Set it to 1/4 speed at about 1:28 for a really kickass slideshow, with accompanying ambient horror movie background drone! Seeing all the windows simultaneously kick out of the top floor of (what I'm going to call) front building #4 at 1:34 is interesting.

@newtboy submitted to the world such a kickass song *quality *doublepromote

Ty so much for the song @Fantomas kickass

And that is also why remote desktop is such a kickass tool.

Every good action flick deserves an ownable soundtrack. As much as people talk shit on the original Tomb Raider, it also has a kickass electronic soundtrack. MY GOD SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THESE THINGS AND ISN'T JUST A CYNICAL HATER!!!!!

Oh, and black James Bond makes no freaking sense. He's a guy from a very old scottish family. How much awkward retconning are you willing to do for that? Jane Bond makes more sense than this.
Why can't we have a kickass 005 for a change? There are other agents working for MI-6 too. Maybe some awesome guy from London.
It's like Chow Yun Fat as King Arthur or Chewitel Ejiofor as Frodo Baggins.

Hey Man.

Was lookin' fer you in the Lounge the other night. Thanks for checkin' in.

Yeah, I'm good. Currently working at a Halloween City, juggling up a storm.

Also participated in a Halloween Parade last week.

I was thinking I might post a vid of it. Had a kickass scary pumpkin themed suit on.

Anywho.. hope yer feelin' well, man.

Peace

Wait what? Is it automatically ok if the skewed / whitewashed role is written into the script? You do know that this kind of skew doesn't come about by the kkk kidnapping black actors at gunpoint in the middle of filming and replacing them with white ones?

If a Japanese director were to make a movie about the civil war, but chose to make it about a Japanese fighter who comes to the US, becomes the most kickass soldier of the Union, makes personal friends with Lincoln, and convinces him to stay the course on emancipation... that would be pretty weird, even if the argument went that this was the only way a Japanese audience could identify with this obscure historic time.

Yes. The animation on Yennifer casting that kickass churning earth spell thing was super wonky. Its almost like they didn't mocap the whole thing! At least get some video or something from real sorceresses casting real spells from the real world for comparison.

But srsly. I've no idea where you are seeing all this animation fail. It looks fine to me. I've also got no idea how you can criticise the plot of a game from its trailer.

Disclaimer: I am a human with 26 years of experience being around other, animated humans. Although, in fairness I have never witnessed either a horse being beheaded on the charge with a single swipe of a zweihander (I should also mention I have never witnesses a horse at any velocity being beheaded with anything), or any witches, mounted or otherwise (at least to my knowledge), but at neither of those points in the trailer did I think, "Wow, that's so unrealistic". I suppose the reason is that when I clicked on a video which was quite apparent as a trailer for a videogame, I may have prepared myself by suspending some of my disbelief.

ps. I am hyped for this game. The first 2/3 of the Witcher 2 were great.

Kickass Urban Skiing has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Kickass-Urban-Skiing

meh. They've played up the whole "Superman is light, Batman is dark" mentality for too long, so I think that's why a bunch of people are butt-hurt about the darker tone of this movie.

Sure, I agree the whole ending with Zod was rather.....dumb and the movie was just excessively long, but overall it was a kickass movie and I'm sorry, but people need to face it, Nolan's touch is working.

The concept of superheroes is rather dated, And Superman is the least interesting superhero other than his origin story, so I appreciate trying to update them and make them darker and at least attempt to make them more realistic.

that and Faora is super hot.

I watched this clip while rubbing my own nipples in response.

Living in Thailand, most TV shows aren't available here until WAY after the Western airdate, if ever.

I live in a pretty small town. Western movies don't play here, and if I travel an hour or so to a town where they do, they do they are dubbed in Thai with no English subtitles. DVDs are readily available, but they are usually pirated cam copies burned to disc, and again dubbed in Thai.

Games? Not available in stores in my town. Bangkok, sure -- but again they are almost always pirated copies burned to disk. Console games are the same way and any shops selling the game will also chip the console to play pirated disks. I could, and admittedly probably SHOULD use steam for PC games.

Other software? Basically same story as games. If you go to a computer store here, advertising usually says that they are sold with Linux OS or bare drives. But, the shop will automatically put on a pirated Windows plus loads of software (office, Photoshop if you ask for it, etc.) upon purchasing the hardware. They are usually fairly inept at it, frequently have viruses or fail to actually activate the OS, etc. so I tell them to leave the drives bare and do all that stuff myself. But for 99% of people who buy a PC here, they will automatically get a pirated OS and software along with it.

Basically, my default mode of getting ANY media is piracy. Price (free versus not) is a part of that. Incomes are low here, but cost of living is comparatively even lower. Still, if media was fully available here but equal to the price in, say, the US the vast majority of people here don't have enough disposable income to afford much if any of it. A bigger issue for me personally is convenience. Piracy (torrents, etc.) as a distribution system is infinitely more convenient, easy, and "customer"-friendly than any more legitimate service. I get what I want very quickly, usually in multiple options for filesize vs quality on up to as-good-as-broadcast/blu-ray 1080p, with most everything available from a single source (isoHunt, kickass, PirateBay, take your pick). In terms of user experience, legitimate distribution can't even begin to compete with that -- and that is BEFORE considering price.

Instead, they exacerbate the difference by treating paying customers with open contempt. Pay for TV service? Enjoy 10 minutes of ads for every 12 minutes of show. Buy a DVD? Sit through un-skippable ads, dire piracy warnings, etc. before the show actually starts. Move or simply take the disk on vacation to another country and you will likely be screwed by region locking. Buy software? Get some DRM that slows things down or restricts fully NORMAL use of the software, nags you to register, etc. On the other hand, if you pirate stuff all of that goes away. No ads. Watch/use the media wherever you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want. Software DRM circumvented easily, usually hours after the first release if not *before*.

I honestly see it as a problem that I am not supporting the creators of the media that I enjoy. But, Pandora's box has been opened on this one. Generation X and Y learned to scoff at the idea of paying for music due to Napster. iTunes has been extremely lucky to turn that around even slightly, making lots of mistakes along the way (DRM and device-locking, etc.). Gen Y and beyond are going to have the same attitude towards piracy with regards to ALL MEDIA that we learned to have towards music. I don't think there is any getting around that.

For content creators, I think that funding via Label / Publisher / Network is going to die out. And soon. The good news is that something akin to an evolution of patronage of arts and creators can work even better than it did in the past. The Motzarts and Beethovens of the future don't need 1 rich duke or king to commision a work, they need 10,000 average Joes on kickstarter or the like. I see things trending more and more in that direction, and all the time. I think it is an exciting time -- unless you're an exec in one of the old dinosaur publishers/networks.

A model and her boyfriend who owns a kickass boat and gets to sail it to exotic locals. If I ever saw them I would throw rocks at them, bastards!