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I love this guy Mack. His Video game reviews are usually hilarious, and has very good taste in games usually. This is more of a comedy peice than a review, very hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRpaOq7DSE Check out more of his reviews hers: https://www.youtube.com/user/Worthabuyguys/videos

I know many people are looking for a proper adblocking solution. I posted a trick just yesterday on how to block ads in the Edge browser. Adblock and such work good as a browser extension, but whats better is to have a way to block ads SYSTEM wide and in programs and ads, and software such as Ad Muncher and Adguard do that. I've been an Ad Muncher subscriber for years, and it's sad to see that software dying. Luckily, we have an alternative: AdGuard. [caption id="attachment

The Edge browser has been out for nearly a year now, and due to lack of browser support, I haven't actually given it an actual shot until now. I have essential plugins/extensions that I need to use, which one is LastPass. Microsoft has stated that an update will come out... someday... that will make Extensions available in Edge. Hopefully that day is soon. However recently I've started to have problems with my browser of choice which is Firefox. For some odd rea

As you probably have noticed, the site looks a bit different. I have decided to go with a new layout and design of the site. I want to show more content while keeping it clean. Which is a bit silly since there is hardly any new content here, ha but hopefully that'll change soon enough. The old theme is one that I love, and it was very clean, but the problem is that it was too narrow and boxy. Also it was designed years ago so the coding was a bit off. Comparison

As you may have noticed, Grunch has been down for a nearly a week. The reason is, well i don't know the damn reason. A Small Orange which was previously my favorite host, has been broken for nearly a week, since the 25th, with no real explanation. I've been leaving the site hosted with them, hoping it'd come back on, but day after day, i'm finally getting annoyed. I finally decided to put Grunch temporarily on my old shared hosting account which is hosted with GeekStorage.

I'm sure many of you have heard of the rumors of the iPhone 6 Plus being brittle and easily bendable. Alot of us blew this off as just haters and anti apple people being crazy and doing what they do. Well surprise! Turns out its true. Now this could be old news since the iPhone 6 line has already been replaced by the iPhone 6s, but alot of people who got the 6 aren't going to upgrade to the 6s. We're going to keep our phones til at least the 7, if we even upgrade then, these suckers a

Rainbow Six Siege is the latest in the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series, and I must say, it's a whole hootin heck of a fun time. The first thing I noticed about this game is that it was very similar to an other game I played and wrote about earlier this year, called BurstFire, which I actually liked. You can read that article here. At the time, I didn't know that Burstfire was pretty much trying to clone Rainbow Six Siege. I have to say, they did a pretty good job at it. It

A few months ago I moved the Grunch to a small host called "A Small Orange". Which I loved. However after a month or so of hosting, I let weirdos weird me out about the fact that EIG owns ASO, which is bad because EIG usually buys hosts and then ruins them.  So, I let my weirdo friend spook me out, so I joined another host, KnownHost, which cost double the money, and used them for a couple months.  To be honest, I was kinda disappointed in KnownHost. Not because they're bad, but becau

I recently wrote an article about Amazon's Cloud Storage, which I am still using and love. It's definitely worth the $60 a year. However, I just came across a killer deal that allows you to register the service for only $5 for the first year, which is awesome. It was a black Friday deal, but its still working. I'm assuming it'll continue working til CyberMonday, but I could be wrong. They don't provide any info on this. However, today is Sunday, and the deal just

I've been seriously looking in to Cloud Storage lately, mostly due to me wanting to get out of the habit backing up my pictures to a static Disc, which is what I've been doing for nearly 20 years now. A static disc is basically a DVD R, and its static because once you burn and finalize it, it's done, you can't edit or change it. But the problem with the disc method, is its very unreliable. In the past week I've tried to back up my photos to a disc and went through about 3 blank dvdrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q Facebook is such an Evil mess. Video sums up why they are such a evil mess lately. Several times a day I see stolen videos being shared and reshared on facebook. Thank god no one in their right mind would want to steal any of my videos. Due to facebook being such an evil mess, i hardly touch the thing anymore.

