Video Mashups Of The Geeky Kind

Posted by Doug on May 23rd, 2008 | 2 Comments

Three quick hits for you here. First, Battlestar LOSTica:

Next, Gradius as an Infocom-style text adventure game:

Last, the very Internet meme-y "Pork & Beans" video from Weezer:

Told you they were geeky.

Posted in Music, Television, Video Games, Videos

Fun With Analogies: LOST And Computer Role-Playing Games

Posted by Doug on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments

defective yeti penned an amusing post in which he first lays out the central problem of LOST's continuing (over)use of a certain plot development ploy, namely: an unending stream of mysteries designed to confound the viewers beyond measure. (Mild profanities redacted in this quote; note that they remain in-place at the actual article.)

Here's a [...]

Posted in Humor, Television, Video Games

Lost + Weird Al + Queen = Crazy Delicious

Posted by Doug on June 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Take Weird Al's polka incarnation of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", add it to a flash animation comprised entirely of images from the first season of Lost and, et voila!, you have a highly amusing 5 minute "music video".
Heh.

Posted in Humor, Music, Television

"Lost" Goes The "Battlestar Galactica" Route - Boo!

Posted by Doug on May 17th, 2006 | No Comments

BSG fans are intimately familiar with the schedule that Sci Fi has chosen for that particular hit TV show - air about half the episodes in a set block of weeks, then break for a span of multiple months, then resume the season and play it out in another block of weeks. Well, it [...]

Posted in Observations, Television