White and Nerdy.

Freakin genius

Afro Samuria

Samuel L. Jackson is the voice. Just heard about this trailer looks good. Picture the brother from the boondocks comic as a samuria, need I say more...

Darth Calls the Emperor

Edit: added embedded link to a slightly less "German" web page ... :) - TMH

More Pure Liquid Awesome!

Man, I used to have dreams like this video after long days playing D&D in John Koeppel's basement. It's like the Ghosts of Childhood Past come back to haunt me ...

Cthulhuey Goodness

ehhh... is some lovecraftian nuttieness

The casting couch is open

tell your sisters/mothers/hot cousins/nieces...

Office Fight

If only offices were this fun.

'Cause all her shootin's be drive-bys ...

Woman in wheelchair on way to gun practice shoots mugger

You go, girl!

Y'know, Erik always did like this movie ...

... but I think this video might just ruin it for him.

NSFW, BTW.



And I still say that Francis was gay for Logan ...

Steve Irwin Dead at 44

In the unlikely event that no one has heard about this...

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Anthropologist and metal fan Sam Dunn's film about the history and culture of heavy metal. VH1, September 8th @8pm

Byakhee link added

I just added a link to the Byakhee Character Generator to the sidebar. I'm not a fan myself, preferring Metacreator, but you can't beat the price of Byakhee.

The baddest ass DVD player on the block

and it is mine... all mine.

I slapped a PAL region 2 disk into that bad mofo... played like it was your moms copy of "the sound of music".

Ow, my bleeding wallet!!!

Mongoose Publishing starts pre-painted mini's lines. Starting next year, Mongoose Publishing is planning on releasing both a modern armies miniature line and a re-launch of their Starship Troopers line ... both pre-painted and non-randomized! Man, between this and Slaughter Gulch I am going to be broke as a joke.

I know Mongoose has had a hell of a time with their printing schedules and rules sets, but I did like how they handled the Starship Troopers sculpts, so I have a feeling these will look good at the very least, and be ready for Savaging at the very worst.

I have a "metal math problem" to show you.

What do you get when you figure out this formula:

Iron Maiden + (Helloween - Gayness) * Queensryche?

Follow the link to find out.

(listen to Never Again)

My Job

Yep, sometimes it's like this.

"Why, Stevie?!? Why??"

Breaking News: Cows moo with an accent!

I find this story hilariously funny. All I have to think about is Canadian cows: "Like, moo, eh? Warm up your hands before you touch me, you hoser! Take off, I'm chewing my cud."

William Castle would be proud

Live Rattlesnakes Released In 'Snakes On A Plane' Theater

A couple of teen yahoos decided "wouldn't it be funny if" they released two live rattlesnakes into a theater showing "Snakes on a Plane". These are the future leaders of our country.

And as for SoaP, it wasn't terrible. Ok, yeah, it's a goofy movie, but there were some fun scenes, a couple of quality kills, two (big!) naked breasts, lotsa snake-fu, and Samuel L. Jackson trying to describe a snake over an airphone. "Well, it's kinda brown on top and green on the bottom ..." "Is it an iridescent green?" "No, more olive-y..."

I will say that they did do a bit of snake homework, even if it was only to Google "snake, venom, cure". Too bad they didn't do so much on airplanes ... haven't the writers ever heard of "Mythbusters"?

Just in time for the holidays!

So Mel gets this weird e-mail from one of her former bosses from Spenser's, Hollywood Tommy K. Turns out he went into business for himself and opened a year-round Halloween store over on Transit. Check out Rotten Jack's Creep Shack on-line. He's even carrying some of the Twilight Creations games, too ...

That Funky King of the Jews

Erik sent this out in an e-mail, but I thought posting it would be more appropriate ...

Updated Descent FAQ at FFG

Get a copy here. Some very interesting rules clarifications. To wit:

• The overlord player should start with 3 overlord cards and 0 threat tokens.
• Vitality potions should cost 50 coins, not 25 as listed on page 20 of the Quest Guide.
• Each hero may only drink 1 potion (of any type) each turn.
• The overlord can discard cards for threat tokens at any time, even during a hero player’s turn.
• Heroes can no longer immediately turn in a treasure card from a chest to receive its full value. Instead, they must carry the item back to town and sell it for half value in the town shop.
  
