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Fig, the crowdfunding solution for game developers that allows for reward-based funding alongside equity investment, will partner with Harmonix to bring an upcoming title to market. In a press release issued today, Fig also said that Harmonix's chief creative officer, Alex Rigopulos, will join the advisory board.

Rigopulos joins Feargus Urquhart (Obsidian Entertainment), Brian Fargo (inXile Entertainment) and Tim Schafer (Double Fine) on the advisory board. The four men will be responsible for vetting projects and teams before they are invited to launch on Fig. Additionally, they will counsel and mentor developers before, during and after the crowdfunding process. All four independent companies have also vowed to launch new games...

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This padlock is made from transparent material so you can easily learn to pick locks.

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Somebody buy this for me. I have a bad habit of obsessing over weird skills for like a month at a time and then moving on and I think lock picking should be next

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Avoid Humans is a new web app that helps users avoid other people using Foursquare and Instagram check-in data to identify crowded places. The app puts locations into nightlife, food, coffee, and refuge categories and uses simple icons to show how crowded a place is.

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One Psychic TV show wasn't enough for Los Angeles! The band already has SOLD OUT their first all-ages show at Teragram Ballroom on Monday, September 21, so Psychic TV has added a second 21+ headlining date at the Complex in...

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EYE ON SPRINGFIELD: An Artistic Tribute to The Simpsons

For one night only, artists and fans of The Simpsons will party like kings! Damn hell ass kings!

This Fall, curators Julia Prescott and Nico Colaleo invite you to bask in an entire art gallery themed around America’s favorite family, THE SIMPSONS. In celebration of the show’s impossibly long-running legacy, artwork from over 80 Los Angeles artists will be featured – including work from past and present Simpsons crew members!

Don’t be a dorkus malorkus – Run down to the Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles) for the gallery’s opening reception on Friday, September 25th 2015! With plenty of Springfield-themed entertainment, decor, surprises, and photo opportunities, it’ll be a shin-diddily-dig that even your surliest neighborinos will enjoy. So grab a Flaming Moe and prove you CAN win friends with salad, because this is one evening that’ll make you say, “Everything’s coming up Milhouse!” (BRING MONEY.)

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Kelsy Abbott, Annisa Adjani, Aaron Alexovich, Benjamin Anders, Ashlyn Anstee, Atomikitty, Eric Bauza, Jessica Borutski, Matt Brailey, Tony Christopherson, Daisy Church, Nico Colaleo, Victor Courtright, Cheyenne Curtis, Mike Dougherty, Julianne Eckert, Kelly Eden, Jenny Fine, Phylicia Fuentes, Jennifer Gheduzzi, Dean Heezen, Mike Hollingsworth, Robert Iza, Molly Bates Johnson, Josh Karp, Matt Kiel, Sam King, Natasha Kline, Dave Kloc, L.M. Knight, Danielle N. Kramer, Kate Laird, Jess Lane, Kevin Sukho Lee, Frank Macchia, Kathryn Marusik, Mike Mayfield, Erin McGathy, Zoë Moss, Adam Murray, Megan Nairn, Damon O’Keefe, Kent Osborne, Erika Paget, Hannah Nance Partlow, Sara Pocock, Jeremy Polgar, Julia Prescott, Kati Prescott, Ryan Quincy, David Reilly, Sandra Rivas, Willy Roberts, Deanna Rooney, Austin Salmi, Stephen Sandoval, Kevyn Schmidt, Matt Taylor, Steven Theis, Ashley Thorburn, Arica Tuesday, Maria Vitan, Jessica Wills

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The Jacks by Sculpy, are very cleverly designed scented candles that look like they’re crying when lit inside their decorative bases. The current offerings are black or white skull bases with brain-shaped candles, rabbit bases with accompanying ears and deers with antlers. According to the founders, the project came about accidentally.

One of our sculpting member’s hobby is to make useless things with 3D printer. One day he realized that he had no ashtray so he created a skull looking ashtray for his cigarettes, and Sophie lit a candle in it.And then an idea came up…We thought it was fun to depict a dripping of wax as a tear flowing from the skull.
By adding diverse product lines we have created our first The Jacks candle series.

