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TR Contest: Tweets from the Death Star

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​I have a pretty great boss. He's Bill Jensen, director of new media for the Village Voice Media empire. Occasionally he asks me to whore things do things, but mostly he leaves me alone, which as any employee can tell

I Want to Hang Out with This Guy

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I was actually set to knock him a letter grade because he was a little off-tune at a couple of points during his Super Mario Bros. medley, then I realized he was beat-boxing with his mouth and doing the melody

Four, Maybe Five Second of Live-Action Blue Beetle Action

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One of the animators who worked on that live-action Blue Beetle TV show test footage that Geoff Johns mentioned the other day apparently released a demo reel of his work into the wild, and it contains a tiny snippet of

Fan Fiction Friday: Optimus Prime and Princess Leia in "Love Beyond Circuits, Love Beyond Flesh"

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​I'm in a good mood today. Also, today is apparently a young Topless Roboteer named Nikki's birthday, and she very politely asked me to run a ComicsNix story to celebrate. I'm a sucker for politeness, and it's been a while

Scarface Is Doing All Right for Himself

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Those of you who are about to take a lunch break -- I highly recommend nuking your Lean Cuisine and coming right back to watch this great 30-minute Batman fan film called "City of Scars" from Bat in the Sun

Keep Your Distance from this Lego Shuttle, But Don't Look Like You're Trying to Keep Your Distance

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​Gizmodo has the exclusive reveal of Lego's massive/expensive Star Wars set for the year, and it's a 2500+ piece version of the Imperial Shuttle. It comes with five mini-figs, as you can (kind of) see, and will be available in

Adrien Brody Might Be a Sexual Tyrannosaurus After All

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A lot of nerds raised a skeptical eyebrow when Adrien Brody was cast in the lead in the Predators movie. Despite King Kong, which was more about running than fighting, Brody just doesn't seem like much of an action hero

River Tam Makes a Compelling Argument

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​Remember the Tonner Captain Mal figure I posted yesterday? Well, oddly (in the sense that I haven't heard about any Firefly merchandise in years and here are two items in two days), some company called Quantum Mechanix is releasing a

Portal 2 Has More Than Portals

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Not an E3 trifecta, I swear! But of all the games I mentioned this week of TR, I think they only one everyone agreed to be excited for was Portal 2. So I decided to throw up another video, this

The 15 Cruelest Deaths in Star Trek History

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​One of the traits Star Trek is best known for is its penchant to creatively and profusely kill off characters to strange new alien threats and other dangers; it's how "redshirts" entered the pop culture lexicon as s synonym for

Hitler Does Not Want to Experience Bij

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You! The Nazi dictator who is moving! Answer me! The one who is moving! EXPERIENCE BIJ! (Thanks to Dave for the tip)

Shove It Down Your Damn Hobbit-Hole

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​Just a reminder: There's a bunch of Hobbit-holes currently in New Zealand, just waiting for someone at MGM to get their shit figured out long enough so somebody can direct a Hobbit movie. Seriously; although no one's currently in charge

E3 "Hate" Trifecta: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Final Fantasy XIV, Tron: Legacy

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Last E3 trifecta, I swear. Probably. I mean, unless something else happens. • Goddammit, this 3-D Castlevania game is such a God of War rip-off it's making me literally nauseous with hate. Same fucking combat, same fucking

Geek Apparel of the Week: Robot Rollcall and One Pieces

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​• I've owned maybe five Mystery Science Theater 3000 themed t-shirts in my life, and the only reason I don't own more is because I can't find more. Long story short, you're looking at #6. It even features Cambot! It's

Wow

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This is the international trailer for Scott Pilgrim Versus the World.Just... wow.

E3 "Love" Trifecta: The Old Republic, Crackdown 2, DC Universe Online

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• This cinematic trailer for Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO contains no gameplay and is not as cool as their first trailer, and it's still the coolest fucking thing you'll see all day. I swear Bioware should stop

The Reavers Have Made a Firefly/Captain Mal Figure

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​Oh, my bad. That's a Tonner doll. I just looked at the figure briefly and assumed it was the kind of toys a race of insane space-faring cannibals might construct in their free time when they're not eating people. You

Huh, They're Still Making Narnia Flicks

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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerReally, I had no idea. I thought Prince Caspian kinda tanked, and so Disney had either given up the Narnia movies altogether or planned to release the next one on DVD, but here's Voyage of the

Warp 11 Plays the Wrong Cantina

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The lovely gents (and lass) of the Star Trek-themed sex rock band Warp 11 sent me this video, which is apparently the opening to a pilot TV episode about the band. It doesn't appear to have gone anywhere, although that

Christopher Lee's 10 Greatest Roles (That Aren't Dracula)

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​As the BBC cult show Snuff Box once pointed out, Christopher Lee is a sexy man god. He's also a global treasure, a living legend, a heavy metal icon, a Tolkien scholar and a seemingly genuine guy who is