Episode 203 - "What are you going to get me for Inappropriate Christmas?"

Salutations interweb blog-type site!

Another hectic episode of the Fair Use Law podcast has come and gone. From our podcast to yours, we hope your Memorial Day weekend wasn't as full of stupidity and chaos as ours were.

This week, the Triceratop Tribunal has been enamored with Starfy, the one fierce starfish of the upcoming DS video game:



We also discover that I have a burning hatred like no other for John and Kate Plus 8's Kate's stupid haircut:



Hey, does anyone else remember Bart Simpson attempting to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as much as I do?



This week we debate just when Simpsons should have gracefully walked off into the sunset, a discussion made ever more difficult because of poorly written and programmed licensed games like Bart vs. the Juggernauts. To save you the trouble of having to play said game, here's the ending spoiled for your own sanity:



And now to end the shownotes in the traditional manner, here's an anime music video tribute to secret same-sex crushes mixed with Hikaru Utada for ultimate Japanese-ness:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Contra

It's another lazy Saturday morning, where the Fair Use Law gang likes to chill out, sit back with a sifter of brandy, and enjoy the nostalgic chiptones of yesteryear. Today's video game musical masterpiece shall be Contra:

Superhero Group Therapy

In City of Heroes, people who put up with my brand of ADHD insanity chat in a channel called Group Therapy. On No Heroics, a modern day violent vigilante with a clean sweep of drug and mental problems crashes a Golden Age hero party:

Catch The Cheese, Win A Concussion

Monday was a very special holiday we here at Fair Use Law hold close to our hearts... no, not Memorial Day. Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling Day! Roll the tape:

Fair Use Law's Favorite Wrestler: Player Uno

I present to you the Super Smash Brother himself, Player Uno!





FINISH HIM, INDEED!

Everything Right About Heroes Made Wrong

...With one simple song choice. Words fail me.

Episode 202 - "This podcast is the sound of one hand clapping."

Happy Memorial Day weekend from the Triceratop Tribunal, one and all.

With episode-o dos of season 2 of the Fair Use Law podcast, we touch on a lot of topics. But first, to wrap up old business, some actual gameplay footage of Duke Nukem Forever hit the interwebs and it does indeed kick ass and chew bubblegum:



I'm not a praying man, but God is getting an earful of me begging for this game to be finished for me to play it.

We also discuss the new Fall season of TV shows, which came with a sweep of surprises. Among them, a show that produces something as completely inane as this being too costly to continue on NBC:



Dollhouse was also on our minds, as it surprisingly gets another season. Miss out on it like I did due to slow first episodes? Here's a recap of the first season to catch you up. At nearly 12 minutes long, it's a bit lengthy, but not as time consuming as sitting through the first 6 episodes of slow build:



Star Trek, in all its Cloverfield-monster having goodness, delighted the geekwebs near and far this month as well. I can safely say our reaction is a bit more energetic than William Shatner's:



And finally... who ya gonna call? The best goddamn game coming out in June, that's who:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Blaster Master

Every Saturday we like to let it hang low and loose with a little nostalgic video game music of the 8-Bit variety. Today we have a personal favorite, Blaster Master:

Good Music You Should Know About - Iron Curtain edition

It's Friday, which means it's the day we highlight a music video you might have never seen before from a band you should know that we really dig. This week we go all the way back to Mother Russia (which is, of course, Earthbound 4) for the band Slot's song 2 Wars. This is the original language version:

The Melancholy of Cowboy Bebop

For those who get what this anime fan has done, I hope you appreciate the effort put forth for the joke. For those who do not, just enjoy the colors, shapes, and sounds:

Uh oh Uh oh Uh oh Nonono - Got me So Crazy In Love!

One thing we here at the Fair Use Law institute of Hobokampery love more than anything is a rock band covering the most bubblegum of pop, putting a new spin on it forever more. Today, we have the band Switchfoot making Beyonce's Crazy In Love tolerable:



Also: If you and your friends have been having a geeky debate on any sci-fi, comic book, movie, wrestling, or television show topic, please submit the topic to fairuselaw@yahoo.com and we'll be the end all say all of judgment on a future episode for you in a new subject we call Before the Tribunal. Note: Time Travel arguments are verboten.

Breaking News: iTunes Loves Us

Or at least loves us enough to put our new feed up just like our old one.

This is good news for you since you can check us out in your iTunes application by searching "Fair Use Law." Yes, we're the one with the anime chick and not some legal symbol as our artwork. Plus we're the one that has no academic use in any way shape or form. Glad I could clear that up for you.

The iTunes Button has also be restored to my right. Click it to go directly to our iTunes page to subscribe, lallygag, or whatever it is you crazy teenagers do nowadays.

To celebrate our successful server switch, here's the Left 4 Dead survivors totally rocking out on some L7:

Muscle March Forever!

I know Nintendo wants to appeal to the "Hardcore" gamers, but methinks they picked the wrong definition of the word "hardcore:"



Having said that, as a 100% straight, video game lovin' geek of a man, I would ironically buy this and claim it to be my favorite WiiWare game ever in a heartbeat.

We're the boys. We're the boys. We're the Naaaaasty Boys!

Don't ask me why, but I've been singing this song to myself all day. And upon further review on YouTube, it turns out to be one of the catchiest, well-produced WCW themes ever made:



Kind of like if a drunk Beastie Boys rapped over Ministry. I approve!

