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Super Mario 64 2: Attack of the Killer 1-Up
What do you do if you, like me, have played Mario 64 to the point of memorization? If you are like I dream I could be, and are Japanese, you invent a whole brand new mode in Mario 64: Avoid the magical levitating 1-Up Monster. It takes 1:50 to set up, so if you want to skip untranslated Japanese commentary, just skip ahead:
Stop Domestic Violence
Want double karma points for the next life? Watch MTV Hits for roughly 20 minutes and see them break in with news about Chris Brown hitting Rihanna followed by this great (but coincidentally ironic) video:
Forest for the Trees
I truly apologize, but if I'm going to have this song stuck in my head, I'm taking hostages down with me:
Willy Wonka's Last Big Deal
First you get the candy, then you get the money, then you get the power...
Episode 112 - "I was born watching Golden Girls and I'll die watching Sesame Street"
Looks like somebody's website got hit by Template Man's Template Tractor Beam!
In an effort to make all your Fair Use dreams come true with as little effort as possible on our parts, we have updated our website's layout to correct our handy-dandy Fair Use player. Now you can scroll through all dirty dozen of our episodes, listen to the brand new Episode 112, revisit an old favorite, or just stare at it longingly as you imagine how many future episodes will fit in there.
With episode 112, we've revisited one of the podcast's old friends, the Octo-Mom. Oh no, Foreclosed'd. For those who think she might look like Angelina Jolie, uh oh, Creeped Out'd!
And finally, to further describe with visuals what I really couldn't pull off in audio-only on the podcast, these are the Muppets I always picture in my mind when I put off introducing the three-wheeled Tribunal each week:
In an effort to make all your Fair Use dreams come true with as little effort as possible on our parts, we have updated our website's layout to correct our handy-dandy Fair Use player. Now you can scroll through all dirty dozen of our episodes, listen to the brand new Episode 112, revisit an old favorite, or just stare at it longingly as you imagine how many future episodes will fit in there.
With episode 112, we've revisited one of the podcast's old friends, the Octo-Mom. Oh no, Foreclosed'd. For those who think she might look like Angelina Jolie, uh oh, Creeped Out'd!
And finally, to further describe with visuals what I really couldn't pull off in audio-only on the podcast, these are the Muppets I always picture in my mind when I put off introducing the three-wheeled Tribunal each week:
Everything Japanese Condensed Into 4 Minutes
The Japanese had cellphones first, they get the best video games and animation, and, dammit, by name alone they also get the best boy bands. I present you to Rag Fair, and they happily dance and sing their #1 doki doki pop song, Hallelujah:
All hail Rag Fair!
All hail Rag Fair!
Your Heroes Recap for Volume 4 - Week 3
As a public service, Fair Use Law will post a short synopsis to prepare you for the onslaught of live Heroes commentary on Dan's Twitter page, starting Monday at 9 PM EST
Volume 4 opened with everyone back to normal. Even though he has a PHD, the only job Mohinder can get in America is a cab driver. Hiro has entrenched himself as Ando's Robin, even injecting GPS modules in each other's skin, which will be the big Baseball scandal of 2015 so they are ahead of the curve. Matt has either respec'd his build or decided to get "Precognition" as a power pool as he's now seeing black people and drawing the future.
Army guys start kidnapping heroes. If you are not a main cast member, you are presumed to be already kidnapped or killed. Sylar is ambushed at what he thought was his dad's house, but TK's everyone's face off and then runs off with one of the officers. He decides to start torturing him in a randomly chosen house in front of the owners and managed to pick a house that has not only a teenager with powers but also knows who his father is. The kid can shoot microwave rays and has the not-at-all-foreshadowing name of Luke, hereby becoming Luke Nukem.
