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| Friday, September 17, 2010 02:04 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
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| Wednesday, January 13, 2010 09:44 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Above, please see how to open a bottle of beer with another bottle of beer. I suspect this is harder to do than this guy makes it look (especially for someone like me, who sometimes has a hard time opening a bottle with the device actually designed for opening bottles), but worth a try should the situation arise. (Via Sarah)
- Dude, we're gonna be streaming Netflix movies on our Wii! Hmm, that sounds kind of dirty... (Via Sarah)
- I feel strongly that this sport should have been included in Wii Sports Resort. There could be three players: two to play table tennis, and one to fly the plane!
- One of my favorite art blogs does a piece on Mervyn Peake. I can't understand any of it, of course, because it's in Spanish, but there is a lot of great Peake art included.
- Cool superhero caps.
- Super, the upcoming superhero comedy directed by James Gunn and starring Rainn Wilson, picked up a whole bunch of new cast members, all of whom are unfamiliar to me... except the mighty Nathan Fillion. This movie just got a lot more interesting.
- Yes, this straight-to-DVD Sherlock Holmes movie is probably garbage... but it's steampunk Sherlock Holmes versus a bunch of monsters attacking London! And the monsters seem to include a T. Rex, a dragon, and a giant squid! That's hot.
- Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to play psychic, meteor-powered supervillain Hector Hammond in Green Lantern. Also, the Spider-Man musical is back on, with financing in place and a start date of this fall.
- Photos of some really cool custom nesting dolls.
- Hooray for amigurumi Metroid! It looks very cute while it's sucking the life out of you. (Via)
- The folks at Underwire put together a pretty excellent list of movies they'd like to see get a 3D upgrade, including some unexpected but clever choices.
- Google has learned some unsettling things about Chinese cyber attacks and is considering pulling out of the country entirely. Wow! That is pretty huge, man. (Via)
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 09:50 AM |
| The Hulk Thought of the Day |
 by Hulk |
Hulk confused by beer commercials that emphasize how cold beer is, and brag about fancy cans and bottles that change colors when beer is cold. Hulk can make beer cold by putting beer in refrigerator. Hulk can tell beer is cold by touching bottle. Do puny humans not have these powers?? |
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| Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:55 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- 20 great pet costumes.
- Sci Fi Wire compares the new Doctor Who logo to the old ones.
- Geek Dad uncovers more plot holes in your favorite geeky movies in part 2 of his Top 10 Unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies. Some of these I'd never thought of before and are now really bothering me! Especially the one about Marty not disappearing in Back to the Future 2. The one about the Empire trying to kill the heroes on the Death Star can be explained by assuming that the tracking device plan was sort of a last minute thing, or more of a backup plan. But I'm glad somebody else is bothered by Obi-Wan "hiding" Luke with his family members, under his real name. That's bothered me for some time. It makes no sense. Spider-Man 2 is just one giant plot hole, so mentioning a specific issue is pretty pointless. (Sorry, I hate the Spider-Man movies.) But I think you can explain away item #1 by assuming that R2-D2 is an expert hacker, and #3 by assuming that the Force was taking a hand (which is kind of my standard excuse for nearly any plot hole I find in Star Wars).
- The U.S. military is already developing defenses against lasers and other directed energy weapons.
- "Gadget bloggers and Amazon.com reviewers now must disclose freebies and financial interests or face fines up to $11,000, according to rules announced by federal regulators Monday in an attempt to make word-of-mouth endorsements on the net easier to believe." Uh... does this mean when I talk about free music or free movie screenings, I have to mention that they were free?
- 7 good things Spike Jonze added to Where the Wild Things Are. I should perhaps mention now that I'm going to see this movie soon FOR FREE, and then review it here. I don't think the "free" part will really affect my opinion of it, but since it's the law and all...
- "Rumors are that, as part of the creation of DC Entertainment, DC Comics will move to LA, breaking New York's hold on the Big Two comic publishers for the first time ever." That makes me sad. The end of an era!
