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It wasn’t a big shocker that Matthew McConaughey won the best actor award for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club. What is surprising is that he’s come this far as an actor. Before this role, he might have been most known for this timeless line in Dazed and Confused.
But, he’s come a long way since being a borderline pedophile a stoner movie, and this interview could shine some light as to how he’s evolution took place.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat defeated the New York Knicks last night in blowout fashion, winning 108-82. James had a very impressive night, scoring 31 points on 13 of 19 shooting while dishing out 4 assists and grabbing 4 rebounds.
The story of the night however, wasn’t about his stellar performance, but about his attire. LeBron debuted his shiny new black mask that is supposed to protect the broken nose he suffered last Thursday. The media world exploded right when he took the court and his black mask already has a Twitter handle (@LBJ_BlackMask). The comments were endless from him copying Kobe Bryant’s mask from a couple years back to it not being clear so it could hide his receding hairline.
But the most prominent remarks were comparing him to a superhero or evil villain. Well, we had some fun with this and created a few visuals…
South Park: The Stick of Truth is coming out on March 4 and thank goodness it’s only a week away after all of the delays and anticipation. The game is developed by Obsidian Entertainment (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II), but all of the writing and voices are being done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park. The combination of the two parties means that this game will be a finely tuned RPG, while keeping the hilarity of the show and its characters intact. What might be most exciting is that this game will have an open world, which entails that you can finally explore the quiet mountain town on your own. You’ll be able to visit all of its landmarks and more importantly interact with all of the quirky inhabitants. Here is a list of the characters I’m looking forward to mingle with.
The Crab People once dressed up as the guys from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and tried to take over the world, but proved to be unimpressive. I foresee them being early-game enemies, but still cannot wait to hear them chanting “Craaab-People Craaab-People.”
Mr. Hankey has proven to be much more than a talking piece of Christmas poo. In one episode, he almost destroyed the entire town through his kinetic ability to control the sewer system. He will surely be a great weapon to utilize, but I’m more excited to talk to his drunken poo wife, who’s always talking about her husband’s lack of fortitude in the bedroom.
Mr. Gueermo was just in one episode—the High School Musical parody—but made a lasting impression. He was an abusive father of a popular boy that happened to be extremely flamboyant and slaphappy. His bullish attitude combined with his feminine characteristics should make for an entertaining boss battle.
Lemiwinx and his ghost friends should also be fun to interact with, especially after the most recent episode when Lemiwinx killed his brother. That episode really turned the Catatafish into a star with all his bass to mouth jokes. Hopefully he’s come up with a few new fish puns for the upcoming game.
Scott Tenorman is a ginger kid who Cartman has had countless feuds with, —one episode ending with Eric making Scott eat his own parents. It is a fact that ginger kids will be a faction of enemies in this game and Scott is undoubtedly their leader. I just hope he and Cartman have one last great encounter that involves a lot of ginger bashing and fat jokes.
The Raisins Girls are Hooters Girls for elementary school kids, but they have the same effect as their older counterparts. They wear skimpy outfits and flirt with the male customers to get more tips. It should be fun just to walk into that restaurant, not to mention what the girls will do to your character for money.
Kyle’s cousin Kyle is overly stereotypically Jewish. He complains about everything in his whiny, nasally voice and always puts a damper on the gang’s exploits. I’m expecting him to help your character accumulate whatever type of currency they’ll use in the game.
Not a person, but an action that I desperately hope will be included in the game is cheesing. The episode when cheesing became an epidemic in South Park was an instant classic If you’re not in the know, cheesing is sniffing the urine that male cats secrete when they are marking their territory, and it brings the druggies of South Park into a trip of epic proportions.
Nathan is a handicapped kid who hates the gang’s crippled friend Jimmy. In an episode that was based at a camp for special needs children, Nathan tried to sabotage Jimmy’s camp experience with his clumsy friend Mimsy, and hilarity ensued. Oh, and he also gave Jimmy steroids in another episode. This scheming mentally challenged fellow should be a great enemy in this game.
The Christmas Critters were part of Cartman’s sick, twisted mind, and they came to life in the Imaginationland trilogy as well. One scene that will be stuck in my head forever is when they raped Kurt Russell after he ventured through the portal into Imaginationland. You didn’t actually get to see Kurt Russell get penetrated—just heard his screams. But we’re actually going to get to see what they can do in action in the upcoming game.
Manbearpig was great as a fictional character thought up by Al Gore, and even better as a real fictional character in the Imaginationland trilogy. I can’t wait to see how evil and truly heinous he is when he is introduced in the video game.
