Ok, this one doesn’t need much set-up, but you may need a handkerchief by the end. While speaking at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment expo this past Saturday Wil Wheaton, everyone’s favorite starship ensign/Twitter star (and actor and writer and all around awesome guy,) was asked by an audience member/new mom to explain why being a nerd is awesome to her newborn baby girl. His response was perfect, amazing, and very heartstrings tugging.

I dare you to find a flaw in his logic!

Via: Laughing Squid

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Get ready to mist up a little here. For a kid, having to spend any amount of time in hospital has to be tough. Well, the other day a quartet of window washers helped brighten an afternoon up at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Four men from Allegheny Window Cleaning Inc. donned superhero costumes and took to the skies… well, to the windows.

The companies president, Edward Matuizek, said the scheme was his wife’s idea after she heard about a similar stunt happening in the UK. This past monday (Oct 22) after the facilities director Elizabeth Munsch gave the go ahead Rick Bollinger, Mark Errico,  Ed Hetrick,  and Jim Zaremba suited up as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Captain America in a heart warming DC/Marvel crossover that was a hit with the residents of the hospital.

Errico, the Captain America of the four said “The kids were loving it, everywhere we went, they were coming in from different rooms.”

Source: UPI via io9

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Former American comic book writer, editor, publisher and now full time personal promotion machine Stan Lee has taken to YouTube as of late with a feature titled Stan’s Rants.

It is exactly what you think it would be. Completely bat-crap insane. It is obviously just a giant goof put on by comic books greatest pitchman, at least I hope so. If not, ‘The Man‘ is starting go 3 parts short of a Fantastic Four.

Up after the jump you can watch Mr. Lee speak about being a playable character in the Amazing Spider-Man tie-in game and also his idea for sequel to the movie. A sequel that actually sounds pretty freakin’ sweet.

and insane.

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In the Great Hall of the Justice League there are assembled the world’s 2 greatest heroes created from the cosmic legends of the universe — Captain Hudson and Jason Man — there mission: to fight injustice, to fight that which is wrong, and to serve all mankind… with a podcast.

This week on the Bastardcast, Jeremy and Jason suggest some nerdy Olympic counter programming, talk about why chicken restaurants don’t want to serve gay muppets, and then tackle the DIRTY NERDY CONFESSIONS with a special, mystery guest. They also read some tasteful selections from 50 Shades of Grey(Skull)* and then in the first of a special, hard hitting expose, Jason and Jeremy Discuss Whether Old Crap or New Crap is Better If They Don’t Have Anything Else to Talk About: Action Figure Edition. Come for the laughs, stay for the subtle French bigotry.

*Apparently Jimmy Fallon did a similar 50 Shades of Greyskull bit last night. We were unaware of this when we recorded ours because we watch Craig Ferguson when we don’t feel like watching Adult Swim. Also, ours is better. Sorry, it’s the truth.

The magic hashtag: #50ShadesOfGreyskull

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Firstly, let me say Happy Towel Day to all the hoopy froods out there with towel close by and Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster in hand. Secondly, if what I just wrote is lost on you then you clearly have missed out on one of the greatest book/radio play/TV series/video game/comic book/disappointing Hollywood movie  ever created. Thirdly, apparently it is a stage show now too.

The classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, from the sadly less than immortal Douglas Adams, will be taking to the stage with the cast from the radio play for a 24 date tour. June 8th to July 21st fans will be treated to an insanely faithful performance of the original radio script by all the surviving cast: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the voice of Stephen Moore as Marvin The Paranoid Android  (Neil Gaiman fills in for the late Peter Jones as the Voice of the Book) all under the direction of Dirk Maggs.

Everything about this production is absolutely perfect. Well, except one thing.

Now, if you are a fan of HHG2G and are NOT currently in the United Kingdom, well… the tour is just for the limeys apparently. They will however be releasing some downloads from the various shows on the official website.

Personally? Well… if I start swimming now…

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.

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Ever since the pre-historic days of funny internet videos (1997) and the release of the COPS/Star Wars parody, Troops, the white armored foot soldiers of the empire have been fuel for the funny video fire. Death Star PR recently released the following candid look in to the life of a Stormtrooper.

It’s a compilation of things they might exclaim throughout their daily lives.

Ok, it’s a ‘shit _____ says’ video.

Now before you start yelling at your screen, I know, I am aware that meme played itself out long ago, but this is one is Star Wars related, so it’s worth a watch. It’s up after the jump.

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Over the weekend there was a healthy diet of Titanic due to James Cameron’s 3D re-release, oh and the whole 100th anniversary of the boat vs iceberg battle royale. After already making over a billion the first time around, it looks like a lot of people went to see it again since it clocked in at number 3 at the box office over the weekend.

