Posts Tagged 2012
Happy Year of the Dragon, True Believers!
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Holiday on January 24, 2012
We missed the Year of the Dragon rounds yesterday. Let’s hope this image of Nextwave‘s Fin Fang Foom makes up for that. Here’s to doing your best to stay out of the dragon’s underpants.
ISS Crew Greets Puny Earthlings 2012 New Year with a Video…FROM SPACE
Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Space, Video on January 2, 2012
Six space station astronauts ushered in 2012 together: European astronaut Andre Kuipers, American Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American Dan Burbank, and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anatoly Ivanishin. According to NASA, the crew will also commemorate Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2012.
The Games We Play: That BioShock Infinite Gameplay Trailer that Everyone has Seen but Us
Posted by mistergroonk in Games, Just Freaking Neat, Trailers on October 15, 2010
Official Synopsis
The events of the game take place in 1912. The player assumes the identity of Booker DeWitt, a disgraced former agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who was dismissed for behavior beyond the acceptable bounds of the Agency. He is hired by mysterious individuals, aware of Columbia’s location, and tasked to invade the air-city and rescue a young woman named Elizabeth, who has been held aboard the air-city for the last twelve years. Though DeWitt finds Elizabeth easily enough, he quickly discovers that Elizabeth is central to the city’s conflict between these two groups, as each faction seeks to use Elizabeth to turn the tide of the conflict in their favor, forcing DeWitt and Elizabeth to trust each other in order to escape. To complicate matters, the pair is chased by “Him”, a large, robotic bird-like creature who had been Elizabeth’s friend over the last twelve years of her imprisonment.
What We Learned:
The past + the future + super powers + conflicting political ideologies = one hell of an awesome looking game!
Why We’ll Play:
- Bird. Summoning.
- Aggressive telekinesis.
- Combo powers.
- Insane graphics.
- Incredible plot.
And that’s just from the 9 minutes Irrational Games showed us.
When’s it coming?
2012. Damn, that’s forever away.
Official site:
http://www.bioshockinfinite.com
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NMANews Asks if Sarah Palin will Run for US President in 2012, Hilarity Ensues
Posted by mistergroonk in LOL, USA, Video, World on July 26, 2010
These video pieces we’ve all come to know and love from NMA News are a hoot. They’re like crudely drawn computer animated video comics to our eye.
The following gives the rundown on ex-governor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin, wanting to run in the 2012 election. We don’t understand one blessed word that’s going on in this video and yet we understand every damn thing that’s going on.
2012 Olympics Mascots Revealed: Amorphous Hunks of Metal Brought Alive via a Rainbow, No Really
Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, Sport, World on May 21, 2010
We’re pretty sure Mighty Orbots needs to be notified.
Olympic committee of making mascots meant to inspire the sportsmanship and challenges of a worldwide sporting event, what have you been smoking? Sure it’s nice you got a group of second graders to participate in the design of the characters. But does it have to look like a bunch of second graders designed the things?
It all began with Izzy, didn’t it? You saw Atlanta throw their hands up in the air in 1996, give up on creativity, and figured this gives you the right to follow suit and no one else would notice or care.
Well, it doesn’t.
Now you go back to the drawing board and start over. Tell the press these metallic future Doctor Who monsters were just a joke. Go to your artists. Wine them. Dine them. Don’t let them leave the gilded dungeon you’ve set up for them until they’ve conceived a proper mascot. A mascot that can be proudly broken down into D&D alignment charts on the side of good, like the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascots.
You have 2 years to right this wrong, London. Don’t make Atlanta’s mistake.
NASA Addresses 2012 Doomsayers, Attacks Insanity with Facts
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, The Future on November 11, 2009
Just a quick post for today. NASA has had enough of this 2012 doom nonsense and seeks to set the record straight.
Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?
A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then — just as your calendar begins again on January 1 — another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.
More sane, rational facts can be found at: 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End?
Even with NASA’s valiant efforts to calm the nutters of the Internets, all we foresee is 3 more years of SyFy and History Channel milking people’s fears with Doomy Dooms of Doom programs. Don’t get us started on John Cusack’s(and many others) bank account padding role in the upcoming Emmerich flick.
Just don’t.
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