DEATH STRANDING [8mins game trailer]

•May 29, 2019 • Leave a Comment

……MUST experience the narrative, MUST explore the world, MUST do whatever the hell damn shit I’m meant to do because this looks cool af!!

(PG-13: Language) The latest trailer for Death Stranding not only reveals the stealth action game’s release date, but a ton of gameplay as well. Set in post-apocalyptic North America, you’ll be tasked to go to West to deliver… stuffs. The game drops 11/8/19.

Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands.

With spectral creatures plaguing the landscape, and humanity on the verge of a mass extinction, it’s up to Sam to journey across the ravaged continent and save mankind from impending annihilation.

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience for PlayStation®4.

Starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro and Lindsay Wagner.

Also, have to big-up whoever was responsible for the trailer’s selection of hype music, reconnecting us to this 2001 masterpiece:

Thank you Hideo Kojima for caring about narrative structure in the video game medium.

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Official Number of Kiwis Named After GAME OF THRONES Villain — 67

•May 24, 2019 • Leave a Comment

If you were upset with how Game of Thrones ended, spare a thought for the Kiwi kids who have been named after one of its most vicious mass murderers.

Since the show started in 2011, a total of 67 New Zealanders have been named either ‘Daenerys’ or ‘Khaleesi’.

To be clear, nobody in New Zealand has been given the character’s 33 word full title name, which is: Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons. Sooo…it could be worse.

The total of 67 children in New Zealand named after the character includes anyone with either ‘Daenerys’ or ‘Khaleesi’ as a first or middle name, but does not include any misspellings of those names — so the number could be even higher.

In the US, at least 3500 girls have been named after the mass murderer, according to the Washington Post, with ‘Khaleesi’ being the 549th most popular name for American girls born in 2018.

While the HBO series Game of Thrones has finished, the Song of Ice and Fire novel series it is based on still has two books to be released, which may include a somewhat different ending to the TV show.

Spoiler alert: Game of Thrones final season plot details follow.

Although she started out as a central character and quickly became a fan favourite, Daenerys Targaryen developed into a homicidal psychopath in the show’s final episodes.

Despite its military forces surrendering, she used her dragon to destroy the city of King’s Landing in season 8, massacring thousands of innocent men, women and children.

“Our queen’s nature is fire and blood,” says Tyrion Lannister in the final episode.

“My father [Tywin] was an evil man, my sister [Cersei] was an evil woman. Pile up all the bodies of all the people they ever killed, there still won’t be half as many as our beautiful queen slaughtered in a single day.”

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Paths of Hate [animation]

•May 19, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Neat, frenetic short about two fighter pilots with nothing but contempt for the other:


In the wise words of master Yoda; “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.” ~ The Phantom Menace

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Skydivers Land Safely After Mid-Flight Plane Crash!

•May 15, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Found the craziest go-pro footage ((replayed from 4 different angles)) I think I have ever seen!!

Two planes carrying a total of 9 skydivers collided mid air, 12,000 feet above Superior, Wisconsin. The wings disconnected from one of the planes causing a fiery explosion. All 9 skydiver landed safely, as well as the two pilots, one of which was taken to the hospital to treat minor cuts.

TCAS for Christmas then aye lads (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) 😅

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Satoshi’s Treasure — Hunting in the Digital Age

•May 7, 2019 • Leave a Comment

The internet is a weird and wonderful place indeed. I stumbled upon this enigmatic webpage, calling for hunters to solve puzzles spanning the globe using cryptic clues.

And by stumbled upon, I was actually scouring radio station websites and links for cheap Fleetwood Mac tickets, when some shitty website and/or adware lead me here. I explored its simple source code and honestly, it seems legit — an unknown group has pooled together to create a treasure hunt:

It will require contestants to monitor “the output of the primitive orbitals known in your time (your time?) as GALAXY18, EUTELSAT 113, TELSTAR 11N, and TELSTAR18V,” satellites in other words, as well as be on the lookout for three random people they call “agents” to present them with items (such as Ornament of Abhidharma and William Gibson’s short story Burning Chrome) in exchange for a key. All of this effort for the winning prize of Bitcoin, equal to the sum of 1 million dollars USD.

