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So I’m pretty sure everyone has seen this ad for Halo 3:

But I bet most of you haven’t seen the virtual fly through of the entire diorama!
Halo 3 “Fly Through”

Check out all of this “making of” stuff, the ad campaign they interview all the survivors and veterans of this war that takes place in the future, it’s pretty amazing.
Halo 3 “War Stories”

Interview with the creators of the commercial (and diorama):
Halo 3 “Making Of”

An excerpt from one of the interviews:
“Tell me about New Deal, Stan Winston and MJZ director Rupert Sanders’ work on the diorama.

SD: You have to understand that for the diorama, it turned into becoming the focus point for this campaign. We wanted there to be a museum where the diorama would just be a part of the museum. Rupert Sanders orchestrated this whole thing. The vision for us was to make this story come to life with real figurines on a real set and a massive diorama. It was time and cost-prohibitive to say the least, but Rupert just wouldn’t take no for an answer. He teamed up with Stan Winston and New Deal Studios in making this thing come to life completely—30 feet x 40 feet, 900 figurines or something like that and every weapon and vehicle.

MH: Those figurines are based on scans of real people.”

In one episode where they are showing “Creature from the Black Lagoon” there are these two guys clowning around a backyard kiddy pool that looks like it was shot in the Heights. And they even recreated the “Baby Ruth bar in the pool” gag from CADDYSHACK. (That was the “revenge of the creature.”) When they feature a puppet, you can see the arm, and the mic boom drops in all the time. I have no doubt it’s intentional, at least most of the time.

They are sponsored by Party Boy warehouse, and apparently get all their (rather crappy) costumes and props there.

And right now they’re showing several classic Universal monster movies.

And they have a website, a MySpace page and videos on YouTube.

http://www.countpelicula.com/

10:30 Saturday nights, Channel 55.

It’s not really very good, but I just love the fact that someone is still doing this kind of thing.

A few posts ago, Marshall linked to a message board conversation concerning the nerdliness of Dungeons and Dragons. Here is a (seven-year-old) response to that.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/v/zng5kRle4FA[/youtube]

This should be quite familiar to any fan of table-top role playing games. Or to basically any geek who spent more Friday nights at a kitchen table covered with character sheets and multi-sided dice than in a parking lot smoking cigarettes and drinking Mad Dog 20/20. OH LIKE YOU WOULD PREFER THAT BETTER.

I’ve been working on getting my crappy 100 MHz laptop in internet-ready shape and I just got the wireless card working. So what does my nerdy ass do with this newfound technology? Fire up NetStumbler and laugh at all of the goofy SSIDs I come across while wardriving home from work. Remember, all of these are from when I was passing through neighborhood areas.

We Rule
Porn0
thebacon
The Big Unit
PDiddy
rolwan
frodo
TV Airport
Mommy
SHELLFISH
5411jackwood
FirstDescent
Texanator
Cougars+Alaska-Norway
lil roc
Li’s Home Network
The Beacon
dtrozone
Dragon Roost
LiveFreeorDie
chemical
Yeboafrica
BuggerOff
Yoyodyne