Les Stroud — Best Story Ever

By Jonathan Volks

Les Stroud, ‘Survivorman’, gives us his Best Story Ever about being stalked by a 1500 pound bull moose.

Crysis: Warhead

By Jonathan Volks

Jon’s Initial Review: I bought this game only a couple of days after I completed Crysis. I’ve only been playing for a couple days and it plays a lot like the original. I like the new vehicles and the twin submachine guns which adds for an additional fun. The story is pretty good, except I am a bit confused on where I am in the story compared to where Nomad was in the original Crysis. The multiplayer is fun also. I haven’t played a ton with the multiplayer but enough to see that I enjoy it. I’m getting owned a lot but thats expected. I’ll post a more detailed review once I finish. Read more »

Crysis

By Jonathan Volks

Jon’s Final Review: I love this game. The best feature about it is that you decide how you want to attack an enemy stronghold or patrol. What I mean is when coming up on an enemy controlled roadblock, you decide if you want to stealth kill them, go in guns blazing or try to avoid them altogether. Personally, most of the time I went in guns blazing cause that’s how I am but sometimes I found it in my better interest to sneak around a roadblock.

The descision making also occurs on how you are going to get to your waypoint. Do I take the indirect route along the beach with less patrols or do I follow the roads and possible run into road blocks. The game doesn’t have complete openess as it trys to force you going some ways by putting cliffs and mountains in your way that you can not get around. Read more »

Call of Duty 2 on the Office

By Jonathan Volks

One of my favorite TV shows, The Office, featured one of my favorite video games, Call of Duty 2. The team at Dunder Mifflin Stanford used it as a team building excercise but it turned into more of a competition for them. I found this video online and had to put it on my site cause its just awesome. I’m still in a very long battle where I work to get this implemented but without any success. Hopefully someday, I will achieve this.

Battlefield: Bad Company Parodies

By Jonathan Volks

This first video parodies Gears of War’s unforgettable “Mad World” Trailer.

This second video parodies parodies Rainbow Six which mocks the discipline of the soldiers ability to “stack up”.

This third video parodies Metal Gear Solid 4 and Snake’s ability to hide in a barrel.

Photographs to Enhance Videos

By Jonathan Volks

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene. I used to do a bunch of video editing and thought this was interesting.

Michael Shermer: Why People Believe Strange Things

By Jonathan Volks

Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in “Stairway to Heaven”? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe — and overlook the facts.

Star Wars on a Snowboard

By Jonathan Volks

Gnar Wars by Mike Benson. A very cool Star Wars parody which takes place on a snowboard.

Death Star Over San Francisco

By Jonathan Volks

The Empire from Star Wars invades San Francisco in this cool video clip which has some great special effects.

Cult Procession Fail

By Jonathan Volks

A cult procession that doesn’t quite go as planned once the Dark Lord himself shows up.