One clue comes with a rather strange animated GIF:

The quest offers a promise of bitcoin, but calls for a level of mental prowess I very much doubt the average Joe looking for Fleetwood Mac tickets has the time and/or interest in pursuing. …And intellect. There’s something else here… This is about something else… I suspect the organizers get a lot more out of this then what is being let on however much fun. I’m talking counter-intelligence level sneakiness. Smart minds come and play, sure, but I would be suspect of scrutiny from the game-masters behind the veil. But I digress, have at it if y’all are game, and feel safe.

As for me, I’m tired (finished 12 hour shift 3 hours ago), and frustrated (tickets are selling upwards from $300!) and confused (have I been trolled by this silicon valley Satoshi shit!?) — Adieu!

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Independence Day: A Star Wars Story [mashup]

•May 4, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Ever since Disney took over Star Wars, we’re getting at least a movie a year from the franchise. But one film that’s not currently slated is an unknown side story in which Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum must destroy the Death Star after it blew up the White House.

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May the Fourth be with you!

•May 4, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Today was the first thick morning fog of the year and I happened to have a thick torch, so yeah, naturally I goofed off on the job, in honour of a classic, because I’m fun like that.

You seem all good, but no one else must know! Move along, move along.

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MALL 84 [animation]

•May 1, 2019 • Leave a Comment

This short animation is a love letter to the 1980’s:

Music by Mitch Murder: mitchmurder.bandcamp.com / Directed by Gervais Merryweather: gervart.tumblr.com / Special thanks to Marlène Beaube: marlene-beaube.tumblr.com/

The animator also made this short about a break-up between two people who might actually deserve each other:

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SEVENDUST at The Powerstation (Auckland, April 23rd 2019) [F]

•April 24, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Saw Sevendust live last night and they were fantastic ((AND MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING))

https://bit.ly/32gqeDE
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These gentlemen are overwhelmingly underrated (damn I have fine taste).

Setlist: Black, Pieces, Reconnect, Praise, Denial, Dirty, Dead Set, Waffle, Enemy, Angel’s Son, Shine (Encore): Bitch, Face To Face.

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Game of Thrones Anime Opening

•April 14, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Malec made a fun anime-style animated opening sequence for Game of Thrones and even turned the show’s opening theme into a Japanese rock song: GAME OF GAME OF GAME OF GAME OF THRONES!

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Music and Jilted Generations Mark UK Funeral Procession of Prodigy Frontman Keith Flint

•March 30, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Dance music played out for the hundreds of fans who flocked to the town of Braintree in eastern England on Friday for the funeral of Keith Flint, former frontman of the Prodigy:

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Renowned for his facial piercings, heavy makeup and eccentric devil-horned hair cut, Flint played a major role in establishing the credibility of dance and electronic music.

The funeral procession followed a 2-1/2-mile path to St Mary’s Church and while the church service itself was reserved for friends and family, Flint’s bandmates had invited fans to line the route to “raise the roof for Keef!”

Fans have launched a petition to have a statue of the late singer erected in Braintree. According to the petition, which has amassed almost 9,000 signatures, residents of the town want “to pay homage and honour its most famous son.”

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25 Year Anniversary of THE ELDER SCROLLS

•March 25, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Bethesda.net is commemorating a quarter century of Tamriel and
the community that calls it home with a whole host of special gifts, sales and more!

My sister introduced me to MORROWIND back when and it was a terrific gaming experience. Come to think of it, I wonder if the only reason she showed me was for name-calling purposes, so I would feel her insults, N’wah! You s’wit! Stoopid! Filthy dark-elf piece of shit Khajiit loving *back-hand* I’ll freaking cut ya! …OK, I made that last one up but that’s near how I felt. The rivalry is real.

And that thematic score, to this day, is one of the most inspiring orchestral pieces ever made for a video game, period:

Ahh I want to go an adventure RN! Good soundtrack all round really.

Played it before? then this might resonate with your funny bone:

And supplemental material in this series is insane, as demonstrated by this insane bro:

Can’t wait for more.

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