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Randy Blythe Released From Czech Prison

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For all of you who partake in the “Metal” some good news!

Randy Blythe, front man for Metal band Lamb of God, has been granted bail from a Czech prison where he has been held for the last month, awaiting trial for the alleged manslaughter of a fan who, it was reported, was pushed from the stage, banged his head and died of his injuries a time later.

Blythe will be entitled to return home, after bail has been paid, summing some 8 million Czech Koruna (about $800k or £515k) but will have to return to face the charges; something he is more than willing to do according to his legal representation, Martin Radvan.

[quote]…if he wants to continue performing, he will have to return. And he wants to return because he believes he is not guilty of anything he has been charged with.”[/quote]

If you would like to help donate towards the cost of Randy.s legal fees then please click the following link, where a FB page has been set up. All money will be paid towards costs and any left over will be given to charity.

KURATAS – Suidobashi heavy industry – Officially the coolest thing..ever!

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 Ever play MechWarrior? Ever thought, I wish I could have a real Mech like that? Well the future is now thanks to Suidobashi Heavy Industry. 

Its 4M tall, packs a mini gun that can shoot 6000 ball bearings a second  and can be controlled either by piloting it yourself in the torso level or, if you are fealing lazy, just using your smartphone.

 So if you have $1.4m  spare and would like to buy one of these Mechs to deal out some justice or just take a ride to the shops, then you can buy them HERE… thats right BUY! (Euro millions on Friday I think!)

$350 for best Chewbacca impression

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Thanks to Mick Thorburn for getting in contact with us about this news story.

Whilst perusing the WashingtonDC Craiglist, Mike came across an interesting Ad…

 

[quote]Will pay $350 to the person that calls me with the best Chewbacca impression[/quote]

 

Knowing that news like this MUST get out, he came straight to Geek Pride. Sadly after many minutes of Google searching, we established the ad is no longer on there…boooo; we can only assume a winner has been found.

All is not lost though, we have attached some impressions that we felt could be contentenders for any future competitions.

  

Strange Olympic events they should totally bring back!

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The Olympics are upon us!

By now you will no doubt be huddled around your TV sets, eagerly watching obscure sports that until a couple of days ago you wouldn’t have even given a second thought to, hoping and praying for gold and national pride! But are you not bored of the same old sports, year in, year out? Would you not prefer something.. ohhhh… more oldskool.. more… gentlemanly?

Well you are in luck, after a discussion with some friends of mine today in work, I have found 5 events trialed in the early years of the modern Olympics that I think (if brought back) could really add a more civilized and therefore more enjoyable atmosphere to our Olympics… call it a Gentlemen’s pentathlon if you will.

 

 Event 1: Town Planning 

 Im not joking, added to the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928 and won by a German called Alfred Hensel for his design of the Nuremberg Stadium. The First Brit to win this physically challenging event was John Hughes (any relation to the singer in my band hmmmm ) in 1932, for a sports and recreation centre, with stadium, for the city of Liverpool. Imagine having live coverage of that now a days… in HD! Would probably still watch it.

Event 2: Long Jump… for Horses?

Added to the 1900 Paris Olympic games (along with a vast variety of other strange events such as Cannon shooting) Horse Long Jumping was, pretty much, what it said on the tin; a long Jump for horses. The first winner being called “Extra-Dry,” ridden by a Belgian called Constant van Langendonck and recording a jump of 6.10M.

 

Event 3: Firefighting

Again in 1900 . Apparently buildings in Paris were set a blaze and the winning firemen were the ones who doused the flames the fastest. Surprisingly this event didn’t make it to the next Olympics in 1904 but atleast Paris managed to get rid of a good proportion of its slums with a bout of Olympic sponsored arson (ok I don’t know that for sure but it makes sense)

 

Event 4: Live Pigeon shooting

Back in the day, 1900 (again) they knew how to deal with their ratbird infestations; get the local gentry to shoot at them and the one who shot the most won a medal. The organizers would release pigeons into the arena and the gents would take pot shots at the birds; two misses meant you were eliminated. Which make sense, can’t have a chivalric gent who doesn’t shoot straight. The Winner in 1900 was another Belgian called Leon de Lunden, who managed to bag 21 birds in total. Not surprisingly the playing field looked like a scene from a rather bad gore film with blood, feathers and dead and dying birds all over… nice!

 

Event 5: Dueling!

