Sony announces “PROJECT MORPHEUS” VR Headset.
Sony has revealed their VR headset, dubbed “Project Morpheus.” Maybe I’m just old and showing my age, but I don’t really get up for this. If sitting in front of a video game isn’t already a Dystopia Made Real, completely detaching from others in your own house and rummaging around a virtual world seems a final consummation. On the other hand though, gimme the Black Sun from Snow Crash (my usual refrain).
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OL TRANSMISSION RECONNECT: Speed Run Of Your Lives
Hello slime, I have missed you. Two days in the gorgeous, but insanely backwards state of Florida has given way to a return to the Space-Ship proper. I’m sitting in the Space Hub, paying $3000 space-cubits per minute to type up this bad boy before departure. Instead of trying to cover everything upon return, here’s a fucking rundown of all the dope stuff I’ve noted whilst away from my terminal.
Read all this dope shit, and then hit the comments with your own…commentary? Clearly the sun has done nothing to help my tattered remains of lucidity.
OMEGA-CAST #10: Crumb-Dog Zillionaires
Double-digits, suckahs!
All y’all haters never thought we’d make it to ten podcasts! And y’know what, I don’t blame you! The fact that Riff Simian has yet to give me a lethal uppercut? The idea that Caffeine Powered hasn’t Diet Mountain Dew’d himself into a cardiac event? The notion that Patrick Bateman’s mobility scooter hasn’t collapsed under his weight?
Miracles. Goddamn miracles. Each and every one of `em.
So cue up our newest mini-miracle and laugh at our mental illnesses. That’s right, this is basically a digital journey into an insane asylum. This podcast’s topics are variegated in the least cohesive sense of the term, with grown men discussing the fourth dimension and Lex Luger and Caff-Pow’s first moment of post-pubescent self-awareness and movies and television.
Oh, we also make video game noises and dramatically read vulgar fiction.
Monday Morning Commute: The Hero We Need.
Life is tricky and heroes help out.
There’s no doubt that there’re plenty of problems to be had. Even the strongest amongst us is still, ultimately, an insatiable consciousness traveling in a meek meat-vehicle. While many are bound to experience transcendence at some point, all must deal with turmoil. Hell, dealing with bullshit might be the very yarn woven throughout the entire fabric of the human experience.
“We are all bitched from the start,” Hemingway once wrote.
Luckily, the variety of problems running amok is matched by an equally impressive assortment of heroes. There’re all different sortss, some real and some fictional and others somewhere in between. What do they do? Well, right now they’re at work doin’ medical research and teachin’ guitar and writin’ plays and demonstratin’ the high-jump and makin’ pots of coffee and intermediatin’ conflicts and givin’ earnest advice and huggin’ it out. So if it seems like shit’s gettin’ mad-daunting, keep your eye out for a hero.
In the same letter mentioned above, Hemingway instructed his friend to “Forget your personal tragedy.”
That friend was F. Scott Fitzgerald.
My hero du jour? Michael Keaton. As a self-diagnosed maniac (diagnose yourself otherwise the man with the clipboard will tell you what you are), I need my inspiration to come from superheroes and ghouls and Tarantino characters. So, Keaton’s pretty perfect.
Us maniacs, we need Michael Keaton.
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Welcome to the MMC. I’m goin’ to show you some stuff I’ll be doin’ this week. Check it out and then hit up the comments section and describe what you’ll be rockin’ in the upcoming days.
‘BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT’ SCREENS: Gotham Never Looked So Good
Sorry to all my plebeian friends who ain’t into the next-gen game. You see, I’m fucking stoked that the new Batty installment is only for the new consoles, and I sadly don’t care who that cuts out. ‘Cause focusing on the highest tech (that would have sounded so cool in 1997) has the fucking visuals BOOMING. (This never sounded cool.)
Hit the jump for all the screens.
Maybe: Fox looking to replace ‘FANTASTIC FOUR’ director, script, cast. Five months before shooting.
If this ain’t a mess for a Marvel flick happening outside of its Studios Umbrella. Word on the street (or at least the Internet street, which is rife with homeless people, semen-filled syringes, and speculation) is that Fox is actively looking to dump pretty much everything related to its Fantastic Four flick.
‘EPISODE VII’ News: Lupita Nyong’o up for a role!
I’ll cop to it. I haven’t seen 12 Years A Slave yet. So I don’t know first-hand how good of an actress Lupita Nyong’o happens to be. However, I do know what she won a fucking Oscar, and multiple friends are enamored with her. So I’m more than happy to justify my excitement at her joining the cast of Episode VII (potentially) with those two reasons.
GAME DEVELOPER SUPERGROUP teases ‘FIREWATCH.’
There ain’t enough game developer supergroups. Probably because like ever game costs three-zillion dollars, and most developers are caged away at their respective companies. However, Camp Santo definitely is one. And their first game has been teased Just a lil’ taste. A sniff. A glance.
IRONY: George Lucas tells filmmakers, “DON’T GET ENAMORED WITH TECHNOLOGY.”
Ah. As if we needed more proof that George Lucas has absolutely no self-awareness. The former Czar of Star Wars was speaking at USC School of Cinematic Arts this week, and he launched into a hilarious assault. On himself. Without realizing it.
‘X-MEN: APOCALYPSE’ Details: 1980’s Period Piece, TONS OF DESTRUCTION.
So X-Men: Apocalypse is going to be a 1980’s period piece? Maybe it’s because it’s the Friday before Spring Break, but I can’t muster up my usual contempt for Singer. It’s not there. I’m surfing a Sudafed/Monster Energy buzz that is glazed over with a healthy slathering of contentment. So I’ll say this: I hope it’s good. There. (But it won’t be because Singer is a hack and the X-Universe is a mess.)
