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Hello readers, this is a reminder that this blog is not dead, just that i’ve recently found the joys of getting news quick via Twitter and have been looking and sharing news there instead! After my birthday (in 4 days time) i will proceed to usual random Batman updates. 😀
In the mean time, follow me on Twitter @galagalaxior for fast, quick news!
Splatterhouse
‘Splatterhouse’ Remake Lets You Kick it Old School
by Carl Lyon, Mon., Apr. 12, 2010 3:02 PM PDT
As if there weren’t enough reasons to love Namco Bandai’s upcoming reboot of the Splatterhousefranchise, Official Playstation Magazine just gave us three more…the original game trilogy will come with the game as an unlockable bonus! More after the break!
According to Destructoid, details in the current issue of Official Playstation Magazine state that the forthcoming Splatterhouse will come with the original uncensored Japanese arcade version of the first game as opposed to the still-awesome but slightly neutered TurboGrafx 16 port, as well asSplatterhouse 2 and 3 as they appeared on the Sega Genesis. This is not going to be a “preorder bonus” or an extra DLC pack, but a true unlockable bonus on the disc.
The thought of chainsawing demonic fetuses and bashing flesh-eating worms with a two-by-four has me absolutely giddy with nostalgic anticipation. I think I need to go lie down now.
Just bought this game cheap at the convention today. Gonna try it now!
Sorry guys!
Have been busy with some stuff lately, dealing with crazy people literally! More like ONE crazy person. Still hunting for something to do to feed me on a daily basis.. Training.. You know, the usual, but just more caught up with stuff lately. So I apologize for the lack of updates! I promise this weekend, I will have something up! 😀
Open your eyes if you care
Try and spot the newly added component in this site.
Mornings..
… are really painful. I just wanna hurl and not wake up.
Heart B r o k e n
It’s 8.40am. Have work soon. Needed someone or something to talk to and my blog was the only available option.
For once, Batman can’t even save me.
Never felt worse.
fourth season coming up for Fringe
From tonight’s episode of “Fringe,” “Immortality”
Fringe has been on fire since coming back for a third season, its first in the so-called “Friday death slot” on Fox, picking up a 1.9 rating in its first two weeks back and a 1.6 the week after. Showrunners Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman sat down yesterday with reporters to discuss the show’s success so far and their outlook on what’s to come. No spoilers, but there’s definitely some exciting stuff happening in the coming weeks for we fans to look forward to.
“We went into [Season 3] with the understanding there’s a number that would make [Fox] very happy, that’s like 1.2 to 1.4,” Pinkner said of the move to Friday. It didn’t faze him or his fellow showrunner, largely because of how supportive fans of the show are. “You guys, the media, have been so cool … and the network takes a lot of notice in your reviews. We felt good going into Friday nights knowing that we’re on a creative high and we know what the show is.
“A lot of shows that came before us that went to Fridays … for one reason or another, these shows weren’t on their creative upswing,” he continued. “So we were hoping that our fans would follow us, say ‘No. We’re loving what they’re doing.’ So we’re really happy. I mean, who can’t be happy with [the ratings we’ve received]? So we feel really good about it, and so does the network.”
Wyman echoed Pinkner’s comments, adding that the network’s vested interest in the show has been a great boon as well. “Fox are legitimately fans of the show. They told us that at the beginning, they’ve demonstrated it to us again and again,” he said. “They made the business decision that they wanted [American Idol] on Wednesday and Thursday this year. They had to move us somewhere. Our fans have been asking Fox to move us for a year off of Thursday night. They moved us to Friday night and our fans freaked out, understandably. People are afraid of change, we all are. But change can be good.”
From tonight’s episode of “Fringe,” “Immortality”
Good is definitely where things have been lately on Fringe. Great, even — all because the show’s creative minds have had a plan since day one, and they follow that plan regardless of business-related changes beyond their control. “The story that we’re telling, we had written and filmed before we knew we were moving,” Wyman said. “So we’re not doing anything in reaction to the move, we’re just doing our jobs and telling the story in the best way that we can.”
One could make the argument that a great creative risk was taken with last season’s exploration of “over there,” the parallel universe that is at the heart of the conflict on the show. It’s a risk that’s paid off and then some, however. As Pinkner put it, “We get to do two shows about one show, and that really turns into a great thing.”
“Obviously when we said we were going to go ‘over there,’ there was some hesitancy because … the core viewers want to see what they know,” he added. “So it was a gamble. We did know this though: We wanted to tell a really compelling story over there and get the mythology really firing, and we became slowly in love with ‘over there’ when we were conceiving it. And we knew we couldn’t do it justice if we were going to do just a couple of scenes ‘over there.’
“So we really dove in full tilt with the different credits sequence and said, ‘Look, this is really what you’re going to get.’ As far as a pattern goes, the storytelling in our show — at the beginning of the year we know what we want to do and the story sort of dictates where we are going. If there’s a certain theme that we want to examine, that we find is really important to get across in several different episodes, it’ll be really interesting to tell a thematic element over here and see how our characters deal with it and then show a very different facet of that same theme Over There.”
