Monday, October 15, 2012

A Flight of Links

Monday is link-day, as usual!

- You wouldn't believe this, but Race for the Iron Throne is back for Sansa I.
-  Cracked has a list of the six most mind-blowing and pointless achievements in video games, and believe me, they're mindnumbling pointless.
- Remember UFO:Enemy unknown? The Escapist reviews the remake.
- You won't believe this until you saw it: the Ohio State University Marching Band performs a giant dedication to video games in the halftime of the football game. I can't make out all figures, so if you want to help, comment ahead! Space Invaders, Tetris, Mario, Halo and Pacman are clear, but the rest?
- Apparently, they're doing a new Die Hard movie...with Bruce Willis...yeah...after the total disaster that was part four, this one can only get better.
- The most obvious difference between North and South Korea is, of course, StarCraft, courtesy by the Oatmeal.
- The Escapist interviews the makers behind the remake of Tomb Raider. They talk much about storytelling in video games, which is a big topic of mine, so expect some larger post about this in the future. Watching the trailers, what I find really annoying is the high-pitched moaning whenever she gets hurt, and she gets hurt a lot. But the game really looks interesting. They already have a review of the first demo, and it sounds pretty good.
- Several prominent people made an ad for women reproductive rights, includig Kevin Bacon. Ads like this are a strange sight for me all the time since celebrities don't get involved into politics here like this.
- Alyssa talks about women in "Dredd" and really makes me wanting to see the movie.
- 8 movies made possible by extremely incompetent characters
- One does not simply warg into Hodor, says Butterfly, and rightly so. I linked the site in the sidebar permanently, so check it out!
- Same goes for "Kings have no friends". I'm just starting to read the damn pages this tumblr already has, but this post got my attention for sure. Reading along, I also recommend this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and FUCK I DID THE WHOLE BLOG IN ONE EVENING. I don`t necessarily agree with all of it, but it's sure worth the read.
- PBS takes on the idea that playing D&D can enhance your success in real life. To drive the point home, a personal story: friend of mine works at Boston Consulting, and when he applied there, he listed playing an especially epic campaign in our P&P in his vita. His interviewer played the same game, and they chatted along nicely about it and the campaign during the interview. Needless to say, he got the job.
- Alyssa talks about the real problem with Pokémon and animal abuse in light of a new PETA campaign.
- Alyssa, again, talks about casting women for action roles that match the physical requirements, citing Katee Sackhoff in BSG as a great example, which I wholeheartidly support.
- Yet again a political ad with celebrities, this time for bipartisanship and not "letting politics divide us", courtesy by Sean Penn and Kid Rock. It gathered some hate at MovieBob`s, but I'm not exactly sure for what. I found it rather entertaining.
- Very useful: 5 weapon myths you probably believe thanks to movies

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