This story (My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player) sounds mean and was meant to be mean. It’s about a drunk and shallow girl judging a boy on a highly respected (or at least it was until the editor dropped the ball…) tech-blog because he’s a nerd (like so many of us!) that she met on OkCupid. Instead of chalking it up as a bad date, the girl decides to publicly humiliate the boy who is considered a legend among men in the geek world. The tech blog and the girl who turned out to be nothing more than a intern is now hated and shunned by the very same community that the blog considered it’s reader. Now once the dust clears the boy (who is now more famous than ever) will continue to be the legend he rightfully deserves to be and will be enjoying tons of praise from his adoring supporters while the wicked girl will disappear into obscurity as nothing more than a joke (and possibly a meme). But that’s the point: Judging people on shallow stuff is filthy and disgusting. The only thing that was accomplished by judging and ridiculing someone publicly is that you just showed the same people you are trying to address how heinous you are really inside. It is true that one person’s Magic may be another person’s fingernail biting, but Magic seems like a much better choice than being a heartless bitch.
Sharing is caring! Links to great response articles:
Nerdpuddle: “My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player” UGH UGH UGH” by kiala
Gizmodo Australia: “Alyssa Bereznak Just Reminded Us That Women Can Be Predators Online Too” by Elly Hart
Geek Mom: “Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Date Alyssa Bereznak” by Ruth Suehle
Dork Tower: “Tuesday, August 30th, 2011” by John Kovalic
Has Boobs, Reads Comics: “Don’t Be a Jerk” by Jill Pantozzi
There much much much much more online. Just Google it (no pun intended).
Spock stood no chance…
Yeah so… do I really need to explain whats going on here? Esty seller, Goth Fox Designs out of Vancouver, WA. is offering ‘Star Trek’ pasties. Decorated with gold satin and black rhinestones and made with rayon and cotton for comfort, these pasties are made to order. Other than that, what more can I say about it? I’ll just let the picture do the talking. You can pick a pair up from Goth Fox Designs for $30 in their Etsy store! Boobs and ears not included.
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So… Those hip hop hamsters from the KIA commercials first rapped and road toasters and now they are throwing down some old school dance moves in the middle of a intergalactic war between some type of cyborg robot army. Can you imagine the balls on the person that suggested this concept during a marketing meeting? Apparently, KIA knows something that no one else knows about selling cars. /facepalm
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Wow. Seriously… WOW! Remember that scene from ‘Fanboys’ where the pimp shows off his tattoo of Jar Jar Binks doing a gangsta pose with young Anakin all based on the hype of ‘The Phantom Menace’. Well, I guess this kind of shit actually happens in real life. Some Bane lovin’ bastard decided to get a large tattoo on his bicep of Bane from Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ played by Tom Hardy. I mean, come on! The internet has in buzzin’ over how weird the whole concept of Bane’s odd headpiece is. Even though we would trust our first born child to Christopher Nolan, the Bane costume was hard to swallow. Well I guess this guy was going to jump and gun and get this done regardless whether Bane turns out to be trash or not. I can’t decide if this is fake or not, but if it’s real, I applaud you for you balls and ask that you seek some help.
The dangers of a hurricane is no joke, but for some, the risk is acceptable just to make people laugh. This is the case for an unknown citizen of Hampton, VA. who decided to go kick it at the beach during Hurricane Irene as your friendly neighborhood, Spider-Man! Donning a pretty decent lookin’ costume of good ole’ web-head, this cosplayer spent the day at the beach catching waves while the rest of the city was in mass panic looting stores for jars of peanut butter and canned tuna. Even though his intentions were to make people laugh and help lessen the stress of the hurricane, the mysterious cosplayer did admit that he was “not being that smart today”. Regardless, I applaud for your bravery and stupidity!
Hit the jump and check out Spidey’s interview with local news!
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What can I say about ‘The Schwarzenegger Trilogy’ other than… WTF? and OMG! This multi-neon colored animated short created by Brainbow Designs was created using over 1600 hand drawn animation cells and highlighters were used for color.
The 3 short animations all hand-drawn 1600 frames cell animation with Highlighters used for color, it was hell to make but we love the final videos!
The first video ‘5 4 3 2…’ is a series of continuous hollywood explosions edited into a simple beat.
The second ‘Galleria’ is a cut from Terminator 2 which is one of my favorite scenes from any movie.
The third ‘come on… get down’ is a original gangsta rap with lyrics provided by Arnold himself and music created by Harry McGowan
The short films premiered at the Standard Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles as part of Cine-Shorts which is a bi-monthly series that aims to provide a platform for local directors + aspiring filmakers making their mark in the city of los angeles.
After watching this maddening animated short, I can’t help but feel like I just drank a liter of scotch. All I know is I like it!
Hit the jump and check out ‘The Schwarzenegger Trilogy’!
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I don’t condone violence unless it’s against Ewoks, but this is one of those odd instances where you just have watch it over and over again. A bit familiar to “Zangief Kid”, a street performer in Las Vegas dressed as Batman gets into a violent altercation with a tourist. From the looks of it, the tourist pushed Batman’s chest a bit harder than Batman preferred. Unfortunately, this isn’t the comics or the movies and Batman gets beaten down by the tourist. If punching wasn’t enough, Batman gets finished off with a wrestling suplex. The fight ends when they hear police sirens coming. What’s really sad is that a crowd formed and no one decided the help break the fight up and they only kinda stepped in when it got out of hand. Oh well… People are stupid… especially when they are in Las Vegas and drunk. I hope the police arrested both of them.
Hit the jump to check out the “Batman Beatdown” video and remix. Yes, there is a remix.
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