As you can tell judging by the sheer volume of Skyrim posts this week, I’m currently in love with the game, and judging by the responses, many of you are too. But there’s a limit to enthusiasm, and mine would top about nine steps before naming my firstborn child after the game.

But not for some. Meet Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer, born on 11/11/11 who was named after the Dragon language translation of “Dragonborn.” Bethesda heard about this folly, and decided to reward him with free versions of any Bethesda games he could ever want over the course of his life, and I think the same goes for his parents.

Judging by the fact that his middle name is “Tom” and no one on earth can correctly pronounce “Dovahkiin,” I’m guessing this kid will be Tom Kellermeyer his whole life until he goes to apply for his drivers license and is in for a nasty surprise. On the plus side, maybe he’ll discover he has the ability to shoot fire out of his mouth or turn ethereal and immune from damage.

Today’s segment of “living in the future,” where I detail notable tech advances that are straight out of science fiction, focuses on the recent breakthrough in hologram technology.

The new tech (from Japan, obviously) allows a three dimensional holographic image to be displayed WITHOUT the use of any sort of screen. Rather, it’s all lasers that are lit up on different points of the light beam to create an image. Something about ions. I don’t know, watch the video.

But yeah, it’s easy to see that we could be seeing mainstream use of this in ten or twenty years when all the kinks are worked out. And that, my friends, makes me feel like we’re living in the future.

As much as I love the Harry Potter universe as a whole, I think JK Rowling dropped the story ball a few times in the series. The first was pairing up Ron and Hermoine and Harry and Ginny as couples, which never made any goddamn sense, and the second was killing no one terribly important in the grand finale of the book. But both of those problems could have been solved if she had followed through with something she was considering. Speaking to Telegraph, she revealed a brief temptation:

When asked if she had anticipated any of the main characters dying in the series, she said: “Funnily enough, I planned from the start that none of them would die.

“Then midway through, which I think is a reflection of the fact that I wasn’t in a very happy place, I started thinking I might polish one of them off. Out of sheer spite. ‘There, now you definitely can’t have him any more.

“But I think in my absolute heart of heart of hearts, although I did seriously consider killing Ron, I wouldn’t have done it.”

But then all the little kids would have been bawling their eyes out at the end of the books instead of focusing on the messages of true love and friendship that bludgeon you to death in the final pages. That’s now Star Wars AND Harry Potter that have been tainted trying to appease little kids. Why can’t adults have an epic fantasy series where shit actually goes down and nothing is off limits.

Annnd I just remembered why I love Game of Thrones so much.

[via Geekologie]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and no, I don’t mean Christmas. Yes, presents are nice, but Halloween has a leg up because of all the awesome costumes we get to see. Between all the homemade amateur outfits and pro cosplayers, we love costumes here on the site, and as such, Halloween is kind of our Mecca.

Yes, I will be featuring my own costume, and probably the girfriend’s too as we did last year, but I also wanted to open it up to our readers. If YOU have an amazing costume this Halloween, we want to see it. The best one sent to me (paul@unrealitymag.com) over this weekend and through Halloween on Monday will win a DVD or Blu-ray of their choice. You will also get the high honor of being the lead image on an Unreality post, which you can’t really put a price on.

If there are enough cool costumes, I’ll make a full gallery, if not, I’ll probably just try to find some around the internet. So yeah, if you think you’ve got a great costume, dress up, take a few pictures, and send them over to me for a chance to win!

Hello readers, hows it going? Getting ready for Halloween? Me too. I’m polishing my ceremonial dagger (not a euphemism) and getting ready to head out tonight as Nathan Drake.

But before that, I wanted to make a brief announcement about a minor site change. Some of you have noticed that  some of our longer articles, we now break up them up into pages. This doesn’t effect many of our posts, but longer reviews, galleries, or lists are being broken down. Usually into 2 or 3 pages, sometimes up to six.

We’re not doing this because we hate you, I promise. The fact is, as much as I love writing Unreality, the site is a business, and on the internet we need to be as clear as possible with all articles.   Frankly scrolling on and on kind of messes with our layout and the aesthetic of the site. Breaking up pages is a way to keep the articles more succinct and organized for us.

So please, readers, we’re not asking for donations, we’re literally asking for another click or two from you, which…doing the math here, adds up to probably one or two seconds of your time per day and makes our site way more organized.  We’re not going to start doing 30 page IGN lists, I promise, but we needed to do this to help the site grow more professional (gotta compete with the big boys!) Our content itself will remain the same level of awesome it always has, and hopefully these few clicks on a few posts is honestly not too much to handle.

Anyway, we love you guys, and as much as we’d love to have everything on one page, we just can’t swing that. Hope you understand.

We don’t normally straight up report the news here, but this story was too similar to a classic movie for me to ignore. A deranged Ohio man ran a wildlife preserve, and decided to let more than 50 wild animals out of their cages before committing suicide. What happens next is the even more insane part.

Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals – including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions – in a big-game hunt across the state’s countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what may have been one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.

As homeowners nervously hid indoors, officers armed with high-powered rifles and shoot-to-kill orders fanned out through fields and woods to hunt down 56 animals that had been turned loose from the Muskingum County Animal Farm by owner Terry Thompson before he shot himself to death Tuesday.

