The RPG Duelling League
Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Xeroma on January 02, 2009, 04:22:55 AM
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You guys all know the drill. Find an interesting link/news/download/whatever, post it here. Stupid things go in IotD though.
'fraid I have none to start the new year with though. :<
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www.nationalfootballpost.com
My current favorite NFL site. has a ton of information and Andrew Brandt's column is great for breaking down the money behind the NFL.
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http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=limyaael&keyword=Limyaael%27s+Fantasy+Rants&filter=all
Limyaael's Fantasy Rants. Something a lot of fantasy authors and also RPG writers could do well to read.
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Reposting this in the right place obviously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kswfVgoLU&feature=rec-r2
Insert generic rage filled diatribe here and assume you all posted something retarded in response for the next 15 posts until Jim came in and was right.
(Monkey Magic theme song played on Piano, Cello and 2 Violins (too lazy to check if it is Viola in there or not), so it is cool)
Edit - My hopes are dashed, I was dreaming of them doing an Axel F cover.
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Damn, that IS cool.
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http://www.fark.com/2008/misc/HeadlinesOfTheYear2008.shtml
Get out your bad pun umbrellas. A series of amusing Headlines from 2008 over at FARK.
-Djinn
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3887/the_technology_of_fear_2_an_.php?page=1
Interview with the FEAR people; decent snapshot of the industry in 2008, I'd say.
http://aperturescience.com/
(video) Happy <holiday name here>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk
(video) fan-made Thundercats live-action trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAT2rKugIs
(video) the Wunder Boner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X9NFknjTRE
(video) Darth Vader in Love.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html
(not 56k friendly) Images of 2008; three pages, spectacular stuff.
http://www.borogove.org/cgi-bin/etohbunny.cgi?strip=0
(NSFW) my coworker's Alcoholic Bunny comic. I've been seeing similar stuff on whiteboards for years >_>
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I'd go see that Thundercats movie.
May be old, but first I'd heard of it:
http://www.prinnies.com/
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http://tarisspeed.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&num=1208402473&action=display&start=0
And once you've had all you can stomach of that topic, take a look at the forum statistics and see if you notice something odd about that forum.
You know, I don't even care if this guy ends up being a fake. If you come across evidence that suggests he is don't tell me.
edit-HAHAHAHAH HE USED PHOTOBUCKET FOR HIS AVATAR AND SIG HAHAHAAHAHAHAH
Also, I am extremly disappointed that he didn't post his article on how to be a true anime fan.
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Holy crap it is like the kind of fail you would get if Dune and Super had a manbaby.
Edit - I mean like it loves anime and wrestling. Edit 2 - And the Super fails.
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After AAA's link melted my brain, I decided to go study something in hopes of salvaging some sanity.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org
One of my favorite online Japanese language lesson sites. Of note is a recent post in his blog:
Yay, it’s analogy time!
Ok, let’s say you bought the hottest and coolest RGP such as Final Fantasy Millennium or Dragon Quest MMMCMXLIX but the game designers got a little too creative. The game is supposed to take 70-100 hours to beat but it’s networked and you play with 19 other people. The only catch is, you only get to play a couple minutes at a time. The rest of the time you’re watching the other 18 people take turns playing exactly same thing. Now, lets say the game was something else like Final Fantasy 8-2 and it’s not that much fun to begin with. And you don’t even get to play that much because 80% of the game is filled with cut scenes that are kind of boring and lecturing. To further spice it up, let’s say the game is supposed to take several years to finish. Congratulations, you’ve decided to take Japanese language classes!
Here’s another analogy. Let’s say you throw that game out the window and buy another one that lets you play all the time by yourself. Awesome! But you find out that the game has a critical bug of never saving your progress correctly. Every time you start playing, you start off at random parts of the game. So most of the time you either have to repeat what you did already or you’re completely lost. The gameplay is also really complicated and there’s no instructions anywhere of how to play. The only way to get any information is to meet up with experts that know the game backwards and forwards. The only problem is that these experts have been playing this game ever since they were a child. It’s so natural to them, they don’t really know how to explain it very well. Also, there’s so much new terminology, you can’t even understand what they’re saying half the time. Congratulations, you’ve decided to study Japanese on your own while meeting up with native speakers!
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http://exiledonline.com/in-search-of-the-modern-speakeasy-buying-smack-on-the-streets-of-la/all/1/
Yasha Levine does a very good Hunter S Thompson style Gonzo piece. Good read.
Edit - Shit missed this as well
http://exiledonline.com/jackrabbit-bill-oreillys-autobiography-a-hot-steaming-pile-of-inanityf/all/1/
Review of Bill O'Reilly autobiography. SPECIAL.
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http://tarisspeed.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&num=1208402473&action=display&start=0
And once you've had all you can stomach of that topic, take a look at the forum statistics and see if you notice something odd about that forum.
You know, I don't even care if this guy ends up being a fake. If you come across evidence that suggests he is don't tell me.
edit-HAHAHAHAH HE USED PHOTOBUCKET FOR HIS AVATAR AND SIG HAHAHAAHAHAHAH
Also, I am extremly disappointed that he didn't post his article on how to be a true anime fan.
Reminds me of the guy who married Lyn on the FE7 boards at GameFAQs >_>
Only that guy didn't just do it all in one topic, and spent months making sure even the casual lurkers at least heard it mentioned.
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http://jaydiohead.com/
Jay-Z + Radiohead.
http://www.xtranormal.com/
site of user created videos. Some comedically bad ones.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html?link=eaf
Iggy Pop's concert rider--worth reading.
http://twitter.com/bill_l4d
Left4Dead Twitter.
http://www.wcgultimategamer.com/
(video) Gamer reality TV...looks terrible, actually >_>
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html?link=eaf
Iggy Pop's concert rider--worth reading.
That was fucking awesome.
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http://blog.mlive.com/manzero/2009/01/wii_sports_passes_super_mario.html
Wii Sports now the number one selling video game of all time.
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Not exactly a link, but...
Michael Jackson cosplays as Feitan from Hunter x Hunter!
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/57091/thumbs/s-MICHAEL-JACKSON-large.jpg)
(http://www.absoluteanime.com/hunter_x_hunter/feitan.jpg)
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http://blog.mlive.com/manzero/2009/01/wii_sports_passes_super_mario.html
Wii Sports now the number one selling video game of all time.
The fact that the site judging this went to a multiparagraph defence of the game being there showed how meaningless this is. It's literally impossible to buy a Wii without Wii Sports outside Japan, so whatever at its numbers. I certainly wouldn't have picked the game up if it cost even 10$ more. SMB, Tetris, etc., were different because you had the option to buy the system without them; they were just good deals. I agree that their own placement is grossly overrated but there's still justification to it; Wii Sports sales hype is worth almost as little as Minesweeper sales hype, or sales hype for that demo disc that came with my PSX.
Super Mario Bros. is an intensely important game that is still notable two decades later; I can't imagine you'll be able to say the same for Wii Sports in 2030.
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Super Mario Bros. is an intensely important game that is still notable two decades later; I can't imagine you'll be able to say the same for Wii Sports in 2030.
I wouldn't bet too heavily on that if I were you. It's not the next SMB, but simple games, and Tetris is the perfect example, can have long-lasting influence. So what if it's only marginally more than proof-of-concept? It's simple, and it brought motion-sensor tech to the broad market. It'll be remembered.
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As you said, it's not the next SMB. And in fact, there's a better parallel than Tetris, and that's Duck Hunt. It was popular in the day, novel, and highly played because you got it without paying for it. Most people are still familiar with Duck Hunt, it is "remembered", but it is not "an intensely important game two decades later".
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hm, point. I wonder if motion sensor controllers will go the way of the gun? I'm inclined to say they'll have more staying power because Nintendo has its hooks on such a broad market, but only time will tell.
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I would say motion sensor stuff isn't going anywhere because Nintendo have such a big market as well, if they had released fucking ANYTHING WORTH FUCKING PLAYING in the last twelve months on the system.
The Iggy Pop thing is awesome.
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Iggy Pop guide thinger was hilarious. "I've got an idea for a reality show. Dead Dog Island!"
Anyways, I dunno if its been posted before since its from May last year, but Italian Spiderman! A epic Youtube film series that spans 10 episodes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNLlwkwP64
Comedy at its finest.
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SMB, Tetris, etc., were different because you had the option to buy the system without them; they were just good deals.
Err...no you couldn't, at least not for the first year or two of sales (and presumably Wii Sports will be de-bundled eventually).
I agree that their own placement is grossly overrated but there's still justification to it; Wii Sports sales hype is worth almost as little as Minesweeper sales hype, or sales hype for that demo disc that came with my PSX.
Super Mario Bros. is an intensely important game that is still notable two decades later; I can't imagine you'll be able to say the same for Wii Sports in 2030.
Err...how closely have you been watching the market? It's very noticeable that the Wii games that make top 10 sales are very consistently ones that come with some controller add-on. Wii Fit. Wii Play. Mariokart Wii w/ Wheel. Guitar Hero. Rock Band. Notably, stuff like Smash Bros and Super Mario has not stayed on the top 10. Notably, Guitar Hero and Rock Band sell better on Wii than on 360/PS3, whereas other third party games are the exact opposite.
For that matter, I remember looking at Youtube videos of people playing Wii a few months after it came out. 90% of them were Wii Sports, not Zelda TP (or whatever the other competition was at the time). Stories of the Wii being very popular among Senior's centers that had previously never touched a console, or being used in hospitals for health purposes--again the game in question was Wii Sports. A 40-something British coworker of mine was still playing Wii Sports several months after the Wii came out (using it as a work-out).
Frankly, Wii Sports is the pretty obvious most influential game of this generation. That doesn't mean I have to like it. I'll happily admit that GTA3 was the most influential game of last generation, and yet the very concept of GTA3 holds no interest to me.
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http://www.developmag.com/news/31054/Microsoft-unveils-Kodu
Game development...for kids.
http://blog.mlive.com/manzero/2009/01/could_kodu_be_xbox_360s_little.html
Video of Micorosft's president of entertainment being schooled by a 12-year-old girl on how to make games.
http://www.tinyurl.com/4tsg5d
More crazy wingsuit videos.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=webslingspiderswing&view=playlists
Full episodes of spectacular spiderman on Youtube.
http://www.myspace.com/hammerpoff
One of the producers from Activision Corporate. x_x. (Actually, among the producers I've worked with on the corporate side, he seemed pretty decent...).
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/meet-takahashi.html
Apparently the head of Hudson is a badass, and the main character from Adventure Island. I never knew.
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He's responsible for Adventure Island? GET HIM!
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24911424-5014239,00.html
"Man proposes to girlfriend by hacking Chrono Trigger video game"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Wcbd0dJpQ
(video) chessboxing world championship.
http://xarm.com/
(video) a sport arguably more ridiculus than chessboxing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cy32PszpoA
(video) Actual IRL Quidditch World Cup. No, really.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3074/replayability_part_one_narrative.php
Interesting Gamasutra article on writing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqFUHviilQ
(video) Sega Saturn ad involving monkeys.
http://i40.tinypic.com/15wlz0n.jpg
(NSFW) Amazon book review.
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http://seamassketches.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-know-youd-make-excellent-dread.html One of my favorite net artists (I've linked to his WoT stuff before) did a Dread Pirate Roberts fanart. It's about as good as you'd expect.
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24911424-5014239,00.html
"Man proposes to girlfriend by hacking Chrono Trigger video game"
That article shames itself with not mentioning Three Panel Soul where the artist made an entire game to propose to his wife.
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24911424-5014239,00.html
"Man proposes to girlfriend by hacking Chrono Trigger video game"
That article shames itself with not mentioning Three Panel Soul where the artist made an entire game to propose to his wife.
QFT
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http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172-Security-Check-Point/dp/B0002CYTL2/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i
Read the user comments.
http://peoplewhodeserveit.com/
"People who deserve to be punched in the face".
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172284
(video). Wii kills dog. Neighbor revives dog. o_O
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=RB-PLUMBERS&Category_Code=RB
Mario Bros T-shirt....
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That is inaccurate. Wii almost kills dog. The dog still had a pulse when the neighbour checked it. The dog was not instantly killed. Still interesting but phrasing is inaccurate.
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http://en.akinator.com/
It's this program that plays 20 questions, where it tries to guess a person you're thinking of that's either famous or a notable fictional character. It also has a feedback system so it keeps on getting better and better. It's been eerily accurate so far, I've been playing with it for awhlie and I can count the number of times I stumped it on one hand.
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Stumped it two out of three times- once it didn't have the character, the other time was Moiraine.
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That thing is stupidly uncanny. It somehow got Cersei Lannister after asking if she was from my country twice, asking if she was an AI after asking if she had a son, and asking if she was blue.
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This thing's been around for awhile and has steadily improved. It's much harder to stump these days than it used to be.
Obscure WW2 generals still do it, though.
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I beat it with Alex (Lunar), but it got Ash (Evil Dead) and Jack Torrance (The Shining)
I would expect it to on the last two, but they were more tests.
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That thing is stupidly uncanny. It somehow got Cersei Lannister after asking if she was from my country twice, asking if she was an AI after asking if she had a son, and asking if she was blue.
Clearly it needed the last question to distinguish her from Smurfette.
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Apparently if you describe Morgan Kell to him, you get Niko Bellic. I can kind of see it; they're both pretty haggard, though Niko doesn't look like Frank Zappa.
People it can nail square-on: John Sheridan, Julius Caesar, Varian Wrynn. Also, holy crap, they got Bolvar Fordragon, which I did not see coming.
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The success rate with anime is disturbingly good, even with obscurish or off-the-beaten-path characters like Dianna Soriel and Bonta-kun. On the other hand it fails badly with semi-obscure videogame characters.
It seems to have a particular good rate with swordgirls, and a better one with winged characters. Setsuna from Negima took only 12 questions to pin down, due to being both.
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Shock, it gets Anime and MMO characters. Those fanbases aren't just a little overrepresented by the OCD population at all.
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Took me forever to train it to even halfway recognize Adray. The hair color throws it for a loop.
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Stumped it utterly with Colonel Tigh from Battlestar -- thought it was Mal Reynolds (20 q's), Kryten (30), and some old wank from Stargate (40). Way to insult my intelligence on that last guess, internet game, although at least by the last one it had figured out he was old. Anyway, websites just have no taste these days. It also failed to identify Davos Seaworth, guessing Thorgal. Who? I attempted Wolfgang Grimmer, of Monster, and the game gave me... Jonathan Joestar? After 30 questions it guessed November 11, from something called Darker than Black, which seems at least to be more stylistically similar.
It (surprisingly, given how off-base it was for most of the questions) got Desmond from Lost successfully.
These sorts of games are fun, but I've played ones with a more impressive rate of success. Then again, I guess my taste just doesn't intersect that much with most of the players.
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Trying to get it to recognize Colonel Tigh more consistently. Its most recent guess: Jim Raynor. Heh.
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Took me forever to train it to even halfway recognize Adray. The hair color throws it for a loop.
I had a similar time with Aika, though it was kind of fun.
I tried a bunch of DL characters for fun, but the only ones it managed on the first try were Asellus (!) and Isaac.
Apparently it gets too confused by how similar RPG female mages are, as it just can't distinguish between Lucia, Lenneth, and Lufia. I wonder why... >.>;;
-Djinn
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I tried to make it know Guy ages ago. :'D The times I've had to tell him he was wrong...
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Apparently it gets too confused by how similar RPG female mages are, as it just can't distinguish between Lucia, Lenneth, and Lufia. I wonder why... >.>;;
Lenneth is a mage?
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Well, I'd answer Yes to the "has magical powers" question, so in that sense she is. I'd answer no to the "is a sorcerer or witch" question, though.
Anyway, I've stumped him with most RPG characters that aren't either mains or from Final Fantasy. Apparently he's really good at anime. Generally he's reaally good at getting people who stand out in some way; he's easy to confuzzle by choosing someone from a larger group, e.g. I couldn't get him to guess a hockey player besides Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky, couldn't get him to guess Fire Emblem characters besides lords (and not even FE8 lords <.<) and the Black Knight.
Some of his questions for narrowing things down are rather clever, though.
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This is unbelievably addictive.
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I remember I used to have a little 20 questions toy a couple years ago. I got it for Christmas, and when I got it, it was already opened because my cousin's family heard about how fun it was and then tried it themselves. I almost never got that Christmas gift XP
But yeah, it was a little plastic ball called "20 Q!" And it was pretty damn good. After 20 questions, if it didn't get it, it would try to guess again after asking 5 more just to see if it could get it. And 99/100 times, it would for sure after the 25th question.
But Jesus, Aki is good. Got Professor X in 15 questions instead of 20. Also got Heat from DDS, Gambit, Rorschach from the Watchmen, and Zeratuel from Starcraft. THough I guessed he would get Zera, since someone said they guess Raynor.
And Roger Rabbit
And Tifa Lockheart. Damn it, I thought I had him going until he straight up asked if she was from Final Fantasy... XP
But not Vaarsuvius from Order of the Stick! Ha! Finally stumped you!
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It missed a third of mine. All were probable stumpers, BUT
It took him thirty questions to figure out Vladimir Putin.
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Nailed Kaiji in less than 20. I didn't think Kaiji was particularly popular.
It took 20 to get the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, but still. That's fairly impressive.
It struggles mightily with C-list marvel villains like the Spot and Grey Gargoyle.
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Heh. I ran a few things past it.
Worker 8 it didn't know at all, so I introduced it.
It got me on Agrias though.
Eliminster(sp?) it got in under 20.
I stumped it with Ephraim(did this one just becuase Eph popped into chat when I was thinking of who to use)
Then it managed to get the Red MnM. I was a bit impressed by that.
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It got every Touhou and TF2 character I tried.
Failed on internet fiction characters (big shock >_>) and some Canadian Television characters from the 90s.
EDIT:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/01/15/feminist-vandalism/
Photoshop vandalism.
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/01/12/daily62.html?ana=e_du_pub
More ridiculous Burger King advertising.
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Apparently it gets too confused by how similar RPG female mages are, as it just can't distinguish between Lucia, Lenneth, and Lufia. I wonder why... >.>;;
Lenneth is a mage?
They're also all three blue-haired demi-goddesses and use magic. VP2 Lenneth in particular is handy with spells.
-Djinn
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Yeah, I tried doing the Spy today. Question 8 kinda gave it away I think....
"Is your character a spy?"
It also got Celes from FF6. Final question to narrow it down: "Has your character ever sung?" Doh.
Took him 30 questions to get Tomba from the Tomba games though. I think it got him purely by eliminating every hair color BUT pink.
EDIT: ARGGGGGGG. I decided to pick the Vault Dweller from the first Fallout game, thinking that it wouldn't guess it because of being able to pick gender and such. Question 10 however... "Is your character from the Fallout series?" BAH. Got it three questions after that... :(
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It got Solid Snake and Kiba, but I stumped it on Misato Katsuragi.
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Really? I would have expected it to get that one. Huh.
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Really? I would have expected it to get that one. Huh.
I must have stumped it when it asked "Is she the leader of a group?" and I answered "Yes."
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Done lots. Stumped it with lots of obscura, though it got Tomoko Kawase aka Tommy Heavenly6 aka the lead singer of the Brilliant Green. Took 21 qs to get Terra, which surprised me a tad.
Have been teaching it some other characters, notably Bian Zoldark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/science/space/16mars.html?_r=3&ref=science
Shamelessly stolen from PVP today, but still. Mars farted apparently.
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Old but I don't care, this is great.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6ox8uchwE&feature=related
Master of Puppets (with lyrics listed!) in Mario Paint. There is a few other cool ones I am going to check the quality of before posting.
Edit - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVoRb4XPLM&feature=related
Dragonforce - Fury of the Storm there. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KfxzMcAET7Y for the original for comparison since I will assume most of you don't have something as lame as Dragonforce lying around in easy access).
Meh that will do other stuff isn't as much fun.
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http://www.wickedsmallgames.com/games/s/spin-the-black-circle/play-game.html
Fun yet difficult flash game. Good luck.
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http://www.wickedsmallgames.com/games/s/spin-the-black-circle/play-game.html
Fun yet difficult flash game. Good luck.
I got to the one where they introduce the blue one-way walls. The square-spiral and the one where you have to drop the ball into the goal (the one before the spinning cross) deserve to die.
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http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/01/top-5-crazy-thi.html
Thought about posting this in IotD instead, decided against it. "From the Man who brought you 'RIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!'..."
http://www.atlus.com/classofheroes/
Atlus announces PSP dungeon crawler, looks like Tally-chu bait.
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/01/19/the-ad-placement-from-hell/
One of the ads that ran during the Battlestar Galactica premiere this week had some...er...unfortunate parallels to the episode. Big-ass spoiler warning.
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/01/19/the-ad-placement-from-hell/
One of the ads that ran during the Battlestar Galactica premiere this week had some...er...unfortunate parallels to the episode. Big-ass spoiler warning.
That was awesome.
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/01/19/the-ad-placement-from-hell/
One of the ads that ran during the Battlestar Galactica premiere this week had some...er...unfortunate parallels to the episode. Big-ass spoiler warning.
That was awesome.
I lol'd. Hard. I don't watch Battlestar, so it didn't make a lick of difference spoilerwise.
On a related side note, I'm craving tomato soup like mad now.
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The famous all-female Tarazuka Revue is putting on a new musical production. The subject?
http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutensaiban/takarazuka_index.html
Phoenix Wright.
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...Awesome. Only really awesome because I've spent some time studying Takarazuka in my class on Gender in Japan but still.
Also, Boom, headshot.
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And here I was going into that expecting "I just want this feeling to last forever" and then him to hand her another bowl of soup or to spray on some more deoderant or something.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOUhwhdUV0&eurl
(video) Videos of people as they play games.
http://laughingsquid.com/bush-street-renamed-obama-street-in-san-francisco/
Oh San Francisco....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xeni/3210291738/
Parrody of the old rap band "Run DMC", (best known for It's Tricky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2b8XWJnfE))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66aySW4le8
(video) British humor....
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21938
Independent games festival has announced 10 winners for 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYV5QZtevk&e
(video) SUVs with gatling guns.
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http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3172364
Interview with some guys behind P4.
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http://laughingsquid.com/bush-street-renamed-obama-street-in-san-francisco/
Oh San Francisco....
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1372903,CST-NWS-hair12.article
Think I may have already posted this, but...good business decision, yes?
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Illinois-Lottery-reconsiders-contest-after-Chica?urn=nhl,135899
Illinois state lottery starts a contest in that a randomly chosen fan has a chance to win 1 million dollars if the Chicago Blackhawks score a goal at the exact 10 minute mark (not one second over or under) in every home game. It takes 5 days to pay out.
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA&eurl=
(video...sorta) Youtube Streetfighter.
http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html
(not 56k friendly) Japanese Obama toy....
http://c6.going.com/obama/inauguration_headlines.html
(not 56k friendly) newspaper front pages from Jan 20.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/mall.satellite/
(not 56k friendly) satellite images of DC on inauguration day.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/21/thomas-fuchs-and-fel.html
Parodies of the GOP symbol.
http://www.designs.valueinvestorinsight.com/bonus/pdf/T2_Housing_Analysis.pdf
Craploads of graphs about subprime mortgages.
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... is it bad that I want to drop giant popsicles on that satellite view to see if they'll swarm it?
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The amount of time and effort put into Youtube Street Fighter staggers me.
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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21876
Decent Gamasutra article on how to make successful PC Games. Nothing shocking to anyone with half a brain, but still a nice read. Stupid as article title though.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1126582/Schoolgirls-banned-lessons-headmaster-blonde.html
Schoolgirls banned for being too blonde....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5cInmK6LQ
(video) NBS Nightly News, March 11 1970.
