WTF WED! WHITE POWER RANGER IN DA LEAGUE OF LESBIANS!

ROSEBLOOD

No video would be more appropriate to post after driving home as the frozen tree tops, glazed in silver, rained down dreary hail on the road. The air was as cold as a cadaver's kiss, the roadside ditches filled with floating sheets of ice and Styrofoam cups, and my fingers felt numb as I gripped the steering wheel. Winter is death. Winter is beautiful.

Also, this silly but brilliant little bit of Hitchcock inspired horror from TVMaxwell will probably put a smile on your face and a little warmth in your heart. Or just confuse you.

LEAGUE OF CHARMS (NSFW)

As for the vidja here, it is a pretty twisted, funny, and fanservicey bit of fluff from TwistedGrimTV.

As for a small League of Legends update, my ranked team's president Trainer Gary Oak (formerly OGMRSNESBITT) added Dio Omicida (ADC/Support main) and cShots (Top main) to our roster and that means we'll be able to build a full team more regularly and start playing ranked 5 V 5 as soon as possible. I've learned to play a lot of roles, so expect to see me doing whatever is needed to help my team win, including jungling as Jarvin IV.

P.S. My favorite Ahri skin is Popstar Ahri.

WHITE POWER RANGER IN DA HOOD

It was Aziz Ansari who said his favorite stereotype was that "black dudes are blown away by magic tricks".

A good Power Ranger costume apparently has they same effect, at least in this case. Now, "if only we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians" (Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive).

WORD OF THE DAY! 2/4/14!

RATCHET AND CLANK FILM TEASER

SLY COOPER FILM TEASER

clank [clangk]
noun
1. A sharp, hard, nonresonant sound, usually produced by striking together two pieces of metal.
verb
2. To make such a sound, move with such sounds, or cause such a sound.

EX. Clanking into a theater near you are The Ratchet and Clank & Sly Cooper CG-animated films, in 2015 and 2016 respectively, and I gotta wonder...why?

Sure, the franchises are successful and have fan bases, but are they truly big enough to carry a full-length feature film? Do they have the cross-audience appeal to bring in new fans with a film or will the humor, stretched too thin, fall flat across a 90+ min. run time? The history of video game films spell disaster for these two films, but maybe the fact that they're being CG-animated spells a certain level of investment that these film's fore-bearers lacked.

At the least, the internet will have something to whinge about and Deviantart will have plenty of fodder for Rule 34 art.

Clank, clank.

P.S. Still better than the concept art below.

P.P.S. Hoenn confirmed.

MUSIC MON! ATTACK ON SUPER SMASH MY LITTLE RHINOCERATOPS VS. SUPER-PUMA!

SUPER SMASH BROS. X ATTACK ON TITAN!

My friends and I have been playing Wii & Wii-U every Sunday and one of our favorite time-killers is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I mean, sure, it's not Melee. We all love Melee. But it's kind of fun to play Brawl since we all are less experienced with it. The main point? Playing Brawl has definitely hyped me for the next Smash Bros.

This glorious hand-made animation from Amazingartistyellow certainly helps encourage that enthusiasm, as well as my enthusiasm to give Attack on Titan a chance, as it has pretty much swallowed the anime fan community alive.

Before we move on, my big wishes for SSB 4 is that Mewtwo returns from Melee, they announce Pokémon Trainer returning from Brawl, and that Ganondorf returns....with a twist. I've always felt Ganondorf got shafted as a Captain Falcon clone. Give him a moveset indicative of his swordplay and maybe add in his mage abilities, perhaps with a Zelda/Sheik style transform between Ganon and Ganondorf, and you've got a uniquely brutal character. My main picks for a new entry? Pacman, Simon Belmont, Alucard, Toad, & Ridley.

FLUTTERWONDER

And how about a little whimsy inspired by pogo? There are a lot of fun remixes inspired by the MLP fandom, but there is something about these sort of trippy remixes that always set me in this pleasant, whimsical, blue, and curious sort of mood.