- An analysis of the major fast food chains' drive-through service. Chick-fil-A is the overall winner, and also takes the top spot in two of the four individual categories: order accuracy and speaker clarity. Click through for links to detailed charts. (Via poppy)
- A gallery of finalists from the 2009 Small World Photomicrography Competition. Amazing pictures of really tiny things!
- The latest Star Trek movie officially made the most money of any Star Trek movie ever.
- Netflix is planning a live-streaming web series called Splatter. It'll be produced by Roger Corman, directed by Joe Dante, and star Corey Feldman. Umm... wow. Okay then.
- 10,000 Hotmail, MSN, and Live.com passwords were recently exposed online, and an analysis reveals most of them are pretty bad passwords. The most popular? 123456. I mean, some of mine are pretty bad, but not that bad. That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!
- Newly released results of tests conducted in the late 1950s reveal what should be an unsurprising fact: female astronaut candidates were just as qualified as, and in some cases even more qualified than, male astronaut candidates.
- The latest theory as to the identity of Jack the Ripper. This one sounds rather believable. (Via)
- A couple of amusing clips from Conan O'Brien where he gets a vampire assistant and a zombie assistant. (Via)
- A couple of weird and interesting online games: a confusing, surreal art-game called Evidence of Everything Exploding (via) and an incredibly cool and clever interactive puzzle called Windosill (via).
- Another cool art blog. (Via)
- A collection of concept art from recent science fiction reimaginings.
- Zombieland was originally supposed to be a TV series, so the writers already have ideas for about a dozen sequels!
- 10 reasons not to bring someone back from the dead.
- Click here and scroll down a bit for an amusing teaser for Bad Robot, which apparently has nothing to do with J.J. Abrams.
- A promo video and a couple of photos of Leonard Nimoy on Fringe. Apparently we'll see him again in tomorrow night's episode. Hooray!
- More details on Epic Mickey: it'll be Wii exclusive, and the story is about forgotten Disney characters who have grown bitter after years of being ignored and have thus spread evil black goo all over the world. Mickey has to use paint, thinner, and erasers to draw his way through the world. I like!
- Super Punch provides pics, and links to more pics, of some really cool LEGO vignettes, which include recreations of scenes from Indiana Jones movies.
- For a minute I thought this was a real PlayStation ad. I really wouldn't be surprised. Here are 43 more PS3 ads too offensive for even Sony to use.
- Cory Doctorow says "eat it!" to Ralph Lauren and their legal team (and also re-mocks a horrifically photoshopped Ralph Lauren ad); a Hulk/Wolverine mashup; and Thundercats cake and cupcakes. (Via)
- Gamer wine. Awesome.
- Is this Showgirls 2 website for real? It claims we've all been waiting for a sequel to the horrid original, and also that said sequel will be called Showgirls: The Story of Hope. Wow. All the site has on it at the moment is a lengthy video of truly poor quality featuring equally poor quality music, and nudity. So, yeah, NSFW. Also not safe for those with good taste. (Via)
- Watch a short film by Troy Nixey, the guy who's doing the remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
- 3D TV is coming! Next year, even!
- Adrien Brody and possibly also Topher Grace are joining the cast of Predators. Interesting choices!
- Apparently Edgar Allan Poe's first funeral was a colossal disaster, so they're giving him a do-over on his 200th birthday (uh, why not on the anniversary of his original funeral?). And because there's not enough left of his actual body to bury, they're making a fake one for the purpose.
- A unique and impressive method of protest. (Via Dennis)
- ThinkGeek has been working on making an April Fool's gag into a real product, and now it looks like they've succeeded! The Tauntaun sleeping bag is coming this November!! Huzzah! (Via)
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| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:22 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Clever idea: a Darth Vader Wii sensor bar holder! The only problem is, I doubt most people have space for this thing on top of, or directly under, their TVs, which is where the sensor bar has to go. I certainly don't. (Via)
- Look out: this brain wants your zombies! Oh, wait... (Via)
- Rather disturbing news: DNA analysis on the skull fragment presumed to belong to Adolf Hitler has proven that it came from a female aged anywhere between 20 and 40 years of age. It could be Eva Braun's, but it's definitely not Hitler's. So... what happened to Hitler??? Obviously the most likely explanation is that he died the way we thought he did, his body just wasn't where we thought it was. But other more unsettling explanations also present themselves.
