• April 12, 2012
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Jesus is Don Draper’s Favorite Word

Don Draper Says Jesus A lot

If you’ve watched a lot of Mad Men , you may have noticed that Don Draper uses the word “Jesus” like a painter uses oils–he ele­vates drop­ping J-bombs to the level of art. From this sin­gle word, Don Draper ably expresses annoy­ance, shock, com­pre­hen­sion, anger, suave­ness, smug­ness, speech­less­ness, mock­ery, sym­pa­thy, aston­ish­ment, impa­tience, amuse­ment, dis­be­lief, sor­row, com­fort, self-righteousness, con­de­scen­sion, and res­ig­na­tion. Watch this “Come to […]

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  • April 10, 2012
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My Top 10 Favorite Nintendo Game Soundtracks

Top 10 Nintendo Game Soundtracks

Some­one asked me on Twit­ter today what one of my favorite Nin­tendo game sound­tracks is. And true to form, I couldn’t really make up my mind. My favorite NES game sound­track?! You might as well ask me what my favorite episode of Dark Shad­ows is (Answer: all of them .) Any­way, it got me thinking. […]

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  • April 9, 2012
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The ‘Reading Glove’ Project = Real Life Adventure Games?

Reading Glove Objects

Have you ever wished it was pos­si­ble to play point-and-click style adven­ture games in real life–using real loca­tions and touch­ing real objects? (No? Am I the only one?) The Read­ing Glove is an amaz­ing tech­no­log­i­cal research project that might make “real life adven­ture games” a real­ity one day.

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  • April 7, 2012
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What ‘Game of Thrones’ Looks Like in 16 Bits

16bit Game of Thrones

That mag­nif­i­cent bas­tard Doc­tor Octoroc, the video game artist and musi­cian who gave the inter­webz such gems as the 8-bit Saved by the Bell game and 8-Bit Break­ing Bad (among lots of other assorted kick­assery) has done it again with 16-bit Game of Thrones.

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  • April 6, 2012
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Straight Outta Console: Nintendo-infused Nerdcore Hip Hop

Straight Outta Console - Nintendo Hip Hop

Straight Outta Con­sole: The Nin­tendo Thumb Mix­tape is a fresh as hell nerd­core album by rap­per Heath McNease that sounds like what was born after your Nin­tendo banged a hip hop CD. No, really–it does!  Have a lis­ten:   “I did it all for Tanuki?” Come on now, that’s some clever shit. Actu­ally, the whole album […]

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  • April 6, 2012
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Friday Lulz: The Skateboarding Gandalf Edition

Holy fuck­ing shit, It’s a Dinosaur! Jesus Christ – What the fuck!? Oh my fuck­ing god, fuck­ing Dinosaurs! Holy shit – what the fuu­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­uck­kkkkkkk!!!! (This will make a lot more sense after you fin­ish read­ing the rest of this post. Just go with it.) Skate­board­ing Gan­dalf Holds Up Traf­fic “Long­board­ing wiz­ard dressed as Gan­dalf causes traffic […]

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  • April 5, 2012
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Who wants to hear Pinky and The Brain drop F-bombs?

Pinky and the Brain Drop F-Bombs on Nerdist Podcast #187

Here’re  Pinky and The Brain  as you’ve never heard them before: No, this isn’t a belated April Fool’s joke. This past week­end, supern­erd Chris Hard­wick hosted one of the best Nerdist pod­casts  ever because his guests were leg­endary voice actors Rob Paulsen and Mau­rice Lamarche–whom many of you will surely rec­og­nize from your child­hood as […]

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  • April 4, 2012
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Meet Wes, a Guy Who Draws Ninja Turtles (Almost) Every Day

Turtle a Day

Last week I was ran­domly brows­ing #TMNT on Twit­ter (I think it was some­time dur­ing the the Bayliens back­lash) when I stum­bled upon  this guy . His name is Wes and he has a cute TMNT blog where he draws a new Ninja Tur­tle pic­ture every day.  Well, almost every day. He read­ily admits that he’s […]

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  • April 4, 2012
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Jane Jensen Launches New Game Studio ‘Pinkerton Road’ & KickStarter Project

Jane Jensen - Pinkerton road

Jane Jensen , the leg­endary adven­ture game designer who brought us the incred­i­ble Gabriel Knight series of games and Gray Mat­ter (my per­sonal favorite adven­ture game of the past few years), has launched a new game stu­dio called Pinker­ton Road out of her Lan­caster, PA farm. To fund the new com­pany and its upcom­ing game projects, […]

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  • April 3, 2012
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‘Adventures in Pixels’ is an Illustrated Album of Chiptunes Music

Adventures in Pixels - Ben Landis

If you enjoy chip­tunes music–and ever spent hours on end crawl­ing dun­geons and slay­ing 8-bit dragons–then you’ll want to check out Adven­tures in Pix­els by song­writer and musi­cian Ben Lan­dis. It’s an album full of delight­ful chip­tunes accom­pa­nied by a comic of orig­i­nal art­work that illus­trates each song with added humor that only gamers can appreciate.

