So they launched their company Two Bit Circus in 2012.
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That occurs in two-bit dictatorships intent on stamping out dissent.
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Who's even heard of these two-bit filler programs on HBO?
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The Two Bit Circus micro-amusement park isn't just an arcade.
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This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.
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He works for some two-bit mafia-type, breaking thumbs and whatnot.
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LA's Two Bit Circus closed their doors yesterday because of Covid-19.
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On Thursday, Two Bit Circus announced a $15 million series B funding round.
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Large companies have brought in the Two Bit Circus for big budget events.
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Sinclair writes about the history of computing on his blog, Two-Bit History.
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Early artist rendering for the design of the first Two Bit Circus Early artist rendering for the design of the first Two Bit Circus Lost in the funhouse Entering the Two Bit Circus the first things that visitors see is a circular bar in the center of the converted warehouse space that will serve as the testing ground for Bushnell and Gradman's global ambitions (and more on them later).
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Because he treats the American people like two-bit suckers in 10-gallon hats.
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With each location showcasing cutting-edge tech and entertainment from Two Bit and its partners.
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It's a tough hustle, but man, it beats sticking around this two bit town, right?
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I'm angry that I have to sit here through this two-bit dirtbag flea circus.
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Take away that idea and we're just a giant version of a two-bit autocracy.
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And Two Bit is actively looking for partners to help develop live content for the shows.
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It doesn't sound like a typical circus, but it's typical there at the Two Bit Circus.
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The Democratic gathering was a polished extravaganza; Mr Trump's was a two-bit shambles by comparison.
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Two-Bit put an elbow on my shoulder and leaned against me, dragging on his cigarette.
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Two Bit Circus co-founders Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman Two Bit Circus co-founders Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman Those experiments around screwing with an audience began to take on more of a shape when Bushnell and Gradman began incorporating narrative elements into their games.
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Every two-bit comic book fan will tell you heroes are only as great as their villains.
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Two Bit Circus has already showcased temporary installations, with many held at big events, such as conferences.
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William Kristol: Isn't Trumpism a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained?
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So what differentiated Carnera from every other two-bit bum who'd take a dive in those days?
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Their priests serve under dictators, from two-bit rulers of banana republics to crushing states like China.
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This was a federal case, not some good cop, bad cop routine in a two-bit precinct house.
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He is also a property developer, "two-bit contractor", "frustrated architect", sometime housepainter, landlord, handyman, motorcyclist and fisherman.
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I was a two-bit player and Jason a perennial All-Star — center fielder and shortstop, leadoff hitter.
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It's not all kid games, although Two Bit Circus seems like it'd be highly entertaining for a younger crowd.
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"He should have told me they were going to do this two-bit maneuver," Hatch told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
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Bush, acting as a two-bit pimp, asks Zucker to hug Trump, and then asks for a hug himself.
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And the last I heard it was not a two-bit Saudi dictatorship, it was the United States of America.
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She will not silently abdicate that right in response to a frivolous, two-bit email from you threatening legal action.
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Like a two-bit mobster, he had also threatened to cut funding for NATO unless member countries paid protection money.
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The Hustle opens with two-bit con artist Penny (Rebel Wilson) catfishing a boorish man in a New York City bar.
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He said he figured it was probably the work of "some two-bit hustler" and wouldn't take long to sort out.
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" Colbert responded, "I want to defend him a second, he's not a two-bit dictator, he sounded like a billionaire dictator.
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This business is a circus While the first physical location for Bushnell and Gradman's dream of a Two Bit Circus is one milestone.
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At Two Bit Circus, which raised $15 million from investors last January, virtual reality will be about 20% of the experiences on offer.
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If say, the number two bit was set in your personal privacy register, then you might be part of the "terrorist" target population.
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What did an actor who has brilliantly portrayed mobsters make of a president who was doing a two-bit imitation of a mobster?
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Maybe Donald Trump isn't just some two-bit con artist who lucked his way into the White House thanks to an overconfident opponent.
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To appease eager gamers, Two Bit Circus is holding occasional private beta nights to let visitors play with the company's latest inventions and games.
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" On "AC360," David Gergen said "it's going to go down" in history "as a letter from a two-bit dictator [of a] banana republic.
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Playing underneath this series of images is a fatalistic drumbeat that sounds like a battlecry for war from a two-bit action hero movie.