- Some very odd pictures of Mel Gibson running around looking crazy with a beaver puppet on his arm. Turns out he's just playing a crazy guy who runs around with a beaver puppet on his arm. You know, for a movie. The screenplay (entitled The Beaver) is actually supposed to be really good. The film is being directed by Jodie Foster and costars Anton Yelchin. I'm intrigued!
- A map of the world color-coded by happiness (beware: it's a PDF). It does not surprise me that the people of Russia are unhappy. Ask my brother some time about the Russian phrase book. (Via)
- AMC has announced the launch date for its new Prisoner series: Sunday, November 15th at 8PM. (Via)
- HA! As someone on Twitter pointed out, they should have worked out a way to change the initials to FTW. (Via)
- If you're going to hurt your head, it's apparently best to hurt it while drunk. Although really, getting drunk increases the likelihood of you hurting your head in the first place, so...
- Best place to survive a zombie attack? A mall or a school. Science says!
- Video of a real transformer! It's a robot that can switch back and forth from a humanoid mode to a wheeled vehicle mode.
- Dude, I think I need to travel back in time so I can visit this now closed Marvel Comics-themed bar/restaurant.
- More footage from the Iron Man 2 set. The focus this time is entirely on Mickey Rourke, although they never actually talk to him; they just talk to other people about him. Gwyneth Paltrow says he's "trippy." Heh.
- The strangest clones in comics. (Via)
- LEGO monsters!
- Scientists have recreated the superheavy element 114. It's science at the limits of matter!
- A look at where the cast of Firefly is now, 7 years after the show's premiere.
- Looks like Barry Sonnenfeld will be helming a new half-hour sitcom about a mother who finds a superpowered suit. Could be fun.
- Impressive, gigantic balloon monsters, some of which double as costumes (for people who are otherwise naked, for some reason).
- This appears to be the official website for Steven Seagal's energy drink, Lightning Bolt. Wow. (Via)
- An amusing examination of a rather odd monster-themed pop-up book. (Via)
- A look at how different works of fiction have handled the question: once you glimpse the future, can you change it?
- Gotta love the trailer for King Crab Attack, a movie that I think we can safely assume will never be made.
- A collection of very different posters for Caprica.
- A Cthulhu baby blanket?! That way lies madness.
- Capybaras are cool. Here's one taking a bath.
- LucasArts is looking for testers for Star Wars: The Old Republic! I doubt I'd have time to do that, but maybe I should sign up anyway, just for the heck of it.
- Remember how I was just saying how extremely effed up the advertising is for the PlayStation? Case in point: here are a couple of new ads, one featuring a gamer giving blood to a Nazi officer, and another featuring a gamer giving his heart to Joan of Arc. What does that even mean???
- Some neat paintings by artist Albert Sorrentino. (Via)
- The grand prize winner and director's prize winner of the Where the Wild Things Ought to Be art contest. Also, scary LEGO robot. (Via)
- I remember reading a bad review of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies not too long ago, but here's a far more positive one that gives me hope the movie might not be crummy after all.
- Here's an interesting app: it lets you add a "copy file path" option to your Windows context menu.
- The seven best big-screen geek girls.
- A look at the next project for the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, plus the exciting news that Hayao Miyazaki is in discussions to do two more features in the next three years.
- A not particularly promising review of a work-in-progress print of The Men Who Stare at Goats.
- Important note: there are slutty Marvel character costumes available for women this Halloween. Although I think the Emma Frost costume is actually less slutty than her costume in the comics.
- How to build an arsenal of tiny weapons out of office supplies.
- Nick Cave talks about his novel, The Death of Bunny Munroe.
- "The Defense Department may allow troops and military employees to freely access social networks."
- The folks at Gadget Lab present a collection of everything known so far about Apple's Touchscreen Tablet.
