AlecbuggI cannot WAIT for this release
EA just held their Star Wars Battlefront beta test period - and like all betas, it was a glorious mix of ridiculous awesome badass gameplay and insane WTF glitches, only made better by the fact that this is the first Battlefront game to grace the world in about a decade. And regardless of whether you experienced the madness of Hoth or missed it entirely, you'll appreciate these 12 GIFs.
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AlecbuggStop Monopoly Now. Before someone gets hurt.
AlecbuggGo get em Jaeden
Variety is reporting that Jacob Tremblay and Jaeden Lieberher (Masters Of Sex and St. Vincent, respectively) have joined The Book Of Henry, a movie that we don’t know anything about. We imagine they’ll be playing two young kids who are possibly friends with Henry and are interested in reading his book. Or maybe one of them is Henry and the other one is the book? Sorry, we really have no clue. Maybe there isn’t even a guy named Henry in it, and maybe there’s also no physical book. If you do know, please tell us in the comments or send us an e-mail or whatever, because this is really frustrating.
We know newly minted Star Warrior Colin Trevorrow will be directing it, and it might star Naomi Watts, but that’s it. Maybe these kids are playing lizard creatures who live underneath a futuristic city where ...
AlecbuggWHERE THE BITCHES AT
Not tired of these yet
AlecbuggAgreed!
I won’t even be able to handle all the feels when Chase Utley steps to the plate for his first at-bat against Jake Arrieta when they inevitably meet in the NLCS, because there’s a new bae in my shed, and this one has perfect beard.
I watched about 20 innings of baseball this year– nine at the one Phillies game I went to, the last three of Cole Hamels’ no-hitter (Arrieta’s last loss, by the way), six in the All-Star game. What’s that, 18? Two by accident. And, highlights of his no-hitter and mustache onesie notwithstanding, none of them included Jake Arrieta– Cubs ace, beardsman, and my new favorite player.
It took until only about the third inning last night – Arrieta’s complete game shutout of the Pirates – to be won over. His mound demeanor can only be described as Cliff Lee meets Drogo meets a wry-witted bull:
My right nipple comes out of my tank top almost every pitch, so I place it back inside. https://t.co/7hXWtKwltE
— Jake Arrieta (@JArrieta34) October 8, 2015
If his stoic excellence wasn’t enough, surely the stare-down after he was plunked in retaliation for hitting two batters himself – which cleared the benches [video] – put it over the edge:
At this point, my wife and I had the following conversation:
Me: Do you think he’s good looking?
Wife: Maybe without the beard.
Me: WHAT?
Wife: I don’t know, the beard just makes him seem like, who is it, Paul Bunyan? Like he should have an ox.
Me: Yes. Yes, he should have an ox.
Is this post a bit gay? Yeah, maybe a little. But that’s fine. I’m man enough to say it. I’m married, Jake’s married…
Photo credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
Photo credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
… oh what he’s a family man, too?! Total package.
Related: Will Leitch, a Cardinals fan, swoons over Arrieta.
AlecbuggNo shit. 10 is in this?? I was hesitant...now I'm all in
This isn't the quirky, fast talking David Tennant fans remember from Doctor Who.
In the latest trailer for Netflix's Jessica Jones, the show's title character (played by Krysten Ritter) can be seen standing in her Alias Investigations office at 2:33 in the morning, putting up various photographs of what appear to be different crime scenes.
While she's tacking the photos up on her board, Tennant — who plays the villainous Kilgrave — delivers an incredibly creepy voiceover.
"Jessica," he starts, "I know your secrets. I know about your friends, about your gifts, Jones."
It ends with Tennant ominously declaring that he knows everything about the new superhero before Jones stomps out of the office, his face forming in the numerous...
AlecbuggUhhhh WANT
Everyone figured that the reason Sean Murray, director of the space-travel/exploration/combat game No Man's Sky, was announced as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was to give a launch date for the highly anticipated title. Nope. Colbert himself tried to cut to the chase in the first question, but got bupkis.
Doing a talk show with a game developer about an unreleased game is a lot less dynamic than doing a segment with an actor plugging an upcoming movie. Colbert still hangs in there, getting off a couple strong lines while still getting the bottom of what will — or should — make No Man's Sky unique, which is the application of big things like evolution and physics.
There is, at least, a demo beginning around 2:40,...
AlecbuggAwesome!
Although the fact that Peter Capaldi is playing Doctor Who’s 12th Doctor might imply there have only been 12 regenerations of the time-traveling alien, the show’s recent 50th Anniversary special added an unexpected twist: It turns out there was a hitherto unmentioned regeneration that existed between the Eighth and Ninth Doctor and participated so horrifically in the Time War that the Doctor decided he doesn’t really count. While John Hurt’s one and only appearance as the War Doctor was an odd little footnote in Doctor Who history, the actor will now be reprising his role in a new set of audio plays.
According to Digital Spy, Hurt will lend his voice to a new 12-part audio series from Big Finish Productions—the British company that has been producing semi-canonical Doctor Who audio adventures since 1999. While Big Finish has long featured actors from the “classic series ...
AlecbuggSpace!
