You Gotta Start Somewhere

Written by Ben on October 20, 2006 | No Comments

What’s life like around BadPopcorn? Well, it’s geeky to say the least. But “normally odd, oddly normal” feels like an apt description of us. And while writing is one way we communicate about our life, our work, and our thoughts, I don’t always think it’s the best way to relate. Another way? Well, let’s try it with Our Talky-Bits: Episode 1– Hey, you gotta start somewhere with this new audio-thingy-a-ma-bopper-medium.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to post the Podcast

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So, there’s gonna be a podcast. Our podcasts are called Our Talky-Bits…or at least they were called that when I was writing the post about them.
Most of said post was written with Bennie looking over my shoulder…I’m not saying he was telling me to write the post diferent, but he was. Buttmunch made me take out the part where I acknowledge that we might simply lose interest. Which is fair, because we have yet to abandon a project due to disinterest. (italics mean sarcasm:) ). Silver lining, I originally had a typo when I called him a buttmunch, and he fixed it. Words fall short of describing the feeling that gives one, though “/giggles” comes close.

Long story short, my post died, Bennie described it as Wishy-Washy and not self-confident. As with everything I enjoy, it was absolutely dripping with self deprication. Which is not, in and of itself, lacking in confidence. I was quite confident of the deleterius comments I had written, one could even say supremely confident.

So, yeah. The OTB is either currently up, or going up soon. It is short, and at least moderately comical, like my Man Parts ( No way in Hell I’m letting that line die, Ben). I assure you, gentle reader, that short does not mean un-funny, Shakespeare once said “Brevity is the soul of wit” at about one minute our wit has soul…and is Super-Bad.

That was vengence against Benny for killing my LL Cool J reference in the original post…he just don’t know ‘cuz he not from ‘da streets.

Both this post, and the deleted post that inspired it were written on a Devil Machine which was apparently named for the archfiend that first envisioned it the Dark Lord Mc Intosh. Trust me no fouler beast has ever been borne, I mean the machine, not the demon. Demons get a bad rap, they can all Cut and Paste with the proper button combinations, you know the ones.

So…The point? Listen to OTB Webisode one: You Gotta Start Somewhere. As long as we don’t get Deth Threats there will be more to follow…maybe with midgets, and a dash of Cayenne.

Just one last thing.

You Down with OTB?!

-Aaron “Yeah You Know Me” Adams

Heroes Tonight!…nah not the bar…

Written by Aaron on September 25, 2006 | 1 Comment

It’s a new show on NBC…In my opinion, the only show on NBC.

I am running short on time…

Watch it! I will make myself available for your Disdain If I have steered you wrong on this…but my m oney is on this being good. The JApanese character’s name is Hiro! HIRO! It’s genius!

BTW Ben told me over the weekend that the first episode was downloadable before it was aired on the itunes…it was a dirty hoax and part of an apple plot to get me to sully my lucious PC with their software. The episode will apparently be available for download after it airs.

A must see

Written by Aaron on September 5, 2006 | 3 Comments

So…everyone knows about youtube.com by now…

This is my first Youtube must see

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8

Man… I wish I could post youtube links that appear here on our page that you can watch here…

Ben! smart me up on how to do that, and be quick about it. But watch that video first…you will suddenly understand all of the comments we dropped at the BBQ Saturday.

-Aaronbrochill17

[EDITED by Ben: The embedded youtube video was messing up the site's layout, I removed it and put the link back in.]

More

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My buddy Jin sent me this link to a short movie called More. It was made in 1998 and is a little weird. I dunno I liked it, maybe you will too.

More

Firefly and Serenity Documentary

Written by Ben on August 30, 2006 | No Comments

Done the Impossible is the title of a documentary about how my favorite canceled show (Firefly) turned into a movie… Free download!

BitTorrent Link: http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/done-the-impossible.torrent

world peace

Written by Moe on August 20, 2006 | 1 Comment

Some see world peace is a myth, others perceive it as the solution for most (if not all) of the world’s problems. A few hold both opinions true and regard world peace as a myth to problems with no solutions. An even smaller group believe world peace are the words “world” and “peace” used respectfully after each other to assemble a phrase, or maybe sentence, that should only be used in books made for the dead, the guy who wrote Tuesday With Morrie or the authors of He Isn’t That Into You. Contrary to popular belief, world peace is possible and has even been accomplished on a different planet. Although the planet’s inhabitants have all been destroyed, a sad but amusing irony, notes concerning their world peace era have been found and decrypted. A translation is below. The translators notes will be in italics to aid the reader in understanding the translation.

The solution to world peace has been found like a black cat is found in a dark room. Completely by accident and, at first, fought back with a few kicks to the heads. It appears their cats had more then one head but, as far our research shows, still nine lives. This great achievement can not be credited to peace activist, world leaders, or any other gimbling for that matter. A gibling is what we could call a human. Before the great awakening the gibling rabk was in a horrible state. Rabk means race, but not like a race that you run but more a race of people. This is kind of consfusing, I see why the giblings went with rabk. Two key aspects led to the achievement of world peace; survival and hate. On the fourth moon of the 23 month a startling discorey was made by Canadian scientist. Is it more ironic that the giblings had a group of people called Canadians or that these Canadians did something important? The world stood still as the scientist described an alien species which was planning an attack on gblith. Gblith was what they called their planet. Gblings at first paniced but soon came together to fight a common enemey. That is all we needed. All the giblings needed a common enemy to direct their hate towards. Turns our the Jedi were wrong all this time, hate can be used for good. A enemy of my enemy is my friend. Yes, the jedi are real. Wars in the Right West soon stopped and a global g-unti miltary was made. Racist from green to purple came together by directing their hate to the alien aggressors. Borders were knocked down and poor countries were given aid to prepare for the oncoming attack. In the last few years the world has seen peace that most have never imagined. Giblings no longer kill each other over religion because most fear they might die soon and hence are religious. We stand together to fight a common enemy, quite similar to how our coutnry stood next to one of our old bitter enemy, the Hastins, during the Warm War. We are ready and will not be defeated. Not now, not at the pinnacle or our existence. Surely not to the alien creatures who are in the exact opposite state as we are.

