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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?

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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Want your Game of Thrones a little more literal? Then how about making the show into an actual playing card deck? It’s a very cool concept, and one executed very well by Jim Tuckwell. He’s taken some iconic GoT characters and given them their own face cards as you can see above and below.

Unfortunately no, there are not 52 cards you can sift through covering every major and minor character, but there are two more to be seen that have Tyrion as the Jack of Diamonds and Daeneyrs as the Queen of Clubs. I would have said hearts, but that’s just me. Theon Greyjoy can be the two of spades for being a turd.

Check out the rest of the cards below, and more of Tuckwell’s work on his blog. Continue Reading »

Apologies for the absurdly long image, but it’s worth it. Apparently on a recently episode of America’s Got Talent, one of the talents featured was a guy whose specialty is getting his testicles destroyed for our amusement. Idiotic enough, but the worst part? The judges and audience loved it.

And here we are, marching one step closer to Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. For those who haven’t seen the film (you should), it’s a look at an America overpopulated by the stupid (even more so than now), and the most popular show on TV is “Ow! My Balls!” where unfortunate souls get hit in the balls, which is of course hilarious. And as you can see, we’re fast approaching the same thing in real life. Sigh.

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Game of Thrones getting rap remixes? Sounds kind of lame, but in practice it’s actually quite cool. This is what happens when Kanye West and Jay-Z play the game of thrones, courtesy of Johan Wedel. It’s a video and audio compilation using samples from Game of Thrones and the rap duo’s Watch the Throne album.

It’s definitely catchy, and I only wish it was a bit longer. Take a look and listen for yourself, but be forewarned, it’s a touch NSFW because of language and because Daeneyrs boobies slipped in past the YouTube censors for half a second.

“Un-name me.”

Only two weeks left and the great War of Kings appears to be coming to a head. I’m not sure if Stannis will invade King’s Landing this week or next, but it’s clearly soon, and shit’s going to go down.

This week was the “reckoning of bad decisions,” as various characters had to live with the questionable choices they’ve made.

It’s no surprise that the Starks make up two of the bad decision makers, as Catelyn let Jamie go scott-free and Jon Snow learns he got most of his Night’s Watch troupe killed when they were out looking for him after he failed to execute his wilding girl. Continue Reading »

I guess I missed this from a Comic Con past, but I absolutely love this picture of Nathan Fillion getting his day made by a young Firefly fan. Anyone have audio of the actual question being asked? And is Fillion giving him something or just trying to shake his hand?

You know, I always had an idea for a sequel Firefly show where it was the children of the original crewmembers. You’d have the offspring of Wash and Zoe, Mal and Saffron and Simon and Kaylee to start with. Throw in one of Jayne’s bastards and a mini-clone of River, and you’ve got yourself most of a cast! Tell me that’s not a good idea…

I haven’t played with LEGOs in close to a decade now, but that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize a good set when I see one. This Arrested Development LEGO set is currently up for votes over at LEGO CUUSOO. I have no idea what that stands for.

What happens is that fan made sets posted to the site get voted on, and if something reaches 10K, it gets seriously considered by the LEGO people. With only 900 or so votes at the time I’m writing this, I think LEGO Arrested needs our help. Go to the site and cast your ballot. Or have we all just lost our fan spirit now that we’ve won the war and the show is coming back along with a movie?

Check out a full  gallery of the set below. The stair car alone is something I would buy for my desk.  Continue Reading »