It feels like Mad Men has been off the air for fucking ever, thanks to arguments and slap-fights and contractual wrangling between series creator Matthew Weiner and AMC. The good news is that when the son of a bitch returns, it’ll be at a slightly extended running time.

Awesome.

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There’s a point where you need to begin to learn to laugh at the travesties. This video infuses classic movies with the horrendous Darth Vader “Nooooo!” which once was only in Ep. III but has since infiltrated The Trilogy.

It’s good shit.

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Marvel’s dropped a new teaser for the awkward, awfully named Fear Itself: The Fearless. Like, really? Clunky a-go-go. Brakes! I’m pumping them. It’s also written by Matt Fraction, and it has Valkyrie wanting to cut down the FF to save the world.

Hit the jump for the teaser.

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Well here’s an arms race I’m okay with. Just after Marvel added a multiethnic Spider-Man to their (Ultimate) universe, DC is adding  Miguel Jose Barragan to the relaunched Teen Titans. Barragan is openly gay, and according to his creators is much more comfortable with his sexuality than the other gay and lesbian characters of the DCU.

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Everyone’s still pissed off about Netflix and its pricing changes, to the tune of a million people leaving the service. Today there’s some more glorious over-complication. Netflix is splitting their DVD service and their streaming service into two distinct companies. And if you want to know which one Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings thinks is going to last, you only need to see which service kept the Netflix name.

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The Tokyo Game Show got itself a ‘new’ BioShock Infinite trailer that interweaves pure gaming porn with footage we’ve seen before and ladles on top of it some new segments. I need this game. What are you waiting for?

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Peter Dinklage is so excellent in his portrayal of Tyrion on Game of Thrones that I usually take him for granted. Oh another excellent performance. Yawn! But he fucking owns  as the Imp. Owns!  And while I usually don’t give a fuck about awards shows, for some reason I take a good gleam to the news that Dinklage has cleaned up with an Emmy.

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[Caffeine Note: Friend of the Brothers Omega Budrickton is a scholar, gentleman, and frequenter of conventions. He wanted a venue to share his thoughts and but of course we obliged. Hug him and give him a mug of your freshest mead.]

The young nerd’s life is often an unforgiving enterprise. Their trading-card-trading, Pokémon-playing, perpetually chunky and uncoordinated elementary years are just the beginning of a number of roads, many of which run off the edge of a cliff, socially speaking.

These rocky starts for my brethren are usually followed up with a high school life of true class; basement-dwelling, Han-shot-first, ‘virgin-forever’ years function as a training ground for learning how to work an innate and exuberant nerdiness into daily life, and possibly, actually interact with ordinary people!

There’s hope in these years; nerds either abandon their ways in pursuit of socializing, underage drinking, and the holy grail:  losing your virginity before age 18. Or, they go full throttle, and become what they were always destined to be at the place where all nerds unite:

The Con.

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This video is pure space porn. Time-lapse video of the International Space Station bombing over the surface of the Earth.

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You know the story. Marvel killed off Peter Parker, and replaced him with a half-Latino, half-Black character named Miles Morales. Divisive as fuck. Forced some claim, excellent others exclaim. This week the first issue dropped with him in it, and the question quickly shifted to: is this fucking comic good?

The answer for me? Absolutely.

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