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Perhaps you’ve had an experience similar to the one this man has. If not with Diablo 3, then with Skyrim, Call of Duty or maybe even something a little less seemingly ‘diabolical’ like, uh, Minecraft…

The point is that a good video game is not unlike a really hot chick: a feast for the eyes, somewhat diabolical in its appearance; full of addicting little ‘buttons’ to push, adventures to take on, and of course rewarding reciprocation. Perhaps they’re even waiting to reap your soul for benefit. If she looks like this, we say: Keep Reading

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It wasn’t enough that nerdcore sensation Richie Branson spearheaded an underground campaign to revive Toonami. Other fans did it their own way:  the usual posts on Adult Swim messageboards/forums; maybe tweeting with AS-oriented hashtags, endless letters of complaint…pretty much everything short of picketing with signs outside Cartoon Network Headquarters.

But by releasing several odes to various anime franchises, especially Mobile Suit Gundam, Branson’s attracted the attention of Japanimation fans worldwide. And it was his plea and tribute to the long forgotten network programming which made the topic of Toonami’s resurrection an Internet-wide sensation. Keep Reading

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In the two weeks since Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has died, the tributes have continued to pour in — but mostly at the hands of The Beasties’ music industry peers like Coldplay, Eminem, and Ad-Rock — along with the strictly fan-made youtube compilation tributes.

But it’s James Winters’ ‘Sabotage’ video that’s getting all the attention today, and featuring a bunch of kids chasing after each other just like the original, and decked out in aviator glasses, wigs and fake mustaches. Keep Reading

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Ever since Capcom began shelling out DLC with many of its new releases, games like Street Fighter X and Dragon’s Dogma have been inciting a string of steady complaints from fans who feel they’re getting gypped.

In light of these recent events, Capcom senior vice-president Christian Svensson issued the following press release, according to DigitalTrends:

“We’ve been getting several questions, here and elsewhere about the future of on-disc DLC.

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If you’ve ever partaken in the insanity that is online dating, you know that it can be fraught with all kinds of untoward peril. The mere possibility that your date-to-be may not look anything their profile pic or may have spent their past lurking around schoolyards waiting for that bell to ring are probably two worst-case scenarios — but take stuff like that and multiply it times 1000 and it still can’t possibly compare to the one that Gao Xin had in the province of Henan, China.

After a rendezvous at a local restaurant, Xin parted with his date, only to be accosted by an unknown assailant and a bunch of his cohorts. After forcing Xin down to the ground, Keep Reading

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 A few of you have been writing letters to Jace as of late, looking for advice and encouragement in dark times — especially when your creative spirits are down. Being downtrodden in such bleak economic times is understandable, but damn if this latest speech by Rory Sutherland (a legendary ad man who’s helped revolutionize the industry in his home country of Britain) at the TED conference in Athens doesn’t offer some solid hope.

Sutherland’s speech revolves largely around the benefits of creativity and having a healthy perspective in the chaos of everyday life.

One of the best things about his speech is how he sort of helps outline the key points with handy visual highlights. For instance, Sutherland says, we too often forget:
Things are not what they are; they are what we think they are.
Things are what we compare them to. Keep Reading

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When you think of all the hardcore religions that have inspired such acts of sacrifice mindfulness and passive resistance, it’s Buddhism. You think Buddhism, you think the Dalai Lama, the monks who protested Vietnam by setting themselves on fire… general acts of sacrifice that most other religions can’t hold a candle to.

You can let that imagery rest a little easier: According to The International Business Times, several South Korean Buddhist monks were caught on tape — indulging in drinking, high stakes gambling, and even sexual debauchery with hookers. This is particularly bad news in South Korea, where gambling is against the law (except in Casinos)… Keep Reading

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While it may seem like MC Chris and MC Frontalot are the center of the nerdcore universe, 1-Up is an artist who, while maybe not packing the production value that comes with those guys, still manages to make pretty entertaining songs/videos.  Upon first seeing that it was ‘Gangster’s Paradise‘ he’s parodying, it may prompt a quick running to the hills (how can anyone possibly hold a candle to Weird Al’s version?!).

But 1-Up presents himself as one of the most authentic nerdcore artists, especially in this unabashed salute to comics, games, and Nintendo.

Witness his lair/man-cave, adorned with all things Nintendo. Regret not having taken better care of your comic book collection as he unveils his massive display of Transformers back issues.  Keep Reading

Ponder the more philosophical, metaphorical answers to that question, if you’d like, but as of now the very literal answer may in fact be yes. According to Tasmanian optometrist Andrew Hogan, emo hair has the potential to cause lazy eyes.

Hogan also is the education director for Optometrists’ Association of Tazmania, and has apparently done enough research to discover that hair you normally see on Emo kids (i.e. that sloped tuft of hair that covers one eye) may indeed lead to a condition known as amblyopia (that’s lazy eye). Keep Reading

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So the two hot twins who gifted us (because that’s what it was, a gift) with the Zelda: Skyward Sword theme  with tag-team harp action have now brought us the score to Game of Thrones.

I never used to find harps interesting at all, but from now on anything harp related will automatically be awesome because here is where my mind will wander first.

Part of it I think is that yeah, they’re both hot, but they can also pwn an instrument, and are showing up to 30% cleavage in some shots of some of these videos. The fact that they have a different cute outfit on in every video is an extra bonus to the ADD-prone. Keep Reading

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Who wants cake? Okay, now who wants PORTAL cake?

Desperately searching for exactly how this genius baking entrepreneur designed such a delicious-looking pastry, I was somewhat taken aback to find that that A)Portal themed cakes are really nothing new; there’s a crapload of all over the Internet — and also that B) somebody took the Portal cake scenario to a new level with this — a cake actually being Portal-ed, complete with aperture Portal gun and everything. Keep Reading

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That’s a bit of  misnomer — of course, Nick McKaig has recorded them all separately and edited them to play at the same time.

One of the best things about Nick McKaig’s a cappella salute to Star Wars is how it manages to capture each of the instruments used to compose the full-fledged symphony score.

Thus by dividing the screen up into half a dozen or more little windows, with each head singing a different bit, it highlights the melodies and the herculean amounts of work John Williams put into the score. Seems like some pretty intense dedication there. Keep Reading

In what some might consider a somewhat mind-blowing legal decision, the New York Court of Appeals ruled this week that viewing child porn is not on par with procuring or possessing child pornography. The decision arose from a case involving one James D. Kent, a college professor who had hundreds of child pornography images on his work computer’s browser cache. According to Geekologie, the court determined that ‘having items stored in the cache doesn’t demonstrate any form of intent,’ thus resulting in the charges being dismissed against Kent.

Specifically, Judge Carmen Ciparick wrote “Merely viewing Web images of child pornography does not, absent other proof, constitute either possession or procurement within the meaning of our Penal Law… Keep Reading

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We know this isn’t exactly one of those gargantuan-sized Bayformers, but at least it’s still bigger than the toys of yore. It’s more the work of some engineering prodigy that really knew his sh*t , at least enough to make a motorized version that can actually drive in its little red car mode, not to mention stand up and sort of move in robot mode. And by sort of move we basically mean do a fist pump and do something that looks like the Safety Dance.

Specifically this is the work of one Kenji Ishida, ‘TransformerVersion8′ comes packed with 22 servos, feet that can rotate, and a face nowhere near as scary as Bumblebee’s.  Keep Reading

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The marketing guys at Disney have developed a nifty new little souvenir to take home with you from Epcot Center: get yourself frozen in Carbonite, just like Han Solo, for the price of about $100. To be fair, you also get a light-up wristband as well.

To celebrate Disney World’s ongoing Star Wars-themed weekends, all an attendee must do is take a step into the ‘Carbon Freezing Chamber” while a bunch of hi-res camera shots are taken of you from an entire 360 degree angle.

From there the 360 model of your body is imported into a computer Keep Reading

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Ever since supervillain Rex Velvet dropped a video challenging Seattle’s first and only alter ego-less crime fighter, news from the other side of the good guys has been pretty scarce.

Maybe Jones is cowering at the top of the space needle and sh*tting his pants. Maybe he’s in a dojo practicing pummeling Velvet into oblivion and growing his own bad-ass mustachio.

Well whatever Jones is up to, he’d better think quick, because Velvet’s Keep Reading

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Of all the geeky pop culture that’s been accepted into mainstream and become cool, it still seems like it’s still not exactly super-cool to love Star Trek. You go to comic con and you’re far more likely to see Storm Troopers and chicks dressed as Leia, as opposed to Klingons or Uhura or even that bald alien chick from Motion Picture, if that’s your thing.

If Star Wars is The Stones of Sci-Fi pop culture staples, Star Trek’s kind of like Yes. Okay, bad analogy — but the video for ‘We Trekkies and We Know It’ seems to all but affirm such will always be the case, as a few devoted Trek fans Keep Reading

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A Software developer by the name of Greg Stewart took to the stage of Britain’s Got Talent last week to show off a very special skills: specifically, play the Tetris theme that he composed himself –  all on a Game Boy and NES –  with a laser harp.

It’s easy enough to root for Greg Stewart, who by job title  and appearance alone could be the exact kind of person to pull this off –  though wait, does that mean it’s the lasers actually making the sounds, or is he just hitting the lasers in synchronicity with the beats? Couldn’t this just be a dude that tape recorded the Tetris theme, and then just tapped a bunch Keep Reading

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Human nerdcore dynamo Richie Branson has penned yet another little ditty, again oriented around the anime universe. This time, instead of an ode to a particular series or anime legend, he’s doing it for a noble cause: to BRING TOONAMI BACK.

Perhaps with good reason — scarcely anything’s been heard from the Adult Swim peeps since exactly a month ago, when they hinted at the possibility with a couple of tweets, one of which read, “We’re listening.” Keep Reading

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Courtesy of College Humor, here is Dr. Banner’s girlfriend Betty Ross – dressed like one of the wives from Goodfellas, for some reason — and acting, well, kind of skanky. She seems curious about the same thing many 2nd and 3rd graders are probably curious about: specifically, how big is that thing exactly?

Here’s your answer. Sort of…

Meanwhile, seems a few critics Keep Reading