Category Archives: This Wins the Internet
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ with Penguins
I’ve never heard of the children’s television show Pengu. Nor have I heard of Lee Hardcastle Animations, the ones who posted this video to youtube. But I do know that it’s weird and funny and suitably fun enough to post. As if the Internet wasn’t already filled with insane machinations of fevered minds. Somebody somewhere decided to use a claymation penguin family to retell ‘The Thing’ in only about 2 minutes. That’s…that’s the sort of brilliance only the Internet can provide!
This Girl Has It All Figured Out
Leave it to an adorable little girl to get to the bottom of commercialism. Named Riley, her frank and impressive rant about the difference between boys’ toys and girls’ toys is pretty freakin’ smart. I hope my eventual offspring are this intelligent. And that any daughters I have want superheroes!
More Batgirl and Supergirl Adorableness
Artist Mike Maihack has done it again, giving us a third chapter in his adorable Batgirl and Supergirl comic strip. This one is Christmas-themed, so it’s perfect for my rush of Christmasy stuff I’ve been posting. So read, enjoy and visit his site. I’m sure he’d like that. You can read his earlier comics here.
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The Hobbit Trailer Restores My Faith in Trailers
A week of awesome movie trailers continues with the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! The movie is an entire year away, but damn if this trailer isn’t full of energy, excitement and a chilling finale! I’ve mentioned a few times in the past few weeks how trailers are letting me down, from The Dark Knight Rises to Men in Black 3.
Well leave it to Peter Jackson and his Lord of the Rings style to save Hollywood!
Such a fantastic trailer! Fun with the dwarves, awesome with the song they sing and chillingly badass with the surprise cameo at the very end. This movie is just part one of a two-part adaptation of The Hobbit. I have never read Tolkien’s books, but I agree with the rest of the world that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was complete and utter brilliance. To see the same characters, same actors, same director and same visual style brought back together for The Hobbit is a real treat.
Hollywood isn’t usually this nice to us, so we must treasure this gift.
The Skyrim Dragonborn Rap
With many geeks the world over absolutely in love with playing Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it’s only natural that some of them would be creative. And while the most I’ve managed to do is write up some semi-witty blog entries about the game and my accomplishments, other people, like Dan Bull, have created an epic Skyrim rap!
So overall, I’m not yet sure if I’ll be writing a Skyrim review. The game has been out for about a month, and I haven’t beaten it yet. There’s just so much to do in the open worldness of it. The main storyline is the least exciting draw. My orc, Tannenbaum the Warrior Poet, has done so much else on the side. He trained at the Bard College, he crafted a full set of armor out of dead dragons, he slew the head of a museum dedicated to the bad guys from Elder Scrolls IV, and he did that under command of a demon. The demon gave Tannenbaum a knife in return, told him to spread carnage in his demon name. But Tannenbaum just threw the knife into his trunk back home.
I took a few more pictures, if you like. This one shows the epic scale of the game world.
A nice view
I can literally travel to anywhere I see, and that’s just a fraction of the world of Skyrim. There’s so much to do and see. For example, here’s Tannebaum slaying a dragon. It’s hard to see, but that’s him on the dragon’s head. Tannenbaum jumped on top and smashed his deadly axe into the dragon’s head.
An axe he forged out of pure ebony metal and a demon’s heart. The axe is imbued with fire, and it is name is ‘Demon’s Run’. Some of you will get that reference.
‘Demon’s run when a good man goes to war’
The graphics, especially of the dragons, are spectacular.
But it’s not just dragon-slaying and axe-making in Skyrim, no sir! There’s a lot of fun to be had as well. Just this weekend, Tannenbaum was walking a road to get to a nearby township when he was suddenly passed by the ghost of the headless horseman.
Somehow he’d fallen off his ghost horse. You can see it in the distance
Tannenbaum chased him halfway across the world map before finding a headless body…and looting it for a bit of coin.
So yeah, with so much going on and so very late since the game’s release, I haven’t decided if I’ll write a full review or not. Let me know in the comments.
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