With my wedding day fast approaching, there’s not been much time for in-depth Iron Updates. There still isn’t, in fact. So instead, here are some neat videos from the Intertubes. Enjoy!
1- One of the criticisms that Rusty has levelled at Michael Bay’s Transformers movies is that the eponymous robots are often all but indistinguishable from each other. “I don’t understand why they had [use those designs],” Rusty asks. “Why couldn’t they keep the old designs, with their strong use of primary colours?” Good question, Rusty. Apparently, you’re not the only one wondering that:
2- This past week saw the release of the latest game in the Halo series, ODST. Rusty and PH have played it and say it’s good times; the rest of us are looking forward to giving it a whirl. I for one am really impressed with the TV spot:
3- Last week, I described a video I’d seen of a pretty rad pool table. Here it is at last. The money shot (so to speak) begins around 2:10:
4- Q: What happens when a freight train rolls into a tornado?
A:
5- Pop music and Internet gaming collide to create something truly bizarre:
6- Here in the 514 we take winter driving for granted. It’s trickier when you’re not used to it:
7- Haha!
8- Cool pet, or coolest pet?
9- Brent Spiner takes the piss with Patrick Stewart:
10- I can’t believe this gag made it into a kids’ show:
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OK – re: Transformers, that was actually really cool. For almost no budget, they did really well. The only thing lacking to make that a whole new shade of awesome is good sound design – you’d be surprised how good something can look if it sounds good.
I was really unimpressed with the current mega-blockbuster transformers flicks, anyhow. How am I supposed to follow a fight between two giant robots that have been designed to be impossible to look at? I mean, every Transformer in the current movies has something like 20,000 visible moving parts. These robots are way cooler.
also: NO ENERGON CUBES.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!