Tuong Lu Kim is the owner of Citi Wok, a Chinese restaurant in South Park and he might be one of the most underrated and underutilized characters in the show. He’s had multiple personality disorders, dustups with the Chinese mafia and the Mongolians, and has built a great wall around the whole town. But what should be the best part about interacting with him is listening to his amazing accent in which he pronounces his own restaurant as “Shitty Wok”.
I’m most excited about Stan’s dad—Randy Marsh—to see what he brings to the game, because he has quickly become the most enjoyable and hilarious character on the entire show. From getting into fights at baseball games to comparing alcoholism to a terminal illness, interacting with Mr. Marsh should be one of the most entertaining facets of the game.
Mobile games are evolving into continuously running applications that need a constantly ticking clock and your batteries to stay alive just so you can progress in an ongoing virtual world. A new game that is rapidly climbing the iTunes free app chart is HonorBound—an exciting new RPG in which you control a hero and a group of followers on a quest to save the world from hordes of crooks, orcs, ogres, dragons, zombies, and countless other baddies.
The game is very extensive for a free app, not just because there are over 150 levels, but because of the elaborate abilities and skills you need to progress throughout the story. The problem is that, with the running clock, this takes an elongated amount of time.
There are two main reasons for this: The first is that the way you gain more skills and abilities is through a scholar who researches whatever power you pay for. These skills take 15 minutes to an hour for them to be processed so you can learn them. The second and more frustrating reason is that you have an energy bar that depletes after every move you make on your quests and the only way to replenish it is to buy energy packs (which are not cheap) or, you guessed it, wait for it to refill. Because of the running clock, you don’t need to be playing the game for your energy bar to fill up, but it takes 5 minutes per unit (one unit is one move on the playing board).
You can see how deflating this is because you can be right in the middle of a level and then your energy is depleted and you don’t have a spare energy pack in your inventory. After working your butt off to defeat all of the creatures that lurk in this magical virtual world, you’ll have to wait the excruciating real life time to continue on your quest.
This could be very off-putting to gamers across the globe. These days, people don’t have the attention spans for a break in the action that HonorBound makes us endure. Games like Candy Crush Saga are similar in that you have to wait a certain amount of time for your lives to regenerate, but it isn’t so that you can get stuck in the middle of a level. It is also an RPG, not a puzzle game as Candy Crush is, so the way it affects playability is other worldly.
This is one of the major ways that this game will make money—you have to buy energy packs (if you have none) to refill you energy meter to keep on playing. But this could end up being more detrimental to the game’s overall profits because of how severely it affects the flow of play.
There are a couple more minor tweaks that HonorBound could make to maximize its playability, but they are not as noteworthy as the energy meter. Overall, this game has all the elements to be a mobile great, but it could see a drop in popularity unless they alter the hindrance they put on the character’s mobility.
The 70’s were a groovy time, if I’m using that lingo properly. It has literally been a generation since the 70’s started… 44 years ago! This decade was a cultural phenomena from being the mecca of music to introducing new fads to having some of the greatest movies and television shows of all time! It’s crazy just to think how long ago that was! The good news is that there is a game for IOS, Android, and Facebook that tests your knowledge while bringing you back in time to one of the most historically important decades in history called GUESS THE 70’s! These are some of our favorite memories of the 70’s that this game resurrects!
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Even though the NFL season just ended, there is still football being played in America by a former quarterback who has a Super Bowl ring. I’m talking about former New York Giants and Kentucky QB Jared Lorenzen! He was a little overweight back in his “prime”…
and this is him now spinning the ball for the Northern Kentucky River Monsters!
Even more amusing is that he can move around a bit as well!
The biggest sporting event of year was a major dud as the Seattle Seahawks destroyed the Denver Broncos 43-8. The game was never close, as the first play of scrimmage was a safety that was not only shocking, but immediately ruined peoples boxes because of how rare a two-point play is.
Even though the game was underwhelming at best, half of the viewers watch the commercials more intently than the play on the field. But they were major flops as well. The ones that tried to be funny like Tim Tebow taking shots at himself not having a contract, or Cure Auto Insurance playing on Richard Sherman’s antics, were epic fails. But the major theme of the night was sentimentalism, and that is not the right premise for Super Bowl commercials.
This commercial might have been banned because of the lewdness of it, but it still 100 times better than any of the crap that aired last night.
Every year NFL fans rejoice for one day in late January…NFL Media Day! Where media from all across the world come and ask the most RIDICULOUS questions and the players give the most Ridiculous answers! But 2014 media day for the Seahawks and Broncos takes the prize!
For instance, Youtube stars like Lil’ Cousin Terio makes an appearance…
Oooh, kill ’em … #MediaDay pic.twitter.com/9DgBN50tUk
— Bart Hubbuch (@HubbuchNYP) January 28, 2014
and more random characters that have no business being at a media event.
