Hey y’all!  This year the cast and crew of ShortPants.tv is teaming up with a few of our friends to participate in the 48 Film Festival.  Because our team is not completely made up of SP.tv members, we chose to enter under a name that had no affiliation to any one party.

we are - TEAM THUNDER CLAW

This will mark our very first pay-to-enter contest and is sure to be a rompin’ stompin’ good time.  There’s a whole host of talented filmmakers who have entered the contest thus far and we wish each and every one of them good luck and good filmmaking.  The contest will begin July 31st and end on August 2nd.  If you’d like to be a part of the team, or would just like to wish us luck, leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you.  Team Thunder Claw… HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Also, for anyone interested in seeing the final submissions:

Hello World!

World, what would you be like without the invention of plastic?

Sincere Regards,

Stephany

So we sort of covered some of this with our top 10 video games post, but we’ve been digging deeper into all the mediums lately so I thought this might be an interesting direction. INPO:

WinBack: Covert Operations (N64) - Still the best 3rd person stealth 4-player split screen multiplayer game ever.
Conker’s Bad Fur Day (N64) - Rare = awesome
NBA 2K3 (xBox) - The best basket ball game ever made, the controls are simple and intuitive and the character generator is robust enough to make reasonable facsimiles of all your friends. 2 v 2 street ball is about the funnest 4 player sports game ever. I still can’t believe they haven’t made this game backwards compatible with the 360 yet (actually, I just checked, and it has finally been added to the list, hooray!).
WWF No Mercy (N64) - Super fun, amazing character personalization possible, you could customize all 100+ moves your player performed in the ring, and again, great 4 player action.
Perfect Dark (N64) - actually, probably a better game than its predecessor, but the multiplayer levels weren’t quite as good and the campaign was just terrible, I hate when an FPS turns into an alien shooting gallery.
Micro Machines (NES) - great game, spent tons of time playing this game at a friends house growing up.
Clayfighter (Sega Genesis) - back when I still cared about graphics (and fighting games), this game blew my mind.
Tecmo Superbowl (NES) - still maybe the best football game ever made, and the savable season progress was revolutionary.
Base Wars (NES) - best baseball game ever made, on a close play you get to fight it out for the call.
Halo 3 (xBox 360) - Yeah, I did it, I know, I know, when a game is the highest selling game of all time, it can hardly be considered underrated, but it really is a great game, better than CE, and consistently rates below other titles on other lists published on the web, so say what you will.

-Keenan

The Tuber’s audio page has apparently been lost to the sands of time, I cried a little inside today….

Keenan

Time to spice things up, NPO:

Anchorman
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Office Space
Napolean Dynomite
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Kung Fu Hustle (replacing: Dumb and Dumber)
Zoolander
Best in Show
Down with Love
Billy Madison

Notable snub: Animal House - the most over rated movie of all time, lets face it, it just isn’t funny.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and while it’s probably enough to already have a million projects going on at once like we do now, it would be supremely badass to consider making Short Pants DVDs. We could give them away or sell them for $5 or a combination of both. There could be a trailers/commercials section, and a behind the scenes section with The Making Of Possibly record mini-commentaries for some of them. Here are the shorts I think would be good enough to immortalize on disc, or good enough with some minor fixes:

Inside Out
Shitty Day
Street Burrito
Best Friends (maybe?)
Time Machine (needs tweaking)
Roommate Test (slight tweaking, one shot added)
Game Night
Forcefield
You Say
The Making Of 2 (possibly shortened?)
The Making Of (definitely shortened)
Shooter Pistolletto
Original Shooter Trailer
PCC
Marlboro County
Marlboro County 2 (music added, slight tweaking)
Nickname Battle (possibly dubbed with improved nicknames?)
Softer Side (possibly refilmed? without the guy making the “Suck It” gesture in the background?)
Doritos Commercial
John Smith Trailer

1. Its Halloween night and a homeowner leaves their front porch light on, but is not home and has no self serve candy dish out. Obviously, since there are no treats the residents of the house have clearly indicated their desire for tricks. Do you,

a. move on, knowing that candy is the most important thing and tricking someone will only decrease your overall net yield of sweets.

b. realize you have to do something, but brought no trick supplies. you do the best you can and bust out a window with a brick and move onto the next street.

c. lie in wait hidden in the bushes until the homeowners return and then jump out, scare them, grab whatever bags they’re carrying and run off.

d. bust out the 24 pack of toilet paper you brought for this exact situation, T.P. the whole yard thoroughly, and read in the paper the next day about how a jack-o-lantern candle caught the TP on fire, burning the house down, and killing two in their sleep. Best Halloween Trick Ever!!!