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Indeed, as soon as the company closed its $15 million round last January, the executives at Two Bit Circus have been open about their goals.
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Better Call Saul is the story of how Jimmy McGill—brother, two-bit lawyer, and former conman—becomes money-laundering, poison cigarette–toting Saul Goodman.
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Computers store numbers in binary; a two-bit number allows only four possibilities (00, 01, 10, and 11), while a three-bit number allows eight.
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In a humming warehouse in Los Angeles, two self-proclaimed "mad inventors" are creating the future of fun with their start-up, Two Bit Circus.
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I was a low-level two-bit spokesman, but I sat in on a lot of meetings where I saw very serious people making decisions.
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You were a two-bit gold digger, fresh off the bus from Hicksville, when you met Mitchum at whatever bar you happened to stumble into.
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I've got to tell you, that speech tonight, he sounded like some two-bit dictator of some country that you couldn't find on a map.
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The Game Boy Classic's 160-by-144 two-bit color screen is also easy to process, which makes things easier on the system running the games.
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"The Federal Reserve just gave us a soporific quarter-point rate cut, an automaton-like 25 basis point slice, a predictable two-bit haircut," he said.
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IMAGE: Getty ImagesIf you keep confusing Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's national security adviser, with a two-bit villain in a Tom Clancy novel, we don't blame you.
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With his leather jacket, gold jewelry and hard-pumping limbs — he's a human piston — Sandler's Howard Ratner looks like just another two-bit hood on the hustle.
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Until now, an illegal trading technique called "spoofing" has been associated with two-bit commodities outfits and lone wolf traders operating in the shadows of the markets.
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But this isn't the first time that figures in Trumpworld have been accused of using two-bit intimidation tactics to silence people who had compromising information on Trump.
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It might not be the greatest show on earth, but though the Two Bit costs more than two bits, it buys more than a shave and a haircut.
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You wouldn't guess that from the opening of "Haircut," in which a professionally logorrheic barber entertains a new customer with tales of life in his two-bit town.
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My two-bit theory is this: The old masters of horror made more squirm-inducing movies than their successors in part because they had more shame about their work.
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For instance, the four two-bit strings—00, 21, 20 and 21—correspond to the four corners of a square in the two-dimensional plane: (20,21), (21,20183), (22018,2200) and (230,1).
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Before he tracks down his old companion, though, Franco, too, will try to recapture the past, discovering that his grown son wants nothing to do with this two-bit criminal.
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It was here, in this onetime oyster bar, that Rupert Murdoch appointed Larry Lamb editor of his first British newspaper, a two-bit tabloid called The Sun, back in 1968.
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In honor of the occasion — at the Five Spot in the East Village, late 1975 — the members of the group staggered theatrically onstage like drunks entering a two-bit casino.
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A racist, sexist, two-bit real-estate developer turned reality-TV entertainer who was caught on camera bragging about physically assaulting women is going to be the country's 252th president.
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Once a two-bit theater with any kind of popcorn you like as long as it was salt, it's now a sofa-equipped hangout more like a speakeasy than a cinema.
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On June 12th a newly pragmatic Mr Cotton explained to Hugh Hewitt, a radio host, that ostracism remains his favoured approach to "two-bit rogue regimes [that] don't have nuclear weapons, yet".
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"Frankly it might be the one thing that Donald Trump is really good at, that and kissing up to two-bit dictators," she said as she blew a kiss into the air.
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Recalling their hacker roots, the two want locations for Two Bit Circus to be hubs for a broader community of gamers, makers, and builders that are experimenting with new ways to make joy.
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Back then, every two-bit private detective in the country was scouring the past of every Republican member of Congress, trying to collect a million-dollar bounty offered by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.
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While the individual and group games are show-toppers, Gradman and Bushnell are hoping that their 150-seat show-starting venue, Club 01, will be another attraction for attendees of the Two Bit Circus.
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And it hired the incredibly accomplished virtual reality expert Nancy Bennett to head up the work it's doing with virtual reality content (which is embedded into roughly 20% of the Two Bit gaming experience).
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"The fact that Google recently began copying our multi-domain model… and our in-community approach, is a good indication that we are onto something and not just a 'two-bit upstart'," Pape went on.
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With help from the artistic engineering collective Two-Bit Circus, every audience member would don a Gear VR and Wallworth would trigger them simultaneously, making sure each one started and finished at the same time.
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Exactly, and even throughout the EP. "Two-Bit Loser" is a song I've had for so long, around six years, and it explores this idea of perception, something the next single will also go into.
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At worst, it plays like Suburbicon is using the Meyers family as props, failing to to give them the same kind of depth or screen time it gives its two-bit thugs, or Nicky's wacky uncle.
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His yelps, heard throughout the track's run-time, show him coyly leaning into the two-bit MJ comparisons that have plagued his career for as long as he's had one, especially so in the Starboy era.
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He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness.
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This series of photographs, made from 1972–1975, featured women who performed in the two-bit girlie shows at American small town carnivals and rural county fairs, as well as the audiences who frequented their performances.
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Manson was an aspiring musician and former convict; in this telling, he is also a two-bit lunatic con man, the kind who recurrently pops up in American history selling a dream that becomes a nightmare.
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For this, the special counsel will get no thanks from the president, much less an apology from all the two-bit talking heads who spent the past 23 months questioning his motives and impugning his integrity.
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The two-bit crook -- or more accurately, the 2000 million-bit crook -- was a money processing manager for the Brink's Birmingham branch when he stole the money belonging to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, authorities said.
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" This was a reminder that the unexpected foil in the Arden-Rubinstein showdown was Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon, rendered in "War Paint" by Erik Liberman as "a two-bit carnival barker in an Italian suit.
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As she did in "A New Leaf," May effortlessly skewers male vanity — Lenny poses in a mirror with a pipe like a two-bit Hugh Hefner — in a story about a man who treats women like commodities.
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In 'Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire,' virtual reality finds a new hope That's the hope of people like Nancy Bennett, an entertainment industry veteran who was brought on as the Chief Creative Officer at Two Bit Circus.
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Because people post things like this: This: And lots and lots of this: It would all be funny and harmless if this kind of cheap, two-bit analysis didn't happen after every single major event in our country.
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In today's connected world, the reason you read so many stories about cyber-crimes committed by two-bit hackers is because they are trying to steal your credit card number, or enough personal information to commit identity theft.
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Donald Trump has turned the political press into a scrum of two-bit armchair psychologists: grabbing at table scraps of information from the Trump campaign and dissecting them for clues as to what on earth Donald Trump is thinking.
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By the time father and son are driving home, motoring past miles of abject Detroit streets as Rick Sr. plots their future, a plaintive world — of dreams, broken promises and the two-bit con — has promisingly come into view.
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A journalist with the soul of a mythmaker, Runyon wrote about the exotic fauna of Broadway around the area he called "the Roaring Forties," with its two-bit bootleggers and natty bookies, its fast-talking gangsters and softhearted broads.
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Think of the Two Bit Circus venue as a cross between a steampunk Dave and Busters and a more grown-up version of his father's Chuck E. Cheese franchise (although the younger Bushnell likely wouldn't want it described it that way).
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When we first meet Han (he gets his full name later in the film, though I won't spoil how), he's a scrappy two-bit gangster living on the streets of Corellia, and working for a crime boss named Lady Proxima.
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Bushnell's concept is Two Bit Circus, an "experiential entertainment" company that he's running with his co-founder Eric Gradman, which will open physical spaces with multi-person virtual reality games, as well as molecular gastronomy, cocktails, and science and technology installations.
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One partner in the effort, the World Wildlife Fund, put together video of the project, and Fish and Wildlife also hosts a webcam of a ferret named Two-bit, who lives at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery in Colorado.
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PlutoVR and Pixvana are two startups tackling the XR problem-space in communications and content creation, respectively, and experiences such as The Void, Modal and Two Bit Circus are developing for this new variable reality paradigm in the entertainment space.
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A decade ago, Bushnell and Two Bit Circus chief technology officer Eric Gradman worked together at Syyn Labs, an art and engineering collective that specialized in whimsical creations like the Rube Goldberg machine in OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video.
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It's a story that makes a certain kind of person feel good and powerful again, and it doesn't matter too much if a lot of that story is BS, or if that golden-haired man is really a two-bit huckster.
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That applies to startups like the retail chains b8ta and Neighborhood Goods, the beauty brand, Glossier, the Los Angeles-based arcade chain for the new millennium, Two Bit Circus; and the most celebrated of the direct to consumer startups, Warby Parker.
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Donald Trump's two-bit " The Art of the Deal " (1987) belongs to this era; Random House paid five hundred thousand dollars for it, but Trump proved to be a terrible negotiator, and half of the royalties went to his ghostwriter.
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And what happened there is yes, it's easy to get rid of a two-bit dictator like Saddam Hussein, but there wasn't the kind of thought as to what happens the day after you get him and what kind of political vacuum occurs.
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For Bennett, the vision of a place like Two Bit Circus, or the experiences on offer from other location based platforms are about the combination of narrative and technology in a way that can provide verisimilitude to someone strapped into a headset.
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GoPro declined to comment on the exact number of customers who have received or even applied to buy Odyssey, but did name VR production companies WEVR, VRSE, Specular Theory, Surreal, and Two Bit Circus as some of the first to receive the rig.
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She will not silently abdicate that right in response to a frivolous, two-bit email from you threatening legal action... If you continue this meritless bullying and follow through with filing a lawsuit, we will welcome a court to set you straight.
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The sequel's restaurant battle recalls Jen's in Crouching Tiger, but it also draws on other martial-arts traditions, as a gang of two-bit mercenaries challenges Silent Wolf, and a few lone warriors with wildly different fighting styles and personalities step up to defend him.
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Two Bit Circus' breadth of experiences amount to a bet on the larger trend itself, giving the company room to pivot, iterate, and evolve while still having the handy framework of a traditional video game arcade to fall back on as a business model and selling point.
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In any case, Petya and Mischa's authors seem to have timed the leak to promote their own ransomware, which is based on the stolen Chimera code and is now being offered as a service to any two-bit cybercriminal willing to shell out bitcoins for it.
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While just about every two-bit metal band in the overall genre's lengthy history has aspired towards now admittedly hackneyed notions of brutality, records like 2011's God Is War and 2013's Nothing Violates This Nature for Southern Lord effectively encapsulate the severity of that intent.
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Netflix has been whittling away the ability to offer more than a two-bit opinion on its catalog of films and shows, which, you could argue, makes it a harder for users to let others know how interesting or boring Netflix's ever-growing stable of original content might be.
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Made in three days on a shoestring budget, Mister America is a much-needed alternative political satire in a time where every two-bit comic hosts a Daily Show knock-off, and SNL attempts to address our most dire issues as a nation via hackneyed sketches featuring Alec Baldwin.
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But despite all of the technological innovations, the APIs, the quests, and carnival-meets-steampunk visuals, Two Bit Circus also seems to see the key to repeat visits and future success in something much simpler: its ability to use all of these different elements to tell a compelling narrative.
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But this year, in the banal hands of Ant and Dec, the mighty flames were reduced to a two bit skit, a stark warning: there will be no surprises tonight; there will be no malfunctions; there won't be any lights being shone on anyone; we are in control.
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Now that Shawkat is a much more experienced actor, she's turned Maeby Funke into a two-bit con artist as adept as any in the Bluth family, and Will Arnett has somehow become even more pathetic as oldest brother Gob, even if the storytelling sometimes lets him down.
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Still, for the immediate future, for those looking to get the full benefit of a virtual reality experience, their best bet is to find the nearest Void experience and battle some storm troopers, check out an arcade, or wait for the unveiling of Two Bit Circus' first facility later this year.
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" Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence CEO Jim Marggraff also makes money "consulting with Head Mounted Display (HMD) makers, creating proof-of-concept projects, and licensing our eye-tracking and eye-interaction tech and IP." Get sponsored VR entertainment pioneer Two Bit Circus CEO Brent Bushnell is "focused on brand-funded content.
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That project led to corporate gigs for clients like Disney and Google, and when Bushnell and Gradman founded Two Bit Circus in 2012, their new company went to work creating experiential marketing activations, combining virtual reality and physical elements in pieces for the NBA, the Super Bowl, and brands like Intel.
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In the wild west, dozens of shadowy firms churn out annoying two-bit ads for a quick buck; fake news sites feed off ad exchanges not entirely unlike those that serve the country's paper of record; Russian cybercriminals routinely bilk the world's biggest brands out of millions through ad fraud.
