By Grabthar’s Hammer! Galaxy Quest, the genius, underrated and ahead of its time scifi comedy is being developed into a TV show by Amazon. There’s no word on what direction they’re going with it, but the creative team remains the same.
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28 Aug 21:47
Here's the Trailer for the Remastered Iron Giant For You to Cry At
by Katharine Trendacosta
DarendukesLove this movie.
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28 Aug 20:25
I Love These Goddamn Stock Video Baboons and So Will You
by Andy Cush
A solid meme for a Friday afternoon: Stock footage of baboons doing human things, paired with silly one-liner captions. They talk on the phone, they throw their computers, they gaze dewy-eyed into the distance and softly smack their lips in resignation. I love these goddamn baboons, and I can’t wait to share them with you.
19 Aug 00:51
This Cat Is Still Alive, Which Is Worth Acknowledging
by Kelly Conaboy
DarendukesJust turned 26 years old. Damn!
An old cat—can you imagine? Little glasses. Sitting in a chair while he reads a book. You see him in a bar having a drink by himself and it makes you sad for a minute, rudely—probably he isn’t even sad. Congratulations to Corduroy, the oldest living cat.
14 Aug 23:02
Chris Farley Is Still Getting The Last Laugh
by Leslie Horn on The Concourse, shared by Hudson Hongo to Gawker
DarendukesI want to see this documentary.
Trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dqwQ600J7g
There’s an obscure 1994 Saturday Night Live sketch called “Pepper Boy” that at least one friend of Chris Farley’s now uses to explain the late comedian’s incredible talent. He didn’t have a huge part in that episode—apparently, he was too busy filming Tommy Boy. The laughs in this particular bit were supposed to go to Adam Sandler’s hapless, overly sensual pepper-grinding waiter, but then Chris shows up with a ridiculously large beard, croaks out two quick lines with such a huge and perfect delivery that Sandler almost cracks, and steals the whole sketch. That’s the kind of performer he was: powerful, committed, and the center of attention even when he wasn’t trying to be.
10 Aug 19:19
“The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its
by Hudson Hongo
DarendukesSeriously? You set your entire country's time back to 30 mins behind Japan & South Korea? Why?
“The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land with 5,000 year-long history and culture,” said North Korean state news on Friday, announcing the country’s new “Pyongyang time” zone.
07 Aug 20:34
Someone Actually Played Through All of Fallout 3 As A Baby
by Patricia Hernandez
Years ago, Fallout fans discovered that it was possible to escape the opening area of Fallout 3 at the start of the game, thus allowing players to go through a game as a baby. It was a fun trick, sure, but it seemed untenable for an entire game...until now.
05 Aug 22:25
Good God, David Lynch Can Even Make the Alphabet Terrifying
by Lauren Davis
Long before he was bending our brains with feature films like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, David Lynch made short films, which, in true Lynchian fashion, often turned the mundane into the unnerving. In 1968, Lynch released The Alphabet, a film that makes learning your letters nightmarish.
05 Aug 21:36
How To Transfer Xbox 360 Saves to Xbox One
by Stephen Totilo
The belated introduction of backwards compatibility to the Xbox One won’t just allow you to play Xbox 360 games on Microsoft’s newer console. It’ll allow you to use your old save files, too.
To get that feature to work, you’ll have to transfer your 360 saves to the cloud. It’s easy, so long as so you still have access to those saves on an Xbox 360.
It’s also something more and more gamers will be doing as Xbox 360 classics including several remakes of Rare games and the entire slate of Gears of War games become available to play on Xbox One, with many more to follow when the feature launches for all Xbox One users in November .
A few preliminary things to note:
05 Aug 18:34
Lizard Man Is Back in South Carolina, and Looking Good
by Annalee Newitz on Gizmodo, shared by Katharine Trendacosta to io9
DarendukesThat suit.
Look at those abs! And those shining red eyes! The legendary swamp monster known as Lizard Man is back in his home town of Bishopville, South Carolina, and ABC News is on the case.
04 Aug 20:53
Nolan North replacing Peter Dinklage in Destiny
by Jordan Devore
DarendukesHuh?
Prolific voice actor Nolan North (Uncharted's Nathan Drake) is becoming the Ghost in Destiny, reports Game Informer. He'll voice the AI companion in The Taken King and, no joke, the original game too -- the dialogue is being re-recorded for consistency. Talk about the nuclear option.
"North echoes some of the cadences and quirks established by the character's original voice actor, but his line delivery is hard to immediately connect to his familiar heroic tone," according to the site.
If players end up disliking this new take on the character, Bungie can give Troy Baker a call next.
Goodbye Dinklebot: Destiny Recasts Its Most Important Character With Nolan North [Game Informer]
04 Aug 18:57
A New Documentary Shows How Gene Roddenberry Almost Killed Star Trek TNG
by Charlie Jane Anders on io9, shared by Rich Juzwiak to Gawker
DarendukesI need to watch this.
Former Star Trek star William Shatner has made a slew of Trek documentaries in recent years, so when I saw he had a new one about the first few years of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I wasn’t sure if it was worth watching. But it totally was.
04 Aug 18:10
Buzz Aldrin Proves the Federal Government Has A Form for Everything
by Kiona Smith-Strickland on Gizmodo, shared by Brendan O'Connor to Gawker
DarendukesThat is great.
This may be the only exciting piece of government paperwork you’ll ever read. Buzz Aldrin conquered Throwback Thursday forever last week when he shared his travel voucher from the Apollo 11 mission on Facebook and Twitter.
30 Jul 20:58
Guy Beats Ocarina of Time With DDR Pad
by Jason Schreier
You’ve probably seen people glitch the hell out of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and you may have seen people beat it with blindfolds on . But have you ever seen anyone beat it with a dancepad?
30 Jul 20:47
Sega's Transformers Arcade Game Is A Spinning Vortex Of Death
by Luke Plunkett
Transformers: Human Alliance was an OK arcade shooter that came out a couple of years ago . It was a pretty standard lightgun affair. This new special edition of the game, only available in Japanese arcades, is anything but standard.
30 Jul 20:43
Dying Light Is Getting A Big Expansion Pack With Cars
by Yannick LeJacq
DarendukesI really need to play this game more.
30 Jul 20:32
Pro Gaming League Will Drug Test Its Players
by Luke Plunkett
DarendukesShocking!!! Are they gonna test for RedBull and Doritos too?
In the wake of public admissions that a whole bunch of pro Counter-Strike players have been taking the ADHD drug Adderall , the ESL (Electronic Sports League) have announced plans to start drug testing their competitors.
30 Jul 20:15
Years Later, ZombiU Is Hitting PS4, Xbox One, And PC
by Patrick Klepek
DarendukesSo I bought and played this on the WiiU. It was a great game. And the whole no pausing while going through your backpack(inventory) made it more intense.
One complaint (kinda) was that when you actually died, you woke up as a new person in the safe house, would have to make it back to your old dead self, kill him/her, then recover your items from them. Hint: use the storage locker in the safehouse. I got more than halfway through it before I got distracted by something else.
10/10 would play.
Also, aiming the sniper rifles or crossbows using the WiiU Gamepad was pretty damn cool.
There have been rumors of Ubisoft porting the excellent Wii U launch title ZombiU to other platforms for a while, but now it’s official: Zombi (no more u!) arrives digitally on August 18.
29 Jul 21:43
Angry Birds Arcade Game Looks Pretty Cool
by Luke Plunkett
You might have seen some Angry Birds arcade machines before, but they’ve just been big-screen ports of the mobile game. There’s an official Angry Birds arcade game coming, and it looks a lot more fun than the Angry Birds you’ve played and are now ignoring steadfastly.
29 Jul 21:18
You Might (One Day) Be Able To Stream PC Games To An Xbox One
by Luke Plunkett
DarendukesI was unaware that Windows 10 included a feature to stream from an XboxOne to a PC. Kinda neat.
