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12 of the Saddest Locations and Encounters in Skyrim. Ok, I'm seriously impressed. When I played Skyrim I didn't catch any of these. Sure I've been to some of the locations but I never looked around long enough to figure out the stories behind them. Kind of makes me wonder what else I might have missed or what I might have missed in Fallout 3? I'll bet there was tons of stuff I just blew right by. Oh well, I guess that's what internet lists are for.

The Battle of 2017 Could Be Disney v Comic-Con. This is an interesting story to geeks like me. Basically Disney has scheduled their big D23 convention to happen right around the same week as San Diego Comic-Con (the big Comic-Con). Last year Marvel studios barely sent anyone to SDCC, are they going to snub the biggest comic book convention two years in a row? Probably. If Disney is anything it's insular. Why make a big splash at someone else's convention when you can have your own? Is this some sort of trend? Has SDCC's bubble burt? Who knows?

I pay some attention to the convention scene, mostly just for the blog but it's not something I follow with a passion. I will say that there have been a lot of think pieces about just how big comic book/pop culture conventions have grown all across the country. I can't tell you if that growth is unsustainable or not, but I can say I would mind if ECCC tickets got a bit cheaper.

Shocking: Microsoft's AI Tweetbot Learns How To Be A Racist, Sexist Monster In Less Than 24 Hours. I feel like this is less of an indictment against Microsoft and more of an indictment against twitter and how awful the internet is in general.

The Nintendo NX Is Rumored To Be The Most Powerful Console On The Market. Well here's one for you. Everyone already knows the new Nintendo is right around the corner. Nintendo announced just the other day they were going to stop manufacturing the WiiU later this year and it's not like they're not going to make consoles anymore. In theory they might be in the Sega Genesis sweet spot. The Genesis came out almost a full two years before the SNES and was able to pick up a lot of steam with hardware far superior to the 8-bit NES. In theory the Xbone and PS4 have a lot of life left in them, with no direct replacements in sight. If Nintendo can hit the market later this year with a console that's more powerful (maybe even 4K?) can they match the success of the original Wii?

Man just when you thought the console wars were more or less over, here we go again.

Jessie's Links

Love playing old school games? You need this tiny arcade Machine! You have got to be kidding me, what is this an Arcade machine for ants? How on earth would you use that tiny little controller much less be able to see anything on the tiny little screen. This is a fantastic waste of time.

5 Things I Learned Trying To Get Laid In 'Skyrim'. OMG you guys this is the most fantastic/disturbed thing you'll read today. Basically its story of one lonely schlub that just wants to enact out one weird sex fantasy using Skyrim and his trials and tribulations along the way. Now I've known for a while now that you can MOD in a bunch of nudity into Skyrim but I had no idea some of the depraved nonsense you can add to the game. God bless this guy for being as open and candid about the whole thing as he was.

This is my stone cold lock of the week of the century of links today.

See Rick Springfield's Massive 'Star Wars' Toy Collection. Turns out Rick Springfield is a huge Star Wars nerd and has a HUGE toy collection. Good for him, what's the point of having Jessie's Girl money if you don't spend it all on something rad?

8 bits, 8 players, 8 projectors, and one Nintendo Entertainment System. I have a hard time wrapping my head around what these guys and gals did but it's pretty cool looking. Essentially their playing Mario Bros 3 in the round.

Skyrim the Tank Engine

One of the best things about Skyrim is just how moddable it is on the PC. Also one of the worst things about Skyrim is just how moddable it is on the PC.

Top 10 Games of this Generation

The Screen Team (as featured on this blog before) have asked their viewers for a list of the top 10 games of this generation. GammaSquad did something similar a couple weeks ago but they drew it out over like 5 different slideshows and featured far less cleavage, so I'm going with this one.

It's a pretty respectable list. A couple of the Wii and PS3 games I haven't played so I can't comment on just how baller Super Smash Bros: Brawl really is. I had zero intent of doing this but off the top of my head these are the best games I remember playing on the 360 (and the few times I got my hands on a Wii or a PS3):

Red Dead Redemption
Bioshock
Battlefield 3
Mass Effect
Skyrim
Arkham City
Uncharted 2
Halo 3
XCom Enemy Unknown
COD: Black Ops


I know putting a Call of Duty game on here blows away any "hardcore" gamer cred I never had but as a reminder I've been in baby land most of the year and haven't really had a chance to get my hands on some of the bigger titles from 2013 like GTA V or The Last of Us. Also COD: Black Ops was dope, so get off my back.

