Wednesday, March 30, 2011

How Wonder Woman Should Look


And how she actually does look:


Okay, so it's better than the first version, but what really ruins the costume for me is the insane, tit-mashing corsette. You might even say it's what makes the costume go bust *badum ching* I'll be here all night folks.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

GW2: Looking Pretty Damn Right

Here is a long play clip of Guild Wars 2 from PAX East. It's nice because it shows some devs playing, giving a sense of what things will look like once you get a hang of the system. Maybe that's it or maybe it's something else, but this video really brought what GW2 is going to be like to life fore me. It all sounded good before but this really makes it real.

The game session isn't actually as long as the video so you'll have to skip a ways in before it actually starts (it starts somewhere around the 14 minute mark).


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Friday, March 18, 2011

At 42 Seconds...

You can literally see this man decide that he is going to go with his pedo-feelings.
South-Asian Dude: "I'm already there bro."

So Q, via twitter, introduced me to the whole Rebecca Black, "Friday" thing (which may very well be the single greatest piece of music and art that has ever existed). That led me to this article. So basically, this company, Ark Music Factory, is signing all these young girls to do pop-type musical stuff. A handful of the songs have music videos and... well... PEDO-VIIIIIBES.

Seriously, I feel uncomfortable--so, so uncomfortable--about these videos. At first I wanted to say, "no, it's okay. These are just being marketed as silly little things for pre-middle school girls." You watch Rebecca Black's "Friday" (again, pure musical genius) and you definitely get that sense.


And if you want to feel okay about life then you stop there. *Sigh* I never feel okay about life so...


Okay. Okay. She looks like maybe she is a little older so the sex-vibes they are filling the video with aren't too bad right?


Uhhhhhhh. Alright...


OH COME THE FUCK ON.

Really though? These videos are totally insane. I mean, a song about wanting to get out of the spotlight and live a regular life... by Kanye; now that's okay. A song about wanting to get out of the spotlight and live a regular life, by a 10 year old; that is just damn-disturbing (twice as disturbing as darn-disturbing).

And it's not just the semi-sexual visuals or lyrics; there is something else that is tying these videos together like a disturbing ribbon of pure disturbing. This dude:

Sorry, let me clarify. This dude:

"Officer, I swear. Those girls draped all over me could've potentially been 18."

Now honestly, he's probably just one more exploited sucker like all these little girls but WHAT THE FUCK DUDE, THEY'RE LIKE THIRTEEN AND YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE FUCKING 35.

I don't know. I guess the utter madness of all this has worn my brain out and deprived me of a proper closing for this. The only thing I can guess is that the people behind Ark Music Factory saw the following video but didn't realize it wasn't serious.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

A really awesome sounding game...

that I will probably never touch.

I have been curious about the present day Lovecraftian MMO, "The Hidden World," since its first trailer a while back. A recent article at RPS (here) makes it sound like the devs are going for some really awesome approaches to the game that involve real world research outside of the game as well as a leveling system which expands players capabilities without making them innately stronger.

All this sounds awesome. Now only if they weren't going to charge monthly for it. I haven't heard whether they will or won't, but it's an MMO, so I'm betting they will.

If, by some freak Guild Wars-esque occurrence, they decided to take the high-route, this would be a day one purchase for me.