mobile options. But it still has all the things that first turned heads about the game when it first launched in 1998: branching dialogue, compelling story lines and complex character relationships.
If that’s not enough classic RPG for you, Baldur’s Gate II also got an Enhanced Edition. That means you can adventure once more through all of this vision of Faerûn on the contemporary hardware of your choice.
Available on Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows.
3. Grim Fandango
Tim Schafer has been supplying gamers with top-notch titles for more than a decade. But before the creation of his Double Fine studio, one of Schafer’s earliest projects was the noir adventure game Grim Fandango. It won critical acclaim for its excellent writing and soundtrack, but seemed lost to the ages when LucasArts closed down its adventure game development arm and eventually was bought out entirely. But fans of Manny Calavera were able to get reacquainted with the skeleton earlier this year thanks to a remaster for modern hardware. Updates in the remaster included character textures, dynamic lighting, a re-recorded soundtrack and lots of developer commentary.
Available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
4. LucasArts Star Wars games
When Disney Interactive took over LucasArts, it seemed like the end of an era. LucasArts was responsible for several pivotal and beloved titles during the 1990s that we feared would not reemerge again.
Luckily, the Disney crew teamed up with GOG.com to re-release more than a dozen old LucasArts games. From the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars: Dark Forces and Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
If that isn’t enough of a treasure trove for you, the partnership also includes refreshed versions of Sam & Max Hit the Road, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. All of the remastered games can be found DRM-free on GOG.com.
Available on Windows, and selectively on Mac and Linux.
5. Homeworld
This title holds a place in history as the first fully three-dimensional real-time strategy game. Homeworld debuted in 1999 as a space game where you control a fleet in either singleplayer or multiplayer missions.
Then Gearbox Software (of Borderlands fame) picked up the intellectual property and launched remastered versions of both games this February. The Homeworld Remastered Collection also includes the classic versions of the games, but the refreshed takes feature vastly improved graphics and sound. The team even redid the score and the original actors’ voice recordings.
Available on Windows.
6. System Shock and System Shock 2
When the first System Shock debuted in 1994, it was a genre-defining shooter that allowed the player to explore through emergent gameplay. The sequel in 1999 continued that march of shooter innovation. Games that mix the first-person shooter and RPG genres might be a dime a dozen now, but the System Shock games were among the first to find the perfect balance between the two.
Although Looking Glass Studios is no more, the System Shock games have benefited from an active and creative modding community. There are whole fan-sites dedicated to sprucing up the original games and making them playable on today’s PC hardware. SystemShock.org gathered the game’s superfans to create a Community Patch that would bring the creation a final bit of polish for total immersion on today’s PCs.
Available on Windows.
7. Wings Remastered Edition
Back in the days of the Amiga console, Wings brought gamers into the shoes of a World War I fighter pilot. The game drew accolades for its combination of a classic flight simulator with arcade-style fun. While the look of the game was about as good as you could get in 1990, the Cinemaware team launched a Kickstarter project to remaster the game with all the power of modern hardware. Following successful funding at the end of 2013, the team redid the graphics, music, sound and controls for a fresh take on the fighter pilot experience. They even secured enough funding to port the remastered game onto both iOS and Android platforms, although the work on those is ongoing.
Available on Windows.
8. Another World
When a game merits inclusion at the Museum of Modern Art, it’s a pretty safe bet that it’s a classic. Starting with its initial release in 1991, Another World has managed to retain enough players and popularity to support several updates, ports, and anniversary editions. Players have gone on this fiendishly difficult adventure with Lester on the Amiga, Atari, PC DOS, SNES, Mac and Windows platforms. The most recent release is the 20th anniversary edition, which brought it to just about every game-playing piece of hardware you might want.
Available on Android, iOS, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, Ouya, Playstation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, WiiU, Windows and Xbox One.
Nintendo aims to have Mario, Luigi and Link on your smartphones by
2017, the company said in an investor presentation in Japan Friday.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the company would aim to have
five games out by the end of the following fiscal year. (Nintendo's
fiscal years run April 1 to March 31.) He reiterated the games would not
be mobile ports of existing titles, but new games designed with the
touch interface in mind.
"You may think it is a small number, but when we aim to make each
title a hit, and because we want to thoroughly operate every one of them
for a significant amount of time after their releases, this is not a
small number at all and should demonstrate our serious commitment to the
smart device business," Iwata said.
Nintendo announced its partnership with mobile game company DeNA
in March, finally bringing its well-known characters and games to
platforms outside of its own consoles and handhelds. The company said at
the time it was going to explore many game types and monetization
models, and Iwata clarified that it wouldn't stick to models (like
aggressive free-to-play) that would hurt the company's brand.
