I hate August.  It is my least favorite month.  It’s hot, it’s sticky, and worst of all, no holidays.  There’s no prebuilt excuse to engage in revelry.  So while we find ourselves in the center of this horrid month, let’s look fondly towards days of celebration.  You’ll notice a distinct lack of gift giving holidays on my list.  Some people think it’s because I hate fun.  Other people guess it’s because I was hatched a fully formed adult and have never been a wide-eyed child, anxiously awaiting treats.  My response to those claims is that they are false.  It’s because I hate the bullshit pretense that is built around them, especially when I am in no way affiliated with the religion that spawned them. Also I have no family.  I will never stop hating the pretense built into gift giving holidays, but if I did have a family, I’d suck it up and deal with it for them.

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Curiosity has landed!  It will now spend the next two plus year rolling around Mars’ surface killing cats.  With that, this High 5 will take a look at my favorite facts and uses about Mars fiction.  So here we go.

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Remember when sketch comedy was all the rage?  You don’t?  It wasn’t that long ago … ok, maybe it was the mid 90’s, but that’s what 15 years ago.  Fuck I’m old.  Well, today’s High 5 will be looking over some of my (and your) favorite skits from the various skit shows out there.

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There are many things that contributing to a video game being great.  The story, the mechanics, the graphics.  They all contribute to enhance our experience.  One of the things I love is a good boss fight.  They can vary from game to game too.  The boss fight is typically a culmination of the skills learned over the course of a level or if it’s the last boss, the game.  So here are the 5 boss fights that stand out in my mind as entertaining or memorable.

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If you’re like me, you hate the heat.  Well up here in New England we got ourselves a bit of a heat wave.  I decided to beat this son-ova-bitch by crowding around my air conditioner.  After playing 15 consecutive hours of Skyrim, I decided I needed to find a new activity to pass the hours.  I grabbed my Nook (The official tablet of the SEGA Kid) and started plowing through books.  So here we have my top 5 all-time favorite books.

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Hello loyal OLers.  It’s time for another obligatory musical High 5.  As I’ve admitted in the past, I know nothing of music despite actually being able to play a few instruments (besides the skin flute).  Today we’re looking back at yesteryear towards a magical time known as the ‘80s.  It was an amazing time to be alive.  MTV played music videos, Saturday mornings were filled with quality cartoons, and Han still shot first.  Also our rock was filled with hair.  The bad boy image was all the rage.  However, beyond that tough exterior our rockers wanted us to know they had feelings and shit.  So here we go; my top 5 ballads by ‘80s hair metal bands.  [Note: While some of the songs may have been recorded outside of the 80s, the bands themselves existed as hair bands in the 80s]

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Happy 4^th of July everyone.  Today we Americans get to celebrate the birth of our country by eating too much, drinking copious amounts of booze, and then when we’re just about to pass out, play with explosives.  Take that Belarus!  In your face Mongolia!  Catch you on the flip side Latveria!  Since we all love freedom so much, let’s take this opportunity to actually recognize what we have.  This week’s High 5 will take a look at what the world would look like with either too much control, or not enough control.  There are some movies that tackle the subject quite well.  So let’s hear it for the dystopias!

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I’m glad this is going up in between lunch and dinner.  I have enough time to make you sad at what you had for lunch, but give you enough time to change your dinner plans.  I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while now, so here goes.  Do you ever wonder what your last meal will be?  I do.  Be it the last meal before I am executed for the public and brutal execution of Michael Bay, passing away in the night at the age of 90, or trading in this fleshy meat bag for a robot body that no longer need food.  So if my last meal was any of these, I’d be happy.

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I recently borrowed the Assassin’s Creed series from a friend.  As I completed AC2 and moved on to Brotherhood I got to thinking; damn this series has a lot of sequels.  So then I started thinking about series that were not as flushed out, or even independent IPs that could use a little more love.  So here you have it, if I was overlord of the world, these would be the video game sequels that I would demand be made.  (Requirements being that a game using the IP does not exist on the current level of home consoles)

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Thanks to the work of most of the OL community, I walked out of Prometheus yesterday not nearly as disappointed as I probably should have.  I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t like.  I would probably watch it again if it was on TV or at a friend hosted movie night.  I won’t go out of my way to see it however.  That train of thought got me thinking though.  A while back I posted a High 5 that involved movies that other people like and I hated.  What about the movies I love but know suck?  Well, here they are.  Feel free to add your own, or make fun of me for liking these shit stains on celluloid.

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