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GPOY.
“This is you every single morning.” - my boyfriend, as soon as he sees this post
(via startrekgifs)
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“PvP” by Ken Ashcorp.
A two minute song about World of Warcraft PvP…which I would actually download and probably put in my running playlist. This won first place at Blizzcon last year for original song.
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Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.(Source: villa-kulla, via empressfab)
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Last year I went as Daenerys Targaryen for Geekadelphia’s annual party at Tattooed Mom’s, her dragon queen spirit manifested by a terrible DIY costume I sewed and hot glued together out of heavy upholstery fabric and netting (which slowly fell apart during the party). The best part was a large dragon egg made from a gaudy Christmas ornament I painted quickly black and carried around in my hand for five hours, using the loop for hanging it on a tree as a ring so I wouldn’t accidentally drop it.
It was a fun costume, but sloppily done and the only thing that survived the drunken revelry was the egg.
This weekend my sister repainted it. It’s nearly finished, but I think it looks pretty fantastic as is. Could use a bit of dirtying up, but it’s supposed to be Rhaegal’s green egg.What do you think? And where the heck am I going to put it?
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The Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones was excellent, and so was our delicious viewing party! A small group of friends cooked recipes from the unofficial cookbook (review and giveaway on Geekadelphia this week).
I also made this “Drinking Game Of Thrones” card and much fun was had. We specifically left off things like “Cersei has a bitch face” and “Reference to incest” because everyone would die. Feel free to use it or suggest additions for next week.
Last night I learned that Joffrey can be more of a prick than previously seen, HBO is capable of adding value to the story that heightens drama without going completely off plot, and Mad Men viewers can’t watch their show without spoiling it for everyone else.
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(The chat I posted was in response to this tweet.)
My little brother is so cute. Such a sensitive kid.
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- Michaelangelo: Your brother is ragequitting mario!? God dammit that's worse than when I ragequit pokemon red
- Me: He wasn't necessarily ragequitting as much as he was sobbing, because he kept trying to beat this one level and died a lot. But I had a talk with him that it's just a game and that you shouldn't cry about things that aren't important, that he was allowed to cry whenever he was sad, but he shouldn't get so upset about a game
- Michaelangelo: Much different than i would have handled the situation
- Me: We sat down and worked out the problem together and beat the level. How would you have handled it?
- Michaelangelo: Beat the level or don't eat.
- Just kidding
- Me: #asiandad
- Michaelangelo: lol no, #gamerdad
- "UGH DON'T LISTEN TO YOUR MOM, HAVE YOU SEEN HER ITEM LEVEL?"
- "HOW CAN YOU QUIT WHEN YOU'VE ONLY BEEN PLAYING FOR 8 HOURS?"
- I wish I had a son when WoW came out
- I'd have the best 8 year old tank right now
- Me: hahahahahaha
- Michaelangelo: OMFG HOLD AGGRO YOU CHILD
- I'VE SEEN FIVE YEAR OLDS TANK MOBS BETTER THAN YOU
- WHAT ARE YOU?
- DID I RAISE A HEALER OR A TANK
- YOU ARE TERRIBLE
- Me: oh my god
- Michaelangelo: I COULD ROLL MY FACE ON THE KEYBOARD AND TANK BETTER THAN YOU
- Me: This is my future.
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Geek problems.
A very sweet offer, though.
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- Me: Amazon just suggested a category to me called "Like It? Put a Ring on It."
- Michaelangelo: +250 intellect +300 stamina
- Michaelangelo: Equip: Increases haste of marriage by 150.
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The Real Ron Weasley does not whimper in a corner. The Real Ron Weasley is a Gryffindor knight.
The aspect of the Harry Potter films that bothered me the most (besides the odd change in tone between multiple directors), is that Ron’s character was reduced to wimpy, gulping comic relief. And his friendship with Harry was diminished in favor of a more “appealing” connection between Harry and Hermione.
These are cute animations.
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Highly awkward interview with Christina Hendricks and a nerdy USA TODAY reporter, talking tech, her G2 phone and a new role in a video game.
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Today one of my closest friends published his first essay on Bygone Bureau, detailing the heartbreak he went through when his longtime girlfriend revealed she had met someone else.
So he did what any intelligent geek does when they’re crushed by a no good, lousy, cheating, soul destroying she-beast. He sold her custom engagement ring and spent the money on a suit of Master Chief armor.
I highly recommend reading his original essay, a sentimental but honest story about what we do for love, and the hole to fill when that promise is gone. It’s sad and funny and reminds me of all the desperate things we do to make ourselves feel whole again.
Eric runs Geekadelphia, a blog I’ve been contributing to for about a year off and on,much more frequently in recent months [I’ve mentioned Geek plenty of times, especially this summer’s Geek Awards]. The story made it to the front page of Reddit this afternoon, then to Kotaku, The Daily What, Neatorama, Geekosystem, Ripten, CNET. Pretty astounding and I’m damn proud of him. It’s not an easy thing, baring your soul, revealing a painfully personal moment of heartbreak, to a hundred thousand readers in a day. But he’s got a happy ending, after all.
In our internal group messages between writers, we shared a collective all-caps freak out about today’s events, expressing our congratulations/envy/gentle mockery.
My boyfriend’s response is behind the jump.
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- Me: Remember that day you told me like 500 years of Warcraft lore, unsolicited, for 10 minutes without taking a breath and I did not run away? That was awesome and I am a good girlfriend
- Michaelangelo: I don't know what you're talking about
- 1) It was like 3000-5000 years of lore
- 2) I don't know several millenia of warcraft lore unrehearsed
- Me: hahahaha yes you do because you told me all about it
- Michaelangelo: I don't know anything about WC lore
- I don't know the first races of magic
- the introduction of orcs to azeroth beyond the dark portal
- Me: ...
- Michaelangelo: the corruption of the elves
- the sundering
- the world tree
- the second world tree
- I don't know about any of those things
- I don't know anything about the old races like Eredar who begot the demons on Azeroth
- I don't know anything about the Titans who begot the dwarves of ironforge
- nope
- Me: omg stop
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“I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”
My sister made this last night. Severus Snape is keeping watch over our porch.
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But no one was recognizing the folks in the ‘geek’ scene; comic illustrators, indie game developers, local social media marketers, new blogs, podcasts and vodcasts. And these are the sort of folks who I write about every day on Geekadelphia. They’re the folks who do the work that brings unconventional notoriety to our city, making Philly known for indie game dev, a vibrant art scene, a brilliant tech community and so on. In my eyes, they are doing the work that matters.
~ The Philadelphia Geek Awards Are Tonight: What They Are, Why They Exist, & What I Learned Making Them Happen(via joeross)
