Alan Rickman on Broadway = AWESOME

I totally heart NY.

Good Evening my Children. Your Den Mother has seen Alan Rickman live. And it was Good. One of many, many, many benefits of living a ~1hr train ride from NYC is that I get to see Broadway plays on a semi-regular basis. It would be more regular if I had more money. I was in the nose bleed section tonight (thankfully of a small theater so it wasn't TOO far away from the stage) and the tickets cost $82.50. Each. What play you ask? It was called Seminar. It was about 4 aspiring actors who took a titular seminar with a writer played by the wonderful Alan Rickman. Mr. "Sliders" Jerry Connell was also in said play. It ran only 1 hr 40 min but Oh. My. God. I now know what its liked to be fucked aurally. That's AURALLY not ORALLY, you perverts. Now mind you, I have known for many years that Rickman's voice is pure sex. But it doesn't COMPARE to a live performance. Anyway, the dialogue and monologues were outstanding. And I have now heard Mr. Rickman use "She sucked my balls so hard, I saw stars" in a sentence. For any who live in the tri-state area see. this. play. Anyway, I was tempted to wait around after the play so I could get the chance to thank Alan Rickman for fucking me in the ear for an hour and half. But we had dinner reservations at a restaurant where I learned a couscous dish could be so fucking good that it qualifies as a religious experience. So all in all, a great day in the City.

That's all. Have a wonderful evening.

FUCK YOU PIPA/SOPA

Liberty should not be Gagged

Good Evening My Children. Your den mother here wants to remind all Americans that we face a threat to our internet liberties. We face a threat that is hidden behind stopping piracy. This threat is in the disguise of the Protect Intellectual Property and the Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA/SOPA). My children this is nothing more than threatening a VERY VERY big chunk of websites on the internet. If this act goes through, any site that has any video or image that is not their personal property or has permission to use said videos/images will be knocked off the web.

This act will NOT stop piracy. There are so many holes that will permit internet pirating to continue that its laughable. What will be endangered? Well this site for one. My review of the Tudors alone would blacklist this site. Topless Robot and Rifftrax will be gone. Any fan site for shows, books, movies, wines, any fucking hobby you can think of, will be gone. The disclaimer that we do not own said interests would no longer be enough to protect these sites. They would need PERMISSION from the corporations and individuals who directly own the property. SO all you Star Wars fans? You'll need permission from LucasFilms. X-Men fans? Marvel. Superman and Batman? DC. Any Pixar films? Disney. Its ridiculous and unfair. For those who want to do something here ya go!

http://americancensorship.org/

Most of us come to the Tao of Scoot due to Topless Robot. Help stop these bills or they will be gone.

I end with a great speech against another violation of Civil Liberties. Appropriately, this would be grounds for blacklisting the site under these bills.

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." Edward R. Murrow spoke against the communist witch hunts of the 195os. Here we are defending the rights to freedom of information on the web. We cannot proclaim ourselves a free nation if we are so willing to trample freedom of the web in the hopes of stopping piracy.

Good Night and Good Luck

The Tudors: Rebellion and Family Reconciliation

Jane Seymour & Henry Rex. Stuff Happens.

Good Evening My Children. Den Mother here has temporarily leave from the isolation chamber and brings unto you part two of my Tudors Review. I delved into Queens 1-3. But stuff happened during Jane Seymour's brief reign other than her just giving birth and promptly dying. So away we go!

The Tudors: More sex and beheadings forthcoming...

Good Evening My Children. I will soon be giving unto you the long delayed part 2 of my Tudors review. I lost interest in the show for a while and just recently regained interest...largely due to this lovely lady:

Meet Sarah Bolger...and her Cleavage. The cleavage that is almost cut out belongs to Queen number 6: Catherine Parr.

This is Mary Tudor, who I did mention in the first post but failed to appreciate the awesomeness of when I first watched The Tudors...I guess I was distracted by all of the tits that were actually shown in the series that I failed to notice the one pair that was sadly never exposed. As Mary Tudor was a very pious and thus virtuous girl, her tits remained covered...but the fashion of the 16th century was a great tease so we got some EXCELLENT shots of her cleavage. Here are a few more pictures:

Not the best face shot, but cleavage-wise: damn, just damn.

The girl to the right of Mary Tudor's breasts is Queen number 5, Catherine Howard

Here's Sarah Bolger in the 21st century...

Anyway, Goodnight children and I hope you enjoy cleavage. :)

The 20 Best Screenshots from the 'Samurai Showdown/Spirits' Series

I have an addiction, of sorts. Every time I use my MAME or SNES emulators, I compulsively take screenshots of the games I play (and I've played close to a thousand individual games.) The average amount of screenshots I take of each game is anywhere between 10 and 200+ (the 200+ games are usually RPG's, just because of the amount of time they take to play.) It's just a compulsion: For example, let's say a play-through of Capcom's utterly awesome scrolling beat 'em up 'The Punisher' takes half an hour. When I play it, it can take up to an hour and a half, because of the screenshots I'm taking. I see something cool, press 'PRTSC', collapse the emulator, open MS Paint, and save the image as a .bmp. Then I'd open all of those images in Photoshop, and save them as high-quality .jpg files. (Now I just take all the .bmp's and convert them to .jpg's using Format Factory.) The reason I mention all this is because I have thousands of screenshots from hundreds of games, so if you guys need a screenshot for a game, odds are I'll have at least 20 for you to pick from.

Anyway, here are 20 of my best screenshots from the 'Samurai Showdown/Spirits' series. It's easy to take great-looking screen grabs from these games just because the character models are beautiful, and the animation is excellent.
A screen grab is obviously a static shot, but because the individual sprite that forms part of each animation is so clear, when you take your screen grab you never get a 'blur', a shot that captures only the transition between sprite animations, which just looks messy and isn't worth keeping.

So that's 'Screen Grabs 101' out of the way. After the jump, the 20 best Samurai Showdown/Spirits screenshots! (Alliteration points awarded for that last sentence: at least a billion.)

Just a quick note: To view the images in their full size as a slideshow, simply click on an image.

The Tao's Barely Functional Fan Fiction Friday!

Welcome all to our scrappy gang's (Aaron Dennis,  Dirania Majere and James Daniels) attempt to build a Fan Fiction Friday! Sit back a little, cradle a shnifter of brandy in your good hand, and be prepared for our attempt to horrify and amuse you...

  (Okay – look at the images above. Trippfunster did the same and said, "Wow! Sexy! I must write porn!)