- An 80-page giant anthology of Batman stories is coming in December, and one of the stories will be written by Simon Spurrier - his first work for DC. (Via)
- Television Without Pity has an amusing list of famous TV towns that need an NCIS. (Via)
- These improbably movie trading cards are truly fantastic. (Via)
- James Purefoy, Thomas Haden Church, and Mark Strong have joined the cast of John Carter of Mars.
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| Friday, September 4, 2009 01:29 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- I do believe the above video is what made me decide definitively that I am a fan of Them Crooked Vultures. (Via)
- Lately it seems like Agent M is posting more excellently random and odd images than he was wont to in the past. I present exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.
- Awesome. (Via)
- Ah ha ha ha ha! Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," featuring Danzig. (Via)
- An amusing Harry Potter/Inglourious Basterds mashup.
- This is a video of Jack Black fronting the Go-Gos with backing vocals by Beck and Matthew Sweet on guitar. Apparently the video is from this Earth, too, and not Earth A or Earth Prime. (Via)
- A list of the greatest superheroes of all time. The top 10 is coming next week. So far the picks are pretty good, although I take issue with the order. (Via)
- Disapproving Rabbits. That is all. (Via)
- Supposedly some dude has a stuffed chupacabra. Although as poppy pointed out to me, it mostly just looks like a rather unfortunate dog. (Via)
- Call me childish if you will, but this MagiQuest thing sounds totally awesome to me.
- YouTube is going to start offering a service where you can pay to rent premium movies from major studios.
- Besides all the other awesome things they can do, lasers can apparently also cool things down really fast. When do I get my laser refrigerator??
- The official explanation for why GMail went down.
- Game|Life runs down 5 cool new features in Guitar Hero 5.
- Megan Fox says some rather unfavorable things about Michael Bay, even going so far as to compare him to Hitler, thus, by law, bringing an immediate end to the discussion. So let's move onto something else more interesting, like Megan Fox making out with Amanda Seyfried (via)!
- DC Comics' Lobo is going to be a movie, and Guy Ritchie is going to direct it. Hmm... something tells me that's not going to go well.
- Iron Man 2 might be in 3D! That would be hot.
- As a whole, movies did well this summer. But not every individual movie. In fact, one did particularly badly.
- Wanna have a Windows 7 house party??? Wow, that's lame.
- Internet usage is highest at 11PM EST. Huh. I'm usually asleep by then! Apparently I'm missing the party.
- 10 handy userscripts for Google Chrome.
- Clancy "Kurgan" Brown talks about playing Lex Luthor in the animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
- Cool free desktop wallpapers: Mario Bros. (via) and battle landscapes (via).
- Japan! The country's first-lady-to-be says aliens took her to Venus. Also, Japan is planning an orbiting solar power station that will beam enough energy back to Earth to power 294,000 homes.
- Star Trek is coming back to IMAX theaters this weekend. Sweet!
- Hints about where Dollhouse is headed next.
- A glimpse at the next Simpsons Halloween special.
- I for one am glad that IGotYouAManEatingPit.com exists. (Via)
- I don't know about this list of the top ten sci-fi mind control movies. It seems to me some of these are only marginally about mind control.
- I also don't know about this movie Defendor. Looks kind of sad and strange. Check out the trailer.
- Now this is a cool hotel: it's a zeppelin-shaped retreat built among the trees in Australia.
- io9 takes a look through various stories about mutants and devises 13 rules for making a mutant.
- This trailer for the new Star Blazers movie features laser space battles! And who doesn't love laser space battles, I ask you?
- A zombie nutcracker. (Via)
- An interesting clip from the Dollhouse episode "Epitaph 1," which I really have to see one of these days. (Via)
- Wow, there were two Twin Peaks games! I'd love to play the adventure board game, The Game of Twin Peaks. (Via)
- Ah ha ha ha, that's one awesome bug. (Via Sarah)
- So you know how in infomercials they always show you this imaginary problem that their product solves, and the scene where the problem is reenacted is always filmed in nightmarish black and white? Here's a collection of all of those scenes! It's Infomercial Hell. (Via)
- The top 10 video games that need movie treatments. "Need" seems like a strong word, but some of these would indeed be interesting to see on the big screen, if the right people were involved in adapting them. (Via)
- Previews of The Marvels Project #2 (via) and Supergod (via). Warren Ellis is a sick, sick man who lives to destroy and deface all the things you love and hold dear. Bless him.
