EDIT: Post changed to link instead of embedded player because of malicious shit in the flash player. But football fans, you gotta see this.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid271557392?bctid=38333390001
lol, wow
The Gridiron Trail (Oregon Trail Meets The NFL)
September 14th, 2009Top 5 Greatest Geek Songs/Videos
September 14th, 2009Lots of people try to make parodies of songs with geek-ish themes and/or origional geek content, but most are too terrible to even finish listening to a single song. There are also tons of great nerd-core style songs out there, but these 5 are on a level all of their own. It was really hard for me to not include songs by artists like Danger Mouse and MF Doom in a list like this but here is what I got.
#5. Deckard Cain – Greetings
I don’t expect anyone besides fellow Diablo fans to understand this song or it’s reason for being on this list, so if you’re not a fan of Diablo then proceed to #4.
Deckard Cain, from the Diablo video game series, is one of those helpful NPC’s that you always go to when you return to town. Obviously this song is not nearly as good as the rest on this list, but it deserves to be included in any Diablo Universe geek’s collection.
#4. Star Wars Gangsta Rap
This classic rap was one of the first viral internet videos in the 21st Century. It’s also one of the best fan made Star Wars properties ever (outside of Ryan vs Dorkman). Details of this video and rap can be found here.
#3. “Weird Al” Yankovic – White & Nerdy
Official Video -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw (Embedding is disabled)
Not only is the beat and melody totally phat, but the lyrics and rhymes are badass for a “nerd” song. Normally I wouldn’t support nerd songs as I consider myself a geek, but this song is way too awesome not to have on this list.
#2. Sniper Twins feat. Rob Collier – “Computer Friends” [Stack the Memory]
This is one of the coolest and most original geek songs I’ve ever heard. Granted for most of it they are talking about macs… but that aside, this song is still totally awesome. Props to the Sniper Twins for awesome new music that I can relate to.
#1. “Weird Al” Yankovic – It’s All About The Pentiums
Official Video (better audio but worse video)-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-JTAPhmUo (Embedding Disabled)
There was never any song made with lyrics as great as Weird Al’s parody of Puff Daddy’s “It’s All About The Benjamins (remix)”. And even for a 10 year old song, it’s still relevant to today’s technology. If you don’t like this song, then you are not a geek.
“Play me online, well you know that I’ll beat you. If I ever meet you, I’ll control-alt-delete you.”
The SOF2 Knife Throw is Back
September 3rd, 2009Amazing, and the sof2 style knife throw is excellent.
HOWEVER, MW2 is a travesty to the reputation true multiplayer FPS games. Fucking IW.net is the most worthless piece of shit ever.
update: Also, BC2 is so much better than MW2.
Q&A With Diablo III Devs
August 22nd, 2009The Escapist has a great Q&A from Blizzcon about Diablo III.
Orig source: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94096-BlizzCon-09-Blizzard-Talks-Diablo-III-In-Q-A-Session
Where’s the Paladin? Is there going to be a cow level? Key members of Blizzard’s Diablo III team took fan questions in a Q&A session today, and, believe it or not, there were productive results.
It’s just a feeling, but the impression I’m getting from the way Blizzard’s talking about Diablo III, this game isn’t coming out for a long time. Not next year for sure, maybe not even the year after that. How hard can it be to make a game where you just click things and get loot? I’m not going to try to say that it’s easy – that there’s a lot to consider was made clear enough during the Q&A session Blizzard held with fans this morning at BlizzCon.
Unlike the “QQ&A” sessions for certain other Blizzard games out there, there was actually quite a bit of interesting information that came out of reasonably sensible questions here. Some of the highlights follow:
What’s the deal with Diablo III’s PvP? Lead game designer Jay Wilson was conclusive when he said that Diablo IIIwon’t support an option to “go hostile” at any time in Diablo III, since it works against players working together, which is what Blizzard wants. That being said, Wilson said that Diablo III will “support PvP better than any of the other previous products did.”
How will Diablo III work with the new Battle.net? Blizzard’s mostly working on Battle.net as it relates to StarCraft II right now, so there will be some time until they can actually start thinking about how it relates to Diablo, Wilson said. Yeah, this game’s not coming out until 2013.
Will The Monk be able to do Ryu-style Hadokens? Don’t rule it out.
Will Necromancers show up? Blizzard here seemed to offhandedly imply that Necromancers won’t be a playable class, which I think most of us have figured by now anyway. That doesn’t mean there won’t be Necromancers in the game, though. They may very well show up in the game’s world, as part of the story.
Will Paladins show up? Similar answer to the Necromancer question. Blizzard says that they’re trying out the idea of making characters you played as in previous games into story characters in this game. So your D2 Paladin might show up in Diablo III. However, there might be more to it than that. Blizzard has “long term plans” for Pallies, Wilson added, saying that “stuff is going to happen.”
Will there be Hardcore Mode?: “We definitely want to do Hardcore again,” Wilson said, calling the permadeath mode the “only way to play, right?” The team doesn’t have any specific ideas about how to do it yet, though.
Are there plans to support UI add-ons?: Your user interface can be customized to your heart’s content in WoW, butDiablo isn’t the same game. Blizzard has no plans to support add-ons for Diablo.
“We feel very strongly what makes Diablo works is simplicity – simplicity of controls and UI design,” Wilson said. “UI mods are wonderful things but they vastly change the simplicity of controls and user interface, don’t want to do that withDiablo.”
Items, Items, Items: Randomly generated items will be the heart of the item system in Diablo III, but unique items with pre-ordained stats will also be prominent, maybe providing one-of-a-kind combinations of stats, properties and gear that could prove useful. There will also be items that are unique to each class (like the Wizard is the only one who can use orbs). These class items will be “cool, signature” items, like huge gnarly axes for Barbarians. They won’t be the only items you’ll want to carry though – they’ll work for different builds, depending.
More Items: Items will be transferable between characters, presumably more user-friendly than making a game, dropping some gear and then logging out and logging back in with a different character. As for how you get items the real way – by killing bosses, specifically – whenever you kill a boss in a party, each player will get his/her own drops, that only he/she can grab (old news but worth saying again). No getting ninja’d or frantically clicking hoping you get the drop.
It all sounds quite promising, but there’s a lot of “we’re planning on this” or “we’re thinking of that” and not much “we’re doing this.” Oh yeah, and nobody asked, but there is no cow level.
Sweet… but not for a couple years… hopefully theres a few more ladder resets in d2 before then.
Diablo III WILL Have Some Sort Of Light Radius And I Have Proof
August 20th, 2009There is a video on YouTube (which I found through Kotaku) of 3 people playing D3 at GamesCom this year. And if you look, you will see a light radius on all 3 characters on those bottom screens. Thank you Blizzard, we were very worried when you released those 30+ minute gameplay videos and there was no light radius on anyone.
YAY!!!
