Follow Fight Friday

Movie Line have come up with an novel way of filtering the plethora of celebs you can follow on Twitter; A Twitter Tournament of Champions! Let the battle commence!

This weeks follow suggestions:

@NathanFillion - Actor and star of Firefly/Serenity.
@serafinowicz - Actor, comedian and voice of Darth Maul.
@scottmcloud - Writer, artist and guru of sequential art.

This week @maycontaingeeks:

#StarTrek TNG: Genesis = 2 Gs. Spider Barclay? Neanderthal Riker? Fishy Troy? This is supposed to be season 7!

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Jedi Word Search

Something for the weekend:



Enjoy this Star Wars themed word search over the weekend.

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Scarlett Spider

EW.com gives us a first look at Black Widow in Iron Man 2:

Scarlett Johansson a Black Widow

The original Black Widow

I can't argue with the choice of the sexy Miss Johansson to play the spy/hero/femme-fatal but that hair looks a little odd. I hope it's not a sign of the franchise sliding into the artificial look that a lot of the lesser superhero films have adopted.

Did anyone thing Reed's gray sides look real or even the party wig that Storm wears in XM1?

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FPS Disease

Please watch this video message about a very serious disease with could affect any of us with little warning;

Via BoingBoing

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Well, Twitter Me!

May Contains Geeks has joined the Twitterverse! I'll be posting mini-reviews of my daily Geek intake as well as site updates and general Tweet foolishness.

You can follow me @maycontaingeeks.
If you are new to Twitter and want some help deciding who to follow to maximise your Geek related Tweets, Geek Dad has a handy guide to 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter.

Plus, as it is #FollowFriday here a could of my suggestions that didn't make the GD list:

@noobde - Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat.
@marcellerby - Marc Ellerby, creator and star of the Ellebrisms web comic.
@wossy - Jonathan Ross, presenter, film critic and comic book Geek.

I'll add some more suggestions next week and for those who fear the social networking side of the interweb like the Solanum virus I will also re-post the mini-reviews here on a weekly basis. Just like this:

Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire = 1 G for being the bastard child of Carry On and Robin Hood, and not he go episodes either.

Torchwood - Children of Earth Day 1 = 3 Gs for giving Jack & Ianto 'some' background, a double cross and killing Jack 3-times?

#Torchwood Children of Earth Day 2 = 3 Gs for the creepy Mr Dekker, decent build in tension and 'containing' Jack.

#Torchwood Children of Earth Day 3 = 3 Gs for A-Team style shopping, dirty politics and The Man.

#Chuck vs Tom Sawyer = 2 Gs for vintage arcade games, Dude Jeff but not enough Casey or Sarah.

#Chuck vs Tom Sawyer = 2 Gs for vintage arcade games, Dude Jeff but not enough Casey or Sarah.

#Torchwood Children of Earth Day 4 = 4 Gs for a chilling debate on school league tables, more deaths and the ominous 456.

1 vs 100 Live! (BETA) (Xbox 360) = 1G - I tried to play for an hour, crashed the box twice and only managed to answer 4 separate questions.

#Torchwood Children of Earth Day 5 = 5Gs for hard decisions & bloody politicians. Why couldn't all TW be have like this?

Fallout 3 LARP

First came the Brotherhood of Steel Armour, now this:



Some 300 über-Geeks staged a Fallout themed LARP event at a disused military base in Russia last month.

Now I'm a B.I.G. Fallout 3 fan and do go fancy dress camping LARPing on occasion but camping in the Wastelands? That, my little cap collectors, would be a little too depressing...

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DLC Ups and Downs

Downloadable Content is one of the best features of the Next Gen consoles¹. This is especially true on my platform of choice the Xbox 360, with new content released daily, although PS3 is slowly catching up.



EA have announced two FREE DLCs for their recent and knockout game FIGHT NIGHT Round 4. The first will be a standard content style update featuring: a new gym, sliders, equipment and a Pizza Hut version of Sugar Ray Leonard. No, I'm not sure what that means either.

The second in more intriguing. They are releasing a game patch that will allow players to use the face buttons to punch, as in previous versions of the game. The analogue stick punch control seemed to be a main selling point for the new version so this add on seems both a boon for those players who prefer the old controls and back-pedaling for the games evolution.



Of course, the news can't always be good. It seems that there will be no DLC updates for MK vs DC. Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-creator, has announced on his Twitter page that the additional characters will now not be released. Mr Mxyzptlx, Harley Quinn and Quan Qui (above). MK vs DC is one of those average games that is slightly raised above the thrall by the history of the subject material, and in the Geek world few rank higher than MK and DC, so it's a shame that the book has been closed on that little crossing of the Realms.

¹ I am a little tired of the GH3 and Rock Band songs taking up all my screen space though.

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Virtually Nick Leeson

So the credit crunch has finally encroached on that last bastion of Geek safety: the virtual world.

Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch.
One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.

So now that the real world of financial insecurity is causing virtual theft and runs on banks that only exist in an imaginary universe what can Geeks do to protect themselves?

I for one am taking no more chances. My Monopoly fortune will be über-protected in this shiny LEGO safe:

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Zombies Only Want You For Your Brain

Preview | Price: $15 | Sizes: XS-3X | Threadless

I know I posted a zombie Tee last week but how can I pass this up?

The clever thing about Threadless's TypeTees t-shirts is that by limiting the design and just focusing on the humorous slogans they create a very clean and bold Tee.

ZOWYFYBs is a good example of that; a simple Geek joke in a perfect blood-on-the-wall font. Something that wouldn't have looked out of place on a 70's movie trailer.

Cross-posted @ http://www.threadless.com/profile/127374/duke1974/blog/476957/BRAINS_AGAIN

FreakAngels

Review | FREE | Writer: Warren Ellis | Artist: Paul Duffield | Avatar Press

Like the poster says, a group of twenty-somethings with psychic-powers living in a flooded London and looking after their fellow survivors; both from the elements and other rival communities.

Post-apocalyptic Britain, psychic powers, steampunk, swearing, shagging and violence. Everything you expect from the forward-thinking Mr Ellis. Here he mixes his realistic vision of a world post-environmantaly desaster with a little psy-fi and tech-magic. Teamed with Paul Duffield's clean and details art, he creates a world which, despite its futuristic powers and technology, takes a step back so the enigmatic FreakAngels and tale of human survival can take center stage.

FreakAngels is now 69 issues in but this week is a skip week, were Mr Duffield take the opportunity to describe how the comic is created, and start from the beginning.

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