The End... ?

These days everyone is a member of any number of user submitted news feeds like Buzzfeed, Fark, Digg, and Reddit.  And everyone actively uses social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Vine and shares everything they find.  If one person has found something cool on Buzzfeed (or that gods forsaken shithole of a site, Pinterest) it then gets shared on Facebook... and then shared through someone else's tweet... which is then picked up by Fark... which someone will repost back onto Facebook... and so on.  It's the reason I didn't bother posting E3 2013 news because it was absolutely everywhere and anything I could have posted would have been ubiquitous by the time I got to it.  I say all this not with any sense of negativity: I think this is a great thing and a fantastic age we live in that everything from important news to funny cat pictures can travel literally instantaneously across the globe and be shared with thousands of other people all with a few mouse clicks... or finger taps if you're using a pad.

And that is why I no longer plan to keep this site up to date.  I don't plan to take it down or remove any content but I certainly don't have the energy to keep it up even as little as I did.  So, thank you to the 35,000 unique visitors that have been here.  I know that's not much in the grand scheme of things, but it's pretty awesome to me.

Grand Theft Auto 5 Official Gameplay Video

Portland Nerd Council PSA

2013 Tony Awards Opening Number

Once again, Neil Patrick Harris proves just how absolutely badass and talented he is in the opening number to the 2013 Tony Awards show:

Game of Thrones Red Wedding Alternate Ending

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

If you have any intention to read the Game of Thrones (properly called A Song of Ice and Fire) books or watch the television series then I cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT WATCH THIS CLIP!  This is an alternate ending to this past Sunday's Red Wedding episode of the HBO show (hilariously done).  This absolutely WILL ruin not only this episode but every episode and book that comes before it if you have not seen it already.  Even if you think you might see it at some point in the future.  And if you're telling yourself, "I'll probably forget this down the road so I can watch it now before I see it for myself," NO!  DON'T DO IT!  You will not forget this and it will completely shred and destroy much of the series for you.

If you HAVE seen the "Red Wedding" episode (which originally aired on Sunday, June 2, 2013) then this is for you.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Dancing at Summer Concerts

Some of you know I'm a huge Phish fan.  Summer tour doesn't start for another month but I'm already psyched.  Let me show you some of the ways I plan to groove:

Dance like a Bird of Paradise to Also Sprach Zarathustra (or Phish's "2001")



Maybe a little Moma Dance (or Black Eyed Katy)



Or how about a bit o' booty shakin' with Suzy Greenberg

Borderlands 2 New Playable Psycho Character

Just released 2 weeks ago, his name is Krieg and this introduction video of his is effing awesome:

Pacific Rim - Inside the Cockpit

I love that the giant human controlled mechs are called Jaegers.  The Germanic name reminds me of the giant mecha from the Front Mission video game series called Wanzers.  And it's pretty kickass that they are calling the giant monsters Kaiju which is what they have always been called in Japan (Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and the rest are all called Kaiju).

Anyway, check out this "behind the scenes" footage showcasing the sets for the cockpits.


P.S. The name Kaiju should not be confused with the Kaiju Big Battel (that's not a misspelling) wrestling federation which is both awesome and hilarious rolled into one.

Korean Guy Loves His Take Out Food

Siri Is An Asshole

Ridd Sorensen's various "Siri and Me" videos from Vine compiled into one YouTube video:

Five Guys Burgers and Fries - Oh My Dayum!

There's a guy on YouTube (Daym Drops) who is known for his various food reviews - he buys food, eats it in his car, and reviews it as he eats it.  He's pretty fucking funny.  Anyway, this video below is following the recent trend of auto-tuning popular videos with hilarious results.  The song is pretty damned catchy, actually.




And here's the original video:



Full disclosure: I fucking love Five Guys burgers.

Man of Steel: Fate of Your Planet Trailer

FINALLY!  A Superman movie that, at its core, is a Sci Fi story with a protagonist wrestling with the notion of trying to be human while actually having the powers of a god.  FUCKING YES!

Releases June 14, 2013

Xbox One Reveal Highlights

I'm sure the console will sell a billion units in the first five minutes of its release later this year, but the gaming press is having a field day with trashing Microsoft from forcing people who buy used games into paying an extra fee to be able to unlock the game to forcing players to be connected online in order to play a new game for the first time so that the purchase can be verified... ugh.  Even Adam Sessler, one of the only people whose opinion I respect and value in the video gaming world, tweeted that any cheers that were heard during the reveal came from the Microsoft staff in one area of the audience and not from the reviewers or press that were there.  Eek.



However, to be fair, Sessler wasn't completely negative in his review of the Xbox One reveal:

Spider-Man Plays Basketball With Local Kids

Andrew Garfield, the current actor playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man, takes a break from the set of next year's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to play basketball with some local kids while in costume.

What makes this video great for me is knowing that something like this would easily happen in the world of the Spider-Man comics.

The Wolverine Trailer #2

The Wolverine opens July 26, 2013.  The trailer already makes it look better than the steaming pile that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Is that Silver Samurai in there?  Or just some sort of nod to him in the form of a giant fucking Samurai mecha?