 The epitome of gentlemanly pursuits and brought in to the Olympics around 1896. Luckily for the competitors they didn’t use live rounds but wax bullets and sadly this was phased out in 1912. Maybe we could get some of the rapscallion youths of today into this; I’m sure they know how to use firearms…. BLAP BLAP BLAP!

Lots of firearms sports in the early 1900… and they wonder why we had two world wars!

 

If you are interested in other strange olympic events around the same time then look up: The solo synchronized swim…guh?? Cannon shooting… EPIC! and Po..et..ry?? I guess we could incorporate poetry into our gentlemen’s triathlon, starting with some light fencing, followed by a duel and then ended with a poetic lament about the death of their opponent, hmmm indeed.

WTF?!

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Thanks to Krystle Clayton from posting this vid on my wall…errrrr, WTF?!

“The Dumb Knight Rises – the full story” IMDB Review (something tells me he didn’t like it) **** SPOILERS ALERT****

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So It’s been over a week since TDKR came out and after giving it a glowing review for Geek Pride I was under the impression that most people would have the same view… WRONG!

The following review was written by a guy called  godspeed_f24 on IMDB and was consequently deleted; along with all posts… I get the impression people didn’t agree with him. Anyway, it’s a long read with a lot of depth, showing the guy has most definitely watched the film at least a couple of times, it is also quite funny in the most part and, as hard as it is for me to admit, annoyingly accurate; doesn’t make me want to change my mind about the film though because I don’t care about plot holes that much.. If I like a film I like it, as simple as that (plot holes and all)

Personally I can understand people getting annoyed with plot holes in historical films, where things should be accurate, or because it’s not following the book it is based on, but picking at a fictional comic book film based on “plot holes”  is like picking holes in StarWars by saying “hyperspace? Not possible; the force? where did he get that from… oh he can move shit with his mind can he?” It just doesn’t make sense. I appreciate the new films are trying to be more ‘realistic’ but comon, it’s still an action film and designed for one purpose only; to entertain the masses….. shall we start talking about how unrealistic it is when large explosions go off and no one is killed by the resultant shock-wave? Or how the A-team always seem to have a blow torch to hand? 

People think too much into films sometimes but I guess it is in a geeks nature to pick holes… shame its not one of our more redeeming traits.

Review is below: Part of me thinks this is just a very elaborate troll to be honest but I’ll leave it to you to decide.

 

Have you seen TDKR yet? Jesus, it sucked. It sucked so bad, that I need to talk about this movie because I think this was perhaps one of the stupidest films I have ever seen. I see people confused about the plot and some details so I’m going to take you through it bit by bit, logic holes and all. It’s not all bad. There’s some good stuff in here but it’s basically a crapsandwich. So here we go…

First, we open up the movie with the plane hijacking which is our introduction to Bane. They pull off a Bond-centric stunt and kidnap nuclear bomb guy and it was pretty cool even if Bane sounded like my grandfather on a respirator. So far so good.

Then we’re at the Wayne residence. And it’s time for what Nolan does best. Exposition baby!! That train is never late. Let’s get started. It’s Harvey Dent Day!! Celebration of the Dent Act which is keeping Gotham’s worst criminals behind bars with no parole. Gordon is bumbling and stumbling trying to come up with some kind words for Gotham’s deceased psycho DA. We learn through convenient conversation from unnecessary new character #1 (Foley) that Gordon’s wife took the kids and left him and he won’t be commissioner too much longer because they’re planning to dump him. Foley is obviously an ambitious little weasel and he’s like Gordon is about to get canned? Ch-ching!! Why the audience needs to know this I have no idea because nothing ever comes of this info. Miranda Tate (unnecessary new character #2) is still trying to see Bruce Wayne for some big project. Alfred tells her to step off.

We also find out Bruce Wayne is a Uncle Fester crippled recluse who never comes out of Wayne Manor. Why? He’s been retired as Batman for 8 years still brooding over the loss of Rachel even though they had the chemistry of Tom & Jerry in the previous two films.

Selina Kyle is busy masquerading as a maid and stealing pearls belonging to Bruce’s mom which also contains his fingerprints (for a later thread in this convoluted story). Bruce goes Hawkeye on Selina with a bow and arrow and they have a nice chat before she takes John Kreese’s advice and sweeps the leg on that cripple Wayne and hops out the window.