Nintendo's presentation Friday also mentioned plans to unite its
mobile games under the umbrella account system as its other consoles and
handhelds, something that really isn't available currently.
We could see Nintendo's first mobile game by the end of the year,
though the company made no firm promises, or commented on which licenses
are likely to be turned into mobile titles.
Amazon wants to give JetBlue passengers a new option for tuning out that crying baby or talkative seat neighbor.
The e-commerce company will let members of Amazon's
$99 annual loyalty program Prime stream its instant video service for
free on their Wi-Fi enabled devices via JetBlue's inflight Wi-Fi
service. JetBlue is the only U.S. airline to offer free Wi-Fi on its
planes.
Called Fly-Fi for Amazon Prime,
the service will give Prime members access to original Amazon shows
like "Transparent," its other streaming TV and movies, as well as the
ability to rent or buy other titles on Amazon's Instant Video store.
Major airlines are moving to provide more in-flight streaming options that passengers can access on their own devices.
Previously Amazon Prime members could pay for Jet Blue's premium
Wi-Fi service called Fly-Fi Plus and stream video that way. But now
members will be able to stream on JetBlue's free service. Amazon's Prime
Music streaming service, e-books from its Kindle store and apps and
games from the Amazon app store will also be available.
“We want to provide the best digital video experience to our
customers and we’re excited that with JetBlue, we will raise the bar in
airline entertainment,” Michael Paull, Vice President of Digital Video
at Amazon, said in a statement.
Prime members will be able watch Amazon Instant Video from their
laptops, Fire devices, iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets
without downloading anything beforehand. JetBlue's free Fly-Fi broadband
Internet will be available on all JetBlue's Airbus A321 and A320
aircraft later this year, and on JetBlue's Embraer E190 aircraft in
2016.
The agreement will also let JetBlue Airways Corp. use some
behind-the-scenes footage from Amazon's original shows on its seatback
TV inflight offerings.
Amazon.com Inc. has been expanding its Prime program's offerings in
an effort to grow its membership with services such as grocery delivery,
one-hour delivery in some cities, beefed up video streaming and the
creation of a Bluetooth speaker called the Echo that syncs with Prime
music.
She's already slayed vampires. Now Sarah Michelle Gellar has her sights set on conquering Pinterest.
On Tuesday, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress joined the crafty social network, launching a variety of lifestyle and DIY boards in preparation for Mother's Day. Crafts, snack ideas and home decor inspiration — SMG has got you covered!
"One of my favorite activities to do with my kids is crafting. But so often I think we see things, but then think we could never make them," Gellar recently said in a statement. "So I created this [DIY Mother's Day Gifts] board, to guide from aspiration to actual creation. These are not only doable projects, but useful items like picture frames (and the art to put in them), wine glasses and even edible arrangements."
To help out with the Pinterest launch, Mashable is partnering with Gellar, collaborating on her DIY Mother's Day Gift board. Follow along to find crafty ways to say "Thank you, mom!"
Check out some of Sarah's pins below. And don't forget to check out her full Pinterest profile here.
Sometimes being a celebrity just isn't enough. Just ask actress Reese
Witherspoon, small-town fashion hero...it seems. Her new life goal:
Dressing women everywhere like southern belles.
On Tuesday, the 39-year old actress launched, Draper James,
a Southern-inspired sportswear and lifestyle label that includes
accessories, home and gifting, jewelry and apparel. She's joining the
ranks of other celeb-owned lifestyle businesses: Gwyneth Paltrow and her
wellness publication Goop, Jessica Alba and her mega-successful infant brand Honest Company, and Blake Lively's own artisanal online guide/e-commerce shop Preserve.
That's right — the same woman who established the "bend and snap" is
applying her eye for style with a heavy emphasis on her home-grown
Southern roots.
“I hope that it sort of opens people’s eyes to how much the South has
changed and to all of the cultural experiences happening there," she
tells WWD.
"We’re going to have City Guides, but through my eyes, the places I
love. We will have different Southern ambassadors that will show places
to buy amazing Southern antique silver or where to find hand towels like
their grandmothers had.”
Some of the saccharine items Witherspoon thinks will sell: a pair of
sweet magnolia-printed shorts called "Marry Me" and sugary accessories
like a "Totes Y'all" tote bag, among many other sweet-as-apple-pie merchandise morsels sure to cause a toothache or three. Prices range from $25 for jewelry to $400 for a dress.
