I Am An Adult Fan Of LEGO (AFOL) And I Love It.
I didn’t realize until I started paying attention to Tested more that maybe, just maybe, grown-ass men seeking out LEGO sets seems pretty man-childish. Wandering around a LEGO Store and picking out individual 50-piece sets might just seem a little weird to some. But why? I love LEGOs, you should, too!
Valentine’s Day: Candy, Cakes, Loneliness
It takes some effort to have neutral feelings on Valentine’s Day. You’re either in the ‘in-crowd’ or you’re outside living in a box with little more than your self-esteem. And candy. Lots and lots of candy. I suppose in that regard, V-Day is a victory for everyone. But in the way it actually matters, the love part, it’s also a defeat. A big one.
Path. I Don’t Get It.
Wow, has it been that long already? Silicon Valley is falling in love with all these new social networking toys for this reason or that. In the case of Path, one of its founding backers is Napster creator Shawn Fanning. It seems that the service is trying to straddle the line between full-blown service, a la Facebook, and a simpler photo upload solution, like Instagram, with the intent of keeping your friends list to a smaller group of fifty. I understand how Path works; what I don’t understand is if there’s some middle space for this kind of network.
With Double Fine Funded, What Can’t Kickstarter Do?
Tim Schafer’s company hasn’t exactly lit up the charts with game sales. The former LucasArts game designer (the Monkey Island series, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango) founded Double Fine in 2000 to create quirky games that only his imagination could generate. Their first game, Psychonauts, was batted from Microsoft to Majesco where it failed to gain an audience. Its Jack Black-starring follow-up, Brutal Legend, also failed to make money for EA. After a few Xbox Live Arcade releases, Tim really just wanted to make an adventure game like the good old days. So he went to Kickstarter.
Bob Harper To Endorse CrossFit?
Bob Harper, the tattood personal trainer on The Biggest Loser, was spotted doing a main site WOD (work out of the day) and recently earned a CrossFit certification. Sure it doesn’t like anything spectacular, but after Reebok and ESPN’s involvment, this might be another step for CrossFit’s mainstream popularity.
Girl Scout Cookies: The Skyrim/iPad/Justin Bieber Of Food
How do I put this? Hmmm. The Girl Scouts’ annual cookie drive is like the arrival of a brand new phone, or game console, or highly-anticipated game. But it’s for normal people, like grandmad. Your heart would have to be as cold as stone to deny the meek Girl Scout’s request to buy some boxes of America’s favorite sugary treats when you exit the grocery store (y’know, after buying everything you already want? Location, location, location). As a former Boy Scout, I’m still not entirely sure what Girl Scouts do other than selling cookies.
Pepsi – King’s Court – Sell Out Spotlight
Do you know how the dark ages ended? Despite the vast conspiracy of high school textbooks that will lead you to believe it was the invention of the printing press, the easier spread of information, or a bunch of Italian artists, the real reason is far more dramatic: it was the toppling of Elton John, a Pepsi-hoarding king. In heels. Read the rest of this article…
The N5 Show! – Week 5, 2012 – Syndicate Demo, Tax Software, and Ron Paul!
Yeah, I missed last week. There was just too much we’d already covered by that point last week that I didn’t have anything further to contribute. NEVER AGAIN. I seriously had to dance the entire length of the N5 Show to make up for it. Today I cover some cool new stuff (well, when don’t I?) and I won’t spoil it for you, but you’re gonna want to see it because you’ll totally be able to relate. Congrats again to brazenisgod on YouTube for correctly picking last week’s (sigh, again, the week before’s) game, which was Marble Blast Ultra. If you can spot what game is going on in the blurry mess behind me, you need to pick up your feet, run to the nearest e-mail booth (those still exist, right?) and drop me a line as soon as possible. Or you can hit us up on the usual venues, or even the Facebook comments below. If you’re afraid of showing your face in public, you can hit up the YouTube link, too. I don’t care, I want you to win. So I can call you out. And that’s awesome.
Anyway, come watch the show after the break and the rest, as they say, is history.
Hot Pockets – Nacho Problem – Sell Out Spotlight
At FleshEatingZipper we want to get you to the content and not to pages filled with pop-under’s and confusing links that are really ads. In order to do that we show love to our sponsors because they keep us up and running. Hot Pockets has some new products and they look delicious! Check em’ out! Read the rest of this article…
Ron Paul: Hurry Up And Win Already
(N’s opinions on Ron Paul do not necessarily reflect those of FleshEatingZipper, its staff, or its affiliates.)
It’s easy to say that Ron Paul is unelectable, because he is. He’s the Conan O’Brien of the GOP race: he can’t win, but we want him to. Meanwhile, a schlub like Gingrich (Jay Leno) or Romney (uhhhh…) is winning over audiences with middle-of-the-road talking points with a flat or conniving character behind it. Let’s me be frank: if Ron Paul can’t win the GOP nomination, then the party doesn’t deserve to win this November against Obama.