Each season of Fringe has introduced a new surprise that changed the landscape of what fans were seeing. In Season 1, it was the revelation of this other, parallel universe. It Season 2, it was the switching of the two Olivias. And for this season … well, Pinkner and Wyman aren’t saying, but they promise more of the same.
“We’re full of wrinkles. We’re more like a pair of corduroy pants,” Wyman joked. “Largely, this season has sort of been a march to war and it will continue to be so, driven equally by the relationship between Peter and the two Olivias. But we’ve got more stuff coming. We’re going to complicate it, and like we’ve done in the past two years, as we drive to the end of this season it will be as much as anything about setting up next sesason.”
“This one we can definitely guarantee you, the last stretch of this is going to be very compelling because you’re going to turn the page on a new and you’re going to understand our show in a different capacity,” Pinkner added. “It’s going to stretch your mind and make you think ‘Oh, I never saw that coming.’ Nothing crazy that we don’t deserve and haven’t earned, but something that is definitely integrated into the storyline and you just hopefully didn’t see coming. And we have a few cards to lay down that hopefully nobody expect.”
The new episode of Fringe, “Immortality,” airs tonight at 9 ET/PT on Fox.
Just a thought
Ever wonder why you have to slog and work so hard? It’s not for a ‘better’ life, even though to some extent it is, because of decades of conditioning that makes us believe success is determined by the amount of material and superficial items we own. If you think you are working hard towards freedom, you cannot be more wrong. If you think you are climbing up the social ladder, you are fucking deluded.
The only reason why people have mindsets of wanting lives filled with nothing but work and slogging to own material stuff is because your country owes fucking billions of dollars, and that increases the cost of living in the country cause they need the people to buy stuff and enter corporate businesses to boost the economy. And then they give you little benefits that don’t even matter, like giving you the opportunity to vote, making you feel good about yourself. Reinforcing delusions that your life and choice matters, but in actual fact it doesn’t because it’s just making you decide which puppets you would rather have to encourage you to ‘boost the economy’.
This is a never ending cycle, and the debts can never be paid. Why do people play the games these pioneer bastards created?
Rank |
Country |
% of GDP[1] |
Date |
Continent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Zimbabwe |
241.60 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 2 |  Japan |
196.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 3 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis |
185.00 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 4 |  Lebanon |
150.70 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 5 |  Greece |
144.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 6 |  Iceland |
123.80 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 7 |  Jamaica |
123.20 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 8 |  Italy |
118.10 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 9 |  Belgium |
102.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 10 |  Singapore |
102.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 11 |  Ireland |
98.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 12 |  Sudan |
94.20 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 13 |  Sri Lanka |
86.70 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 14 |  France |
83.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 15 |  Portugal |
83.20 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 16 |  Canada |
82.90 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 17 |  Egypt |
80.50 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 18 |  Dominica |
78.00 | 2009 est. | North America |
| 19 |  Nicaragua |
78.00 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 20 |  Israel |
77.30 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 21 |  United Kingdom |
76.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 22 |  Germany |
74.80 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 23 |  Malta |
72.60 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 24 |  Hungary |
72.10 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 25 |  Austria |
68.60 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 26 |  Netherlands |
64.60 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 27 |  Spain |
63.40 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 28 |  Cote d’Ivoire |
63.30 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 29 |  Jordan |
61.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 30 |  Cyprus |
61.10 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 31 |  Brazil |
60.80 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 32 |  Mauritius |
60.50 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 33 |  Ghana |
59.90 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 34 |  Albania |
59.30 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 35 |  Bahrain |
59.20 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 36 |  United States |
58.90 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 37 |  Seychelles |
58.80 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 38 | World | 58.30 | 2010 est. | |
| 39 |  Morocco |
58.20 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 40 |  Bhutan |
57.80 | 2009 | Asia |
| 41 |  Guyana |
57.00 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 42 |  India |
55.90 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 43 |  Philippines |
55.20 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 44 |  Croatia |
55.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 45 |  El Salvador |
55.00 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 46 |  Vietnam |
53.50 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 47 |  Uruguay |
52.70 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 48 |  Malaysia |
52.60 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 49 |  Kenya |
50.90 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 50 |  Poland |
50.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 51 |  Argentina |
50.30 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 52 |  Pakistan |
49.90 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 53 |  Tunisia |
49.50 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 54 |  Turkey |
48.10 | 2010 est. | Asia/Europe |
| 55 |  Norway |
47.70 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 56 |  Denmark |
46.60 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 57 |  Aruba |
46.30 | 2005 | North America |
| 58 |  Latvia |
46.20 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 59 |  Finland |
45.40 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 60 |  Colombia |
44.80 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 61 |  United Arab Emirates |
44.60 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 62 |  Costa Rica |
44.10 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 63 |  Thailand |
42.30 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 64 |  Dominican Republic |
41.70 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 65 |  Mexico |
