Holiday Steam Sales
The Steam Holiday Sales - I copied the entire sales scraper into a spreadsheet and sorted the games from lowest to highest. Go nuts.
The Steam Holiday Sales spreadsheet
I updated today for the new sales price. 12/24/09
Paranormal Activity Alternate Ending
Warning: Spoilers! If you have not seen Paranormal Activity yet, please do not go any further.
Prop 8 and Rush Limbaugh is a(n) [adjective]
As for Prop 8, California should secede with Texas, Alaska, and New Hampshire. After which they can fuck off into the North Pacific Ocean. Here's to the entire state filing for bankruptcy! When we want to see the future, look to California? Fuck the future if that's the case.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98E24K01&show_article=1
As for Rush and his attention whore tactics, he recently said that Obama's pick for Court, Sotomayor , is "a "reverse racist," a "hack," and "an affirmative action case extraordinaire."
Excuse me?
Obama noted that she'd "worked at almost every level of our judicial system," saying she had more experience than any current justice had when nominated. He also emphasized that she was first appointed to the bench by a Republican, George H.W. Bush, and promoted by Bill Clinton.
Rush Limbaugh is a one track minded jealous, racist, intolerant, sexist, bigot that deserves to be silenced. There are consequences to hate speech, as we've seen with Don Imus, and Rush gets away with far too much as a public figure.
I'm sorry to say that if anyone here receives their "news" from Rush Limbaugh, you or someone that you know is being completely misled down a very dark path of thought. He rarely seems to check his facts or sources and likes to try to convince his listeners that anyone that will say on the contrary to his own opinion is absolutely wrong.
Radical and hateful sensationalism without justification except that there is a very large group of people that either find him absolutely entertaining in the wrong ways, like a horrific train accident (i.e., Taggard Comet, Atlas Shrugged), or takes his words as truth.
How else could you agree with such, usually, baseless defamation if you're not already similar in that mindset? I mean, you just can't be Joe Somebody and join the KKK, you would have to at least believe in some of that stupid shit.
http://thepage.time.com/rush-limbaugh-on-sonia-sotomayor-nomination/
Wolverine: Origins Review
Note: There are more spoilers in the trailers for Wolverine: Origin than this review.
I will start with what's good in this movie. The only positive of this movie has to do with the actors. Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, both very talented, were excellent in their roles. They were both ferocious and intense, but became somewhat confusing in the storyline during supposed new twists injected into the plot for movie. Needless to say, not much else made sense other than their past growing up together.
Speaking of a story, how about let's not have a story at all! The writers seemingly chose to throw out all source material at some point. They then sprinkled the film full of unnecessary cameos that were all half baked in a failed attempt to distract viewers. Gambit was in the film, but he had a lack of a certain Cajun accent. Young Cyclops was also featured and, apparently, he had heat blasts while young.
Also, what happened to Deadpool? I didn't realize it was him until I read the credits. What really threw me off is the end of the movie. To those that have already seen the movie will know what I am talking about when I say that none of that nonsense happens. He and that "monster" at the end are completely separate. Best character of all time ruined in a poorly done origins story. Now what are they going to do for a Deadpool spin-off? We will never get Deadpool done right.
Sadly, let's not forget how poorly done the CG was in major scenes. Take for instance the scene of Wolverine in the bathroom looking at his shiny new claws, but the claws are rendered with the brightest and shiniest filter in the world. Also, at one moment, they were shifting knuckles! After that, the blades even "slid off" his fists to magically reattach themselves seconds later. How lazy can you get? Was there no time post-production to have an eye for detail with this kind of enormous budget?
I did not go into the theater looking for mistakes related to his claws. It was that painfully obvious.
Flaming pile of hot, salty garbage.
Grade: F - (minus)
The War on Drugs is a War on People
The war on drugs is a war on people and peoples rights are being violated and you're incarcerating and caging human beings often times who have are simply victims of the sickness of addiction, who have become sucked up in this giant war on drugs, which in fact is a crime against humanity.
The war on drugs is a war on people.
Innocents are being terrorized by law enforcement is almost news worthy. This happens more than most could ever believe, but this story made national headlines because it was a mayor with connections. People cared for once.
When a 12 year old girl is beaten about the face and throat after she cries out for her father because men are taking her by force calling her a prostitute, even though the description was for white adult women soliciting, the police still do not apologize or admit that they were wrong.
Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl
These are two stories that made headlines, but are just a droplet in the sea of the suffering of the innocents by the hands of those sworn to protect and to serve.
Know your rights. Know that they no longer matter. Now it's even easier for an officer of the law to get away from controversy after making a terrible mistake.
Justice System. Is there justice in the system? Or is it just us in the system?
It’s Superbowl Related
I missed the Superbowl entirely. Tragic. Did the Steelers and Cardinals do a good job opening up for Bruce Springsteen?
