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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- For those who want to know what this whole Watchmen thing is about, but don't feel like reading the whole book, here's the condensed version. And those who have read the book will find this image of a cute little Rorschach particularly twisted and disturbing... and funny!
- Do you get irritated by people constantly asking you questions they could easily get the answer to from Google? Here's the website for you! Pretty hilarious. (Via)
- Guns N' Roses' long-awaited new album, Chinese Democracy, has finally materialized. You can listen to the whole thing for free on MySpace.
- Trailer time! We've got The Wrestler, Astro Boy, and Coraline, and they're all quite good.
- A video compilation of all the fatalities in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Woo hoo!
- Software exists that can produce a copy of your house keys based on a half-decent digital photo of said keys. Beware! (Via)
- Very disturbing story about a teen committing suicide live on the internet.
- "Giant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts."
- Looks like an iPhone developer might have paid people to give its application glowing reviews in order to boost sales. Meanwhile, Google's iPhone voice recognition app seems to be having trouble with British accents.
- The universe creation kit, and how it could be scaled up into a gigantic universe generator.
- Gadget heads will definitely want to enter for a chance to win the Wired Wish List Bag.
- Wired has a fun gallery: The Creatures That Ate Hollywood.
- Cinematical lists seven great exports from Down Under.
- Twilight is out, and the review embargo is over! Cinematical takes a look at the latest news on the film, and the general reaction to it, and then offers its own review.
- We all love Obama, but how can we make other things more like him? Obamafy them, that's how!
- Shiny Shiny has a gallery of World of Warcraft T-shirts. Meanwhile, the recently released expansion to the game sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first day of availability, making it the fastest selling PC game in history.
- Looking for a gift for the Star Wars fan who has everything? Consider the R2-D2 fishtank and today's Woot, which is a ridiculous collection of treasures from the Lucasfilm archives. And don't forget to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the worst Star Wars creation ever, the Star Wars Holiday Special!
- Most of us are already bored of discussions of that recently revealed Star Trek footage, so Sci Fi Wire takes on a different topic: the concept art.
- The director of Get Smart has been hired to helm a film version of DC Comics' Captain Marvel. Wow, that's incredibly disappointing. We were kind of hoping that would be a good movie.
- The internet is going interplanetary! (Via)
- The Movie Blog selects the top 100 movies based on books.
- Rumor has it that Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson pitched his take on He-Man to the execs and got the job directing the movie. Only time will tell if this is true, but we hope it is.
- An image from the upcoming Thor animated series.
- We love this Ironing Man T-shirt. (Via)
- A Nintendo 64 stuffed in a Wii. The bidding for this on eBay is at $64 as of this writing. But... why?
- The metareview of Castlevania Judgment includes two thumbs up, and one thumb way, way the hell down. Ouch!
- And now it's time for another episode of "The Japanese Are... Interesting People."
- You can taste the sarcasm while reading Joystiq's post about the announcement of a video game version of the upcoming film Terminator: Salvation.
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MK v. DC: "Heroic Brutality" is officially the lamest thing I've ever seen.
While I definitely see your point, I think it's an almost necessary solution to the problem of including characters who don't kill in a Mortal Kombat game. I'd actually forgotten that they did that when I was watching the video, and as Batman's finishing move was coming up, the comic book geek in me protested loudly: "But Batman would never kill!" So when he then, in fact, did not kill anyone, I actually felt better.
But the lameness emphasizes the point that characters who don't kill should never be integrated into a Mortal Kombat game.
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Good point. They should have gone with Mortal Kombat vs. Marvel Universe. Wolverine has always been totally okay with killing.