“We’ll kill things, blow things up, it’ll be fun!”
Category: Nerdgasm
Posts with anything dealing with technology, the Internet, comic books and geek culture
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Toastee!
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Wolverine & The X-Men
So I just recently came across some advance episodes of the new Marvel animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. From watching just the first episode, you can tell that this series pulls a lot of its influences from the X-Men Movie Trilogy, the X-Men Evolution animated series and several poignant X-Men story arcs like Days of Future Past, and Joss Wheden’s Astonishing X-Men. Set against the de facto back drop of fighting for a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men find themselves lost without the tutelage of their beloved leader/mentor, Professor Xavier, whom along with X-Men long stay, Jean Grey, who disappeared in an explosion at the X-Men’s home, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. With human-mutant relations escalating to a boiling point, its up to Wolverine to pull the team of mutants back together and save the world from the brink of destruction.
Without giving away any more spoilers, its great to see that most of the characterization is spot on; Cyclops is very brooding and lost without Jean, Emma Frost is a manipulative bitch, and Storm has a ethereal regality about her. While some of the characterization is great, some are not. Some mutant powers are either forgotten or not present for the art of story telling. Character back stories has been alter to either have it appeal to a broader audience or maybe to avoid continuity all together. But than again I could just be nitpicking. Either way I believe that anyone from the guy who remembers watching Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends growing up to the die-hard Marvel Zombie would be able to enjoy this series. Its just a damn same that it won’t be broadcast in the U.S. until January 2009 and on the Nicktoons Network of all places.
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My Lameness Knows No Bounds Parts 6, 7 & 8
Don’t ask why I bought this game, or why I’m actually playing it, plastic guitar and all. But I’ve actually learned something interesting; my pinky finger won’t move unless I move my ringer finger and after five minutes of playing the room will start to spin and the Tetris Effect kicks in.
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You’re Kidding, Right?
My money is on Sonic for the track & field events -
Playing With My Joystick
Just taking a brief break from the real world, since I’m not getting overtime money, there’s no new episodes of Heroes til late April, there’s an awful smells coming from my couch, Adult Swim is getting kinda stagnant and Chicago weather is being typical Chicago weather (gorgeous one day, completely fucked up the next).
Been playing Hitman: Blood Money and the new God of War 2 which is pretty kiss-ass.Been thinking about doing a video entry but I just lack a good subject. Things like “People Tony Has Pissed Off” comes to mind, but that would be putting too my energy in folks that aren’t that significant. Well I have to finish this Hitman mission where I kill a bunch of folks in a rehab clinic but Ghost in the Shell comes on. Yeah, I need to get laid… badly.
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Civil War After Thoughts
Wow, the different a day can make… While the conclusion to Civil War #7 wasn’t bad, it wasn’t too good either. For a title thats been delayed TWICE, it seemed so rushed and so anti-climatic. I wonder if I can get a refund or at least store credit for my soul.
I just reread all 7 issues and while overall the series does has its flaws, its not bad, but it still fails to deliver at the end. Even with conjunction with CW Frontline, we’re given that public opinion kinda supports the Secret Avengers and what they’re doing. Maybe its me but I just don’t think a gang of firefighters and EMTs would just come out and bum-rush Captain America and cry at him like an abused child. I’m not saying one side was more right then the other but Tony Stark deserves some type of comeuppance for the amount of highly questionable things he’s done.
Anyway, take a look at what I got:
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Is This The End?
Click image for full view – courtesy of PopCultureShock.With no car and no money I will be getting Civil War #7 tomorrow. Perhaps I should make a deal and sell my soul to Peter Fonda…
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Comic Book Day
Check out CTRL+ALT+DEL, Tim’s pretty cool for a Mac-hater -
The Black Laughing Man
Who says watching television never solves anything. For most of my adult life I’ve had to deal with the fact that I’m not photogenic when it comes to candid shots. I’m either in bad lighting, unintentionally make faces or just a complete hot ass mess. Well I as I was watching some great anime, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, I had an epiphany. In the world of GitS:SAC, people with cybernetic brains & bionic implants are the norm. Other then inciting the cyber punk within, it was modus operandi of The Laughing Man that got me thinking about a solution to my picture issue.
“Laughing Man proves to be the ultimate hacker, capable of such feats as hijacking multiple video streams simultaneously, taking over someone’s cybernetic brain entirely, or even editing his own images out of someone’s cybernetic eyes, and all in real time.”
In other words he’s able to conceal his identity and commit acts of cyber terrorism in public by overlaying his logo over his own face or the faces of his victims. The effect is demonstrated below:
So my thinking was why don’t I apply the same concept to my own pictures? Now I know what you’re thinking; Why don’t you just not use the pictures? Well, in most of the pictures I’m referring to, I’m not in the shot by myself, and everyone looks good by me. I’m the rotten apple. For example, here’s a picture from New Year’s Eve with my frat brothers, and with my intended logo and the results are:
Much better right? So this is my plan, and I’ll be busy this weekend pasting my logo on all the pictures in iPhoto and on Flickr. And if you take this post as anything other then a really bad joke then I know a disposed African Prince who seriously needs help to reclaim lost money. (*Side note* that is a really bad picture of me from New Years Eve, post above. I can’t even begin to tell you how drunk I was that night. Damn you, Unshakable!! And so the orginal will never see the light of day.)
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Quick To Judge
There’s a saying with fanboys; “No one in comics stays dead except for Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben“. Well they did bring back Bucky and Jason, so if MJ dies I can guarantee she ain’t staying dead.
