Pikabellechu is proposed to by her raichu (YouTube)
I, for one, eagerly anticipate the wedding footage. Nice pichu joke at the end.
Medal Detecting (Mice Age)
Kevin Yee ran in all the Disney park marathons this year and has the medals to prove it. Bet you didn't even know Disney holds marathons.
Talking Comics with Tim: Nevin Martell (CBR)
An interview with the guy who just published a book about Bill Watterson. I don't think I was ever fully "there" for Calvin & Hobbes, but Watterson himself is one interesting character study.
Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Joystiq)
Why is Joystiq the only review that calls this game easy?
Though the motion controlled bits are annoying, there's not much in the game I'd describe as difficult, despite what Shiggy said. The inclusion of Super Mario World's mid-level checkpoints for stages that, to be honest, only take about five to ten minutes to finish is a little too forgiving. I know Nintendo wanted to eradicate the frustration of having to go through an entire stage again (all 5-10 minutes of it!) should the player perish, I get that, but it's gone way too far, taking the game from accessible to easy.
This is also the first I've seen a complaint about the stupid shaking motion controls and the lack of classic controller support. I'm going to need to see One Incredible Deal to be encouraged to pick this one up.
Store Update: Birthday and Space Suit Costumes (Media Molecule)
Hey! The free spacesuit costume was originally said to be a special costume reward to people who bought LittleBigPlanet at launch a year ago! Get it? At launch. Now it's available again? Why, for the launch of the GOTY edition two months ago?
Also, it's a sucky costume anyway.
Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics (Fast Company via Daring Fireball)
Great design discussion and a bang-up lead: "The conservative columnist George Will once said football combines the two worst things about America: violence punctuated by committee meetings."
Monty Python Reunion on IFC (Mark Evanier)
30 minutes is just not enough time to see the Pythons dawdle through audience Q&A. Great video; I roared.
DC Bolsters Sales with Ring Promotion (CBR)
All this month, if you buy certain DC Blackest Night tie-ins, you get various Lantern rings as a free pack-in. FREAKING HELL COOL. The books themselves are (probably) all multi-part storylines, so DC is obviously hoping you'll stick around for next month and pick up the next chapter. Let me tell you how Josh and I discovered this deal last week at our local shop:
JOE and JOSH, standing by a pile of DOOM PATROL #4: "Boy, Brett sure over-ordered on Doom Patrol!" "Haw, haw!"
BRETT (the owner): "Did you guys get the Blackest Night tie-in books, and the free rings?"
JOE and JOSH: "What."
BRETT: "You get a Yellow Ring if you buy Doom Patrol #4."
JOE: "Yeah, I'll take that."
JOSH: "Me too."
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