#August2011
Multiethnic Spider-Man Is Awesome.
A brief story. This week I was on Google+ for one of my rare visits. There’s nothing going on in there. Tumbleweeds and picture spam. Browsing, browsing. Eventually on my barren News Feed, something caught my eyes. It was a picture my friend posted of an Ariel from Little Mermaid from a coloring book. Ariel was colored in black. I suppose brown is more precise. My friend said something to the extent of “The majority of Disney’s characters are white, so I do what I can for my daughter”, a daughter who is half-white, half-black. All awesome, given her parents.
I thought to myself, that sucks. A couple days later Marvel dropped on the world Miles Morales. He’s the new Spider-Man for Marvel’s Ultimate universe. He’s also half-black, half-Hispanic and fully pants-shitting for the closeted white people out there in the world who think everyone with a skin tone is coming for our tax money, our educational system, and our hospitals.
I think Miles Morales is awesome.
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Mass Effect 3 Developer Says Games Would Benefit From More Diversity. Duh.
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In a recent interview, Mass Effect 3 senior designer Manveer Heir opened up about his want for more diversity in the gaming world. Wait, I thought all protagonists were chosen by God to be White Males? Someone clearly hasn’t told Heir this.
Vonnegut Library To Give Away Free Copies Of Banned Book To Missouri Students. Awesome.
Remember a couple of days ago when I posted that a douche professor in Missouri managed to get Slaughterhouse-Five banned? Well the Kurt Vonnegut memorial library is willing to give away copies of the books. This is awesome.
Grad Students Turn Girl Scout Cookies Into $15 Billion Through Science!
It’s a dope day for science here on Omega Level. This is some straight up Dr. Manhattan type shit here. A bunch of grad students at Rice University have found a way of rearranging carbon atoms, turning a box of girl scout cookies into $15 billion dollars.
Do explain? Happily.
‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ To Be Released In 2014. Really? Gracious.
I am currently suffering superhero movie fatigue. Like a son of a bitch. Despite this, I still see them. So while I cannot friggin’ believe they’re already announcing an Amazing Spider-Man 2 with the first one almost a year away, I also can. Because it’s going to make enough money to justify it. Because of sluts like me.
Test For Multiple Universes Finds Four. Oh Fringe Science, ILU.
If you follow this site, you know I love me some fringe science. Science that probably isn’t true in a zillion years, but has enough of a shred of evidence that it can tickle my Science-Fiction g-spot. How about multiple universes? Oh baby!
Friday Brew Review – Life and Limb
What do the Mega Powers, the G.I. Joe episode The Greatest Evil, and today’s brew have in common?
Well, dummy-pants, they are all the product of unlikely – but wonderful – collaborations!
At the beer-market today, a delivery-dude saw me scouring the shelves for the perfect inebriator. “Hey kid,” he said, “give this a try. It’s a team-up between Sierra and Dogfish.” He then handed me a bottle of Life and Limb and dispersed into an ethereal gray, drifting into a nether-realm, awaiting the next opportunity to help a beer-drinker in need.
Press Start!: Eight Year-Old Gaming Ass Whupper, And An Incest RPG.
What’s up, you fraggin’ funk masters. This is Press Start!, the column where I go “Blah, blah blah, Top 5 things in gaming that caught my eye this week. Please tell me yours too.” After I say that, this is the rest of the column, “Blah, blah, blah, moderately cool thing, dick joke, blah blah, half-baked attempt at cultural criticism, blah, blah, sort of cool thing, repeat.”
Well, shall we?
Bethesda Game Director Wants There To Be Only One Console. To Dream.
Bethesda game director Todd Howard wants the gaming world to move towards standardization. One console to rule them all. It’s a nice thought.
NASA Launches Juno Mission To Study Jupiter.