An alien species that is riddled with class struggle. Where a small percentage of their population use the largest amount of resources. Where more people have been killed in the name of their Invisble Man then any other reason. They refer the Invisble Man as we refer to God. A species that lets fifteen million children die each year from hunger. We will not lose, we can not lose.

Below is a note found a year into the war

We are going to lose. I can’t believe this. Seriously, the pure irony of it makes me realize that the Invisble Man has a twisted sense of humor. Oh my Invisible Man. The Gibling rabk is finished and for what? It seems the aliens are here for our black water. I curse our oceans but more these horrid aliens. A heartless people who destoryed our world, all the giblings, for nothing more then a resource. We do not know the exact location of their home planet but do know it is somewhere between mars and venus in in a distant galaxy. Oh Invisble Man help us.

S.O.A.P.

Written by Aaron on August 17, 2006 | No Comments

It’s here well… here rather.

Go see it tonight!

Go Go GO!

Me and some friends are hittin’ the 10:00 show if any of y’all wanna meet up.

SOAP

Written by Moe on August 10, 2006 | 4 Comments

Have you ever watched a movie that is so bad it is good? The serious films that have such bad acting and story line that you can’t help laughing. Think of any scene in a Jean Calude Van Damme movie where he is not fighting. This also works with Governor of California, Steven Segal, and Schindler’s list. Well Snakes On A Plane is going to be that good by being that bad. I personally am quite excited that the movie comes out in less then two weeks. I want to show up to the theaters hours early, wearing a t-shirt of Samuel L Jackson fighting a snake.

“Yes hello I would like to buy a ticket for the first showing of SOAP”

“SOAP?”

“Um mm Snakes On A Plane, wow I can’t believe you work here”

“Wait, so you are saying SOAP like people say LOTR? First of all, you said the word soap and expected me to know.”
“Why did you use the phrase ‘first of all’ when there wasn’t a second?”

“Just take your tickets”

“Thank you. Where is the line?”

“What line?”

“for SOAP”

“There isn’t a line.”

“Am I to understand that I will be beginning the line?”

“No, you are to understand that there is not a line”

“Where…is….the….fucking….line. I know what you are doing. You don’t want me to see this movie or get bad seats because all the other fans. You bitch. Fine, you know what. I am going to go get a snake and throw it in that booth….then we’ll see if you respect Sam the Man in SOAP”

Sorry I got a bit carried away with that. Yea, so the movie is going to be great. At some point of the movie Samuel Jackson says, “I’m tired of these fucking snakes on this fucking plane.” Please visit the official website for snakes on a plane at, snakesonaplane.com. Yes, I couldn’t believe that the URL was available either. It gets better. There is actually a music video for SOAP. Let me give you some of the lyrics.

Snakes on a Plane (BRING IT)

Times are strange
We got a free upgrade for
snakes on a plane.
Fuck em, I don’t care.
Bought the cheap champagne,
we’re going down in flames, hey.

Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.

Watching this movie will be the turning point of your life. Until now you were living, waiting for the moment that defines you. You did not expect it to be Samuel L Jackson on a plane with a bunch of snakes, but then again you didn’t expect the new Star Wars movies to suck either..yes i said it! This movie will be the pinnacle, paramount experience of your life. We as a society need to get our priorities straight. Who cares that over 1000 civilians have died in Lebanon, the seemingly unending war in the Ivory coast…oh wait Americans don’t care… Ok….um how about. Instead of watching the “the hills” we go watch SOAP. I heard that chick broke up with that Jason dude…fucking crazy.

E3 – The Circus That No-one Knows We Need

Written by Aaron on July 31, 2006 | 1 Comment

E 3 the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the yearly video game expo is now officially all but dead.

I am not very good at telling stories, well not at making them interesting anyway, so I’ll point you to Kotaku and Penny Arcade for the backstory…please return for my commentary when you are caught up on the events.
I work in the video game industry and believe me when I tell you that working E3 is, more often than not, Hell. Not only is working the show like russian roulette without the courtesty of a reward, but preparations for the show are at least two months of planning meetings and blueprints and telecons and everything else that people got into the game industry to get away from.

In addition let me assure you that everything you have heard about the costs of having a booth at E3 is wrong. It is more expensive than you have heard, I have an aquaintance who’s first responsibility in the game industry was to handle a Multi-million dollar check for simply the insurance for the booth at the show. And yes, game companies do give up on accomplishing anything productive during the days surrounding E3. So including the time lost to the show, and all of the time used preparing for the show, then the cost of the booth and attendants it is common for regular publishers to be putting in the neighborhood of 20 Million into their E3 showing. That’s just 3 days.

 

Here’s the rub…I say it’s worth it.

 

Most of us in the industry look at E3 as a circus, it is craziness and chaos and other non-comforting “C”-words.

 E3 is also the only time of the year that the main-stream media looks at our industry/hobby and has something positive to say. Every year when E3 comes around the “Real” media turns it’s all powerful eye on the indusrty we all give our time to, and they say how important and powerful the industry is…they will occasionally imply that games are “cool”.

 

Without E3 the only time the evening news mentions video games is to tell you about how the most recent youth-related killing is tenuously connected to gaming.

For three days a year games are cool and influential…I don’t think any price is too high for that return. And I fear that once we’ve lost it, it will be too late to get it back.