I should probably warn you that this is full of spoilers for Twilight: Breaking Dawn. Everything that happens in the video, I shit you not, is canonical. As the movie’s title says, This Actually Happens In Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
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Hat tip to Rebecca Watson at Skepchick.org. No, wait, not hat tip. “I hate you.” The less I know about Stephanie Meyer’s masturbatory Mormon vampire fantasies, the better.
Hat tip to “MovieBob” Chipman, who connects the dots. You better believe that my nerd heart is all a-flutter about the very thought of a movie about… uh, spoilers. Watch the video.
Saw this during the previews when we watched Alice in Wonderland in 3D. Yes, this trailer is EPIC in 3D.
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwvhW0ulclA
But seriously, they’ve been hyping this since last year. And it’s only going to be out December 17th. That’s a hell of a lot of post-production. If this is anything short of amazing, there will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth by fanboys like me.
I dunno. I’m honestly expecting this to be a total bomb, as video games don’t traditionally make good movies. But I absolutely loved the Playstation Prince of Persia games’ plot, so… yeah. I’m of two minds. I guess I should reserve judgment until it’s out.
Hat tip Rotten Tomatoes for hosting it.
I felt the same WTF moment when I first learned the Final Fantasy game series was so messed up in being brought across the Pacific. If Angry Video Game Nerd hadn’t already said it all about the stupid sequel naming conventions that video games and movies have made seemingly ad-hoc over the years, there would have been a post about it at here eventually.
This looks beyond epic.
One of the biggest flaws of the Nintendo Wii is that it does not have the built-in media centre that the X-Box 360 or the PS3 boasts. Well, I just finally got around to remedying this, using a combination of Jodi’s new computer’s massive hard drive, the Wii Homebrew Channel, and the open-source Mplayer-CE which can apparently stream over SMB. The interface is a tad cumbersome, having been hacked into the Wii port of Mplayer from its open-source rival GeexBox, but it’s certainly better than the interface available under vanilla Mplayer by miles.
After hard-coding Jodi’s desktop IP address, opening a share and setting the folder permissions so Guest has read-access, then fiddling with the config file on the Mplayer-CE install to point to this share, I was quickly able to browse to and play the Extended Edition of The Cage — the very first Star Trek pilot, on which the later episode The Menagerie was based.
It appears you can set up music playlists, stream from Shoutcast, Youtube channels or saved searches which you have to hard-code into the text-based configuration files prior to booting the app, and can otherwise load every bit of media that Mplayer can handle — and there’s precious little it can’t. I can’t figure out how to pause the playback yet, only stop it entirely — the A button is supposed to pause/play, but it doesn’t do anything. You can skip forward and backward a number of seconds or minutes with the arrows, resize and move the video with the nunchuck controls, and display statistics, but honestly, I’m not looking for bells and whistles. Just having the ability to stream media straight to my TV from across the house without having to go out and buy another game console is freaking sweet. And even if I couldn’t do that, given my cordless phone setup appears to be relatively cranky when paired with my wireless network, then I could connect a USB drive to the Wii and actually make use of that otherwise mostly-useless port.
I can tell you now, this app is going to get a hell of a lot of use in my household. Kudos, homebrew people. You’ve not only made one geek very happy, but you’ve gotten me interested in getting my feet wet with programming a decent interface for this thing.
I’m playing this as background while I work today, though it threatens to drive me to distraction. Greg Laden is posting it a chunk at a time — he’s apparently shown it a number of times in class, so it’s gotta be worth a watch. A kind commenter linked to the whole playlist for this documentary, which I’ve embedded below.
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E440524AAD00BD7F
What do you folks think of corporations?
The Darwin docu-drama Creation was first shunned by US distributors, and now it’s got an honest-to-goodness bidding war. Just goes to show all you have to do to get a distributor is tell everyone just how controversial your topic happens to be.
Interestingly, for a time Icon Pictures, the production company Mel Gibson founded for Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, was involved in the bidding war. It seems pretty uncertain who’s going to end up holding the bag on this one, but I guarantee whoever it is, is going to make more money than the distributors for Expelled.
Hat tip The Friendly Atheist.
Phil Plait posted this trailer over at Bad Astronomy. You need to watch it.
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria is a perfect example of just how science and human knowledge “thrived” under Christianity. Yes, I’m looking right at you, Pet Troll.
