Battle of the Geeks [Video]

Watch as two geeks battle it out with weapons that come from some of the most popular movies, video games, and TV shows out there, including Street Fighter, Game of Thrones, Back to the Future, Star Wars, and much, much more. The special effects are also top notch. Wow. Just wow.

This is one of the best and most hilarious things I’ve seen all year, especially the sequence that relates to Game of Thrones. I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Actually, I did laugh almost as hard yesterday after watching the sketch where cats reenact Star Wars: A New Hope, but this is even funnier.

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Laura Dern (Vice Admiral Holdo from The Last Jedi) Loves BB-8 [Video]

As you’ll see in the video below, Laura Dern, who plays Vice Admiral Holdo in Last Jedi, is totally in love with BB-8 and gives a really cute belly rub to the droid, who really seems to enjoy the attention. And she’s absolutely right, porgs are totally overrated.

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WANT: Star Wars Hero RC BB-8 Droid With Follow Me Mode

A radio-controlled version of BB-8 with 3 modes (remote control, voice command, or follow me) featuring film-accurate lights and sounds (plus over 100 unique animations.)

If you’ve always felt like you needed someone to talk to, this BB-8 is ready to listen. He reacts to 13 different words or phrases and simultaneously uses his motion detector to scan for intruders. Or you can use the included 2-stick remote for 360° control over his movements. Or put him in Follow Me mode to let him tag along wherever you go. Along with the film-accurate lights and sounds (plus over 100 unique animations), he also randomly expresses his mood the way only an astromech droid can. Basically, it’s just like having your own BB unit without the messiness of having the First Order looking for you.

[Star Wars Hero Droid R/C BB-8]

The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel Painting [Video]

When Tatsuo Horiuchi retired, he decided to try his hand at art. But instead of spending money on paints and brushes, Horiuchi used what he already had pre-installed on his computer—Microsoft Excel. Now, the 77-year-old artist is creating remarkably intricate digital masterpieces of the Japanese landscape, all on the free graphing software.

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PPV Pirate ‘Was Just Playing’

Streaming copyrighted pay-per-view events is highly illegal. But one gamer found a cunning way to disguise his actions.

Most movie studios and sports broadcasters use some sort of automated recognition system to find unauthorized streams of their material and issue a takedown notice to the site in question. This usually leads to uploaders using tricks to beat the recognition such as shrinking the footage into one corner of the screen, reversing the image, or slowing down the playback.

One Twitch user found a new tactic however. He put up a stream of this past weekend’s Ultimate Fighting Championship event under the guise that the footage was in fact from the EA MMA video game. In fact he even overlaid footage of himself with a headset and controller, complete with button presses and vocal exclamations to match the on-screen action.

At the time of writing, the user’s Twitch channel was still online, but the “on demand” recording of his supposed game stream session had been taken down.

It’s hardly unknown for alleged YouTube videos of PPV events to turn out to be footage from the associated games, but this may be the first time it’s happened the other way around.