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New Reviews – Hidden Frontier continues!

Illness can’t stop the fan film fun! Thus, additional episodes of Season 2 of Hidden Frontier are now posted up. We got Episode 205 – Encke – where a very square ship crashes, there are space pyramids, and Captain Angry gets a daughter. Episode 206 – To The Stars – uses footage from an older fan series to annoy me and make me make a separate Roll Call! Grrr…! Episode 207 – Fire in the Heart – has Chimp Guy! Chimp Guy rules. Only two more episodes before we return to Turkish Superheros, weird sex films, and Crazy Asia.

Go to the Hidden Frontier website to see the original shows!

New Reviews – Star Trek Hidden Frontier episodes

The new reviews this week were several Hidden Frontier episodes. Episode 202 Yesterday’s Excelsior takes place in an alternate timeline and also goes all Battlestar Galactica because it can. Episode 203 Old Wound is a trail episode where Captain Angry becomes so angry the Justice System must step in. Episode 204 The Great Starship Robbery has some awesome villains kill a major character while a new character does nothing to stop them. Way to endear yourself to the audience, buddy! More will be up this week as we run through Star Trek Hidden Frontier Season 2!

New Review – Star Trek: Hidden Frontier – 201 – Refugees

Season 2 of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier starts of this run through of the season with Episode 201 – Refugees. There are no Fugees singing “Killing Me Softly”, but we do have the Grey doing things, lots of ships fighting, and new characters with goofy ears. And some random kids save the day. What is this, Space Goonies? Check out the Recap of Season 1 if you need need to get caught up to speed of the magic of this fan series.

Sounds of Spam – Comments Edition

So like any blog, TarsTarkas.NET gets spammed like a bad Monty Python sketch. And as spammers get better and better at evading askimet, the spam comments sound more and more like something Trig Palin would post. so I welcome the extra-chromosomal Palin spawn to TarsTarkas.NET with an overview of the latest things spammers have said.

Random word time!

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One common trick is to have the same message but have some of the words lsightly changed so it doesn’t show up when you google search the comment. Granted, this doesn’t help when the bot dumps five almost identical comments at the same time
Spot the differences!

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Bots are the harshest critics

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Frakking Brian is just ruining TarsTarkas.NET!

Note to Brian: Before you post, stop and take a deeeeeep breath and think. Then get up from the computer and have a drink of cool-aid, perhaps a sandwich and a twinkie, and think a little additional, walk round the house and ponder. When that is all done, return to the pc, post and offer us all one thing to laugh about.

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I’m also leaving out the trick one tried which was to pull comments off of the blog and resubmit them, except with their spam links in the middle of the comments!

Oh, there will be more spam. And it will be dumb!

Silver Lion
Image via UglyAtRoss

New Review – Golden Nun

The new review is Golden Nun, the Taiwanese flick about a female monk who is bald and also golden at certain points, and how she battles a ghost lady. And there are random songs. It’s weird, and we watched it so you don’t have to and have time to go see Avatar eight more times or something. Read it today!

Potato Judge

TarsTarkas.NET in 2010

Potato Judge

So 2009 was a big year for TarsTarkas.NET. Our readership tripled, the Blog took off with the Wingnut Web feature that ballooned to pretty much taking over the blog itself, we got mentioned in Chicago newspaper websites when we helped take down chicagolady/Rosanna Pulido in a special election, and we were joined by two additional writers, skiplogic and dm, who have brought a lot of cool articles and interesting (and sometimes really depressing) information to the table.

But we are just getting started…

2010 is an election year, and a year where tons of teabagger candidates are running for office while standing behind the awful things they say 100% (despite many doing the opposite of what they preach! But that’s standard practice among conservatives.) Plenty of third party candidates are also running around, many of which are regular commentors on the message boards we monitor. There will be staff members, if not actual Republican candidates, posting on some of these far right sites, and TarsTarkas.NET will be there to catch them if they are spouting hateful rhetoric. And, yes, if a Democratic candidate is absolutely awful, we will make fun of him as well (we’re talking about you, Reid and Spector!)

As the 2010 election closes in, the message boards and sites of the right will become more and more loud and obnoxious as they smell blood in the water. They will start turning on each other if certain pet candidates are slighted, and they will realize the only way they will get noticed is if they are the nastiest, sleaziest right wing sites out there. Thus, we’ll get entertainment pointing out how horrible they are and follow the stories of the various hate sites arguing with each other.

If things work okay, we should also have a few webtools to help with the tracking and mapping of fringe sites, and the tracking of mercenary news. We might also have a way for our readers to help report horrible messages written on boards and blogs and youtubes, if I can figure out a way to do it without getting spammed like crazy.

What else is in store for 2010? Hopefully we’ll have a new blog theme. Atahualpa is nice, but as the blog is evolving into two channels, it needs a theme that can handle two channels and allow audiences who are only interested in one side to follow without getting turned off by the other. I have a few potentials, but this might take a few months if I can’t find exactly what I am looking for (I can be stupid picky about things…)

We will still be reviewing films throughout 2010, complete with some of the most obscure things to come out of Taiwan, Japan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, America, Mexico, Turkey, and other countries. We got more Hidden Frontier on the way. We’ll have upcoming cult movie news, and a few side articles about some of the films we’ve done already. The annual March of Godzilla will have to be delayed due to most of my discs being in storage, but the moment I get them out Godzilla will stomp around again.

Hey, I managed to get this written before January was over!