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Oct 1, 2011, 1:34 pm
Boys and girls, this is it for Goatmoose.
After 2.5 years of mostly meaningless nonsense, I’ve decided to put an end to this site. We’ve had some good posts, we’ve had a lot of mediocre posts, and we’ve rarely had any focus.
This site has served as a mental dump for me to post commentary... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 6:31 pm
The fish stick box instructs me to “remove fish from plastic pouch before cooking.” I’m pretty sure if I needed the box to tell me that, I don’t deserve to eat.
I love finding old vegetables in the bottom fridge drawer that got buried so long ago they’ve turned into such goop puddles that ... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2011, 7:42 pm
I’m one of those nerds who doesn’t really care for Star Wars. Sorry. Regardless, this rap about Boba Fett gets my mental synapses dancing every time. MC Chris is one of nerdcore hiphop’s foremost rappers. He has a voice that sounds like a ten year old leemur and looks entirely different, b... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2011, 6:58 pm
What happens when a gang of nerdcore rappers pretend they are an elite group of special operatives on call from FOXHOUND to assist Solid Snake in the destruction of Metal Gear?
This, obviously. Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2011, 1:20 pm
Neil Cicierega is a silly comedian/musician who is not only a super geeky looking fellow, but makes very nerdy music under the name Lemon Demon. This song is weird on a huge level – intensely catchy, humorous, and with a surprise ending!
Drink this bowl of nerd punch for some great Tuesday tunag... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 1:18 pm
Lately I’ve been a sucker for new Kinect content – likely due to the tremendous dry spell of worthwhile games that has been the situation since the device launched last Christmas. Fortunately, the time has come for the Arcade market to jump into Kinect, providing easy access to some simple Kine... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 12:54 pm
Nursehella is one of the minority female representatives of the nerdcore hiphop scene. This is one of her more rad tunes. It works for me as it mentions Harry Potter, Bubble Bobble, dry humping, Evil Dead and Bill Nye. What could go wrong with that combo? Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2011, 9:33 am
What better way is there to celebrate Friday (aside from Rebecca Black) than listening to a great nerdcore hiphop tune that celebrates the hotness of nerd women? There is none.
Schaffer the Darklord (STD) is another personal favorite of mine within the nerdcore hip-hop community and this track is ... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 4:43 pm
For Wednesday, let’s hit up another big player in the nerd music scene. This funny folklorist is known not only for this wonderful song “Code Monkey,” but for a quality tune about Ikea, and most notably for composing everyone’s favorite song sung by an evil A.I., “Still Alive,” the clos... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 8:51 am
There’s nothing quite like a fine musical rendition of nerd culture. With so many humorous, skilled and geeky musicians out there, I’ve decided the world needs presented with a daily dose of musical nerdity for a week or so. To launch, here is one of my favorites – and hands-down the world... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 8:45 am
I’m a big fan of Tanga. I have many annual magazine subscriptions purchased through them for between $2-6, and have yet to have any trouble with their service. Recently, they launched a new site into their family – LOLShirts. At its launch, they had a super cool $2 shirt sale. So I bought on... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2011, 6:13 pm
Now THIS is Fallout DLC.
After pitiful Fallout: New Vegas DLC performances thus far with Dead Money and Honest Hearts, gamers were given a treat at the end of July with Old World Blues. Not only is it easily the strongest DLC package for New Vegas, but it is arguably the best DLC to date among all... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2011, 5:22 pm
Believe it or not, NPR took a break from talking about the debt ceiling! This afternoon, Steve Carell was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, as he discussed with Neal Conan his upcoming movie, his departure from The Office, and a little bit about what goes into playing a funny character. There are a n... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2011, 3:30 pm
Around 13 years ago, my mom bought me a book. “You should read this,” she said. “It’s becoming a pretty big deal.” As a 4th grade English teacher, I figured she knew about the trends. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the book she gave me. It looked strange, questionably ju... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2011, 11:40 am
Rebecca Black destroyed the lives of millions with “Friday.” I mean, I play it every Friday morning at work for all to hear, but that’s just because I’m a jerk. I quite enjoy everything about the song and its video because of its immeasurable horrendousness. It’s so bad that I can’t g... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2011, 5:50 pm
You know when little kids go Trick or Treating, and old ladies open the door, look down at them and say “Well, what are YOU supposed to be?”
