#September2011

Netflix To Lose One-Million Customers Over Pricing. Not me!

Netflix changed its pricing this summer splitting up the physical and streaming options, in what some have speculated it was in anticipating of licensing fees or something. Or something. Cheesed off a lot of people. Apparently something like a million.

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Video: Wolverine’s Memory Loss Causes Drinking, Hot Red Heads, Stabbing.

Pretty funny video out of the Marvel camp. Wolverine has himself some brain dysfunction, but in this skit he uses it to his advantage. Drankin’. Jean Grey slammin’. Stabbin’. I laughed at this. Felt guilty doing it. But I did.

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THIS WEEK ON True Blood: And When I Die (Season Finale)

The fourth season of True Blood has concluded, and it with its conclusion it drove home the season’s main thesis: the human (alive or undead) condition and its predilection for addiction and the rather impressive amount of destruction that addiction causes. Throughout the season the addiction manifested itself in a variety of forms: addictions to people, locations, power, and in the case of Jovial Crackhead Andy, vampire blood.

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‘Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1’ Sets Digital Sales Record. Well Done.

I’ve been rather  vociferous  in my support for Miles Morales. I had an idea that just the hype (whether you liked the concept or saw it as shoe-horning) would push sales of Ultimate Spider-Man #1. I didn’t anticipate this sort of deluge.

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Friday Brew Review – Harvest Pumpkin Ale

[cue the music]

There’re moments   in life in which appreciation simply cannot be thwarted, try as Life might.

Today has been the Greater Boston area’s first real taste of fall, a forty-degree recess that seems to cool not just the sweltering landscape, but burning souls as well. That stack of work piling ever higher? Crack open the office window and laugh as the breeze pushes papers across your desk. Stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, a nameless worker-bee in the mass exodus from the hive? Take a look beyond the overpass at the trees, all showing off their summer’s-end sunburns of red and yellow and orange. Finally home and having trouble sloughing off the day’s worth of stress?

Just crack open a Harvest Pumpkin Ale.

Autumnal awesomeness will follow.

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Bethesda Almost Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Game, Stopped Because Of Skyrim. Swear Words.

Game of Thrones is a perfect source material for some fucking fantasy RPGing. Right? It practically screams adapt me, be it as a classic RPG or some sort of Bethesda beast of modernity. And it almost happened, but then came fucking Skyrim.

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‘Source Code’ Becoming a TV Show On CBS. Can We Jump Back And Prevent This? LOL.

I dug Source Code. I love Duncan Jones. I’m totally not interested in a Source Code television show.

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Stallone Confirms Van Damme For ‘Expendables 2’, Wants Cage and Travolta.

The Expendables sucked. I didn’t object to the premise: a bunch of washed-up pieces of cultural refuse team up to kick ass and harken back to the old days. The problem was that there was too much pontificating and posturing and Mickey Rourke’s drooly lip. Maybe the second one will get it right. Explosions and death: yes. Blathering about the price of war: no.

They have gotten one thing right: adding fucking Van Damme to the mix.

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Marvel Reveals ‘The Mighty’ For Fear Itself #7. How Is This Not A Rip-Off?

Marvel has revealed ‘The Mighty’ in advance of  Fear Itself  #7. I’m struggling to figure out how this isn’t a complete rip-off  of Blackest Night.

Hit the jump to see for yourself.

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‘Project Draco’ Hitting XBLA In 2012. Panzer Dragoon Kinect Get!

I should have bought a Kinect for Child of Eden, a clear successor to an all-time favorite Rez. I didn’t. Perhaps I will now for Project Draco, an obvious homage to Panzer Dragoon. A fucking classic.

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