Peter can only absorb one power at a time, making him manageable as a character. Peter, Matt, Hiro (who the government still thinks has powers), Mohinder (who lost his spider side effects but still can only become a cab driver), Tracy, and Claire are kidnapped. Nathan frees Claire because his illegitimate children can surely not screw everything up. Guess what? Claire screws everything up by sneaking onto the military plane and freeing Peter, who instantly steals Superstrength, then Tracy's ice powers, causing a huge hole to happen in the plane, sucking out a hero who is just an extra so we don't care if she died. During the plane's downward spiral, Claire finds her father as the co-pilot because every season needs to have Noah saying "I'm doing this to protect you" in lieu of character development.
The plane crash used the rules of "Those with their names in the opening sequence live," so no one dies. Nathan bombs the wreckage because apparently it's easier to explain a missile attack on American soil than a simple plane crash. The Main Characters meet up with Daphne and Ando, as Matt paints a picture of Daphne getting killed until she is dead. He then leads her exactly to the point where he painted, and she gets killed until she is dead, except with no blood and all gun shots hitting her coat. Matt goes insane and causes one officer to start shooting his own men. The commander of these crackshot Army guys is an insane gent by the name of the Hunter, who appears to be able to hate every powered character while also knowing everything about them. For the time being, Noah is keeping him on a short leash like this was Soft Cell's Sex Dwarf.
Tracy tries to double cross everyone, but Peter flies away at the last second leaving Tracy alone with the Army and Nathan. We close on Tracy, tied up all Guantanamo Bay, screaming "You are one of us" at Nathan while Claire, back at home, is getting text messages from someone called Rebel telling her to keep fighting.
Prediction: Rebel is obviously Caitlin, from the dark alternate future that never existed, using Alejandro's powers to somehow communicate through Micah from an undisclosed location at Ted's wife's grave site.
Volume 4 opened with everyone back to normal. Even though he has a PHD, the only job Mohinder can get in America is a cab driver. Hiro has entrenched himself as Ando's Robin, even injecting GPS modules in each other's skin, which will be the big Baseball scandal of 2015 so they are ahead of the curve. Matt has either respec'd his build or decided to get "Precognition" as a power pool as he's now seeing black people and drawing the future.
Army guys start kidnapping heroes. If you are not a main cast member, you are presumed to be already kidnapped or killed. Sylar is ambushed at what he thought was his dad's house, but TK's everyone's face off and then runs off with one of the officers. He decides to start torturing him in a randomly chosen house in front of the owners and managed to pick a house that has not only a teenager with powers but also knows who his father is. The kid can shoot microwave rays and has the not-at-all-foreshadowing name of Luke, hereby becoming Luke Nukem.
Peter can only absorb one power at a time, making him manageable as a character. Peter, Matt, Hiro (who the government still thinks has powers), Mohinder (who lost his spider side effects but still can only become a cab driver), Tracy, and Claire are kidnapped. Nathan frees Claire because his illegitimate children can surely not screw everything up. Guess what? Claire screws everything up by sneaking onto the military plane and freeing Peter, who instantly steals Superstrength, then Tracy's ice powers, causing a huge hole to happen in the plane, sucking out a hero who is just an extra so we don't care if she died. During the plane's downward spiral, Claire finds her father as the co-pilot because every season needs to have Noah saying "I'm doing this to protect you" in lieu of character development.
The plane crash used the rules of "Those with their names in the opening sequence live," so no one dies. Nathan bombs the wreckage because apparently it's easier to explain a missile attack on American soil than a simple plane crash. The Main Characters meet up with Daphne and Ando, as Matt paints a picture of Daphne getting killed until she is dead. He then leads her exactly to the point where he painted, and she gets killed until she is dead, except with no blood and all gun shots hitting her coat. Matt goes insane and causes one officer to start shooting his own men. The commander of these crackshot Army guys is an insane gent by the name of the Hunter, who appears to be able to hate every powered character while also knowing everything about them. For the time being, Noah is keeping him on a short leash like this was Soft Cell's Sex Dwarf.