• Heroes can only buy treasure cards from the shop if they’ve previously opened at least one chest of that color this game.
• A hero may give any item to an adjacent hero at the cost of one movement point. A hero may never give money to another hero.
• [W]henever a hero receives an item from another player or from a chest, he may immediately equip that item, dropping or placing other items in his pack to free up the hands necessary for the just-received item.
• Monsters can end their movement on or be spawned on to unactivated glyphs, but cannot end their movement on or be spawned on to activated glyphs. If a monster is on an activated glyph, the overlord must move it off the glyph on his next turn. Monsters can always move through or attack into spaces containing glyphs. (Ed: No board lock-outs for you!)

There's some more interesting stuff, including the new diagrams for the Hell Hound's breath attack, that make it worth checking out. These are just the one's that caught my eye. Enjoy!

Leeroy Jenkins

For those not in the know:

My prayers have been answered.

Munchkin Cthulhu

Steve Jackson, you magnificent bastard. I love you.

If I were ever to get a tattoo ...

It would be something like this. Solid!

Midnight Chronicles

Well, this one came out of nowhere. Maybe we'll finally get a D&D movie that won't suck. It looks like something between a made for TV movie and a theatrical release. Sure, its cashing in on the Lord of the Rings movies, but its integrity that matters right now, I think.
If it does well and Fantasy Flight makes some cash I can't wait to see some new $120 board games. ;)

Cthulhu Circus

"Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in!"

Although typically my hat of CCG's know no limit, but this preview for the new World of Warcraft CCG has me interested again. Yes, it's a Leeroy Jenkins card. That's at least six flavors of awesome!

Headbangers Ball: The Revenge

I just got this double CD set.

2 and a half hours of metal nuttiness. There are a couple of weak tracks, but overall it is good stuff

Great Gift Ideas?

Maybe it's just because Fall is coming and Christmas isn't too far behind, but I'm seeing a bunch of great gift ideas this morning. Fr'instance, wouldn't you love your own stand-up arcade cabinet? With about 200 games, no less? Or how about some old school cartoon DVD's? The mind boggles ...

EDIT: and for those who don't think that Lazer Tag is EXTREEEME enough ...

From the "clueless fucks" file

CNN discovers (*gasp*) metalheads have a social conscience!

Well no shit. Here I sit listening to Metallica's "Leper Messiah", Iron Maiden's "Two Minutes to Midnight", and Megadeth's "Peace Sells ... but Who's Buying?" (all from, y'know, like, twenty years ago!), and wondering when metal is ever going to "grow up".

Bite me, fuckers.

go ahead...

tell me you dont get half a chub watching her sing this song ... go get some tissues while this video loads

Gentleman, may I have your attention

There is more to life than Metal and Movie Soundtracks

Here you go Fanboy

Something for the morning commute

George Noory of Coast to Coast AM (an Art Bell affiliate) talks with "Simon", the reported translator of the Necronomicon. Yeah, that guy. Debunking info can be found here, which is a pretty cool book, actually. It's over on my reference shelf, next to The Golden Dawn handbook, the 13 volume edition of The Golden Bough, and Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend.

Man, if I ever get raided, they're putting me away for life ... :D

UPDATE: on-line streaming and downloads are only available to paid subscribers. Bastards. Information wants to be free! :P

The Official Word on D&D 4.0 .. such as it is.

From a GenCon seminar hosted by WotC:

When asked about the rumors surrounding a coming 4th edition: "We find them very Funny.... WotC does like to hear about what fans want in a new edition as some of the items that are coming out this year are from what fans talked about online a few years ago. When WotC decides to announce the release of a 4th edition we will give trade partners and fans ample time to prepare."

Sounds like the rumors are unfounded ... B.D., you were right. There, I said it. :)

From a different post here:

[Kevin Wilson, D&D Associate Brand Manager] did confirm that there is no work being done in the development of a 4th edition that would force players to use miniatures to play the game. We also confirmed with WotC staff that, at this time, no 4th edition product will be in any Wizards of the Coast's product catalogs through 2007. This would seemingly put an actual product release sometime in 2008.

