Archive for the ‘Funny & Odd’ Category

If I hadn’t already own a custom license plate tag (it costs $70 here a year), I think I would go with TheSims, Maxis or SimCity – much like this one person has in the state of California:

Kids say the darnest things.  Most of the time we just laugh and shrug it off, but this guy took it one step further – to draw out the ideas that his little 5 year old brother came up with.  That creation turned out to be Axe Cop, a story about a cop who one day picks up an axe and is determined to fight crime creating a team of superheros.  Basically, the whole deal with Axe Cop works out like this

Malachai tells me a story, and I ask him questions to fill in the gaps. It’s just an exploration of 5 year old logic… so he says he is an Axe Cop and asks me if I want to join his team. I say yes, he says sign here. I ask him what we are going to do, he says fight dinosaurs. Also, I do not write word for word what he says, I translate it, paraphrase it, and sometimes make sense of it. If you wanted to get technical, you could say Malachai comes up with the stories, then I write it and illustrate it… but I just feel lame trying to cling to my writing credit next to a five year old. I like when comic credits are simple… this guy wrote it, this guy drew it.

It’s down-right humorous. Make sure you start with Episode 1 then read all the way through and check out the Ask Axe Cop segments for more LOL’s.  Have to say, this 5 year old is more creative then most of the junk that is shown on television these days.

Episode 1 – In video format

I’m hooked on these videos. Stumbled upon one of their YouTube videos and in a full hour caught up on all 10. A little background information for those that are unfamiliar with Autotune the News… A group known as The Gregory Brothers (Evan, Andrew, Michael and Evan’s wife, Sarah) takes bits and pieces of segments from various news outlets and mixes them along with their own vocals with the help of Autotune.  Autotune is a program which helps artists adjust or change their pitch in case they may happen to sing out of tune in real life.  However, these guys can actually sing, so it makes the videos even better!

As of this date, there are only ten Autotune the News videos available, but more are in the making!  I’ve added them all in this post, with my favorite being #10 – Turtles.  Now, if we can get someone to use the Autotunes app for iPhone (called I am T-Pain) to sing along with music from Sims 3….well that’d be priceless!

I wish real news could be more like this…

Episode 10 – Turtles

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Julia Yu Tsao has quite the imagination.  For his Graduate Thesis Project, he came up with the following idea of ‘Curious Displays’, a future display technology that becomes familiar with its surroundings and will point out certain aspects that the owner may not be aware of, much like how we point out things for our Sims to do in the game.

In a way it’s a very interesting idea but on the other hand, very terrifying.  It just seems…creepy.  Not to mention, what would happen if it would break?  Hundreds of small pieces everywhere, that’s what.  Thank god we’re a long, long ways off to pull off this kind of idea.  I am still waiting on my hoverboard, dangit!

Source: Kotaku and Vimeo

If I had any skill at writing and being funny, I’d love to be able to do Onion-type articles using characters from The Sims.  That has potential.  Perhaps one day I’ll attempt it.

More headlines from other games at GamesRadar

The topic of evolution has been around for a long, long time…but I think Spore had to play some sort of role in giving this artist the idea of creating this flipnote video.  Loved it!  Thanks to Robb for sharing this video with me!

Is just a funny video at the moment…But I can’t resist, it’s too cute

Will Wright isn’t only a computer video game creator and robot builder.  No, he’s actually more bad-ass than that as he was one of the few who participated in the 1980-83 US Express, the highly secretive and heretofore unknown successor to the legendary Cannonball Run.  In the following two videos, he shows us a little about his car:

What do you get when you take 2 old ladies, a PVC pipe and a greenscreen then put them together?  Greenscreen Grandmas, that’s what!  Watch below of the 2 most awesome grannies take a spin on this virtual rollercoaster!  Old people are cool