Wow. Painful Superbowl ads of yesteryear…
Inside every man is a little boy
February 7th, 2010Our Terrible Internet: Star Wars Corsets
September 28th, 2009Star Wars gets worse every year. Not because the prequel movies were mediocre, or because there is a kids’ show based on the Clone Wars, but because of the Star Wars fans. Everything you hated about Star Trek fans? Star Wars fans will find a way to do it worse now.
But let’s combine that with corset fetishes and you have this:
Corsets can be sexy, but this isn't the way to do it...
It doesn’t help that their models look kind of creepy and plastic-ey like Barbie dolls. Ew.
Haunted Gingerbread House of Doom!
September 27th, 2009Well, it didn’t turn out like exactly on the box, but I definitely think this is the kind of house you would live in if you were a gingerbread-man vampire.
Some side angles show my wife’s clever little candy corn icicles, right before one fell off. I’m not saying you’d want to hire us as gingerbread contractors, but most of the blame lies on the fairly dry icing that came with the set. It works better when you mix your own.
BIGBY’S CRUSHING THIRST DESTROYER!!
September 23rd, 2009Apparently upset by the possibility that they were out-nerded by Mountain Dew’s WoW-themed soda bottles and advertising, Jones has joined forces with Dungeons and Dragons. Most of the flavors aren’t really very creative, but I have to give it up for “Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer,” because, man, that sounds like it really destroys your thirst.
Soda...FOR NEEERDS!
You can find out more about this tragedy at their website. I’ll try and get some and drink it.
Halllowweeeeeen!
September 18th, 2009Ok, so I’m no X-Entertainment, but I do love me some Halloween. Target has just started coming out in force for this holiday and I’m pretty pleased with what they’ve got. There are items for all the important parts of your day, from toothpaste to paper towels and sandwich bags.
Scary Toothpaste!
Taking a cue from Starbucks a few years ago, they have created their own trio of monsters and have literally dozens of items themed on them.
They also have some deal going on with “Skelanimals,” so there’s a lot of merchandise there, too.
All in all, my initial haul was good. I got some of the little monsters, lot of tissues, and of course, CANDY! I’m not sure that making a Peppermint Patty look like a pumpkin has any influence on its taste, but it seems like the right thing to do! And now they have black cat Peeps to go with the ghost and pumpkin peeps!
As you can see, my wife even got a Hello Kitty Halloween candy bucket. Something has to go into Hello Kitty’s empty head!
I’m going to read this book.
August 31st, 2009
So, Zack Parsons, who is a crazy person that writes for Somethingawful and who has written 2 excellent books, mentioned this novel in one of his articles. I decided I have to have it.
Rebellious Texans kidnapped the President of the U.S. His future rested with a band of fearless Israelis whose courage had been tested in other wars!
Who can resist that? The plot is that WW3 happened in 1992 and somehow Israel was the only nation that survived with no problems. So thats sort of unlikely, even back in 1974 when they wrote this crap. But hey, it’s not even 200 pages, so I will know how bad it is SOON ENOUGH.
I don’t do this for myself. I do it for all of you who might be curious about wether Texas or Israel would win in a fight.
Space Invaders never get old
August 11th, 2009If there’s one thing I love, it’s a classic shmup. If there’s another thing I love, it’s weird modern takes on old games. Space Invaders is hardly the only game to get this treatment, but it gets it fairly regularly and usually in an official fashion.
They're HEEERE!
The latest rad version of this phenomenon is Space Invaders Infinity Gene. This is really more like a modern shmup (with touch screen controls, actual good ones) with Space Invaders graphics and a vector-art sensibility than it is like old-school Space Invaders, but that doesn’t stop me from loving it.
The idea is that as you score points in the game, you fill up a “Gene” bad that unlocks new abilities, and it seems like if you replay you can unlock multiple abilities per level that you use as you replay (I don’t know if the abilities get unlocked in order or if you have to be on a specific level to unlock a certain ability) giving you more and cooler things to do as you bust some pixels. All this accompanied by some great electronic music and sound effects.
Of course, if you missed it and have an Xbox 360, you should probably get your hands on Space Invaders Extreme, which goes a little more retro in the graphics area, and makes the whole thing into a crazy rhythmic affair with your shots and kills actually syncing into the music. (This game also exists on PSP and Nintendo DS, but I ain’t got those). And if you like THAT, don’t forget that Namco did something similar for Pac-Man and Galaga. I have and love them all, but there’s frankly on so much a man can play at a given time.
Late edit: Holy crap, this game can just up and create new levels based off songs in your library.
He-Man Has the Power
August 10th, 2009Some people, like me, are G.I. Joe people. Some people are He-Man people.
My friend Ben is a He-Man person. He made even a song. It makes me almost wish I could join his heathen He-Man ways, but I’ll be a Joe until I die. It’s my name even.
What have you wrought, Rise of Cobra?
August 9th, 2009
50% less likely to be a member of the Village People
Seeing Shipwreck likes this seems…wrong. He’s not even in the movie!
GAAAAH!
August 9th, 2009
Ugh. NOOOO!
Damn you, PB&J Gamer Grub! DAMN YOOOOU!