Character Review: Thal Sinestro

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The following is another guest post from the most excellent Casey Dawson, one of my Packrat Peeps!

A villain to his homeworld of Korugar and the Universe itself, or is he a powerful hero that has gone astray? Many people would agree that Sinestro is a powerful enemy to the Green Lantern Corps on his own, but when he creates his own Sinestro Corps he is something much scarier. At least, Sinestro has the potential to create something much more sinister. Who are we to decide that Sinestro is really a villain?

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X-Men: Destiny’s Review Scores Sadden Me

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Alright, I don’t know what I was expecting.  I guess it was because I had such a great time playing with X-Men: Legends in the original Xbox and PS2 days that I figured this would be a nice follow-up.  Granted, The Marvel Ultimate Alliance games were great in their own right, but having something purely X-Men focused was an exciting prospect for me.  Not to mention, my love for flashy, cartoony graphics is well-documented and anytime I can have candy-coated mutants running around whooping’ ass I get positive elated.  Unfortunately universal consensus seems to point to the fact that the game only looks like ass and does very little to no whoopin’ as I’d hoped.  NZGamer said it was ‘Rougher than Logan’s chin stubble.’ Ouch.

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Why My Heart Belongs To The Man Of Steel

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The following is a guest post from Shawna of CatDeerDog Photography.  Be sure to check it out, especially if you’re in need of a photographer in the Columbus area!

I’m just gonna come on out and say it. My favorite superhero is Superman…always and forever since I was a little girl gleefully watching Christopher Reeves soar through the air to crying my eyes out along with Superman when Supergirl died in Crisis of Infinite Earths to when not so long ago I again cried while watching Superman Returns. Not because it was terrible movie (Hey, I enjoyed it!) or because he almost dies. Nope, this time I shed tears of nostalgia and joy at a very crucial moment of the film. It is the first moment in the film where you hear the theme song start up and see Clark Kent dash out onto the street and rip open his shirt to fly off and save the world. THAT is classic movie magic, people!

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5 Comic Heroes I’d Kick in the Balls…for Science!

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Before we get started, I realize that I appear to be in the habit of making dick jokes lately. However, this is different. This is a scientific examination of what exactly would happen if some of our favorite characters from comic books took a straight shot to the pills. Granted, some of you may have already seen some of these in Marvel vs. Capcom, but I’m trying to be professional here. For instance, what exactly would happen if I gave a brutal blow to the balls of…

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For Want of a Line of Code

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The following is a guest post from Jeff Turner.  In addition to being outrageously handsome, he’s also a bonafide code monkey who will be contributing more programmy goodness in the future!

My name is Jeff Turner.  I’ve been a .net developer for over the last 5 years. This is actually how I have come to know Josh.  He sat right across from me. But it was years before our relationship blossomed into the gorgeous flower as I know it today. All it took was a podcast to get things started. I like to call it the mullet script. Corporate business up front and party in the back. The party was mostly something in tech news, sometimes the daily woot.com product, possibly a video game or movie review. I like to think that geekspodcast.com never would have been started if it weren’t for those 2 crazy kids with a microphone.

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Review: Teen Titans #1

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The following is a guest post from a new friend I met at  Packrat Comics, Casey Dawson.
Teen Titans is a title that I had been waiting for since I heard about the DC relaunch. The collection of heroes that are much like the Justice League with more of the teenage drama that gives fair conflict to the team.

6 Reasons I will Rampage if Arkham City Doesn’t get a Sequel

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It has been just over a month since the release of Batman: Arkham City, and I have yet to complete all of the side quests, solve all of the riddles, etc. Partially because of Skyrim, partially because Josh still has my copy, and of course there’s that whole “job” thing that tears me away from my gaming all too often.

"I'll get your prescriptions in a minute, but just listen to me talk about the genius that is Mark Hamill as the Joker"

That being said, while I have yet to finish the game I am already eagerly anticipating the day that Rocksteady announces that they are working on the third installment of the Batman: Arkham franchise. When that day comes, I will likely ruin a perfectly good pair of boxers. However, if the day should come when they announce that a third game will not be coming, there is approximately a 90% chance that I will end up in jail on some kind of homicide/involuntary manslaughter charge. Here’s why:

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How Skyrim Made me Realize I’m a Terrible Person

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I tend to think I’m a pretty nice guy. I rescued a (dirty, freeloading) poodle earlier this year, pay my taxes, and don’t even take the last piece of pizza in a social environment. Unfortunately, all of my delusions were shattered when I had to look at myself in the mirror and weep at my horrible behavior in subjugating the denizens of Skyrim with my petty villainy.  Behavior like…

1. Stealing Sh*t from Perfectly Good People

Why hello there Lucan.  What’s that?  Bandits stole your golden claw statue?  Let me take care of that for you!  You and Camilla just sit tight here in your trading outpost while I go serve up some murderous justice.

Hmm, this bloodlust-driven adventurer certainly LOOKS trustworthy…

Unfortunately though, after you go to sleep tonight I will have absolutely no reservation about lock picking my way through your front door and taking every thing you own.  I’ll leave you the golden claw just to be poetic, but beyond that I’m like the Grinch that stole Christmas; I’m taking everything that isn’t nailed down.

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5 iOS Changes That Won’t Make me Punch Myself in the Dick

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Let me say first that I’m not in the habit of punching myself in the dick.  I’m just illustrating a few minor changes I’d appreciate Apple making that would prevent me from spiraling down that path in frustration, reducing the possibility of my 16 planned Josh Jrs. Changes like…

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