IndieCade: International Festival Finalist: "The Graveyard"

Thanks to Joystiq for posting this clip.

Here we have one of the finalist for the IndieCade: International Festival. I don't know that it is...or what it is about, but when that song kicks in, it seems to be setting the stage [as if being in a graveyard isn't enough] for something a lot more tense and creepy.

Word is...if you download the beta you get a nice extra twist!

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The Graveyard website

R.I.P "PrideFC", Welcome "Dream Inc"

Wow...that's a lot of old dudes.

As one who is a huge fan and ex-practicioner of what I guess would be called mixed-martial arts now, I still morn the loss of Japan's biggest fighting spectacle; that is Pride FC. Pride was purchased by Zuffa LLC. last year in an attempt to 'consolidate' a then burgeoning sub-culture.  Zuffa is most known for it's american mixed martial arts staple UFC, which is [in this broggers opinion] inferior as far as a company goes in regards to the treatment of their fighters.

For the past couple months I've been watching old footage of Pride fights and thinking about 'what could have been' had Pride been able to capitalize in the same matter as the UFC company. You can click this link for the wiki article on the history of Pride, it is very thorough. Pride has had it's far share of blemishes as well, but the biggest would be its parent company DSE [Dream Stage Entertainment] and its possible dealings with the yakuza.

This isn't a post about the bad though...this is a post about the good and i think possibly great! Feburary marked the start of Dream. One of the founding members and a good majority of the background staff and backers of Pride FC decided to start all over again with Dream. Rekindling the rules and showmanship of what we got to know from Pride.

After The Jump...The most Recent Match: Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic vs Alistair Overeem...

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EnglishRussia - Soviet Trade System

Hmm...how odd.

It really is amazing isn't it?  Well...this photo probably doesn't do it much justice.  Click the linky and be amazed by the photos of a time that should never be forgotten.

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Homophobia In The Gaming Community

[Warning: Explicit Content]

This is an interesting clip and study I heard about a while back from Flynn DeMarco of Gay Gamer.  At the beginning of this clip you'll hear a very small portion of a much larger and more awful collection of DeMarco's recordings while playing your average Halo/Call of Duty/Gears Of War video game.

This isn't surprising I know, this doesn't mean it shouldn't be talked about.  Personally, I'd like to make a recording of all the ridiculous vitriol I've experienced online once a group of people realized I was black. Unfortunately, I have not found the time as of late.

After The Jump The Awful Video and Helpful Advice From Microsoft Xbox Major Nelson...

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EnglishRussia.com - Army Of Estonia

Really feeling the safety from these gents...

Not really much to say after this...

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EnglishRussia.com - Cucumber Pickers Of Belarus

Thanks to the lovely crew over at EnglishRussia I have now been further cultured. I guess this is still an existing job in which there are a couple tractors per farm and people get paid below a decent wage to pick cucumbers for a living.

After the jump...more shots of our cucumber picking friends...

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Freestyle Battle Translated

Ah...now all my college cohorts will finally understand the subtle nuances in this now famous youtube clip.

Original after the jump...

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Hurray For Not Being Blown Up!

We The Best Mang...We Deed It

Although later I am posting another article about the CERN lab itself. If you are reading this then you should know that we, and by we I mean a hand full of physicists and scientist watched two white dots blink on a computer screen. Noticed what's missing? We [and they] did not die! Isn't that awesome!? Not dying rocks! The thing is, this is step one [or step 421] depending on how you look at this of many equally great and dangerous steps to come.

Here's what Alex Higgins [Associated Press] has to add:

"Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe."

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Enough With PAX Already - 2008 Best Of Cosplay

This One Is My Favorite Thus Far...

Hopefully this is it for PAX 08.  It is three days removed and new articles, blog entries and in this case photos keep resurfacing from the show.  Over at Joystiq, Ross Miller has compiled a large list of weirdos lovely cosplayers.  PAX & Joystiq ask you the viewer to click/vote/judge who is the best of the best.

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PAX 2008 - Those Crazy Cosplayers

Okay...you are two steps away from that Icy Blast of Gatorade what do you do?

Being one of many that could not attend PAX '08 this year.  One of many cultures and just all out weird cool communities that comes out in full force is that of the cosplayers.

Thanks to the lovely people of Kotaku [lucky SOB's] we have a photoblog of the Cosplayers who attended the expo. 

Click the lovely lunchlady nurse to start the slideshow.

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