Space Pirate Podcast #4: MYSTERY BOX CONTEST
This particular MP3 encoded sound treat features the winner of the Mystery Box, Seth Rickards. Ethan and I interview him and also make lots of fart and poop jokes. Standard fare, really.
What happened to the third podcast? I’ll tell you what happned to it! Right at the end of this podcast. You have to listen to the whole thing to find out. 
Seth, winner of the Mystery Box Contest, received his prize earlier this weekend!
How do you say “good day” in Swedish? “Goddag.”
How do you say “a great band” in Swedish? “Dungen.”
I was introduced to Dungen about two years ago when a friend told me about their show that he had seen at his college. (more…)
Nick. Nick Cage. Listen to me. You are a good actor. I didn’t believe it at first, but after Lord of War, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and the Weather Man, you have convinced me. So why, why would you take that belief you’ve so carefully built from hours of flawlessly emotive facial acting, and irregular speech pattern quirkiness only you can provide and smash its unsuspecting skull against the rocks over and over again until you need dental records to identify the mass of blood and viscera that remains at the closing credits of Ghost Rider?
Now, I will say that you may have attempted the best you could with what you had to work with. Dialogue as deep and existentially mind-bending as “I’m gonna take this curse, and use it against you” or, “Don’t let the fear control you. Don’t let the fear control you.” begs the question, why would you let such verbal atrocities escape your very experienced and creative MAW, if you knew, as I think we all knew from the first trailer, that these very words discredited you and left your movie playing a game of unecessary catch up before it even opened?
I wash my hands of you for now.
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At a McDonald’s not too far from here, the following scene unfolded, as horrified mothers shielded the eyes of their babies, and hipster teens took snapshots with their camera phones:
A couple, let’s call them George and Laura, walked in the door and up to the counter. After much deliberation, which certainly did not please the customers behind them, they decided to order two double cheeseburgers for the gentleman and a Tuscan Chicken Salad for the lady. When they received their food, this couple was happy as could be. You could tell by the looks on their faces that George and Laura just could not wait to chow down on this delectable feast.
Or so it seemed.
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Seeing as how we want the site to grow, Dan and I have decided to give you fine fellows some incentive to promote it. It is thereby my pleasure to announce our latest contest!
Your objective is simple - get one person to register on the forums and post at least 5 times. Anyone! In any forum! FIVE TIMES!
Upon the new person’s fifth post, the contest is over and YOU WILL HAVE WON! What exactly have you won I hear you asking? I am afraid I cannot tell you quite yet - it is, you see, A MYSTERY!
Dan and I are so excited with the mystery box, that it will be full of MANY things! Or ONE REALLY BIG THING! Or horrible stinging insects!
The contents of the mystery box are so mysterious that WE don’t even know them! Thats how big this contest is!
So get out there and reel some suckers in! You know YOU love the forums, so share it with others, and win THE MYSTERY BOX!
Most game reviews scope out newly released games, but today I’m taking a look at a blast from the past.
That blast of which I speak is Samurai Shodown (sic) IV: Amakusa’s Revenge, released in 1996 for arcade and Neo Geo.
I have been playing Samurai Shodown games since the early 90’s. I owned the original game for Sega Genesis, but sold it (in retrospect, I wish I had kept it). While browsing Demonoid one day, I came across a torrent for a Windows version of Samurai Shodown 4, and quickly nabbed it. (more…)
Beck has always given us lyrics that make sense in a way that you can’t quite put your finger on – words and descriptions that make you wonder how he sees the world. Verse that makes you think that maybe this guy is an alien trying to tell us something, and one of these days he is just going to blast off and go home.
Traditionally, Beck’s albums stick to abstract concepts that most people pick up on, but can’t quite identify. Odelay was experimental electronica mixed with hard rock and faux rap in Hell. Mutations was folk throwback with deep Latin American undertones. Midnite Vultures was rich people having sex with robots. Like his more recent albums however, The Information is a little more acceptable – a modified version of hip-hop with simple, catchy beats. (more…)
Linux. For most people it’s that barely known other OS. It’s that weird thing that supergeeks know about and think is so much better than Windows. It’s something that doesn’t matter, but that people keep saying will dethrone Microsoft one day. I’m what you would consider a Power User, someone who knows everything about his computer, built the thing himself and can take it from clean format to precision insturment within a day. Someone who uses the keyboard as much as the mouse, knows exactly what everything in Control Panel does. Someone who isn’t just comfortable with Windows, someone who knows it without thinking.
We’re usually the biggest detractors of Windows behind the Apple people. Why? Because we see both sides of the system, we see how intergral this product is to the technolgical world and we see all the flaws that glaringly seem to be continually ignored, or just laughed at. The fact that something the majority of computer users depend on costs so much money it can easily be the biggest expenditure in a custom built midrange system. Things like this bother us, and we take the other things, the Good things for granted. We see the fact we have to leave automatic updates on just to try to reign in security flaws that seem ever multiplying, we don’t see the fact that this automatic system takes over something we would normally worry about. We see it when an updated driver breaks the system, and don’t notice the other 20 drivers that are working without a single hitch. We’re very critical, but it never really occurs to us to leave. Windows, with all its flaws, is safe, dependable, like an old pair of sneakers. There are holes in the toes, and they’re not the most stylish pieces of footwear but you’ve had them forever and they’re as relaxing as can be.
I ended up making the full switch to Ubuntu, a new Linux distrubution that is hailed as very user friendly compared to its brethren, it wasn’t exactly planned, but several unrelated factors caused me to erase my Windows installation completely and put this distribution on my machine instead. (more…)
Welcome to our newest feature, a showcase for musicians who frequent the messageboard. The maiden featured MP3 is done by eamonnforkill. Individually, he’s known as EDD, but Eamonn Donnelly also writes music and plays bass for the Robotniks, a band focused in Baltimore that includes our own Dave Randle (lead vocalist).
Aightchyall, listen up. For dis week’s Pick of da Week, I picked a phat jawn from across the pond.
Of course, by “pond” I mean the Atlantic Ocean and by “phat jawn” I mean an interesting pop-cultural anomaly.
Hip hop is an American verbal art form, plain and simple. Tibet has throat singing, Pakistan has sufi musiqi, and we have that salvo of syllables called hip hop. Rooted in east- and west-coast scenes in the 1980’s, hip hop is now popular all over the world. (more…)
I don’t remember how I got there; like a scene from a nightmare the scene simply unfolded around me, the how or the why inconsequential. The haunted moon lit my retreat beneath a sky whose stars disappeared one by one every night. As I ran through the trees and over rocks I could hear them behind me; the neighing and the braying of the Indianapolis Colts offensive line echoed over the trees, obfuscating their whereabouts as they pursued me through the underbrush. (more…)
The year was 2004… I think.
The setting was Henderson Highschool.
What happened on this time at this place was an event that no one will forget. Or remember. Well, they may have mentioned it anecdotaly to their freinds. One time. I’m not really sure.
The preview that warned an entire generation of an oncoming storm of filth. Nothing could prepare them for THE BLOOD MONSOON [II]!!!
We were way ahead of the making cheesy action movies to be ironically funny curve.