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He's a real jerk and deserves whatever he gets, so let's not shed any tears when Glen McClinton, a disbarred lawyer and two-bit con man ("Bernie Madoff, c'est moi"), hooks up with Stan Hasso ("a crook with a certain code of ethics") to hustle the tycoon out of $20 million.
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As a man who lost his brother, Jimmy never gives himself the opportunity to mourn, instead throwing himself back into the world of two-bit hustles that he knows best, working over suckers and building his reputation in the untapped market of low-level criminals in the habit of committing misdemeanors.
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In a series of fiery tweets on Wednesday, Trump slammed his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen — who implicated the president in a hush money payment scheme — as a two-bit lawyer, while offering high praise for his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight felony charges.
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On a scorching July day in Los Angeles, the normally bowtie-bedecked co-founder of Two Bit Circus, Brent Bushnell, was taking a group of guests on a tour through the virtual reality inflected extravaganza of an indoor amusement park that, at the time, was still very much a work in progress.
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Throughout the "Twilight" saga, Pattinson had the low lids and the see-through pallor of the eternally unslept; here, as a two-bit criminal named Connie Nikas, his strung-out stare is that of a man for whom sleep would be not so much a blessing as a waste of a night.
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What no one knew at the time was that this two-bit bootlegging run was the tip of a criminal scheme that within three years would be used as evidence in an unimaginably larger case, a federal corruption investigation that would ultimately reach deep into New York City's highest offices of power.
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The story of Two Bit actually begins in 153 in a warren of lofts and artist spaces on the outer edges of downtown Los Angeles, where Gradman, Bushnell and a merry band of pranksters would experiment with all the new gadgets and gizmos that earlier generations of tech designers and manufacturers were bringing to market.
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He then followed that up Friday morning with a truly disturbing tweet in which he straight-up threatened the former FBI director like some sort of two-bit mafia boss in a cheesy Goodfellas rip-off: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
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While Survios' offering is more akin to the virtual arcades cropping up in cities across the country and around the world (including Dubai, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo), other companies like the Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus and Lindon, Utah's The Void are creating site specific game experiences that promise a different kind of approach to virtual reality.
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Two Bit Circus is trying to create something bigger: a living, breathing world that's tied together through communal gameplay, secret quests, and live actors, where guests may show up to play an arcade cabinet, but could soon find themselves pulled into a real-life story that will allow them to uncover the hidden mysteries of the park's (alleged) past.
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Jonathan Dee's latest novel, "The Locals," begins with a bit of a head fake — a 33-page monologue in the voice of a two-bit scam artist wandering around midtown Manhattan in the days after the twin towers come down, as angry and profane as if he's just stepped off the set of a Martin Scorsese film.
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With the apparent "no collusion" conclusion to the Robert Mueller investigation, there will now be a retreat from this alternative reality to more defensible terrain — the terrain where Trump is a sordid figure who admires despots and surrounded himself with hacks and two-bit crooks while his campaign was buoyed by a foreign power's hack of his opponent.
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Although some of the older films included in this year's event are widely available, this is an opportunity to watch new restorations; if you have never seen Edgar G. Ulmer's sordid 1945 classic "Detour," about a two-bit loser waylaid by one of the most unrelievedly feral women in film noir, this is a fine opportunity to let it freak you out.
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Konnikova sticks to her genre's familiar formula, juxtaposing academic research with brief narratives of a wide range of cons, from the two-bit three-card monte games that were once ubiquitous on New York City street corners to more outlandish scams, like the 19th-century Scot Gregor MacGregor who made a fortune persuading the public to invest in the bonds of a fictional government.
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There is also an array of VR options scattered throughout the park, including motion-simulator VR pods, a four-person room scale set-up from Hologate, and a Void-esque mini-maze installation designed by Asterion VR. Yet another section is devoted to what Two Bit Circus calls "story rooms," meticulously designed rooms that allow groups of guests to play out a given scenario together.
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A clear line can be drawn from the Swift Boat Veterans' early experiments in ratfuckery to the birtherism of the Obama era; the rampant, wild-eyed treatment of Hillary Clinton at the hands of charlatans like Blood Feud author Ed Klein; the gonzo antics of James O'Keefe; the media takeover of right-wing propagandists at the Sinclair Broadcast Group, right to President Trump's own two-bit criminal empire.
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Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.) says Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE "sounded like a two-bit dictator" during his speech closing the Republican National Convention.
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