Tracy tries to double cross everyone, but Peter flies away at the last second leaving Tracy alone with the Army and Nathan. We close on Tracy, tied up all Guantanamo Bay, screaming "You are one of us" at Nathan while Claire, back at home, is getting text messages from someone called Rebel telling her to keep fighting.
Prediction: Rebel is obviously Caitlin, from the dark alternate future that never existed, using Alejandro's powers to somehow communicate through Micah from an undisclosed location at Ted's wife's grave site.
Episode 111 - "Every baby that pops out of me is sponsored by M&Ms, Home Depot, and Valtrex"
Coming upside your head like an invite to the Grammys, Fair Use Law comes along with episode 111. It's been rumored that this episode sleeps inside out and has had full-on sex with iTunes at least twice. Sit down, take a listen, and soak in the sloppy seconds why don't you?
Want more entertainment for your dollar voting buck? Well, say what you will about wrestling fans, but sometimes they are even more clever than you give them credit for:
And keeping with our Mickey Rourke-influenced the Wrestler theme with this week's show notes, let's see how Christopher Daniels (who is a huge Curry Man fan) and AJ Styles feel about episode 111:
How many iTunes review stars does the Happy Heel Jig translate into? To Babelfish!
Want more entertainment for your dollar voting buck? Well, say what you will about wrestling fans, but sometimes they are even more clever than you give them credit for:
And keeping with our Mickey Rourke-influenced the Wrestler theme with this week's show notes, let's see how Christopher Daniels (who is a huge Curry Man fan) and AJ Styles feel about episode 111:
How many iTunes review stars does the Happy Heel Jig translate into? To Babelfish!
Episode 110 - "That was in our wedding vows: Never Look At Me. I do."
Episode 10 of the Fair Use Law podcast has been unleashed on an uninterested and otherwise bored auditorium full of billionaires like a Bill Gates mosquito!
With our first double digit (or, if you want to believe the hype like Public Enemy, our 110th) episode, Fair Use Law hits the weekly podcast paradox: a 10th anniversary is a big deal. But when you do a podcast every week, that means you've only had a run of about 2 and a half months. The only people legally allowed to celebrate a blistering 2 and a half month run are Marvel writers assigned to a new War Machine on-going series or the producers of ABC's Pushing Daisies.
That doesn't stop the celebration train from derailing into a candy lake of callbacks, however, as we bring up stories old and slightly less old and make them new again:
Bob's Game's Website, which appears to have been programmed using Geocities site builder much like the game itself, has been updated with not only his rejection letter from Nintendo for a developer kit but also the most annoying midi background music and firework java applets imaginable. Who knew that the people behind HamsterDance.com were one step away from being Nintendo DS game programmers?
I would like to take this time to announce our new sponsor: unemployed, single mothers of octuplets. For them, the American Dream having a vagina that just might be a clown car.
Not to toot our own horns, which we would rather do in private or in front of a webcam for large sums of money, but last week's episode 9 might have been the first media outcry at how stupid unemployed, single mothers having octuplets might be. It's almost as if the entire news media were just mesmerized by the number of children for a day like a magical Jesus spell, then realized they should probably raise a moral outcry for ratings. In other words: Larry King be bitin' our style.
If you can't get enough of us rambling in audio podcast format, join us every Monday night during Heroes (9 PM EST) on my twitter page on the sidebar to the right for a real-time commentary by myself, Baker, and perhaps friends!
And now, bringing a burning sensation that will also burn down the house, let us all have a pants off dance off revolution thanks to Katy "Volume (and pantyshots) Equals Talent" Perry:
Between you and me, that performance strikes me as a little fruity...
With our first double digit (or, if you want to believe the hype like Public Enemy, our 110th) episode, Fair Use Law hits the weekly podcast paradox: a 10th anniversary is a big deal. But when you do a podcast every week, that means you've only had a run of about 2 and a half months. The only people legally allowed to celebrate a blistering 2 and a half month run are Marvel writers assigned to a new War Machine on-going series or the producers of ABC's Pushing Daisies.