Update: October 22nd, 2015 - Can no longer recommend this game -  Read at bottom Dang, is it already 7Pm? I've been playing this game since I woke up at 6am, and dang, I'm still going! The game of course, is Prison Architect, which has recently been upgraded from BETA to version 1, and I must say, This damn game is fun as heck. If you haven't heard of this game, it's pretty much an open sandbox game where you build and manage a prison. The game looks simple, but

I feel a bit silly announcing that we have a new host within the time span of only a month, but well, we have a new host. I was very happy with ASmallOrange. The speed was okay, and the price was good. However, the hosting there was unamanged, and didn't have any control panel, which I knew going in, but it made making any changes very time consuming and complicated. The VPS and servers at ASmallOrange were so compiled and complicated using CentOS and Nginx, that rarely wou

[caption id="attachment_3077" align="alignleft" width="310"] Facebook Advanced Search[/caption] A while back Facebook removed the ability to refine searches using the main search box on Facebook. No idea why they did it, but they did it. What we have now is a retarded search box that just finds whatever,  but nothing that you're really looking for. Previous, the Search on Facebook would allow you to refine your searches by typing specific names, and towns, jobs and other in

I've always been a huge fan of Yelawolf's. Even long before he was famous. He deserves much more recondition than he currently has, but I know he'll get there some day. Anyone who's been through some struggles and continue trying to survive can relate to his raps/music. Check out this amazing song  off his latest album. [g1_quote author_name="Yelawolf" author_image="http://www.grunch.com/legacy/uploads/2015/09/yelawolfamericanyou-730x492.jpg" author_url="http://w

Many of my friends think that I'm addicted to buying website domains because I seem to constantly be doing that, which is true, but there is a good reason behind it: Cash. I'm not a big domain seller, meaning, I don't buy domains for thousands of dollars and then sell them for 5 times the amount, but I do buy domains for as low as $20, and usually sell them for double or triple what I paid, which means quick fast sells, where I usually double my money. That's $20 or more from nothing,

Chase and DigitalRiver Fraud? Something weird happen this morning. I woke up to an email from Chase asking if this recent purcahse made with my Chase card was fraud or not. The charge was for $14.99, from DRI*AVAST SOFTWARE. I suppose the DRI stands for DigitalRiver which is a payment processing company thing, and this time supposedly they are charging for an Avast Subscription. The problem with this is, I DON'T USE THE CARD, and besides, I don't use Avast. I got the card last year, and us

The two users who visit The Grunch may have noticed that it was online for the past day or so. This was due to me moving the site to yet another new host, and having to learn how to use linux console commands to get it up and running. Our other host TrafficPlanetHosting is great, but they have some odd server technology, where the site would like goto sleep, and it was like a hamster running on a wheel meaning it has to pick up its speed each time someone would visit the site, which i

[caption id="attachment_2956" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Eric Nally Stealing the show on the Tonight Show last weekend.[/caption] The chances are high that you've recently seen or heard the popular song "Downtown" music video or song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and most likely heard the catchy chorus sung well by some dynamic singer, which I think is the best part of the song. The song itself goes from strange, to interesting, to annoying after a few plays, while the chorus re

Man oh man, when did Apple become so boring? Nothing new or innovative anymore. I used the iPhone as my phone, I love it, and prefer it over all others, so don't assume that I'm an Apple hater. The Latest Mac OS X LOOKd way better than windows 10, but just looks, not functions, and it's just not worth the price. I was most excited about Apple TV today than anything else. I knew they'd offer an over sized iPad, and a new iPhone, but the Apple TV was the only supposedly "new"

I'm going to start a new category here on Grunch called 'Short Takes'. Alot of times I just want to comment on something which doesn't need an entire article.  This will fulfill that need, and also allow me to write more without worrying about how to stretch something out to be a page or so long. Grunch Logo - I've been working all night and day trying to find a suitable logo, I can't find one. But, I found one that looks okay, and well work for now. Old logo:

[caption id="attachment_2838" align="aligncenter" width="768"] AI People of Los Santos just living out their lives.[/caption] Grand Theft Auto V - On the PC is probably the most fun game I have played in a very long time. Especially the online mode. I LOVE games that have a bit of realism to them, and a huge open free-roam sandbox world. GTA Has always had that, and the latest version takes it to a new level. Its an ALL IN ONE game, meaning it has alot of differe

Picasa is my favorite photo organizer. It's lightweight, fast and simple to use. My only main bug with Picasa is how small the thumbnails are, especially on modern resolutions. This is probably due to Picasa being a pretty old program. Google has added features to it such as annoying Google+ integration, but no meaningful core updates. My current monitor resolution is 2560x1080 pixels, which isn't even close to being up with the most modern 4k resolutions, due to this thumb

* Update - August 24, 2015 - Subscription renewed- Sling gave me a free month, click here to read. I wrote an article a few months ago about how I loved Sling Tv. Back then, I only watched it on a spare monitor hooked up to my computer set up, which worked fine. However, Since that time I have purchased and 60inch Smart TV, and have gotten more serious into my TV entertainment and such. Sling did seem to work better on the TV than it did on the PC, such as I didn't really get the audi

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