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
(not 56k friendly) massive image of the innaguration speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TEc17j5GF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7dFmxqb60
(videos, ads) Crazy Cadburry Ads. Worth watching.
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/42310
*facepalm* wrong direction....
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html)
SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TEc17j5GF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7dFmxqb60
(videos, ads) Crazy Cadburry Ads. Worth watching.
So that's what happened to my luggage...
Also, believe it or not, my kid can manipulate his eyebrows even more than those kids can.
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html)
SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.
So...after decades of making Lunar, Grandia, and Wing Commander games, someone decides to outsource an SSB game to Game Arts, sticking a few senior Nintendo designers in charge of the project. Apparently this makes Game Arts an internationally recognized fighting game developer who can sell their games through name recognition alone. I hope Nintendo asks my studio to do SSB4 if it can generate that kind of name recognition. Also: I predict we won't be seeing any new Grandia/Lunar games for a loooooong time.
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Wait, Game Arts did SSBB? I did not know that.
Well, at least they're not going under anytime soon.
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html)
SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.
So...after decades of making Lunar, Grandia, and Wing Commander games, someone decides to outsource an SSB game to Game Arts, sticking a few senior Nintendo designers in charge of the project. Apparently this makes Game Arts an internationally recognized fighting game developer who can sell their games through name recognition alone. I hope Nintendo asks my studio to do SSB4 if it can generate that kind of name recognition. Also: I predict we won't be seeing any new Grandia/Lunar games for a loooooong time.
Or maybe they'll have the capital now to take the chance on a new Lunar/Grandia? Just hoping. You know the game industry better than I do.
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Or maybe they'll have the capital now to take the chance on a new Lunar/Grandia? Just hoping. You know the game industry better than I do.
It's possible, but you probably wouldn't like the result. As an analogy, in 2005 Neversoft with all their extra capital from Tony Hawk decided to make a game they've always wanted to make: generic old west game (called GUN). All the top people in the studio wanted to work on GUN. So...they had a bunch of talented skateboarder programmers working on a shooting/GTA game, and a bunch of inexperienced programmers simultaneously working on a skateboarding game. Result: THAW sucked, and GUN was...okay, but not really a hit with fans of the shooter/GTA genre.
I've seen this scenario multiple times. "We have a lot of money; lets just hire more people and work on two games at the same time. That way we don't have to abandon our long-time fans." Usually fails.
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In all fairness, we haven't seen a new Lunar game in a long time anyways (Hell, you could argue that there hasn't really been one since like...the Sega Saturn?).
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Lunar DS! How quickly people forget.
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That was outsourced for development, as was the GBA port of Lunar SSS. EBC was the last time Game Arts themselves actually did programming for a Lunar game.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&cbp=12,312.1532246414401,,2,8.883983621637116&ie=UTF8&ll=40.457662,-80.007541&spn=0,359.999415&z=21
Google Maps: big brother
http://bacolicio.us/http:/www.rpgdl.com/
Theory: everything is better with bacon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
(video, ad) Microsoft Songsmith ad. Horrifying.
http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful-music
(videos) Stuff made by Microsoft Songsmith.
http://androiduniversity.com/
See url.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/
One of the best complaint letters ever written.
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-worst-box-art-of-2008/a-20081211141414769068
Worst box art of 2008
http://www.destructoid.com/the-videogame-bosses-guide-to-success-115601.phtml
Videogame boss' guide to success.
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http://bacolicio.us/http:/www.rpgdl.com/
Theory: everything is better with bacon.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/
One of the best complaint letters ever written.
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-worst-box-art-of-2008/a-20081211141414769068
Worst box art of 2008
1. Theory is accepted into law.
2. This man, whoever he may be, has become my idol. I could not stop laughing the whole way through.
3. AIR TRAFFIC CHAOS - COMING TO YOU NEXT 9/11
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcfWsj9OnsI&feature=dir Time Lapse of the northern lights. Very pretty. (Tonfa is this five or ten miles north of you geographically?!)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27well.html?_r=1&em
Don't think this was posted here. Anyways, PANIC PANIC TEENAGE SEX WILL RUIN THE NATI- what do you mean, the percentage rate has dropped?
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Sometimes hackers do something helpful:
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2009/01/28/sign_hacker_broadcasts_zombie.html
One of the signs also advised running for colder climates. Apparently the outbreak isn't as bad up north.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27well.html?_r=1&em
Don't think this was posted here. Anyways, PANIC PANIC TEENAGE SEX WILL RUIN THE NATI- what do you mean, the percentage rate has dropped?
So it's not that more people are doing it, the ones that are are just dumber about it? Makes sense.
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http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980/ [NSFW]
You have to get out of here.
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http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps
Pretty self-explanatory.
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http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980/ [NSFW]
You have to get out of here.
....Yessss
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Okay, so my students (the Japanese equivalents of 10th graders) just completed an activity in which they were given a blanked-out comic strip and were told to make their own jokes... in English.
For the Net-savvy, I'm sure you know something like this has already appeared on Penny Arcade (with older children, and as a result, funnier comics). But I was hoping that some of you could take the time to read these anyway, as they are pretty cute and occasionally amusing.
Also, I want my students to get some feedback from people who speak this language so that they can feel like they aren't just learning English to take tests, but so that they can actually communicate with it! So please enjoy and comment on these comics! (I've been in Japan too long...)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=449484959&albumId=287248&authKey=TXL64FZFdeqM8E5fuobqNrdizAv%2fSc8ZTiCG22H%2bEbi%2brefg3CorRbRP42p2D1Ad0Fi4A7P8bKByTPJStBI043%2fc74MQPrDJt19fxPCe%2br0%3d
My students will be able to see the comments, and even if they don't understand them, they'll be happy to see their comics got any comments at all.
I really appreciate any time you can spend on this.
-Djinn
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I didn't really want to do it... but "Existential questions about identity. Deep." Is just http://www.fenslerfilm.com/moviesF/PSAsmall/FenslerFilm_PSA15_small.mpg
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EDIT 3: OK, here's all of them and not cut up like so much annoying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-ckU_D1fg&feature=related
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Okay, so my students (the Japanese equivalents of 10th graders) just completed an activity in which they were given a blanked-out comic strip and were told to make their own jokes... in English.
For the Net-savvy, I'm sure you know something like this has already appeared on Penny Arcade (with older children, and as a result, funnier comics). But I was hoping that some of you could take the time to read these anyway, as they are pretty cute and occasionally amusing.
Also, I want my students to get some feedback from people who speak this language so that they can feel like they aren't just learning English to take tests, but so that they can actually communicate with it! So please enjoy and comment on these comics! (I've been in Japan too long...)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=449484959&albumId=287248&authKey=TXL64FZFdeqM8E5fuobqNrdizAv%2fSc8ZTiCG22H%2bEbi%2brefg3CorRbRP42p2D1Ad0Fi4A7P8bKByTPJStBI043%2fc74MQPrDJt19fxPCe%2br0%3d
My students will be able to see the comments, and even if they don't understand them, they'll be happy to see their comics got any comments at all.
I really appreciate any time you can spend on this.
-Djinn
Must be friends to comment. Requesting as such.
Ignore my profile in its entirety, largely untouched in a long time.
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My students will be able to see the comments, and even if they don't understand them, they'll be happy to see their comics got any comments at all.
I really appreciate any time you can spend on this.
-Djinn
I'm not going to register just to leave comments, but you can tell the kid that did the "Oh my god, if I eat that much, I can't walk" one that theirs was the best.
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Same as Ultradude.
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Same as Ultradude and super.
Also, I agree with Captain K.
Also, I am in a murderous rage because a non-native speaker learning English misused your/you're. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
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I liked the "Actually, I had a date last night" one.
Best spelling mistake: "ealry"
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Also, I am in a murderous rage because a non-native speaker learning English misused your/you're. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
Easier than with a native English speaker? The words sound the same. They would just assume that they're spelled the same if they forgot. Or might. I forgive it more in non-native English speakers than with Anglophones.
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Also, I am in a murderous rage because a non-native speaker learning English misused your/you're. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
Easier than with a native English speaker? The words sound the same. They would just assume that they're spelled the same if they forgot. Or might. I forgive it more in non-native English speakers than with Anglophones.
I know that they're homophones. That's why English speakers screw them up so much. However, they mean completely separate things, so if you're being taught either of the words, chances are that you won't be learning the other: one is a possessive pronoun, and one is a subject + verb contraction.
I find it ironic that people often try to diffuse the problem by teaching a lesson on homophones, thus permanently sealing the "oh yeah, these are easily mistaken" idea in memory and ensuring eternal confusion over which form to use.
I hate that so much.
Also, whale biologist English major.
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I always thought the reason that your/you're is so often mistaken is not because of the homophone issue, but because people always associate the apostrophe with the possessive and default to that. This I can understand a non-native speaker doing. The homophone issue is sort of a red herring...
Unless they're using yore, which is just plain silly.
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Same as Ultradude and super.
Also, I agree with Captain K.
Also, I am in a murderous rage because a non-native speaker learning English misused your/you're. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
See, and here I thought that the HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? referred to the murderous rage. Seeing as this is a generally intelligent person getting upset that young people learning English from a mish mash of random sources managed to screw up something that even people competant in the language need to worry about messing up.
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See, and here I thought that the HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? referred to the murderous rage. Seeing as this is a generally intelligent person getting upset that young people learning English from a mish mash of random sources managed to screw up something that even people competant in the language need to worry about messing up.
No need for the snark. You have a perfectly valid point.
It just happens to be one of my pet peeves.
I always thought the reason that your/you're is so often mistaken is not because of the homophone issue, but because people always associate the apostrophe with the possessive and default to that. This I can understand a non-native speaker doing. The homophone issue is sort of a red herring...
Unless they're using yore, which is just plain silly.
People may associate the apostrophe with the possessive, but people also associate the apostrophe with "oh crap, S train a comin'!" Hence "Banana's $0.89/lb" in the grocery store.
Either way, "murderous rage" wasn't quite the right phrase. I do get annoyed when simple things like where to put the apostrophe and why it's used get mangled. Why I should do that when I study English as it progressed from Old English -> Middle English -> Modern English is beyond me. Perhaps I just miss the inflected part of our language.
It also reflects a lack of awareness. That just makes me sad. When Japanese school children do it, it's one thing -- yes it bothers me, yes it confuses me. When a native speaker does it? Just plain sad.
Not that I don't get frustrated enough to comment on it. I did hunt down the produce guy and explain why his sign was wrong. Then again, I think we all have our little buttons on these sorts of things. Hence Idiot of the Day (http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php?topic=130.0).
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To make this more on-topic: http://bored.com/games/play/328/Pandemic-2.html
Because we all need to take out our murderous rage somewhere. Why not the world?
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I need to point out that japanese is a phonetic language. And thus such mistakes are easier to make for someone who was raised in that language first. >_>;
'course, Japanese is a language that confuses its own country, so maybe not. Eh.
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Gah, I didn't know that people have to register as friends before they could leave comments...
I can't get onto myspace from my home computer (takes roughly 7x as long to load a single image from my home server), so the soonest I can fix the problem is on Monday...
Does anyone know enough about myspace that they can tell me how to disable the 'friends-only' protection?
I didn't really want to do it... but "Existential questions about identity. Deep." Is just http://www.fenslerfilm.com/moviesF/PSAsmall/FenslerFilm_PSA15_small.mpg
...Why?!
I know that they're homophones. That's why English speakers screw them up so much. However, they mean completely separate things, so if you're being taught either of the words, chances are that you won't be learning the other: one is a possessive pronoun, and one is a subject + verb contraction.
I find it ironic that people often try to diffuse the problem by teaching a lesson on homophones, thus permanently sealing the "oh yeah, these are easily mistaken" idea in memory and ensuring eternal confusion over which form to use.
I hate that so much.
Also, whale biologist English major.
There's some cultural acceptance of this kind of behavior actually. Sure, in English, people misuse your/you're all the time, but it's not considered 'correct', it's always considered a mistake.
In Japan, there are many kanji that sound exactly the same and have ridiculously similar meanings. For an example where the meanings are different enough to express in basic English, let's look at "Kiku", which can mean 'to listen' or 'to ask'. The kanji for 'to listen' is quite simple to draw, whereas the kanji that specifically means 'to ask' is much more complicated. In printed text, the differentiation is always made. However, when people are writing things by hand, it's considered perfectly acceptable to use the easier kanji. Even teachers of Japanese language use this when they aren't specifically teaching the kanji for 'to ask'.
Japanese has tons of such homophones, often with even LESS difference in meaning than 'to ask'/'to listen'. It makes them very homophone-conscious language-learners. I wouldn't have to teach a lesson on you're/your for them to see the similarity in sound. In fact, I haven't. They make mistakes in spelling all the time, mostly because there's so many spellings to remember - and they don't see/use English enough to have the spellings constantly beat into their minds. I correct them and they're getting better, but they're not there yet. And in some ways, they may never be there, especially if they never travel outside of Japan. I'm just happy when they don't spell "Lunch" as "Ranti".
-Djinn
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So after marveling at the haunted-vagina link, I was browsing through the ISB archive and found this.
http://www.the-isb.com/?p=633
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Japanese being Phonetic language is kind of explanation enough.
"Who is a computer". First line. Direct response is "Hey kid, I'm a computer!"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2bw0akt6M
Parody of Power Rangers.
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See, and here I thought that the HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? referred to the murderous rage. Seeing as this is a generally intelligent person getting upset that young people learning English from a mish mash of random sources managed to screw up something that even people competant in the language need to worry about messing up.
No need for the snark. You have a perfectly valid point.
It just happens to be one of my pet peeves.
There was actually no snark intended, so my apologies that you saw it there.
/me wanders off to read the rest of the replies.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2008/11/04/breath-of-fire-franchise-gets-a-breath-of-life-from-a-cell-phone-game/
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http://www.finalfantasy13game.com/
FF13 trailer that actually shows gameplay.
http://zarat.us/tra/offline-games/eversion.html
(webgame) Pretty solid indie game built from a mario base. Takes about 15-25 minutes to play and has a cool concept behind it.
http://vimeo.com/2809991?pg=embed&sec=2809991
(video) Star Wars as told by someone who hasn't seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0
(video) Star Wars according to a 3-year-old.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/10/largest-fictional-companies-oped-books-fict1507-cx_mn_de_1211company_slide.html
25 largest fictional companies in the world (weird website--automatically goes to the next item on the list, and you only control the time it takes between changing).
http://withleather.uproxx.com/?p=14374
(video) Water powered jet pack.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/10/largest-fictional-companies-oped-books-fict1507-cx_mn_de_1211company_slide.html
25 largest fictional companies in the world (weird website--automatically goes to the next item on the list, and you only control the time it takes between changing).
One of the best lists ever. Acme is a few places too high, but still awesome. Just... wow.
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The research they put into it is pretty badass, too. Most people would have just based the Stark Enterprises entry on the movie, but somebody at Forbes decided to suffer for his art and read Civil War, too.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE
Hamsters: Nature's fiercest killers.
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To make this more on-topic: http://bored.com/games/play/328/Pandemic-2.html
Because we all need to take out our murderous rage somewhere. Why not the world?
GAhhhhhhh, Damn you Peru and Argentina, the only two places who managed to avoid my disease :(
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Not nearly enough Eurocorp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(series)). Could use some updating with the shift from Stark Industries to Oscorp based technologies lately from the Military I believe. Also no Kuat Drive Yards? Even BlasTech Industries? Being like the primary battle cruiser provider for the Galactic Empire is nothing to sneeze at, or even just the patent holder and majour producer for the standard issue E-11 Blaster rifle deserves a nod!
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Obviously they were going for very mainstream recognized fictional companies, to the point that they're stretching to fit some of them in. (For instance, no way does Gringotts belong on this list; the population it deals with is just too damn small).
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You wanna talk about snubs? Weyland-Yutani. Also, Nashan Diversified.
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Hell, ComStar.
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Yeah, how about a little Saeder-Krupp, Ares Macrotech, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Aztechnology, Shiawase, Yamatetsu, Cross Applied Technologies, Wuxing, Renraku, or hell even Novatech. Right?
...right?
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Hell yeah.
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The one I expected on there?
Shinra.
Not that I mind the exclusion, but...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkdhhlxWhOU
No explanation needed.
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Yeah, how about a little Saeder-Krupp, Ares Macrotech, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Aztechnology, Shiawase, Yamatetsu, Cross Applied Technologies, Wuxing, Renraku, or hell even Novatech. Right?
...right?
I don't recognize/remember any of those... source plz?
-Djinn
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPlwwKYVrbY&feature=channel
First in a series of...
...well, just watch the series.
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Yeah, how about a little Saeder-Krupp, Ares Macrotech, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Aztechnology, Shiawase, Yamatetsu, Cross Applied Technologies, Wuxing, Renraku, or hell even Novatech. Right?
...right?
I don't recognize/remember any of those... source plz?
-Djinn
Come on, Chummer- get with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
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Shadowrun was unplayable dreck.
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I won't get into system arguments, but you have to give the setting some credit.
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Eh. It's cyberpunk. I guess it was fairly EARLY Cyberpunk, but I don't like Cyberpunk.
Plus the CHICAGO BUG MONSTERS make no goddamn sense.
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BWAHAHAHAH
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/02/super.bowl.porn/index.html
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TNG stuff was great. Shadowrun is interesting conceptually but isn't standard Cyberpunk (IT IS CYBER PUNK WITH MAGIC ELVES!). Super bowl porn should have been meatspin.
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For what it's worth, 4th Ed is fairly playable. Though, yeah. Took 'em a long time to get there.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPlwwKYVrbY&feature=channel
First in a series of...
...well, just watch the series.
BRILLIANCE.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_YYXwLCOy4
(video, trailer) Takashi Miike’s latest film; how could it possibly be bad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE
(video) Awesome news report.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/scott_mccloud_on_comics.html
(video) Fascinating talk about comics as a medium by Scott McCloud.
http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3
(audio, NSFW) Christian Bale blowing a gasket.
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/christian-bale-flips-out-on-t4-set?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=news
(audio, NSFW) Internet remixes of Christian Bale blowing a gasket.
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Eh. It's cyberpunk. I guess it was fairly EARLY Cyberpunk, but I don't like Cyberpunk.
Plus the CHICAGO BUG MONSTERS make no goddamn sense.
Sure they do! Shamans take on the aspects of their animal totems. When the totem in question is an insect, the alienness of its way of thinking drives said shaman insane, causing him/her to summon bug spirits into human hosts for the sake of the hive queen. It brilliantly melds Shadowrun's magic system with a shameless dual ripoff of Alien and Xenocide. The fact that the hive masqueraded as a globe-spanning charitable organization dedicated to caring for orphans and the homeless is icing on the cake.
For what it's worth, 4th Ed is fairly playable. Though, yeah. Took 'em a long time to get there.
Oh, 3rd edition is plenty playable. I'm running a game of it now, actually. It takes a lot of doing on the part of the GM to maintain balance, let me tell you, but with a little flexibility, it's fine.
Side note: even for the DL I'm shocked how many people recognize this game. Any of you know I was specifically referring to 3rd edition because I mentioned Novatech?
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BWAHAHAHAH
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/02/super.bowl.porn/index.html
Are you sure they're not just referring to the extreme closeup of Bruce Springsteen's crotch? Janet Jackson was probably at home saying, "Oh sure, when a white man does it, it's okay."
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(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii271/DiseasedTempest/SpringsteenBig.gif)
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I prefer 3rd to 4th, then again I don't mind super dense and sometimes obtuse rules systems (Like decking! Authenticate User for Godlike). I don't mind the general ideas behind fourth, being to group things together so it's not the Chase Scene, Rigger plays everyone else gets a coke, Decking, Decker plays everyone else gets another coke, Combat, Sammy goes etc. I really don't like what they did to the setting (Technomancy, the whole System crash storyline, killing Captain Chaos for NO REASON) so I've been reluctant to really dive into it. With some house ruling, 3rd is fine.
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I think I've only got 2nd edition. Love the concepts behind it all, at least.
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html
"Masked Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon Sword."
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What dice base does 4e use? They're converting CBTRPG to D6, so I was wondering if they were doing the same with Shadowrun or something.
Cause when that happens, I can integrate the two rule systems and add magical attributes to the cavalry saber that Reinhardt Steiner forged out of the bones of a Blakist Precentor.
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http://kotaku.com/5146280/telltalle-debuts-on-xbla-with-wallace-and-gromit
From the people who brought you the modern Sam and Max titles comes MORE SHALE FANSERVICE.
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Telltale Games is the best company ever.
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http://youtube.com/user/azz100c
Microsoft Songsmith is officially the best thing ever.
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"Crazy Train" turns the song into a Weird Al polka. It's awesome.
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P4 Spoiler Warnings in links!
So apparantly, somebody got bored and end up creating a SIMS version of Persona 4 characters.
http://x-tamaki-x.livejournal.com/105547.html
Found this when I was surfing on the gamefaqs board. I laughed >_>. The best part is MC's "wtf" face. I should save that and post it as an avatar somewhere.
Also:
http://www.rejectedidealism.net/persona/
So...people on gamefaqs have decided to do a small project at gathering all the team mate dungeon quotes that are available in the game (including ones that ultimately did not make it from the reverse and broken links that are not possible in game). This is the result. Every single conversation possible at every S.Rank. There's more to the mechanics, which I plan to C+P into a separate word document later along with all the conversations. Thought people might be interested in reading these since if you were to do it by yourself, it would take a while.
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http://sorry-mom.com/
Aiel Approved
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Man, what a clusterfuck.
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I feel worse for the women making those posts than the dudes, half the time. Shit, ladies, think for a second before you go home with someone.
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If it makes you feel better, 90% of them are probably fake.
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Man, what a clusterfuck.
no, I think they're mostly consecutive.
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I feel worse for the women making those posts than the dudes, half the time. Shit, ladies, think for a second before you go home with someone.
Are you supposed to feel sorry for the dudes at all?
Still think the whole thing belongs in IotD, though.
-Djinn
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I don't particular feel bad for anyone involved. What, the guy claiming he had an eleven-inch dong wasn't a tip-off that he was overcompensating and insecure?
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http://ds.ign.com/articles/951/951779p1.html
Tohru Narihiro, Executive Managing Director at Intelligent Systems, has an idea that will likely be music to Fire Emblem fans' ears. He explained he would like to make a new game in the series that pulls characters from each title, creating an all-star Fire Emblem cast.
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I feel bad for some of the guys since some of them are just really awkward instead of bastards.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_en_mo/people_val_kilmer
Hey Zenny! You could have a Real Genius as your governor!
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http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=home
Huh. Neat concept, looks like it's working pretty well, too.
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I... think I read about something similar working for telecommunications in rural India or some such. It is an interesting concept yeah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPXc6Gtxdo
(video) Badly explained gamer jargon.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22150
Massive losses and layoffs at EA despite improved quality output. Goooo games industry.
http://www.slate.com/id/2210441/
Olympians can take bigger bong hits.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/692982/Watchmen-Viral-Marketing-Continues-The-Keene-Act-Public-Service-Announcement.html
(video) More Watchmen viral marketing.
http://twitter.com/fnchristianbale
More Christian Bale mockery.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/bale.apology/index.html
Christian Bale explains that this was method acting gone horribly wrong.
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The British tabloid News of the World published a photo Sunday of Michael Phelps taking a bong hit at a college party. The International Olympic Committee accepted the swimmer's apology for his behavior, and so far Phelps' sponsors are making light of the incident.