This is the film equivalent of that.
YouTube – Art Film :Lindsay Lohan For Richard Phillips. Comment - Like
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May 17, 2011, 10:17 pm
I hardly write anything anymore. One thing I can usually be counted on to write is a review of a Fallout DLC. And folks, today marks the release of Honest Hearts, the second DLC expansion pack for Fallout: New Vegas. And much to my dismay, I am sorely underwhelmed.
Let me preface by stating that... Comment - Like
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Feb 28, 2011, 6:19 pm
It’s probably been years now… Once long ago, I promised to compose a list of my top favorite songs. I have always figured nobody would care — I mean, who needs to know about some random person on the Internet’s favorite songs? Why would that matter to anyone?
I wanted to do it for myse... Comment - Like
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Feb 24, 2011, 12:24 pm
Stacking is an adorable little game that puts you in control of Charlie Blackmore, the world’s smallest Russian stacking (matryoshka) doll, in a quest to save your family. They have been kidnapped and forced into child labor under the rule of an evil Baron. With your stacking abilities, you stac... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2011, 9:48 am
Doritos has yet another Xbox Live Arcade title available, called “Harm’s Way,” and thus another opportunity to quickly inflate your gamerscore. This is quite possibly the easiest of all three Doritos games when it comes to nabbing achievements quickly. Last year’s Dash of Destruction made ... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2011, 5:09 pm
My Satchel Paige bobblehead broke. As a result, he had adventures.
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Jan 27, 2011, 12:34 pm
This video was on the internet nearly two years ago. Then it vanished. Now it makes its triumphant return.
It’s Titanic – edited to 2.5 minutes (an appropriate length for the film), and told by Howard Hughes, William Costigan Jr., Amsterdam Vallon and Arnie Grape. Thank you, Leonardo DiCapri... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 6:55 pm
I’ve never actually met another living human being that had ever seen or heard of the show Tracker. It was a low-budget sci-fi show starring Adrian Paul, Amy Price-Francis, Geraint Wyn Davies and Leanne Wilson (my reason for watching). Around here, it was on back in 2001-2002 at 11PM immediate... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2011, 6:25 pm
The last of my promised gaggle of Kinect launch title reviews is Rare’s take on the multi-sport sim with their lovely game Kinect Sports. It utilizes the Kinect sensor to put players into six different sports for an excellent party game that offers endless fun and good responses. It does ... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 6:26 pm
I made this sometime last year while working at the laser show production company and just found it on an old abandoned hard drive. It was all done in Photoshop by me, aside from the drawing of the lady and the goblin body. Those were pulled from god knows where on the internet and altered to fi... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 9:32 pm
It’s probably just my extreme adoration of animals talking, but I find this game endearing. They say it won’t cater to hardcore gamers at all. Well, I think more about my 360 than I do about food, so I class myself as pretty hardcore. And I think it’s a treat.
Sure, it’s made for ... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 5:18 pm
I’ve always been told I was part of Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation. Apparently now my generation is being re-dubbed Generation R – The Recession generation.
En route to work this morning, I heard a short interview with NPR’s Jeremy Hobson and St. Joseph’s University Sociol... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 8:33 pm
My wife has a degree in dance. She teaches dance to preschoolers through high school students. She’s been doing ballet since she was 5. Add all that up and my purchase of Dance Central is justified.