You can watch the original artist, Pinkiepieswear's music video here  http://youtu.be/viTkj0eu-fk

RHINOCERATOPS VS. SUPER-PUMA

Let's end with a new animated music video from Ninja Sex Party.

Clearly, Danny Sexbang was inspired by his love affair with the kaiju fest in Pacific Rim and decided to lay down a track meant to put a pair of giant monsters in the mood.

And clearly, that's a good enough place to end this Music Monday. Pardon me for the briefness, but I've gotta eat more terriyaki wings left over from "Super Bowl Sunday"*.

*"Super Bowl Sunday" may equal an excuse to gorge oneself and, rather than watch the game, do the same stuff that my friends and I do every Sunday. In this case, eat Krystals, make Advanced Dungeons and Dragons characters for an Oriental Adventures campaign, and watch Princess Mononoke.

P.S. I retract my briefness apology. And leave you on a simultaneously stupid and glorious .gif from the Super Bowl teaser for Transformers 4. It looks dumb, but it has Optimus Prime riding Grimlock, the T-Rex dinobot (that's a dinosaur robot), while wielding a sword.

WORD OF THE DAY! 1/31/14! BORN OF THE GODS PRE-RELEASE PRIMER!

MTG: BORN OF THE GODS TRAILER!

MTG: BORN OF THE GODS PRE-RELEASE PRIMER!

MY OTHER MTG ARTICLES!

demigod [deh-mee-gawd]
noun
1. A mythological being that is part god and part mortal.
2. An inferior diety.
3. A deified human.
4. A person with god-like talent or power.

EX. Hey, Planeswalkers! I know I wasn't exactly a demigod at the Theros pre-release. In fact, I did so poorly that my best friend gave me a Boulder Badge. Just like Ash Ketchum. He gave me a badge, even though I didn't win. Oh the friends I have...

And yet, like Elspeth's upcoming Journey into Nyx, maybe this is my turn to redeem myself at a pre-release. This time I've managed to bully a couple of friends to come along for the ride and I'm raring to go. As a White Mage, I will be following my "Destiny to Lead" and attempt to overcome the hordes of minotaurs, orgies of satyrs, and waves of krakens seeking to spoil my day! Aiding me in this quest will by loyal steed (and playable promo):

I will probably be playing white. As for the other color? It depends on the pool, but I tend to lean towards green, cuz mana ramp and big creatures, and blue, cuz tempo and flying creatures, but black is another strong option if I'm running an enchantment deck since there a lot of great black cards that support bestow mechanic this set.

If you're also going, here is a basic rundown of how this Pre-Release is set-up:

It cost $30 bucks to signs up and, for that fee, each player receives 6 boosters packs, including two Born of the Gods packs, three Theros packs, & a special booster pack for their chosen hero's destiny,-- Lead (White), Outwit (Blue),  Dominate (Black), Conquer (Red), & Thrive (Green)-- and a promo card for your path (which you could use in the event) and with the materials each player is expected to build, with all the lands they need, a minimum 40 card deck. There will be four to six one-on-one matches, each a best of three rounds, and the ranking in these matches would land you more packs (with the top player getting a box) and, usually, everyone gets, at the very least, a "pity pack". All together, the events are a lot of fun and well worth the admission fee ($25 if you pre-register early).

While we're here, let's take a look at the new mechanics of Born of the Gods:

INSPIRED- Activates an effect every time the creature card containing the keyword is untapped.

TRIBUTE X- Whenever a creature with Tribute X enters the battlefield, an opponent of the creature's controller's choice may choose to either put X +1/+1 counter on it or, if the "the tribute is not paid", another effect will activate.

To check out the other mechanics features in the Theros block, make sure to check out my article on the Theros pre-release HERE.

I'm hoping that I can come out ahead but, if I fail, at least Xenagos will have a good time...

See ya there, planeswalkers.

P.S. Expect an article or two about my continued adventures in Theros, next week.