I was not one of those tricked or dragged into seeing it. I won’t be either.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my many years of being dragged back to the theater to shell out another $15 bucks for a movie I’ve already seen, it’s that you need more than just a crappy flip into 3D to be worth it. Cameron need’s to learn a little from the king of the re-release. George Mutha-effin Lucas. You need to special edition that biatch up, friend!

Luckily YouTuber PistolShrimps gives us the Titanic we want. Hell he even adds in some J.J. Abrams and Micheal Bay for good measure.

Explosions, sea monsters, storm troopers and lens flares abound in Titanic SUPER 3D!

Source: Geek Tyrant

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Whether you’ve attended a sci-fi/comic/nerd-con in recent years or even just followed online coverage, you know what they are. Big glitzy exposes packed with marketing and promotion from wall to wall, booth to booth. We’re not just talking about the big ones either, even the smaller more local ones have become extravagant media events. It wasn’t always this way.

When the geek-convention movement started in back in the late 60′s early 70′s they were small hovels of people passionate about nerd topic they collected together to celebrate. Cheap hotel conference rooms or community centers or church basements where the locals and they had a very distinct charm all their own. Harken back to this bygone era with Back to Space-Con, a documentary that chronicles a Star Trek convention (The Red Hour Festival)   from 1970.

This feature-length documentary film tells the story of the 1970′s Bay Area Sci-Fi conventions called Space-Con. Told by the original organizers and fans. Includes celebrity interviews, costume contests and over 40 minutes of rare convention footage. See the Federation Trading Post in Berkeley and very first Star Trek convention in San Francisco. A real treat for any Star Trek or Star Wars fan. Film stars Bob Wilkins, John Stanley, Ernie Fosselius, and many more.

Think of it as the anti-thesis to big name pop-documentarian  Morgan Spurlock‘s Comic-Con doc that’s on the way. Maybe I am just a sucker for the history of nerd-culture, but it looks awesome with some great vintage footage.

Would you like it if nerd conventions where a little more like this still or do you prefer lining up to line up to maybe see Robert Downy Jr’s stunt double from the back of a crowed room?

You can check the trailer out after the jump, and after you do sound off in the comments with your thoughts.

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I think it is safe to say if you are visiting this site, you have probably felt the thrill of making the critical saving throw and following it up with a death dealing natural 20. What if I told you that you could have that feeling and save the world all at the same time! Well, a newly appointed Norwegian minister by the name of Heikki Holmas feels that role playing, both table top and live-action, can be a force for social change.

Holmas has just been appointed the minister of international development for Norway and is a sell confessed lifelong RPG’er, evening helping found the nations gamer convention RegnCon. So how does calculating THAC0 help the planet? It was an experience he had LARPing a WWII scenario that gave him the idea.

 ”It was an incredible staging of 1942. We had people dressed like German soldiers, driving around in amphibious vehicles. It was totally … it was an amazing LARP. I’ve never before or since felt such a total feeling of isolation in society. Isolation, and the despair that grabs you when you realized that your German masters didn’t give a s–t.”

What soon developed afterwards is his theory that role playing can be used to help people wrap their heads around complex social and political issues.

“RPGs can be extremely relevant in putting people in situations they’re unfamiliar with, Save the Children have their refugee games. I have friends in Bergen who’ve run human-rights RPGs. But you have to be professional. You create real emotions when you play role-playing games, real emotions that stick.”

“That’s kind of the slightly scary aspect of role-playing games, which has to be considered. At the same time, it’s what makes it possible for RPGs to change the world. LARP can change the world, because it lets people understand that humans under pressure may act differently than in the normal life, when you’re safe.”

You have to admit, he does make a good point. Running through a fictitious scenario backed up with some real emotion could act as a huge learning experience for politicians and policy makers.  Hell, the military has war games and isn’t that just role playing?

So, maybe one day all the diplomats and dignitaries of the world with gather at the United Nations on a Friday night to roll a few dice, but I swear if anyone them touches the Mountain Dew in the fridge I will cut them. It’s mine. I put my name on it.

Source: Blastr

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I’m not going to waste much time here, the video really speaks for itself.

A dad who has been overseas in Afghanistan makes his homecoming by dressing up as Captain America, plays the part for a little bit before revealing to his sons that it’s him. This man deserves a Congressional medal for uncommon and awesome acts of nerdy, since that doesn’t exist (yet), I say we share this as much as possible. Let’s thank him for going above and beyond the call of nerd dad duty by making him famous by morning.

Yes boys, Daddy’s back and it turns out he’s Captain America.

Best. Birthday. Ever.

Source: The Huffington Post

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