Space fans, rejoice: today, just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions is now on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. There are some 8,400 photographs in all at a resolution of 1800 dpi, and they're sorted by the roll of film they were on. (more…)
AlecbuggOne of the Simpson's all-timers
The kids of Springfield Elementary have long been one of The Simpsons’ most fertile subgenres. Take some combination of Bart and Lisa, Nelson and Milhouse, Sheri and Terri, and Skinner and Krabappel, shake ‘em up, and good episodes come out. “Das Bus” may be one of the best examples—here, in the middle of the relatively uneven and clearly-declining ninth season, is an episode with some of the most memorable moments in the show’s entire run. The stars of Springfield Elementary are stranded on a desert island following a Model U.N. field trip gone wrong, and the kids re-enact Lord of the Flies.
So what is it about Springfield’s children that works so well? There are a few reasons that The Simpsons’ humor works brilliantly with its children. First of all, the show is built on bullshit—both in terms of producing it and calling it out ...
AlecbuggWhat a stupid, dumbass, waste of time. Of course he's a giants fan. Good luck with Shamu for the rest of your life
Man Builds Custom-Made Monopoly Board to Propose to His Girlfriend
That man has a lot of guts, assuming anyone will still love him halfway through a game of Monopoly.
AlecbuggYou had me at steampunk aesthetic
Zachary Thomas Dodson’s debut novel is an easy book to admire, but it’s a tougher one to love. Following in the tradition of postmodernist metallurges of form like Mark Z. Danielewski, he’s fashioned a text that opens up into a variety of structures, playful but precise, with sweeping shifts in typographical format and layout. It evinces a graphophile’s love for the written word, rendered in a series of seemingly mimeographed handmade letters. It shines as an avatar of a different kind of book, even as the heart of the story remains at arm’s length. All the dazzling visual tricks on display serve as armor hiding an undercooked emotional core, the depths of which the author hasn’t quite figured out how to plumb.
Bats Of The Republic: An Illuminated Novel (note that even the subtitle works overtime to set it aside from your “average” book ...
AlecbuggThese are pretty interesting.
To this day, the handsomely-named phallus lives on as drifting space trash -- a virtual monument to exactly what spending six months in a video game gets you.
For some, most of EVE Online seems as rousing as multiplayer Microsoft Excel, but the star-faring MMO's in-game hardware is still quite impressive to behold. Nothing in the game is so awe-inspiring as the mighty, mighty Titans. And while people do want to know everywhere they go, it's usually to better cower in fear of the gargantuan starships' literal Doomsday Weapons and massive support fleets. That, or to make like Dallas and cowboy up to bring down the monsters in glorious, suicidal battle. That's the kind of respect these big fish get now, in the very, very big pond that is EVE Online's single-server world. Now imagine what it must have been like when just one Titan existed in the entire game.
The Titan in question was dubbed Steve (what a great name) by its builder CYVOK, then-leader of then-powerhouse alliance Ascendant Frontier. Steve was an Avatar-class monster, with shape and girth enough to make Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer blush. It took six real-world months to build, and even then was completed before EVE developer CCP Games thought to implement its undocking process into the game. When construction was finished, some Icelandic intern must have spat coffee onto their CRT monitor while desperately trying to launch the ship manually (after verifying that Steve's conception was legit).
Being so expensive, Steve was mostly relegated to "deterrent" status in Ascendant Frontier's long-running conflict with the equally powerful Band of Brothers alliance. That is, until 60 unlucky seconds made sci-fi spreadsheet history. For reasons unknown, CYVOK logged out-of-game just minutes after taking young Steven out on a failed skirmish. No big deal, right? If he wasn't logged on, nobody could touch him or his 180-day bender boat. Except, that's not how it works in EVE Online. Stir up trouble, or wind up on the receiving end, and it's 15 minutes before you can exit safely; log off anyway, and the timer resets, except you're not there to protect your stuff. Yet that's exactly what CYVOK did, with only about a minute left on his original 15-minute window. Steve paid the price.
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AlecbuggHmmmmm
If you somehow missed Mad Max: Fury Road during its original run in theaters this summer, you’ll have a chance at redemption when it hits IMAX next week. ComingSoon reports that George Miller’s film will have a weeklong engagement on IMAX 3D screens beginning September 11. The film’s image and sound quality has been digitally remastered to meet IMAX standards, all the better to see and hear the Doof Warrior with. We know 3D screenings can be hit or miss (we’re looking at you, The Hobbit movies), but Fury Road’s many explosions and extended car chases make it a perfect candidate for that kind of in-your-face capability. But it seems the movie was edged out of IMAX screens by Avengers: Age Of Ultron when it was originally released domestically. Hey, at least Age Of Ultron delivered on the 3D goods, right? (Not really.)
AlecbuggSome hilarious bits in there
Honest Game Trailers is back to lay down some brutal truth on another sacred cow of video gaming and, yeah, they're right about Rocket League, especially the part about being offered free on PlayStation Network.
I, too, did not know this was a "series" until the game was offered free on PSN launched in July. The comparison to 8-year-olds playing soccer also is spot-on, though I confess, that is my M.O. when I play, too.
If you want some more useful advice on how to play Rocket League, see this how-to from Charlie Hall that's full of sound tips, tricks and fundamentals. Or if you just want to vent your frustration, replay the Honest Trailer above. Other big-timers getting skewered by the series include Minecraft, Counter-Strike, Heroes...
AlecbuggFind this trailer. Trust Me! London! the 60's! Gangsters! The 9th Doctor! Chaz Palminterri! Hitting Things! Throwing THings! Punching Things! LA Confidential! I AM ALL IN
