…just a little classic Wonder Woman WTF courtesy Letters of Note in honor of SDCC.  :D

Super Mario Bros as played on a brick wall.  Matchmove artists are amazing.

Here’s a nifty step-by step tutorial on how to make an amazing space graphic like this in PhotoShop.  It’s surprisingly easy!

…and here’s a tutorial on how to make an AMAZING light-up TARDIS cake.  It’s not easy at all, but good grief it’s awesome.

So I picked up a copy of Dragon Quest IV tonight, and it is so awesomely old school, I can hardly believe it. I’m like thirty-one flavors of jazzed right now.

I actually got my copy of the first Dragon Warrior game for subscribing to Nintendo Power* which was good, because I don’t think I would’ve actually bought a copy. It wasn’t my demographic, wasn’t marketed to me, didn’t look interesting on its own right, I hadn’t gotten into RPGs yet, etc, etc. It took me a while to finally play it, but once I did I was so hooked. Dragon Warrior is still to this day one of my favorite videogames of all time, along with the original Zelda, Super Mario Bros, and ExciteBike (yes, ExciteBike, bite me).

When I lived in North Carolina, and we got snowed in for a week, we spent hours sitting around eating snacks and watching each other play Dragon Warrior. It’s not exactly a spectator game, but that’s still one of my happiest memories. Good thing we had lots of junk food, I imagine nerds are rather quick to turn to cannibalism in a situation like that — and by the time the roads were cleared, man, we were so ready to murder one another, trufax.

So anyway, awesome new top-down RPG makes for a happy bird.

*(Amusing fact, I subscribed to Nintendo Power from issue ONE, and kept my subscription through when F-Zero came out. I even got their little gold subscriber’s wings. Man I wish I still had those!)

Visit the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company, for all your superpower needs!

The Triforce
1/3 Goldschlager
1/3 Banana Liquer
1/3 Sugar Cane Rum

Well, I know what I’ll be serving at our next geek gamer party.

…BRB Kahlua Mocha, Johnny Green, splash of buttercream coffee creamer, top w/ half n half and milk.  IDK what you’d call it but hot damn it’s good.  I feel drunk just thinking about it.  Oh, wait.  I bet it’d be awesome with some cold coffee, over ice.  I’d try it now, but that would require making coffee, and it IS 4AM.

This article from Radar pretty well sums up the problem I have with the iPad, and why, despite being a pretty devoted Apple-phile in the past, probably won’t be buying one anytime soon.  It’s not that it’s not a nifty product, it just isn’t worth it.

“You aren’t buying a computer when you buy an iPad, you are buying a 16GB Walmart store shelf that fits on your lap – complete with all the supplier beat downs, slotting fees, and exclusive deals that go with it – and Apple got you to pay for the building.”

…right, so now I want a cat AND an iPad.

Hirst Books is going to publish my Anthony Ainley biography!
…now I just have to WRITE it!