Are you as strong as Moustachio? PROVE IT!
Little peanut, sooo weak!
Before you leave Georgia’s Whispering Oaks Amusement Park, be sure to pick up this classy souvenir t-shirt featuring everyone’s favorite pistachio mascot! He may be a tough guy, but could he survive the zombie apocalypse? Seems like he’s got the ‘stache for it!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on May 10, 2010 · 7:26 AM
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Our next new shirt comes straight from the Halolz submission of the same name!
You know there are a lot of haters out there… they see your Pokéwalker on your belt… racking up’ watts as you walk around town. Don’t hate the trainer hate the game!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on May 7, 2010 · 6:26 PM
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Hey! Isn’t it about time for some new shirts? Probably not, but you’re getting some anyway!
First up for your consideration, the one that has the least to do with Halolz… the new Unversed Emblem T-Shirt! Of course most people don’t know it’s relevance yet, but for the few of you keeping up with your Kingdom Hearts… the Unversed are the next evil group (predating the Heartless and Nobodies) which you fight in the upcoming game Birth by Sleep (which honestly I thought would be out in the states by now, but it’s been pushed back until summer I think).
So anyway, here’s one for you die-hard Kingdom Hearts fans! Enjoy!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on May 7, 2010 · 8:21 AM
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Hey bros! How’d you like to pick up a free Halo: Reach beta code and start playing this weekend? You would? Well do I have exciting news for you!
We have two codes to give away (courtesy
of Admiral Trunkington), and to enter all you have to do is follow both @Halolz and @NinjaBotStore on Twitter and tweet the following:
Hoping I win a Halo Reach beta code by following @Halolz and @NinjaBotStore! Follow both and retweet this to enter twice! #haloreach
Just copy and paste that in and tweet it, and you’ll have two chances to win! We’ll be picking the winners at random around 4pm tomorrow! Good luck!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on April 30, 2010 · 11:53 PM
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Another show? ALREADY? Didn’t I just do two shows at the same time? Why are you guys doing this to meeeeee?
Well nonetheless, this evening I fly out to Chicago to get ready for the all new Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (or C2E2 for short) which is happening THIS WEEKEND at McCormick Place. I’ll be sharing a booth with my buddy Scott (VG Cats), and we’ll be doing a panel on Saturday at 5:30 pm in room E351 (wherever that is) and I’ll have some new stuff for you to check out… like for example… these brand new magnets!
I just started trying out these fancy 2″x3″ magnets (they’re really nice, but I don’t know how to describe them… they’re the kind that are all covered in clear plastic and have the wrap around edges) and so far people seem to be digging them! I’ll have some other familiar designs as well, but I thought I’d show you these two since their totally new! Of course credit for the joke goes to Mike for his original submission.
So yeah, Chicago-ites! Come by this weekend and say hi! It looks like this could be a big show and should be a lot of fun! See ya!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on April 14, 2010 · 3:01 AM
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So, if you hadn’t pieced it together by now (between the page peel that has been running in the upper right corner of the site for a month and the constant talk of me being in Seattle), Sakura-Con is this weekend!
What is Sakura-Con? A fantastic anime convention taking place at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle! This is the third year they’ve been kind enough to have me out as a guest, and I’ve always had a great time doing it.
I’ll be doing a few panels over the weekend, including a Halolz panel Friday at 2pm in Panel Room 4 (I believe) and a Webcomics Panel Friday at 3pm (maybe?) I’m not 100% sure, check your schedule!
But yeah, Sakura-Con is a great anime show and if you are in the area this weekend I highly recommend you stop by! We will even have a new secret Ninja-Bot shirt based off of a recent Halolz submission! Is it yours? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT! (or wait until I tell everyone on here)
Oh wait… the other way you could find out is by going to Anime Boston (which is ALSO this weekend) and stopping by our Ninja-Bot booth there! Anime Boston is a pretty decent show as well, and while I will not be there (obviously) feel free to harass my team of volunteers and maybe also pick up a shirt as well? They don’t care for shirtless people in the Hynes Convention Center so you should really make sure you have plenty of upper body clothing! (Lower half is completely optional.)
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on April 2, 2010 · 1:23 AM
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So if you follow my personal twitter, or happened to catch it in recent comments, you may know that The Cheezburger Network has launched their own video game caption site Bob’s House of Video Games. Now I don’t know who Bob is, I don’t know if he’s renting or has a mortgage, and I don’t know what the property values are in his neighborhood, but I do know that he deals in the business of video game screen captions, and this is relevant to my interests.
Despite my ramblings on Twitter where I sound like a sleep deprived lunatic (which I was) this is not some horrible, end of the world thing. Honestly I knew they’d step into the realm of video game captions sooner or later (they’ve got pretty much EVERYTHING else covered at this point) and it’s not like there aren’t other sites that dabble in the genre.
However there are certain things that bother me about how ICHC runs the “blogs” on their network. Essentially the sites are designed as dumping grounds for content instead of being moderated and run by editors. The only reason this bothers me is that original content, created by Halolz readers, submitted to this site, will be copied on to their site with no credit, permission or watermark.
Now in a sense this isn’t ICHB’s fault, but it’s how their system is designed and it becomes our problem not theirs. People will pull your submissions from here and submit it there and as of right now the only thing we can do is submit a form on their site asking them to remove your work (and maybe it will happen). Now I mean if you want your submission up there, go ahead and send it in! But 99% of the time, if an original submission from our readers appears on their site, it’s going to be because some random person grabbed it off here and sent it in and no one (including you, the person who captured the screenshot, or Halolz) will receive any credit.
Of course there is plenty of stuff posted here that has just been “floatin’ around the nets” and hardly counts as original Halolz content, but in the three or so years we’ve been doing the site I have always made providing source links a very high priority on every post. And by design this is not something that will happen at Bob’s.
Anyway this is pretty much the only real problem I have with the site, and I’m going to try to meet with the guys who run the site this week while I’m in Seattle to talk about it.
But for those of you who feel like taking some action, well there are two specific things you can do. And trolling their site is NOT one of them.
1. If you see a submission on there that you know is an original Halolz submission, submit a request to have it removed or for them to add the source. Especially if is something YOU made.
2. Continue to do the one thing I’ve always said is the biggest way you can help support the site; share your favorite submissions on forums, by email, share them on facebook, retweet, etc (and always try to provide a link to the site).
And now I have to run, as my friend Heather who is helping me at Sakura-Con needs to see some Seattle sights before I make her work for the next four days!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on March 31, 2010 · 4:56 PM
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For all you folks who came out to PAX East this year, you may have caught this big display/backdrop thing that WoTC brought out for Magic: The Gathering. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was a little weird having your picture taken in a giant mass of tentacles!
By Hank G.
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on March 30, 2010 · 6:34 PM
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