So I suppose I should break down and buy the damn 3.5 book already... :)

Comics, they sometimes speak the truth

Today's Sheldon cartoon should be of particular interest for our local World's Largest Ninja™ ...

"I think Peter Adkison has gone bye-bye, Egon."

This is either a brilliant example of promotion, or final proof that Peter Adkison has gone off the deep end. You be the judge.

Lucas approves 20-minute 'Star Wars'

George Lucas allows the Reduced Shakespeare Company to do a 20 minute version of Star Wars.

This ... is a very good thing. If you haven't seen the Reduced Shakespeare Company in action, they'd be well worth your time. We saw their first DVD, and I was in tears of laughter by the end of it. I can't wait to see what they do to Star Wars.

Y'know, I really didn't mind missing GenCon ...

Really, I didn't. Origins was a lot of fun this year, and way more convenient, and was a better size and closer and all that.

And then, I made the mistake of looking at this.

My kingdom for a Kari Byron autograph!!!

Have fun, John ... *grumble grumble fuss*

The Wilhelm Scream Compilation

I know I've passed this around before, but for posterity's sake ...

Heath Ledger is The Joker

Yup, Heath Ledger has been cast as the Joker in the next Batman movie. At first, I was like "what the hey?", but the picture below makes me think it might just work.

"We got muthafuckin' snakes on the plane!!"

Have Samuel L. Jackson call friends and family, and pimp Snakes on a Plane to them.

I know it's viral marketing, but c'mon ... it's Samuel L. Jackson!!!

"Ze goggles, they do NOZZING!!!"

A gang of Web lusers makes a video about net neutrality. Hilarity ensues.



Y'know, after watching this, maybe Net Neutrality isn't such a good idea ...

"Could be meat.. could be cake.."

I got this on another post and it spawned a 10 minute conversation at work as to what to do more...

ROD -- I thought of you...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Berserk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-gjktyAoI&search=berserk%201

Edit: added embedding

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

I think i need to convert...

R.I.P.

Mako Iwamatsu 1933 - 2006

Lars Ulrich removes head from ass, film at 11

Metallica catalog hits iTunes. Nobody notices.

Marvel Heroscape??

When the heck did this happen??

Apparently there will be a Marvel themed expansion for Heroscape. The scenery looks kinda cool. Check it out:

Mako, Dead at 72

Actor and Academy Award Nominee Mako dead at 72.

Man, first Victor Wong, then Pat Morita, now this. What is Hollywood going to do for Cranky Asian Man, age 50-60?

Say it with me, one more time:

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

TMNT returns

As a big fan of the old Eastman and Laird comic, this gives me a little hope.


Large Video Here

For Lou

My shout out to Lou.

The Kevin Smith Superman Lives Rant

Live from YouTube! Giant spiders, polar bears, and brainiac!

Long vid warning, make yourself comfy.

I think I'm gonna hurl...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmL05OlYA

Space Invaders Bitches

Coolest Commercial Ever? Pretty Close!!!

These guys earned their paycheck!

Inspiration Posters, RPG Style

For those of you who don't frequent RPG.net, there's been a recent topic regarding Inspiration posters, done RPG-style. Looks like someone has collected a bunch of them here. Enjoy!

And this one's for you whiny, "Improvised Weapons" losers ... :P

Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep ... uh-huh, uh-huh

Sesame Street Martians sketch

I'll be in my bunk ...

A fan site dedicated to Leia's slave bikini from Return of the Jedi.

Oh.

Oh my.

Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

Syd Barrett, dead at 60.

"How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here."

Mmmm, toys...I mean, miniatures

I think I've found THE source for cheap miniatures. There is a HUGE selection of 25mm toy soldiers perfect for gaming.

I'd add a link, but I don't think I have the authority.

The BEST Funk Band is Back !!!

!!!FINALLY !!!

