One of my favorite sites, Hardcore Gaming 101, has a new article up on a bizarre Japanese indie game from the Super Famicom era: Hong Kong 97. It’s some wacky protest/commentary game about the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997.
Shout-outs to Megs, here’s a funny list of the top 8 most likely celeb deaths of 2008.
I’d put my money on Imus & Winehouse - something old, something new!
From Destructoid, here’s a list of their top 15 YTMND’s of 2007.
I love YTMND, every once in a while you see something really genius.
Shout-outs to Phat over on the SCS board for sharing this link. I’m not a huge hip-hop guy (although I do like it just fine) but this interview is interesting to me for whatever reason. When they get into the context of what is modern hip-hop, that’s almost a parallel to other debates I’ve had, like what is or isn’t a classic horror movie, etc.
Caution: dirty words, NSFW.
I really hope this lady is ok; that’s a nasty spill. You can’t deny that it’s funny, though.
And, of course, the internets have already made some great jokes about it…
I bought this issue of Mad Magazine because the artwork of a zombified Alfred E. Neuman on the cover is amazing; I’d like a big poster-sized print of it. I used to buy Mad pretty often when I was a kid. I even had an Alfred t-shirt. Tina hated that shirt… I wonder where it went…
But, anyway, I got this issue of Mad and was reading through it and I must say I’m pretty disappointed. It’s just not as funny as I remember. Most notably, some segments of the magazine seem to be targed at almost a “tween” demographic. Jokes about how middle school is tough and how the school bus driver is smelly. Was that stuff always in there, and I just didn’t notice it because I myself was in that age group back then?
There’s a lot more color and the pages are more of a glossy magazine stock, instead of the old black-and-white newsprint-style pages. I don’t prefer the color and gloss. There are also several advertisement pages, which I didn’t remember the old magazines having.
It’s always a bummer to revisit something you liked a lot in your youth only to have it not hold up. Maybe I just got a weak issue?
This site has a really fun gallery of 25 cool action photos.
I have Catholic friends, I don’t mean to bag on them… but why are Catholics always seeing stuff like this? Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, Jesus on a turtle’s shell and the Pope… in a bonfire?
I guess maybe John Paul II has come back in a supernatural form, like Obi-Wan Kenobi, so he can impart some advice to the new guy?
I’m starting a new category for stuff I swipe from beerorkid’s site 
