The Legend of Zelda and it's really Rad

While surfing the interwebs yesterday I ran across this old commercial for The Legend of Zelda. It's too good not to share.

I love how the two friends in this are the most sterotypical nerd/cool kid combo the casting directors could find. My guess is the only reason the cool kid is hanging out with Nerdly here is because he has a Nintendo. I'll bet you cash this whole friendship ends up in some sort of Chuck and Buck scenario (look it up).


and for the record who's parents ever helped them hook up a NES?

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X-Men Character Trailers. These came out last week, right after I made a bunch of jokes about how they're releasing a new trailer every other day. I was going to let it slide but then Emma Frost got knocked up by one of the X-men and I thought should throw something together.

Kevin Nash comments on Scott Hall's condition. This is one of the saddest things ever. It's kind of amazing the guy hasn't killed himself yet.

Destructoid's review of Brink. Brink has been getting some really bad word of mouth but I thought Destructoid's review was pretty even-handed. Still, I'm kinda glad it's not getting 10s everywhere. I'm broke and in a couple months I'm going to have to justify to my wife that I need both the new Call of Duty and Battlefield 3 (more on that later).

Google Music Beta announced. Ok, I know I'm old and cranky but I just don't see what the big deal is here. The tech behind cloud media storage like Google music is cool, I just don't see where and when I would ever use it. On vacation? At a friends house? Do we really want to encourage music geeks (the worst kind of geek btw) to have complete access to every Conor Oberst or DJ Frane song ever recorded anywhere they go?

Real Steel is Robot Jox with heart

Here's the new trailer for Hugh Jackman's oscar bait, Real Steel. You know the movie where he's a down on his luck ex-boxer who teaches robots how to box.

I still can't believe this is a real movie, and not some SyFy channel shlockfest. Is this going to be so bad it's good like The Wicker Man or just so bad that it's bad like The Wicker Man?*

* I'm still not sure how I feel about The Wicker Man

The only Star Wars Prequel my son will ever see

Seriously, which would you rather watch? This cute little 2 minute clip recapping the Star Wars prequels with legos or 8 hours of CGI nonsense (soon to be in 3d!).

Did you know you can pre-order the prequels box set on blue ray? That's right, just the prequels. What sick freak is looking for specifically the worst of the star wars franchise. It's can't be completists, they would insist on the 12 disc super pack. It would have to be someone that just loves the prequels but is completely indifferent to the original trilogy. I'm guessing Lucas ends up buying every set.

Best newspaper correction ever?

Ok there are 2 things about this story that immediately stand out to me. First thing is that naming your bat Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver is AWESOME. Second thing is that any pitcher that names his bat is LAME.

Double tap Osama in this new Counter Strike mod

Some modder out there is due a few internet points for the Counter Strike Mod of Osama Bin Laden's compound. I've already seen some people call this crass but I think it's brilliant. Historical accuracy was a big selling point for the levels in the Assasin's Creed games, I don't really see how this is much different.

btw, who still plays counter strike? What were the Quake III servers down?

Hey Google Image search, here's some FUNNY STAR WARS pictures

Way way back on Star Wars day I tried to blow out all the pictures I have in my random star wars picture folder on tumblr. Turns out I got lazy as the day went on and I only got about half way through. Since nothing of note happened over the weekend (except me not getting to see Thor), I thought I'd use this post to sort of finish what I started.

This is the awesomest Honda Fit ever.


AT-ATs are a sure sign Wampas are invading your base

Not with photoshop skills like that you wont

Bear Claw, you're my only hope.

I knew Leia was just a beard.

Coolest Dodge Omni ever.

First Class Postage, you're my only hope.

Wait a minute, Greedo was a chick? Now we know Han "shot" first.

friday, friday, gotta get down on friday..

I really hope the set designer was smart enough to take this home when they were done shooting the movie. Coolest Playhouse ever!

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The 25 dollar PC. This is pretty awesome, it costs 25 dollars to make, is the size of a flash drive and is about as powerful as an old iphone. Of course it runs Ubuntu so you can't actually do anything with it, still it's worth reading about.

Douchey politician's mom makes him apologize to Neil Gaiman. I'm all for politicians taking a stand against frivolous spending (like paying Neil Gaiman $30,000 to speak at a Library) but I kinda draw the line when you start calling genuinely talented people thieves.

Convention Sketch Controversy. Long story short, people without any souls are begging well loved comic book artists to draw sketches for them at conventions and then putting them up for sale on Ebay almost immediately. It's not illegal or anything it's just kind of scummy.

23 facts you might not have know about the Dukes of Hazard. Great list, not like one of those 11 things you didn't know about star wars lists where #4 is that Luke Skywalker was originally named Luke Starkiller... everyone knows that!