Episode 201 - "Marry the dude, win a free iPod Nano!"

Ladies and gentlemen, please to be pardoning our dust during our recent construction:



Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

The truth of the matter is thus -- we just got too big for our previous hosting britches. And like the horses that we are, we've decided to move mid-stream to a better server with better features and better full release oral services. To go into more detail, we've ordered "Redneck" Dave Schultz, PR agent to the stars, to give the following statement. Please note he refuses to call our prior server anything but Hogan:



That about sums it up I think! A bit less politically correct than I'd like, but beggars can't be choosers.

As you'll see on the right, we have a brand new Podbean podcast player featuring both this episode and a short introductionary welcome to our new palatial estate. If you enjoyed any episodes in the 1xx's, they are still there for you in the old player slightly to the south. If you would like to download any of said episodes, we'll be posting a link to a bittorrent of them all, included mucho mucho bonuses, later this week.

If you subscribed to us in iTunes, please open your Information Tunes application and select "Subscribe to Podcast" underneath the Advanced tab. In this area, please input the following minus the quotation marks "http://fairuselaw.podbean.com/feed" which is our new RSS feed. If you follow our new logo, drawn by the greatly skilled Manna of Third-Half, it'll bring you to our lovely Podbean homepage which includes ways to subscribe to our podcast I didn't even know existed. Who knew you could load an RSS feed using a can opener and a Gremlins Furby? You can now... now that the sky is the limit!

Legitimately Great Music Showcase: The Whip

From time to time here at Fair Use Law, we take a second to pause from posting crazy wrestling or video game related videos to highlight a music video that might be just under everyone's radar. Today we have the Whip, with their single, "Trash."

This video almost checks off my entire music video wishlist: female band member? Check (Bonus points for it being the drummer) Actually showing the synthesizer/keyboard player? Check! Kick ass bass riffs? You know it! Technicolor Sasquatch Vomit? Well... yeah, actually! Check it out:

Wrestling Myths Revealed!

How many full matches can you fit into just one Undertaker entrance? Let's find out:

You'll love this Scout's Nuts!

Ever play Team Fortress 2 and wish that pesky Scout were trying to sell you some mundane or perhaps unusable? Well, someone at Valve did, since this video now exists!

Episode 123 - "If he ever listens to this podcast on his iPod, know that it means he has lost the will to live."

Citizens of Leonardo, I have come to stay!

With episode 23 of the Fair Use Law podcast, the triceratop tribunal hammered home the biggest news to hit the American way of life this week: Duke Nukem Forever's developer, 3DRealms, going out of business. There's a moral here, children: over ten years of game development with nothing to show for it is bad for business. Let's pour a forty on the curb while watching the Duke Nukem teaser trailer one last time, remembering what could have been:



Also mentioned in our discussion of Duke Nukem was its spiritual successor, Shadow Warrior. While I could not find any real good YouTube Compilations of all its many easter eggs, I did find this anime music video using footage of Excel Saga, mixed with the rap Shadow Warrior's protagonist, Lo Wang, unleashed after beating the game:



We also give our geek seal of approval to the movie Special starring Michael Rappaport. Here's the trailer, though a word of warning: it's edited to look like a zanier comedy than it really is:



Just to show you how well you have it, here's the telekinetic fight scene from Push, another movie that gets our cheetos dust-covered thumb's up:



And finally, I give you what might be the cutest video game music video of all time from the recently released game Plants vs. Zombies, a game so full of awesome it could wipe out small countries:

Big American Party

Everybody dancing, having good time!



And yes, this video encapsulates everything great about professional wrestling today.

Deadpool vs. Wolverine - MUGEN Style

With the recent good news concerning not only a Wolverine sequel but also a Deadpool movie spin-off starring Ryan Reynolds, what better way to celebrate than with the power of MUGEN?

Doing It For Yourself: When Fan Videos Do It Best

Here's a great fan made video for the Nine Inch Nails instrumental song 8 Ghosts 1 that was recently entered into the Dead Graphics 2008 competition. I can easily see this on MTV U being a bigger hit than 99% of the stuff on there:

Episode 122 - "Porky Pig is a Goddamn Motherfucker"

Oh my god, interwebs, swine flu!!!!!



No, not "Swine Flew," voice inside my head. I'm talking about the disease the Israelis have renamed "Mexican Flu" as to not insult pigs of all kinds. Want to know more about this pandemic the media can't stop talking about due to a slow news month? Well here are two text-to-speech 3D cartoon characters to fill you all the way in:



To think, those filthy swines have taken over our airwaves so much this week, we barely had enough 24 hour news station time to be outraged about gay marriage some more (or give Miss California another 30 seconds of fame). Thankfully Stephen Colbert is there to continue to warn us of the coming Gay Storm:



But enough about all those "current events" that might have a "significant impact on our American way of life." Let's talk about the real epidemic plaguing our world today: Fascist Action RPG heroes.



Luckily, there is a group of heroes who can save us all. And they just happen to star in the kind of offbeat Japanese anime-inspired RPG released by Atlus that we love to plug on this here podcast website. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my dual-screened digital version of crack cocaine, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Front.

We'll CGI The Claws

Thanks to the magic of youtube, the entire nearly 4 minute work print of the Wolverine Origins movie has been leaked. Watch and marvel at just how much CGI and special effects can improve a movie: