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!

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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.

Sucker Punch

Zack Snyder (director of the Dawn of the Dead reboot, 300, and Watchmen) co-wrote and is directing Sucker Punch, due to hit the theaters in March, 2011.  Here is the synopsis according to Snyder (from the Wikipedia entry):

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution in Brattleboro, Vermont, and while there she starts to imagine an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.

Check out the official trailer below.



This looks absolutely amazing.

I think I need a change of pants.