Why would he need to apologise for that? Is he hitting the stuff now? If not the IOC can go suck a pile of dicks.
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Yes, yes it can.
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And as usual I stand by my rather bizarre by societal standards opinion that marijuana's nothing compared to alcohol, buuuuuuut that's me. Rather have him be hitting a bong than a lot of other stuff.
(This is of course presuming I remember correctly and it's marijuana that was in there.)
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Well it could be other things (or cut with other things even if it was the dope). It could have just been Tobacco even for fucks sake, but that isn't going to stop anyone from assuming stuff (Bongs are illegal to sell what.) about it. Whether or not he was hitting the Magic Dragon while he wasn't at the olympics has nothing at all to do with the IOC at fucking all is the really annoying thing.
If he apologised to the American public it would be less fail. If he apologised to American Institute of Sport (if you have one) or something, that would be less fail. IOC is retarded.
Stance on Marijuana aside (I agree with you if it wasn't obvious), this is still dumb.
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Bongs are illegal to sell what.
Gee, officer, I COULD be using this anti-tank weapon for, lessee, deer hunting! Yes, deer hunting.
Side note: haven't listened to much radio recently, but damn were the paraphernalia shop ads hilarious when I was a kid.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/sports/baseball/08arod.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/sports/baseball/08arod.html?hp)
well. this could be messy.
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Remember the piano/drums playing guy who cut together a video of him hitting keys and drum heads together to make a coherent song? Some guy did that for Guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuU00Q3RhDg&feature=featured
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http://www.aprilwinchell.com/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/02/05/barack-obama-is-tired-of-your-motherfucking-shit//index.html
I got a few good laughs out of that.
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Bongs are illegal to sell what.
Gee, officer, I COULD be using this anti-tank weapon for, lessee, deer hunting! Yes, deer hunting.
Side note: haven't listened to much radio recently, but damn were the paraphernalia shop ads hilarious when I was a kid.
Except that you know, people use it to just smoke Tobacco yeah? It is like outlawing cigarettes because OMG THEY MIGHT HAVE WEED OR PCP IN THEM.
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If you were making that argument about rolling papers, I'd buy it. But the only way people smoke just tobacco out of a bong is if they use it to get high on pot, run out of pot, and decide they still want to smoke something.
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http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2009/02/06/playing-videogames-on-a-mirror.htm
Coooooo.
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And? A far larger proportion of blank discs are used for piracy. Even old floppy discs quite possibly. Do we make those illegal? Also yeah, do we criminalise rollies as well?
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And? A far larger proportion of blank discs are used for piracy. Even old floppy discs quite possibly. Do we make those illegal? Also yeah, do we criminalise rollies as well?
Personally, I don't think bongs should be illegal to own, but I don't mind if a government has a line of plausibility of legal use beyond which they criminalize something. If rolling papers and blank DVDs, which odds say are probably primarily used for illegal purposes, are still on the legal side of the line, I don't have a big problem with it. (I'm still just incredulous that anyone with a bong would smoke only something legal in it.)
Relatedly, the NYPD has a custom of, on days of ethnic parades and the like, rounding up gang members at the events based solely on their clothing they use as identifiers. I'm not sure of the exact details, but they tend to be arrested for disturbing the peace, or causing a public disturbance, or something similar, then let go. It's a practice that surely reduces the chance of racially based gang violence, and it could be argued that simply wearing gang insignia to a big event constitutes disturbing the peace since it may intimidate the general public, but it boils down to people being arrested solely for the clothing they're wearing in public, so it's very dubious from a first amendment perspective. Thoughts?
EDIT: I just took a brain-sucking logic-ridden law school exam and I still get sucked in by problems like this. I must be doing something right.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/sports/baseball/08arod.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/sports/baseball/08arod.html?hp)
well. this could be messy.
Oh no! Now all his championships will be tainted!
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http://www.finalfantasyseries.net/dissidia-final-fantasy-kingdom-hearts-3582-na-release-date-announced
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/nyregion/10indulgence.html?hp
Yeah, screw Martin Luther!
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That belongs in IotD.
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"There is nothing more dead than a dead Pope."
The number one reason I don't believe in any sort of afterlife is that JPII should be able to show up as some kind of ghost and stop this shit. I mean, really. Indulgences?
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"There is nothing more dead than a dead Pope."
The number one reason I don't believe in any sort of afterlife is that JPII should be able to show up as some kind of ghost and stop this shit. I mean, really. Indulgences?
Uhh, seems unlikely JP2 would, seeing as he authorized a few himself. From the article:
The return of indulgences began with Pope John Paul II, who authorized bishops to offer them in 2000 as part of the celebration of the church’s third millennium.
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http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
Friend showed this to me today. Personal favourite is the Tubaconucken. Delicious.
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God damn I can't believe my mom can stay Catholic.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/what-the-cia-doesnt-need_b_152173.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/what-the-cia-doesnt-need_b_152173.html)
Can't remember if I already shared this, but just in case.
CIA success story. One of the most important Soviet defectors ever. Included in the article is a reproduction of the letter he sent to the US that began his spying career. It's fascinating, humbling, and kinda cute all at once.
"I have no many time. I am with my camrade end they kan't know"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrjYpX5M3o&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrjYpX5M3o&feature=channel_page)
That episode of Star Trek with Naked Q + Laugh Track = 80s sitcom.
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http://www.fmylife.com/
So you think you're having a bad day, huh?
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I shouldn't laugh at that site. Yet I do.
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Why shouldn't you laugh? At least half of those are self-inflicted idiocy. I mean, some of them are just shitty luck, but mostly they earned those. <_<
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And like 90% of them aren't even that bad...
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There's a few in there that make me cringe, a few that make me laugh, and a few that just make me feel downright bad for the people.
I remember one in there talking about how an employee had to let a new guy shadow them for the day, only to find out at the end of the day that they were now fired and the new guys was taking their job.
I'd feel like shit if that happened to me.
But then there are ones like, "Today, I was on the internet with my Dad looking up information about allergies. I began to type 'allergies' into the Google Search Box and as I typed 'a', the phrase 'amazing sex positions' popped up as a search I had already looked up. My Dad asked me if any of the positions worked out. FML" where I just burst into tears laughing.
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Today, my sister teased me about being a mistake baby. When I told my mom what my sister said, her response was "I still love you anyway".
Man if my mother didn't respond with that I would have been disappointed in her.
Edit - Oh look, more examples of how mercenary capitalism is the path humanity deserves to follow.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chevron-nigeria8-2009feb08,0,1965087.story
Goooooooooooooooo Chevron! You sue those third world villages!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87f8pqEsU8&eurl
(video) Dead Rising 2 has a giant hamster ball.
http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/02/killzone-2-and-the-five-foot-s.php
Amusing Killzone 2 review.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/480006
(webgame) decent atmospheric puzzle game.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of
(Video NSFW) Onion; see url.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/la_princesse_in_liverpool.html
Giant robot spider.
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http://www.physorg.com/news152544159.html
I'm really bothered by this. :|
Mainly the part where the men get an ad for motorcycles and the women and children make it turn into minivans.
Then again, as a writer of speculative fiction, I am intrigued.
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It's creepy for ad companies to have information about you like that.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/fidel-castros-rahm-emanue_n_165838.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/fidel-castros-rahm-emanue_n_165838.html)
What?
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...What?
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So who else is buying this?
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
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...I don't even think a zombie apocalypse would save Jane Austin. ...Maybe if there were mummies...
EDIT: Rrarrrr arrarrr currse currse curseeee marriage curse bandage bandage rarrr curse curse marriage
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So who else is buying this?
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
Hahahaha, I saw an article about that on Topless Robot. I lul'ed
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Pride and Prejudice is actually a really funny book, but it takes a while to adapt to it when you're used to sci-fi/fantasy (in that the humor is all in really subtle character interactions). Adding ultraviolent zombies sounds like it would kill that (in that zombie situations tend to limit your emotional responses to Fear or Rambo--not much room for subtlety).
Anyhow....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DNsDcAoTfo
(video) Trailer for the latest Tarantino film.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog/videos/231/94.661
(video) Trailer for "Flower" (PS3 game I think? Can't figure out from the video how it works).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5gOfiU2jr4
(video NSFW) Cookie Monster Rap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
(video NSFW) "I'm on a boat" rap.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/13/stimulus.winners.losers/index.html
Winners and losers in the final stimulus bill. WTF at some of this.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22283
Midway files for bankruptcy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDBQAz08FY&fmt=18
(video) Transformers 2 trailer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html
ugh. I don't think there's much worse than this kind of abuse of power, and against kids, too. 87 months is far too short a sentence. These bastards should never see the light of day again.
Unrelated note: that flower trailer is really something.
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.....Yeah, I pretty much agree.
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Really? I thought Flower looked weak at best. It's Sonic/Nights with boring visuals.
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Flower looks gorgeous, but there's nothing in the trailer that makes me want to actually play the game. Watch somebody else play it, maybe.
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flower looks simple in a good way. may be wrong about that, of course, since there's not a clear indication of how gameplay goes, but simple and pretty sometimes turns out impressively.
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http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/black-dynamite/red-band-trailer
WARNING: NSFW. Violence, language, and some nudity (IE, boobs for like, 5 seconds). So there, I warned you.
Trailer for a new movie coming out. It's basically a 70's blaxploitation film done today. And it looks AWESOME. I love these kind of cheesy movies.
"This is the story of 1970’s action legend Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House."
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It's-a-Me, Mario from that game that's worse than M64 and Ur Mr Gay! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-KczCp0OQ4
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http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/black-dynamite/red-band-trailer
WARNING: NSFW. Violence, language, and some nudity (IE, boobs for like, 5 seconds). So there, I warned you.
Trailer for a new movie coming out. It's basically a 70's blaxploitation film done today. And it looks AWESOME. I love these kind of cheesy movies.
"This is the story of 1970’s action legend Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House."
That movie looks amazing. Not as amazing as The Dolemite Explosion would have been, though.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29165133/
Progress in fighting the common cold.
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http://www.magazinetimepass.com/oddities/most-bizarre-experiments-of-all-time
Name of the link says it all, really.
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I love it when the genius of Zimbardo and Milgram gets spread around. They might be being put in a weird bin, but they were both geniuses with the best experiments ever done in the industry.
Needed waaaaayyyyyyy more B F Skinner though.
Edit - Not so much the link as the way it is presented over at Exile, because I love their work.
Brit War Games: “Muslims Scared of Dogs, Right? Then the Taliban Would Be Scared Shitless if We Dressed Like Wookies!” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1145667/Pictured-The-supergun-kills-mile--camouflaged-crackshots-using-Taliban.html)
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/grefter/screen-shot-761-323x450.jpg)
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
.........Ha.
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Needed waaaaayyyyyyy more B F Skinner though.
I seem to recall that Skinner made the mistake of telling people about his more bizarre experiments before he did them, preventing them from being carried out. Which is probably for the best really, although I suppose Nazi science experiments still taught us a lot so who knows.
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Epically late, but I'd never seen it before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0
Macroevolution simulation using a literal interpretation of the "blind watchmaker" metaphor - a computer program that takes a population of random combinations of clock parts (springs, gears and hands) and "mates" them at semi-random until they produce working clocks.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
.........Ha.
Off Message, to say the least.
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http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussies.html
For something completely different. People probably already know who #1 is anyway.
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I was expecting Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster, personally.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
.........Ha.
I find it funny that this man pioneered a TV station to help relieve the bad views of Muslims after 9/11 that American's had/have.
Then he goes and beheads his wife. Not just murder her... BEHEADS her. Way to go bud... I think that's borderline IotD material.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
.........Ha.
I find it funny that this man pioneered a TV station to help relieve the bad views of Muslims after 9/11 that American's had/have.
Then he goes and beheads his wife. Not just murder her... BEHEADS her. Way to go bud... I think that's borderline IotD material.
Thanks for pointing out why I was amused.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
.........Ha.
I find it funny that this man pioneered a TV station to help relieve the bad views of Muslims after 9/11 that American's had/have.
Then he goes and beheads his wife. Not just murder her... BEHEADS her. Way to go bud... I think that's borderline IotD material.
Thanks for pointing out why I was amused.
Hey, no problem Mr. President.
http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/
Scout Update. Next week. Yessssssssssss
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In the same vein as my Kiva link,
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp .
I leave my computer on overnight, so this works just fine for me.
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Real Life Comics supported something like that years ago dedicating resources to SETI, was pretty cool.
Edit - Other Exile that isn't stupid just painful.
http://exiledonline.com/greedy-landlords-merciless-consumers-a-case-study-of-americas-recession-vultures/
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Yeah, SETI was doing something like this for a while as well, my dad and the bookstore near my house both used it. Don't know if they're still doing it, though.
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http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/15/bale-wants-peter-griffin-off-the-f-king-set
More Christian Bale mockery.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3782
Crazy doomsaying article about the financial crisis; should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but has a lot of interesting links and sources.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPu0chBQeUk
(video) Very emotional documentary about landing a plane that could only turn right (6 parts).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA&feature=channel_page
(video) Cute crazed rant by a news reporter about the bailout bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmi_7udjaSE
(video, NSFW) FF rap.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4688453/Giant-rat-caught-in-China.html
Cat-sized rat.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/20/us/AP-Video-Game-Lawsuit.html?_r=1&hp
California court throws out a law mandating a stringent violence rating system and prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors. No shocker, but there you go.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/opinion/21blow.html?ref=opinion
Following Eric Holder's unfortunate (to say the very least) "Nation of cowards" remark, here's a fascinating column on racial perception. Interesting stuff.
For my part, I think the racial divide that makes people (especially white people) uncomfortable interacting with other races is based not intrinsically in skin color or racial type, but is directly about the cultural difference people associate with race. For example, in the various white-collar jobs I've worked in the city, this race-based angst seems largely absent. When you interact with a coworker (even one you don't know) on a professional basis, it overrides racial angst. You know you're both playing by the same rules, so that fear of otherness subsides.
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What's that you're saying? Race issues isn't really about race or skin color but instead about how we perceive race? That race is largely a cultural fiction and all that makes us uncomfortable is the extent that fiction is ingrained in society?
Oh. Yeah, OK, I can get behind that.
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What's that you're saying? Race issues isn't really about race or skin color but instead about how we perceive race? That race is largely a cultural fiction and all that makes us uncomfortable is the extent that fiction is ingrained in society?
Oh. Yeah, OK, I can get behind that.
Pretty much. I had the occasional black classmate in Canada, and shared an office with one. Never had any problem at all. Some of my closer friends, in fact.
Been living in the states for four years: got mugged by a couple black men, and had a few other uncomfortable experiences with black men on the bus, and so it's to the point that I actively try to avoid running into black men on the street.
A huge part of this is not cultural, though: it's economic. The black people I knew in Canada were all white-collar nerds. In many American cities, however, race 90% of the time indicates a socioeconomic gap, which in turn tends to also indicate an education gap.
Now, there IS a cultural element on top of this. I haven't had trouble with illegal Mexican immigrants, for all that they are probably just as poor, and likely had even worse access to education. For that matter, the short time I spent in Georgia I had no real trouble with black people I interacted with. The SF ghetto seems to be antagonistic just as a culture.
However, I would argue that the socioeconomic/education gap is bigger than the cultural barrier. For instance, while I've had no quarrels with illegal mexican immigrants, it's not like I've chatted with them about Touhou or research mathematics or X360 shader pipelines or FFT hacks. Bridging a gap over cultural antagonism sounds doable, but having nothing to talk about once the gap is bridged is a barrier that I'm not sure how to deal with.
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All ghetto's are antagonistic by culture, that is part of the whole ghetto thing. Just simply the fact that there is a ghetto at all is an act of social aggression against the lower class and whoever that makes up.
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I dunno, I've lived in the Montreal student ghetto, and I didn't notice antagonism from that >_> <_<
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121 (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121)
A (VERY) long but absolutely fascinating compilation of commentary on recent happenings in EVE Online. Read it and prepare to have an hour slip away.
Short version? One single guy, this high ranking director in the game's largest and most powerful empire-alliance, gets fed up with their attitude and defects. Cold War style. This results in a cascade of events leading to the absolute obliteration and overhaul of the entire MMO's metagame, and an ongoing all-out PvP war involving around 20,000+ players. Literally everyone in the game is affected. Both the breadth and depth of the results and the game are astounding.
I'll probably never play an MMO in my life, but between this and some other articles I've read, EVE would definitely be my choice of game. Holy tunafish.
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121 (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121)
A (VERY) long but absolutely fascinating compilation of commentary on recent happenings in EVE Online. Read it and prepare to have an hour slip away.
Short version? One single guy, this high ranking director in the game's largest and most powerful empire-alliance, gets fed up with their attitude and defects. Cold War style. This results in a cascade of events leading to the absolute obliteration and overhaul of the entire MMO's metagame, and an ongoing all-out PvP war involving around 20,000+ players. Literally everyone in the game is affected. Both the breadth and depth of the results and the game are astounding.
I'll probably never play an MMO in my life, but between this and some other articles I've read, EVE would definitely be my choice of game. Holy tunafish.
I remember hearing about this a few weeks ago. I shat bricks when I found out what had happened, and just how huge of an effect it had. I'd love to give EVE a try, especially after hearing about what happened to BoB. The defector transferred all their money and majority of their ships to the Goons (People at SomethingAwful.com. Go fucking figure, the douchebags...) and then peeled with everything else he could take. Just... wow...
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121 (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=88121)
A (VERY) long but absolutely fascinating compilation of commentary on recent happenings in EVE Online. Read it and prepare to have an hour slip away.
Short version? One single guy, this high ranking director in the game's largest and most powerful empire-alliance, gets fed up with their attitude and defects. Cold War style. This results in a cascade of events leading to the absolute obliteration and overhaul of the entire MMO's metagame, and an ongoing all-out PvP war involving around 20,000+ players. Literally everyone in the game is affected. Both the breadth and depth of the results and the game are astounding.
I'll probably never play an MMO in my life, but between this and some other articles I've read, EVE would definitely be my choice of game. Holy tunafish.
I remember hearing about this a few weeks ago. I shat bricks when I found out what had happened, and just how huge of an effect it had. I'd love to give EVE a try, especially after hearing about what happened to BoB. The defector transferred all their money and majority of their ships to the Goons (People at SomethingAwful.com. Go fucking figure, the douchebags...) and then peeled with everything else he could take. Just... wow...
Later in the article it's stated that only the ships from the corporation that the defector was Director of (Black Nova Corp) were taken. Still amounted to about 32 capital ships. Also, when he offered to transfer the 8 billion in BNC funds to the Goons, the Goons refused, apparantly.
Best part of it was that the largest of the ships he took were held in safety in an NPC controlled area so BoB couldn't regain control over them in some way that is unknown to me. BoB ended up, by random chance, holing up in that area as their final stand and hasn't made a move since. Doesn't say what they did about the ships though.
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I haven't read the article yet, but I remember right after it happened, I went on the EVE forums to check it out (I may pick it up after the school year is over) and I just remember the Goons bragging about the damage they did. I can't see the people there turning down the money, especially with the way they hated BoB...
http://www.sporcle.com/games/pokemon.php
How many of the 151 original pokemon can YOU name in 12 minutes?!?!
First try was 90, with spelling screwing me over big time on some of them. Second go was 112 pokemans, with spelling still screwing me over but less so than the time before. I can't believe I almost forgot pikachu though... >_>
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57 on first try, 72 on second try.
Bootleg toys and action figures:
http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com/ (http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com/)
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Man, I pay way too much attention when chat starts talking Pokemon, I haven't played since RBY and still got 103. Including the one that is apparently missed the most often. No love for poor Exeggutor. ;_;
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I would play EvE if it didn't seem to be designed to showcase people being conniving manipulating bastards and then have the people in charge say "Oh well."
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Man, I pay way too much attention when chat starts talking Pokemon, I haven't played since RBY and still got 103. Including the one that is apparently missed the most often. No love for poor Exeggutor. ;_;
I couldn't get him the first time... I kept misspelling him "Exeggcutor" XP
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I haven't read the article yet, but I remember right after it happened, I went on the EVE forums to check it out (I may pick it up after the school year is over) and I just remember the Goons bragging about the damage they did. I can't see the people there turning down the money, especially with the way they hated BoB...
http://www.sporcle.com/games/pokemon.php
How many of the 151 original pokemon can YOU name in 12 minutes?!?!
First try was 90, with spelling screwing me over big time on some of them. Second go was 112 pokemans, with spelling still screwing me over but less so than the time before. I can't believe I almost forgot pikachu though... >_>
1st attempt: 128 + Missing No.
2nd attempt: 151 + Missing No. 4:22 Time Remaining
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http://www.sporcle.com/games/pokemon.php
How many of the 151 original pokemon can YOU name in 12 minutes?!?!
First try was 90, with spelling screwing me over big time on some of them. Second go was 112 pokemans, with spelling still screwing me over but less so than the time before. I can't believe I almost forgot pikachu though... >_>
1st attempt: 128 + Missing No.
2nd attempt: 151 + Missing No. 4:22 Time Remaining
1st attempt: 151, 7:07 remaining.
I pride myself on being able to name all of the Pokemon from 1-170 in order. :D
Now off to try the Generation II version...
Edit: Generation II: 83/100. Missed some pretty obvious ones too. :(
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Curse not being able to type quickly...
I can name the first 25 or so in order, and thats about it. I remember my brother and I did this once for shits and giggles, except on paper. It took us an hour to get them all, because we forgot about a few of them like Tangela and Electabuzz. XP
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Got 103 on the first try... forgot -jigglypuff-.
If I had remembered the freakin Nidorans, I would have had 109. I was wondering what that huge section was... >.>;;
I can't even name 5 Gen2 pokemon, so I'll be skipping that one.
-Djinn
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EVE would be worth playing if it wasn't a prime example of exactly what is wrong with MMO's. It is a game that rewards you for not playing it but just paying for it constantly.
Edit - It still generates some awesome soap operas to read through though.
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Yeah. Eve works as a spectator MMO. By all accounts it sounds boring as fuck to actually play.
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Pretty much. I read that and thought it was an awesome story, then I imagined how insanely boring it must be to be one of the Goons who has done nothing but camp a BoB base for more than a week.
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Don't forget months of real time to skill up! >_>
But yeah, generally follow-up the last few posts with "great spectator game but, from everything I understand, pretty lame to play."
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http://kotaku.com/5159061/persona-4-is-your-deal-of-the-day
$26 plus free shipping. Today only, so you better hop on it now.
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Is Obama the Anti-Christ? The Daily Show investigates... best piece they've done in years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OZONNw2D9Y
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http://rolcats.com/
Soviet lolcats.
http://the-minusworld.com/2009/02/16/the-30-most-obnoxious-and-expensive-gamer-stock-photos/
30 most obnoxious stock photos of gamers.
http://haha.nu/interesting/runhello-jumpman-game/
(video / webgame) very visually interesting: tries to replicate Atari 2600 graphics, but include modern technology and effects.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/popup?id=6922862&contentIndex=1&page=1&start=false
Cave house
http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/index.html
Michael Jackson is auctioning off his stuff.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5769159.ece
They changed their mind; red wine is bad for you after all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvk0s2rcSdg
(video) dancing bird.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Emailed-Photos/ss/1756/im:/090226/481/46e7d63ab3eb4dc6ae0d5c14acffd7ff#photoViewer=/090223/481/bcd84672d4944708a3866fb96f183c1b
50 most emailed photos.
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Is Obama the Anti-Christ? The Daily Show investigates... best piece they've done in years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OZONNw2D9Y
So good.
