www.nintendo1up.com

My friend Travis made a cool website comparing Nintendo games in a head's up format that everyone should check-out.

www.nintendo1up.com

It also has a greater purpose to endorse tournaments/group playing of older Nintendo games. Anyone thinks they can hold a candle to me in Dusty Diamond's Softball, Baseball All-Stars, or Tecmo NBA or Super Bowl can fucking bring. If anyone wants a great Contra/Jackal teammate, holler at your boy.

The Avengers- AMURRRICA ASSSSEEEEMMMMMBBBBBLLLLEEEE

I jumped on the bandwagon and saw The Avengers in 3D on Sunday night. Not certain if it was just me or not, but it felt like someone raped my eye sockets for 15 minutes a piece afterward. The movie itself was very good and well done surprisingly. The cast is top-to-bottom just excellent. Any movie where Stellan Skaarsgard, I don't know how to do the cool thing over the A in his name, but that's a damn good film. The premise is that Thor's mischievous Demigod brother Loki takes the Tesseract, a glowing square of power to provide earth with limitless free/clean energy. Loki plans on letting space people help him conquer earth, then rule us with an iron fist. Loki has some powers, like being able to enslave people with a touch of some weird wand, but he doesn't use it very often, which doesn't make much sense. He breaks into S.H.I.E.L.D, steals it, enslaves Skaarsgard and Renner (Hawkeye) and moves on to building a portal for his army. The heroes slowly trickle in and piss each other off, then Thor joins the party and gets into it with Iron Man, which is awesome. They imprison Loki and then shit gets crazy. It's super entertaining, with really only a few minutes where things are boring. The last hour is pretty much balls-out action. Robert Downey Jr. is his standard awesome Tony Stark keeping the bullshit and corny stuff to a minimum. Ruffalo is awesome as Bruce Banner/ The Hulk. Scarlett Johanson looks amazing in tight clothing, it's got just about everything. It avoids being too corny and over-done.

Bottom Line: 8.7 out of 10. It's really a solid film that's absolutely worth seeing in theaters to kick-off the summer movie season.

Side note: I bought a "passport" from Marcus Theaters for $300 allowing me unlimited movies for a year, so I'm pretty pumped and may be seeing this again in 2D just because.

Junior Seau

Another sad moment besmirched the NFL yesterday when Junior Seau took his life without a note or any kind of notice. It was crushing to hear Marcellus Wiley struggle through his recollections of how great of a person Seau was. Most frustratingly is the comments linking this with Dave Duerson's suicide. The tragic moment has already taken on an ulterior motive of Seau's brain being damaged from years of concussions. It does bother me that multiple concussions are being used to explain erratic behavior in for NFL players. I've picked up at least two concussions playing football in my lifetime, I can't imagine what an entire career at a much higher level could potentially do to you. What I don't like is the fact that there are a lot of other people with a lot of concussions that don't kill themselves, so it's bothersome that concussions get all the attention. I completely agree that pain/dementia/other issues related to concussions can certainly play a role, but I would like more on the subject besides the fact that there was a lot of brain trauma caused playing football. Boxers, hockey/LaCrosse/wrestlers and other athletes experience a lot of brain trauma too, where is all the uproar? The problem runs deeper, and while concussions are a bad thing not understood nearly enough, the rabbit hole runs deeper.