- 12 geeky cocktails for you.
- Wired maps the US by the 7 deadly sins.
- 7 ways to see the world through Twitter's eyes. Also, a handy way to keep track of free giveaways on Twitter.
- Cinematical's Best Superhero Movie of All Time Tournament is getting down to the big finish now. I'm happy to say that when I voted, my choices were winning.
- Very disappointing: Microsoft gets to keep selling Word.
- A look at some of the games that were considered for Wii Sports Resort, but ultimately rejected.
- Heh. This T-shirt that imagines Alice in Wonderland as an RPG is pretty clever (via). And here's Matt Frewer talking about playing the White Knight in Syfy's upcoming Alice adaptation.
- Steam Punk Avengers and Space boy. (Via)
- This faux commercial for Rock Band: Radiohead is a little unfair in its harsh depiction of the band and its music... but still funny.
- Wow! The legal fight over the Superman: Man of Steel reboot is getting pretty personal!
- Tron: Legacy is coming out on 12/17/2010, the same day as The Green Hornet! Speaking of TGH, they started shooting it finally.
- New images from the upcoming sci-fi film Pandorum. Looks rather neat.
- Tiny robots!
- Star Wars religious art. The Boba Fett tattoo is pretty fantastic.
- I love this movie mashup image.
- Heh. An amusing look at the evolution of Nintendo consoles and controllers. (Via)
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| Monday, August 31, 2009 02:52 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- The big news on the internet today is Disney buying Marvel. Here's the official Marvel press release on the story, a reassuring tweet on the subject from editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, and more details from Comic Book Resources. I have to say, despite the hands-off approach that Disney seems to be espousing in the latter link, this doesn't make me very happy. On the one hand, I'm pleased to see Marvel (probably my favorite comics publisher) get a lot of money and appreciation, and get access to the power and resources that a company like Disney can offer. But on the other hand, I'm worried that Disney will end up influencing the content that Marvel puts out in a very negative way. Even if Disney doesn't censor the books directly, the creators could end up censoring their work themselves due to perceived pressure from the corporate parent. Plus, are they going to try to integrate Disney characters into the Marvel Universe? In some cases, I can see how that could be fun (take MODUCK, for example, via & via), but it could also be really ridiculous and terrible. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
- The real drink recipes from Quark's Bar. (Via Camden)
- Wereworf is awesome (via), as is this guide to knowing your Spocks (via).
- We've often joked about putting a saddle on Floyd and getting someone to ride him, but apparently people used to actually do this to dogs. The jockeys? Monkeys! (Via)
- Pretty impressive custom-made Dollhouse figures. (Via)
- An Iron Man My Little Pony. Fantastic! (Via)
- Pfft. People are actually really upset that Ikea switched fonts in its latest catalog. (Via)
- Awesomely horrifying, or horrifyingly awesome? (Via)
- Really fantasy baseball. (Via)
- Starting this fall, Wikipedia will offer a new optional feature: "WikiTrust." With this turned on, every word of every entry will be color coded based on the reliability of the author and the length of time the text has persisted on the page.
- The Green Hornet's release date just got bumped from next July to the following December. I don't think that's a good sign...
- 100 important directors of animated short films. (Via)
- Trailers! Who doesn't love them? We have The Men Who Stare at Goats, Inception, and The Descent: Part Two. I'm of two minds about Goats. The premise, about a secret government project to create psychic soldiers, is certainly interesting, but the movie's a dark comedy, and it looks like the comedy occasionally falls flat. And if even the stuff they put in the trailer isn't funny, that doesn't bode well for the rest of the movie. Christopher Nolan's Inception, on the other hand, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks amazingly weird and fascinating. As for The Descent 2, it looks like they took everything interesting from the first movie and stripped it away, leaving just another lame movie about people getting torn apart by monsters in the dark. (Via)
- TxtNinja sounds handy. It turns text into images that are readable by people, but not by evil spambots. (Via)
- More cool custom toys: Beta Ray Bill as a Mighty Mugg, Playmobil Hellboyverse characters, and Star Wars bounty hunter Dunnies.