Sculpy is currently raising funds through Kickstarter to bring The Jacks to market.

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Director Alex Gibney's choice to follow this spring's Scientology slam Going Clear with the fascinating portrait Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine might seem like an about-face. The first documentary clinically eviscerated a religion that everyone loves to loathe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, is adulated to an incredible...

When investors call United Bread and Pastry owner Andrea DeGuzman about buying her highly sought-after property on Griffith Park Boulevard near the intersection of Sunset in Silver Lake, she keeps the conversation short.  “I am not planning to sell, so please take me off your list,” she tells them. “Please...

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Let me be the first to admit that when I first heard about it, I thought Fear The Walking Dead was a misguided, ill-conceived idea. With five seasons under its belt and years of comic book storylines ahead, The Walking Dead shows no signs of slowing down; and the prospect of saturating the market with even more zombie-killing action in the form of a spinoff series seemed as though it would dilute the brand and be a cheap cash-grab. This is to say nothing of the fact that it is a prequel series, a phrase which generally sends a disgusted shiver up my spine. Let me also be the first to admit how deeply wrong I was. Not only is Fear The Walking Dead expertly paced and well-acted, but it toys with viewer expectation and anticipations in clever ways that make for a frightfully fun and compelling debut episode that follows a fractured family of four walking headlong towards certain disaster. If the rest of the series can live up to the example set by the first episode, then Fear The Walking Dead not only has the potential to live up to its namesake, but to surpass it in terms of sheer enjoyment. And this is coming from a diehard, dyed-in-the-wool The Walking Dead fan.

From the very first moments of the episode, Fear The Walking Dead toys with the viewer, taking us through the heroin-fueled fever dream of a junkie staggering through an abandoned church-turned-flophouse. A hazy tension permeates the opening sequence as we follow a strung-out young man wandering through the church, looking for his friends who have seemingly disappeared. What he finds, however, is the worst trip of his life — one of his friends is hunched over another, seemingly eating the flesh from his bones. Whether it is a bad reaction to the heroin coursing through his veins or something far more sinister, he isn’t about to stay and find out. Rushing outside, he sprints across the asphalt of the Los Angeles streets, blindly running away from the monstrosity he saw in the church. Suddenly and without warning, the junkie is hit by a car, sending him careening through the air. As he lies broken and bloody on the ground, the camera pans up to reveal not a zombie apocalypse tearing a city apart, but the bustling area known as Sunset Junction, a tiny hipster haven nestled in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. (Coincidentally, it is also two blocks from my apartment.)

What makes the above sequence work so well is the way in which it manipulates viewer expectation for dramatic effect. This is a narrative trick that Fear The Walking Dead employs countless times throughout its debut episode, using the tense, uncomfortable anticipation of zombie attack to unleash completely unrelated horrors (e.g. the car) or simply pull the rug out from under us with ultimately innocuous reveals (e.g. the high school principal hunched over the P.A. system). It is precisely because of The Walking Dead‘s pedigree and viewers’ familiarity with its many tropes and conceits that Fear The Walking Dead is able to subvert them in such exciting and entertaining ways. As a viewer well versed in Robert Kirkman’s nightmarish world, I am sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting in increasing discomfort and impatience as I wait for a walker to jump out from around the corner. But then it doesn’t happen…and it doesn’t happen…and it still doesn’t happen, until I realize that is where the show’s power lies. When our heroes finally encounter their first walker, it is a moment of both uncertain terror and tremendous relief; once again all is right with the world as the world begins is devolution into a hellscape overrun by flesh-eating monsters.