2. You show up at a party and some doofus came as Edward Scissorhands. The same costume you’re wearing! And the other Edward has actual humongous scissors for fingers making your tinfoil covered strips of cardboard look stupid. Do you,

a. Keep your eyes down and make your way to the bathroom. Wet down your frizzy wig, cut off all but an inch of your foil fingers, stuff some toilet paper into your patent leather suit, refreshen your white makeup, add some eyeliner, and emerge as Marilyn Manson. You don’t win the costume contest, but at least you come off as kinda fruity.

b. Wait fifteen minutes and “accidentally” throw your hot mulled apple cider right in the guy’s face. His hands shoot up and while he is in the hospital getting 47 stitches you sleep with his girlfriend in the back of your kiss-ass Chevy Galant.

c. Say, “fuck this” and walk across the street to a different party. A single tear falls from your eye, but it’s not because you have to spend Halloween pretending to know a bunch of strangers, it’s falling because his costume is so much cooler.

d. before you can do anything the other Edward walks up to you and immediately begins trimming your cardboard costume like a topiary. When he has finished, to much applause, your costume lies around you in a neat pile. You back from the room slowly, squinting and loudly swearing revenge, hoping no one notices you peed your pants.

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Those of you who have been watching closely have probably noticed a few tweeks to functionality here and there on the site.  For one, there is a “comments” section now on the video page that allows you to comment on our videos (how novel right?).  Also, some of the bugs in the player have been fixed as well, and in case you have been away for the past couple of months, that little bubble in the blog that floats at the bottom and allows you to return to the index is back by popular demand.  Just a reminder that while we haven’t exactly been dropping hot shorts, we have remained dedicated to the mag while we drop luke-warm nuggets of harldy noticable goodness.  Before you go furiously clicking on the Monday Night Short Pants link up top to go write that comment you have been waiting all year to write, I still have a few more peices of news… first, shorts are still our number 1 priority.  We are still producing them and in fact there is one that is in the final stages of editing that you should see fairly soon.  Second, a small group of the TCM staff has begun work on a very ambitious project.  Consider this the official announcement of said project:  A “browser game” based in the Titan Universe will be released sometime in the not so near future.  If you don’t know what a browser game is, just go ahead and stop reading, if you do… hold on to your butts.  

TCM, in collaboration with The Digital Seed, LLC is creating a MMORPG (i told you to stop reading) slash strategy game that will serve as a prequel to the existing Titan fiction.  It will be text based, but have rich graphics, illustration and interface design to make looking at it day after day an engaging and enjoyable experience.  We are just in the pre-planning stages of development now but it is shaping up to be something very special.  I will keep you, our readers, up to date with new developments pertaining to the project and you will be among the first to playtest our beta when such a program becomes available.  For now, brush up on your Titan lore and start gnashing your teeth in anticipation.  (TCM is not responsible for any broken, worn or otherwise damaged teeth due to gnashing).

Admin

So, I know you’ve all been wondering what the latest is in alarm clock technologies. So, take a look at this website and be sure to try the demo. When it’s all said and done, just try to tell yourself you (or your significant other) don’t want one.

Room Tech Beingz

Let me start by apologizing to those who are die hard Republicans.  Being in a conservative state such as Indiana, chances are there are a few Republicans reading this blog.  Forgive me, I am upset.  I am supporting Barack Obama and unfortunately I can count the number of people on my hand who share my support.  Here’s the problem..  Everybody I’ve talked to so far is an idiot.  I am so tired of hearing comments such as Obama is a Muslim (Even if he was, who cares), Obama is a terrorist, the only reason people are voting for him is because he is black, etc…  I’m over it.  I hear these comments on a daily basis from a variety of people.  I am ready to move.  I’ve tried to explain the facts, the opinions, the history, the passion, THE PICTURE.  The cold truth is that the people I am trying to convince weren’t capable of being convinced.  Does Conservative mean “Closed Minded”?   I consider some of my beliefs conservative, however I like to understand and appreciate different ideas and perspectives.  Perhaps if I move, I will surround myself by people who are open minded, not outrageous.  I truly believe that Obama will win this campaign.  Also, I truly believe that for the next four years I will be defending Obama to people who haven’t watched one single debate since Barack Obama was announced as the Democratic Representative for the Presidential Campaign.   It’s a fight worth fighting, but the dream of being surrounded by people who don’t say this campaign is the lesser of two evils, or Barack is a criminal, and I’m not really a democrat or a republican, sounds really great.  Now there’s a difference between not siding with a party and actually being a shade of red but not owning up to your presidential candidate.  Let’s not forget your vice presidential candidate.  Again, sorry if I upset you.  Go easy on me.  Remember that this was just an attempt to write and relax.  It is my birthday today so technically I can do what ever I want.  Right?

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”  by Anne Franks

Let us hope that some of these people are seeing things through their own eyes.