I’ve soon learned that Weekend Funnies are a temporary vacation from you real life, as you get stuck in a world where life doesn’t suck so much. A world where anonymity is power that allows you to be racist, sexist, judgmental, or all of the above for a few quick minutes and then you can return to whoever you were before. So take this time and enjoy these 24 images are your escape from your likely hellish life. And if your offended with one image, always remember that if EVERYONE finds it funny, it probably truly isn’t.
Cracked has a series called After Hours where they take a group of highly opinionated individuals and break down a random subject by looking at its history and legacy. In this episode, they debate whether or not Batman is actually good for Gotham. They use points like his sanity, the villains he creates, and how he could actually truly benefit Gotham by not being Batman. See the well seasoned debate above.
So, in a rather strange twist of reality, a hacker was apparently recently asked to break into the e-mail accounts of not only the Call of Duty creator’s e-mails, but most of Infinity Ward in a suit against the company by Activision. The hacker, once denied assistance by Microsoft, went to more shady business dealings to get the job done. The details are still hazy, but apparently Activision must want to win this case something awful if they resorted to hiring a hacker to steal e-mails. Read the full story in the article sourced below and let us know what you think of this entire debacle.
A couple of days ago, I posted a routine 11:00 EST article regarding the Spring TV Wrap Up Ceremony. Little did I know, I would get freshly pressed which is every bloggers wet dream because it allows us to live out the dream of people actually giving a sh!t about what we’re talking about. Naturally, a massive influx of commenters arrived ranging in variety and domain names. Today, I’m going to take a break from the norm of talking about movies, television or video games, and kinda go meta here. Obviously there must be some sort of motivation that forces a user to take the time to comment on an article. Replies range from single sentences to well written anecdotes. Each have their own sense of opinion and style and I found rather humorous. This article is designed to make fun of user cliches and norms. I’m sorry if you get caught in the crossfire, but remember I’m making fun of the social norm and not you. But when it comes to blogging, all press is good press. Wordpress. [LOL]
Some movie or television apocalypses on television are so completely detrimental, that it’s clear how humanity truly doesn’t stand a chance. There are plenty of disaster/apocalyptic movies that use devices like these to make us sympathize for humanity and the characters in them. However, maybe not all these movies get the sympathy they want: most zombie movies simply involve waiting the zombies to starve out is an example of how time could possibly beat the Apocalypse. Cracked has naturally compiled such a list. Check it out below.
The Anchorman announcement on Conan a couple of weeks ago signaled quite a harmonious uproar of excitement and dorkgasms and douchegasms alike on the internet. And then with a released poster of 4 pairs of stylish shoes managed to get us even more excited. But then they also released an alternative trailer with a little tweak of lines. I had difficulty choosing which one I loved more, so I included both. You’ll see the other one below.
But in probably bigger news, The Great Gatsby released its first trailer the other day, featuring a very interesting look at the 1920 [which interestingly look like a steampunk version of what the universe was in the Speed Racer movie was set in]. Leonardo DiCaprio as usual looks like he’s killin’ his role, although an interesting comment was made on the Youtube video hailing how Michael Fassbender should’ve been Gatsy, an idea I could completely get behind. Regardless, it’s an interesting trailer and is expected to be released December 25th, 2012. You know what else is released December 25th? Django Unchained. Where’s the trailer to that movie?
It must be pretty cool that Fight Club is popular with the crowd these day. Social networking has allowed us to share our love for different things. Through Facebook, Fight Club has gotten pretty popular and when things trend on Facebook, it labels it as ‘talking about’. Which brings us to this hilarious image of Fight Club’s page for Facebook and it shows that 58 thousand people are talking about it. I’m pretty sure the first 2 rules are that you do NOT talk about fight club. Hilariously ironic.
Hello and welcome to this week’s Game of the Week. Today we’ll be covering a game I was recently allowed to borrow with a recommendation from a good friend. Batman: Arkham Asylum, first in what may be a series of games, followed by Arkham City, is an amazing step in the right direction for superhero games in general (with Spider Man 2 coming in at a close second place). With all the grit of the original and later series and a lot of interesting mechanics and gameplay nuances, Arkham Asylum makes for an intriguing time killer and fun-filling machine. The plot is interesting, deep, and peppered here and there with a bit of maturity (if not a lot ofmaturity, people DO die). Let’s get into the dissection of this game before we go any further.
Scarjo has clearly made the first step as the sexy lady for this summer’s movie as she played the spandex wearing Black Widow. But of course there many other movies this summer that feature women in exploitive outfits and explosions. Kate Beckinsale in Total Recall, Emma Stone in The Amazing Spiderman, and Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Head over to Next Movie to get a list of this summer’s hottest stars.
I feel like I’ve posted 5 of these Game of Thrones opening covers in the past 2 weeks, but I keep stumbling upon awesome new renditions of it. This one doesn’t actually feature the actual title screen like the Simpsons or Stark Kids version I’ve featured before, but the beautiful violin work of Jason Yang and the awesome rock acoustic mixing of Roger Lima and the White Noise Lab.
So, if you may or may not heard, David Shaw, judge of the International Trade Commission, has filed a case in which he states that Microsoft infringed upon five patents held by Motorola, and should immediately cease the importation of every single Xbox 360 console into the United States and pay 7% of all unsold console prices directly to the cell phone manufacturer. If the International Trade Commission (ITC for short) agree with Shaw’s statement, then their recommendation will end up in the hands of the President. I’m not sure whether or not this will go through, although I highly doubt it would be as severe as the article stated. On the other hand, if Microsoft is forced to pull the 360 from stores across the nation, I don’t know what else will happen to the console. I’m sure it won’t be pretty.
