#August2012
‘DIABLO’ creator shit talks ‘DIABLO III’, sets off Internet firestorm.
It is good to see someone important blasting Diablo III for the turd-dongle that it turned out to be. The would-be bomb thrower is none other than one of the creators of the original Diablo, so the dude has some merit. Would you believe that it cheesed off the people behind Diablo III? I would!
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OMEGA LEVEL will be at Fan Expo Canada this week! Batten hatches, mortals.
Hello friends! The Omegalytes are transcending space and national borders this week to lock down a booth at Fan Expo Canada. The sumbitch is in Toronto from August 23-26, and we encourage all of you in the area to stop on by our little niche of insanity at the gala. Come! Behold Rendar Frankenstein, Patrick Bateman, the suspiciously familiar looking Allen Drinkwater pushing OMNI, Budrickton and myself.
NEW ‘GRAND THEFT AUTO V’ SCREENS: All flying jets, and other shit.
Yo, flying a jet is cool. It really is. However, all I want in this world is to snap on a fucking jet pack and party like its San Andreas.
Video: Footage of Curiosity gives you a point-of-view of landing on Mars.
Nothing much to say here. Just an illin’ point-of-view video of the rover landing on Mars. Tremendous.
‘THE AVENGERS’ Agent Phil Coulson gets sculpted into The Vision.
When Agent Coulson bought the farm in Avengers, there was a strong contingent rubbing themselves at the idea of him becoming the Vision. Whether or not he dons the digital life, one talented sculptor has given him the treatment.
James Gunn in talks to direct ‘GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and I dig it.
Preface: I haven’t seen Slither or Super, so my opinion is worthless (even more than usual). Keeping that shit in mind, I think it is pretty swell that Marvel is bringing James Gunn into the fold. Thinking outside the box and all that happy horseshit.
Here’s LINK all did up ‘PRINCE OF PERSIA’ style. Pecs are too small, IMO.
Link. Prince of Persia guy. They used to be best friends, until one night at a drunken party Prince Guy totally had elbow over the line in beer pong. Shoves were had. Swear words exchanged. This picture serves as distant memory and commemoration of the good times.
WEEKEND OPEN BAR: movie theater cherry-pop.
[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]
Ain’t any narrative experience quite like watchin’ a movie in the theater.
Some’ll tell you that it’s the communal aspect, the fact that everyone has come together for the sharing of a story. From this perspective, the big-screen is the electrically-charged descendent of the fire that our cavemen ancestors gathered `round. Stories are means of sharing ideas with one another, and film accomplishes this unlike any other medium.
Others suggest that the infatuation with the movie-theater experience has actually been rekindled by the recent advancements in home video technology. Sure, it’s easy to stay home and watch a movie on Blu-ray or Hulu or YouTube or Netflix streaming. But at home, it’s just as easy to get distracted by text messages or emails or the baby that just won’t stop crying. But at the theater, there’s no pause button — time and attention are consciously dedicated to the narrative at hand.
And still others attribute the appreciation for the cinema to the fulfillment of a deeply-rooted psychological desire. These folks, who read Freud and Lacan and textbooks that I’ll never understand, draw parallels between wombs and movie theaters — dark, comfortable, and designed for the unilateral providing of sustenance (life-giving and consciousness-altering, respectively). According to psychoanalysis, theaters are uniquely affective.
I won’t try to figure out why, but I know for sure that goin’ to the movies has been the basis for some of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Feel free to twist it, rephrase it, or ignore it, but here’s the jumping-off point for our discussion: What is the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
Video: HEADBANGING WHILE MAKING FIRE
This may be old as fuck, but Eddie Not a Planet shared this with me today. In but a moment, I was transformed. If two lads ever channeled the spirit of the Omega Brothers while igniting something, it is these lads.