The original members are all back and they will be in Baltimore, Toronto, and club Infinity in Williamsville. If any/all of those days are on a Saturday... *cough cough* I'm out sick

Go on, click it. Don't say I didn't warn ya! ;)

Chaos Warriors in North America!

I doubt this will have much historical accuracy, but it looks pretty bad ass. ;)

Dragonlance Animated Movie

Most of you know that I'm a big Dragonlance fan. When I heard about an animated movie in the works I was pretty damn excited. I don't know how many times I've wished for something like this since running the War of the Lance modules with Tim Hannon when we were kids. The latest tidbit I found is that Lucy Lawless is voicing Goldmoon. Hm. Ok. Get the Xena-geeks into it, sure. Then, I read this:

**********************
From the Lawless Ink:

"I just did the voice of an animated cartoon for Paramount, called Dragonlance. Obviously it's a fantasy story, with gods and monsters -- (no lesbian subtext). I never felt I nailed animated performance before, so wanted to get a handle on it.

I played a character called "Goldmoon," a Native American. We played around with accents awhile. I didn't know she was Native A till I got there and so didn't have time to research the accent (not many of those where I come from). More staccato! More commanding! More warm! Less disjointed! . . . Ummm, do you just want me to do Xena? Ahh, yes! That's it, do Xena! The voice is perfect! So warm, so commanding, so . . . yeah, yeah, let's get on with it.

It was actually really fun. At last I have done something my friends can actually watch. My son is gratified that I am not playing a bad guy. He can't stand me going to BSG every day to be mean to humans.

Oh well, it's a living!
L
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When the fuck did the Native AMERICANS move to the continent of Ansalon. Fuck. How bad did they screw this shit up?? I'm hoping she was just too retarded to realize that the character she was voicing wasn't actually a Native American.

Well, at least she cleared up for us the fact that it will be an ANIMATED cartoon.

Fuck.

Chaos isn't the Devil! Chaos is getting bought by EA! Wait...maybe Chaos *is* the Devil...

Linky-Linky

Doh. And I was looking forward to playing a squid herder, too.

Mythos Art Book

I'm definitely grabbing a copy of this!

"Chaos isn't the devil! Chaos is custard falling from the sky!"

Linky-Linky

EDIT: Embedy-Embedy. :)

Family Guy at Harvard

At Harvard no less...

EDIT: for embedding

St. Anger Tribute

This one is for Rod. The link to the song is on the right. Enjoy.

Germans Kick Ass

German Forklift Safety Film.

This one has been around for a while, but it's classic. Well, Rod will appreciate it anyway. ;)

Probably not one for the kids.

Two new links added

I just added two new links to the sidebar. The Hypertext d20 SRD has all the current rules for d20 games, except for actual character creation, and the PCGen page has an open-source character generator that contains a ton of detail.

Enjoy!

Hear the Lamentations of the Women! Again!

The mention of the original Howard stories as reference is reassuring.

Fuck bears. Who dies from bears?

Shatner Sings to Lucas

Again, I am speechless ....

Favorite line: "Live long ... you've prospered enough!"

For The Mad Scientists on the audience...

A link for any aspiring Mad Scientist. Hit Refresh.

Well, it made me laugh...

Transformers CGI Test

I'm not a Transformers fan, but this is pretty cool nonetheless.

Fuck Rambo

Entry Level Wargaming

I've been eyeing this game for a while. $25 gets you a small army and the rules. The sets can be found for under $20 on Ebay and other online retailers. Could be fun. And at that scale you can get two games going easily on one table.

Awesome new cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQX-Rj5ZpM&search=korgoth

So much gore

Movie Night Moving?? Multiple Movie Night??

So, I have been thinking of adding a day to the movie night schedule... mondays as well thursdays.

Every Monday night, every Thursday night.

I know a lot of people have plans... especially with Thursday in the Square going on thru the summer.

The time is still the same.
My house at 8:00, movies start at 8:30.

I am thinking of some lighter fare for the next movie night... possibly "Dead and Breakfast".

The more the merrier - so invite you friends, family, co-workers... strippers...