As usual, there were plenty of characters at Media Day. Click here for more photos: http://t.co/BPBgERYx2m. pic.twitter.com/z9oi8izQe4
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) January 28, 2014
And then there are some media members that usually wouldn’t be at a football press conference:
Mexico’s TV Azteca strikes again at Media Day! pic.twitter.com/iFwcXRSoGP
— Bart Hubbuch (@HubbuchNYP) January 28, 2014
But, all of the unprofessionalism this day entails comes to light through the mediocrity of the questions asked:
Captain obvious fires off his first query…
Some guy at media day just asked Shaun Phillips if he considers this a must-win game. Check, please.
— Sam Farmer (@LATimesfarmer) January 28, 2014
Then some creep desires an vivid image to think about when he’s alone…
#Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas was asked which celebrity he’d prefer to have a 1 night stand with
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) January 28, 2014
And an even bigger creep squeezes in a question…
And so Danny Trevathan was just asked whether he’d rather see Andy Reid or Mark Mangino in a thong. (He declined to answer)
— Ben Shpigel (@benshpigel) January 28, 2014
But the man who everyone wanted to hear from was asked what was on everyone’s mind…
Someone asked Richard Sherman if he had anything to say to/about Justin Bieber. After cracking up Sherman just replied “I don’t” #MediaDay
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) January 28, 2014
…then he was finally asked the zinger of the day.
RIchard Sherman was asked about making it rain on strippers. His answer was outstanding – http://t.co/VllGkXPIEy
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) January 28, 2014
Not a fan of football? Either way you still knew about the Seattle Seahawks beating the San Francisco 49ers because of Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. And though that rant was epic and Erin Andrews’ face was priceless… these rants that athletes, coaches, media members and even fans go on was just as entertaining as Sherman’s. than the actual sporting events they are referring to. The following are the most absurd, comical, maybe idiotic, but definitely enjoyable sports rants in history.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, this is what we’re referring to:
He has a history of retaliating at people who talk about him behind his back…
Speaking of ESPN First Take analysts being mocked, Jay Pharoah does a spot on Steven A. Smith impression without forgetting to include his claims of how personally close he and some basketball superstars are.
This rant is so eloquent, some people (mainly bitter Knicks fans) could perceive it as a religious sermon. NSFW
Mike Tyson begins his victory speech with a short praise to Mohammed…but then goes in a completely different direction…
When the emotions of the game are taken right off the field and put in front of a microphone and camera you get a post-game interview. Now, combine that with the most stressful job in all of sports, you get some of the best pieces of live television in history. Courtesy of…
Dennis Green
Mike Gundy
Herm Edwards
…and of course Jim Mora
But, the coaches who actually have the most to work with and can have the most showmanship are the men who probably have the most laid back coaching position in sports: baseball managers.
Just because it’s the minor leagues doesn’t mean Phil Wellman had a minor meltdown….
Sometimes one fan gets more enjoyment out of a manager’s tirade than the rest.
No matter where they are though, baseball managers love to use props…
But for the future Hall of Famers, like Jim Leyland, all they need is their charismatic selves…
Hand in your cable box and start saving money…streaming video games is the ‘new’ HBO…
Twitch.tv – you’re welcome.
An online video streaming website that is solely dedicated to video games? Yes, that’s right. Twitch.tv has gotten so popular it’s taking the spotlight from primetime TV shows on MTV, TNT, and AMC, say Yahoo! News. But why on earth are people watching other people play video games over shows like Breaking Bad and Teen Mom?!
Currently, AMC’s most popular show is The Walking Dead, which gets plenty of tune-ins per night. The reality though…zombies walking around at a pace that’s as slow as its plot is not worthy of my ‘primetime’ TV hours. This clip proves my point.
People–such as myself–would rather be watching games like “Left 4 Dead 2.” A zombie game that not only doesn’t go at a snails-pace, but provides some intertwining jokes and thrills simultaneously.
And then there is TNT’s hit show, Franklin & Bash. You know…that show with the guy who played Zach Morris on Saved by the Bell? The sitcom about two male lawyers that tries to comically play on male stereotypes…but fails MISERABLY…
Well Twitch.tv has Rizzoli & Isles. A show about 2 female police officers that tries to break stereotypes about women…
And people like me that just can’t get enough crime drama in their TV viewing lives will certainly enjoy some Grand Theft Auto V.
Let’s face it – the MTV of ‘old is certainly not the MTV of ‘new.’ From the go-to station for music and pop culture…to the channel that exploits the now un-explainable social norms through reality TV.