41.50 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 66 |  Slovakia |
41.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 67 |  Mozambique |
40.80 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 68 |  Sweden |
40.80 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 69 |  Panama |
40.80 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 70 |  Malawi |
40.40 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 71 |  Bolivia |
40.30 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 72 |  Czech Republic |
40.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 73 |  Switzerland |
39.60 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 74 |  Bangladesh |
39.30 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 75 |  Ethiopia |
39.30 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 76 |  Yemen |
39.10 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 77 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
39.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 78 |  Ukraine |
38.40 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 79 |  Montenegro |
38.00 | 2006 | Europe |
| 80 |  Serbia |
37.80 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 81 |  Lithuania |
36.70 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 82 |  Slovenia |
35.50 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 83 |  Romania |
34.80 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 84 |  Cuba |
34.40 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 85 |  South Africa |
33.20 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 86 |  Senegal |
32.10 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 87 |  Taiwan |
31.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 88 |  Syria |
29.80 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 89 |  Guatemala |
29.60 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 90 |  Papua New Guinea |
27.80 | 2010 est. | Oceania |
| 91 |  Indonesia |
26.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 92 |  Trinidad and Tobago |
26.40 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 93 |  Honduras |
26.10 | 2010 est. | North America |
| 94 |  Gabon |
25.80 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 95 |  Algeria |
25.70 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 96 |  Macedonia |
25.70 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 97 |  New Zealand |
25.50 | 2010 est. | Oceania |
| 98 |  Venezuela |
25.50 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 99 |  Moldova |
25.00 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 100 |  Zambia |
24.10 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 101 |  Korea, South |
23.70 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 102 |  Peru |
23.60 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 103 |  Tanzania |
23.30 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 104 |  Ecuador |
23.10 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 105 |  Paraguay |
22.80 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 106 |  Botswana |
22.60 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 107 |  Australia |
22.40 | 2010 est. | Oceania |
| 108 |  Uganda |
20.40 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 109 |  Angola |
20.30 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 110 |  Namibia |
20.00 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 111 |  Hong Kong |
18.20 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 112 |  China |
17.50 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 113 |  Cameroon |
16.80 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 114 |  Saudi Arabia |
16.70 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 115 |  Bulgaria |
16.20 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 116 |  Luxembourg |
16.20 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 117 |  Iran |
16.20 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 118 |  Kazakhstan |
15.90 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 119 |  Gibraltar |
15.50 | 2006 | Europe |
| 120 |  Nigeria |
13.40 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 121 |  Kuwait |
12.60 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 122 |  Qatar |
10.30 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 123 |  Russia |
9.50 | 2010 est. | Asia/Europe |
| 124 |  Uzbekistan |
9.00 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 125 |  Estonia |
7.70 | 2010 est. | Europe |
| 126 |  Chile |
6.20 | 2010 est. | South America |
| 127 | Wallis and Futuna |
5.60 | 2004 | Oceania |
| 128 |  Azerbaijan |
4.60 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 129 |  Oman |
4.40 | 2010 est. | Asia |
| 130 |  Equatorial Guinea |
4.10 | 2010 est. | Africa |
| 131 |  Libya |
3.30 | 2010 est. | Africa |
You think it’s a virtue to be able to endure all that corporate shit and work hard to get rich? It’s not a virtue, it’s a fucking scam. You’re just part of a machine that is needed to ensure productivity goes on. And if that part of the machine malfunctions, it gets replaced in an instant like it was never there.
J.H. Williams III addresses Batwoman delay
- Posted on January 21, 2011 – 07:00 AM by Kevin Melrose
Batwoman #1
As DC Comics’ solicitations confirmed yesterday, the much-anticipated debut of the Batwoman series has been moved from February to April — the date that writer-artist J.H. Williams III notes he originally wanted.
“Some think that this book was to launch last July,” the award-winning artist writes on his blog, “this was never the case, this was speculation on the part of some. The book was also never to launch in November either. The zero issue which came out at that time was never in the original plans, but was done as a bit of a reminder as requested by DC, and to set the stage, this of course took out time of the work already in progress. February had been decided on the launch date by the company with reservations about that from me. I felt that was a bit too soon in a realistic look at work progression. One of the reasons for this was that I had been seriously committed to making appearances around the world over this past year. I think maybe 3 months or more of work loss occurred during that time. I kept trying to point this out whenever discussions about schedule came up. When first discussing the launch date earlier last year we had originally wanted April 2011, and now ironically that is what we have. Only after solicits stating otherwise, causing some unnecessary frustrations.”
Williams, who’s collaborating on Batwoman with W. Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder, says his schedule was further complicated by the addition of the covers for the high-profile Batman Inc. (He’s since bowed out of that assignment, with the cover for Issue 5 being his last.)
“Even though there has been issues raised in the scheduling and plans being jumped the gun on, DC acknowledges for the greater good of the project we need more time,” he continues. “I’m glad that they saw this was a good idea, this will help maintain a certain standard that we’ve already set in place.”
Visit Williams’ blog for more of his comments, and to see his covers for Batman Inc. Batwoman #1 is set to debut on April 27, according to the DC Comics website (the solicitations released yesterday say April 6).
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