Pawl Schwartz's Blog, page 156
June 26, 2014
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Cuphead || Hand-Drawn Video Game Coming in 2015
Not...
Cuphead || Hand-Drawn Video Game Coming in 2015
Not to be confused with the Ian MacKaye Side-project Pailhead, this little gem called Cuphead was previewed at E3 This year, Here is what we know for sure so far:
1. The graphics are all being made using traditional Cell-Animation, which is a hell of a process, piled on the already gargantuan task of creating a video game. Good luck, MDHR
2. It will come out on Steam and Xbone. It may come out in additional formats, but those are the only two that are for sure right now.
3. No 8-bit music, it’s all live jazz.
4. It will have 2 player local multi-player (Squee!)
5. The gameplay will be classic side-scrolling run & gun button mashing.
So get ready to see a game made like no other! I really hope that this catches on, (which I predict it will) as a way to create graphics for video games (like Stick of Truth) now that technology has finally caught up. I’m already a fan.
June 22, 2014
Every Time I Die stream new album, 'From Parts Unknown' - Alternative Press
Catch them on the Vans Warped Tour all summer.
Just go stream it! You know you’re curious. They’ve gotten better than I ever expected, that’s for sure. Old dawgs can learn new tricks.
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Sunday Chills || Desk-Troll Caught on...
Sunday Chills || Desk-Troll Caught on Tape
Desk-Troll in this case is not some kind of derogatory term for nerds, but more of a literal descriptor for a crypto-zoological entity. This definitely gave me chills the first time, just wait for it.
It’s one of those videos that on re-watching, I become stuck between two opinions about:
1. This video is so unclear that the ‘creature’ appears as a blur that could easily be faked, or a cat.
2. BUT if this was hoaxed, the creature would resemble something familiar, but there is no attempt at that here. It looks like a little stark-white ET sprite mixed with a greased trash can.
What I’m most concerned about however is that this creature seems to be learning about our race by watching us play hacky-sack. This is sure to give it a twisted view on humans that will only come back to bite us in the collective ass one day.
-Pawl Schwartz
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Foxy Shazam spreads Butt Clouds Tonight || Lincoln...
Foxy Shazam spreads Butt Clouds Tonight || Lincoln Hall
If you missed Foxy Shazam’s latest album Gonzo, here it is for free! If that is still too much work for you, see them live tonight with Larry and his Flask at Lincoln Hall! I mean, you know Eric has some new dance moves to show off.
I’m a huge fan of the new album. It shows the breadth that I knew these guys always had.
June 5, 2014
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Mortal Kombat X Announced
Fueled by next-gen...
Mortal Kombat X Announced
Fueled by next-gen technology, Mortal Kombat X combines unparalleled, cinematic presentation with dynamic gameplay to create an unprecedented Kombat experience.
FUCK. YES. How soon can I have it in my hands? I don’t even like fighting games, but training from a young age on Mortal Kombat original for Genesis, mainly because every character only had two moves, except raiden who had a whopping THREE, and then building my way up, has made me an eternal fan. Especially after the last incarnation for 360, ps3, and Vita, which I bought on 360, and then on Vita, because the replay value is simply that high. Keep up those standards, sirs, and I will buy the living shit out of your game.
-Pawl Schwartz
June 4, 2014
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Oderus’ Dream || The GWAR Bar
While I’ve been...
Oderus’ Dream || The GWAR Bar
While I’ve been checking the GwarBQ page every day to see if it still happening, the survivors of GWAR have been working on an entirely new project, The GWAR BAR. And, it’s main attraction?
GWARbar marks the first time in the history of humans eating stuff that they shall do so by ordering off a menu designed by a chef NOT OF THIS EARTH…that’s right, BalSac, the Jaws of Death, GWAR‘s guitar player and also designer of the notoriously tasty “GWAR-B-Q Sauce“, is bringing his supreme knowledge of intergalactic cuisine to the GWARbar and has designed a bill of fare that is sure to make man or aliens swoon with epicurean delight. Let the plates of mankind be filled with the food of the God’s…at a workingman’s price! “My mother taught me the endless secrets of intergalactic cooking,” said the hulking form of Balsac as he sat down to a heaping platter of GWAR-B-Q. “And then I ate her.”