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http://www.ncsx.com/2009/022309/transformers_mickey.htm
Optimickey mouse prime
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f3ef6b6667/white-wedding-literal-video-version
(video) White Wedding, the literal version.
http://www.visionaryinstruments.com/VG2.html
Guitar with a video screen; shiny.
http://www.scratchophone.com/
Scratchamaphone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9XULxdiUQ
(video) Alternative Guitar Hero controller >_>
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/watchmen/featurette-zack-snyder
(video) Watchmen Feature.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/a-classic-poem-hits-the-x_b_170556.html
Dunno if someone posted this yet, but I highly approve. I always wanted to see this kind of adaption when I was a kid. It's kinda like why SMT games appeal to so much to me; I love to see what people come up with from literal and mythological sources.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/a-classic-poem-hits-the-x_b_170556.html
Dunno if someone posted this yet, but I highly approve. I always wanted to see this kind of adaption when I was a kid. It's kinda like why SMT games appeal to so much to me; I love to see what people come up with from literal and mythological sources.
Ah, I'd heard about this at Penny Arcade. They pretty much just had a laugh at the game's existence. It sounds like it could be awesome, but also, I can see why someone would start laughing uncontrollably at the idea of Dante from the Inferno taking on a role like Dante from Devil May Cry...
-Djinn
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I could see it work in a point and click adventure kind of way. Kind of like the Terry Pratchett ones for tone actually. Quest For Glory kind of touched on the feel a little in 4 I think, but the Prince of Shapeir is pretty competent.
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(video) http://sendfwd.com/cool-wrestling-move/
title says it all
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I haven't read the article yet, but I remember right after it happened, I went on the EVE forums to check it out (I may pick it up after the school year is over) and I just remember the Goons bragging about the damage they did. I can't see the people there turning down the money, especially with the way they hated BoB...
http://www.sporcle.com/games/pokemon.php
How many of the 151 original pokemon can YOU name in 12 minutes?!?!
First try was 90, with spelling screwing me over big time on some of them. Second go was 112 pokemans, with spelling still screwing me over but less so than the time before. I can't believe I almost forgot pikachu though... >_>
131 for gen 1.
66 for gen 2.
Not bad, though I can't believe I forgot a few of these (Wobbuffet? I have betrayed you!)
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http://fc64.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/002/0/1/World_War_Two__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg
World War 2.
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http://fc64.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/002/0/1/World_War_Two__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg
World War 2.
Fantastic.
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http://fc64.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/002/0/1/World_War_Two__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg
World War 2.
Yes. Win. Sounds exactly like American history class, especially the way America did -everything- (with only a little help from Britain et al.)
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http://fc64.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/002/0/1/World_War_Two__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg
World War 2.
Yes. Win. Sounds exactly like American history class, especially the way America did -everything- (with only a little help from Britain et al.)
And how Canadians did nothing... >_>
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http://fc64.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2008/002/0/1/World_War_Two__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg
World War 2.
Yes. Win. Sounds exactly like American history class, especially the way America did -everything- (with only a little help from Britain et al.)
And how Canadians did nothing... >_>
Canadians have one panel (when Britain declares war).
http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/badass-mission-street-music-video/
(video) crazy music video.
http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
(video) Cute summary of the credit crunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKll6EXjqd8
(video) Monster Truck Rally filmed with a camera that makes everything look like toys.
http://technabob.com/blog/2008/09/28/atari-2600-guitar-hero-casemod/
Guitar Hero controller modded to run Atari 2600 games.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html
Pink dolphin. Pink. Dolphin.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/584-Spiderman-Web-of-Shadows
(video) Zero Punctuation reviews a game I worked on and doesn't completely bash it! (His review is very fair overall, for all that I personally disagree on his complaint about the lack of missions built around web swining, because while web-swining is fun, web-swing missions are not).
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html
Pink dolphin. Pink. Dolphin.
Which, of course, leads to...
http://christwire.org/2009/03/scientists-have-created-gay-pink-dolphin/
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http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/15/cool-stuff-charles-schulz%E2%80%99s-the-watchmen/
Good grief.
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You want utterly random, pointless Watchmen recasts? You ain't seen nothing yet. (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/walkthrough/2009/who-watches-walkthrough)
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Soviet Party:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2332 (http://englishrussia.com/?p=2332)
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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii271/DiseasedTempest/rorschachclown-987.gif)
I wish I could make this into an av.
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I say this as someone who knows nothing about the Watchmen except for its tone and subversion of the prototypical Heroes Save The World story:
Awesome.
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http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
(webgame) Awesome deconstruction/commentary of the RPG genre. I wouldn't have thought it possible to code an entire RPG in one weekend; goooo Sophie Houlden.
http://thru-you.com/
(videos) combining multiple youtube videos into a single mashup.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/17-03/ff_moore_qa?currentPage=all
Interview with Watchmen creator.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3955/marching_to_his_own_drummer_.php
Interview with Parappa guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY4o2oINIg
(video) Modern Toilet Restauraunt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfsSA6_GrE
(video) Trailer for Stalin vs Martians.
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http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
(webgame) Awesome deconstruction/commentary of the RPG genre. I wouldn't have thought it possible to code an entire RPG in one weekend; goooo Sophie Houlden.
Cute concept, but ultimately "annoying" is the word I would use to describe the end result. Neat concept, just... doesn't really hash out well.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001449.html?hpid=topnews
Neat find regarding Lincoln's watch
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001449.html?hpid=topnews
Neat find regarding Lincoln's watch
Oh great, now Nicolas Cage will have to steal it in order to uncover a hidden conspiracy by America's founding fathers.
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http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
(webgame) Awesome deconstruction/commentary of the RPG genre. I wouldn't have thought it possible to code an entire RPG in one weekend; goooo Sophie Houlden.
It's a fair commentary in some ways, and overall pretty funny. Oversimplification of an RPG for humorous effect. Though in some ways, I felt a little insulted. The amount of simplification seemed to imply that something basic like this shouldn't be fun. But honestly, enough elements of RPGs were included in the game that it was kind of a fun time-waster to me (I mean, 5 minutes isn't that big of a time sink and I like Watching Numbers Go Up with some story-like flavoring). I realize that this is what she's poking fun at, and I suppose that's why it was a little insulting - she's saying 'How can you enjoy something that is like this at its core?'
Well, if I was entertained by the core for five minutes, then surely with enough fancy math multipliers, shinier graphics and tastier story flavor, I can be entertained for significantly longer.
But really, considering she must be a big enough fan of the genre to make this kind of deconstruction, I doubt the intent was to insult. I'm just being oversensitive. It -was- funny, after all.
-Djinn
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That was amazing. Not No More Heroes amazing, but pretty awesome. Also pretty damn accurate.
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064909.html
Haruki Murakami, author previously pimped by me, wins the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, and gives a pretty interesting speech. Extra impact for writers, whether you agree or disagree.
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http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/gaming-high.aspx
Propaganda to try and get gamers to stop using pot.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/06/video-world-builder.html
(video) fascinating short-film that's...actually very similar in function to the tools we have today for 3D editing (minus the holograms).
http://stereogum.com/archives/video/old-folks-review-animal-collective_057571.html
(video) Old people review animal collective.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_LSGnycsyeI4/R9h7i4jkaSI/AAAAAAAAARQ/tyFGdJo6mu0/s1600-h/ceiling_cat.jpg
Paper ceiling-cat.
http://www.najle.com/idaft/
Daft Punk console.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=057_1235798634
(video) WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&eur
(video, long) Fascinating documentary on the world's most important 6-second drum loop.
http://basquash.com/movie/www//mov090209_top_pv.asx
(video) Basketball-playing giant robots.
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(video, long) Fascinating documentary on the world's most important 6-second drum loop.
This was indeed good times.
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http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
(webgame) Awesome deconstruction/commentary of the RPG genre. I wouldn't have thought it possible to code an entire RPG in one weekend; goooo Sophie Houlden.
...This is awesome.
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http://www.watchtheguild.com/
Fake reality show about a guild of MMORPG players. Hilarious.
+5 Helm of Sexterity!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9_5uZn6ds&eurl=
(video) Sesame street uncut. Awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2sSchlxPM
(video) Richard Simmons flips out.
http://www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com/
(videos) "99 things you should have already seen on the internet". Somehow I hadn't seen George Lucas In Love....
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/03/the_10_worst_comic_book_vacation_destinations.php
10 worst vacation spots in comics; #2 uses an image from a game I worked on, cool (and doesn't even bother to remove the IGN tag >_>)
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worst part about the future, you can't even say it ain't what it used to be, given the age of some of these dystopic hellscapes.
I think Limbo might be a worthy addition to that list.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/17/bmi_rubbish/
A good article on The Register about Body Mass Index (don't care if it is right or wrong, it is just good read) that left me going, what the fuck, when did The Register become The Exile?
Edit - What happens when other parts of the Web start to look like the Exile? The Exile dishes up a double dose of their special sauce!
http://exiledonline.com/alabama-murder-mystery-solved-the-shocking-story-of-how-a-chicken-slaughtering-billionaire-plundered-rural-america/
Rage murders AND Economic crisis coverage. It is like a double deal of delicious cynicism.
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yay for people commenting on how the squared math doesn't really, ah, square up.
and cute Exiled article.
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Touches on a lot of things in Going Postal, recommend it if you enjoy those kinds of articles.
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yay for people commenting on how the squared math doesn't really, ah, square up.
Except not.
If you look at, say, a human dwarf, their head is about the same size as a human adult. People don't scale the same amount in every dimension, so a cubic scale is not the right answer.
Even ignoring that, look at the typical BMI chart:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Body_mass_index_chart.svg/690px-Body_mass_index_chart.svg.png
Until reading that article, I actually thought those lines were straight. Squinting at the graph, yeah, I can see a slight curve to them--eyeballing it, it looks like roughly a 5 pound difference compared to a straight line over a gap of 50 centimeters (roughly two feet). In other words, assuming it really should be cubic rather than square, and assuming that the population has gained an average of 10 centimeters (4 inches) since 1900, I'm thinking that would make this graph inaccurate by.........1 pound compared to 1900.
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Okay, thinking a little more on the BMI formula:
The big difference between m/h^2 and m/h^3 formulae is...while they're both locally actually kinda straight between 150 cm and 200 cm, assuming you only have one term in the formula, the slope of m/h^3 will be relatively greater.
Going back to the dwarf weight comparison...the one link I can find on dwarf weight is basically one person's blog:
http://psy-pc120.bsd.uchicago.edu/~jbadner/fitness.html
Which actually calls for m/h^3 at one point, but here's the thing. She's 125 cm, started at 110 pounds and dropped to 82 pounds. With the traditional m/h^2 scale seen in normal BMI scales you're looking at dropping from 32 BMI (obese) to 23 BMI (healthy weight, though on the heavy side). With an m/h^3 scale, this would be roughly equivalent of starting at 50 BMI (ultra-obese), and dropping to 36 BMI (still obese). She...really doesn't look overweight by the final pictures, so I'm going to say that the m/h^2 scale works better here than the m/h^3 scale.
Children are sort of a weird exception--babies better fit the m/h^2 curve (being kinda chubby by nature), 8-year-olds better fit the m/h^3 curve (having grown upwards but not outwards yet):
http://www.eirpharm.com/search_weight_height.php?age_months=12+Months&submit.x=22&submit.y=13
Aaaanyway....
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/10_Best_Paternity_Reactions_Ever/
(video, Hurt IQ warning) 10 most inappropriate responses to paternity tests of all time.
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?collectionId=221532
(video) Jon Stewart's full Jim Cramer interview. Surprisingly serious, and gets better as it goes on.
http://www.ocregister.com/photos/orc-alert-foot-2318309-orc-on-wolf-spotted-in-irvine/pid2318365
Blizzard makes orc statue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM
(video) Fascinating short animated film.
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http://www.jandrewedits.com/
Star Trek Edits. They are amazing. And this is coming from someone who has never watched an episode of TNG ever. Make sure you watch them in order because there's a bit of continuity.
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http://www.offworld.com/2009/03/real-wars-warhammer-meets-army.html
(video) Do turn-based strategy with lego and VR goggles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk
(video) Faraday cage imperial march. Awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
(video) Extreme Sheepherding with LEDs. Also awesome.
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That is the best thing ever.
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Having watched all three, you're going to have to be more specific about that.
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Lets just go with all three.
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http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06b666ae72/gobstopper-trailer
YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS! AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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Repeat?
The "Most Unwanted Song".
Some guys polled 500 people and designed a song to be as annoying as possible to as many people as possible.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html
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It needs to incorporate Hey There Delilah's unfounded hipster pretention and sly assholism to be perfect though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5J-EUZxEw
"They call me Boner Bill ... or ... Bill. All you girls can call me Bill Bizzle. I got my penis, mumble mumble y'all know what I'm sayin'."
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http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2105
Old posts, but covers everything wrong with Fable 2 plot. Funny read.
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http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf
Let's play some Tetoris!
I dare you to play it long enough to clear a line. I double-dog dare you.
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http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf
Let's play some Tetoris!
I dare you to play it long enough to clear a line. I double-dog dare you.
Huh, that Tetoris.
I've cleared a Tetris on that before, it scales to your resolution! It's pretty neat.
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If you press "Key" you can drop the blocks faster.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ka8DnUVEQ&eurl=
(video) Wall-E video mixed up with Watchmen audio; amusing.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/03/the_7_most_depressing_songs_ever_sung_by_a_muppet.php
(video) 7 most depressing songs sung by a muppet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex0ANhZ1Y6o
(video) Kill Bill in 60 seconds and one take.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY&feature=related
(video) Buddy Rich vs Animal Drum-off.
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/madoffs_prison_number_is_a_lottery_winner.php?ref=fp4
at least someone's making some money off Madoff.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4QBZfjtqs
Cat Sh!t One trailer (animated) - Its weird, but looks awesome
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/5042794/Spider-Man-rescues-autistic-Thai-boy-from-third-floor-ledge.html
Spiderman saves the day IRL.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5041848/Teenager-paints-60ft-phallus-on-roof-of-family-home.html
(NSFW) link sums it up >_>
http://www.desicolours.com/dog-saves-baby-kangaroo/19/07/2008
Dog saves baby kangaroo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4
(video) Bruce Lee vs Iron Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k3FRCIDbco
(video) Impressive Etch-a-sketch art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXigfZGqsLM
(video) Cheetos art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbPAK8o
(video) Muppets address America.
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http://exiledonline.com/sylvia-plaths-son/all/1/
John Dolan rants about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath over at Exile. Interesting read if you are into anger over poets.
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http://blog.authonomy.com/2009/03/fun-and-online-games-at-authonomy.html
Harper Collins starts a social networkish site for amateur authors to post their manuscripts to be read and voted up or down by visitors, with the top ranks getting looked at for publication, and members themselves tracked by how good they are at "spotting talent" and voting up books lots of others also like.
Rather internet-famous Starcraft commentator Klazart has written a book and put it on the site. In one of his commentaries on Youtube he gives it a plug and asks viewers to go to the site and vote it up.
Response is overwhelming as many people do just that. Site's ratings begin to skew as Klazart's book tops the charts and the many people who joined just to vote for it get top ranks at spotting talent. 4chan learns of how the site is breaking and decides to break it even further with an even larger wave of votes, in fact enough traffic to crash the site outright.
Other authors on the site, predictably, go bananas.
Link is site staff's official commentary on the phenomenon; post and lengthy comments are fascinating.
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The site's official reaction is interesting. The whining about how a publishing company's process for evaluating amateur authors' popularity is no longer a completely unbiased ego-stroke is just plain funny.
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http://exiledonline.com/sylvia-plaths-son/all/1/
John Dolan rants about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath over at Exile. Interesting read if you are into anger over poets.
If you were a wealthy American woman with no talent, a massive ego, and a willingness to simplify the world’s most lax gender rules into a simple passion play where the girl plays Jesus, your literary future was assured
Sounds about right.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pragues_franz_kafka_international
(video) Franz Kafka International Airport.
http://gdc.gamespot.com/video/6206692/
(video) OnLive. Holy fuck, how did they keep this a secret? If they deliver what they claim here, this will be fairly big. I'm still worried about latency, though.
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You mean I can play all my games with lag, and not just online multiplayer? Sign me up!
And that's assuming it's not the same vaporware as the Phantom. It's a good idea, but if it even exists it's before its time.
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And that's assuming it's not the same vaporware as the Phantom. It's a good idea, but if it even exists it's before its time.
Well, sure. I mean, among other things there's this whole invisible box of "hey guys, we made up a totally new video compression that is a thousand times faster". Which...is theoretically possible, but still o_O
Phantom, though, isn't a fair comparison. Phantom never had anyone developing games for it, let alone playable games to demonstrate at a press conference. EDIT: or apparently any demonstrated online functionality in any of its public showings (a slight problem given the online-only design). Phantom was also not a free browser download on PC/Mac (speculated as a $300 console, and such).
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090326/wl_uk_afp/britainyouthoffbeat;_ylt=AlJBf34vWgESu7fFUueo4N5vaA8F
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Hey, pink is de-masculinizing.
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Edit - This is for the Phantom v2
You would need better internet connections than everywhere in the world to be better than they are now. It stinks of returfing of old bullshit though. 7 years ago probably would place it around the last time remote computer management shit was all the rave (Client based technology was it being called last time?), you have now and "Cloud computing" is the big thing, so large corporations can pay other (Overworked underpayed) people to (poorly) run their servers instead of hiring on site IT staff (who have to do 4 times as much work as their own IT people because they have to give substandard service to 8 times as many customers). Seems like another pipe dream in the trendy corporate sector leaking its way into the consumer level somehow. It might work really nice in theory and in clean test environments. As soon as you introduce large numbers of users I predict such a service would go completely tits up.
No thanks, I will keep upgrading my PC and you can keep selling me games instead of leasing them to me. Fuck you.
Edit - This is for NotJim's Brittish Fail link.
You know what bothers me about this shit? It is to make people FEEL safe. They never say that there is an epidemic of youth violence. They never say it is attempting to reduce the amount of violence. It is all to make people FEEL safe. To stop feeling threatened. And for what? Oppressing the underaged population that can't vote. They can't even fucking sit around and talk in public with this kind of shit. OH MY GOD YOUNG PEOPLE GATHERING IN LARGE FLOCKS OUTSIDE OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZED FORCED GROUPS THAT WE SQUEEZE THEM INTO DURING THE HOURS OF 9 - 3 DURING THE WEEK, LOCK YOUR DOORS AND RUN FOR THE FUCKING HILLS.
While I agree that a bunch of kids sitting around underpasses and drinking isn't exactly something you really want to have, but the way to deal with it isn't to fucking deter them from underpasses. Seriously how completely fucked up is your society if the best thing teens want to do is hang out under a goddamned highway? Underage drinking is sure as fuck something that isn't going to be solved with fluorescent pink lighting.
If this mirrors anything like the same shit in Brisbane, the first place that they installed the noise making shit was in the high frequency shopping areas, so you force kids out of generally safe widely policed areas with high pitched squealing and wonder why they go somewhere worse? How about looking at the availability of alcohol in this fucked up arse backwards society we have instead of just herding around youths with the human equivalent of Cattle Dogs.
Gods I hate our species.
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Rejected Phantasy Star II plot: http://home.att.net/~RCgamusic/bizarps2.htm
More Phantasy Star junk: http://home.att.net/~RCgamusic/ps.htm
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http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/stargazer/stargazer.htm
A game that manages to be worse than Phantasy Star
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http://sovietrussia.org/f/src/tetoris.swf
Let's play some Tetoris!
I dare you to play it long enough to clear a line. I double-dog dare you.
It took me 20 minutes to clear a single line.
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http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/stargazer/stargazer.htm
A game that manages to be worse than Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star 2?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USBo4vswqO0
Somehow, people manage to fuck up NES music. Also, terribly batshit insanely difficult.
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http://rathergood.com/rocket_dog
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRHXSIoJJdXQpG3kPrRO2LWMnWTAD975RDM00
Eesh.
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www.donkdj.com (http://www.donkdj.com) helped me accidentally make all forms of dance music obsolete (as well as terrible, but that had nothing to do with me). Basically, you upload an MP3, pick a few minor options, and it spits out a dance remix. Feel free to give it a whirl, but there's no point, because I already remixed More Than a Feeling, rendering your efforts second-rate at best.
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www.donkdj.com (http://www.donkdj.com) helped me accidentally make all forms of dance music obsolete (as well as terrible, but that had nothing to do with me). Basically, you upload an MP3, pick a few minor options, and it spits out a dance remix.
Hmm, I tried Caramell Dancing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67ZkAd1wmI) (don't click that unless you don't value your sanity and/or you are a little girl). It...reduced the overall hyperness (because it insisted on stylistic skipping, which is slower than the actual song >_>), and the only difference otherwise was the addition of a very simple repeated "donk" sound in places.
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Meh, I have heard worse Happy Hard than that met. Standard J-Pop stuff is pretty sachrine, but there is far more silly and sugar filled. I mean you could easily double the BPM there!
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www.donkdj.com (http://www.donkdj.com) helped me accidentally make all forms of dance music obsolete (as well as terrible, but that had nothing to do with me). Basically, you upload an MP3, pick a few minor options, and it spits out a dance remix.
Hmm, I tried Caramell Dancing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67ZkAd1wmI) (don't click that unless you don't value your sanity and/or you are a little girl). It...reduced the overall hyperness (because it insisted on stylistic skipping, which is slower than the actual song >_>), and the only difference otherwise was the addition of a very simple repeated "donk" sound in places.
I think that's part of the joke. Throw in skips, set the BPM to a certain number, and THROW SOME DONK ON IT. Congratulations you are the best DJ ever.
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Standard J-Pop stuff is pretty sachrine
Except it's made in Sweeden not Japan, so dunno if it counts as J-Pop.
More to the point, it's the video much moreso than the song that is deliciously over the top.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html
anti-mosquito lasers. hawt.
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/11/23/mankinds_new_best_friend/
giant rats used as land-mine and tuberculosis detectors. hawt.
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The lasers seem pretty impractical, but the rats are pretty damn cool and cost effective. Wonder how practical it'd be on a larger scale than what they article cites.
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The lasers seem pretty impractical
They really do, but you never know. I was just thinking this morning about how bizarre it is to heat food by bombarding it with microwaves. I mean, it's not strange that such a thing is possible, but for a device for doing so to be ubiquitous in American kitchens is a bit odd.
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Yeah, microwaves are lasers too--they're just lasers at a very specific frequency which happens to be ideal for heating up water. If what you're trying to heat up is not liquid water, then they fail horribly (see, for instance: ice cubes. Microwaves don't do a thing to ice cubes...unless they've already started melting, then the melted liquid part will get hot).
So yeah, if there's some frequency that kicks the crap out of the Anopheles Quadrimaculatus (by far the most common transmitter of malaria) then it could be efficient. What bothers me more about the article is how much they seem to be planning to bully nature--the plans there indicate that they're trying to either make AQ and similar breeds go extinct, or planning to release genetically modified versions to destroy the current gene pool. I mean, accidentally killing/altering an entire animal species happens by accident more often than humans would like, but doing so intentionally makes me a little uneasy.
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J-pop is J-pop no matter the language.
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That'd be some of my general eh whatever response to the story. A lot of it was just general mosquisto busting skills. I have no qualms about wiping out that breed, the health benefit for humanity would be tremendous. Killing parasites like that is good, long as you're not doing an incredible amount of environmental damage.
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Go watch Lion King or some shit. Mosquitoes are annoying as fuck, but they do have a place in the ecosphere. Flies now, they can fuck right off.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090331/world/indonesia_crime_murder_entertainment
Just in case you had some faith in humanity or something.
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http://vimeo.com/3718294
(video) poor use of voice changing software.
http://vimeo.com/3881989
(video) Air Guitar championships.
http://kotaku.com/5191458/xna-games-dont-sell-dont-make-money-%5Bupdate%5D
Know how 360 touted its great community-made games? Well they're a bit of a bust; people I know who've gone looking for them complain they're very hard to find.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5858/yuri-suzuki-the-physical-value-of-sound-exhibition-at-clear-gallery-tokyo.html
Interesting sound art exhibit.
http://vimeo.com/3156959
(video) another tilt-shift video (lens that makes big things look small).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ZFA4me4iw
(video) Mega64 does MGS4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20QBe43tyVM
(video) Mega 64 does Assasin's Creed.
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http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/2009/04/morales-charges-us-conspiracy-to-force.html
damn totalitarian pigs.
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Someone should totally forward that to Chavez and see if he bites anyway.
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http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/protesters-fail-to-bring-down-global-capitalism-with-costumes-puppets/
here's one that is somehow NOT April fools.
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http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/04/03/evangelion-live-action-is-real/
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Link too long (http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269?icid=webmail|wbml-aol|dl1|link3|http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269)
Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture
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The BattleTech/Shadowrun April Fools', though I apparently missed it on the actual day. They created a BT/SR crossover sourcebook simply entitled "THE BEST EVER." It begins with a section about the history of this fictional universe, which immediately ends by saying they can't be expected to fill you in if you didn't pay attention in history class.
And guess what? It's a free download.
http://www.battlecorps.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2259 (http://www.battlecorps.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2259)
The section on Lyrans sounds like I was dictating, or so I have been told.
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Link too long (http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269?icid=webmail|wbml-aol|dl1|link3|http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269)
Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture
Jesus, that thing's hideous.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7979113.stm
Robot forms a hypothesis and tests a scientific theory independent of human creator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU
(video) Ramones Spider-Man video....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N9klJXbjQ
(video) Where the Wild Things Are Trailer.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47529.html
(video) This is so going down as one of the top 10 best trailers of all time.
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Link too long (http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269?icid=webmail|wbml-aol|dl1|link3|http://news.aol.com/article/giant-sea-worm/412269)
Gigantic fucking sea worm eats most of coral reef in aquarium tank, nearly evades capture
Jesus, that thing's hideous.
Haha, I printed a picture of that and put it on my roommate's pillow a couple days ago. Also saved it as her desktop. (She hates slimy things.)
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/
The Register dicks with Google Earth/maps street view thing
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Did you enjoy Da Ali G Show? Remember his extremely gay character, Bruno?
http://www.thebrunomovie.com/bruno-movie/bruno-movie-trailer-2/ (http://www.thebrunomovie.com/bruno-movie/bruno-movie-trailer-2/)
I think my favorite part is the picture of him holding his baby, covered in bees.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47529.html
(video) This is so going down as one of the top 10 best trailers of all time.
That's absolutely fantastic. I can't imagine how they did it with straight faces...
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The real genius is that it's actually an announcement of a new feature. Hilarious and informative!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azgWTq3_dU
See, this is why there are excessive celebration penalties.
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Time for some old meme that isn't funny.
Balls touching.
Edit - And to make my post even more totally devoid of class. This VERY NSFW link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UT02--Ijdc
Derek and Clive dubbed over the top of the critic muppets. Warning, worse language than me describing N1/XS3/AT cross over fanfic. Derek and Clive is fucking classic shit, but swearing overload.
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/04/07/report-california-law-strips-overtime-game-developers
Hey met what's your opinion on this?
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Not that worried about my position; I don't get paid for overtime, and the one time in my career when I did get paid for overtime it was a huge pain; I had to stamp in and out every day, and if I stamped out 5 minutes late a couple of days in a row, the office manager would pull me aside and ask me why I was working so much overtime, saying that I should only be working overtime if my supervisor requests it otherwise the budget might not add up, etc. The paperwork involved with being an on-the-clock employee just sucked. My office has always made attempts to minimize crunch time anyway (both before and after the EA Spouse lawsuit).
Anyway....
http://www.muckflash.com/?p=200
Amusing site of joke articles. This one: Robot love can be fatal.
http://www.muckflash.com/?p=294
Same site: Carniverous weeds terrorize town.
http://www.muckflash.com/?p=273
Same site: Man with Robot Suit attempts bank robbery.
http://www.closerangegame.com
(webgame, NSFW) The Onion tries its hand at game development.
http://www.startrekmovie.com/modelgallery/
Vaguely awesome Enterprise models.
http://vimeo.com/1166968
(video) Not sure what to make of this; seems like a legitimate documentary on magnetism, but at the same time I've done a lot of magnetism in undergrad and yet am unfamiliar with most of the concepts in this film.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/stateofvgamer_040609_fnl1.pdf
Nielsen gamer trends. Watch as the PS3 declines in playership while the Gamecube rises, and Solitare is played more than any other game.
EDIT: nevermind on the Gamecube/PS3 thing; seems Nielsen mislabelled their graph:
http://kotaku.com/5205249/nielsen-drops-the-ball-on-console-usage-numbers
Oops.
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Food service and other 'salaried' positions are so much worse than game developers about abusing salaried employees that it isn't funny. Not that EA doesn't deserve a kick to the balls for that.
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Wha? There are salary food service positions? God, that can't possibly ever end in the worker's favor.
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All of management pretty much. GMs at every food service chain are salaried (With a 'bonus' system) and AMs at some places like Mcdonalds are salaried. You haven't seen fucked until you've seen a GM have to work seven days a week for 35k a year and benefits.
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Yeah. The GM at my theater was salary at 30k a year. Ended up requiring him to be there 60 hours or so a week minimum. We managers ended up making more than him per hour. (We were at 13/hr. Goddamn, why did I ever leave that job?)
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http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/dungeons-dragons-dave-arn.php
RIP Dave Arnesson
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http://www.cracked.com/article_16878_if-twilight-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html
Abridged version of the movie Twilight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVnRN54PFU
(video) fun with innuendo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcPGI-ZMI
(video) Modern day Samurai.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/webcam.home.invasion/index.html
(video) Webcam security system....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHw8w6il_FQ&eurl=
(video) Copyright Criminals Trailer
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/david-bucker-faints-passe_n_186385.html
at least he announced his intentions ahead of time
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The best tribute to Harry Kalas that I've read. (http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20090414_Bob_Ford__Ford__Somebody_stole_the_Liberty_Bell_today.html) I'm sure it sounds hokey as all get-out, but it's the damned truth. I spent more years of my life listening to Harry than I spent in school.
(For the non-sports-oriented, Kalas was the primary radio and TV broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies since 1971, and probably the most popular person ever to be associated with that team. He died yesterday, two hours before a game, in his announcer's booth.)
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That's very sweet, and it's about the truest expression of sadness I could think of. Tragedy demands that kind of allegory. When you're in that state, you really think that way; simple declarations just aren't up to the task of expressing the depths of emotion.
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http://notalwaysright.com/jurassic-farce/1816
If true, this is one of the greatest achievements in mankind's history.
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http://www.cinematical.com/2009/04/15/watch-this-disney-re-uses-their-animation/
Holy recycled motion sketch, Batman!
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Given that they have to hand paint all the poses for the new character, I'm not sure it's laziness. Cartoons in general...well...how many cartoons have you seen where a character had their jaw drop, and had their eyes pop out of their head? I'm guessing lots, and not all by the same company. Animation isn't necessarily about giving people stuff they haven't seen--a lot of it is about making people feel familiar and comfortable. And note that familiar is going to mean different things to different audiences--western animation has lots of squash and stretch, whereas Japanese anime has very little.
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The most enjoyable sports ad I've seen in a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YAfb1Yrbc&feature=player_embedded
http://notalwaysright.com/jurassic-farce/1816
If true, this is one of the greatest achievements in mankind's history.
Man, people do this all the freaking time. The coupon thing, I mean, not the dinosaur part.
Used to work customer service for a company that had a magazine, and I did indeed receive mail-in coupons dating back decades.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUpXJ2PHsqg
(video) "The Clan"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ
(video) Bulbous Bouffant. I'm not sure how to describe this other than concentrated awesome.
http://www.palesky.com/misc/gaf_collection_collected/
(not 56k friendly) Gaf has made a lot of rather cool custom boxarts for games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
(video) Emotional moment on Britain's Got Talent.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/16/stop-motion-animatio.html
(video) Wolf and Pig -- very interesting stop motion animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8JexiISPNk
(video) more stop motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_WV91jx8E
(video) Dramatic Cupcake Dog.
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Given that they have to hand paint all the poses for the new character, I'm not sure it's laziness. Cartoons in general...well...how many cartoons have you seen where a character had their jaw drop, and had their eyes pop out of their head? I'm guessing lots, and not all by the same company. Animation isn't necessarily about giving people stuff they haven't seen--a lot of it is about making people feel familiar and comfortable. And note that familiar is going to mean different things to different audiences--western animation has lots of squash and stretch, whereas Japanese anime has very little.
I'm not knocking it. Having done a 30 second animation before, I know how tedious it can be. I think they've cleverly recycle previous blanks! I certainly never noticed -- which is why I posted the link, 'cause I thought it was cool how well they did it (and funny to ponder whether they tailored the characters to the blanks or not; my guess is probably a little bit).
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http://www.popsci.com/bacon
BACON TORCH!
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_04_17_Craigslist_killer_may_have_struck_again/
This article is a little strange. I am not sure what to think. Link at the Exile points out that he still has his Blackberry, but that isn't really what bothers me.
He added the suspect was about six-feet tall and was “clean cut” – a dead-on match to Boston’s Copley killer.
That line throws me because it is followed up on the second page with this.
“At first glance, he looks like a drug addict,” said Kelly. “
Those are kind of contradictory to me. The guy is a desperate violent drug addict that takes care of his personal grooming?
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http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2008/aug/20/asst-principal-arrested-child-porn-charges/
Nice headline, huh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702663.html
Oops.
I hope that prosecutor drops off a damn cliff. Bringing a child pornography charge that you have to know will be thrown out by a judge (because, even if the circumstances were different, the picture clearly doesn't constitute it) against a person you know isn't keeping the photo for personal reasons because he reported it, in writing, to his superiors, is as low as you can get.
If you're skeptical of this guy's op-ed, here's the article announcing the dropping of charges. I think it speaks for itself.
http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2009/apr/01/child-porn-charges-against-freedom-asst-principal-/
EDIT: Fixed
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All of those links just go to the same op-ed.
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http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
Garfield minus Garfield.
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Yeah, I think there was another site that just took out Garfield's thought balloons and had a similar effect.
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Are you thinking of Arbuckle? (http://www.tailsteak.com/arbuckle/)
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No, it's the same strips with the thought bubbles edited out. I think it might have gotten taken down. Shame, I preferred it to GmG.
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I actually turned up some of them searching for that today, since yes, they are hilarious. Don't think there's a site dedicated to them any more (legal issues? I dunno) but I found a bunch in this thread here (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997).
Jon is too pathetic for words.
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Japanese Binocular Soccer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvVh0_ZelI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvVh0_ZelI)
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/russia_robbery/
Okay, this time The Register is REALLY channeling Exile.
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The scare quotes around "rape" are retarded, other than that....uh, yeah. Pretty much.
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But don't you know men can't be raped ever so it's only sort of a rape because the victim had a penis
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM
(video) Treadmobile.
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/freeman-dysons-4th-grade-math-puzzle/
Cute math puzzle, that also involves a badass little girl whose last name looks like "Mutalisk".
http://www.cracked.com/blog/matthew-mcconaugheys-next-10-movies/
Matthew McConaughey's Next 10 movies....
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/20/ufo.conference/index.html
Former astraunaut...claims UFOs exist o_O
http://www.latimes.com/features/la-mag-april052009-backstory,0,3355162.story
Bunch of people who worked at Area 51 finally cleared to speak. Debunks a lot of UFO stuff.
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http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980 (http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980)
"You have to get out of here! Your VAGINA is HAUNTED!"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM
(video) Treadmobile.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/
The new Kindle
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http://www.truveo.com/Warning-Child-predators-can-use-Nintendo-DS-to/id/3606734529
Uhh... the link says it all, really. :V
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http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=dna_for_charity
Something neat. The human genome people are auctioning off a full genome sequencing for charity. You also get a full, comprehensive analysis of it.
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http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
Obama poster generator.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o
(video) insanely impressive bike riding.
http://www.zefrank.com/zesblog/archives/2009/04/daichi.html
(video) impressive beatboxing.
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/creature-comforts-us-for-what-nuts-full-episode.html
(video) Creature Comforts episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4&eurl=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6jW9y59JY&feature=related
(video) Auto-tune in the news.
http://www.capcom-unity.com/s-kill/blog/2009/04/23/modding_has_finally_gone_too_far_the_joystick_birthday_cake
My coworker's birthday cake.
http://laughingsquid.com/deaf-chinese-dancers-perform-of-the-thousand-hand-guan-yin/
(video) neat.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_198/5986-A-Tale-of-Two-Fan-Sites
Huh, interesting article/anecdote about the lifespan of an internet community. Surely this could never happen to the DL! ...right? *hope*
http://www.truveo.com/Warning-Child-predators-can-use-Nintendo-DS-to/id/3606734529
Uhh... the link says it all, really. :V
Almost IotD material? It sounds like an alarmist crusade attempt against video games again. While they didn't bash the DS as heavily as they could have, they failed to mention that there's no method of sending pictures of yourself to someone else through Pictochat... which wouldn't be so bad if they didn't spend 90% of the report talking about a guy trying to get pictures of a underaged girl through the device...
There may be some DS game that allows something like this, I don't know, they were being pretty misleading about how potent Pictochat's pedo-enabling could be... >.>;;
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_198/5986-A-Tale-of-Two-Fan-Sites
Huh, interesting article/anecdote about the lifespan of an internet community. Surely this could never happen to the DL! ...right? *hope*
To this day, I still miss RPGduels. That forum was so fun to mock. Sadly, I can't remember any of the topics, only that they were so laughable and likely all written by one person!
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Orange Box for $10 on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/
So...$2 per game?
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What's RPGduels?
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A long story. I'm lazy, so I'll let someone else answer.
(This useless post brought to you by too much free time.)
EDIT: Having actually read the article now, though, I can say that something of the sort already happened and, well, we're still here.
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Old drama
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In the very beginning of the DL one of its staff members did some shady shit and got drummed out. So he went and formed his own dueling league. Which failed miserably.
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Orange Box for $10 on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/
So...$2 per game?
Damn, and I thought I got a good deal for $24. Anybody who enjoys fun should be all over this just for Portal.
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*is all over that just for Portal*
<_< >_>
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http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-english-dub-is-finally-here-129922.phtml
Final Fantasy XIII English dub. It's totally real and not fake at all.
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http://www.thestar.com/News/article/271316
America conqours the last of the three Niagara Falls from those damn dirty Canadians.
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Canada? Isn't that one of our suburbs or something?
Also, Final Fantasy Ex Eye Eye Eye looks horrible.
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Penny Arcade linked this a while back, so it's possible that all interested readers have already seen it.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22568
It's an article about the theoretical 'B game' which could supposedly have the same appeal as a B movie.
The interesting point for the DL is that the only example of a B game he gives is Wild Arms 4...
Personally I'm a bit confused on the exact definition of B game and how it would really differentiate from a niche title...
-Djinn
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Production value pretty much. WA4 is a budget title compared to some of the monsters in the genre.
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He's talking solely about the plot of games, I would reckon, given the mention of Resident Evil 1 without any mention of Resident Evil 1's B-movie level gameplay.
Given that, WA4 fits the bill. Only Arnaud and Raquel approach being tolerable characters, and if you're really going to defend the dialogue I will point you to every single god damn moment of Kidz v. Adults. As for the plot? lol jrpg plot.
As for differentiating a "B-game" from a Niche title, that's stupid. One man's niche game is another one's garbage. Hell, people here have relatively similar tastes in games (in that most of us are or were fans of JRPGs) and there's rarely an agreement on what's good and what's not.
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Also, Final Fantasy Ex Eye Eye Eye looks horrible.
You know, I've thought, "Gee, that looks much worse than the last one" for every FF title starting at 6, except for 9. And they've turned out pretty damn good on average. I wouldn't sweart it too much.
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He's talking solely about the plot of games, I would reckon, given the mention of Resident Evil 1 without any mention of Resident Evil 1's B-movie level gameplay.
Given that, WA4 fits the bill. Only Arnaud and Raquel approach being tolerable characters, and if you're really going to defend the dialogue I will point you to every single god damn moment of Kidz v. Adults. As for the plot? lol jrpg plot.
As for differentiating a "B-game" from a Niche title, that's stupid. One man's niche game is another one's garbage. Hell, people here have relatively similar tastes in games (in that most of us are or were fans of JRPGs) and there's rarely an agreement on what's good and what's not.
The writer pointed out clearly that plot alone doesn't make a 'B game'...
I'm not trying to defend WA4... even though I'm not even sure there's anything to defend it from. The writer didn't seem to be implying that 'B game' was an insult really.
More confusing definitions. 'Niche title' always struck me as 'openly aimed at one relatively-small demographic'. A skateboarding game full of skateboard celebrity name-dropping and slang isn't aimed at me, it's aimed at skateboarders. That's a niche title. Whether I think it's garbage or not really doesn't change its definition... It might even be a really well-made title for skateboard enthusiasts.
But the definition of 'B game' is harder to pin down. So far, the only thing that I can come up with is hard to disentangle from the definition of 'niche games'. Also, the responses on the forum do point out that one problem with the idea of a B game is that most (if not all) video game plots/genres are basically on the same level (or lower) as B movies. It's hard to find an 'A game' when comparing them to movies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE
(video) "The amazing colour changing card trick". Neat psychological effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnQ77a1UVk
(video) Lego Silence of the Lambs
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48398.html
(video) From the people who brought you Odin Sphere...ooh pretty.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=754315&page=1&pp=15
(Not 56k friendly) All of these pictures are CG. O_O
http://kotaku.com/5230185/the-konami-code-makes-espncom-magical
Best use of the Konami code ever. EVER.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&source=embed
Tracking the mexican pig flu.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/AdultSwimGames/five-minutes-to-kill-yourself
(webgame) 5 minutes to kill yourself.
http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/the-making-of-playstation
History of the PS1.
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Classifying WA4 as a B game seems just bizarre. It's lauded for its gameplay, and while opinions of the plot vary, I can't think of anyone holding the opinion that the game's plot is bad who considers the game IMPROVED by this.
Personally I have no desire whatsoever to play a "so bad it's good" game. It's excusable for the plot alone (Super Robot Wars you can argue this for a bit. MMXCM. A few others?) but you damn well need good gameplay too; unlike a movie, you are otherwise stuck with this experience for 20+ hours, whereas the B movie is over in under 2. As for gameplay that is "so bad it's good"? Fuck no to that.
So yeah, mocking the concept of the B game, here.
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The whole B movie style of storytelling really only works because you're consuming it passively, I think; regardless of length, you can basically just sit back and snark at the crappy storytelling for the entire time, be it a movie or game or TV series or book or anime show.
On the other hand, bad gameplay is actively frustrating and you can't progress unless you put up with it, which pretty much kills the snark potential. The only time I've seen that work is in LPs where someone else goes through all the punishment for you, reducing the whole thing to a passive experience again.
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There are games that are enjoyable in the same cheesy way a good B movie is, but the problem is that it's not cheap to make them that way. Devil May Cry 3, for instance. Over-the-top violence punctuated with terrible dialogue and incredible cheese, yes, but the over-the-top violence took a lot of development to perfect. In a movie you can just hire a sufficiently creative or insane choreographer, get "actors" who know how to hit each other properly on camera, and boom, fight scenes. Games don't work like that.
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Re B-games: Eh, he's on to something, but the unspoken yet hugely important variable is the price point here. The reason B-movies existed back in the day was that they were cheap to produce - you've got this set lying around and actors on contract, so you dang well better be using them, and fussing about with a script and expensive effects isn't in the cards. More generally, the price points you want to set are "you pay less for the game than you can sell it for." B-movies could be sold at mostly the same cost as a real movie, but cost a fraction to produce. If the fraction of the audience you get is still commensurate or better, you're still making money. (Alternatively, things like Republic serials could be value-adds to the real movies, and have a price point of near-free since you'd see the serial before the movie.)
So... thinking of it in terms of price...
High cost, high return: World of Warcraft, Halo 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc.
Medium cost, medium or better return: Wild Arms 4, Nippon Ichi games.
Low cost, low or better return: "Free" MMORPGs, Wii crapware games.
Very low cost, very low or better return: Flash games, downloadable content.
So... if B-games he means games that ignore having overly flashy graphics to just crank out a decent game but charge a bunch for it, then he's definitely onto something. The dream is to release something like Disgaea, which is cheap but became a big seller anyway. Still, if your game is cheap enough, it doesn't have to sell much. Or for real cheating, there's something like Final Fantasy X-2 which was cheap yet tapped into a franchise and had huge sales. Then you have your Heavenly Sword type deals which are really expensive to make, and really need to be a success or else risk sinking your company.
Much as I don't like some of the aspects of their games, Nippon Ichi is probably the best example of doing what I'd imagine as being a B-game; NI caters to hardcore fans who are willing to forgive dated graphics in exchange for a certain brand of humor and gameplay. I'm sure there are equivalent publishers for medium-quality action games. The Wii itself is definitely on this train as well; development costs are way lower when you can't tempt yourself into trying to have the absolute most cutting edge HD graphics. I can't imagine that Sony spent THAT much on Wild Arms 4, but all it needed to do was be a modest success.
The idea of having intentionally subpar gameplay is asking for trouble, though. Even flashgames need to have good gameplay if they want to be successful. But I'm not sure that quality of gameplay is always necessarily correlated with the budget dedicated to a project, though there are counterexamples I'm sure, and it's the budget part that will make companies interested in making a "B-game."
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So... thinking of it in terms of price...
High cost, high return: World of Warcraft, Halo 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc.
Medium cost, medium or better return: Wild Arms 4, Nippon Ichi games.
Low cost, low or better return: "Free" MMORPGs, Wii crapware games.
Very low cost, very low or better return: Flash games, downloadable content.
Okay, speaking as an industry insider, you're leaving out some significant categories here.
Low cost, high return: Guitar Hero, Singstar, Brain Age, Wii Play, etc.
high cost, low return: Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, etc
Low development cost, medium licencing cost, medium return: Shrek 52417 the official game of the movie
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GH is still low-cost? I figured the record companies are so desperate for cash they were furiously attempting to rape your delicate rectums with licensing fees.
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Okay, speaking as an industry insider, you're leaving out some significant categories here.
Low cost, high return: Guitar Hero, Singstar, Brain Age, Wii Play, etc.
high cost, low return: Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, etc
Low development cost, medium licencing cost, medium return: Shrek 52417 the official game of the movie
SotC and Okami are low return? Does that mean they were sold at a low price or that they didn't sell well initially?
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Shadow of the Colossus sales were pretty solid (significantly better than Ico, notably) though I can easily see it not covering dev costs.
Okami tanked really badly.
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A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture conceived neither as an arthouse film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continued to be used in the broader sense it maintains today. In its post–Golden Age usage, there is ambiguity on both sides of the definition: on the one hand, many B movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity; on the other, the primary interest of many inexpensive exploitation films is prurient. In some cases, both are true.
