So needless to say that we don’t talk about music on the site here, and for good reason. Me trying to review music is about as productive as an elephant trying to solve a Rubix Cube, and therefore I try to stay away from it as much as I can.
Today, I’m not posting Lady Gaga’s video for Bad Romance to talk about the music, I just think that it’s kind of important to mark one of those moments that feel like the future has actually arrived. Like the first time you found your house on Google Earth, or when you played with your iPhone for the first time.
In this case, Lady Gaga’s video to me encompasses the future of pop, and I’m heavily reminded of Chris Tucker’s character in The Fifth Element. That was what, the year 3000 and we all laughed at how comically over the top his hair and clothes were? Well, we’ve had pop stars wearing wigs and sequins for years, but to me Gaga is the only artist who is truly trying to change everything, and after watching this video, I couldn’t help but think that finally, I was living in the future if THIS is now the world’s most popular artist.
I’m 98% ready to write Mass: We Pray off as yet another Wii Parody video, albiet a very good one. But I do have to pause for two seconds as there is actually a company attached to the game called Prayer Works International. This is also likely fake, but it makes me think that maybe, maybe I could actually play this one day. And it would be AWESOME.
Growing up Presbyterian, I missed out on all the fun ridiculous ceremonies of the Catholic Church like lighting candles and swingning urns of incense around, but now thanks to the Wii, I can participate like I’m actually there and filled with shame!
But if it’s fake, I’ll just leave my Wii collecting dust next to my decidedly dust-free Xbox. Wake me up when Mario Galaxy 2 comes out.
I feel as though a select comment made from Reddit sums up this video quite nicely.
I had a player in the game I was in last night get snatched by a smoker, he was just swinging in the air when I ran about 100 yards over to him… There was quite literally a bot standing right next to him (no more then 5ft away) that just stood there and looked at him while he was struggling. I picked him up off the ground and he promptly murdered that f-in bot…. Really, who could blame him?
We’ve brought you some pretty cool celebrity audition tapes in the past. It’s always fun watching actors trying to nail a role or a part on a show back when they were virtual unknowns. You can see how far they’ve come, and often, it seems as though they were born for the role for which they’re auditioning. For me, the most appealing thing about an old audition tape is seeing how vulnerable an established actor was back when his or her career was on the line.
After the jump, enjoy 10 more great celebrity audition tapes.
As it turns out, Rob Schneider is not dead as you may have suspected, he’s actually getting into fights with local radio hosts on air these days, and it makes for some pretty excellent video.
Apparently Rob was kept waiting for fifteen minutes in the 955 parking lot, and when he came inside was quite pissed off about it, then once he got on the show he wouldn’t let the issue go, until finally the hosts start yelling at him for being an asshat, and then everyone storms off set. Good times!
I think there’s a general sense of all around douchebaggery on everyone’s part here, but I think a lot of the blame does lie with Schneider, yes?
Well today is the offical launch date for Left 4 Dead 2. Unfortunately for me, my Xbox is currently somewhere in Texas getting its guts pulled out, so I won’t have the pleasure for at least a few more weeks.
Until then however, Valve made this, an 8-bit version of Left 4 Dead that you may have found on the NES back in the day. It’s more than just a fun video project however, it’s an actual game that Valve is promising to release in January for free download on PC. Good times all around. Outside of Portal, I may not be a huge Valve guy, but I love their sense of humor.
In the short amount of time I played Call of Duty before my Xbox decided to commit suicide, I got the “Throwing Knife” perk which I found to be completely useless. The only time I could actually hit anyone with it was when I was standing right next to them, and at the point, I might as well have used my melee knife.
But someone, somewhere got either really, really awesome, or more than likely really, really lucky with the knife, and that’s why we now have this, the best COD:MWF2 kill to date. And not only that, but it was the last kill of the game so EVERYONE got to see it in super slow-mo. Double bonus.
As expected, there’s been a lot of talk and debate about the horrific violence in Modern Warfare 2. Will impressionable kids become desensitized to violence and, in turn, commit heinous acts of violence against their communities? And if so, are the creators of the video games to blame? Of course not. Video games that are saturated with violence are made for adults, so it’s up to the parents to keep an eye on what their kids are playing.
But enough of stating the obvious. Personally, I love violence in video games. And instead of being appalled by it, I think it should be celebrated. After all, if we can’t escape to video games to become someone else - even if that someone else is a brutal killer - then where else can we undergo a cathartic massacre?
After the jump, enjoy video clips from the most violent video games of all time. Not for the squeamish.
