Atari If I remember right, I never fought this dude. Instead, we had a lovely chat about elven bones. You know BioWare, right? The people behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age? If you came into gaming recently, your mind likely defines the developer by these two series, but if you were a fan of videogames […]
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LEGO Picard
Maybe you made it to Captain Picard Day at Floating World Comics on Friday, a small but well-attended art show based on a similar event held on the Enterprise. (And if you didn’t, don’t worry—proprietor Jason Leivian says another event is planned for “the actual Picard Day,” June 16.) I dropped by Floating World over […]
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The Best Sentence You Will Read All Day.
From the National Post Mounties are investigating three B.C. teenage boys who posed as underage girls online, lured men to meet them for sex then confronted the accused sexual predators dressed as superheroes. !!! This dude seems remarkably unfazed by having Batman approach his car window. It is true, though, that Batman hates pedophiles. via […]
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BBC Announces Doctor Who Movie, Terrifies Geeks Everywhere
tardisblue-.tumblr.com So this is happening: the BBC has brought in director David Yates (best known for churning out the final four Harry Potter films) to develop, possibly from scratch, a Doctor Who movie for the big screen. As a textbook change-is-bad-style geek, my initial reaction to this news looked a lot like this: But now […]
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Occupy Sin City
Frank Miller, who is responsible for the worst comics-to-film adaptation I’ve ever seen and who hasn’t made a good comic book since 1992, published an anti-Occupy Wall Street rant on his blog over the weekend. Bleeding Cool helpfully reprints the rant so you don’t have to give Miller the hits: Everybody’s been too damn polite […]
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Bil Keane Is Dead.
The creator of The Family Circus has died at age 89. I don’t (often) enjoy speaking ill of the dead, but the mediocre, sanitized circles of contempt that this man unleashed upon the Earth every day for decades are unforgivable. Even worse: For as long as shitty small-town newspapers manage to eke out their meager […]
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Behold a Corgi Dressed Up As a Spaceship That Is Shaped Like a Horse
Don’t get me wrong—the Eleventh Dogtor still wins. But still: Via Warming Glow, via Topless Robot.
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“The 11th Dogtor” Is King of All Dogs and Time Lords
Via In general, I have a furious dislike for dogs who have been put into people clothing. I have made an exception in this case. Pudge derPoopster, via FilmDrunk.
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Did George Lucas Betray His Responsibility to the Fans?
Originally intended for release last year, The People Vs. George Lucas was finally released on DVD on Tuesday. It’s a documentary about George Lucas’s relationship with his films, his relationship with his fans, and his fans’ relationship with him. If you’ve spent any time reading about Star Wars on the internet, you have at least […]
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Friday: Ground Kontrol’s “Halloween Extravaganza”
Ground Kontrol What better way to celebrate Halloween than as the ancient pagan tribes did? With alcohol, nachos and Virtua Cop 2! This Friday, Ground Kontrol, Portland’s favorite purveyor of all things intoxicant and nostalgically pixelated, is hosting “Giga-Fright.” As usual the full press release is beyond the jump, but in short Giga-Fright is a […]
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Finally, a Green Lantern You Can Enjoy
Wow, people really do not like Green Lantern. (Though I would still contend that Aquaman is much, much worse.) That being said, Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken is dedicating an entire special to the heroes and villains of the DC Comics universe (look for it next year), and they’ve actually concocted a version of Green Lantern […]
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Nerdist Live @ The Aladdin
I listen to tons of podcasts, but I’ve never really gotten a handle on Nerdist. That said, the episode with Tom Wilson (AKA “Biff” from “Back to the Future”) is fucking brilliant. Wilson’s stories of that canonical film are enlightened. He ventures into other territory including his days as a comic in L.A., working the […]