So, like I said, production value pretty much. I would class Shrek stuff as Exploitation movie equivalents (which can still be low budget and good, but they are exploiting something to gain their target market).
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Finally read the article. It was pretty inane, for reasons aptly summarized by the first comment on the page. The writer seems to equate the presence of humor (intentional or otherwise) with B-movie material. He's smart enough to acknowledge that good satire is as tough to write as good drama, but that still doesn't prevent him from spending much of the article addressing this one ridiculous point.
EDIT: Also, Shadow of the Colossus went greatest hits and I generally got the impression that it sold quite well. Were its development costs just stratospheric or something?
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That is how the rumor mill goes anyway El Cid. Fantastic game that cost an arm and a leg to make IIRC.
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Upon actually reading the article instead of skimming, the whole concept is not worth paying attention to in the first place. It seems more like they needed to crank out an article and were putting the validity of their Humanities degree (re: Bullshit skill) to the test.
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GH is still low-cost? I figured the record companies are so desperate for cash they were furiously attempting to rape your delicate rectums with licensing fees.
Yeah, me too. I assumed the reason the new games had so many master tracks was because they were profitable enough to be worth the cost, not because the companies were actually being reasonable about licensing.
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Much as I don't like some of the aspects of their games, Nippon Ichi is probably the best example of doing what I'd imagine as being a B-game; NI caters to hardcore fans who are willing to forgive dated graphics in exchange for a certain brand of humor and gameplay. I'm sure there are equivalent publishers for medium-quality action games. The Wii itself is definitely on this train as well; development costs are way lower when you can't tempt yourself into trying to have the absolute most cutting edge HD graphics. I can't imagine that Sony spent THAT much on Wild Arms 4, but all it needed to do was be a modest success.
<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
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GH is still low-cost? I figured the record companies are so desperate for cash they were furiously attempting to rape your delicate rectums with licensing fees.
Yeah, me too. I assumed the reason the new games had so many master tracks was because they were profitable enough to be worth the cost, not because the companies were actually being reasonable about licensing.
Oh, well that's true. Licencing fees for music are considerably smaller than some of the licencing fees game companies pay, though.
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Metroid composite: Hence the "or better" part of the returns I mentioned. Wii Play is certainly cheap yet brings in low "or better" returns; a lot better in Wii Play's case. (Though not really fair to call it crapware like I listed.) The high cost, low return games are the things that put studios out of business, so don't expect to sell many companies on making them - at best, they're prestige projects like Shenmue that arguably sell the system and build goodwill even if sales aren't as much as hoped.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
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The high cost, low return games are the things that put studios out of business, so don't expect to sell many companies on making them - at best, they're prestige projects like Shenmue that arguably sell the system and build goodwill even if sales aren't as much as hoped.
Actually no: the majority of videogames don't make money. 4 years ago it was something like 90% of all games made fell below profit levels. These days I'm guessing lower development costs and a broader casual market has made that number more reasonable (which is good; the industry probably would have crashed if the Wii and its ilk hadn't come along). But...generally the current business model of the game industry is...try 10 things, 9 of them fail, one of them sticks and makes you ridiculous amounts of money, then you milk that franchise for the next several years.
EDIT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxiFl_1tQw
(Video) cool DJ controller tool (arcade buttons on a sampler, seems like).
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1909382
(video) Even more Chuck Norrisy than Chuck Norris himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cilLKufYOhE&feature=PlayList&p=DF47A3D566CBDE16&index=1
(video) Know your internet meme (This lesson: FAIL).
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF47A3D566CBDE16&search_query=meme
(videos) more know your internete memes.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
NISA's been seriously slacking off as of late. Their translations always had a few glaring grammar errors and typos (*Waves to MK.*), but they've gone into "FFT beats up and yanks your lunch money in recess" with Rhapsody DS and, more notably, AT2, which even introduced gamebreaking glitches that didn't exist in the original because they were lazy.
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http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/vhs-videos
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8607/zombievsninja.jpg) (http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zombievsninja.jpg)
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/zombievsninja.jpg/1/w420.png) (http://g.imageshack.us/img412/zombievsninja.jpg/1/)
My new goal in life is to own this movie.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
NISA's been seriously slacking off as of late. Their translations always had a few glaring grammar errors and typos (*Waves to MK.*), but they've gone into "FFT beats up and yanks your lunch money in recess" with Rhapsody DS and, more notably, AT2, which even introduced gamebreaking glitches that didn't exist in the original because they were lazy.
If anything, giving them a B-rating after AT 2 is being way, way too nice.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
NISA's been seriously slacking off as of late. Their translations always had a few glaring grammar errors and typos (*Waves to MK.*), but they've gone into "FFT beats up and yanks your lunch money in recess" with Rhapsody DS and, more notably, AT2, which even introduced gamebreaking glitches that didn't exist in the original because they were lazy.
If anything, giving them a B-rating after AT 2 is being way, way too nice.
Seriously. Why exactly are you defending them after the disasters in localization their last couple games have been? I mean, I enjoyed AT2 a lot but that localization job was fucking pathetic. It's like they didn't hire any editors OR playtesters.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
NISA's been seriously slacking off as of late. Their translations always had a few glaring grammar errors and typos (*Waves to MK.*), but they've gone into "FFT beats up and yanks your lunch money in recess" with Rhapsody DS and, more notably, AT2, which even introduced gamebreaking glitches that didn't exist in the original because they were lazy.
If anything, giving them a B-rating after AT 2 is being way, way too nice.
Seriously. Why exactly are you defending them after the disasters in localization their last couple games have been? I mean, I enjoyed AT2 a lot but that localization job was fucking pathetic. It's like they didn't hire any editors OR playtesters.
So it is like a B-Game?
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I dunno. Would dubious achievements in otaku vocabulary (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-x-button/2009-02-11) make you more or less of a B-game?
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http://notalwaysright.com/preserving-life-1-up-at-a-time/1880
Not Always Right is generally good, but that one seems particularly relevant for this board.
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...He... he he he he. I'm going to go around screaming about people saving my fire monkey and see how long it takes for people to lead me to the hospital.
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<randomjab>I'm pretty sure NISA does "B-localizations" now too.</randomjab>
Them's fightin' words! >:(
NISA's been seriously slacking off as of late. Their translations always had a few glaring grammar errors and typos (*Waves to MK.*), but they've gone into "FFT beats up and yanks your lunch money in recess" with Rhapsody DS and, more notably, AT2, which even introduced gamebreaking glitches that didn't exist in the original because they were lazy.
If anything, giving them a B-rating after AT 2 is being way, way too nice.
Seriously. Why exactly are you defending them after the disasters in localization their last couple games have been? I mean, I enjoyed AT2 a lot but that localization job was fucking pathetic. It's like they didn't hire any editors OR playtesters.
I haven't been in the country since Rhapsody DS and AT2 have been released... I haven't played them.
It's a shame to hear that the quality of their localizations has gone down... I'm a big fan of their older releases.
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It's worth recapping what they did to AT2 then, since it was really bad.
First, as there apparantly wasn't enough room for two complete voice tracks, they removed large portions of the JP dubbing (including some important stuff too, I think? Tal should know the details). The English track is similarly incomplete, meaning large segments of the game that were voiced in the original are unvoiced no matter what language you pick.
Second, the game has a significant number of spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Third, there's some sort of save-corrupting glitch that killed Snow's file permanently.
Fourth, there's a game-freezing bug that forces you to beat a certain boss before the end of the third defense phase, whatever that means. Said boss is both required to complete the game *and* is fought 15 times in an aftergame sidequest with increasing difficulty each time, making that sidequest impossible to complete.
On, and NISA refused to do anything to fix these issues, especially the last one.
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A little while ago, mc linked Bulbous Bouffant, a sketch by some top-notch Canadian Comedians named The Vestibules (nee Radio Free Vestibule). I didn't know their stuff was still kicking around, but I've loved these guys since I was a kid. Here are three things of theirs that are even more infinitely awesome.
Laurence Olivier For Diet Coke
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9dppxf
AA on a Field Trip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/52otbe
and my personal favorite...
Zalgon 26 McGee
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yejpzm
"I share your biological makeup, and your morals."
so good.
sorry for the format. I couldn't find a painless service for just hosting them as audio.
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It's worth recapping what they did to AT2 then, since it was really bad.
First, as there apparantly wasn't enough room for two complete voice tracks, they removed large portions of the JP dubbing (including some important stuff too, I think? Tal should know the details). The English track is similarly incomplete, meaning large segments of the game that were voiced in the original are unvoiced no matter what language you pick.
Second, the game has a significant number of spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Third, there's some sort of save-corrupting glitch that killed Snow's file permanently.
Fourth, there's a game-freezing bug that forces you to beat a certain boss before the end of the third defense phase, whatever that means. Said boss is both required to complete the game *and* is fought 15 times in an aftergame sidequest with increasing difficulty each time, making that sidequest impossible to complete.
On, and NISA refused to do anything to fix these issues, especially the last one.
There are also segments where the Japanese VA is still in the game even if you picked the English one, and one commonly recurring segment has an intro that was never translated so the text still shows up in Japanese.
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That is pretty heinous...
Are all of NISA's recent localizations this bad?
I mean, even one bad release kind of lowers my once-spotless opinion of them, but I'd like to figure out if there's some reason for the sudden drop in quality...
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I distinctly recall Dis2's translation needing at least a month extra with an editor 'cause it was kinda unpolished. AT2 is just plain special though.
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First, as there apparantly wasn't enough room for two complete voice tracks, they removed large portions of the JP dubbing (including some important stuff too, I think? Tal should know the details). The English track is similarly incomplete, meaning large segments of the game that were voiced in the original are unvoiced no matter what language you pick.
Specifically, the original JP track had about 10k lines, while the COMBINED TOTAL of the JP/US tracks on the US version has about 9k, that is, 4.5k or less than half of the original each. Things taken out also includes basically the entire ending and a bunch of late cosmosphere stuff.
Third, there's some sort of save-corrupting glitch that killed Snow's file permanently.
To be fair, I'm not sure this is a localization issue, and am partially convinced that it might be Snow's memory card. Gust games have always had weird save mechanics in general, and there's nothing NISA can do about that anyway.
Fourth, there's a game-freezing bug that forces you to beat a certain boss before the end of the third defense phase, whatever that means. Said boss is both required to complete the game *and* is fought 15 times in an aftergame sidequest with increasing difficulty each time, making that sidequest impossible to complete.
Think Valkyrie Profile style battle system. Third defense phase would be the third time the enemy side attacks, so you get three turns before then (unless their speed stat is higher or something). It's not hard to kill the boss in three turns in the required fight (I could've done it in two if I unleashed my charged magic on turn 2 but I was going for overkill for lulz). The optional fights are doable by abusing an oversight in the battle mechanics, but that's too much of a pain and boring anyway.
Are all of NISA's recent localizations this bad?
They're... more just really halfassed. For Rhapsody DS they just yoinked the old Atlus translation and used it word for word, complete with grammatical errors. The extra content exclusive to the DS version was never translated because I guess they were just too lazy.
And really, as people have said, all of their releases in the last while have had grammatical errors all over the place. I assume they don't have a proofreader and in the case of Ar tonelico 2, they just had some third graders translate it (actually I think third graders would have done a better job grammatically at least).
Personally, I don't find these game ruining, but NISA has become really really lazy as of late. It's really frustrating because these are actually good games they're dealing with. I really wanted to see the extra content in Rhapsody DS... (Also, Cherie ranking hype!)
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http://www.instantrimshot.com/
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http://exiledonline.com/digging-up-victorville%E2%80%99s-speculative-fossil-record/all/1/
Mmmmmm the sweet sweet aftertaste of hubris. Seriously economic downturn leading to the demolition of still new buildings (Some still being built!) in suburban areas where they are only going to be replaced by another home is just sick.
Edit - Actually this as well
http://exiledonline.com/how-the-bums-lost-the-class-war-of-2009/all/1/
The tour bus of AIG executives homes apparently pissed its pants and died. Fucking fail.
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http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/playback/playback-42/1310463 (http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/playback/playback-42/1310463) (Video)
Some websites selling shiny new Dreamcasts for $99 to compete with other used consoles for recession sales.
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Actually, I don't know why they brought that up as something new, that's been around for ages. I've seen it linked on Dreamcast homebrew sites for years.
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Yahoo is a horrible news source for game information.
Shock.
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Me? Not being up to date on something?
SHOCK.
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More like the existence of cheap Dreamcasts only being noteworthy during a recession is not shocking. I mean I had fun with the one I used to play, but fuck me it isn't worth giving a shit about enough to be up to date on the going rate of them.
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That's not even cheap. New Dreamcasts sold for $30 at the end of their run. And I still didn't buy one.
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Hell, Gamecubes sell for $30 right now, and it has ports of half of the DC's good games.
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And PS 2's already sell for $99 new, and already crushed Dreamcasts in the past.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfYAJJYMqg
(video) Prank on free hugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWF4x01MkzE
(video) More hug related videos, this time with police officers.
http://thehuntforgollum.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
(video) The Hunt For Gollum; only watched the trailers so far, but looks pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYSGVvA4ojE
(video) Creepy old toy.
http://vimeo.com/4366452?pg=embed&sec=
(video) Interesting 3D control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkl9rtttog
(video) ridiculous 80s traier -- Gymkata
http://www.cracked.com/article_17299_6-famous-characters-you-didnt-know-were-shameless-rip-offs.html
6 famous comic characters you didn't know were rip-offs.
http://gizmodo.com/5234125/protect-yourself-against-the-swine-flu-with-style
Swine flu masks as a fashion statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-DGrWry6k
(video) iSnort.
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White Snake - Slide It In (http://www.jrdeputyaccountant.com/2009/05/ny-fedgoldman-connection-erupts-into.html)
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5078845/
Always fun when your friendly local police force is basically stripped of authority by the state and the senior officers are arrested on a raft of charges.
District Attorney Edward Grannis said he has also dismissed the majority of the police department's pending misdemeanor cases. He said he suspects senior officers of lying and directing other officers to fabricate facts in police reports.
"We can no longer rely upon the basic presumed integrity of the work product of this department," he said.
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Also backing up a bit, I realized what I suspect is a perfect example of a B-game: the .hack series. Build the engine once, pump out 4 chapters worth of gameplay, with the last 3 being really cheap to make. Profit, even if sales are only so-so. (Admittedly, the anime series tie-in surely helped, and they didn't skimp the budget on that. Well at least for graphics. The pacing budget was apparently $0.)
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Also backing up a bit, I realized what I suspect is a perfect example of a B-game: the .hack series. Build the engine once, pump out 4 chapters worth of gameplay, with the last 3 being really cheap to make. Profit, even if sales are only so-so. (Admittedly, the anime series tie-in surely helped, and they didn't skimp the budget on that. Well at least for graphics. The pacing budget was apparently $0.)
Oh they did, at least for .hack//roots. That was totally made on the extreme cheap. .hack//sign was less so, but it also helps when most of the shots are stills and there's little action and character movement.
I would have to agree though, much as I like the franchise. The premise SCREAMS B-Movie, and the games are pretty much copypastas of the first installment. (Except maybe Mutation from Infection, which was different enough story/plotwise to be decent). GU suffers badly from this though.
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Also backing up a bit, I realized what I suspect is a perfect example of a B-game: the .hack series. Build the engine once, pump out 4 chapters worth of gameplay, with the last 3 being really cheap to make. Profit, even if sales are only so-so. (Admittedly, the anime series tie-in surely helped, and they didn't skimp the budget on that. Well at least for graphics. The pacing budget was apparently $0.)
Oh they did, at least for .hack//roots. That was totally made on the extreme cheap. .hack//sign was less so, but it also helps when most of the shots are stills and there's little action and character movement.
I would have to agree though, much as I like the franchise. The premise SCREAMS B-Movie, and the games are pretty much copypastas of the first installment. (Except maybe Mutation from Infection, which was different enough story/plotwise to be decent). GU suffers badly from this though.
All of that places it well in the Exploitation market as well. Edit - Possibly more so than the B-Movie area depending on how you want to put B-Movies in wanting to be quality productions and what you may think of .hack.
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http://kotaku.com/5240794/ (http://kotaku.com/5240794/)
Microsoft has finally come up with the ultimate DRM! So restrictive, even the people who buy Broken Steel aren't allowed to play it!
Alternatively, you could name it "Seriously, why would you name it 'BROKEN Steel?'" but every news site is already using a variation on that theme.
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http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
(webgame) Simple dumb game, but somehow addictive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8xdis9SVk
(video) Little Kuriboh reviews X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2784287/homemade_real_wolverine_like_claws_x_men/
(video) Wolverine claws.
http://newsinfilm.com/?p=13991
(video) Onion on the new Star Trek.
http://www.blizzard.com/us/
Starcraft 2 beta opt-in.
www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5559&sequence=0
Interesting report--apparently recognizing gay marriages would increase total tax revenues.
http://www.percussa.com/demos/
(video) audiocubes; weird stuff.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/07/police-sikhs-bulletproof-turbans
cool, huh? also, nice game, mc.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090507/ts_alt_afp/lifestyleushomelessmarriagehousing_20090507074519
If that giant one word title isn't clear, it's about homeless people from D.C. getting married.
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http://www.rolcats.com/
Russian lolcats translated into English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIoJZdKIAE
(video) rapping alice in wonderland.
http://konamicodesites.com/
Remember a few weeks ago when the Konami code made the ESPN website fill with unicorns and rainbows? That's not up anymore, but other sites recognize the konami code now.
EDIT: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/02/11/7596539.aspx
Finally, the Ctrl+ScrollLock stuff is partially explained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoYK4b_q24
(video) Live action My Little Pony.
http://www.cynical-c.com/?cat=85
Someone took all the one-star reviews on Amazon of classic movies and books, and gathered them into a single website.
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good reason to be thankful Ben Franklin was unsuccessful in getting the turkey to be the national bird of the US: not having to feel bad when they are killed. Well, you can, but you don't have any, y'know, patriotic obligation to.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/08/australia-kangaroo-cull
Also:
http://www.slate.com/id/2217905/
Topical Star Trek is topical. I love that show. Even though it was frequently (very, eye-rollingly) bad it was willing to unashamedly address a whole smörgåsbord subjects both topical (torture) and not (robot seks). Let it all hang out there.
http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_06_a_ketchup.html
Is Heinz the pinnacle of ketchup? Maybe so.
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More Cracked listness, found while digging through the site after Met linked to it a few posts back:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17093_10-awesome-ads-traumatizing-children.html
This might've been linked to before (sounds like something folks here would post) but if it has, I can't remember it.
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http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_06_a_ketchup.html
Is Heinz the pinnacle of ketchup? Maybe so.
I have never thought so deeply about ketchup. Very interesting read though.
More Cracked listness, found while digging through the site after Met linked to it a few posts back:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17093_10-awesome-ads-traumatizing-children.html
This might've been linked to before (sounds like something folks here would post) but if it has, I can't remember it.
1. I've always been of the opinion that PlayStation commercials aren't very good.
2. HOLY SHIT I kind of want to eat Tarako now.
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good reason to be thankful Ben Franklin was unsuccessful in getting the turkey to be the national bird of the US: not having to feel bad when they are killed. Well, you can, but you don't have any, y'know, patriotic obligation to.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/08/australia-kangaroo-cull
Is Heinz the pinnacle of ketchup? Maybe so.
Protesting that shit is retarded. Kangaroo culls are part of the looking after our country. Fucktards, do you love that whole Australian Outback propaganda? I bet like fuck you do if you have that strong a national identity. That stuff is a pretty fucking fragile ecosystem, one that cannot handle overpopulation by any fucking species very well at all. Culling is necessary for your national identity to be upheld. Dickheads.
Also yes.
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I love the subtitle to the article:
"Protesters descend on Australian army base as marksmen slaughter kangaroos to protect other species"
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Yeah. Kangaroos are kind of cool (I guess?), but they are not exactly a protected species. They can quite easily reach the level of vermin in some places if left unchecked.
Edit - This really helps the argument for the Roo Meat industry, which I fully support but will not actually eat.
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http://www.cynical-c.com/?cat=85
Someone took all the one-star reviews on Amazon of classic movies and books, and gathered them into a single website.
I think I'm going to be depressed... So much concentrated fail... it's hard to even laugh at...
This one from Catcher in the Rye bugged me:
the book is nothing but a democratic self centered view of life. i could care less about reading a book with a cry-baby wining about his life. this is the type of action that drags this country into the black hole of depression. if a book moves a person and it does not have the words holy bible on the front of it, it shows how lost the person it “moved” really is.
It's not the worst one, more like an example of most of these reviews. Also, unsurprisingly, every single classic novel has at least one (if not 20) review complaining about having been forced to read the book for a class.
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http://www.cynical-c.com/?cat=85
Someone took all the one-star reviews on Amazon of classic movies and books, and gathered them into a single website.
Krrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
On a more articulate note,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmen3jCNKvM
Finally, the Ctrl+ScrollLock stuff is partially explained.
Is this supposed to link to a clip from Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Clip about the Boyscouts? 'Cause if so I dun get it.
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http://kotaku.com/5245005/pokemon-gold-and-silver-getting-ds-remakes
In case you haven't heard yet.
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Deserves an X rating for all of the gratuitous violence. Little to offer to a Christian-based viewer who ascribes to humanist values.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmen3jCNKvM
Finally, the Ctrl+ScrollLock stuff is partially explained.
Is this supposed to link to a clip from Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Clip about the Boyscouts? 'Cause if so I dun get it.
Oh, whoops, copy/paste error there. Article I meant to link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/02/11/7596539.aspx
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbN7m29RlBU
Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen, better known as Pinky and The Brain (although not in that order) decided to record a video of them goofing around at a Starbucks. It's (predictably) awesome.
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http://exiledonline.com/locked-n-loaded-for-the-coming-obama-lypse/all/1/
More news from Victorville, CA! Ammo shortages. Apparently happening fairly wide spread. People who don't own guns buying ammunition. America is weird.
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People who don't own guns buying ammunition. America is weird.
For after they pry the guns out of the other peoples' cold, dead hands when Obamazilla attacks with his thermonuclear firebreath, Grefter.
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People who don't own guns buying ammunition. America is weird.
We point the bullets at the enemies of America and trigger them with the fires of our patriotic ardor!
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People who don't own guns, or people who don't legally own guns?
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You can't have a gun if it's not legal! That's against the law, man.
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http://www.the-isb.com/?p=1539
I...I'm not sure what to say about this.
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http://www.the-isb.com/?p=1539
I...I'm not sure what to say about this.
I find myself quite pleased by this.
Is that a bad thing?
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http://www.actionagecomics.com/comics/SolomonStone01/pages/SS0100.htm
WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mkcpQD_DC8
Great game show... or greatest game show?
Warning: Japanese.
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Without looking at the link, is this the one where guys have to say tongue twisters really fast or get hit in the nuts?
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It's slightly more entertaining than that. I mostly posted it because I thought it looked kind of fun and challenging, though it's definitely something I can't imagine ever seeing on American TV.
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http://www.actionagecomics.com/comics/SolomonStone01/pages/SS0100.htm
WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED.
If you like comics about half-vampire private detective skateboard champions, you should be reading the ISB as a matter of course. It's your own fault.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_hoaxer
Student uses fake quote to test how quickly news outlets will pick up on fake information. Result: Wikipedia 1, World News 0.
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http://kotaku.com/5246177/is-this-new-beyond-good--evil-2-footage
(video) supposedly Beyond Good & Evil 2.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910328
(video) Cat in a suitcase.
http://rathergood.com/bagger288
(Video) completely ridiculous song about mining equipment.
