Apparently PC widescreen displays aren’t wide enough
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The residents of Tuscarora, Nevada are getting ready to fight the annual invasion of mormon crickets with the power of Rock-N-Roll. Trial and error has shown that the crickets don’t think much of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. The residents circle the town with boomboxes at regular intervals to drive off the millions of [...]
I’m fairly certain “Batman and Robin” was never actually unleashed on the public in 1080p super-crisp-bat-nipple-ocular-assault format, but the possibility alone is enough to make me wear a welder’s mask at all times. If you are foolish enough to watch “BatNips” please do so through an [...]
26 Apr
Posted by: farlander in: News from Farlander
GameFly, the enormously successful rent-video-games-by-mail service, filed an official complaint yesterday with the Postal Regulatory Commission over the treatment of the games it ships, saying its costing them a fortune in broken discs.
The Los Angeles-based company says that the United States Postal Service is responsible for breaking between one and two percent of 590,000 video [...]
Cheap games. Real Talk.
In this day and age, any kind of anything you can land for is good. That’s because hardly buys anything of value anymore. It does get ten things off the dollar menus, but is that really good? I mean, it costs to stick your luggage on a f’n airplane! [...]
22 Apr
Posted by: farlander in: News from Farlander
Poor Matthew Perry. First, he gets trotted out on ABC’s The View to promote the new movie 17 Again where he plays an old version of teen star Zach Efron. Second, he gets poked and prodded by the various deleterious hosts of the show. And finally, he gets quickly ushered offstage after admitting to playing [...]
22 Apr
Posted by: farlander in: News from Farlander
LG’s always done a good job supporting DivX in its players and TVs, so this morning’s press release announcing that the company will offer 1080p DivX support in its latest gear isn’t all that surprising — we’re mostly excited because it suggests that the latest round of LED-backlit LCDs will arrive in “late May and [...]
Has your computer ever crashed? No, I mean REALLY crashed? Like from 10,000 feet? Well, here’s the story of a Mac that did and lived to tell the tale.
Above: Oh don’t worry, that will buff right out.
When a Turkish Airways Flight crashed in Amsterdam earlier this year, killing nine people and injuring 121 [...]
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It seems like our Black Doom Awards are fertile grounds for comic ideas! Obviously, Ray’s Black Doom Award this week was the inspiration for the comic. It was fun to think through what Sonic’s page would really look like if he were real (sorry Ray, he’s not), although Ray would probably agree here [...]
16 Apr
Posted by: farlander in: News from Farlander
eldavojohn writes “Yesterday, GamePolitics ran an interesting story about the Utah Senate President threatening Jack Thompson with the CAN-SPAM Act. You might recall Utah being Jack’s last hope and hold-out after being disbarred in Florida and more or less made a mockery everywhere else. Well, from Utah’s Senate Site, we get the picture of what [...]