undead astronauts

the world record score on donkey kong is now held not by either of the two guys in this movie. he’s Hank Chien… who practices as a plastic surgeon in his spare time. yup, this guy is a hardcore asian i tell u. hard. freaking. core.

i think they struck oil w/ this character!! his face reminds me a bit of apocalypse.

bah, damn those copyright bitches that take down better quality vids.

addendum: i first started paying attention to lxd b/c it was organized by jon m. chu and choreographed by harry shum jr. but the artistry is what keeps my attention now. these guys are pushing street dance into high art territory. they belong in an opera house. it’s amazing.

check it out here. haven’t tried it yet.

UPDATE: i’ll leave a unhyperlinked link, but caveat emptor as malware has been associated w/ this.

http://www.gossipgamers.com/starcraft-2-beta-cracked-available-for-download

for the sf nuts who can’t get enuf, here u go. scaled down sf4 for the iphone is coming out and will feature bluetooth pvp. that’s just awesome. anyways, i’m just wondering if they’ll make an iphone adaptor for my madcatz stick.

having said that, i tried sf2 on my previous phone w/ a keypad and the controls were extremely clunky. not sure how far touch screen will go in remedying that issue. it may be easier to get the moves off, but i can’t imagine that it’ll be easy to see what’s going on w/ ur fingers in the way.

so i missed season 4, but i heard it wasn’t anything special. season 5 is here however and this crew caught my eye. these guys were hilarious and won the west coast regionals.

Confirmed by Blizzard.

“Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that it will have a pre-release multiplayer beta of the much anticipated StarCraft 2 ready by the end of the month.

Better still, according to Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, the full game is still on track for a international release at some point in the middle of this year.

“We are slated to begin closed beta testing this month,” Morhaime told investers, according to ShackNews, promising that the beta would be available to players from multiple countries”

Source,

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2010/02/11/starcraft-2-beta-launching-this-month/1

http://www.denverpost.com/husted/ci_14313203

Yeah, this is epic. Pretty awesome of fighters Bravo, Torres, and Trigg to help the kid out.

in the past couple of weeks, i’ve had a greatly increased desire to understand football strategy and tactics. my alma mater has had a banner recruiting year, and a particular formation that our offensive coordinator gus malzhan has brought back into fashion is generating buzz in the NFL and even the dollhouse. the task of learning and understanding was problematic however as football is one of the more complex sports games ever devised.

i had taken to watching youtube vids, reading wiki entries, and even watching eyeshield 21 to get a better feel for strategy. i figured, however, the best way to learn would be playing something like madden on the 360. i just hadn’t gotten around to buying it.

and lo and behold, i read this article today which basically says even pro athletes use madden to learn the game. not only that, apparently playing the game has changed on field tactics. (more…)

Actually called GNILLEY, here is a game where you scream to solve puzzles and kill enemies.

http://www.globalgamejam.org/2010/gnilley

Through my daily trolling of the WoW forums I found an epic thread.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4665323890&sid=1&pageNo=1

past studies have shown that women prefer symmetrical men’s dancing style to non-symmetrical men. a new study shows that testosterone levels affect who the opposite sex is attracted to.

The results showed that women gave the highest attractiveness ratings to men with the highest levels of prenatal testosterone. The men with the lowest testosterone in turn got the lowest attractiveness ratings. “Men can communicate their testosterone levels through the way they dance,” Lovatt told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “And women understand it — without noticing it.”

In women, the link between dancing style and testosterone levels were similar — but the reaction of men was just the opposite. Dancers with high levels of testosterone moved more parts of their body, with their movements being somewhat uncoordinated, while those with lower testosterone made more subtle movements, especially with their hips. The male students found the latter style most appealing…

The men who got the female students hot under the collar danced with large movements which were “complexly coordinated.” But it’s a fine line between hot and not, however: Those men who made big moves but who were less coordinated came across as dominant alpha males — and were unlikely to win women’s hearts. The researchers also found that the size and complexity of the dance moves decreased in parallel with testosterone levels.

i’m not sure it should be surprising to anyone that females are more impressed by males who can perform “complexly coordinated” moves. guys who do those moves are probably bboys and poppers. what guys want may be slightly less clear, but still shouldn’t be too surprising. guys want girls who have a subtle dance and shake their hips. rrrumpshaker anyone? okay, i suppose that’s not exactly subtle. but the hips are sure there. how about nobody?