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I must admit, I’ve very excited and impressed… lets hope it delivers.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=871308

Am I blind or has no one else caught this?

It’s 11/25 @ 1:59am PST and my Blizzard downloader says I now have the patch to 3.3?

Uh… This has to be old news right?

All Edges Brownie Pan

All Edges Brownie Pan

The Sith will fight brownie peace at first but all will give in to the power of edgetastic brownies

Via Think Geek

I watched the original V series so many times as a kid that it was nearly imprinted into my brain. However that imprint has faded as the years have gone by and it’s just in time for a reboot. Now, before we get into this… I’m 100% ready for people to start accepting Science Fiction shows as main stream television, however I have serious doubts that will happen. V is the latest attempt to make that happen, and using the classic “aliens show up, floating above major cities” is perhaps the safest way to make it work. Unfortunately that safe bet already doesn’t look good for the series, as reports are already surfacing that the show is in trouble. I figured i’d go over what I thought worked and did work… I’ll stick to 3 points for both bad and good… If you’ve not seen the show, you may want to skip everything below. Lets cover the bad first…

Bad

1. Stop killing Wash! – Seriously, you give him an opportunity to get back into science fiction and then you shove a chunk of metal into his heart in the first episode. Did you even watch Serenity? Did you watch how he died in that movie? I’m pretty sure you did, so you gathered all the Firefly fans and then spit in their face. Nice work guys… seriously… Yes I saw the preview for the next episode, and that was equivalent to the spit having a little bit of cold virus in it.

2. Dialog – What the hell was that ID4 reference? You know, the line about how ID4 was a rip off… (pause) This isn’t Mystery Science Theater 3000, so just stop.

3. Pace – The original mini series took 3 hours to do what you did in 1 hour. Thanks for robbing me of 2 more episodes of science fiction.

Good

1. It’s Science Fiction - I have a show about Alien Invasions in prime time, I will shut my fat pie hole as long as it doesn’t go the way of heroes.

2. The Tech - Thanks for ships that are not round like coasters… God will be pissed he has no where to set his drink, but we will remind him of point number 1.

3. Pace - The original mini series took 3 hours to do what you did in 1 hour. Thanks for saving me from the bullshit 2 extra hours to get to the good stuff… however the good stuff better be coming.

Every time I hear about new high quality pictures of a planet… well, I’m the first person to check them out. Usually it’s somewhat more interesting than this piece of crap planet. Leaving the chemical and mathematic makeup of the planet out of the equation, can anyone honestly tell me that pictures of this planet are any more interesting than the moon? Look, I’m not expecting an alien civilization, or some mind blowing beautiful destruction. I’m always hoping we get to see something we’ve not seen before, not the sterile grey bumpy moon that we’ve been looking at forever. I really need some conspiracy nut to point out some crazy landing strip or crushed giant skeleton to drag this out out of the “this planet blows” category.

In case you missed the news, Netflix will be available on the PS3 without the use of that Play On Tool (a tool that appears to do nothing but require my Wife to reboot her machine every time we try to use it). I guess you need to reserve your disk now, as people are guessing that the first batch of disks will get grabbed up pretty fast. This doesn’t solve the problem of Netflix’s streaming selection coming very close to sucking.

Spoilers, so stop reading now… seriously…

When I walked out of Paranormal Activity my first thought was “wow, that really sucked”. I think I would of even been more annoyed if I actually had paid to see it. The wife and I used tickets we received as a birthday gift. When I got home and talked to a few friends, who I expected to have the same feeling on the subject, I was shocked to hear that they loved it. I’m almost 100% sure this was related to the fact that they saw it in a theater filled with people, and I saw in classic horror technique to scare people. To many movies today rely purely on being disgusting, and the only creative requirement required to produce shit like that, is if you yourself are… well… disgusting. The level they have gone to is just so far, and anything beyond the current level is just ridiculous. We need to redefine what a horror movie is, and I think it should be defined by the ability to scare you, not to gross you the hell out. Movies like that should just be categorized into gore, or some other genre title that caterers to people who like that… stuff.

What about movies like Alien? There’s a chest burster scene! Now that’s gross!

When that scene in that movie happened, it was so unexpected that it used gore as an effective tool to deliver horror. If the rest of the movie was filled with everyone getting molested and ripped apart on camera, the sense of disgust would overwhelm the sense of horror and therefore it the defeats the purpose of the genre. If you watch a movie like SAW, your not afraid… your just disturbed and grossed out. I’m not trying to take away from that as a movie experience, some people dig that, just that it shouldn’t be defined as horror.

Paranormal Activity is horror… it didn’t really work on me, but I welcome the attempt to pull it off.

As you might have heard, what you see in Paranormal Activity is next to nothing… the ghost or demon in question never makes an appearance. However, it’s actions are easily observable or heard, with weird shadows, sheets moving, or even footprints being made in powder on the floor. It routinely slams doors and makes huge stomping sounds. When each of these events happened, right before the actors began to react to them… it was a little freaky.

However this is where the movie begins to fail…

It’s my personal belief, that when you try to pretend the movie is real footage of real people in a real situation on this earth, you MUST treat every situation as if it’s REAL. If you want to add stupid cliché dialog, and bizarre character motivations, then shoot it like you wood a normal movie. A standard movie allows you to suspend disbelief, because you trust the storyteller (the director). However when you shoot a movie like this… your not watching a character, you are placing yourself in this situation, because these are real people… just like you. So stupid decisions like ‘Not turning the fucking lights on’ become big holes in character, and work to become extremely distracting. Furthermore, I don’t care how awesome you think you are, you will not continue to provoke something that can ’set shit on fire in your living room’. Yet the worst has to be the filler that surrounds the 15 minutes of somewhat spooky stuff we see in the movie. It’s boring, conversation, arguing ,and relationship drama that places any sane individual into a state of slumber.

I can admit that maybe this might of been a better experience in a large group. Apparently during the show my friends went to there was constant women screaming and a man ran out of the theater terrified. The only experience I had, was at the end, while a man was walking out of the theater…. he said the following:

“BOOOoooooooOOOOOOOoooooo Bullshit.”

Yeah… it sort of was.

Wow this slipped under the radar for me, Battle Report 4 was released… This time it’s Protoss vs Terran and it’s just another example of how you will never be as good as these guys. Out of all 4 reports, this one has to be my favorite… If your anticipating the release as much as I am, I highly recommend you watch.

I know the Terrible Terrible damage jokes are aplenty, however this quote from this Battle Report made me laugh.

“David Kim and his addiction to Terrible Damage”

It’s funny that grammatically, that’s so wrong… but when your saying it… it feels so right.

The above trailer is obviously something thrown together for the web, and not really the official trailer. However upon viewing, It’s obvious that Sylvester Stallone might be the only person in Hollywood that remember’s how great 80’s action films are. Even the trailer above kind of feels like an 80’s trailer, it’s cheesy, it’s kind of mindless and if there is a scene that doesn’t end in violence… well, it’s not in this cut. If your not aware of the cast, it’s pretty incredible.

• Sylvester Stallone
• Jason Statham
• Jet Li
• Dolph Lundgren
• Mickey Rourke
• Bruce Willis
• Arnold Schwarzenegger

The only one really missing is Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to it.