Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Zima Blue from Netflix's Love Death Robots is great










The Wonder Woman statue based on Robert Valley's design is 50% off at Amazon, btw.

Miles Morales designer vinyl toy



Available for preorder. There's also a Deadpool, Black Panther, and Thanos.

Into the Spider-Verse Kingpin cosplay



Speaking of cosplay:







"About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, police said Wednesday"

CNN:

the scandal, which involved 42 rooms in 30 accommodations in 10 cities around the country. Police said there was no indication the businesses were complicit in the scheme.

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Cameras were hidden inside digital TV boxes, wall sockets and hairdryer holders and the footage was streamed online

Star Wars roundup





































*More Star Wars.

Teeny-tiny third-party Omega Supreme figure



Available for preorder:

From Mechanic Studio & Mech Soul, the MS-11 Mini Sentry figure stands about 2.5 inches tall and can transform from robot to base mode. Also included with this set is a head tank patrol unit and doctor figure.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Two reviews of Netflix's Love Death Robots animation series

Rolling Stone:

the worst installments feel like the show is simply hitting every lowest common denominator for the Comic-Con demographic and turning the volume up to 11. Both “Sonnie’s Edge,” about psychics who engage in Lovecraft-monster cockfights, and “The Witness,” about a belle du jour running from a homicidal perv, look and play like toxic cut scenes from old PlayStation games
Guardian:
If cyberpunk stories about harassed exotic dancers and distressed sexbots are supposed to be state-of-the-art science-fiction, then an R2 #MeToo moment seems long overdue.

"How Many Times Should You Say ‘Chugga’ Before ‘Choo Choo’? The Debate Is On"

"A Reddit user recently posted a seemingly innocent question to the subreddit Too Afraid To Ask, and it blew up into one of the greatest debates of our time"

Deluxe werewolf cop figure available for preorder



Vice City Detective includes multiple human and wolf heads and hands, weapons, and accessories.

The just-revealed DC Collectibles are available for preorder too, including Dark Nights: Metal The Red Death.

New Marvel comic book covers


Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #5 cover by Rahzzah.




Champions #6 cover by Inhyuk Lee.




Avengers #20 cover by Paolo Rivera.




Miles Morales: Spider-Man # 7 cover by Patrick O'Keefe.




The Unstoppable Wasp #9 cover by Stacey Lee.




Thanos #3 cover by Jeff Dekal.




Runaways #22 cover by Kris Anka.




X-Force #9 cover by Valerio Schiti.




Star Wars: Vader - Dark Visions #5 cover by Greg Smallwood.

*More comic book covers.

"Locating The Netherlands’ Most Wanted Criminal By Scrutinising Instagram"

Step-by-step guide, including use of several Chrome plugins:

A fugitive convict from the Netherlands is taunting Dutch police with provocative pictures and videos from Iran, playing a game of “catch me if you can” on Instagram. “I love my freedom. And the weather,” he has stated.

Bellingcat was able to reveal the last known location of the criminal with the help of over 60 Twitter users. Here’s how we did that.
Related: Reply All's episode about Paul Le Roux.

Google's Stadia announcement




Also:






Ten funny tweets
















































*More funny tweets.

Monday, March 18, 2019

Art roundup








































Slayer jacket



By Mondo x Tuesday Bassen, who has this patch for sale:



*Previously: Chewbacca jacket and messenger bag.

Microwave-safe Weyland-Yutani mug with xenomorph at the bottom

Two versions.

Video game roundup














































*More video games.

Neuromancer is $1.99 today

at Amazon.

Sunday, March 17, 2019

"One-third of Offutt [Air Force base] underwater; at least 30 buildings damaged in flood"

Omaha:

Between Saturday night and early Sunday, the 55th Wing called off a 30-hour, round-the-clock sandbagging effort because the floodwaters were rising too fast.

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A specialized device called an Aqua Dam, 4 feet high, was flown in from Louisiana to surround a building that contained expensive flight simulators. But the water rose too quickly to deploy it.
Reuters:
Large parts of Nebraska and the U.S. Central Plains were underwater on Saturday after a late-winter “bomb cyclone” storm triggered historic flooding along the Missouri and Platte rivers

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