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  • March 30, 2012
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Friday Lulz: The Drunk Bohemian Rhapsody Edition

Hey kids, it’s Fri­day! If your week has been any­thing like mine, you need a healthy dose of ran­dom funny shit to take the edge off. Sucks that I’ve been hav­ing a bad week, but out­side my lit­tle micro­cosm of frus­tra­tion and fail, some pretty awe­some shit has been hap­pen­ing. This week we learned there’ll be […]

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  • March 22, 2012
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Why ‘Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles’ is a Terrible Idea

TANT - Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles - Logo

You’ve most likely heard by now that the  Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles are about to become the Teenage ALIEN Ninja Tur­tles in the upcom­ing 2013 film pro­duced by Michael Bay. In a video quote that has got­ten TMNT fans’ col­lec­tive panties in a bunch to the point where even ex-TMNT celebri­ties and major news outlets […]

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  • March 18, 2012
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Review: ‘Starry Starry Night’ is a Beautiful, Imaginative Coming of Age Film

Starry Starry Night 2011 Film

You’ve prob­a­bly never heard of the Tai­wanese film Starry Starry Night , a com­ing of age drama directed by Tom Lin that was released in late 2011. I had cer­tainly never heard of it until a few weeks ago when it popped up in my DVD rec­om­men­da­tions over at YESASIA , and every­thing I read […]

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  • March 17, 2012
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Greetings from the Sewer! TMNT Postcard Book from 1990

TMNT Postcard Book

Going through stuff in my base­ment, I dis­cov­ered  a box full of old crap I’ve been hold­ing onto for one rea­son or another. Found a few gems in there, like this Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles post­card book­let from 1990. I don’t recall if it’s some­thing I bought myself, or was given to me as a […]

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  • March 16, 2012
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‘Turtle Power’ Documentary Coming Soon, Has a Kick-ass Trailer

If you have ever con­sid­ered your­self a TMNT fan in any capac­ity, then this doc­u­men­tary needs to be on your radar. Tur­tle Power: The Defin­i­tive His­tory of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles is an upcom­ing indie doc­u­men­tary from Cana­dian pro­ducer Isaac Elliott-Fisher of i.Productions in col­lab­o­ra­tion with  Faux­Pop TV  that cel­e­brates over 25 years of TMNT history. […]

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  • March 16, 2012
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‘Dark Shadows’ Trailer is a Big Pile of Suck

Barnabas Brushing his Fangs

Well, I was   look­ing for­ward to Tim Burton’s upcom­ing film Dark Shad­ows … After wait­ing months and months for any hint of a teaser, the full blown trailer arrived out of nowhere last night. And man what a fuck­ing dis­ap­point­ment it is. Ok seri­ously, Tim Bur­ton, what the hell? This was your chance to make a […]

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  • March 15, 2012
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All of Raphael’s Badassery in One Video [TMNT]

Such a badass.

The news that we’ll be get­ting a new live-action TMNT film for Christ­mas in 2013 has totally put me in Obses­sive TMNT Fan­girl mode this week now that there’s like an actual release date to look for­ward to. Though the film will be yet another reboot of the TMNT ori­gin story (sigh), I’m still stu­pid excited […]

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  • March 7, 2012
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The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ Meets Mario Paint

Mario Paint

Feast your eyes and ears on this delight­ful ver­sion of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” made with Mario Paint. Yeah, I know there are tons of Mario Paint videos out there, but this is one of my favorite songs and I’m a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed that it has less than a thou­sand views. It was cre­ated by YouTube […]

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  • March 7, 2012
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An Honest Review of ‘Love Never Dies’ from a Non-Phan

Love Never Dies

There are gen­er­ally two types of  Phan­tom  fans: The crazy, obses­sive vari­ety who hold every­thing to impos­si­ble stan­dards and will pick apart every per­for­mance and adap­ta­tion of  Phan­tom  like vul­tures (these are the same peo­ple  who write tawdry phan-fiction and believe  Joel Schumacher’s  2004 film ver­sion  is a pile of rub­bish), and those like me who sim­ply enjoy  […]

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  • March 1, 2012
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Are casual games getting better, or am I just getting older?

Casual Games

A wor­ri­some thought struck me the other day as I lay in bed play­ing Cut the Rope on my Droid:  are these casual games get­ting bet­ter or am I just get­ting older? Why is it that I’m sit­ting here play­ing a casual game when I still haven’t fin­ished Skyrim , or even unwrapped my copy of […]

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