It was a crazy pipe-dream Veronica Mars fans never thought would actually come true. A Veronica Mars movie is happening because of fans but we knew that ten hours after the Kickstarter launched. “WE DID IT, MARSHMALLOWS! With six hours to spare, we shattered the last record we were aiming for, passing 87,143 to become the Kickstarter with the all-time highest number of backers,” reads the Kickstarter page. Yes, they managed to raise $5,702,153 thanks to 91,585 backers. It’s now also the third highest-funded project in Kickstarter history. Creator Rob Thomas tweeted, “The movie title is going to simply be VERONICA MARS. The sequel will be VERONICA MARS: THE PASSWORD TO LOCKSPUR LANE. Or ELECTRIC BOOGALOO.” And Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell tweeted a minute before the close to say, “i love you all. for real. thank you.”

Personally, I can’t wait for Mars Investigations to be back in business. Next stop, SDCC, then…the world!

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I can be a cynical person, but I have to say, this is pretty cool. Swedish human rights group Civil Rights Defenders has created a new type of CAPTCHA that requires those who want to register for or comment on a Website to choose the proper emotional response to a human rights violation in order to prove themselves not a spambot.

The opening credit sequence for The Simpsons has changed throughout its 20+ year run but one thing has always stayed the same. Well, sorta. I’m talking about the classic couch gag that ends each one. It’s a new idea every time and now Fox would like to hear your ideas. The incentive? It could wind up on television. 

The TV workout: it’s like a drinking game except instead of slowly killing your liver, you’re slowly losing track of what’s going on in the episode!

Seriously, though, if there were more, well, room in my living room, I might invest in one of these as a way to get through the bad seasons of some shows I’ve been dawdling on. And while this list seem reasonable for most episodes of Doctor Who, I think it might have killed me to try to apply it to last weekend’s.

Previously in Doctor Who

It’s 2 PM on a Sunday, you’re 10 episodes into Battlestar Galactica and you’re trying your damnedest to suppress the knowledge that you must go into work tomorrow: “Jesus, can’t someone just pay me to watch Netflix?” We’ve all been there. As it turns out, Netflix does pay a select group of film nerds to watch, “tag,” and eventually help the entertainment company categorize its films. Is this the excuse to quit our day jobs and gloriously stuff our faces with popcorn that we’ve all been looking for?

When I found out HBO was selling full-size replicas of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, I cursed the moral part of me that objected to bank robbery. Yes, it’s the real deal and it cost $30,000. My pipe dreams aside, HBO’s shop, like many online retailers, offers users the option of leaving product reviews on their wares and something interesting started happening on the Iron Throne page. Game of Thrones fans, you do not disappoint. Hit the jump to check out reviews by Jon Snow, Stannis, Arya, and more! 

Since it had been over 30 years since Ridley Scott made a movie in the Alien franchise, which was later joined in unholy matrimony with the Predator franchise, a pre-Prometheus marathon of all those movies was in order, as well as an exercise in perspective. And that is just what Brad Hansen (creator of The Lion King Rises) and his fiancée Athena Stamos did. Complete with ratings and a final trip for 35 to the Hollywood Cinerama Dome, their marathon takes place in time lapse in the video above.

Impressive, but how about a Lord of the Rings/J.R.R. Tolkien marathon ahead of The Hobbit? Do you accept this challenge?

(via Crave Online)

Previously in Prometheus

If you are a movie fan who cringes at the thought of driving around for half an hour for a parking spot, paying your hard-earned money for a ticket, then being bombarded by a bunch of inconsiderate jerks who remain tethered to their cell phones throughout the movie, you are not alone. But one writer is suggesting that there is a surefire solution to avoiding all these pitfalls of visiting a public movie theater: go at midnight, when the geeks come out to play. Why? Because they’re actually there to see the actual movie, not socialize. Which leads me to wonder why all these other people pay upwards of $12 just to text in the dark.

The above statement is my opinion on the experiences of Kelly Wells, who decided about a year ago that she enjoyed walking around completing quests in Guild Wars so much that there was really no reason she couldn’t walk around doing it in real life. Wells embarked on an epic cross-country journey with her trusty animal companion Anna (a dog). Her mission: walk from Maine to California, visit a whole bunch of interesting locations on the way, and have a real life adventure.

But if there was one surprise left for her at the end of the trail, it was being invited to the California-based studios of ArenaNet, the makers of Guild Wars, who had decided to honor her with her own ingame NPC.

Well this is very interesting. PBS’ Off Book series recently touched upon the wonder that is fan art and fan fiction. It’s a really respectful look at the trend while speaking to Brad O’Farrell (Keyboard Cat), Adam Juresko (No Supervision), Jonah Block (Biotwist), Sam Spratt (Gawker), and Fred Seibert (Adventure Time). There’s just one thing we find lacking here and as you can probably guess from that list, it’s women. Don’t get us wrong, it’s a great video, but considering how many women are hugely into fan art and fanfic, it seems a glaring omission (in the Sherlock section alone). They even mention Adventure Time’s character designer Natasha Allegri’s fan art illustrations of the gender-swapped cast that eventually got its own episode…but didn’t choose to speak with her. Like we said, really interesting video, just lacking a certain obvious voice.

(via Laughing Squid)