TF2 Videos Are Valve "Trying To Explore" Making Half-Life Film

The hilarious, universally acclaimed "Meet the Team" shorts for Team Fortress 2 are more than fan service or game promotion. Valve founder Gabe Newell says they're experiments in movie-making, because the studio would prefer to do a Half-Life movie itself.

Speaking to PC Gamer, Newell says Hollywood bombarded Valve with story pitches for a Half-Life movie, not long after the first game shipped in 1998. "Their stories were just so bad. I mean, brutally, the worst," Newell said. "Not understanding what made the game a good game, or what made the property an interesting thing for people to be a fan of."

Newell said the team reached a consensus to not sign a movie deal, because the only way it would be don right was if it made the film itself. "And I was like, ‘Make it ourselves? Well that's impossible,'" Newell said. "But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet The Team shorts, is us trying to explore that."

It's a leap from animated, comedic shorts to a feature-length science-fiction drama, so at this rate, it's more likely that Half-Life: The Movie doesn't getsmade. But good on Newell and company for staying committed to seeing something done right, if it's done at all.

"As a [World of Warcraft] player, I would much rather that the WoW team made the movie, right?" Newell said. "I like Sam Raimi, I've been a fan ever since Evil Dead came out, but I would rather see Blizzard making the movie. We think that customers are like, ‘OK, we're kind of sick and tired of the way you guys are slicing and dicing the experience of being a fan of Harry Potter, or Half-Life, or The Incredibles, and you need to fix it.' And the people that fix it will be rewarded, and the people that don't will be on the rubbish heap of history, or whatever the phrase is."

Valve Want To Make The Half-Life Movie Themselves [PC Gamer]

Halo: Reach 'Deliver Hope' Live Action Trailer

There's only one thing we look forward to more than the actual release of a new Halo title, and that's the live action promos of what a Halo movie could have been. In the latest for Halo: Reach, "Deliver Hope," a young Spartan races through a war-torn battlefield with a package that needs to be handed over personally. I won't spoil what happens next, but September 14th can't come soon enough!

Monty Python: The Life Of Team Fortress 2

The Knights of the Round Table song is one of the highlights of the film The Holy Grail. It's now also the highlight of your weekend, Team Fortress 2 fans.

Unlimited Productions have released this homage to Grail's medieval ditty, replicating the choreography if not in location, then definitely in spirit.

You can see the actual song below, in case you wanted to compare the two.

Remember The Original Blue Power Ranger? He's Gay!

Shocking? Perhaps not, but what might be is how rough he had it back at Angel Grove High! We feel so bad for him!

Check out this interview with David Yost, the original Blue Power Ranger, that he did at Anime Festival Orlando 2010. I've only posted part three as it gives details why he really left the show Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

He talks about being a part of the NOH8 campaign, the harassment he faced while being on the show and joining a "Pray The Gay Away" group.

So sad! He seems like a really nice guy! He didn't deserve that kind of cruelty!

We Love You Maria Venus Raj!

This video is going to make you want to buy a white t-shirt, crawl into your bed to pray and lose your shit over Miss Philippines!

A group of proud Filipino queens decided to tape themselves watching the Miss Universe pageant. As the tension builds to learn the fate of Miss Philippines Venus Raj (pronounced 'Rah'), the HIGHlarity ensues. Then, when she makes the top 15, the reaction is priceless!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Amazing!

You MUST watch this video! (above)

You will not regret it!

What Kind of Photographic Trickery Is Going On Here?

Left side of the photo: adorable 4-year-old pancake chef is blinking. Right side of the photo, in the reflection: his eyes are wide open. Whoa. Viral marketing for the The Last Exorcist? Not exactly.

The prevailing theory, from BoingBoing commenter nickelrocket:

Resolution pixels on the chip load from L to R (or R to L) and the split second refresh caught both sides of the blink?

Or the kid's just possessed. Any sharp commenters know for sure?

Battle Damage? No, You Mean Jean Damage

Heroine Aya Brea returns in PSP game The 3rd Birthday, the latest installment in the Parasite Eve franchise. And it has some fantastic jean damage.

These recent images show how her blue jeans become increasingly worn down during battle. The Third Birthday, which was originally planned for Japanese cell phones, follows Aya as she dukes it out in New York City. This isn't fashion! It's...war!!

チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報:『The 3rd Birthday』アヤがダメージを受けると徐々に服が破れていく仕様 [チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報]

Silent Hill 2 movie production currently stuck in limbo

In a recent interview with Fangoria, prolific horror film producer Don Carmody gave an update on the sequel to the 2006 film adaptation of Silent Hill. Things are going less than awesome, as Carmody explained production is "a little stalled now because of [writer/director] Roger Avary's [legal problems], so a little unsure yet." Carmody is referring to Avary's one-year prison sentence, which he received after being charged with vehicular manslaughter following a fatal 2008 car accident.

Carmody went on to explain, "the original plan was Roger writing and polishing the screenplay, and when he had finished his thing, we'd begin full-blown preproduction. I'm not sure what's going on with that. We know we want to make Silent Hill 2 and have a basic outline for it. We'll have to see." According to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department website, Avary has been released from prison -- whether or not he's in the screenwriting mood remains to be seen.

Christ Gives You Tips On Spotting A Gay Man!

Does your hubby have a gym membership, but no interest in sports? You've got a gay!

Does your BF wear clothes that are too tight and too “trendy?” You've got a gay!

Does your man travel frequently to big cities or Asia, dislike religion or is he "fastidious" about his appearance and the home??? Yes, you've guessed it - YOU'VE GOT A GAY!

How do we know this? The Lord told us, silly, on this website - "Christwire" - that lists over a dozen SURE FIRE ways to know that the man in your life isn't into your lady bits and is after the peen.

It's quite a read, one we HIGHlariously recommend!

CLICK HERE for more tips that your marriage/relationship is a scam!

Oh the conservatives! Such small brains, such big mouths!

The Elaborate, Lucrative Cancer Lie of Ashley Kirilow

Meet your new devious cancer-scammer: 23-year-old Toronto resident Ashley Kirilow. She shaved her head, waxed her eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes and allegedly scammed more than $20,000 through her charity, "Change" for the Cure.

Kirilow—whose parents say "you couldn't trust anything she was saying" growing up—started her scam after having a benign lump removed from her breast in 2008, according to the Toronto Star. This minor operation was the seed from which Kirilow grew her elaborate cancer lie.

Pretending to have every cancer from brain to breast, she became the cause celebre of Toronto's music and skateboarding scene, tricking hundreds of people into helping her raise money for her treatment and her fake charity (really just a Facebook page), "Change for the Cure," through benefit concerts and change buckets. One event alone raised $9,000, and a skateboarding-related cancer charity gave her a free trip to Disney World.

One woman posted on her "charity's" Facebook wall: "I stand amazed that such a young soul could inspire so many with fresh drive to fight against a disease that has affected every one of us in some way. "

This all ended when her father discovered her scam, according to the Star. He gave her an ultimatum: confess or he'd reveal the truth. She apparently didn't confess, and on August 1st, 17-year-old Jamie Counsell posted this on his blog:

As many of you know, I have done a lot of work in the past with "Change" For A Cure. I personally raised over $1500 by running two local shows at the Sharon Hall. These shows saw so much love, and so much talent. I am writing this to inform you of some news that I am sure will raise some questions. We have been contacted by family members of Ashley Kirilow, the founder and director of "Change" For A Cure, who have told us that Ashley never had cancer. She led us to believe that she did in order to start this charity. She waxed her head and plucked her eyebrows in an attempt to look as if she was suffering the effects of chemo.

Kirilow admitted to the Star that she faked her cancer, but says she only used it to scam around $5,000 for her fake charity. So, you know, no big deal! Nobody knows where she is now, but we imagine she's partying with Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell somewhere up in Grifter Heaven before her stint in Grifter Hell (jail).

Hello, I'm an Idiot Who Thought Vitaminwater Was Healthy

Hello, My name is Dumbass Dela Cruz. I was reading the Huffington's Post today and was completely surprised by this article which said Vitaminwater is not healthy, even though the name of the product has "Vitamin" in it! Help?

I was just sitting down to my morning health food breakfast of low-tar cigarettes and twelve 100-calorie packs of Oreos when I read John Robbins' very popular article in the Hufflepuff Post about "The Dark Side of Vitaminwater." Wha—huh? I stared at the five-gallon jug which I fill with life-extending (I THOUGHT) Vitaminwater. Every day for the last two years I feasted from that very jug via five curly straws until my skin swelled, grew soft and nearly burst with the stuff. I had the vague feeling that my life was about to be changed forever.

So I put my recliner into its "thinking angle." This was going to take all of the reasoning skills which had so impressed the members of my Community College pottery class before I got kicked out for throwing clay. The name of the product is "Vitaminwater". "Vitamin" + "water." Vitamins are healthy. That's just scientific fact, like Intelligent Design and atoms. And water is probably the most healthy thing there is besides snorting line after line of crushed-up Airborne. So… how could vitamins plus water be unhealthy? Well, here's how: There are other things besides vitamins and water in it.

It's OK if you just passed out from shock. That happens to me a lot, especially after finishing one of my Vitaminwater jugs. This is what John Robbins, Esq., PhD., M.D. says in his Mat Hoffman Post article:

the product is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. And the amount of sugar is not trivial. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage.

When I read that, I almost thought about checking the nutrition labels on the empty Vitaminwater bottles in my apartment to see if this was true, but I didn't want to risk toppling the scale model of Versailles I'd constructed of them. How had I missed this "dark side" of Vitaminwater for so long? And then it hit me: Advertising.

"Pacquiao!" I screamed at my Manny Pacquiao cutout. "I trusted you! Why didn't you appear in your ads as a fat, tired man with rotting teeth, a bad heart and a wife who hates your guts, which is what Vitaminwater will really do to you?" Then my heart got tired and I took a nap. Then I woke up from the nap and yelled more at Manny Pacquaio. Then my lungs started burning from yelling so much.

Then my helper woke me up for dinner, and I realized I was in a special home for stupid people.

Ooooooooo girl!

Ooooooooo girl! I got my nails did!