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/gamer/trailer
(video) "Gamer" -- Interesting trailer for a distopian future.
http://youngstown.craigslist.org/cto/1163953978.html
"Can't go with you--too many bees"
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http://youngstown.craigslist.org/cto/1163953978.html
"Can't go with you--too many bees"
Someone needs to show up with a flamethrower.
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"Our bees will blot out the sun!"
"Then we will hug in the shade!"
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That (hypthetically) BG&E2 footage looks awesome.
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http://youngstown.craigslist.org/cto/1163953978.html
"Can't go with you--too many bees"
Someone needs to show up with a flamethrower.
That link's since been deletd by the poster. Anyone care to summarize?
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It had a picture of a truck covered in bees up for sale, the guy says stuff like he hasn't been able to get near it for weeks without getting stung, test drive at your own risk, "can't go with you--too many bees", etc.
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It's been archived:
http://valdelane.net/journal/2009/5/11/cant-go-with-you-too-many-bees.html
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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2009/05/13/why_a_calorie_isnt_just_a_calorie/
a level-headed look at the implications of some recent dietary studies
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6191387.ece
why we like Wolvie. (really, you only need the panel up top, but the article's nice, too.)
http://www.boston.com/travel/boston/gallery/bestofsecretspaces/
Secret spaces in Boston. I know some of you like this sort of thing. Better if you've seen a lot of the city, these are mostly the unseen side of local landmarks. Some are better than others, but who doesn't want a look at MIT's nuclear reactor?
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http://kotaku.com/5245005/pokemon-gold-and-silver-getting-ds-remakes
In case you haven't heard yet.
Late due to lack of internet. But seriously, could they pick some worse names? Heart and Soul? Gack.
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Don't you mean Gackt?
(http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/membre_groupe/photo/Gackt-3503.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbsMtEv2CE
(Video) Pixel Junk Eden 1-4 trailer. Awesome 2-D water.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1103326@N23/pool/
people using a swing on the SF BART.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
(video) WolframAlpha. Seems to be a rather interesting project put together by the mathematica people.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58642
You know when 3D Realms closed its doors finally canceling Duke Nukem Forever? According to the contract they have with Take-Two, they must deliver DNF. Take-Two is now suing 3D Realms.
http://gameinformer.com/News/Story/200905/N09.0513.1730.58703.htm
DJ Shadow interviewed on DJ Hero
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbsMtEv2CE
(Video) Pixel Junk Eden 1-4 trailer. Awesome 2-D water.
Oh, that looks like a lot of fun. Are there a lot of games of this type out there that I'm not thinking of? One of the comments mentioned Subterrainia for Genesis, a game that did gravity and inertia very well, and Oids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oids) comes to mind (a fantastic old-school game for the Mac owners, with a great level-editor and teleporters that treated you like a ping-pong ball) but I'm not coming up with a lot else.
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Miki: Makes me think of Solar Jetman for the NES. Used varying levels of gravity (and anti-gravity) to sometimes annoying effect. Though this game looks much prettier and more fun, obviously.
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I appreciate that there are still so many games out there that aren't overdone. Simple concept aided by massive processing power = fun.
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http://www.manhuntshop.com/julian-snelling-rosebud-anal-jewelry_257.html (NSFW)
Best part is the tag line. "Surprise someone next time you go out with stainless steel butt plug jewelry."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EbsMtEv2CE
(Video) Pixel Junk Eden 1-4 trailer. Awesome 2-D water.
Oh, that looks like a lot of fun. Are there a lot of games of this type out there that I'm not thinking of? One of the comments mentioned Subterrainia for Genesis, a game that did gravity and inertia very well, and Oids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oids) comes to mind (a fantastic old-school game for the Mac owners, with a great level-editor and teleporters that treated you like a ping-pong ball) but I'm not coming up with a lot else.
Gravitar for the Atari 2600. 1980s processing power bitches!
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Meet the Spy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMZOkTzvaw)
The part with the Medic is creepy as shit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfxUvXL-ZI&feature=channel
Kajetokun does his thing to swine flu. Alarmingly catchy.
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Warning: This link has Persona 4 spoilers (Late November is adequate to know the events).
This being said, it's pretty damn funny.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g168/Taishyr/zPers4cd.jpg
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Had that as my wallpaper for quite a while.
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http://www.offworld.com/2009/05/the-glistening-ecstacy-of-namc.html
(video) Quite possibly the weirdest game I've ever seen. Makes Katamari look tame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoApyhKzNg
(video) Projectile drinking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxs7Y7ulrM
(video) Vaguely awesome zombie short film - "I Love Sarah Jane"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3fED8EXl4
(video) Next project from ICO/Shadow of the Collosus people.
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http://kotaku.com/5263586/team-fortress-2-goes-free-this-weekend
Just in case you PC gaming folks haven't gotten the game yet. Willing to bet it'll go on sale too.
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http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/sci_fi_channel_aims_to_shed_ge.php
Sci-Fi channel be changing their name to SyFy to increase their popularity with the womenfolk.
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http://kotaku.com/5263586/team-fortress-2-goes-free-this-weekend
Just in case you PC gaming folks haven't gotten the game yet. Willing to bet it'll go on sale too.
Time to see if my laptop can run it!
EDIT: Time to see if I can actually connect to Steam sometime in the next few days!
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It's time to play...WHACK-A-KITTY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_udqEp_YR4
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to increase their popularity with the womenfolk.
Women like to watch TV about men, so including 2 Ys, indicating a high Y-chromosome count, is a masterstroke. Clearly, they are playing 13-dimensional chess, while we mere mortals try to figure out the checkers board.
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to increase their popularity with the womenfolk.
Women like to watch TV about men, so including 2 Ys, indicating a high Y-chromosome count, is a masterstroke. Clearly, they are playing 13-dimensional chess, while we mere mortals try to figure out the checkers board.
Honestly, if Howe had cited -that- as the reason for changing the name, I'd be all over it. And honestly, the name doesn't bother me.
But he decided to change it because he didn't want the channel to be associated with 'geeky things'? .... That's just... so out of touch and insulting. I never watch TV anymore, and I certainly don't watch American cable channels in Japan. But I wish I did, just so I could boycott the channel... That article is just frustrating levels of stupid and offensive.
-Djinn
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http://www.amazon.com/Three-T-Shirt-Available-Various-Sizes/dp/B000NZW3IY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Read the reviews.
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http://www.amazon.com/Three-T-Shirt-Available-Various-Sizes/dp/B000NZW3IY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Read the reviews.
Awesome.
4chan flood? SA forums got bored?
Does Amazon's review section have its own collection of assholes that band together For Great Mockery?
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http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/fox_5_links/Top_50_Text_Acronyms_Parents_Should_Know_052009
oh dear, Fox...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/politics/22obamatron.html?hp
every once in a while, I wonder about us as a culture...
http://www.eandppub.com/2009/05/how-did-that-soldier-in-boxer-shorts-end-up-in-nyt.html
ok, we're cool.
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http://www.amazon.com/Three-T-Shirt-Available-Various-Sizes/dp/B000NZW3IY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Read the reviews.
I already had the Two Wolf Moon shirt but decided that it was worth the hype to upgrade to the Three Wolf Moon shirt....
Big mistake. I found that the "fierce" factor i instilled on others was not the full %50 more that you would expect with %50 more wolves. I tested it with equipment i have access to at work and it was only 27% more fierce.
If you take into account the extra ink weight required to print the additional wolf; this shirt may cost you thousands of dollars in food calories over your life span.
I just don't think that this makes sound fiscal sense in this economy. Especially with the fierceness not meeting what you would expect from the additional wolf.
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I recognize maybe...three acronyms in TranceHime's Fox link. Like 1337--I know that one.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/OVERhenges.html
American Stonehenges.
http://www.gougoule.com/v-68-biere-chinoise.html
(video) Chinese beer commercial. Completely insane.
http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/sponsors/dance-flick/dance-flick.html
(video) Virtual Office Dancer.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindseyweber/the-most-ironic-tattoo-ru
Awesome Tatoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o
(video, trailer) Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
http://vimeo.com/3534334
(video) Creepy short film.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o
(video, trailer) Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
XD That's the cheesiest thing I've seen in years. Awesome.
Also:
Most of those text acronyms do not seem standardized. Oh, I'm sure -someone's- using them somewhere, but for the most they're not going to be widespread enough that people (including the children of these paranoid parents) can actually use them to communicate... >.>;;
Especially the number codes.
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Most of those text acronyms do not seem standardized. Oh, I'm sure -someone's- using them somewhere, but for the most they're not going to be widespread enough that people (including the children of these paranoid parents) can actually use them to communicate... >.>;;
Especially the number codes.
Yeah, everyone knows 8 actually stands for sideways boobs.
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Most of those text acronyms do not seem standardized. Oh, I'm sure -someone's- using them somewhere, but for the most they're not going to be widespread enough that people (including the children of these paranoid parents) can actually use them to communicate... >.>;;
Especially the number codes.
A lot of number codes/mixed numbers/letters are pretty universal, though.
1337 = elite
420 = marijuana
187 = magic the gathering creatures with a comes into play triggered ability
h8 = hate, gr8 = great,
b7 = banned
IBB7 = in before ban
<3 = heart
n00b = derogatory term for newbie
w00t = exclamation of pleasure
j00 = you
8) = smiley face with big eyes
:3 = catface
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A lot of number codes/mixed numbers/letters are pretty universal, though.
1337 = one thousand three hundred and thirty-seven
420 = four hundred and twenty
187 = one hundred and eighty-seven
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/
Oh you.
It's fun time with last.fm, CBS and the RIAA.
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I assume whatever number 15 is doesn't show up for me due to a plugin or something, but it is pretty awesome seeing 15. Nothing means Nothing in leet. HARDCORE.
Also I am not sure, are they saying in the article though. Are they saying "watch out your kids are talking like this!!!!!" or are they saying that these kinds of words are pertinent to the kinds of conversations parents have? I am assuming the latter because it is imperative that you don't get caught masturbating to leatherdaddy scat porn while you text message someone with your 90 year old mother in the room. You only do that when your dad is there.
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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4988255/1/Halflife_Fulllife_Consequences_Free_Man
Ladies and gentlemen, Peter Chimera has a successor at last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWgEnnmcv4
And here's the above fanfic acted out with Gary's Mod.
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There is a whole series of those things each as hilarious as the last but not as good as NO JOHN YOU ARE THE DEMONS.
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"I HAVE TO KILL FAST AND BULLETS TOO SLOW!"
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/25/taser_mechanism/
Just to make you feel safe.
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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174369
would you like to beeorder something
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That's a shame. It's a nice store.
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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174369
would you like to beeorder something
Yeah. I used to do all my NYC game shopping there since it was on the way to the old Neutral Ground. +10 points to the article for the Simpsons reference.
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Belongs in IotD for a great deal of the commentary, in my oh so humble opinion. If you wanted to make real profit on games, you'd spend the time and effort involved in selling them yourselves. *grumble* But I'm biased. I like my local GameStop.
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On the other hand (as a chain stores in general go fuck themselves), if you want me to buy games how about you fucking stock them? No I don't want to preorder this game, no I do not want you to order it in. I want you to fucking HAVE STOCK FOR NEWLY RELEASED OR COMING OUT GAMES YOU FUCKERS.
Case in point, I don't think I will see Star Ocean 4 in a fucking game's shop. I will however find it at a store that sells all kinds of media equipment. Fuck you game stores, fuck you.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2009/05/bearded-tschorn-usa-dominates-world-beard-and-moustache-championships.html
I'm so proud of my country.
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what, you don't like competitive facial hair? fine!
how about a fascinating look at the 20th century's most interesting forger:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?ref=opinion
it's not mentioned in this first piece in a series, but some of this guy's paintings were considered among the most intersting of Vermeer's work.
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The quizzes were interesting, at least.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m14BEO1M7C0
(video) Crazy commentary of a "Let's play".
http://www.topgear.com/us/features/more/this-is-not-a-game/
Nissan racecar managers recruit through...Gran Turismo, and find they get really damn good drivers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
(video) making a really fast computer.
http://runpee.com/#app=3e1a&e1bd-RunPeeID=12.164.0&a896-selectedIndex=0
Times in movies when it is safe to run and pee because not much will happen.
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14352249/drawn-to-life-the-next-chapter/videos/drawntolifewii_trl_adventure_52709.html
(video) Interesting create-a-character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mlSWWZ9zQ
(video) Impressive beatboxing.
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what, you don't like competitive facial hair? fine!
how about a fascinating look at the 20th century's most interesting forger:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?ref=opinion
it's not mentioned in this first piece in a series, but some of this guy's paintings were considered among the most intersting of Vermeer's work.
That appears to be a quiz about whether you are liberal or conservative--didn't see anything about forgery.
Also, I am apparently very conservative. EDIT: and score much higher on the "purity" scale than most conservatives.
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Welcome to the club, metroid. Set fire to the nearest filthy liberal and have fun!
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Welcome to the club, metroid. Set fire to the nearest filthy liberal and have fun!
I don't know: wouldn't setting fire to the liberal involve touching them? That sounds potentially unsanitary.
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Flamethrowers. Flamethrowers solve everything.
(Says one of the theoretically dirty liberals)
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Apparently I find more beauty in nature, art, and good people than not only other men, but a good ways above the average woman as well.
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I find beauty in nature. Apparently the rest of existence can go away as far as I'm concerned.
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http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210521/front-mission-evolves-on-360-ps3-pc (http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210521/front-mission-evolves-on-360-ps3-pc)
The new Front Mission game is going to be an Armored Core/Mechassault knockoff. Because when they made the side-scrolling one it was SO GOOD, right?
Fuck.
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Square, you fucking idiots. FM4 was fantastic and what every SRPG/tactics game should aspire to be that is about teamwork.
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I'm quite partial to the first FM, myself. It's mostly the villain and the fact they were ballsy enough to make the main character a second-tier pilot. He's no Sakata/Yang/Paul, that's for damn sure.
Anyway, for some good news: NO MORE HEROES 2!!!!!!! got a new trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekro0rJXZI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekro0rJXZI)
So awesome. And hey, a black dude who throws his hos at Travis and then turns his ghetto blaster in to power arms.
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what, you don't like competitive facial hair? fine!
how about a fascinating look at the 20th century's most interesting forger:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?ref=opinion
it's not mentioned in this first piece in a series, but some of this guy's paintings were considered among the most intersting of Vermeer's work.
That appears to be a quiz about whether you are liberal or conservative--didn't see anything about forgery.
Also, I am apparently very conservative. EDIT: and score much higher on the "purity" scale than most conservatives.
Wow. These quizzes on the Your Morals website are second only to Facebook quizzes in how little sense they make.
"Tell us how relevant each of these things is to determining right and wrong."
--"Whether or not someone is good at math."
WTF? Well, OK, that's only a single question, maybe...
"Agree or disagree: Justice is the most important requirement for a society."
...I... er... but... "Society" is really just interchangeable with "culture" or "civilization" in the way that they're using it, and all that refers to is that a group of humans has found a way to cope with one another beyond the tribal/familial mindset. And justice is a completely arbitrary concept defined by a society. So... I... er... dumb.
"It is better to do good than to do bad."
On a purely semantic-based level this is correct. Anything beyond that oversimplifies everything.
Disgust Test:
"I would rather eat fruit than a piece of paper. Agree/Disagree?"
... I.. er... what.
Dumb. Dumb dumb dumb. Then again, what did I expect from a site like this?
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"Tell us how relevant each of these things is to determining right and wrong."
--"Whether or not someone is good at math."
Strongly Agree!
>_> what?
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dangers of posting multiple links to NYT articles, I suppose. anyway, here's the actual piece on the Vermeer forger.
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/bamboozling-ourselves-part-1/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m14BEO1M7C0
(video) Crazy commentary of a "Let's play".
Ow. My Brain-meats.
Warning to others: Do not watch while sleepy. It makes the whole experience painful.
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?printable=true
Fascinating look at the most expensive and cheapest medical care in the US.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5417221/Guantanamo-the-Xbox-game.html
Just a bit controversial.
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Mega LSD Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwI7vlSUbQ). Posted that in chat the other day.
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http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/05/29/chair/
Maniac kills 5 with self-made electric chair
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designed a device with which he planned to kill people who passed by in their cars – one part of the machine would remotely stop the car engine and the other part, resembling a door mat – would electrocute and kill the exiting driver.
While staying in the pre-trial detention center, the criminal said that he also planned to make a device that would erase people’s memory with an electro-magnetic ray.
Russia has better crazies than anywhere else in the world.
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http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/
I hope this is a joke.
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http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/
I hope this is a joke.
It's a Christian agenda to troll the internet.
Because everything is part of an 'agenda' nowadays.
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I would be very depressed if it wasn't, because "homogay" is too great to be thought up accidentally.
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That is some fantastic trolling. I also like the link to Sarah Palin for President in '12 as well, it gives it that authentic feel.
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http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
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I....I..........wow.
No Ron Gilbert, sadly, or Tim Schafer (not that that one had any chance of happening unless Doublefine made the game). But still...holy shit.
Edit: Wow, the remake of the first game looks great. The fact that it's shot-for-shot and puzzle-for-puzzle doesn't enthuse me, but the presentation is first-rate and funny as hell. I'm glad nobody walked past my workstation and saw me grinning like an idiot at my monitor instead of, you know, working.
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Regarding the trolling link:
"Recent posts: God Blesses America With Super Laser"
Kojima-calibur trolling skills at work, indeed.
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I would be very depressed if it wasn't, because "homogay" is too great to be thought up accidentally.
They're not that clever. Mango from SNL used it a decade ago, and getting to speak that word was the single high point in Chris Kattan's career.
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The 404 Error message was created by an unholy menagerie of vile atheists, Democrats, liberals and Godless Soviets in the Year of our Lord 1992. We're told through electronic pathogens and demonic incantation rituals, they managed to create ways to electronically limit the amount of lost souls and seekers of truth that 'web servers' could process in a given minute.
Though their machinations are evil and everlasting, through hope, prayer and clicking refresh you can eventually overcome these wicked limits during times when tens of thousands of people flock to ChristWire per hour to discover the works of True Christians.
Mmhmm.
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No Ron Gilbert, sadly
Spoke too soon there.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20052934#itemanchor_20052934
Ron Gilbert's working full-time at Hothead on his new game, but he came by Telltale for a few days to help us beat up and break the season story arc, massage the character motivations, and brainstorm some puzzle design, etc, with the design team. That guy's a pro. I'm looking forward to Deathspank a lot more than I was after working with him even for just a few days.
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http://christwire.org/2009/04/more-proof-marvel-and-dc-comics-promote-homogay-agenda/
I hope this is a joke.
Can't read the article, but it reminds me of the days when I first started reading Marvel comics (and they didn't use words like gay, kinda like how they didn't say the word 'pregnant' on the Mary Tyler Moore show) when James, the dude that ran the local store, explained to me why, in The Incredible Hulk, Achilles thinks it's so funny that Hector and Northstar seem to hit it off so well (or why Achilles was so annoyed when Hector complimented him on his build).
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/cool-guys-dont-look-at-ex_n_209798.html
Also, apparently something worthwhile came of the MTV music awards, go fig.
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Hopefully everyone keeps up with the 2nd best Abridged series out there by TeamFourStar
If not, watch this, and get involved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06DISKajss&feature=PlayList&p=6EC7B047181AD013&index=6&playnext=7&playnext_from=PL
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ugh, so annoying.
"America identifies with the underdog, and you've been an underdog many times in your life, but always the top dog," Reid, D-Nev., said of Sotomayor...
Is there such a thing as not mixing your metaphors? This sentence annoys the hell out of me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/reid-praises-sotomayor-as_n_210353.html
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http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/The-world-s-toughest-golf-tourney-one-hole-thr?urn=golf,167776
Not a golf fan, but this is pretty cool. Nine strokes on a three mile hole? Jesus.
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html
He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2N2O7OcAA
(video) Face transplant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KQh87_V2Q
(video) A movie about Nazi zombies.
http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php
(video) Rather awesome cinematic for Beatles Rockband.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
(video) cute little animation on philosophy and music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCuOrRzoSc&feature=dir
(video) Autotuned news 3.
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html
He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.
That belongs in IotD, not Misc links.
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/765250.html
He'd better get a damn good grade on that paper.
That belongs in IotD, not Misc links.
Agreed, but only because his target audience was a bunch of high schoolers with no influence on political policy whatsoever. Otherwise I agree with his argument and find the tactic evocative if nothing else, which is probably more important than the poignancy of the rest of his argument.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KMAm_228s
Mega Man romhack that looks promising. For some reason I think this was linked before, but I don't remember it and it's awesome enough to warrant another one
http://www.threadless.com/profile/708623/Blake_B/blog/441167/Pokemon_With_Human_Faces_51_75
See the URL
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Our Lady of Metaphors:
http://vandonovan.livejournal.com/1088311.html?#cutid1
This may have been posted before, but I've only just discovered it.
An... interesting example of Purple Prose taken to the extreme. The LJ posters cover the topic pretty well, but I wanted to share.
"Her face had the fragrance of the gibbous moon."
Yeah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KMAm_228s
Mega Man romhack that looks promising. For some reason I think this was linked before, but I don't remember it and it's awesome enough to warrant another one
http://www.threadless.com/profile/708623/Blake_B/blog/441167/Pokemon_With_Human_Faces_51_75
See the URL
The best Mega Man ROMhack ever is still Mega Crap, a ROMhack of Mega Man 5 that starred Grab Me, Man (because the author didn't know how to change the number of characters displayed). Grab Me, Man gives Hoe (your character's name) the Balls Hold, giving him the power to hold balls and also reverse gravity using "Homo Up" tiles.
It's basically the best thing ever.
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Because we had to have some bad news this week:
Activision sues to block Brütal Legend release (http://www.kansascity.com/402/story/1233682.html)
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From an earlier article when EA picked Brutal Legends up: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21498
Activision Blizzard Bobby Kotick later explained the decision by claiming that the franchises in question didn’t "have the potential to be exploited every year across every platform, with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of, over time, becoming $100 million-plus franchises".
So basically Activision is taking up the mantle of Videogame Satan from EA now.
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I like Schafer's response: "Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it," Schafer said. "Oh great, now Beyoncé is going to sue me too."
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Noh
Amusing D&D character.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Sameo
Amusing D&D story.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYLx_BnPo6sLU4mJPxtECCt0z6RQD98JVLEG0
Bill's actor from Kill Bill is dead.
http://gizmodo.com/5277456/stem-cell-contact-lenses-cure-blindness-in-less-than-a-month
Cure for blindness through stem cells.
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http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Noh
Amusing D&D character.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Sameo
Amusing D&D story.
Sometimes D&D has the craziest things...
I so would have thought of bringing Noh along.
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Personally? I probably would've wanted to stab Noh. >_>
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At least three people in one of my groups would have simultaneously decided to bring her along.
That's just how we roll.
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Personally? I probably would've wanted to stab Noh. >_>
That's the rest of my party v_v
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Personally? I probably would've wanted to stab Noh. >_>
That's the rest of my party v_v
Well, it just handles the situation so quickly, right? And it's the classic response.
Enter room.
Find shiny things.
Shiny things have guardian.
Guardian stops you from getting shiny things.
You try to get shiny things anyways.
You and guardian commence fighting.
Somebody dies a gruesome death the likes of known aren't known to man nor beast.
Wiener gets shiny things.
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I so would have thought of bringing Noh along.
Had a game where I did pretty much that once. 'Cept instead of a cute girl, it was a talking skull that radiated hideous evil. Or so the paladin says, but I know he's just jealous the skull likes me better.
Seriously, like every talking skull is going to be evil? It's just lonely.
