Author Salman Rushdie used video games as escapism while hiding from the Iranian government

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Film: Newswire: This is what the next Star Trek movie will be called

You let me know how that works out

Film: Newswire: This is what the next Star Trek movie will be called

via A.V. Club by Sean O'Neal on 9/10/12

For most of the past three years or so, J.J. Abrams' forthcoming Star Trek sequel has been referred to as Star Trek 2, for lack of a more accurate name. But today is the day those people are now wrong and/or immediately wistful for when it was just called Star Trek 2: Paramount has confirmed that the May 17, 2013 film will be titled Star Trek Into Darkness—just like that, without being separated by any sort of colon or dash or ellipsis or one of those little emoticons where the smiley face is sarcastically rolling its eyes. Instead it's a complete phrase, as in "Kevin took a star trek into darkness this weekend, and then posted a bunch of crappy pictures of it on Instagram." So with that settled, you may now begin debating what this suggests about the film's plot points. A Joseph Conrad ...

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Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

Not surprising. Bethesda is one of the worst best software companies in the industry. Great games but crazy technical issues

Bethesda: We Can't Make *Dawnguard* Work On the PS3

via Slashdot by Soulskill on 8/31/12

An anonymous reader sends this quote from Geek.com: "PS3 gamers may now never get access to the content in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC. That's the news coming out of Bethesda via their forums. Administrator and global community lead Gstaff posted an update on the state of PS3 DLC for the game, and it's not looking great. Gstaff explains that releasing sizeable DLC is a complex issue, and it seems like for the PS3 it might be just a bit too complex. No detail is given as to what the specific problem is, but Bethesda is preparing PS3 gamers for the reality that Dawnguard, and for that matter any other Skyrim DLC, may never reach the platform. I'd like to know what the exact problem is they can't overcome, but I'd also like to know if this is a failing on Bethesda's part or a shortcoming of the PS3 architecture. Maybe Sony should pay Bethesda a visit and see what's going on." In other Skyrim news, a mod for the game that attempted to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth has received a Cease & Desist letter from Warner Bros, causing development to stop.

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TV: Newswire: Benedict Cumberbatch in a spot of bother over CBS' Elementary

Ladies, please...

TV: Newswire: Benedict Cumberbatch in a spot of bother over CBS' Elementary

via A.V. Club by Sean O'Neal on 8/30/12

Despite the fact that the upcoming CBS show Elementary went to the trouble of making Watson an Asian-American woman and therefore is totally different, the cast and crew of the BBC's Sherlock continue to express their suspicion that the network is attempting to copy their own modern Sherlock Holmes show, simply because CBS tried to copy their own modern Sherlock Holmes show. Until now, however, little has been heard about it from Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, as he has not been seen in many a fortnight since Whit Monday. This led some to suspect he'd slipped away to become a mountebank, quacksalver, and all-'round charlatan along the Borough, or possibly been felled by the croup.

But thanks to a slumgullion-bribed steward, the U.K.'s Shortlist found Cumberbatch in a Common lodging-house and was able to ask him what he thought of his Frankenstein co-star Jonny Lee ...

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TV: Great Job, Internet!: Meth-os, the freshmaker: Breaking Bad as a Mentos ...

TV: Great Job, Internet!: Meth-os, the freshmaker: Breaking Bad as a Mentos commercial

via A.V. Club by Marah Eakin on 8/22/12

This season of Breaking Bad has been pretty goddamn dark, but luckily for fans, the Internet is always there to lighten the mood. Today's drug-related hilarity comes courtesy of a YouTuber who took it upon himself to edit down a recent scene into a spot-on spoof of a Mentos commercial. It's perfect, really, from Bryan Cranston's smug grin to the fantastical plot resolution at the end. Maybe meth has been the freshmaker all along.

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Film: Great Job, Internet!: Mixing Finding Nemo with Taken results in a glor...

Film: Great Job, Internet!: Mixing Finding Nemo with Taken results in a gloriously dark mash-up

via A.V. Club by Marcus Gilmer on 8/22/12

For every movie mash-up that works, there are dozens that don’t. Lucky for the Internet, then, that this mash-up of Pixar’s Finding Nemo and the Liam Neeson kidnapping actioner Taken not only works, but is genius. It turns one of Pixar’s best films into a dark noir thriller, which the studio should consider for that upcoming re-release this fall. Because nothing says “box-office gold” like a clown fish voiced by Liam Neeson breaking kneecaps and snapping necks. [via The Daily What]

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Wonder Woman and Superman are now officially doing it [Comics]

DOUBLE UGH, what?

Countdown to DC books coming off my pull list...

Wonder Woman and Superman are now officially doing it [Comics]

via io9 by Cyriaque Lamar on 8/22/12

After decades of cavorting with human women — and occasionally being brainwashed into making pornos with superhuman gals — Superman has found a cervix powerful enough to withstand his ballistic Kryptonian seed. In next week's issue of Justice League, Superman and Wonder Woman will officially become the DC Universe's new power couple. Commence the atmospheric diddling!

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Will Syfy's Blake's 7 reboot be as dark as Battlestar Galactica? [Blake's 7]

UGH, what?

Paul Darrow better be involved

Will Syfy's Blake's 7 reboot be as dark as Battlestar Galactica? [Blake's 7]

via io9 by Charlie Jane Anders on 8/21/12

Syfy's great success story remains Battlestar Galactica, the cheeseball 1970s space opera show that Ronald D. Moore brought back as a gritty, more serious look at the remnants of humanity trying to survive after a robot massacre. So now that Syfy is apparently picking up Blake's 7, the 1970s British space opera, can the channel repeat that accomplishment? More »

Film: Newswire: R.I.P. Phyllis Diller

Brrgh...

It'll just be one a day now forever, huh?

Film: Newswire: R.I.P. Phyllis Diller

via A.V. Club by Sean O'Neal on 8/20/12

TMZ is reporting the death of Phyllis Diller, the brassy comedian who paved the way for generations of female comics to come. Diller had suffered from numerous health problems in recent years, and was most recently recovering from a bad fall while living in hospice care. She was 95.

Beginning with her first stand-up appearances in 1955, the housewife-turned-advertising copywriter-turned radio personality Diller developed an exaggerated, eccentric persona that was steeped in self-deprecating wisecracks. Diller—often dressed in gaudy feather boas that matched her fright-wig hair, and twiddling a long cigarette holder—specialized in one-liner gags aimed squarely at her own appearance, her inability (and apathy about trying to) to satisfy her fictional husband "Fang" in the kitchen and the bedroom, and the ravages of age. (A typical Phyllis Diller joke: "I love to shop for shoes. It's the only place where a man tells me that I'm ...

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My NERD is Bond

My NERD is Bond

via The Non-Adventures of Wonderella by admin on 8/18/12

Doctor Shark will not be told what to do by some pantsless freaks.