Most importantly, I missed the airing of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen teaser trailer. Looks like they are building right up to Unicron, but I can't imagine a live action Transformers with Unicron as an actual planet-eating planet.
Transformers 3 in space? That would be depressing for Michael Bay as there are no explosions or loud noises in space.
Unless you want to get technical about it and say that the giant robot is full of liquid oxygen/hydrogen. Regardless of what chemical components make up the Autobot, loud noises will remain absent.
Frank Miller’s Hard Boiled
Frank Miller's ultra, hyper violent graphic novel mini-series is being adapted into a movie. I do not see anything less than NC-17 if this movie follows true to the books.
Massive block wide orgies. Establishing shots of double page ultra violent scenes. People being tortured, maimed, and murdered on almost every page.
Here's to hoping.
Brian Azzarello’s Joker Graphic Novel Review
Contains minor opinionated spoilers.
I was excited for this graphic novel. Brian Azzarello has done amazing work with 100 Bullets and Lee Bermejo has a very unique style. Never have I been so excited to see the Joker in a one-shot story before, but I'm not ashamed to admit that the excitement stemmed from The Dark Knight. The interviews that I've read and the scans I've seen made this seem as it were more of a sequel to the Dark Knight instead of a story revolving around the Joker. After reading, I feel that we have been misled.
Not divulging too much information, the best spoiler I could give without spoiling the story is the premise of the story. Joker has been released for reasons unknown from Arkham Asylum with a clean bill of health. Though, a lot doesn't make sense in this story when you begin to realize that the fact that he was released was simply a plot device to speed the story up. No daring escapes, he simply walks out the front door.
I don't mean to sound incredibly negative about the story, as a lot of liberties were taken with a few villains, such as Killer Croc, but I did like the ideas. Croc was stripped down from his mutant visage to his more original circus attraction persona. Albeit, I did like some of the ideas, don't even get me started about the Riddler. I did find Brian and Lee's vision of the Batman-verse fitting with a more human approach to the Gotham villains intriguing, the biggest change had to have been the Joker's scarred and chemically ruined mug.
At first, like many, I immediately made the connection to the Dark Knight with the Joker's permanently etched smile, but this artwork predates Christopher Nolan's motion picture by at least three years. The Dark Knight was kept under wraps for a very long time with very little released revealing the Joker. Needless to say, this is a very good coincidence for the Joker graphic novel team. Sadly, it does not play as a sequel anymore than it plays a classic story of a once great, now washed up crime boss trying to regain his former glory.
Joker is told through the eyes of Jonny Frost as he witnesses the man he idolizes attempt to regain what he thinks he rightfully his: the throne of Gotham City's underground organized crime. The bloodshed, carnage, and psychotic dialogue that ensues does seem a little over the top as, to me, the Joker isn't necessarily about cold blooded murder. I can justify a few of his actions that are Joker-like, but Frost seems to justify more of what he witnesses first hand than a reader might want to acknowledge.
I feel the pedestal the Joker is placed in the eyes of our main character is a bit much and gets a little grating at times as he does not seem to understand the Joker, let alone truly relate to him. There are times I felt that the Joker wasn't really the main focus of the story, but placed there because there is no other criminal as feared in the Batman series. It's obvious why Frost is telling the story as what goes on in the Joker's head undoubtedly frightens God himself. The writing in a first person Joker graphic novel would be twisted, bleak, difficult to write, and very mature.
I mean mature as in that the ideas and beliefs that the Joker has about life, religion, God, innocent lives, death, and what truly lies in the heart of a human being are all mutated and insane thoughts. To attempt to map the brain of a serial killing psychopath with a calling card like the Joker would be an incredible feat. Ultimately, the story would fail regardless because that is the Joker's nature; the mystery should always remain behind those terrifying eyes. I do applaud Azzarello for passing the view to a nobody that wants to be a somebody, but the story feels overdone and uninteresting.
Looking back, I feel that anyone could have been given the Joker's position and the story would have been the same. A lot goes unexplained and the ending doesn't end with a punchline quite like other Joker one-shots, ie., The Killing Joke. After flipping the last page, I heard a dull thud resembling a rubber mallet. While the illustrations were beautiful and extremely well done, I felt that the story was a recycled mob short with special guests Batman and the Joker. Although, I feel that it is unfair of me to compare this to other Batman related one-shot stories. I admit it is interesting to see another side of Joker that we normally do not receive, which is the hardened criminal side with an extremely dangerous anti-social spin, there is no over elaborate scheme and very few lasting images.
I might have set my target too high for this to hit the mark given the recent success of The Dark Knight, but I would like to believe if it wasn't for the movie, I would have felt the same regardless. The Joker is a difficult character to manage and to try to show a side of Joker that isn't all about Batman and his over the top crimes was a ballsy move. I respect the ideas and artwork, but felt unsatisfied with this gory Joker vehicle.
