Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I love the smell of fresh cut pumpkins, eating a ton of candy, and getting to see cool costumes. In the past I’ve always tried to carve pumpkins based on my favorite characters in cartoons, comics, or websites. This year I let KG take the lead and and we did a Gears of War pumpkin. While surfing around for cool pumpkins designs I found these Portal inspired ones: the Weighted Companion Cube and Portal hieroglyphs. While on the topic of Halloween and Portal here are a couple Portal costumes.
Just when I was done I found even more Orange Box madness. Here is a group of nerds dressed as the characters from Team Fortress 2. These costumes are amazing!
Even more pumpkins, the Fark Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is madness? Madness….this IS HALLOWEEEN!
Guitar Hero 3 came out Sunday morning. I spent the better part of the day unlocking songs with Aaron until Metallica’s One royally kicked our butts. Thinking back its pretty sad we let such an easy song beat us because that song is a cakewalk compared to Through the Fire and Flame. The game has several tweaks from GH2, but its overall pretty similar to its predecessor. The new wireless guitar is AWESOME, its so nice to be able to walk around untethered, its especially good for jumping off things while playing.
Brock Lesnar spoke recently to MMA Weekly about his debut in the UFC. Its a pretty entertaining if nothing for the fact he speaks about himself in the third person. I have a real soft spot for athletes who slip in and out of third person when doing interviews. It reminds me a lot of the now infamous Solomon Grundy video.
Even though I was really excited about the possibility of playing Unreal Tournament 3 at this year’s Lan Party, it looks that dream is now completely crushed. Midway announced today that UT3 has golden and will be on store shelves on November 19 (three days after the event.)
Can’t get enough Portal? I know I can’t. Check out these do-it-yourself Portal dioramas. All you need is a color printer, some scissors… and a wife to put them together for you.
Samsung has released info on the new Blackjack phone. This phone is the ultimate. Its a Windows Mobile phone with wi-fi enabled! My little 1st generation Blackjack is hella jealous. As soon as this hits AT&T I might have to double down!
Nightwish has a new video out for Bye Bye Beautiful. They got a little cute with the video having a bunch of hot chicks with similar hairstyle to the band mates replace the original members. The song is pretty cool, and when you think about the underlying meanings, the band recently replaced their female lead singer who was the face of the band, it adds a little more flare.
Here’s a few images from Sunday when I returned home with Guitar Hero 3:
