LARPing AND God of War? Surely you jest.

I wish I were joking about it, but it’s true, as sad as it is. To promote Sony’s new game, God of War II, SCEA put together a little LARPing(Live Action Role Playing, think D&D minus the dice, plus the foam swords) event staring some of the stars of the God of Wars games, and just some that are fun. You get to pit 10 different characters against each other, ranging from mythological classics such as the Medusa, Colossus of Rhodes, and Zeus, to Sony originals such as Kratos, and Chubby Kratos.

The battles range from sad, to train crashes, to hilarious. Watch it, you might want to look away, but it’s like a Pringle. Once you pop, the fun don’t stop.

Quick! Cast +4 hilarity!

StumbleUpon

If you’re a FireFox user, like I am, then you might know one of the best features is it’s great series of extensions. Well a great little feature has recently hit the fox and I suggest you check it out. It’s called StumbleUpon. It’s quite a simple little extension. You install it, either from their site, or from FireFox’s extension site, and input what you’re interested in. From then on you simple hit the “Stumble!” button in your toolbar and it’ll give you a site that fits those preferences everytime. If you like it, hit the thumbs up, if you don’t, hit the thumbs down. If you have a site you like a lot, like SWL, simply say “I like it!” and, if it’s not in the stumble system, it’ll allow you to add it to their site.

You just might find that sites you already use are on stumble upon and you just might stumble upon them again.

Chupathingy

Since the days that Halo was the shiznit a group called Rooster Teeth has existed, bringing us one of the best known Machinima series known to man. A series that introduced Tex, Grif, Church, Caboose, and even Donut. I speak, of course, of Red Vs Blue. Since 2002 we have laughed, snickered, giggled, and cried from laughing too much. Yet, despite it’s popularity, Rooster Teeth is ending The Blood Gulch Chronicles at their 100th episode.

No, stop it. It’s just a flesh wound, no need to cry. This is not the end of the series, just the end of this chapter of Red Versus Blue. Bernie, one of the series’ creators, assures all fans that the series is not ending. So don’t worry, just enjoy the last 7 episodes and when that’s all done watch some of their other series until they bring the next chapter of the series.

And no, this is not a spider

Guitar Hero 2-360 edition

Tomorrow(and today at some select Circuit Cities) Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 comes out. 10 extra songs, a new Gibson guitar, downloadable content and HD quality gaming. That’s all great, right? No? What do you say it could use? Online gameplay? Okay yeah, it could use that, but for now we get a kick ass commercial.

I was watching The Riches and a commercial came on. All the sudden I saw a cartoony commercial pop up. A meteor was head towards earth and a guy standing on top of a van holding an Explorer started rocking out. A girl holding another guitar pops up out of now where and rocks out more. They’re rocking out, electricity coming out of their guitars, attacking the Meteor. It crumbles, and the guy grabs the meteor, they continue rocking using the meteor as a pick as Mother starts blaring. The commercial mixes Jamie Hewlett’s art style, and a music video reminiscent of Tencious D.

Hopefully David’ll have the video up in the media player under Video Game Commercials in the Pipeline. I suggest you watch it.

Singing rabbits and crying babies.

I was watching Rat Race on Comedy Central, good movie, not the point. During a break they showed a commercial about a guy trading a singing rabbit for some skittles. I’m wondering to myself “WHY?!” I’m a child of the 80s, a decade when not much was normal either way, but I do remember when I was growing up that we did, at one point, have normal commercials. Now we have commercials that don’t even have to do the product itself. Singing Rabbits, Crying plastic babies(PS3 commercial), and a Fu-Manchu type character saying something I cannot remember at this time. WHY?!

Show a funny situation with your product. Kick someone in the nuts then pour Doritos on him, not that difficult. Forgo the prosthetics, and the animatronics. Just give us something to laugh at. something that looks really good, or even a hot chick using the product. We don’t need these inane commercials that barely make sense. Hell, I’ve even avoided eating at Quiznos for years because of those damn Spongemonkies commercials they used to run.

We don’t need crying babies and singing rabbits.

Its a me! Veras Gunn!

Right, so I’m Veras Gunn. Obviously that’s not my real name, that’s a handle, one I used frequently in fact. My real name’s Justin Brogan, not that that’s important. I used to work for SWL, being the podcaster for SWL prior to the videocasts. My microphone broke, and I just stopped helping all together. But here I am now, blogging. Why? Because…. okay, not quite sure about that, but that shouldn’t concern you.

From time to time I’ll be posting here talking about games, movies, TV shows, comics, or even perhaps a restaurant I ate at recently that I really liked. I can go from being an intellectual, to being completely insane, so look forward to that…. that’s about it. If I think of anything else I’ll post it here.

Oh! I thought of something. Bagels. That is all.