Domino’s Is Bringing Back The ‘Noid’ For A Week. Nostalgic Arousal Inc.
Showing my age here. Domino’s had a mascot way back in the day called the Noid. I remember this because I was little and he was something of an animated clay homunculus who sold my young brain on the idea of eating pizza. As well, I played a good amount of ‘Yo Noid!’, the video game based off of him by Capcom. By fucking Capcom. This week the Noid is back, and so is a video game featuring him. It’s all on Domino’s Facebook page, and my nostalgia is bringing me into a weepy state.
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Saved By The Bell: The Video Game? Zack Morris Goes ‘Earthbound’.
Saved By The Bell taught me a lot of things in life. Namely that life is perfect if you’re a wily high school student named Zack Morris, capable of synthesizing a Breakfast Club-esque allotment of dorks, jocks, nerds, and jocks. How did that actual alchemy occur? This imagined Saved By The Bell video game takes a stab at simulating it.
Anonymous Hacks Syria’s Ministry of Defense Website.
Earlier today the Syrian Ministry of Defense’s website displayed a message from Anonymous. Perhaps I don’t follow the hacktivist group closely enough, but this seems like their most bold move yet. It’s one thing to mess with a corporation, but I can’t imagine the stupidity/balls to bring down a government website and replace it with a rambling regarding tyranny.
Face of a Franchise: Sabbath’s Shepherd
[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]
If you fancy heavy metal, chances are that you probably like Black Sabbath. While crafting some of metal’s most recognizable tunes, England’s metal pioneers also established many of the genre’s time-tested motifs – an affinity for the occult, dark fantasies realized, and the systemic abuse by those in positions of power. Also, Tony Iommi proved that you don’t need fingertips to shred.
In short, Black Sabbath kicks ass.
But this begs the question – which Sabbath singer reigns supreme?
For the band’s first eleven years, Ozzy Osbourne fronted Black Sabbath. Before becoming a whack-job reality-television pawn of his evil wife, Ozzy was a metal-messiah. The dude crooned his way onto Sabbath’s seminal records, got booted from the band, and then continued setting dangerous precedents in a solo career that helped push Randy Rhoads into infamous realms. Although he’s a self-parody now, there’s no denyin’ that Ozzy is an icon inside and outside of the metal-world.
After Ozzy was ousted, Ronnie James Dio was brought into the fold and sang on the next two Sabbath albums, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules (he also rejoined the group for 1992’s Dehumanizer). While Dio isn’t as well-known as Ozzy in the world of pop-culture, true metal-maniacs know of his glory. Between stints in Rainbow, Elf, Black Sabbath, and his eponymous group, Dio carved a name for himself in metal history. And hell, his inclusion in Heaven and Hell pretty much confirmed that Iommi’d rather work with him than Ozzy.
Which sucks, cause Dio passed away in 2010.
So, who do you prefer – Ozzy or Dio? Is Ozzy the better frontman but Dio the better singer? Does Dio get points for popularizing the horns? Who has the better solo career? Let’s see where the dust settles on this one!
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.
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!
