Waffle Squadron Omega

It’s coming, in 2 days.  A big HOWDY-DO to any PAX visitors reading this!

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For those of you who don’t already know, Midway and Ed Boon are in the process of putting out MK vs DC, the eighth in the Mortal Kombat franchise guest staring the characters of the DC Universe. Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Wonderwoman, Green Lantern, Captain Marvel, and The Joker have all been confirmed. Some people were questioning how violent (aka fun) the game would be with the presence of these the characters and once it was released that the game would be rated “Teen” people began to really run for the hills.

Never fret MK fans, Boon and team had promised that all MK characters and DC villian would perform fatalities and the DC heroes (seeing as they don’t kill) will perform brutalities of some sort. Now all this is fine and dandy but your boy has just located some proof of this, thanx to the guys over at N4G and your friendly neighborhood Joker. Enjoy…

Joker vs Kitana. Kitana loses.

So, somehow If Magazine got an exclusive interview with producer Erwin Stoff, where he revealed that he just signed a deal with Fox to product a live action Cowboy Bebop movie.

According to Mr. Stoff, the deal was just recently signed, so there’s no details available as of yet. More on the interview after this break.

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I found this among some Joss Whedon news… It seems that Mr. Whedon has created a new internet mini-series, namely “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“.

From doctorhorrible.net: “During the WGA strike Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. Each of the three episodes will be approximately ten minutes each.”

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Found this article on io9 linking to The Guardian, which explains that The Prisoner, a wholeheartedly WSO supported classic, will begin broadcasting on AMC next year.

It has also been confirmed that Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, he was J.C.) will star in the new version. McKellan will play the role of Number Two, while Caviezel will play the role formerly pwned by Patrick McGoohan, the imprisoned Number Six.

The show will be a six-hour miniseries produced by the UK’s ITV, who produced the original show in 1967.

So, after reading Wednesday’s awesome Penny Arcade and seeing that they used the Creature Creator to make a pretty convincing Deep Crow, I decided to finally go and grab the free demo. First off, it runs great at max resolution on my 1.7GHz laptop, which is a huge check in the plus column right out of the gate! My laptop is getting almost elderly by today’s standards so it’s nice to have a new game work so well.

It’s really easy to slap a passable monster together right away, and the Help feature clearly instructs you on how to make more detailed creations. Even for a free trial version of a demo of a full game, there are a whole lot of options at your disposal. There’s not really that many body parts to choose from in the free version, but you can customize the placement, shape, size and orientation of each one. The ability to sculpt, bend and stretch the main body mass also ups the variety potential. I’m sure you’ve seen (on Kotaku or wherever) the vast cornucopia of clever and risqué final products people are pumping out with this program.

Once you’ve sculpted, potato-headed and painted your creature, you can Test Drive him. In the Test Drive mode, you have a lot of animation options, most of which are pretty fun. Funny dances, emotions, etc. What’s really cool about the Test Drive mode is that you can easily snap screenshots, make animated GIF avatars or even capture AVI video! Not only that, but when you’re done capturing the video, a prompt automatically asks you if you want to upload it to YouTube! The video quality is so-so even at the highest setting, but it’s pretty darn good for such a user friendly integrated feature. It’s YouTube-quality video, so it serves its purpose admirably. Also, it’s free.

The full version of the Creature Creator is $10, and at this point that’s Pretty Hot And Tempting. If this is just a small taste of what we’ll get in the full version of Spore, I just might be buying my first PC game since Half-Life 2. In the meantime, please enjoy my latest creation…the delicious and refreshing, yet sadly extinct Purplesaurus Rex:

So, my Wii has been winking its long blue eye at me for a day or two now. Thankfully, I was lazy and didn’t turn it on before reading my daily gaming news. While reading Kotaku over breakfast (as usual) I came across this article. Long story short, that Twilight Princess Exploit Jack told you about a little while ago has been nixed by the big N.

However! The good news is that if you used the hack to install The Homebrew Channel then you’re still in the clear. It seems that The Homebrew Channel allows you to use homebrew apps on your Wii without running the TP hack every time. Being a fan of the homebrew scene on my PSP (and my DreamCast back in the day) I’ve decided that the time is now!

At Jack’s request, I’ll document the process with words and pictures (no video, since I’m already home and comfy…unless our sparse readership really wants to see me in my Duff Beer boxers). So, if you’re interested in trying this yourself, don’t update your Wii!!! and click the link below…

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Following up from my original Bacon Salt post, I am continuing to taste-test this wonderful seasoning on all sorts of different foods. Tonight I tried a piece of leftover sausage pizza from my local Pat’s Pizza shop.

Big ups to my local Pat’s on Philadelphia Pike in Claymont, DE. Anyway, Bacon Salt is absolutely fantastic on pizza. It’s like it was specially made for it! Soooo baconey and salty… it’s just so good! I imagine that this would make even week-old pizza taste great!

So yeah, that’s pretty much it. Thumbs up for Bacon Salt on pizza!

As a follow-up to this post, this week brings us another Venture Bros. themed t-shirt!

The current t-shirt is titled “Dr. Henry Killinger”. It features the Dr.’s signature red skull that is featured on his black coat, as well as on his Magic Murder Bag (not included). You can order the t-shirt from the AstroBaseGo webpage here.

While you’re at it, you might want to also check out a cool custom action figure page that I found, called Sillof’s Workshop. This guy has made his own Venture Bros. action figures, which look pretty darn cool. Also his site features other custom figures such as Dune, and Steampunk Star Wars.

Incredible.  Perfectly executed.