- More cool book cut art.
- Custom LEGO Star Wars ships.
- The Sprite logo used to be way cooler. (Via)
- Han Solo Adventures looks like it could be fun.
- A xenomorph on the toilet (via), and the alien queen in LEGO form.
- More details on Sucker Punch from star Jamie Chung. Also, a nice picture of Jamie Chung.
- Pretty cool fan-made concept version of the next Microsoft video game console.
- Dual screen laptops are on the way.
- This short takes a while to pay off, but it's pretty funny when it does.
- The top ten sci-fi deaths.
- Some cool steampunk projects.
- io9 lists 10 TV shows that should never be made into movies. A majority of these I've never even heard of.
- Cool Metropolis poster.
- An iTunes link to a free preview of Dollhouse, season 2. (Via)
- Ooh! A preview of Planetary #27! It's about time travel. (Via)
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| Thursday, July 30, 2009 02:28 PM |
| The Hulk Thought of the Day |
| by Hulk |
Hulk glad to hear Obama, Gates, and Officer Crowley (hmm, sound like supervillain name to Hulk) sitting down and drinking beers together. Although fact that Obama drinking pathetic, watery Bud Light should be proof that puny humans made wrong choice and Obama not strong, wise president America needs. President Hulk wouldn't be drinking Bud Light at President Hulk's beer summit, that for sure.
Of course, if Hulk sat down to make peace with Hulk's enemies over beers, summit would probably not go well. Leader and MODOK would most likely demand non-alcoholic beer, to keep big brains from getting fuzzy, Abomination would make fun of them, and things would go downhill from there. |
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| Thursday, August 7, 2008 01:36 PM |
| Speaking of the vacation... |
 by Fëanor |
...an amusing event took place at the time that I've somehow failed to mention yet. I must record it now for posterity. The short, funny version is: we got smashed on a pitcher of margaritas and then went to K-Mart. The longer, less funny version follows.
One night, poppy, my brother (hereafter referred to as Stee), his wife (hereafter referred to as Ev), and myself went out together on a "double date," leaving my folks at home to look after my niece. We ended up at what turned out to be a pretty awesome Mexican restaurant (La Fogata) and started working our way through a pitcher of margaritas. When we discovered we were all getting drunk, poppy was good enough to designate herself as the driver and stop partaking. When we finished dinner, it was suddenly decided that we should all go shopping. The most likely place seemed to be a surprisingly large and well-stocked K-Mart that was on our way home. When we got there, Stee and I wandered off to the firearms department, where we discovered they were selling a handgun in plastic clamshell packaging. Stee decided this was their form of gun control: once you bought it, you'd never be able to open the packaging in order to use it. We caught up with the women in the toys department where Stee and Ev were delighted to discover Race to the Mall, a questionable and yet somehow awesome Polly Pocket toy racetrack they'd been searching for for some time - ostensibly for their child, but they were pretty excited about it for themselves, it seemed to me, and even tried to assemble it later on that night.
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 01:31 PM |
| Requisite update concerning this past holiday weekend |
| by Fëanor |
Apparently I'm pretty popular because I ended up going to three parties in as many days this weekend. At these parties, I ate much grilled food and drank plenty of beer, as is customary. I very much enjoyed all three events, so many thanks to all the party-throwers.
At the EverMike/Zoe/SuperTarzan party, I also got to try Rock Band. It is awesome. A brilliant update and extension of the Guitar Hero concept. The addition of extra instruments, singing, and solos was a very smart move. When you and three other people cooperate to successfully play a song, it really feels like you've accomplished something great together. The drums were much harder than I expected to play, but I had already gotten much better at them by the end of the night. I want to buy it when it comes out for Wii, but poppy is trying to convince me to just enjoy other people's copies of the game. I'll let you know how that turns out. |
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