Monthly Archive: August 2012

Aug 31

Nerds on the Rocks 107: The World Ends With You

Nerds on the Rocks 107 takes a slightly darker twist as Nicholas leads the gang in a discussion on end of the world scenarios. Do we want to see a future ravaged by zombies? Humans being taken out by trees that have decided to fight back? Or worst of all, a naked Kevin Nash running …

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Aug 31

151 Proof Animation: Batman: The Animated Series Drinking Game

151 Proof is a brand (ti’s also a level of alcohol content), but for the most part we’ve kept it related to movies. With Trent and Ryan taking over responsibilities this week, and with the 20th anniversary looming, we thought to stretch our arms out a bit and give Batman: The Animated Series the ole …

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Aug 30

151 Proof Movies: Silent Hill Drinking Game

[151 Proof Movies is our unique way of viewing some of cinema’s most famous and infamous movies. We offer you some drinking rules to enhance your experience, and generally give you an update after we test the rules ourselves] Generally speaking, Swan and I tend to do these movies after setting up the rules, but …

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Aug 30

151 Hangover: Showgirls Review

[After creating and then testing the drinking rules, Swan and Penguin recap their adventures with the movie. Offering their thoughts on the quality of the film itself, as well as how the drinking rules held up, and if worth using.] Showgirls has become a bit of a cult-classic after it’s initial, somewhat lackluster run in …

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Aug 29

Batman The Animated Series and I

Batman: The Animated Series. What is there to say about the show that you don’t already know? We absolutely love the show here on the site. It has been our featured theme at least 3 different times, and it is currently the main poll on the site. With the show turning 20 in just about …

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Aug 29

Review Shooter: Demigods

Writer: Jesse Grillo Artists: Luigi Teruel, Robert Grant and Heather Breckel There’s an old expression, “there’s nothing new under the sun.” The expression usually means that there aren’t new stories. Anything that has had, will happen again. I couldn’t help but thinking of this expression while reading Demigods. The book really doesn’t do anything new, in fact …

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Aug 29

Ask a Dork: Video Game Graphics

When it comes to games what are graphics? Do you value artistic or technical achievement more? What do you think of the retro movement? Gotta love the weeks where I get multitudinous questions. To ensure that I don’t get accused of long-winded, pedantic ranting, I’m going to break this article up into to-the-point segments. Graphics …

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Aug 28

Just Imagine… FLUDD The Video Game

The GameCube may not have been Nintendo’s most successful consoles, but it may have been their most experimental in terms of their core franchises. Metroid turned into a First Person Adventure game (their term), The Legend of Zelda took on a Saturday morning look and Super Mario decided to take a vacation on Delfino Isle. …

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Aug 28

Bar Banter: Fanboy and You

Words are a powerful tool. They can be used to hurt, to heal, to confront or to comfort. Words themselves are hardly the culprit though, it is the people who wield them and how they wield them that cuts to the meat of the matter. I bring this up because I feel at times that …

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Aug 27

Dual Wielding 81: Dearly Beloved Last Story

Daniel is moving into his housing for school and Martin is off being an international man of mystery so Earl and Jason recruits Paul for this week’s show. Paul brings along impressions of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and tries to explain the story! Jason is checking out The Darkness II and seems high on …

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