Cool Stuff Sunday: "Aulde Englishe"

It's been two days since I spilled laundry detergent and I can still smell that powdery horror on EVERYTHING. It's choking me. Agh. Anyway. You're here to hear about cool stuff on the interwebz. Let's hit it!

It's amazing how much better Dark Souls III pvp looks without lag...

Pokemon Sun and Moon yasssssss.

How far back in time could you go and still understand English? Probably about 600 years, tops.

But if you spoke Fresian, probably further.

Oh, and Shakespeare sounds a lot better in the original pronunciation.

Emilia Clarke does reggae. It's great.

Vans has a Nintendo line now. Yes please.

Wired won't get me to whitelist their ads anytime soon.

Wandery Wednesday: "Pokemans"

New Pokemon starters? Lissen, bub, if you tell me you're gonna pick any starter except that stylish and adorable grass owl, we can't be friends anymore. Seriously. Grass. Owl. Stylish. Adorable. Looks like Blathers from Animal Crossing. Rock on, man!

On a related note, I'm currently updating my 3DS so I can download my Darkrai. Got my shiny Xerneas at exactly 12:05 AM last night. And IT IS AWESOME. Seriously. Pokemon. If they were real, I'd be the crazy Pokemon man with an apartment full of Pokemon.

And they would all be adorable Pokemon. Yes they would.

Anyway. I'm in a better mood tonight than I have been for a while. Things... They're not exactly looking up, but they're clarifying. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Cool Stuff Sunday: "Star Wars and Some Other Junk I Guess"

Oh hey. It's the first Sunday of 2016, and I reckon I've got some cool stuff to shove in your gawping faces, you wonderful readers. (All seven [7] of you)! I'm trying to finally get my writing back on a schedule, so hopefully more work will be up here soon. Of course, I still reserve the right to post stuff as I feel fit, because we don't need no steenkin' schedules. Let's begin, shall we?

Fallout 4 tries very hard to railroad you into killing people, to the point that it pretty much breaks the game if you attempt a no-kill approach. Well, this guy beat the main quest without personally killing anyone. Pretty impressive, all things considered. 

Pokemon Go is looking to be pretty freaking awesome. Here's hoping!

Military commanders in WWI tried pretty hard to prevent a second Christmas Truce. New evidence suggests they failed. Good. War is hell, no need to strip every last vestige of humanity out of it. 

There's a new Berserk anime planned for this year. YESSSSSSSSS. Hopefully it's Golden Arc quality. 

Wondering how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc? Here's an interesting interpretation, in Lego. 

Apparently professional lightsaber designers are a thing now. A pretty good sign that geeks now rule the earth, or at the very least have too much money. 

In case you missed it, Steam had some serious security issues over Christmas. Sometimes I worry about Gaben's empire... 

The India-Pakistan border closing ceremony is impressive and utterly ridiculous. 

An interesting theory about Han Solo as an RPG character, or, failing forward. 

You know TR-8R? The "Traitor!" stormtrooper from The Force Awakens? He has a canon backstory. Ah, fandom. 

A really interesting piece about Irish hunger strikers. 

Soon, a Japanese-styled set of Star Wars figures will be appearing. Hmmmmmmm... Hmmm... 

Cool Stuff Sunday: "A Bunch of Medieval Stuff and Things"

It's SUNDAY! I'm hyped up on caffeine and sugar and french toast, so let's talk about cool stuff while my fingers fly across the keyboard like an over-excited lemur! METAPHORS.

It's a guitar. And a working Game Boy. Check it. 

Dr. Who is ditching the sonic screwdriver in favor of...sunglasses? BLASPHEMEEEEEE!

These dudes are good at saber sparring. Like, really good. 

It's the little things in video games. Like color-coded towns in Gen 1 Pokemon. 

A Knight's Tale wasn't an amazing movie, but the Geoffrey Chaucer character is pretty excellent. 

The Wake uses historical 11th-Century English. It's...a thing. 

Got dice? Need to make a city for a D&D game? Here you go.

How to make wall art out of video games.  

Making an HD remake of a great game? Don't screw it up. Here's how. 

Turn on your 3DS with a Rube Goldberg contraption. 

These bookstores are amazing. 

The Book of Kells is beautiful. I've seen it in person, and also handled a reproduction. But if you aren't planning to visit Ireland anytime soon, check it out online. 

Want to know how Shakespeare would have pronounced his plays? Watch this. 

Cool Stuff Sunday: "Praise the Sun(Day)"

You got it--this week's focus is on Dark Souls III. And some other stuff. But mostly Dark Souls III. Because Dark Souls III. 

Seriously, though. Dark. Souls. III.

Infinity Blade III is available for free, as are a ton of Unity assets for it. 

Microsoft is still being scummy about Windows 10. Now it's downloading the Windows 10 update to your computer. "Just in case."

The first of the Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. videos has released!

Let's make fun of art trends, such as that of men wearing ONLY military helmets in old paintings!

Physical copies of every game in the Legend of Zelda series, mounted on a wall in pretty cases!

The newest Pokemon game uses virtual reality!

Please don't spend seven months killing everything in Fallout 4. That's a sign of a sick mind. 

Creative ways companies have dealt with cheaters in MMOs. 

Hey Cisco, your router design is bad and you should feel bad. 

World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. is very, very, very carefully-crafted.