I’m terrible at this game. After perfecting the finger disco during middle school, my da... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 7:39 pm
I’ve always found myself to be a person of many musical tastes. It’s not uncommon to hear me listen to Marilyn Manson followed by Patsy Cline followed by Jay Z followed by Joss Stone. One of my biggest peeves is modern commercial radio, which plays mostly garbage and perforates it with endle... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 6:02 pm
I’ve never been much for exercise. Unless, of course, you mean exercising my gamerscore. Fortunately, with Kinect, I now have a product that will allow me to exercise my body and my gamerscore at the same time. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved is one of the most advanced fitness videogames ever d... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 8:01 pm
Ahhh, Kinect Adventures. The flagship title. The Wii Sports of the Kinect peripheral. It’s the game that everyone with a Kinect will have – by default the most popular title for the device. What’s it like? Let’s take a look…
I’ve already mentioned how well the Kinect perfo... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 6:30 pm
Every now and then I like to quickly review some recent rentals I acquired through GameFly. I often end up reviewing games that are years old, but sometimes things slip through the cracks and people forget about stuff. Also, it partly allows me to examine how certain games have held up over... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 4:29 pm
Apparently I was a good boy in 2010. After all other present opening had been completed, the parental Santa units bestowed me with one final gift. The box was rectangular and not terribly heavy, and before it hit my hands I knew that inside was a Kinect. I ravished its wrapping and instan... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2010, 12:48 pm
DLC: Dead Money
Cost: 800 MSP
Achievements: 5
Total Points: 140
It is somewhat disappointing that this DLC only ponies up 140 possible points. For $10, the price of an average XBLA title, I expect to be able to add 200 points to my score. Regardless, Dead Money’s achievements aren’t te... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2010, 9:26 am
So, we’re doing this again.
Back starting in 2008, Fallout 3 ended up reaming its millions of avid fans for another $10 every couple months as its five DLC packs were released with completely satisfying gaps between them. An ample length passed between the last Fallout 3 DLC and the launch of N... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2010, 7:40 pm
Sadly, an entire month has passed since anything was updated on this site. It started out a busy month, as the NaNoWriMo competition was occupying all my free after-work time. I was making solid progress and by the second week I was nearing 20,000 words. Then, after a few days of being busy wi... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2010, 4:47 pm
November starts in three days. For a few thousand people, that means they’re about to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel over the course of the month’s 30 days. I count myself in that class.
NaNoWriMo is “Thirty days and nights of literary abandon! “ Are you up for it?
Now if I onl... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2010, 5:10 pm
The year was 2006. We were “born” into a virtual world, rezzing for the first time, Ruthed-out and confused, blissfully unaware of what we were getting ourselves into. Fast forward to 2007. Money was coming in. Creativity was booming. People were happy, a community was established, and... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2010, 8:35 pm
A lot of people come to this site to read my review of 6 Dollar Shirts. Many people are wary about the quality of these shirts – and rightly so. Most places will charge $15-25 for a stupid novelty T-shirt, but these folks are dishing them out for a mere $6, or in 10 for $50 bundles. I can’... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2010, 8:15 pm
What is this? A website? I’d almost forgotten.
Goatmoose recently underwent a move. Though it moved from goatmoose.com to goatmoose.com, its hosting platform has changed and a giant shift occurred. As you may discover when scrolling through the site, images have disappeared from a number ... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 1:48 pm
As many people know, my father-in-law has spent the last 2.5 months renovating my grandfather’s house for my wife and I. The amount of things to get rid of, throw away or sell was purely epic, and the density of dust and dirt to remove was massive. The carpet was all older than me, the curtains ... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 10:09 am
Yesterday marked the first time I’ve ever watched an episode of America’s Got Talent, and I saw something that I quite enjoyed. Here’s “Fighting Gravity,” a gaggle of college frat brothers with too much free time. Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 4:43 pm
Lots of people are poor like me and can’t afford to buy new video games when they come out. Lots of people have to rely on things like GameFly to supply them with titles. As a result, lots of people are stuck not playing most games until months or years after they come out. Well we’re just as... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 1:45 pm
Mr. Matt Froese and I are working on re-launching our ill-fated site of 2009 known as Addicted Gamer. Writing about games is the best type of writing that exists, and we’ve been longing for the opportunity to put the site back together. I will return to my post as Senior Editor and work on build... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 1:26 pm
Do you like to read things? Maybe. You’re doing it now.
Avatar QuizCall Review: http://www.xbox360digest.com/2010/05/06/review-avatar-quizcall/
Top 10 Free Blackberry Apps for the End of May, 2010: http://igadgetlife.com/reviews/top-10-free-blackberry-apps-for-the-end-of-may-2010/
Review of C... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2010, 8:40 am
It’s no secret that Trent Reznor has been one of my biggest idols since I was a wee lad. It’s a slightly bigger secret that he and his wife share the same wedding day as my wife and I – October 17, 2009. With those two facts, it is my civic duty to post his newest audio release under the nam... Comment - Like
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