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It's Totally a Year Away!

Mass Effect 2 that is.  I know I've nerded out about it a lot, but Mass Effect is the best video game I've ever played.  Well.  At least storywise.  The best RPG ever, I think.  And while there were some things in the gameplay in the first game that I thought could be improved (combat-wise), I am pretty sure they're surpassing my expectations for Mass Effect 2.  The first video here is the teaser for Mass Effect 2, which comes out in 2010, yet I've been salivating over it for EVER already.."forever already"...sounds like a Japanese game.  Anyway, here's the teaser that was released months and months ago and made me insane, followed by some video and commentary by the creators, which basically stressed me out to a whole new level.  Because...I am in love with MY Commander Shepard.  I love her (she's a chick in my game) and the thought of carrying her over from my first game (cuz it's the future and we can do that shit) into the second one and having her DIE PERMANENTLY is a problem.  I think I'm losing sleep over it.  Rambling.  Okay.  So.  Like I said.  Teaser, then some really revealing shit that was realeased recently that every fanboy/girl breathing a sigh of relief then immediately going "ZOMGWTFBBGLOL!"

  

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I May Never Sleep Again

Last night I watched an amazing documentary on Jonestown.  And I'm just gonna start this post by saying, sorry to bring the party down and get all serious, but it was incredible.  I learned things about the whole thing that I never knew.  Actually I never really knew all that much about Jonestown at all except that here's this crazy guy and a bunch of brainwashed followers in this suicide cult.

Imagine my surprise to learn that was totally wrong.  Actually, the People's Temple was less like a religion and more of a social and political movement.  It was very progressive, very all inclusive, did amazing things to battle racism and influence immigration laws.  Jim Jones was actually kind of a brilliant man.  He even won a humanitarian award.  In fact, the more I learned about this movement, the more I thought to myself that I could see myself having gotten involved in something just like it.  The people of Jonestown were not brainwashed, zombie-like blind followers as I thought.  Because it's easy to reconcile the deaths of 909 people if it's a "mass suicide" of "crazy cult members" etc.  But they weren't.  They were families, normal people and the point of this documentary was to reveal how little of the mass suicide was ACTUALLY suicide.  How people were held there against their will at the whim of Jim Jones, who essentially went mad, and how many people during this event were injected at gun point with the cyanide and forced to follow this crazed man into death.

The video footage in this documentary is so haunting.  But not the images of the aftermath.  The things that I cannot get out of my head are the videos of the faces and people living there.  Videos people at the community took, news footage, audio tape (including a recording of the last few minutes when Jones orders the mass suicide, which is CHILLING).

I know most people won't get a chance to see this, but if you do, watch it.  It's fantastic and informative and amazing and truly one of the saddest stories I have ever heard.

Here is the preview, which features many former members of the temple, some of whom were able to escape as it was happening, but had to watch their families and friends die.

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So You Think You Can Post Annoying Videos of People Dancing?

YES!  Yes I can!  Thank you for asking!  To be fair it's been two weeks since I've even mentioned So You Think You Can Dance .... Mostly because our cable was shut off, but still.  Anyway, last night had a couple of really great routines (do I sound like a tween yet?) and I have posted them here.  Thanks in large part to MJ's Big Blog, which seems to be the best place to get these videos.  

Anyhoo, here they are.  Again, the actual dancing doesn't start for a couple minutes in, so make yourself a cocktail, come back and then say things like "whaaaat?"  "woah!" and "What the EFF!?" when people do cool things.... I'll wait......  Okay great. 

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Here's....okay I don't remember their names, but this first one was my favorite routine from last week.  Might have had something to do with the song, (Eyes on Fire, by Blue Foundation) but I loved it.

The second is a classical ballet.  And I think I must be a chick, because even though I don't even really LIKE ballet, it never fails to make me misty.  Just visually brilliant.

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This Produced a Chuckle

This dude is called Bro Franklin.  All you need to know is that he is SUPER EXCITED about giving his offering to his church.   SUPER EXCITED!  Thanks, Dlisted.