The Somewhat Ambitious

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Childs Play (the Citizen Kane of shitty doll-related horror films), a bevy* of people dressed as the veritably Shakespearian antagonist wandered around times square for a promotional photoshoot/pranky funtime. My main issue with this is that if I got a bunch of friends to dress up as Orson Welles’ [...]

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Ever wanted to rip up the decks, but not sure you have the skills? Do you get stage fright? Does the phrase “rip up the decks” both baffle and arouse you? Well, you’re in luck. Activision have announced DJ Hero, and if this doesn’t sound like fun, remember how blatantly stupid Guitar Hero sounded at [...]

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DONALD LaFONTAINE, THE VOICE OF GOD.
26-8-1940 – 1-9-2008
Don LaFontaine, the husky-voiced guy who started trailers off with “in a land… before time” or “on the run… from himself”, has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 68. He had recorded over 5000 film trailers, television commercials, network and video game ads, and I’m [...]

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The live public test realm for WOW just went up, and here some admittedly lo-res screencaps of the harbor, the new calendar screen, and that’s about it. For some reason my main wouldn’t port across, but good LORD, the barber shop is fun. More to follow tonight.
/Paul

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Yes, it’s true. Apparently feral druids are going to get some love in the upcoming content patch (Luke plays a feral, so maybe he’ll quit bitching about all and sundry. Also, he’s jealous of my blazingly hot and Rubenesque Boomkin). Inscription will mean (potentially) Polar Bear form, dire cat form, and all sorts of other [...]

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If you’re like me, you’ve been jonesing for the next WOW content patch like Alan Quartermain craves opium. Turns out Blizzard have alluded to the patch coming out within the next week, by way of a background downloader, on account of how freaking huge it will be. Some of the new content will include:
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The world may very well end this week.
We here at The Somewhat Ambitious are a foolhardy lot, often seen dangling ourselves, pantless and giggling, over the slavering precipice of death (I once threw a sandwich at a police car). But the fact that the Large Hadron Particle Accelerator is getting fired up today has us [...]

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There was a really awkward moment back in Year 11 physics when we were having rainbows explained to us and the resident fundamentalist Christian in our class piped up with the fairly controversial suggestion that rather than rainbows being produced via the simple diffraction of light through water droplets, they were instead a gift from [...]

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As we all know, reading Youtube comments is the digital equivalent of licking the scum off the inside of the toilet rim. It’s dirty, leaves a bad taste in your mouth and exposes you to a side of humanity you’d prefer to ignore. Even the most innocuous of videos is liable to unveil some of [...]

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Tomorrow on the Breakfast Show, after 8pm, Gabby and myself will be discussing (amongst other things):
- How GTA taught a little girl a valuable life lesson (hint: it doesn’t involve killing prostitutes with the blades of a helicopter).
- The creation of a real Skywalker-style Landspeeder. Who cares if your grandmother could run faster than [...]

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