Pac-Man: Come Out to Play

Can you believe they never remade The Warriors? I mean they're remaking everything from the 70s and 80s, how come no Warriors reboot? If I was in charge of Hollywood I'd totally remake The Warriors. I probably wouldn't do it with Pac-Man though. I don't know I guess I'm just crazy that way.

All Hail the New Raspberry Pi

This morning, or yesterday (I'm not really sure I've been drunk off Oscar Fever) Raspberry announced the brand spanking new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. Click through the link if you want all the real specs, I'm just here to give the TL/DR version.

The new Pi 3 is faster, has more ram, is finally 64-bit and has built in wi-fi and bluetooth. I'm pretty excited for the built in wi-fi and bluetooth. In theory that frees up a lot of USB ports. My biggest annoyance with my Pi is that while the box is cool and sleek looking it has like 6 cables running into it, all at very different angles making it look more like a small powerstrip or USB hub, than the super rad video game emulator that it is.

The retail price is still $35 which puts this squarely in the realm of impulse buy, especially since I already have all the accessories, like gamepads and power cables, I need. Now all I need is some time to actually sit at home and put another one together. You know, there's a cold that's been going through my office. Now that I think about it my throat does feel a bit sore..

Dark Souls III: Shadows Ahead

I know zip about Dark Souls I and II other than I've heard they're very difficult games. I really don't have much interest in Dark Souls III but I'll tell you what I do have interest in, mother loving Cyndi Lauper.

So good on you Dark Souls III, you have my attention. However, if your next trailer isn't set to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or Goonies R Good Enough, you can GTFO.

My Little Resume

I kid you not, I would hire this person on the spot. Sure I've only ever hired people for warehouse and delivery work but a couple of them showed up with actual resumes. I would rather work with a brony than a non-brony any day of the week. Have you ever seen MLP? They teach all sorts of great values like friendship, honestly and teamwork. Someone this into MLP can't be bad.

-via reddit

London Super ComicCon 2016 Cosplay!

Those hip cats at SneakyZebra have put together another cool cosplay video, this time highlighting London Super Comic Con, which I like because they threw the word super in there. That's a very comic book thing to do.

I might do a bit of cosplay for Emerald City Comicon this year. The last couple years I've gone trick or treating with my son dressed up as Han Solo (a super el cheapo version I put together for a Halloween costume like 5 years ago). For the last couple years my son has gone with me to ECCC one of the three days and he always dressed up, this year he's going as a storm trooper and of course he wants me to dress in my Han Solo costume. Now, my Han Solo costume is pretty terrible. It's recognizable but it's not very good. What I might end up doing is wearing like half the costume so I look super casual. My pants with the red stripes look totally legit, maybe I'll just pair those up with a white t-shirt and do a quick spray paint job on my blaster so it looks a little better. I don't know. I want to do something fun for my son but I don't want to embarrass myself either, I guess that's the fine like you walk as a parent.

Bipartisan Links

Civil War Empire stills. I'm really trying to get excited for this but it's hard. I LOVED Captain America: The Winter Soldier but man did I hate the Civil War comic book.

On a side note I feel like Elizabeth Olsen looks like the version of the Olsen twins everyone was anticipating 10 years go. Like all those people that were eagerly awaiting the Olsen twins to turn 18 so they could get all sexy like were expecting them to look like Elizabeth as opposed to the weird Gollum like fashion creatures they turned into. I guess that's a pretty good place to be. You haven't seen Mary Kate or Ashley in any Marvel movies lately..

Larry Wilmore's Ratings Are 55% Lower Than The Colbert Report. As much as I like Larry Wilmore the Nightly Show is damned near unwatchable. The pace of the opening segment is usually awkward, the skits in the second segment are almost always terrible and the final segment with the round table discussion is a flaming garbage fire every time. Keep the name, keep Larry Wilmore and fire everyone else.

King of the Hill: The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy. I'm not 100% behind this article's thesis. I believe King of the Hill had a very distinct liberal lean (Hank's dog was named after Ladybird Johnson) but as far as bipartisanship goes, it never treated conservatives with disdain. At the most there were a few playful jabs, but in general people with traditional conservative values were respected. It is a stark difference to how the parties (and the media outlets they use) treat each other now.

Liberals like to blame conservatives for the general lack of civility in our current political climate but liberals share plenty of the blame. I was one of like 100 people that used to listen to Liberal Talk "Air America" when it was still around and I remember one of the hosts screaming that George W Bush was a murderer and a psychopath. That went on for MONTHS until the host was fired for calling Hillary a bitch when she refused to cede the Democratic nomination to Obama as quickly as the host would have liked.

Anyway, King of the Hill was awesome. That's my purse, I don't know you!

An Original Film Print of Star Wars Has Been Restored and Released Online. I'm going to download this on Saturday or Sunday. I'll let you know how it works out for me.

Portal vs Half-Life

It's the gal from Portal vs the guy from Half-Life, to the death, finally! I guess.. I don't know. Are these battle videos something that really interest people? It's like 2 weeks old and it doesn't have a million hits yet so I'm going to say not really. The thing I found most interesting about it is how well the special effects are done. I'll bet this whole video was put together by less than a dozen people and it looks pretty darn good. Like action movie from the late 90s good, or Action TV show from the early 2000s good. Computers man, is there anything they can't do?

I Raided Some Tombs This Weekend

Last week I finally beat Fallout 3. According to Steam I put in about 36 hours worth of game play, which is WAY WAY less than I put into Skyrim, a game I abandoned about 3/4 of the way through the story.

Quick Review: Fallout 3 is really fun but left me wanting more. Like, it just ended really anticlimactically and you're not left with the option of continuing to play and explore like in Red Dead Redemption. Your only choices are to start all over again or go back to a save point and put off the final mission. I get that they wanted to finish the story but it's a weird decision for a game that's so big with so many side missions.

So after beating Fallout 3 I decided to try out another game I bought for super cheap at last years Steam Summer Sale, Tomb Raider. Sweet Fancy Moses this game looks fantastic. I know sound like a moron talking about Fallout 3 and Tomb Raider when each of their sequels are the new hotness but give me a break I'm just getting back into gaming at a regular rate.

Turns out I when I wrote my mini review on my computer a couple weeks ago I wasn't giving it the credit it deserved. I fired up Tomb Raider cranked all the settings to 11 and ran another benchmark and it clocks in at an average 61 frames per second. That's why I posted the video above. Sometimes I'm in awe of just how good this game looks, and it already has a sequel out that looks even better! I can't wait to try out a few newer games, if old ones look this good I can't imagine what's in store. In fact, I'm really really afraid I'm about to fall into a pc gaming rabbit hole. Next thing I know I'm going to have one of those ridiculous glowing keyboards and everything is going to be water-cooled. Who cares how much it costs, my kids probably aren't going to college anyway.