I must make a slight amendment to that category. It should read: THINGS THAT MUST EXIST NAO! Like, totally! The 1988 classic board game, Girl Talk, is improved upon by College Humor in this video. Why just talk about boys, make-up, and dating when you can talk about boys, make-up, and dating while also trying to avoid being murdered by your fellow tributes? And yes, it’s called The Hunger Games Game, and we can imagine the tweens in the Capitol playing it right now. We can also imagine ourselves playing it: Right. Now. Also, one or more of us may still own Girl Talk or a Girl Talk-type telephone. You can guess but I’m never telling. Unless I draw the truth card.

(via HuffPost Women)

I’ll never forget the day I learned about universal translators from Star Trek. I remember thinking I wouldn’t have to bother learning any other languages because surely we were close enough technologically to them becoming a reality. Well, three and a half years of German classes later, we still didn’t have them. But! The time is near, lazy language lovers! Microsoft is developing a universal translator as we speak! 

Well, I don’t know about you guys, but if this sparkly token was presented to me followed by or immediately preceding a marriage proposal, you can color me convinced. Even if it was presented by a Cyberman. Okay, maybe not. Created by Tumblr user Pathetic Paripatetic, this TARDIS ring features a “tension set 1CT Princess Cut center stone.” Click through for more details.

Someone posted this picture of a Nestlé Crunch Bar on Reddit that, according to the label, is flavored like a Girl Scout cookie known as the Thin Mint. And that on the aforementioned label, this is part of a series of “Limited Edition Cookie Flavors,” which is plural. Which means there might be a whole line of Nestlé Crunch Bars that are flavored like Girl Scout cookies. But for now, all we have is this mysterious sample candy, taunting us … playing with us … making us crave a minty, crunchy chocolate dream … Even the delusion is better than Girl Scout cookie lip balm.

What happens now? Petition? A march on Nestlé headquarters? I will go to Vevey, Switzerland if I have to, if that’s what it takes. I will go to Vevey, Switzerland.

(via That’s Nerdalicious)

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It’s rare that I see things that make me yearn for my fantasy-filled childhood of the 1980s as much as this video does. Space Stallions is the creation of a group of students of The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and it’s an homage to everything we loved about ’80s cartoons: He-Man, She-Ra, ThunderCats, keytars, rainbows … and horsies. Seriously, the only thing that could make this more awesome is a cameo by Swift Wind himself. Adult Swim needs to get on this yesterday.

All hail Mother Mustang!

(Nerd Approved via The Awesomer)

It’s fair to say that we’re heading into the dead of winter, when we’re really not all that moved to, well, get moving. But a little cold air is good for the soul, especially when mixed with physical activity — and a Portal gun. Guys, if this could happen in real life, I’d be so good at basketball. And hockey would be even more scary and dangerous.

(via BuzzFeed)

As a newly-minted Harry Potter fan and life-long Disney fan, this interpretation of the former in the style of the latter makes my heart so warm that it’s bubbling. Joyfully, not dangerously. DeviantArtist Makani is behind these character portraits and, oh my goodness, all her work is so great. But here, just an idea of what Harry Potter would look like as a Disney movie.

A huge effort on the part of some very imaginative fans of George R. R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO‘s TV adaptation Game of Thrones has resulted in the most logical “novel-to-board game” mashup that ever mashed: Game of Thrones Monopoly, or — if you will — Throneopoly! The objective is put perfectly by io9:

What if, instead of making uneasy alliances and searching for the truth in a harsh landscape where the very seasons are set against you, you had to move around the board attempting to collect castles and avoid having to go to The Wall?

See? This makes so much sense! Want to see all the other moving parts?

The Muppets doing Ocean’s 11. Where do we start the Facebook campaign to make a full-length version happen? Or at least a short version with the character voices? Seriously: The Muppets will always be cooler than we are.

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Sadly, this is only an unpainted resin statue of Cthulhu. Not an “8-1/4″ high, 3/8″ thick” chocolate replica of the High Priest of the Great Old Ones. Fantasy artist Paul Carrick attempted to fob it off as one for an April Fools joke, but we’re really hoping someone takes his initiative and makes some real ones.

Who wouldn’t want to see one of these nestled in an Easter Basket? I mean, if a chocolate Flying Spaghetti Monster isn’t available? I wouldn’t say no, and I don’t even like chocolate.

(via Boing Boing.)