I realize posts have been sparse the past week, but I was out-of-town on vacation, and there’s not enough funds in the Buffet o’ Blog treasury to buy me a laptop, so I didn’t do any posting. (I’d rather not write posts from my phone, even though it’s possible.) Anyway, I’m back now, and since things are returning to normal, here’s your Monday caption contest.
This week’s photo features a man dressed in a suit, who looks quite shocked about something. I don’t know who he is or what’s going on, but that’s for you to decide (or, rather, make up). Explain what this guy might be witnessing or what he might be thinking.
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I’m a big fan of Transformers — the original series (G1). I’ve ranted before at how disappointed I was with Michael Bay’s Transformer movies. I’m not totally against modernizing it (it could’ve looked like this), but he took away the characters and personalities, which is what made them great. Anyway, I won’t get started on all that again.
There’s a new Transformers game coming out June 22, called War for Cybertron. Let me say this: if you like sci-fi / action movies but don’t play video games, you should still watch the videos below. This is how the Transformer movies should have looked! The designs are modernized, but they’re still recognizable. (And it should be expected that they look different — this is on Cybertron before they came to earth and were transformed for disguise here.) And the graphics look incredible! The story is of the civil war that began between Decepticons and Autobots. There is a big story there from the original ’80s cartoon and the comics. (I recommend reading the comic series “The War Within” if you want to know how it all started. Really interesting and philosophical.)
The game director said, “I wanna make the game I’ve been waiting 25 years to play.” And it only gets more awesome from there. Imagine playing as some of the characters shown: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Soundwave, Omega Supreme. And they brought back the original voice actor for Optimus Prime, which is great.
The first video is the interview with the people making the game, the 2nd video is the full trailer, and the 3rd video is the gameplay trailer. They’re all good. FYI, be sure to watch in HD, for the full effect. (If the embedded videos won’t show HD, here’s the links to them: interview, full trailer, gameplay trailer.)
That makes me excited! I will definitely have to try this game! Hopefully the developers can pull it off and make it as fun as it looks to be.
If this had been a movie trailer, I’d be pre-ordering the DVD right now! To whoever is making the next Transformers live-action movies, they need to look at this for an example of how it should be done.
As is our custom, the week begins with a caption contest. This week’s photo features a man jumping into a big mud puddle. There are observers, though they seem to be distracted by something. It’s up to you to explain what could possibly be going on here…
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Here’s a video that sounds like an April Fools prank, but it happened a couple of days ago, so it must be serious. Besides, we know politicians typically don’t have a sense of humor.
Henry Hank Johnson, a Congressman from Georgia, is featured in the video below, “debating” the idea of adding more soldiers to the U.S. military base in Guam. That may not sound humorous, but it gets random. Not only is he obviously filibusting (delaying an answer / vote), but he has some logic issues while rambling.
Hank is concerned that if they add 8,000 soldiers and their families to Guam, the island might “tip over and capsize”. I mean, Guam is a small island, so you have to consider these things. Or, um, NOT! Unless I totally missed something during geography classes, islands aren’t known for tipping over if you put too many people on them. In case you didn’t watch it, he said, “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
Perhaps Hank was just rambling in hopes that the discussion would run out of time or the moderator would just give up. Or perhaps he was trying to make a “facetious metaphor” (as a spokesman later claimed), but if so, he failed… epicly. Maybe he should work on saying intelligent things, instead of just making stuff up. It is kinda funny to hear, until you realize that this man gets a vote in legislation that governs our country.
Should we cut him some slack? Everybody says stupid things from time to time, right? Probably, but not things that stupid. And the average person isn’t in Congress, where the bar of intelligence should be considerably higher. Even if he was just rambling (and he was), how do you say something like that? I know rambling can get random — this I am familiar with — but when you’re sitting in front of government officials, you should be able to refrain from saying one of the stupidest things of the year…
And he doesn’t know when to stop! Surely he realized how ignorant his statement was about the island tipping over (along with visual simulations), but then he rambles on about the soldiers interfering with the coral reef, that we don’t like to think about it, that it might become like global warming. (Notice how he keeps adjusting his tie around the 2-minute mark.) And he talks so slow… does he think that will make him sound more intelligent and/or thoughtful?
I just keep thinking this is a prank video, that there’s no way an elected official to Congress is this obtuse.
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