I have a couch that can comfortably seat 3 (well, two and a half anyway), a comfy chair, some folding chairs, and I can move the coffee table if I need to and get some big beanbag chairs for the floor. The strippers can sit on my lap...

I usually have a variety of pepsi products and a beer or twon on hand - but I have no problems with someone bringing booze, pop, or food.

I have movies and a subscription to Netflix... so I will take requests.

Weekly Movie Night

Hey Kids,

There is nothing like sitting down to a nice art film after a hard days work.

So, I present the Weekly Movie Night.

Every Thursday at 8pm - Showtime to begin around 8:30.

Depending on how it goes in the first few weeks, this may become a permanent feature. My house, Thursdays, 8pm... what could go wrong.

This weeks feature:

"Demonia" - Lucio Fulci, 1990
In southeast Sicily, a team of archaeologists investagate the ruins of a crypt where heretic nuns had been stoned and crucified by the village people in the 16th century. Soon strange things begin to happen, and Liza, one of the team members, starts to have surreal dreams about the nuns. Then the graphic violence begins, starting with a decapitaion! The answers lie in the ancient crypt of the nuns...

Family guy

Ok - so this one made Tim laugh..... and Erin wanted to watch it again

I Love Christmas Movies

speechless

happy friday

death metal and the buffalo sabres

Fuckin' A

The Black Dossier

Just a cool tidbit for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fans:

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is due for the fall and covers the entire secret history of the LoEG. It starts with the first League, goes into the 1950’s, and right now looks to be about 185 pages of story.

As announced prevously it will have different pages in different sections representing different eras, and a 3-D section that Dunbier said is not a gimmick, has real meaning and that Moore uses the effect in a very complex portion of the story that really suits it.

Christina's House

This one is a legitamately good movie. Watched it right after "The Halfway House".

I saw it a few years ago, I always wanted to pick it up...but I forgot/never knew the title. Just shows what a man can do with a little imagination, some lumber, and some circular saw blades.

One of the most quality kills I have ever seen in a movie.

The Best Movie EVAR!!!!!??!?!??!!!

This movie surpasses prison heat on my list of best movies ever made.

Dejected, after watching the sabres fucking loose, I was channel surfing- which usually makes me feel better.

I stumbled my way through the premium channels, hitting the info button on any movie I didnt recognize. Then I saw it. Halfway House.

Now, you all know, I dig wacky nuns... and the adelphia description was something about missing girls and an evil nun. OK. Im interested.

I wept at the perfection of this film. Nudity, Lesbianism, Bondage, Miskatonic goddamn university, the necronomicon (not a necronomicon... THE necronomicon) an animatronic cthulhuey tentacle beast, and more nudity and lesbianism.

As soon as this post is published I am going right to ebay to buy the DVD.

Pure liquid AWESOME!!!

Check this video out. It's from a Finnish metal band called LORDI, who are new to me, at least (which means that Lou and Tom already have everything they've ever recorded ... :) )

Hot semi-Asian lead actress? Check.
Hard rocking song? Check.
More latex than the dumpster back of KNB? Check.
Zombie MOTHER FUCKIN' Cheerleaders!?!? Check.
Winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest by a landslide? Priceless.

I think I just spiked my irony meter ...

zombies...always funny

http://arcanetimes.comicgen.com/d/20050413.html

Will you be ready ...

... when the zombies rise?

'Cause swords dont' run out of bullets... :D

To go along with the George Romero Lego Set. ...

... it's the Arkham Asylum lego set!! Tom, I think we need to get 5 or 6 of these ... :D

Braiiinnnssss

Something to get y'all in the mood for Zombie Run.

Chara and Varada

Here's that clip Rod was talking about. I think I peed my pants.

Ooo, this looks like fun ...

District B13

The Parkour movie

From the men who brought you Transporter 2, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, and Unleashed

OOOO YEAH!!!!!

C for Cookie

and that's good enough for me.

George Lucas, rot in Hell!!!

Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD this fall.

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

I knew this was going to happen.




Well, of course I'm going to buy it. What kind of a geek do you think I am? :P :D

Fer Tom ...

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Someday I'm-a gunna run that game ... and the GI Joe one, just for good measure. ;)