X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Trailer: Part 2

Nerds get ready to loosen your pants, here's a new trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, better known as the one where all the old X-Men minus Hugh Jackman get killed. Looks pretty cool to me. When it comes to X-Men movies I have lots of faith in Bryan Singer (Superman not so much). It should be fun seeing his directorial return to the franchise.

New Oregon Trail

They should have made a Red Dead Redemption expansion based on Oregon Trail. I would have played the snot out of that.

Top 10 Worst Knock Off Consoles

One of the fun things about having a young kid is they have no brand loyalty yet. My son is just as happy playing with my old GI Joes as he is the couple weird Mexican knock off GI José I have. 2nd hand, brand new, it doesn't matter to him. A new toy is a new toy. With that in mind I was VERY close to buying him one of those janky single controller plugs into your TV through AV cables atari game systems the other day. I was at half price books and they had one for like 5 bucks. I went with some Ninjago comics instead. It was a good deal, the Ninjago comics are kind of a pain in the ass to read for story time because they're hella long, but if I had to read Tiny Titans to him for the thousandth time I was going to shoot myself.

Oh yeah, here's a video about cheap knock off consoles. It entertained me for at least 5 minutes.

Captain America's to do List is kinda sad

This to do list of Captain America's from the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier has popped up on my tumblr like a thousand times this week. After seeing it the 976th time I figured I'd share it here. I'm not sure what to take from the fact that Star Wars is crossed out but Trek isn't.

The idea of a man out of time is one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy tropes. It's something I think about all the time when my mind wanders. Like If I drove my Passat wagon back to the 1920s would they think it was a space ship? Would someone from the 1960s thing my phone is magic? If 1985 Run DMC heard the new Kabuto the Python album would they even recognize it as hip-hop. I guess the moral of the story is that my brain is weird.

You know what day it is? Links.

Why Is The 'Retired' F-117 Nighthawk Still Flying? As a boy that grew up obsessed with military weapons and vehicles, the F-117 has a special spot in my memory-heart. It was the first really cool future weapon that I can remember. It didn't hurt that for the first few years of it's known existence it was still shrouded in mystery. No one really knew that much about the plane and what it was capable of they just new it was invisible and looked like it belonged to the rebel alliance. I love the idea that there's still a group of them flying around when there shouldn't be. Let's call them Rogue Squadron just for fun.

How a Boy, His Horse and a Swamp Basically Screwed up a Generation. Somehow The Neverending Story has come up a bunch in conversation and on-line lately. Outside of Bambi's mom I can't think a kids movie with a worse first 15 minutes. The horse literally died because it lost all hope. That ish is messed up.

It’s Not In the Game: Eight Features the NFL Made EA Sports Remove from “Madden”. I'll be honest I haven't played a Madden game since the PS2 when EA screwed the NFL2K series out of the NFL license (2005 maybe?). I had no idea they took away the ambulance. The ambulance was the BEST! Oh man I remember hours spent playing this on the snes just dying for the ambulance to show up. The only thing better was a in season snow game.

Essentially the 90s were boring and we were easily entertained.

31 Of The Most Exotic Pools On Earth. Some day I want to be rich enough to have a pool right next to or in another body of water. It's the most ridiculous expense I can think of. "Yeah that water 2 feet over there is ok, but this water right here has jets and an ipod hook up"

Forgotten Media: Cancelled Video Game Consoles

I'm just full of youtube videos lately, aren't I? This one is a little rough in presentation, the guy doing the voice over work uses some questionable pronunciation and is a bit dull. However, if you can get past that I think the list is really interesting. I kind of miss the days when some engineer at Atari would coke-dream up weird system and they'd actually try and build it. Wireless controllers with giant metal antennas? Awesome.

Also I love that there was a Sega system that was canceled because the Saturn was on the horizon. lolSega.

Dreamcast 2? Sure, why not?

In my heart and my mind I know that this is just a fake commercial for the Dreamcast 2 but I'm like Mulder over here and really want to believe. I don't know, I'm still really underwhelmed by everything I've seen with the XBone and the PS4. I wish there was a Dreamcast 2 just lying in wait... ready to blow the doors off the other consoles with something cool and unique. I was really riding the Steam Machine hype wagon but the more that I think about it, if I'm going to pay 1,000 bucks for a gaming PC it's not going to run Linux. I still need to use my scanner and load songs onto my mp3 player.

I guess what I'm saying is Dreamcast 2, make it a real thing Sega.

30 for 30: Brian

Brian Scalabrine is the worst. I can't even enjoy him in an ironic way. That being said I would watch the tar out of this 30 for 30 if it was real.



..thank goodness it's not real.