That’s right, Balsac, the Jaws of Death, makes your fucking food, and you can get GWAR-B-Q sauce year round!
To make this actually happen, donate to the ongoing Indiegogo campaign here .
-Pawl Schwartz
June 2, 2014
Not Your Father's Satanism
An Interview with Lucien Greaves of the Satanic Temple A legal firestorm of hellish proportions has been brewing of late in the otherwise snowy confines of Oklahoma City, where a legal case of epic…
This is a great interview on the ongoing issues in Oklahoma. As a Satanist myself, I am watching from the sidelines interested but not invested. I appreciate the freedom of speech argument that they are agitating thoroughly as any satanist should, but any kind of organized satanism defeats the point, in my book. It isn’t a religion, it is outside of and aware of religion. Good job agitating, Lucien, but in my book, Satanism cannot be organized without ruining the philosophy for those ‘organized’ members. It must be personal, and it must be half created by the individual. There is no worship of Satan, there is only Non Serviam with Satan used as an example. I won’t join you, Lucien, but I will watch from the sidelines and smile.
-Pawl Schwartz
May 25, 2014
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Entirety of Sealab 2021 || Stream Free on...
Entirety of Sealab 2021 || Stream Free on Adultswim.com
That’s right, that cartoon you haven’t watched in years! Well, lucky you, I happen to know that it has now been just long enough that you have forgotten 90% of the jokes and…well, it will feel like the first time.
Rewatch it and tell me that I was wrong to demand you do so.
Animation is my spirit animal.
-Pawl Schwartz
May 24, 2014
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Rob Zombie to Shit Out Another Movie || NSFW Teaser...
Rob Zombie to Shit Out Another Movie || NSFW Teaser Video Totally Necessary
First, there was House of a Thousand Corpses, which was and still is a shining example of disgusting low-down redneck horror (I loves it). Then, Zombie hits us with the sequel, the slightly Western and totally debauched The Devil’s Rejects. At this point in the career, everything looks promising, right? After loving both of those films, I was thanking satan that Zombie was so much better at making movies than he was at singing (How many times the man can just go “YEAH” instead of writing lyrics astounds me).
Then comes the Halloween remake. Not as good as it could have been, not better than the original, but magically, not an outright failure. My Halloween review reads like this: ‘The Michael Myers story with a coat of Rob Z grit slapped on.’ OK Zombie, not awful, but not good.
After this, Rob just shits on us. There is the sequel to his Halloween remake, El Superbeasto, and Witches of Salem, all burning piles of absolute garbage that I wouldn’t even watch with someone else’s eyes. This is the downward spiral Zombie currently in, at least in my head, and he is one more bad movie away from me writing him off completely.
Until today, I had heard that Zombie’s next project was a Hockey Movie (fucking yawn), but then this little teaser popped up for his new original horror flick called ‘31’ that seems to hint at a connection with 1000 Corpses/Devil’s Rejects. My immediate thought after seeing the Clown Mask in the teaser was that this 31 would be about the best character from Zombie’s two best movies, the gorgeously disgusting fat clown named Captain Spalding, If that, somehow, is not what 31 is about, then:
1. Zombie is an idiot for not mining that territory.
2. Unless the story/concept blow my friggin mind, I will watch the whole movie disappointed that it is not about Spalding.
Zombie has given no solid information on 31’s story other than “It’s a horror flick,” and “Fans of 1000 Corpses and Devil’s Rejects will love it.”
I don’t doubt that this movie could turn out awesome, but I’m not counting on it either. I’m just afraid that a well-funded and well-liked Hollywood Rob Zombie can no longer make a good movie. Someone needs to step in and under-fund the shit out of 31 to make Zombie do good work; that’s my hypothesis at least.
-Pawl Schwartz