We’re gonna break standard code today and post a quick thank you. I guarantee you, the rest of the posts will be up as usual, but I had to include one more as a little shout out to my lovely followers. January 11, 2012 was a very special day for me. It was the day I was freshly pressed for an article about my favorite television characters of 2011 and the day I reached a new high of 5,000+ views in one day. To most of you other bloggers, days where the stats site has a towering date over the other tiny days are ones that are always remembered. Never did I actually believe I would be honored again yesterday for my article on the Spring Television Wrap Up.
This blog started roughly one year ago and has gone through a number of immense changes to cater to anyone who loves movies and television. The dream that this would one day be a successful site in terms of popularity and value never occurred to me until January 11 and I was reinvigorated only yesterday. As many of you know, we post sporadically 4 times a day 5 days a week, and include a weekend picture compilation and custom art by myself on Sundays. I’ve measured that it takes about 6-8 hours total taking care of a week’s worth of material and although that time could be spent studying for my degree in engineering, working out to better my physical shape, or hanging out with friends, it’s days like yesterday that make it all worth it and it’s all thanks you guys.
The dream is for this website’s slogan #MyLifefortheFeed to be a trend someday, and I’m going to work everyday for the rest of my life working at it for you. I’ll need your help and I know your help will come at the cost of me entertaining you all, a time sacrifice I’m more than willing to make. I had an absolute delight responding to comments yesterday because it’s always a pleasure to talk with people with similar interests to my own. You’ve fueled my fire to continue working on this website to make it the best it can be. And I thank you all for it.
A while back, I posted an article about how to be a movie douchebag. There are certain set of rules that movie lovers must abide to correctly integrate with today’s society and culture of non-movie goers. Some basics like, talking in the middle of it to share a pointless fact, or thinking you’d do a better job are a couple of my points. But of course Cracked came around and created a list of their own reasons why movie lovers suck, and it’s-like-a bajillion better than mine and of course millions of people read it while probably 4 of you did.
These beautiful graphics each represent a powerful house in the Song of Ice and Fire Universe [ie. Game of Thrones]. Among them are the words and symbol of each of the houses. A pretty cool collection. There are a significant number more, ones with names belonging to houses like Karstark and Bracken. They’re the relatively third party houses [at least as I’ve read so far], so I left them out. But I made sure to get all the good ones. Check out the nearly dozen of them below.
I’ve compiled an interesting bundle of videos of famous actors paying homage to amazing cinema villains seemingly paid for by The New York Times. Below you’ll see Brad Pitt, Jean Dujardin, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, Kristen Dunst, etc. etc. playing some of the most awesome renditions of infamous faces like Alex DeLarge, Ray LaMotta, and Eraserhead. See all of them below. On another note, Rooney Mara gives me another reason to go absolutely bonkers over her. I’m sorry most of the videos are un-embeddable. Please don’t mind switching over to Youtube to watch the actual videos.
See the Gallery of images here and the compiled videos below. Or it might be easier if I just link you to the actual playlist here starting with Jessica Chastain. Whatever works best for you.
Spring Television for the most part is coming to a close. Most of the shows have hit their finales, save for a couple of the heavy dramas. We’ve recently been bombarded with news about shows coming back, being cancelled, and some new ones. I personally haven’t sampled many of the new clips that preview the fall shows, but I’m sure some are bound to be promising. I’ve divided this awards ceremony by two pages: one for comedies and the other for dramas. There’s a lot of bias here and there and my opinion is erratic, but I like to think there is some truth to my choices. And I may or may not of come up with custom titles simply so I could put all of the shows I watched [and didn’t watch] this wonderful spring season.
Avengers have officially kicked off the big summer movie bonanza. There’s a lot of great stuff coming out this summer, and a lot of questions to go with it. Can The Dark Knight Rises truly surprise us? What’s the surprise bomb of the summer [this one might be already answered: looking at you Battleship]? Regardless, Hit Flix has compiled some interesting questions such as those and compiled opinions on them. Click the link below.
We all love Hermione Granger and Emma Watson. What we have hear is a rather interesting take if she was sorted into a different house. I suppose the concept here is that based on the house, a certain type of personality or persona is established. It’s no stranger that most people from Slytherin are jerks and slimy, and to assume that it would apply to most isn’t a far stretch given their track records. So this image features subtly different attributes into Hermione Granger if she were sorted in a different house. I personally like the kindness in Ravenclaw Hermione, and I am a sucker for brown hair/blue eyes, but I don’t mind the spunky attitude of Slytherin Hermione. Then again, Hufflepuff Hermione looks like she was kissed by fire and the alliteration is oh too sweet. And then classic Gryffindor Hermion is just as beautiful. I’ll take them all please.
Well, it’s finally happened folks. GameStop has jumped the shark. According to an article on Engadget, GameStop intends to become a telecommunications provider, offering contract and pre-paid deals that work through AT&T (oh boy…). As long as your hardware works on AT&T, apparently you can sign up with GameStop for anywhere from a $5 pre-paid plan to a $55 contract, with unlimited voice and text as well as a stunning 500MB of data (yes…stunning…). Wait…only 500MB of data? Well, I won’t cross my fingers, let alone stop by any AT&T store any time soon. Unfortunately for me (or fortunately. depending on perspective), I am on Verizon and have been enjoying it thoroughly (as in, I love playing app based games on the go). If anyone has anything else to add, please let us know in the comments below. Thanks!
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