Mandalorian Dance @ Yahoo! Video

A web show based on a hilarious premise – a normal guy sucked into Zelda! Well… he was beating off to the fairy while playing Zelda on the NES… and choaking himself with the controller cord. But it makes for a great origin story!

I highly suggest checking it out – funny shit: Legend of Neil

featured originally at www.xkcd.com

Rush is amazing. I never really dug ALL their music… nor bought albums, but I sure as hell turn that shit up when in the car. Their inclusion in rockband was great- so much fun to play their songs. I have the DLC to prove it.

The following clip is from backstage at Colbert Report. These guys seemed to have never touched the game, looks like they kicked ass until they stopped. So what if they failed at 31%? Im sure they were just shocked at the progression technology has made since the days of silent moving pictures. (sick burn on Rush for being old!?!)

So, with the blockbuster movie pulling in obscene ammounts of cash, and everyone talking about the Dark Knight, I’ve had the question of Batman vs. Ironman come up more than once. I think Marvel hit a home run with Ironman, and DC/Nolan with Batman as well. I’ve made my peace with what I perceved as ‘cheese’ in Dark Knight (bat-sonar!? Gordan’s speach to his 8 year old?!). For me, when it comes down to it, these movies are SO different that comparison is difficult. SO… let it boil down to personal preference! Im going to make some polls listed below to turn this arguement into a democracy and see who turns out on top!

I was one of fifty three BAGILLION people who saw The Dark Knight on open last night. It was pretty freaking awesome. The characterization of the villains The Joker and Two-Face were beyond good… more like EPIC. The story can only really be summed up with one description: complex. Either that or dark. The Joker scared the PISS out of me… but it wasn’t some jumpy, loud explosion, or mass murder kind of scare. Sure, he killed a shit load of people, but he was a deeper kind of fear. The Joker was irrational, but a sense of being completely cogent of what he was. Every moment on the screen was tense, and any humor portrayed was funny and at the same time very, very, very not-funny. I think if this Joker were to come out of the movie screen into real life, I would scream like a girl and use small children and the handicapped as meatshields to escape. And yes – this DOES apply to you Dub. Im sorry, but this mother f***er was SICK.

The rest of the movie, which I was scared would pale in comparison to the portrayal of the Joker, was actually just as deep. SPOILER ALERT

Seems like a no brainer, with all the FF remakes cashing in. All I have to say is that with revamped cutscenes, updated sprites, and potentially extra content, this will be the breaking point of me owning a DS in addition to my PSP.

And I will NOT buy Guitar Hero: World Tour for the DS.

Check out teaser page here.

So infinite, in fact, that I would like an avatar that is a bum. And alcoholic. Preferably begging at the begining of a level, asking for coins. Even if a user can’t actually give me any.

Thanks dub, for providing me ideas for wonderful time-sinks like this.

You know what really grinds my gears? Being a geek all of the sudden having something to do with being cool. Sure, Bill Gates is a filthy rich geek, but we are only considered geeks (dorks/nerds/etc) because we weren’t really comfortable with many things considered ‘cool’ by mainstream society. We were usually smarter than the average person – whether that translated into good grades in math, building computers, reading tons of books, or some other outlet. We might not have been given swirlies or shoved in lockers, but the things we really liked doing were not meant for the world to know.

Myspace apparently is making changes! New interface skins… new API’s for developers. My imediate response to hearing this was ‘I dont give a flying fuck!’

You want to know what might make using myspace more enjoyable? Maybe if every other day I didn’t have my email inbox half full of fake user profiles named ‘candy’, ‘bambi’, ‘hotTamalile47′, and ‘looking for love’ spamming me to check out their nude pics. You know what… Im already on the god damn internet. If I want to look at nude pics, here is a better way than surfing myspace – PORN! It already comprises more than 3/4ths of the internet, do I really need LoveToSuck31’s help to find these naughty pics? Do I really want to install malware on my comp to view a few boob shots I could have easily found on google image search?

Firefox 3 is officially released! All rejoice! No… seriously, you should rejoice. They took something great, and made it great-er!

I’ve been a big fan of firefox for a long while. I run it on any platform I use… be Linux, XP, Vista. It runs better, was ahead of the curve on tabs, and has an amazing community full of add-ons that makes Firefox whatever you need it to be. Hyperwords, Web Developer, Firebug, etc etc etc. I could go on, but I digress.

Firefox 3 says it runs faster, safer, and smarter… of which so far, I can say that is true. While running the ‘old’ firefox, you still beat the shit out of IE7. IE7 is like a Soccer mom van… and Firefox is your sports car. Well… get ready for your Indy 500 car in the form of Firefox 3.

