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“Dating video games are hugely popular in Japan: They’re text-heavy games where each click brings you a little closer to either getting to see some cartoon porn or ending up in a “game over” screen (and then seeing that cartoon porn on Google anyway). The stories always involve a childhood friend you secretly lust for, a wise character with glasses who gives you advice (that you secretly lust for) and, this being Japan, a healthy dose of insanity.”

The Countdown

So Robin is a girl now? – [FilmDrunk]

The 12 funniest Avengers GIFs – [Smosh]

Jennifer Love Hewitt looks good – [HollywoodTuna]

Hulk smashes the  Kardashians – [GeeksAreSexy]

The best gamer gear at the – [UnrealityStore]

Annoying people at the pool – [Holytaco]

Men can have dream pads – [theChive]

A plot summary of Pacific Rim – [Pajiba]

Just a bike riding dog – [WWIW]

12 baseball feats that only happened once – [Neatorama]

Playing the Pokemon theme by ear – [GamerToob]

The hot 100 in 100 seconds – [Maxim]

The worst place to pass out – [BroBible]

New Dark Knight Rises TV spots – [Guyism]

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Between my review and Dave’s post, this is turning into Diablo 3 day here on Unreality. And I can’t say I can complain about that.

Nor can I pass up this combination of Game of Thrones and Diablo, which further illustrates the point I’ve made about how the Auction House feels like cheating, even if it isn’t. It’s a lot more satisfying to get your own gear from kills (the paying the iron price) rather than buying it outright from someone else who did the hard work (the gold price). That said, the AH is now an inherent part of the game, and is almost necessary to progress in later difficulties unless you want to spend a few extra hundred hours hoping that the gear you find surpasses your own.

It’s just a…strange system, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

We may be in the off-season of Dexter right now, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take a break from Game of Thrones to post a Dex-related video.

YouTuber CynicalKoala (fantastic name) decided to see what it might be like if Dexter was a sitcom rather than a dark serial killer drama. There are definitely a few comedic elements in the show, so what better way to let people know when to laugh than by inserting a track that instructs them to do so?

I really can’t explain why laugh tracks worked so well for so many years, right up until Seinfeld and Friends, but now they’re just atrocious whenever you hear them.

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I’m not a die-hard Community fanboy like many others who are constantly comparing its imminent demise to the death of Arrested Development (but it keeps being saved from that fate), but there are a few select episodes of the show that are some of the best 20 minute comedy spots that have ever appeared on television.

Paintball (the first one) is an obvious choice, but last week’s “Digital Estate Planning” was simply fantastic. Nearly the entire episode was filmed like 8-bit video game. What other show could possibly pull something like that off?

And of course, like any good Community episode, there were Easter Eggs. Here’s something a quick-eyed fan caught as Abed was scrolling through the dialogue options of a local village maiden. Freaking. Awesome.

Why the hell did they fire Dan Harmon again? How does that make ANY sort of sense?

It’s time for another piece of my Diablo 3 review, now that I’ve had more than a single day to take it all in. It’s a game that takes months, not days to really understand, and as such, you’ll probably be seeing these journal reviews for some time to come.

It’s been about ten days since the game was released, and in that time I’ve put in (oh god) about 55 hours across two characters. I have a level 51 Barbarian that I used only to quest with a very specific friend with a similarly powerful Wizard, and a level 27 Witch Doctor that I play whenever I feel like. Which is increasingly often.

If you can’t tell by my current play time, the game is addicting. Impossibly so. Even when I’m not playing, builds and item drops race through my head. I’ve been able to keep a balance in my life despite this fact (hooray gym and girlfriend), but yeah, it’s pretty bad.

I suppose since I’ve now beaten the game about three total times, it’s worth mentioning that yes, there is some vague semblance of a plot. Unfortunately, it’s about the worst excuse for a story I’ve ever seen in a game as it kills off major characters left and right without so much as a head nod in their direction, and the dialogue is some of the most inane I’ve heard since I was a bad enough dude to rescue the President. Continue Reading »

Ron Swanson here. The first quarter of 2012 is over, which means different things to different people. For my part, it means the burden of redeeming something the government calls “sick days.”

As an eater of hearty breakfasts and also things that are slower than me, I haven’t involuntary coughed since 1976. Nevertheless, I always have at least five accrued sick days at the end of each fiscal year, and my coworker Leslie forces me to use them before June; I admire that woman’s feminine fortitude, but I loathe her unwillingness to budge on this matter. Therefore, my person has been temporarily exiled from Pawnee’s governmental affairs.

I anticipated Leslie’s bullheaded meddling in advance this year, and have decided to share my sick day activities with this publication for exactly one reason: if an American male is forced to pretend he is too sick to earn his keep as a tax-paying citizen, said male’s down time is best spent illustrating that he is not.

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I know I spent some time last week reminiscing about where the Diablo franchise began, but now that I’ve got my hands on a copy of Diablo 3 I figured I would take some time and talk about some of the updates to their well-worn skill system for this week. I’m not saying this new system is better than its predecessor, as a matter of fact I don’t think it’s really fair to compare two games made a decade apart simply because they were made by the same company, so I won’t. However, after spending a few hours (ok, way more than a few) with the game I’ve decided that there are a lot of things I like about this seemingly simple skill system.

I love skill systems. I’ve spent countless hours over the years pouring over skill trees and builds, testing new theories while looking online for inspiration from others. There’s a fun, yet addicting science to it all. While I haven’t yet decided where Diablo 3 sits among all of the other skill systems I’ve used in my time, I can say there are some features in this system that I prefer now that I’ve used them. I think even the old-school diehard fan in me has to admit that some of these features are really just common sense. Below is a list of five things I like (or love even) about the Diablo 3 skill system after my first playthrough as a Barbarian. Continue Reading »

If I had to pick one movie that contained a character that I could safely say was one of the meanest yet move loveable people all at the same time I’d pick As Good as It Gets.    The degree to how insensitive Melvin Udall (played by Jack Nicholson) is cannot be measured.

He has a complete distaste for virtually every human being which is amplified by his horrible case of O.C.D.   And yet in the most dire situations he shows his humanity and compassion for those in need and for those he truly knows are good people.  However, it doesn’t come without a price and it surely doesn’t come without him spitting out some of the funniest, yet mean lines to ever be uttered on film.

Hope you enjoy this “best lines” clip from the film.

This is an incredibly funny way to look at some of the best video games you’ve played in years past.   Imagine for a second that all the game you used to love as a kid were as easy as you sometimes wished they would be.   Well imagine them as being easier than that.   Imagine them being so easy that it’s comical.

See how funny these iconic video games would be if their difficulty level could be switched to an extra-easy mode.  With a little help from photoshop the pictures to follow will show you just that.

Check out the fun after the jump….

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You may not have heard of Killing Me Softly (it just premiered at Cannes), but chances are you will. It’s a gangster flick with Brad Pitt in a role you wouldn’t normally imagine him in, and even that single picture is about the most badass thing he’s done in the past decade.

Read more about the film over here.