Bruce is intrigued by this chick so he goes to the batcave which looks like it’s been rebuilt even though Batman has been “retired” for 8 years. This scene is basically there to give Bruce his one minute of doing detective work. Alfred finds Bruce in the bat cave and gives the same old tired monologue about how he wishes Bruce would end up as just a regular Joe with a nice family blah blah blah. And to top it off Nolan shows Alfred’s little dream sequence where he sees Bruce in a cafe with his family. Nolan has the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face so as soon as I saw this scene I knew it was going to come into play later in the film.

Manchester MCM EXPO 2012.. a week Later

Last Saturday I had the privilege to be a part of Manchester’s second MCM Expo, or Manchester Comic Con as it is also known, along with 11,300 other enthusiastic Geeks who queued up for hours in the Manchester…. SUN (thought I was going to say rain didn’t you) just to get in and be a part of the festivities; I turned up at just after nine, staying until 5 and people were still in queues around 2 / 3 o’clock… now that is dedication to the cause!

The whole affair was on an epic scale and I have to say I was rather overwhelmed by it and didn’t know what to do first: look at the stalls, take pictures, talk to people, or just stand there and gawp. In the end I settled at taking photos to start, thinking; “I’ve got plenty of time, I’ll  take a dander around the stalls and talk to people later.”

Fortunately / or unfortunately, depending on how you want to look at it, I didn’t get much of a chance to peruse the conventions geeky wares, I was so wrapped up in taking pictures of all the amazing Cosplayers (660 in total) and listening to the presentations from THQ (Darksiders 2 FTW!) and Wariwick Davis, to the point that I didn’t eat or drink anything all day; 8 hours with nothing, and this is coming from a 16 Stone, Viking type who enjoys his foody pleasures; must have been good then!

Don’t Believe me?  Then Check out these photos I took (the higher Rez ones are on my Flickr and there was going to be a video but I had computer issues and lost a load of footage.. was not impressed)

If you have issues viewing this slide show then try using Google Chrome

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As you can see it was a beautiful day, The venue was amazing; there were thousands of like minded, awesome people around and, all in all, hours and hours of geek fun;  you couldn’t have asked for anything more … Well maybe another day of it would have been nice 😉 .  I came away feeling hyped, happy and fulfilled and will most definitely be back!  In fact, I’d be trying to get to London if it wasn’t for my holiday in September; I doubt my misses would be too impressed if I canned off two weeks in T-Egypt for Cosplay, Comic Books and gaming…. not that I would *** cough***

If you didn’t go, then either make it down to London for October or check out the MCM website for future events next year, you wont regret it!

 

MCM Press Release

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“We were delighted with 2011, but 2012 was so beyond our expectations, ” said Manchester Comic Con co-organiser Bryan Cooney. “We knew we would have a great show but the turnout was even greater than we expected. The atmosphere was wonderful. We look forward to returning to Manchester next year and hopefully an even bigger crowd and hall!

Bringing all the magic of the famous MCM London Comic Con to Manchester, the North West’s celebration of pop culture gave visitors the chance to meet movie stars and top comic artists; play the hottest pre-release videogames; take part in art and costume competitions and, of course, check out a host of retailers offering great deals on everything from anime to sci-fi collectables.

Manga loved attending MCM Manchester Comic Con. It was our first, but won’t be our last. It was excellently organised and very well attended,” commented Manga UK’s Head of Marketing & Acquisitions Jerome Mazandarani. “Manchester is an amazing city and its people are warm and friendly. It was a great atmosphere.

We attended the show again this year after a successful inaugural show in 2011, and were very pleased to see that MCM had extended the venue and taken a much bigger floor space than the previous year,” said Diamond Comic Distributors’ Marketing Manager Mike Holman. “To say that this year was a success would be a huge understatement! From the opening of the show at 9.30 the flood of attendees didn’t subside throughout the whole day.

On behalf of Namco Bandai games I can happily say that not only did we thoroughly enjoy our time at MCM Manchester Comic Con, but it was a great event for showing off our upcoming game Tales of Graces f.,” added Namco Bandai Consumer and Community PR Executive Hollie Bennett. “The venue was great, the fans were brilliant and it’s been amazing to see just how well this show has grown in such a small space of time.

The next great MCM event of 2012 is our flagship show, MCM London Comic Con – the UK’s biggest and best pop culture festival. Held at ExCel London, London Comic Con takes place on 26-28 October.”

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Copright 2012 A Joy Filled Life