FASTER: Gmail runs amazing… like, super amazing. Figures from Mozilla put it over 6 times faster than IE7. Major upgrades to Javascript speeds and support, memory leaks patched up, faster method for rendering web pages, and… get this… smaller memory footprint. WHA? But it’s 3.0, doesn’t that mean it should take up more of your precious RAM? Nope… sorry kiddies, Mozilla actualy knows how to develop software.

SAFER: Built in Malware and virus detection. Anti-phishing alerts you of fraud sites. Instant site ID shows website information, especially for secure sites like banks and paypal. You know what IE gives you? Jack, thats what. The big Microsoft got lazy, and stopped being innovative.

SMARTER: Add-ons Manager lets you install add-ons easier than ever, the smart location bar is awesome, you can reopen closed tabs (yay!), and a much improved interface. One-click bookmark (star to the right of the location bar), the skin looks great, the RSS feed manager is nice.

Now, thats not to say I am thrilled about every change made with the new release… but thats just because there are features I probably wont use. The new zoom feature, for example. Am I thrilled? No, not really… does it make Mozilla any less AWESOME for me? Nope… still the same awesome.

I give Mozilla Firefox 3 a 10/10. If a browser can get better, it will be a surprise to me!

I went to the midnight showing of the newest comic book inspired movie The Incredible Hulk. One thing I’ve been hearing all week is how bad the first movie was, and how nobody cared about this film – and this was reflected by the half empty midnight showing. Its regrettable, because the movie was pretty much what I wanted from a Hulk movie. What do I want? Smashing. Lots of things smashed.

They definitely are going with a movie continuity based more off The Ultimates comic series. I suspected as much when Nick Fury after the credits of Iron Man was portrayed as black. Also, Banner was working on the Super Soldier project while transformed and not a gamma bomb. Im sure many more nuances exist I didnt catch. It’s a good series – a great series even. Their take on Galactus as a hive mind species in Ultimate Galactus. The comic series is extensive enough to provide material for a ton of movies.

The obvious tie in to Iron Man, and the already announced Thor, Captain America, and Avengers movies really put pressure on this film to be really good. I feel like a weak link in these movies could drag down the amazing potential these movies have to be epic. Iron Man set the bar really high – I was reluctant to make a statement like ‘Best Comic Movie Ever’, but I can say pretty comfortably it was my favorite. The Hulk, however, holds its own, and might even be better the 2nd time around. I’ll have to make the call when both are out on Blu-ray… and I get a PS3. Until then, Im giving the Hulk 4 1/2 ripped purple pants out of five.

Bottom Line: FORGET the last Hulk movie… this is a whole new Hulk. Better villain, better CGI, better pacing, better action. Whether you hated the last Hulk movie, or just thought it was bad, this one will not put the same tast in your mouth. NO poorly done daddy story… no Hulk jumping across states in something looking out of an IMAX theater.

If you like MMO’s, you’ve probably spent the last couple of years spending the equivalent time on World of Warcraft that you have at work (probably more…) and shed any semblance of personal relationships to avoid distractions from raiding – I know I’ve spent my dues. WoW is to gamers as crack is to… well, a crack head.

Once I kicked the habbit (World of Warcraft, not crack – yet) I swore to myself I would never again delve into such a grindfest ever again. There was still, however, a void… all the good things that came from WoW. Then I hear about a game in development – this ‘Age of Conan’ by Funcom. Anarchy Online was (in theory) a good game… and thus I crossed my fingers, hoping for that level of complexity and originality to carry over into a better executed (and prettier) package. Was the wait worth it? For me – hell yes!

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So I know I heard enough about WWDC… how about you? Apparently not, because you seem to be reading this. The new iPhone… to say the least, I love Apple’s ability to make an amazing interface. As far as the iPod dominating the PMP market, the interface does it for me. (Trends probably do it for most, however). I used to use Archos for my portable media, but alas… I was turned to the darkside by Apple’s ease of use products and those cute little white ear buds jetting from my head letting the world know that I too was a pod person and joining the masses. We iPod users also love Kool-Aid and white Nike tennis shoes.

I hate, however, that the early adopter gets punched in the face once again… if it wasn’t for early adopters, technology would grow stagnant. Those hordes of minions swarming the doors for the iPhone v1.0 got kicked in their face for the zeal shown for Apple and it’s products by a $100 price cut shortly after… and now a $200 iPhone that has 3G and GPS? What a way to make those shmucks holding their silver-backed inferior machine feel rewarded for their support. Hell, they will probably be the ones standing in line for the 3G iPhone, holding the cardboard sign pandering to pedestrians attempting to rid themselves of their shame.