Microsoft’s Xbox boss Phil Spencer has told The Verge that the company is working on a way for users to be able to stream their PC games to an Xbox One console.
29 Jul 17:10
Zut Alors: Disneyland Paris Under Investigation for Overcharging Germans
by Gabrielle Bluestone
DarendukesShared just because of this:
"Under EU rules prices can be varied according to nationality if there are objective reasons, such as different market conditions, seasonal fluctuations in demand or different holiday periods."
Dude, the EU sucks.
The French can have a reputation for being, how do you say, less-than-hospitable to les foreigners. The French at Disneyland Paris are, authorities say, even worse: they’ve allegedly been charging foreigners as much as double the ticket price for the privilege of touring Cinderella’s chateau.
28 Jul 19:27
In Africa, Cats Are Riding Rhinos
by Wes Siler on Indefinitely Wild, shared by Ria Misra to io9
This is the first video ever capture of a cat riding a rhino. And man, it does not look like an easy ride. It’s basically a real life Timon and Pumbaa.
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28 Jul 18:29
Celebrate Bugs Bunny's 75th Birthday With This 1944 Short About 2000 AD
by Matt Novak on Paleofuture, shared by Cheryl Eddy to io9
DarendukesI used to watch these cartoons all the time.
Unofficially, Bugs Bunny turns 75 today. It’s unofficial because Warner Bros doesn’t recognize birthdays of fictional characters. But that’s no reason we can’t celebrate! And what better way than looking at Bugs Bunny predictions for the year 2000?
27 Jul 20:50
Fallout: New Vegas Mod Asks You To Survive A Hellish Icy Wasteland
by Patricia Hernandez
DarendukesEvery time I see a Fallout mod it makes me want to buy a Steam Machine.
That nuclear winter that everyone in Fallout wanted so badly? It’s coming, thanks to this awesome New Vegas mod.
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24 Jul 19:17
Fiancée: Dead Man With 1,200 Guns in Home Claimed to be Secret Agent
by Hudson Hongo
According to his partner of 17 years, a California man recently found decomposing in an SUV near his home containing over 1,200 guns claimed to be an undercover operative, the L.A. Times reports.http://gawker.com/cops-find-more...
21 Jul 22:13
Lucasfilm is Pissed About These Amy Schumer Star Wars Photos
by Germain Lussier on io9, shared by Brendan O'Connor to Gawker
Thursday afternoon, GQ Magazine revealed photos from their latest issue featuring Trainwreck star Amy Schumer in joking, sexual situations with Star Wars characters like C-3PO and R2-D2. Friday, Lucasfilm responded and not in kind.
16 Jul 18:21
Texas AG: County Clerks Can Defy "Lawless" Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
by Hudson Hongo
DarendukesWRONG.
On Sunday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a blistering condemnation of the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex marriage ruling , calling it “a lawless decision by an activist Court” and telling government officials they could refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on religious grounds.
15 Jul 17:22
XKCD Analyzes New Horizon’s Photo of Pluto
by Geeks are Sexy
[Source: XKCD]
The post XKCD Analyzes New Horizon’s Photo of Pluto appeared first on Geeks are Sexy Technology News.
10 Jul 18:32
Is This a Long-Lost Prototype of the "Nintendo PlayStation?"
by Jay Hathaway
At the summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1991, Sony announced that it was jumping into the video game hardware market for the first time, partnering with Nintendo to release something called a “PlayStation.” The device never made it to market—for reasons I’ll explain shortly—but someone on reddit may have come across a very rare prototype.
02 Jul 18:03
Danish Engineering Students Hard at Work Researching Facesitting Porn
by Jay Hathaway
Here’s an abstract from a student conference at the Technical University of Denmark, located just north of Copenhagen. As you can see, DTU students are full of ideas for sustainable ways to improve the campus, including fiber optic oh hey look that’s a link to a “facesitting” porn video.