A Video Game Where You Can Beat Up Jesus? Hilariously Blasphemous!
by NONPOPULIST / blasphemy / Chris Hardwick / I'm going to hell for this one / TV / video games / Web Soup / Comments
The video game You Testament was featured on G4 television’s program Web Soup recently, and the first impression I got when watching it was, “Huh, that looks like an old wrestling game I use to play.” Wait a minute, what do wrestling and Jesus have in common that they should both have the same video game engine? A fair question, right? The answer is nothing, really, except in the mind of Mat Dickie. He created the game of confusing religious tenets where you can beat up Jesus and do other stuff too. What else matters after being able to attack Jesus, though? The concept of the whole video game and Chris Hardwick making fun of it are funny, but what made the whole thing even funnier is a review I found of the game on a Christian video game website. Here’s a few highlights:
“I had to test attacking Jesus as part of my job as a reviewer.
I am so sorry, Jesus! Please forgive me!Early in the game I was holding a metal spike and I was going to hug Jesus but I pressed the wrong button and poked the spike in His face! His face remained scarred and His eyes were all bloody for most of the game after that. Why would it let me do this horrible thing?
“Even though I stabbed Him in the face with a spike, Jesus still forgave me!
This part of the game is a very accurate Jesus simulation.”
“There were also weird quotes on the loading screens from people like Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Osama Bin Ladin, Barack Obama, Bruce Lee, Kanye West, and Jay-Z. Those made no sense in a Biblical game at all. It’s like some sort of mashup of Christianity with all sorts of false religions. I think Mat Dickie, the game’s sole creator, is a very confused person. At least I hope it is confusion and not intentional deception.
I would give this game five crosses for the way it lets you live through the Bible and witness Jesus first-hand, but I must subtract crosses for being able to beat up Jesus and getting Jesus’ teachings mixed up with things like Hinduism and the Matrix.”
The review is full of unwitting gems such as that one. And yes, I realize I am going to hell for this. If you would like to do blasphemous things you can download the game for free here, but you can only play it three times apparently.
Better Respect a Good Ian McKellen Impression
by NONPOPULIST / impressions / tv theme songs / YouTubage / YouTube / Comments

This guy has a dead-on impression of Ian McKellen. He doesn’t just have an impression where he can mimic a few lines of Shakespeare or some lines from The Lord of the Rings movies either. He chooses to flex the impression skills mainly by reciting television theme songs as Sir Ian McKellen. Most people have seen him do The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song, but check out him doing the Saved by the Bell theme song. It’s just as good.
Megan Fox May be Smarter Than You Think, No Longer in Transformers 3
by NONPOPULIST / celebrities / girls / Megan Fox / Michael Bay / teh sexy / Transformers 3 / Comments

Finally, a reason to post a Megan Fox picture! A flurry of internet reports emerged yesterday saying Megan Fox had been fired from the movie Transformers 3. Late last night representatives of Megan Fox contradicted those reports by saying the actress had quit the movie on her own. The old, “You can’t fire me, I quit!” move- solid. I first saw the contradictory reports saying she quit on WWTDD this morning. I have a question. Who says it would be so bad from a public relations perspective if she did get fired from the almost assuredly turdly Transformers 3. Almost any way you get out of being in that movie can be viewed in a positive light. Fox could have cited her need to devote more time to helping Nigerian princes in their efforts to scam foreigners out of more money, and I would have been alright with it. This is a wake up call to all of those who think Megan Fox is just a pretty face… and a nice body… and shiny hair that smells good I bet. She is smarter than you think. She’s getting out of the Transformer business while it is still not too late, I think. I haven’t seen the first two movies. I tend to boycott movie reboots of things I liked in my childhood.
— January 20‚ 2009 —
The Arrested Development Movie Appears to Be a Dream Denied
Attention Arrested Development fans holding your breath for that long-rumored movie: You can quit holding your breath. It’s not going to happen. Whew, I don’t have enough tic tacs for all of you. David Cross told TV Squad in an interview, “Everyone’s doing their own thing, you know. And everybody’s aged. It’s just not going to happen.” That is a big let down for AD fans, but the project hasn’t moved forward in so long that it was to be expected. No one wanted to kill the dream, but someone had to say it. Thanks for ripping off the band aid, David Cross.
THREADATHF Live! and Some Squidbillies
Dana Snyder and Dave Willis of Aqua Teen Hunger Force notoriety are doing a live cross-country tour. This is a cool idea that I don’t think would work for just any show, but in the case of ATHF and Conan O’Brien I think a live tour would be funny. The current dates on the website for the tour are April 15th, 2010-May 15th, 2010. In addition to ATHF there will also be Squidbillies content on the tour. For me, that makes it worth going to by itself.
THREAD24 to Recoup Some Money on the Way Out
Fox is looking to get paid by advertisers to the tune of $650,000 for a 30-second spot in this season’s finale. The price of that 30 seconds recently went up from the original $500,000 because as anyone who cares about the show 24 knows this will also be the series finale for the once great Fox franchise. When you look at the poor overall quality of television programming even a bad season of 24 is good, but when the show airs on Monday night and I am able to let it linger on my DVR until Wednesday something is amiss. My countless hours of binge-watching the show on DVD have led me to believe season 5 was the best. Is that pretty much the consensus?
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