Your best friend is a dog with super barking. Magicka: Vietnam. Magicka was ridiculous enough when it came out at the beginning of the year. A wild take on Diablo -style action-RPGs, it allowed players to mix and match magic for often hilarious effects. So after running around a jokey, tongue-in cheek fantasy world, where did developer Paradox Interactive take the wacky wizards next?
To Vietnam. Hell yes. Rock of Ages. Monty Python by way of Chile, Rock of Ages could very well be the weirdest game of the year. The Greek vase-inspired graphic design is whimsical. The short cut scenes are aggressively charming. Even the over-the-top-yelling sound-effects add a certain quirk to a game about crushing people with a boulder.
Cthulhu Saves The World. Thank God for Steam. Cthulhu Saves The World follows the Great Old One himself as he wakes from his slumber to find his powers drained by a curse. Only by becoming a beloved hero can he regain the power to destroy the world. The game squeezes an astonishing amount of comedy out of the bad-guy-turned-good story.
Saints Row: The Third. The second Saints Row dipped its toes in wackiness. The third game let players do this:. And this:. Well, there was this retro tank:. We were also introduced to Scumbag Steve and, more-importantly, his hat. Together they allowed us to both vent at the selfish actions of others and just be downright silly. Also, a homeless man found employment thanks to the internet.
Steve's scumbag hat could have been worn by a few kill-joy music execs who thought they were losing revenue thanks to parodies of Thom Yorke dancing to a heap of songs he didn't write in February.
Mercifully, many versions still avoided the dreaded take-down, copyright-infringement notices. The below version is probably the funniest, but no one should miss him dancing to Beyonce, here.
Or Beyonce dancing to Radiohead, here. The Arab Spring kicked off and was brought to the attention of many partly thanks to Bread Helmet guy. Meanwhile, Bear Grylls didn't seem to stop drinking his own piss :. Ponies became the guilty pleasure of many men who should probably know better.
The internal 4Chan war that pitted lovers vs. Bronies were born. Charlie Sheen went all Tiger Blood. And there was a new definition of Black Friday.
Few give Black the credit she surely deserves for rhyming Bowl with Cereal. Furthermore, the derision, dismissal and parodying of Black's only-too-evident angst at "wondering which seat to take" illustrates a general lack of allegorical awareness of the social comment Black is clearly trying to make - the astute allusion to there being too much choice in the world has been lost to many.
Other commentators lamented the unfairness of how video games still get blamed for violence in the world but how the inspired feelings of murder, generated by watching Friday from beginning to end, get completely ignored by an outraged society. Bullied for much of his life, he snapped, fought back, got suspended from school and generally condemned by a mainstream media which understood, but couldn't condone such an aweso Things became more upbeat in April thanks to the explosive appearance of arguably the most epic internet cat of them all.
Pop tart-bodied, rainbow-trailing Nyan Cat made an appearance in all kinds of other memes and appeared in heaps of variations including a smooth jazz version , a Russian version , an awesome Brian Eno-esque x slower version and he even spawned his own Nemesis. It was used as a progress bar on Youtube and loading animation on Know Your Meme.
Hitler had mixed feelings though and swore a lot. And some people found it funny to put Steve Buscemi's eyes everywhere. At opposite ends of the political spectrum, a Hitler House appeared along with the reincarnation of Lenin And Good Guy Greg became everyone's best mate.
Greg and Steve were two of many new "advice animals". The beginning of May saw Lulzsec burst on to the scene and arguably gave much of the greater world populace its first glimpse of a Rage comics character and some ASCII art. Then the end of the world happened and Rapture Bombing photos provided evidence of people being spirited away. Planking went global.
However, things went awry in Australia when the act of lying down caused a fatality in Queensland which led one TV presenter on the 7. But it was The Situation Room that saw most spoofs. Love and violence were everywhere in June. We met Cara who wanted an online date. She's not really a dog person though. Meanwhile, in Canada , a couple had everyone talking about juxtaposition. A month of villains saw Casey Anthony became the new OJ.
The internet showed its displeasure. And some internet dwellers lost sleep over their new uninvited house guest. London's riots saw some of the most creative Photoshop jobs of all time and globally humiliated hordes of thugs. Spock , however, wasn't impressed. Horse Maning became popular in some parts. September saw taxidermy become cool again. While God took a day off While it was rampant all year and existed pre, it's worth taking advantage of the lack of September entries by mentioning the explosion in popularity of 60's Spiderman which kept going nuts on sites like 4Chan.
A new iPhone launched new memes in October. Many people posted poignant stories online. Things became less clear cut when a Halloween-based cultural awareness campaign was deemed too politically correct Neil deGrasse Tyson became the internet's badass in November.
It was such a big deal that Channel Ten News , dedicated to breaking the big stories that matter to real Aussie families, reported on it:. So what went wrong? Well, basically, the whole Renovators train started to slide elegantly off the rails at some point in the first episode, when it became apparent to viewers that, yes, this was a show all about people hammering nails into things.
In a really big shed, admittedly, but a big shed only gets you so far. Eventually, something interesting has to happen, and nothing ever really did. But somehow, it kept going. And going. By the end it seemed like a sick joke — Ten management were to all appearances just mocking the show, like high-schoolers pretending to be friends with the smelly kid just for laughs. And by the time they actually inserted The Renovators in the middle of the Masterchef grand final , all anyone could do was laugh loud and long at the grotesque farce this unwatched, million-episode hammer-and-nails show had collapsed into.
Playing, ostensibly, himself, CK leads a comic rampage like an apocalyptic Seinfeld, completely unafraid of causing offence or of probing the intimate and disturbing details of his life for comedic effect, and ushering once-familiar TV themes and scenarios into hysterical shadowlands. In the current Golden Age of TV, Louie will stand as a landmark in the progression of the art of sitcom. It is nothing new for politicians to avoid answering questions: it is, essentially, their job.
But this year Opposition Leader Tony Abbott took that art to wonderful, avant-garde new places by abandoning any attempt at obfuscation or evasion and literally, well, not answering a question. At all. It was all a bit of a beat-up really, but the comedy gold entered the frame when reporter Mark Riley confronted him to ask just what he meant by his remarks.
Riley asks Abbott what the context of his comment was, and then…. He just kept staring. And nodding. Before long the viewer becomes worried that he is suffering a stroke, as he just keeps gazing straight ahead, head vibrating like a jack-in-the-box with PTSD.
And he keeps staring, silently, for half a minute. It was riveting, stitch-bursting television. But the funniest bit? The producers actually notified Abbott of the questions he would be asked before the interview. That means the Opposition Leader had actually rehearsed that routine.
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