Homemade Left 4 Dead Door

The folks over at Rooster Teeth (the guys behind Red vs Blue) just finished modding the door to their studio.  At first I thought it was a decal or cling of some sort (and then wondered where I could buy one) but after looking at the other two pictures the details become clear.  Very cool stuff.

Here's something else cool they did: driving a car in 3rd person perspective:

 

Prepare To Blow Your Mind!

The following picture was uploading to the Intarwebz with the following note by Redditor smackley, "my fiancee said I could design our 'save the dates' to save money on the wedding... she didn't like my designs."

Melting Rocks With Sunshine

True Grit

A Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona, Fargo, Big Lebowski, the list goes on and on) remake of the 1969 John Wayne classic True Grit is coming out this Christmas season. Co-produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin, this movie is looking asskickingly sweet. Check out the trailer below.



EDIT: Holy shit there are a lot of "cowboy movies" on the horizon. Is there some sort of cowboy genre resurgence going on? We've got Cowboys vs Aliens, Cowboys vs Ninjas, Cowboys vs Zombies (Red Dead Redemption's undead DLC), and now Cowboys vs... well... other Cowboys.

Nothing wrong with this as I've always been pretty partial to cowboy movies ever since I first saw the Sergio Leone "Man With No Name" movies as a kid.

1997's Justice League of America

Here are the first ten minutes of 1997's terrible pilot of Justice League of America.

The Single Best YouTube Video Ever?

If this isn't the single best YouTube video ever, I'm not sure what is. I present to you, Play Helen Hunt off, Keyboard Cat... and Then Join Daryl Hall and John Oates.*



*[TRIVIA TIME!! It is a well documented fact that Hall & Oates is the muzak you hear when sitting in the waiting room just outside of the lowest level of Hell]

Cowboys and Aliens

A film adaptation of the one-shot comic "Cowboys & Aliens" is set to be released July, 2011. Think the title sounds a little silly? You might change your mind after checking out the talent involved in this movie's making:

Director: PCU's Gutter (aka Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man)
Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard
Starring: James Bond (aka Daniel Craig), Hans Solo (aka Harrison Ford; and no, that is not a typo - that's my Deutschified version), the ridiculously hot Olivia Wilde, and Sam Rockwell

That is a metric shit-ton of talent right there. Check out the trailer:

Green Lantern Trailer

In brightest day, in blackest night,

No evil shall escape my sight

Let those who worship evil's might,

Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!

Are Home Alone & Die Hard The Same Movie?

Speedflying

Awesome.
Just.
Awesome.

The Warrior's Way Trailer

Holy crap! And I thought the trailer for Sucker Punch was hard-on inducing (believe me, Emily Browning as Baby Doll fighting a giant Samurai robot armed with a gatling cannon under the direction of Zack Snyder... well... it's still so very boneriffic). But... ninjas versus cowboys?!

What?!

That's insane.

So insane it JUST. MIGHT. WORK.

Release date is set for December 3, 2010. Directed by Sngmoo Lee.

I wish my name was as awesome as Sngmoo. Four consonants in a row? Who does that? Someone who is awesome, that's who.

JourneyQuest!

Dead Gentlemen Productions, the folks that brought us the extremely entertaining flick "The Gamers" and its sequel "The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising," have been working on an episodic production called JourneyQuest. Well worth the look if you're even remotely interested in Dungeons and Dragons.

Hardcore Dancing in Assassin's Creed 2

(poison tipped blade) + (group of innocent people) = hardcore dancing.

You can get a larger group of people to get in the way by tossing money on the ground while the "dancing" is going on.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Commercial

There's been some controversy over the following ad for the new Call of Duty: Black Ops game. See for yourself:



Years ago, Microsoft decided not to air a similarly themed ad that I thought was simply brilliant.



What do you think?

Raytheon XOS 2 Exoskeleton

This is like the power loader from the movie Aliens come to life... only better! It looks easier to use and it's much smaller (personally I think the guy using it needs to wear a helmet with a rotating yellow light on top). Raytheon has displayed an earlier version of this exoskeleton before, but this video was just released this past summer. Check it out:



He even loads some ordinance similar to the Aliens movie here. And did you catch the name of the test engineer? Rex Jameson? If that's not a superhero alter ego, I don't know what is. That name sounds so manly I just grew a mustache saying it out loud.

Also notice here that the exoskeleton comes to life of its own will. This is obviously the first step toward the Robot Apocalypse, mark my words. In five years we will be obeying SkyNet which will have been constructed by these self aware exoskeletons. Thanks, Raytheon!

Honest First Date

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I Love Pretzels!

I think I just fell in love.

Best Line Rider I've Ever Seen

There are dozens of really clever Line Rider boards people have made. Just go to YouTube and you'll see all the great art people have adapted to Line Rider.

None of them can top this, though. Seriously. And don't shortchange yourself: watch the entire thing. Three years and sixteen people went into the development of this masterpiece. And the music is just absolutely perfect.

Watch and be amazed.

Awesome Football Play

I love a good trick play.  These middle schoolers win the Kickass Award for Trickery and Awesomeness.

This. Picture. Rocks.

New Neverwinter Game In 2011

I was a huge fan of the 2002 Bioware game, Neverwinter Nights (I never played the 1991 AOL version of the game).  My gaming buddies and I spent many, MANY hours delving into every official campaign and module as well as dozens of user made adventures.  2006 rolled around and we were psyched to play Obsidian's Neverwinter Nights 2 but the endless number of glitches and terrible GUI kept us from enjoying it.  We never did finish that game as a group.

Last night I got an email from Atari announcing a new Neverwinter to be released in 2011.  The above is a screen cap of the main site displaying the classic classes (from left to right) Cleric, Wizard, Fighter, Rogue, and Ranger.  The game is being developed by Cryptic Studios from the ground up as a co-op RPG, which is exactly what I've been dying for since playing Borderlands.  Sure, I can play (and have played) Turbine's Dungeons & Dragons Online, but it's still an MMO and I just don't have the kind of time necessary to invest in a proper MMO.  But a co-op RPG?  Hells yes.  The game will take place in a post Spell Plague Forgotten Realms and will be using the current version of the D&D rules (4e) as its base.

And here's another kickass little tidbit: R. A. Salvatore is helping to get it creatively off the ground.  And in a stroke of marketing genius, he's just published a new novel called Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter Book I as a tie-in and sets the background for the game (here's the Amazon linkage for it).

The official website is here.

Swiss Miss is like... wait... WHAT?!

Mmmm... delicious, delicious kittens.

His Face All Red

Check out this one-shot web comic called His Face All Red by Emily Carroll.  I wish I had found this prior to Halloween as this is a great, little scary story.

Also, take a peek at the author's blog here.  I love her art style.

As Tallahassee Said, "Nut up or shut up."

An Open Letter to a Man's Genitals

Diarrhea Awareness

According to the Wikipedia entry for "List of causes of death by rate," more people die annually from "Diarrhea diseases" than from breast cancer.  Diarrhea related deaths make up 3.15% of all deaths per 100,000 people per year whereas deaths caused by breast cancer make up only 0.84%.

If breast cancer awareness gets a pink ribbon for people to display their solidarity, what should diarrhea awareness get?

Here is one person's suggestion:

Simply awesome.