BREAKING BAD: Thirty-Eight Snub
The day after Walter, Jesse, and Mike watched the life bleed out of Victor finds them trying to get their shit together. Walter, who is 100 percent certain Gus is going to kill him, tries to be proactive and buys a gun. Mike goes to a bar and blurs the memory with booze. Jesse moves back into his old place with the gaudiest stereo on earth. Gus decides it’s best to not hang around the lab anymore. He was checkmated by Walter and Jesse shot his hopeful chemist, Gale. Probably a good idea to let those boys cool off and get back to work.
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Monday Morning Commute: Livin’ for Sprayin’
Hello.
My name is Rendar Frankenstein and I’m the host of the soiree that is the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! At the beginning of every workweek, I take off my conformity-jacket so that you can peek at the heart on my sleeve. But the Hypernerd Realm is far too vast for one man to map on his own, so I’m going to need a little help. After you check out my methods of leveling-up, hit up the comments section and share yours.
This is about sharing ideas, the most human activity of all.
So let’s dance, you grubby fucks.
BioWare Wants You To Vote For The Default FemShep, Here Are The Choices.
After a (rightful) outcry by female gamers and fans of gamin’ equality about the lack of a FemShep in any promotional materials for any of the Mass Effect games, BioWare announced they’d be giving a default FemShep some love on the collector’s edition for the third game. They’re also giving the community the chance to vote on which one will be the default FemSheppy.
Hit the jump for the choices.
One Black Hole Contains 140 Trillion Times the Water On Earth. What A Hog.
There’s a black hole out there a mere 12 billion light-years away that contains 140 trillion times the water on Earth. Son of a bitch is hogging all those resources and here we are feeling guilty for peeing in the ocean and running our showers too long. Greedy piece of space shit.
Full Concept Art Poster For ‘The Avengers’, Groin Swell Assemble!
As you probably already know, Marvel released a bunch of concept art this weekend for The Avengers flick, which culminates in a pretty righteous looking panorama. Should you have been daft enough to miss it, hit the jump to check it out, as well as the individual pieces.
Review – Bastion (XBLA)
Stories are wonderful, aren’t they? Especially when the storytellers get it right: weaving tales of intrigue, fantasy and human nature. If it weren’t for our ability to tell stories, then we would know hardly anything about ourselves. Bastion is a game that knows this all too well: building on narrative foundations rather than mechanical ones. This isn’t a story within a game, so much as it is a game within a story.
DEFEAT. 041 – Second Wind 1970
[DEFEAT. is a coming-of-death novella. every week a new episode pops up, accompanied by full art by Brian Galiano. for fans of science fiction, fantasy, video games, comics, war epics, and feats of triumph]
Bursting into tears, the girl ran into her father’s open arms. She was seven years old and learning about the unfortunate end of life. Death. She was learning what it felt like to watch a loved one succumb, to fall victim to the force by which we are all eventually swept away.
He wasn’t her brother. But he sure felt like it, having been there for the duration of her entire short existence. From the very first day Betty brought her home from the hospital, the seven-year-old had been loved and protected by this surrogate-sibling. And now she had to watch as he withered away into nothing.
Nothing living, anyway.
“Daddy, why is this happening? It isn’t fair! I don’t want him to die!”
Stoically taking a rip from his pipe, the father looked at his only child. He was challenged in a way that was new and unnerving. Which was saying something, given the scope of his life experience.
He had survived war. He had moved to America with nothing and made something of himself. He had mastered the arena of political science, becoming the department head of a prestigious university.
And he had done all of this with self-assurance, an unwavering belief that the path he had chosen was the right one.
But now he wasn’t exactly sure what to do. He gently parted his lips, allowing for a light puff of tobacco smoke to billow upwards. The father savored the taste of the smoke and anticipated the rush from the nicotine. This was his ritual when preparing to do some heavy-duty–
“Daddy,” the daughter interrupted, “isn’t there anything we can do?!”
“I’m still doing zee heavy-duty thinking.” He hadn’t completely shaken his accent. Years later, when his daughter realized he had an accent, she’d find it endearing. But right now, she just wanted a solution to what had been described to her as an insolvable problem.
She had heard the word from all of them. Her mother. Her father. The doctor. They all had different ways of explaining what it meant. The maternal optimism that everything would be fine, despite what the word suggested. The paternal idea of confronting the inevitability of the word, becoming stronger in the process. The scientific defining of the word, plagiarized from a textbook. Yet, nothing curbed the inherent terror of the utterance.
Cancer.
Mic Check: One, Two. Mic Check: One, Two.
Hello faithful followers, stragglers, and those who have wandered into this Palace dedicated to Juvenile Behavior and Half-Cooked Intellectual Thought. Half-cooked is actually a bit of an exaggeration, but what will you have me say. I’m the proprietor of this joint. Like all those fucking restaurants – every fucking one of them – that claims to be World Famous.
I suppose in the sense that we exist, worlds within worlds.
Sam Witwicky: Greatest Hero of Our Time [Part 3]
(This is the final piece of a three-part analysis of the Transformers mythology. Warning: each article contains spoilers for the movie it covers.)
Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon: No Heroes Need Apply
After the events of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Sam, in true American style, returns to school to fulfill the college rite of passage, finishing what he started (and probably running up a six-figure debt in the process). Though a higher education is not necessary for a hero of his caliber, it can nevertheless be beneficial in this country, especially if Sam wants to get a good, steady job someday. It looks good on a resume, balancing out other accomplishments, like being the two-time savior of the world.
Sam Witwicky: Greatest Hero of Our Time [Part 2]
(This is the second piece of a three-part analysis of the Transformers mythology. Warning: each article contains spoilers for the movie it covers.)
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen: The Victory of Self-Knowledge
As the opposition, the Decepticons have a solemn duty to wage war against Autobots and the humans perpetually. If the chance to clash with the forces of good arises, then they must take it in spades; they must oppose. In Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, this predisposition is sustained. They are back, again searching for a tool that can help them bring about destruction. But this time, instead of a cube, it is a destructive force that is repackaged in the Matrix of Leadership. But, fascinatingly, this search has been going on for thousands of years, dating back to the earliest age in human history when an original Decepticon, named the Fallen, tried to harvest the sun (and, with it, destroy all life on earth) because he hated humans. Luckily, he was stopped by a group of Primes (the original leaders and distant ancestors of Optimus) in a way that only heroes can: they took the Matrix of Leadership and hid it by sacrificing themselves to cover up any trace of its whereabouts. No one, not even the modern-day Autobots, know of this incredible history linking Transformers and humans. It was knowledge that could only be intuited by heroes.