After an all-night hunt that extended into Wednesday afternoon, 48 animals were killed. Six others – three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys – were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo. A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal still on the loose.

Wow, this is both the simultaneously saddest and most badass thing I think I’ve ever heard. It’s tragic that all these animals had to be put down, particularly a bunch that were endangered species like the tiger. On the other hand, being called into work as an Ohio sheriff’s deputy and being told that your job for the day was to hunt down 50 tigers, lions and bears in the suburbs is probably the most surreal thing you could ever hear. The scenario reminds me very much of 12 Monkeys (you’ll get it if you’ve seen it), but I could easily see this bizarre situation being its own movie someday, couldn’t you? Or it could be a tragic reworked ending to the upcoming We Bought a Zoo where Matt Damon runs his own wildlife preserve.

I literally can’t believe I just wrote that title. I actually feel like I’m dreaming. Is this real life?

It’s not often something as simple as a tweet makes me stand up and cheer, but when I read that last night I just about lost my mind. I scrambled the internet looking for any information that could confirm it, and when I discovered that The New Yorker was hosting a reunion of EVERY Arrested Development cast member this weeked at their event, I knew it had to be true.

And it is, I repeat, Arrested Development is coming back to TV. But not quite in the way you might be thinking. Creator Mitch Hurwitz explains:

“We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie. We’re basically hoping to do 9 or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.”

So each episode will focus on a different character, and they will all culminate in the long-promised movie, which looks like more of a reality than ever. Hurwitz explains how the first episode might begin, which will focus on Buster:

“The latest joke we have is that it’s Cambridge, Massachusetts and there’s all these scientists in lab coats and they’re waiting for somebody. Buster comes through the door in a white lab coat – ‘Let’s begin’ – and they say, ‘Oh, no, you don’t get to wear the lab coat. We’re experimenting on you.’”

I know these characters and this show’s sense of humor so well, I’m already laughing and don’t even need to see it acted out. But I’m SUPER excited about this, and I assume many of you are as well. I’m still hunting for more details, and I have conflicting reports about Fox and Showtime distributing. I say screw Fox, they cancelled the show, they shouldn’t reap the benefit of it coming back. And with Showtime, they’d have more freedom than ever.

Yeah, still feels very surreal to have my favorite show of all time actually coming back to life. Glad to see that after all these years, our cries were finally heard.

There it is folks, I’ve officially crossed over. Last week I had a debate of the day set up where I asked if I should get a PS3. The response was overwhelmingly that I should, and this weekend I finally bit the bullet. The recent price drop to $250 was a big reason why, and also it helps that every game I want to play is probably about $20 or $30 now at the most.

So far I’ve picked up Uncharted 2 (I’ve played the first one already) and Demon’s Souls, a game that I will allegedly hate as it’s one of the hardest ever made and I have zero patience for that sort of thing. But it will be interesting to see how far I get and I can write about my experiences. After I get through (or attempt to get through) those, I’ll want to get to Infamous and Infamous 2, God of War 3 and probably Little Big Planet. Any other PS3 exclusives I must check out?

I haven’t played anything yet, despite having the system set up, because I was frustrated to learn when I opened it that the PS3 does not come with any sort of HD cable. For a system that purports itself to have the sharpest graphics, they seriously make you pay extra to play it on its max settings? I’m not going to boot up Uncharted until my $1.79 from Amazon HDMI cable shows up in the mail, as I want my first experience to be a good one. Xbox came with at least some sort of HD capability (though not HDMI), although I will say not having to buy a separate adapter for internet, nor pay a monthly fee for it, more than makes up for that shortcoming.

So yeah, I’m happy with my purchase, and this reminds of when I bought an original Xbox after being a PS2 loyalist for years. I had a great time playing Halo’s 1 and 2 and Fable, but most other titles crossed over. The same is true here, and really I only got this system for a few games, but doing what I do for a living, it’s probably a good idea to be well rounded. And now I guess I am a fanboy no more. Feels good.

Very sad news today. Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield passed away this weekend from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He had been battling the disease for the last eighteen months, and his absence from the hit Starz show caused them to shoot a prequel series and recast his part for season two.

Whitfield’s wife, Vashti, called her husband a “beautiful young warrior” who died on a “sunny Sydney morning” in the “arms of his loving wife”.

Spartacus is currently one of my favorite shows on air, and Whitfield’s performance is much of what made the first season of the show phenomenal. It’s sad to see someone this young and talented cut down by a disease like this, but it happens all over the world every day to people who don’t happen to be famous. Donate to the American Cancer Society to help continue Whitfield’s fight.

All last week a lot of you posted your best sci-fi jokes to a Facebook thread, and I’ve sifted through them all to find a pair of winners who get $100 worth of costumes and accessories from HalloweenCostumes.com.

There were some good, some bad, and some nonsensical, but I picked these two out as my favorite. One is actually a joke I’ve been telling for about ten years (the first one) and the other I laughed despite it’s innate simplicity.

So check out the two winning entries from Clark Rumble and Stephen Duffin below, and if that’s you, check your inbox for a FB message from me about getting your prize. And actually Clark, now that I’m looking. Your privacy settings are actually such that I can’t send you a message, so hopefully you either read this or accept my friend request which I felt awkward extending.

Thanks to all for entering, and see you next contest!

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