Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug 31

Play Champions Online for free!

In honor of its 1st year anniversary, Cryptic studios, the makers of CO, are offering 1 week free subscription to the game. More info here. I will be writing my final review of the game soon, but in the meantime, why not try it out!

Aug 26

The Doctor visits MIT

Either that, or its an MIT hack just in time for freshman orientation I would have made a Dalek…

Aug 23

Emil Hamilton is ruined, all right (Spoilers for old Superman book)

Spoilers, I guess, if anyone cares. As I buy old trade paperbacks from Scott Beatty, it has allowed me to catch up on some comic books I wasn’t buying even when I bought comic books. (I haven’t been to a comic shop since Blackest Night ended.) So, I read this TPB that was all about …

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Aug 10

THE AVENGERS trailer! 1950s style!

Aug 10

Avengers Assemble!

Aug 03

My SKULLLLL!

Here’s the first movie that should be in the next MST3K boxed set. My votes for the other three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF9oBFFW9Qw And for the box set after that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awC3Bb-uPMg Here’s one of my favorite moments:

Aug 02

Biggest educational time-waster ever

TV Tropes.  You get linked there to learn about a literary trope in television, movies, comic books, etc.  For instance, I’m writing about a female barbarian character, and in researching costuming I ended up reading about Chain Mail Bikinis.  This leads to what the Most Common Superpower is, and how this often involves a Victoria’s …

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Aug 01

Family Guy: Easily Summarized

Family Guy: Then and Now.