Links of the Dead

The 25 Most Ridiculous Movies with “Of the Dead” in the Title. I can't believe I've only seen like 2 of these. I'm going to have to add Lust of the Dead to my netflix queue. Or maybe not, I share my netflix account with my parents. They might see that and get the wrong idea.

4K resolution Video Game Screenshots. Holy shitsnacks Batman. In case you were unawares, the 4K resolution revolution is coming. 1080p? that's for suckers. Check out these screenshots so your mind grapes won't be blown away the first time you see Skyrim in 4K.

How We'll Create The Prettiest Elder Scrolls Characters Ever. Speaking of crazy good graphics. This video of the character generator for Elder Scrolls Online hit the web this week and it looks amazeballs. I wish I had the time or the coin to sit there and play this game but the math is pretty simple. 2 kids < 4yrs = 0 MMOs.

35 Of The Best X-Men Mash-Ups. I needed a 4th thing for my links page and these were kind of funny.

Hump Day Link Day

The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry. I've been trying to work in a "Nintendo Entertainment System Turns 30 years old" post in this week and just haven't found the time. It's for the better, this article by ArsTechnica is amazeballs. It's a real interesting and very thorough look at the console in all it's different variations. The first computer like mock up for the US market is a trip.

Navigating a Maze of Real Lasers is Harder Than You'd Think. I wonder how many DVD players were sold in 1999 based on the scene in Entrapment pictured above. It's gotta be like 4 or 5 million, right?

Behind Falskaar, a massive new Skyrim mod, and the 19-year-old who made it. Want to get a job in video games? Why not spend a year of your life living at home making a HUGE Skyrim Mod. It sure beats whatever I'm supposed to be doing at work right now.

Top 10 Real World/Road Rules Challenge Fights. Oh man, 2004 seems like it's both yesterday and FOREVER ago. I watched I think one episode of the last season of the Challenge and I had no idea who anyone was. Whatever happened to Coral, Miz, Rachel and that big guy with the red hair. Those were the days, back when MTV2 still played videos....

Grey Tuesday Links

‘Windows 95 Tips’ Documents The Horror Of ’90s Computing As We Remember It. I think they're stretching the truth here with their "as we remember it" claim. I remember beta testing Win 95 (code name Chicago!) and I don't remember it stealing my DNA for it's nefarious cloning experiments... or do we I?

The Most Ridiculously Expensive Factory Car Options. $50,000 for spec-V brakes on a GT-R? That's more than half the base price. Who buys a super car go stop anyway? You buy one to go fast... and to compensate for your small penis.

Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square. This is a couple weeks old by now, but in case you haven't read it, you have to check it out. It's a brutal take down of Guy Fieri's new restaurant in Times Square. Couldn't have happened to a nicer douche.

What Skyrim Looks like with over 100 graphic mods. Uber gamer/nerd Unreal has posted a boat load of Skyrim screen shots using a wide array of graphic mods. The results are absolutely stunning, and hard it's hard to fathom that these were rendered in real time, even if at times the game was running under 5 fps. Well worth checking out if you're interested in the future of Computer graphics.

Elder Scrolls Online sneak peak

As you might have inferred from the title this is a sneak preview of the upcoming Elder Scrolls MMO. It looks really really cool. After watching it I was really thinking about adding it to my short list of games I want to play but then I realized how much I hate games with no conclusion. I never even finished Skyrim and that game is supposed to have an actual plot (although I couldn't tell you what that plot is exactly). I'm pretty sure I would get sick of this MMO after a couple of months of dungeon crawling and leveling up.

Skyrim: Dawnguard, the trailer

Here's the trailer for Skyrim's first DLC pack, Dawnguard. Honestly it looks kind of stupid, I mean I'm all for more Skyrim but this jacked up HR Giger looking Vampire looking dude kinda sucks. But hey it looks like they added crossbows, crossbows!

My Little Pony + Skyrim = ?

I finally started playing Skyrim this weekend. I've only put in a few hours so I'm still quite the noob, I have yet to see a single My Little Pony; no Fluttershy, no Rainbow Dash and certainly no Rainbow Sparkle. Maybe I'm playing the game wrong?