That doesn't stop the celebration train from derailing into a candy lake of callbacks, however, as we bring up stories old and slightly less old and make them new again:
Bob's Game's Website, which appears to have been programmed using Geocities site builder much like the game itself, has been updated with not only his rejection letter from Nintendo for a developer kit but also the most annoying midi background music and firework java applets imaginable. Who knew that the people behind HamsterDance.com were one step away from being Nintendo DS game programmers?
I would like to take this time to announce our new sponsor: unemployed, single mothers of octuplets. For them, the American Dream having a vagina that just might be a clown car.
Not to toot our own horns, which we would rather do in private or in front of a webcam for large sums of money, but last week's episode 9 might have been the first media outcry at how stupid unemployed, single mothers having octuplets might be. It's almost as if the entire news media were just mesmerized by the number of children for a day like a magical Jesus spell, then realized they should probably raise a moral outcry for ratings. In other words: Larry King be bitin' our style.
If you can't get enough of us rambling in audio podcast format, join us every Monday night during Heroes (9 PM EST) on my twitter page on the sidebar to the right for a real-time commentary by myself, Baker, and perhaps friends!
And now, bringing a burning sensation that will also burn down the house, let us all have a pants off dance off revolution thanks to Katy "Volume (and pantyshots) Equals Talent" Perry:
Between you and me, that performance strikes me as a little fruity...
Episode 109 - "The terrorists obviously hate our freedom to easily search for Boy Meets World erotic fan fiction."
A day late, a buck short. I'm writing the report.
What could those shitty shitty lyrics from Blink 182 symbolize? A new episode of Fair Use Law podcast, that's what! With episode 109 we give you 9 times the ADHD and spastic OCD hand fixations, as we bring the rant in full, unbridled form.
Want to play Guitar Hero World Tour with myself? Info is on the sidebar, but unfortunately, I think I already played this game when it was called Rock Band 2. So many so of the songs are reused, you really start to wonder if "Ramblin' Man" by the Allman Brothers really was that requested that both songs had to feature it. It's almost enough to make me wish Guitar Hero used Lenny Kravitz' version of American Woman instead of also having the Guess Who version.
Keep in mind... I said almost. Music puritans can put down your pitchforks and torches now, thank you.
For scientific purposes, Joystiq has a list of duplicate songs. Really now, was there such a rush on Silversun Pickups' Lazy Eye? Did both games need to feature a song that confuses the listener into thinking the lead singer is a female?
Also in the rant cycle we are riding this week: the economic impact of having fertility procedures that produce 8 births when you are single, the economic impact of having to watch Butterfly Effect, a scientific debate about time travel as it pertains to fanboys such as myself, and, of course, World of War II.
What could those shitty shitty lyrics from Blink 182 symbolize? A new episode of Fair Use Law podcast, that's what! With episode 109 we give you 9 times the ADHD and spastic OCD hand fixations, as we bring the rant in full, unbridled form.
Want to play Guitar Hero World Tour with myself? Info is on the sidebar, but unfortunately, I think I already played this game when it was called Rock Band 2. So many so of the songs are reused, you really start to wonder if "Ramblin' Man" by the Allman Brothers really was that requested that both songs had to feature it. It's almost enough to make me wish Guitar Hero used Lenny Kravitz' version of American Woman instead of also having the Guess Who version.
Keep in mind... I said almost. Music puritans can put down your pitchforks and torches now, thank you.
For scientific purposes, Joystiq has a list of duplicate songs. Really now, was there such a rush on Silversun Pickups' Lazy Eye? Did both games need to feature a song that confuses the listener into thinking the lead singer is a female?
Also in the rant cycle we are riding this week: the economic impact of having fertility procedures that produce 8 births when you are single, the economic impact of having to watch Butterfly Effect, a scientific debate about time travel as it pertains to fanboys such as myself, and, of course, World of War II.
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