Yet apart from the ways in which Fear The Walking Dead parlays the success of its parent series into pulling continual fast ones on its viewers, it is the cast of characters that makes this series stand out from the crowd. When we next see the junkie, his family is surrounding him as he rests in the hospital. We learn that his name is Nick (played with a nervous, sickly aplomb by Frank Dillane), he is a teenage college dropout, and this is far from the first time his narcotics-related exploits have led him to a hospital bed. Standing around him are his mother, Madison Clark (Kim Dickens), a high school counselor who can’t seem to fix her own family; his mom’s boyfriend Travis (Cliff Curtis) an English teacher at the same high school; and his teenage sister Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), who is smart, ambitious, and more interested in being with her slightly older boyfriend than dealing with her ongoing family drama.

Much of the episode revolves around Nick’s hospitalization and the fact that he has seemingly relapsed once again — something which disheartens his mother, concerns Travis, and frustrates an increasingly cynical Alicia. Though this storyline may play out a bit too much like a D.A.R.E. presentation on the perils of drug abuse for some, it rang true for me, immediately creating tangible relationships and a sense of stakes between our protagonists. With Nick serving as the Unreliable Narrator, uncertain of what he witnessed in his drug-induced haze, the rest of the family remains blissfully unaware of the danger about to overtake the city. Paranoia is still wracking the city, though; an increasing amount of students are staying home sick, and a lone motorist attacks the police on a freeway off-ramp, seemingly immune to the barrage of bullets with which he is riddled. It speaks to what will be one of the larger themes of the season: seeing how a bustling metropolis reacts to an extinction-level event like a zombie apocalypse. We get the barest of glimpses in this first episode, we know that this is just the tip of the iceberg and it will be a fascinating metamorphosis to watch.

That isn’t to say that the episode is without its problems. While I appreciated the slow burn nature of the episode, I can easily see how it will turn off some viewers who tuned in expecting more in the way of walker-slayin’ mayhem. Likewise, after Nick winds up having to murder his former friend, only to have him come back from the dead, the Clark family seems far too calm about everything that just happened. Perhaps it’s shock, but it seemed at odds with what was an otherwise largely grounded hour of television. In spite of these minor gripes, this was a terrific debut for a series that I had all but written off. I still hate the title, but I am willing to overlook that questionable bit of nomenclature of the remaining five episodes in season one are anywhere near as good as the pilot was.

Burrito Rating: 4 out of 5 pre-apocalyptic burritos

What did you think of Fear The Walking Dead‘s pilot episode? Share your thoughts and your theories in the comments below. Be sure to stay tuned to tomorrow’s Nerdist News for more in-depth analysis on Fear The Walking Dead.

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Dan Casey is the senior editor of Nerdist and the author of 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. You can follow him on Twitter (@Osteoferocious).

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Whoa, now that’s a thigh gap! Thanks, Raquel, for spotting this hilarious disaster on her new package of undies.

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Today CD Projekt Red studio head Adam Badowski announced their latest game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has sold more than 6 million copies. It's a landmark number for the studio, and for the Polish games industry in general.

"We’ve been hard at work delivering you new content, fixing what needed to be fixed, and secretly plotting how to rock this boat we call the RPG genre even more," wrote Badowski today in a press release. "Yes, six million copies is a great achievement for a company making RPGs, but this business is not only about that. If our games are a gallery of sound, picture and text — you are the visitors of this gallery. To an artist, there’s no sweeter sight than people enjoying their work. That’s why, in the name of all the...

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Sweet Peas in bloom on Poppy’s head.

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Charlie Murphy of Ireland came across this shopping cart filled with rubber ducks (or maybe geese, or some other kind of waterfowl). Squeezing just one duck produces a toy horn sound, but smooshing down on a bunch of them at once produces a blood-curdling scream you'd expect from the Sixth Trumpet in the Book of Revelation.

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Get ready for mile-high zombies

AMC reportedly has plans for a new 30-minute online special that will feature a Walking Dead first: a zombie attack on an airplane.

Installments of the full special will air during Walking Dead commercial breaks during the upcoming Season 6, which starts in October and introduce a character that will be featured on Fear the Walking Dead Season 2.

EW first reported the news.

The special, which will be a standalone, will be set in the pre-apocalypse period, similar to what is currently being portrayed in Season 1 of Fear Read more...

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