Death From Above

Just stop and think that The Grinch topped the yearly box office for a moment and consider how strange that sounds.

Farmer's Only actually ran some adds on TSN up here and that add is so bad that the first three times I saw it air I saw various people in my twitter feed asking if they'd imagined the whole thing.

Still the worst webpage in the history of awful webpages I see. But I'm in.

We have enough MLS fans for it to be noteworthy that Tottenham Hotspur just announced the signing of DeAndre Yedlin from Seatlle Sounders. Will stay at Seattle for the rest of this season on loan and join Spurs next year.

There is a glut of zombie games now but there are still interesting projects out there. I'd really like to try 7 Days To Die at some point, for example. That sounds like it could be phenomenal if it pans out. If.

Exclusives always suck for someone but it's not like this is anything new. It actually feels like there are a lot less one-system exclusives now than there were say 15 years ago. Nintendo's core franchises are about the only ones that have completely held the course.

Not a hate post per se, just general sports TV here in Canada. But the CBC has let go Mark Lee and Steve Armitage. Lee I have no time for. He was a shithouse hockey play by play man who couldn't keep from getting erect over his own favourite team in Calgary and nobody liked him, and now that Hockey Night in Canada is no more they can him. Should have done it years ago. Armitage on the other hand I have a soft spot for as that guy that did no less than 15 Olympics, and was always handed a lot of random stuff but always handled it like a pro. He called a ton of huge moments at Olympics over my lifetime and he'll be missed.

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/08/norm-macdonald-may-just-written-best-tribute-robin-williams-yet/#.U-rGiIgfkUo.twitter Sorry if this is posted already but this Norm Macdonald story is hilarious and touching and worth repeating. I don't generally get involved with celebrity death threads, but it has to be said that now looking around it's absolutely staggering what a huge percentage of western civilization this guy touched in some small, silly way. It seems like almost everyone has a favourite Robin moment or two.

So this will be like Resident Evil 0 where like 100 of us realize everyone else missed a really cool game.

The UEFA Supercup is in Wales this year? I thought it was in Monaco every year. I mean I'm sure Cardiff is lovely...

I logged into Steam today and like two thirds of my games simply weren't showing up at all and I couldn't get them to run. So I went right to the "all time dumb tech help, step one" turn it off and on again and they all came back. Let me tell you something, those five minutes where I was wondering where all my games went was hard, my friends. DON'T DO THAT AGAIN STEAM. Filing a bug report on this one, because that... shouldn't be happening.

Only in England that's why some of us watch the Bundesliga.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/islanders-owner-charles-wang-hit-10-million-lawsuit-article-1.1899742 Charles Wang: Being Charles Wang

Tim Tebow is my favourite Marvel character.

deus ex is like people buying Dole brand bagged spinach and acting like they grew that shit themselves. Oh my God assfax do something about these people. Please. Have you actually played Deus Ex in the last few years? A lot of the mechanics have aged absolutely terribly. Sorry if that wounds you deeply, I guess?

I actually wouldn't be surprised if there have been scouts out there using games like Football and Soccer Manager as part of their "job" for years. Fuck, I've learned more than I care to admit because I dug around looking for info on That Nineteen Year Old Player.

Montreal lunacy continues as they fire their receivers coach and replace him too. Why not just tell your players "go out there and scatter" at this point?

I wonder how long Rory can play at this level. I mean... Phil Mickelson was good but even he wasn't this good at this age. At any rate, going to enjoy the ride. It's his sport now (well, has been for a while, but now it's basically official).

Yeah I'm not saying he should face criminal charges or not but the kneejerk to this has been uncomfortable. Let the police do their job. I'll say something after they do.

I think the season opening trophy being treated like a joke is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies when you have mega clubs who already have a lot going for them playing over it. If there was a year that some second division team won the FA Cup and by some miracle Sunderland or Swansea had won the Premiership (won't happen, but go with me here), I'm pretty sure they'd be quite happy to be playing over an additional free trophy any day. Not that I've heard anything about it this year, but teams that treat trophy games like a burden aren't very endearing to me. Be thankful your club is in such good shape, I say.

This song was stuck in my head for weeks after playing Fallout 2. I'd be walkin' down the road humming this to myself.

Sometimes the truth is painful. I made children cry telling the truth about Vice City too. Lots of "classics" suck. Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall sucks. It's stealth mechanics are about as equally broken as Deus Ex come to think of it. I still loved Morrowind and Skyrim, you know?

I was shown this video for the first time shortly before going to bed so if I come on tomorrow with a fuck you post about bizarre nightmares we know why.

My sincere hope for Blackpool now is that, at some point this season, they score a goal from open play. Fuck. What went so dreadfully wrong there?

SimAnt is one of those totally obscure, random games I would actually like to play a 2014 fancy looking version of, believe it or not. I mean, I'm not saying I'd put Skyrim hours into that, but it's got to be more interesting than three quarters of the stuff on Steam Greenlight.