Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:08 am

I'm not sure if this has come up before, but I just watched the most recent Community and Outsourced on Hulu.

FANTASTIC

Shazbot79 · Post by **Shazbot79** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:44 am

So I'm not the biggest anime fan in the world...I happen to think that the vast majority of it is complete ass. However, there are a few series that I really like, so I tend to keep an eye out for up and coming shows in case anything strikes my fancy.

One recent show that has blown me away is called "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica".

It's a magical girl show, much like Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura...only this one is VERY different, which is apparent from the very scene of the first episode wherein a magical girl is fighting a giant monstrosity through a ruined cityscape with operatic synthrock playing in the background.

The action takes place in a dark, nightmare universe full of abstract images and cryptic Germanic runes. This is some weird, insane, Lovecraftian stuff.

The series is only 3 episodes in, and the 3rd episode...oh god just...the third episode.

It's beginning to look like this show will do for the magical girl genre what Neon Genesis Evangelion did for giant super-robot shows.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:02 pm

You know, Lago, thank you.

Quite a while back, you provided a link to the Brick Testament.

It's been something to read ever since.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

I kinda like how it lets the crazy parts of the Bible speak for themselves.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:11 am

Maxus wrote:You know, Lago, thank you.

Quite a while back, you provided a link to the Brick Testament.

It's been something to read ever since.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

I kinda like how it lets the crazy parts of the Bible speak for themselves.

THe "God cut of man's penis" and "jacob fights god" is AWESOME.

Also "Reuben's incest."

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:01 am

Cynic wrote:
Maxus wrote:You know, Lago, thank you.

Quite a while back, you provided a link to the Brick Testament.

It's been something to read ever since.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

I kinda like how it lets the crazy parts of the Bible speak for themselves.
THe "God cut of man's penis" and "jacob fights god" is AWESOME.

Also "Reuben's incest."

My favorite is "God Kills 50,070 Israelites" but it helps to read Saul from the beginning.

I also like how Isaac is still traumatized after Abraham is ready to sacrifice him

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:26 am

So there's a new show on NBC called Harry's Law, and in the second episode they introduced a lawyer character that I swear is based on that Old Spice commercial that was just mentioned in the book thread. I wish I could find a clip of it because it's hilarious.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:40 pm

I saw Machete this weekend and loved it. I both how ridiculously over the top it is, and how it makes fun of itself the whole way through. The end battle was really too over the top, but by that point, I was several beers into the movie, so I didn't really care.

Maj wrote:So there's a new show on NBC called Harry's Law, and in the second episode they introduced a lawyer character that I swear is based on that Old Spice commercial that was just mentioned in the book thread. I wish I could find a clip of it because it's hilarious.

I just heard about that yesterday on NPR. They had Kathy Bates on the show.

Vnonymous · Post by **Vnonymous** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:25 pm

I went to the Big Day Out pretty recently.

Crystal Castles, PNAU, Ladyhawke, Andrew WK, Deftones, Iggy and the Stooges, Tool, Primal Scream, Die Antwoord and RAMMSTEIN, all seen live.

Rammstein were amazing. Til Lindeman set a stage hand on fire, and rode a giant penis cannon around the stage as it spewed out fake snow. Fantastic music and an amazing show to boot.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:59 pm

RobbyPants wrote:
Maj wrote:So there's a new show on NBC called Harry's Law, and in the second episode they introduced a lawyer character that I swear is based on that Old Spice commercial that was just mentioned in the book thread. I wish I could find a clip of it because it's hilarious.
I just heard about that yesterday on NPR. They had Kathy Bates on the show.

Yeah, Bates is the main character. It's acerbic curmudgeon meets the warm fuzzies, wrapped up in a show about the legal system. I like it, though some parts can be a little too saccharin.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:24 am

Today's goblins.

"That's right, I'm adick"
"wait."

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:33 am

Inception and its plot.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:50 am

The Submachine games. Trippy, almost nightmare fuelish (good thing I'm not claustrophobic or bothered by isolation) Myst play-style point and click flash games.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:32 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:The Submachine games. Trippy, almost nightmare fuelish (good thing I'm not claustrophobic or bothered by isolation) Myst play-style point and click flash games.

Neat. I wish I could actually see enough of the game to click anything. Are these supposed to be played at night with all the lights turned out?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:05 pm

I played it during the day and had no problems. What's up with your display?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:54 am

I may just be a bit slow on this, but reading TVTropes handed me the pieces.

So, in the Harry Potter books, goblins have had lots of bloody fights with the (mostly only british on-page) wizards who treated them like shit until some particularly big fight where the two reached some kind of agreement and now they're essentially chums, even though the ones in charge still tend to treat each other like crap?

Am I the only one to interpret this as a very cynical view of British-American relations? (ignoring Tony Blair being, as far as I can tell, a stand up chap. Makes him Dumbledore, I guess.)

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:08 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:(ignoring Tony Blair being, as far as I can tell, a stand up chap. Makes him Dumbledore, I guess.)

Tony Blair is a can of ass in a bucket of ass.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:32 pm

Always seemed alright to me. I don't pay much attention to the world stage, though, unfortunately. I've been meaning to pay more attention.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:11 am

http://www.himmapan.com/himmapan_creatures.html

I always thought that the hindu pantheon had some the weirdest and crazy creatures. But, no, the Thai leave the Hindu pantheon to shame. A lot has been influenced by hinduism but, shit, those crazy bindi-slinging, curry-eating relatives of mine have nothing in comparison to Thai mythos.

I mean, shit, an Elephant with a hundred heads which all have a hundred trunks.

An elephant that has fins and is part dragon?

An elephant that is a fish withan elephant head?

Also rhino based creatures.

And there are some more elephant based creatures.

Plus they have giant crab based cretures. It's like a bad Japanese monster flick come to life.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:58 pm

I am not as familiar with thai mythology as I would like (or really, any southeast asian culture). I enjoy reading stuff like that.

I scraped together some money and rented Splatterhouse for the 360.

It's ulta-violent and you collect nekkid pictures of your kidnapped girlfriend on the way. However, the comments the terror mask makes really adds something to the experience (otherwise, I'd consider it a mediocre beat-em-up). That, and tearing a zombie's arm off and using it to beat other zombies to death is pretty amusing.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:19 pm

Evelyn Salt kicks ass. Serious fucking ass.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:06 pm

The Japanese theme for Pokemon (or one of them) implies there may be pokemon "under that girl's skirt." This now makes the clip of pikachu running between a girl's legs make more sense...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:23 am

PKIHFSBUIYGF)UFY

DIGGER ENDED.

I'm happy that it's wrapped up. But also feeling...well, damn.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:40 am

Maxus wrote:I'm happy that it's wrapped up. But also feeling...well, damn.

Certainly better than getting stuck in limbo, like it happens with other webcomics, but... well, damn.
Also: HERO updated!

Once. Since May 2010.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:33 am

Girl Genius has been redeeming itself with this bit on the Jagers. I especially like today's, with the Jager generals describing the exact relationship between the Heterodynes and Jagers. And how the Jagers feel about the Other.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:39 am

The Company of Wolves is apparently a great date movie if your date is kind of twisted.

Undercover Blues is absolutely amazing, in addition to reminding us all just how '80s the early '90s were.