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I so would have thought of bringing Noh along.
Had a game where I did pretty much that once. 'Cept instead of a cute girl, it was a talking skull that radiated hideous evil. Or so the paladin says, but I know he's just jealous the skull likes me better.
Seriously, like every talking skull is going to be evil? It's just lonely.
...Demilich?
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According to the talk page, Sameo is in fact faked. Not that it needed confirmation; I never would have believed that story anyway. (Critical fumble tables that require 3 rolls? What kind of splat book is that? And blatantly obviously the kind of failure described is no failure, so wouldn't be a good choice anyway.) It's an okay story but this is a genre where truth really does make for a much better tale.
Since we are in D&D story mode with a slice of paladins, though. My GM rolled up using the 2nd edition random character generator CD "Minmay," a 1HP Lawful Good Necromancer. With 12 Intelligence (!) and 16 Wisdom (!!). Clearly she was in the wrong profession. Meanwhile my character, Gram, was an undead-hunter type Paladin of the LN God of Death in the Forgotten Realms, Kelemvor (who - and I never read the fiction - apparently was basically LG but cursed such that he couldn't really be good, meaning the fact that they left him LN when he became a God was weird anyway. So LN with strong tendencies toward good.). Gram had 15 Intelligence and 13 Wisdom, 13 being the old minimum stat for Wis for 2nd edition Paladins. So, yes, the Paladin with clericy-divine spells with a higher Int than Wisdom, and the Wizard specialized in Necromancy with higher Wisdom than Intelligence. Go figure. Anyway, in the campaign, Minmay got to play damsel in distress a bit, and we decided after the campaign was over that Gram & Minmay could ride off into the sunset together and get hitched - the Paladin of Death & the Lawful Good Necromancer, aw how sweet. (Thankfully Minmay was not a sleazy lounge singer who somehow stops an intergalactic war.)
In other linky news...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/poland-caused-wwii-russia_n_211415.html
An unorthodox theory of WWII. From the RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE. WTF Russia, just blame all the evil things the Soviet Union did on the previous government and you don't even have to feel guilty.
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Yeah, Sameo is faked. It's still a well told and written story. Noh's real by all reports.
Edit: To be fair, I've rolled a 20 four times in a row before. It was also for initiatives for a bunch of scrubs. It can happen, just...even if it does, odds are it'll be for something stupid. Oh, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/DungeonsAndDragons - This has links to other /tg/ related good stories. You could go to the actual /tg/ archive but you'd wade through dozens of crap topics for one good one. Not recommended.
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Yeah, Sameo is faked. It's still a well told and written story. Noh's real by all reports.
Edit: To be fair, I've rolled a 20 four times in a row before. It was also for initiatives for a bunch of scrubs. It can happen, just...even if it does, odds are it'll be for something stupid. Oh, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/DungeonsAndDragons - This has links to other /tg/ related good stories. You could go to the actual /tg/ archive but you'd wade through dozens of crap topics for one good one. Not recommended.
I rolled 20 20 18 20 once as well. However, this was at the most critical juncture of the game at that point (which also ended up shaping the entire game afterwards). I realize maybe it's a bit fudged, but whee killing a level 18 sorcerer at level 2!
At least three people in one of my groups would have simultaneously decided to bring her along.
That's just how we roll.
Yeeeeeeah. Can totally picture it too. Probably know at least two of the three too.
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I so would have thought of bringing Noh along.
Had a game where I did pretty much that once. 'Cept instead of a cute girl, it was a talking skull that radiated hideous evil. Or so the paladin says, but I know he's just jealous the skull likes me better.
Seriously, like every talking skull is going to be evil? It's just lonely.
...Demilich?
Seriously, fuck you guys. Play Torment.
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I so would have thought of bringing Noh along.
Had a game where I did pretty much that once. 'Cept instead of a cute girl, it was a talking skull that radiated hideous evil. Or so the paladin says, but I know he's just jealous the skull likes me better.
Seriously, like every talking skull is going to be evil? It's just lonely.
...Demilich?
Seriously, fuck you guys. Play Torment.
Indeed. Fuck you both Mr. Hands style.
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http://weeklyworldnews.com/alien-alert/8672/jellyfish-crop-circle/
Crop circle art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA&feature=player_embedded
(video) Literal Version of Total Eclipse of the Heart. AWESOME.
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Not sure if I've posted this before, nor do I remember if I've hyped them a lot, but here...
http://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovEverywhere
ImprovEverywhere is fabulous, and greatly entertaining. Go watch the videos.
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This is just all sorts of Neil Patrick Harris level self-aware awesome.
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/saved-by-the-bell-returns-zack-morris-meets-jimmy-fallon--395
It's scary how little he's aged.
http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2009/06/08/valkyria-fans-we-love-you/
Valkyria Chronicles sales went up 400% during GameDays.
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http://www.thelocal.se/19928/20090607/
The pirate party takes two seates in the EU congress.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-scribblenauts/50735
(video) Scribblernauts. Looks really interesting technology-wise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye7b3bOQ6lY
(video) Magikarp sweeps a team of ubers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxCnZ4Dp3c
(video) hammerpants mob.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/japanese-castle-yuusha-30/45569
(video) "We should totally copy Hydlide's combat, that's a good idea!"
"But sir, Hydlide isn't fun."
"Well then, we'll just have to make it fun!"
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I can say from experience that Half Minute Hero[aka; yuusha 30] is a good game, sooo >_>
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I can say from experience that Half Minute Hero[aka; yuusha 30] is a good game, sooo >_>
It...looks like it is, yeah.
I mean, in standard RPGs I'm not a fan of grinding, but that's because grinding in most games is a broken resource system (you have access to unlimited exp). Or else it will be a very simple closed system (you have access to limited enemies; kill them all = most exp).
In Half Minute Hero it looks like you have three major resources (time, health, and money). Each of these resources can be spent to make the character more powerful (with time you kill more easy enemies; with health you kill harder enemies; with money you buy gear). Most of these resources can be traded for the others in some way (money buys time; money buys health; time fighting enemies can get you money; time running back to the town can get you health; and so on). In other words, there is a proper min-maxing subgame there.
If done right it might be among the deeper RPGs I've played strategy-wise...which is just ironic given that its combat seems to be summed up by "hold right".
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There's also Half Minute Overlord[RTS kinda], Half Minute Princess[shooting game, though not of the danmaku flavor], and Half Minute Knight[haven't unlocked so can't say] modes that also revolve around the 30 seconds mechanics. Neat game overall, really.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRppw5vrs0
Finals from the Junior division of the Philadelphia Pokemon tournament. Notable for a Hitmonchan kicking massive ass, and for something that happens at 2:20 of the video. The guy in the referee shirt is Marriland.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/10/million.words/index.html
The number is in dispute, but I love the idea.
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I don't think usually a single comic strip is worth getting a misc. link on usually, but Dinosaur Comics' current one is particularly awesome:
http://www.qwantz.com/
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http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
Self-explanatory.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061103039.html
Op-Ed writer would humbly like to replace the national anthem. The idea of "My Country Tis of Thee" or "God Bless America" replacing the Star-Spangled banner makes me want to vomit, but "America the Beautiful" I could live with.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1566823.html
Wait, so the highway monster (http://media.newsobserver.com/smedia/2009/06/12/15/46-20090612_monster.standalone.prod_affiliate.3.jpg) is getting its creator prosecuted rather than given a citation of merit for improvement of morale on North Carolina's highways?
If you've been to the Durham area, you know that the construction barrel is pretty much the mascot / symbol of the area anyway.
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Japan, what the hell is happening there? (http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/tadpole-rain-japan-pics/) (url obscured for my own sanity)
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Wow, that's just weirdddddddddddddd.
EDIT: Oooooo, the 1:1 Gundam was finished? Nifty.
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Eh, a swarm of links this time around.
First, to follow up my Kiva link a while back...
http://www.freerice.com/ Free game, every question you get right is ten rice. Yeah, it's small, but fuck if it isn't something at least.
Secondly, some random Japanese art galleries. First two are mecha/futuristic, third and fourth are a blend of genres therein.
http://fusionfactory.fc2web.com/
http://clockworkchicken.client.jp/index.html
http://zenovia.cool.ne.jp/masa/
http://krypt.cgsociety.org/gallery/
Finally, an interesting site on building stuff; http://www.instructables.com/ has a bunch of stuff. May try to follow the solar panel advice at some point, since it should be possible.
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Heh, I remember seeing that first one a while ago. Reminds me of this...
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi
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A few more, from shameless link-following on my part.
Tokyo at twilight: http://shinsato.cool.ne.jp/twilight%20s%20english.htm
Cheap housing. It may sound stupid, but... I'm pretty sure the concepts are practical, from my modest time studying it. http://www.i-domehouse.com/
Programming introduction (Python) for kids and people willing to try stuff. http://gvr.sourceforge.net/
Finally, another futuristic-image site. Portfolio -> choose one of the three categories in the lower-left -> hold mouse over options in the middle. http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/cfh/port/port.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/nyregion/15babies.html?hp
intersting article on gender selection among Asians in the US.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061501228.html?hpid=topnews
I don't think anyone cares about the Nationals, but I saw this and it's one of the better pieces of sports commentary I've read in a while.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/nyregion/15babies.html?hp
intersting article on gender selection among Asians in the US.
That's nothing. My mother (the teacher) was reporting a ratio of something like 62-38 in the Vancouver school district, which is downright frightening. 1.17:1 is like...54-46; not totally reality-warping.
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Here's what I found striking about the article,
In general, more boys than girls are born in the United States, by a ratio of 1.05 to 1. But among American families of Chinese, Korean and Indian descent, the likelihood of having a boy increased to 1.17 to 1 if the first child was a girl, according to the Columbia economists. If the first two children were girls, the ratio for a third child was 1.51 to 1 — or about 50 percent greater — in favor of boys.
none of this is reality-warping per se; this is second and third kids we're talking about, but that 1.51 number is pretty shocking to me.
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none of this is reality-warping per se; this is second and third kids we're talking about, but that 1.51 number is pretty shocking to me.
And what were the incidence of third children for white families? I know, for example, that if a mother has three male children in a row, that the probability that the third male child being gay is greatly increased.
Though yes, there's no question this is happening, and was observed about 5 years ago, at least.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/105/15/5681/F1.large.jpg
Here's the chart from the study.
3rd children born to white parents with two girls were slightly more likely to be girls than boys. That said, the sample size on Asians is a lot smaller than whites, though plenty big enough to be meaningful.
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http://news.aol.com/article/man-posed-as-dead-mom/531157?icid=main|aimzones|dl2|link2|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fman-posed-as-dead-mom%2F531157 *Snort*
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Finally, someone dares to ask the question: What if Garfield Minus Garfield was two billion times nerdier? (http://www.4thletter.net/2009/06/and-now-darkseid-minus-new-gods/)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMD_L8IDZnc
(video) cute child prodigy video.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravanderende/sets/72157594368940565/
Console innards.
http://www.nantes.fr/culture/actualites-culturelles/2009/estuaire-2009-nantes-saint-nazaire/la-geante-du-titanic-et-le-scaphandrier/des-videos.html
(video) Giant Jules Vernes characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7aPzZsuBjo
(video) Oscar nominated short animation.
http://entertainment.todaysbigthing.com/2009/06/18
(video) fake trailer of When Harry Met Sally.
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show
“Do you think you can hang on?” Colby’s mother said.
“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.
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Wow, so she holds on to life to see a movie that is pretty much a "You live and then you die horribly" story. This is beautiful.
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http://blog.inspirit.ru/wp-content/uploads/fluidsolver/Main.swf
Have fun.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/the-real-lesson-of-iran_b_218359.html
Interesting article from one of the forerunners of the Religious Right movement back in the 1980s. Draws scary parallels between the desires of that movement and Iran's government. Not sure how much salt this should be taken with but it is within the bounds of credibility.
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Interesting piece, but I think he goes too far in that he's lumping every wackadoo thing individual members, leaders even, of the religious right said and did together. Shadowy cabals with secret agendas leading religious groups sounds like trouble, but if you're talking about massive social change, it ain't gonna happen without the active support of the rank and file. The most extreme elements of the 80's did fail in terms of legitimizing extremism (although they certainly succeeded in other areas), but the important lesson here isn't that extremists are bad, but that they lost popular support to moderates because they overreached.
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Agreed on that front; still, in other circumstances it wouldn't be too out there to imagine that it would have worked. Iran's Islamic Republic revolution in the late 70s seems like it worked not because everyone agreed in full with the values of the Ayatollah but because it was a way better alternative to a corrupt puppet of the US. It's entirely possible that faced with a crisis more people would fall behind the R.R. movement if it had just come about at the right time.
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You'd need a seriously disenfranchised populace before they'd vote in something like that, but it's not like it can't happen (see: Germany in between WW1 and WW2).
http://kotaku.com/5296566/activision-threatens-to-stop-supporting-sony-consoles
Activision threatens Sony to drop PS3 price.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639y7fweUBg&eur
(video) Subbing in TF2 voices over crashes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fxQFly1BQA
(video) interesting iPhone app.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/world-of-warcraft-freakou_n_218774.html
(video) WoW addicted kid gets his account cancelled. His brother records it. Kinda morally questionable to watch I guess, but also amazingly over the top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkpdtFZoBE
(video) Someone integrated the face tracking stuff into the source engine.
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I've been circulating that video around the Kilrogg server. Now that that's done I need to go on to my next project, having the term "1:10'ed" replace "shoved up my ass."
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That link was sad but not shocking. Addictions can get very ugly.
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Now that that's done I need to go on to my next project, having the term "1:10'ed" replace "shoved up my ass."
I think so Brain, but how often am I really going to want to say "shoved up my ass" over the internet?
Narf!
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You don't play World of WarCraft, so your statement is rendered moot for the purposes of this discussion. Anything in /2 invariably can be compared to having something shoved up your ass.
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http://hoekstraisameme.com/
I laughed so hard. Now I know what Chrysippus (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Died_laughing") felt like.
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You don't play World of WarCraft, so your statement is rendered moot for the purposes of this discussion. Anything in /2 invariably can be compared to having something shoved up your ass.
Trade chat: The place where a year later people still think Anal [Ruin] is funny.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZzDB8YWvQ
(video) cool idea for a DSi game.
http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama
(video) Amusing Barrack Obama animation.
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/06/brit-spears-time-travel-holocaust-movie
Url says it all.
http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=841
mythic and bioware merge
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24183
id and bethesda merge
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mythic and bioware merge
I assume this is in some part related to the whole MMO thing. New KotOR MMO servers are going to need people to look after them and so on. Likely a little bit of experience there at Mythic.
id and bethesda merge
That makes me a little sad, not that id is merging with Bethesda so much as id merging with anyone. Carmack talks about being able to expand their scope in releases and work with larger teams but... well their releases were already pretty huge deals in the gaming world. Frequency certainly isn't everything. Oh well, we will have to wait and see, nothing lasts forever and I think off the top of my head id was one of the longest running successful studios to be working under their own steam. I guess this means the next Fallout FPS will be a decent FPS this time at least.
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nothing lasts forever and I think off the top of my head id was one of the longest running successful studios to be working under their own steam.
Well...just to play devil's advocate here, Bethesda was around BEFORE id and has been effectively independent the whole time (granted it technically changed ownership...to a company created by one of the co-founders specifically for the purpose of having him not fund the company out of his own pocket).
id's hasn't been that independent lately (was answering to Activision for a couple years there, though that contract timed out). id's also really not that relevant anymore--nobody uses id-tech-4, they're all using the Unreal Engine these days.
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Yeah this is all true.
I guess I am just an overly big Carmack fanboy all things considered >_>
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http://wii.ign.com/articles/971/971316p1.html (http://wii.ign.com/articles/971/971316p1.html)
Dammit, now I need to buy a Wii.
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Heard about that a couple weeks ago. It looks and sounds slick, but...
I dunno. The series has had such a bad turn lately. Crossing my fingers though.
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I mean, everything they present in the preview/interview seems to suggest a huge backswing away from the bad aspects of SH3 (which were apparently magnified a thousand fold by SH5, which I didn't even bother with).
I mean, no weapons! No combat! Certainly has me interested.
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Strago, check out the Penumbra series. The first game you have weapons. People tried to kill stuff so in the sequel they just took away your weapons.
Also dude, you totally need to jump on IRC or something. We need to organise some kind of sexy party with us being in NY. That or you know, you could show us some culture and go to a show or some such.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-24/time-for-a-male-anti-sex-pill/
The real lesson to be learned from the Mark Sanford nonsense.
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"would you like that in small, medium, or politician?"
EDIT: the alternate solution: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/06/27/oh_perino/index.html
EDIT: sometimes a picture puts it in the best perspective: http://thehill.com/weyants-world/weyants-world-june-26-2009-2009-06-25.html
Sanford voted to impeach Clinton, by the way (and has a couple choice quotes from that time about how it is the duty of a leader who is morally compromised to resign), so don't feel too bad for him.
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http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/28/news/companies/bily_mays_dead/index.htm?postversion=2009062816
Helllllllllo subdural hemotoma!
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Strago, check out the Penumbra series. The first game you have weapons. People tried to kill stuff so in the sequel they just took away your weapons.
The first one was quite awesome. Cool twist at the end.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR2009062000004.html
Interesting probability-based approach to the Iran election results.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR2009062000004.html
Interesting probability-based approach to the Iran election results.
And...also incorrect if I'm not mistaken. For instance:
Not so in the data from Iran: Only 62 percent of the pairs contain non-adjacent digits. This may not sound so different from 70 percent, but the probability that a fair election would produce a difference this large is less than 4.2 percent.
62 percent means that 18 out of the 29 provinces.
I'm calculating a 23% chance to get 18-or-less, and a 10% chance to get specifically 18. I dunno how they managed to get 4%.
Of course, my numbers are working with an incorrect assumption of theirs:
To check for deviations of this type, we examined the pairs of last and second-to-last digits in Iran's vote counts. On average, if the results had not been manipulated, 70 percent of these pairs should consist of distinct, non-adjacent digits.
That would be true if 9 and 0 were adjacent to each other. I'm guessing they're not in psychological terms, which means it's actually 72 percent. (Which would change my numbers to 16% of elections would hit 18-or-less provinces, and 8% would hit specifically 8 provinces)
The numbers look suspicious. We find too many 7s and not enough 5s in the last digit. We expect each digit (0, 1, 2, and so on) to appear at the end of 10 percent of the vote counts. But in Iran's provincial results, the digit 7 appears 17 percent of the time, and only 4 percent of the results end in the number 5. Two such departures from the average -- a spike of 17 percent or more in one digit and a drop to 4 percent or less in another -- are extremely unlikely. Fewer than four in a hundred non-fraudulent elections would produce such numbers.
This feels like BS too, although my calculation is not 100% accurate here. It's about a 6% chance for a spike to 17 percent, and about a 6% chance for a drop to 4 percent. However, what he seems to be looking for is outliers, in which case it's a 12% chance to be above 17% OR below 4%.
What's the chance of two 12% events occurring? Well here's the thing: there's 10 digits. They'll have on average 1.2 of these events (not exactly, mind--I did say in this case my calculation is an estimate and not exact). So...the chance of two outliers is...34%.
As a point of comparison, we can analyze the state-by-state vote counts for John McCain and Barack Obama in last year's U.S. presidential election. The frequencies of last digits in these election returns never rise above 14 percent or fall below 6 percent, a pattern we would expect to see in seventy out of a hundred fair elections.
Extremely misleading analogy. 29 =/= 50. If you rolled one die, you could say "OMG, must be weighted dice, I got a 4 100% of the time!" The more dice you roll the closer you will be to average.
Incidentally, I get an 11% chance for that 6 percent, and a 12% chance for that 14 percent. Which...does indeed lead to a variance that is smaller than 70% of elections (I get 68%). Well that's one spot our numbers line up. Maybe they were using a probability table designed for the US and didn't realize that 29 < 50 matters? Yeah...when I redo the calculations like that I get numbers rather close to theirs. -_-
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The Washington Post has been notably lax in fact-checking their op-ed guys in the recent past (George Will so badly misrepresented WaPo global warming data in his column that the news side of the paper felt the need to mention that he was innacurate in a subsequent news story), so uh, don't hold your breath for a correction.
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http://www.fredvanlente.com/downloads/WhyWeHere.pdf
Cthulhu Tracts. Like Jack Chick, only more believable!
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http://www.reason.com/news/show/134322.html
Interesting essay on an artist who tried to make a poster from scratch.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2009/06/more-celeb-death-rumors-now-its-jeff-goldblum-and-harrison-ford.html
Shortly after Michael Jackson died, crazy rumors started flying around the internet about the deaths of...everyone else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2uvd_sLzqc&feature=player_embedded
(video) neat Nike commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5QCGqDYGo
(video) Don't trust Germans!!1
http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/index.html
Tourist Remover
http://www.myspace.com/zemezyz
Furryrock
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/technology/internet/29wiki.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
New York Times reporter was kidnapped by the Taliban, recently escaped. Here's the account of what was apparently the trickiest part of a media blackout.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17372-gallery-domestic-robots-with-a-taste-for-flesh.html
Robots with a taste for flesh (seriously)
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm
Fake bad novel openings, 2009.
http://gizmodo.com/5304640/in-which-we-provoke-kim-jong-il-in-77-offensive-and-hilarious-ways/gallery/
Kim Jong Il photoshops.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/07/let_there_be_bike_shorts_a_gee_1.html
A shift I like in comics.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/here-are-starcraft-iis-current-tech-trees/1494/
Starcraft II tech trees.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196155/Babe-set-match-How-looks-count-talent-Wimbledon-decides-girls-play-Centre-Court.html
Sorry to supplant your comic books with depressing reality.
Comic books are always somewhere on the scale of seediness. It's a spandex thing, and cheesecake comes and goes, mostly with dominant artistic trends. There are, however, some standouts over the years where gender equality is concerned. Notably: Chris Claremont, who put Storm in charge of the X-Men over Cyclops, and made her damn good at it, and Jae Lee, long-running artist of Namor, who was constantly asked to redraw panels because of his stubborn insistence that the Sub-Mariner be anatomically correct under the scaly speedo.
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Didn't you hear? Next year Wimbledon is going to be Topless Tennis.
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Still won't make the game any interesting.
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Seniors Finals for the Pokemon Nationals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1T1jEpZ8Sw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkstjEdiYpY
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Raps that narrate Predator/Robocop. Yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovi-djkUgd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnMF7dV86k
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http://kotaku.com/5308431/lucasarts-rereleases-classics-on-steam
LOOM, the Indiana Jones graphic adventures and The Dig are coming to Steam on Wednesday.
The Secret of Monkey Island SE will be released on July 15.
Tales of Monkey Island comes out tomorrow.
This is the best month ever.
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WHERE THE FUCK IS FULL THROTTLE?
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Hopefully in that next wave of catalog releases they're talking about, along with Jedi Knight, Monkey Island 2 and 3, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070602955.html?hpid=topnews
Good thing there won't be any social security by the time we get old anyway.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBKKV2V8eU
(video) Living with first person shooter disease.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/789-Prototype
(video) Zero punctuation can't decide which is better, Infamous or Prototype, so he declares that the better game must be the company who draws the best picture of the other character wearing a women's bra.
http://kotaku.com/5307391/infamous-defeats-prototype-in-cross+dressing-playoff
...And both companies respond.
http://www.pinsane.com/pinorama/events/MJ_09/kr/michael_jackson_arcade_entry.html
(video, interactive) Tour of Michael Jackson's arcade collection.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-motion-wolfenstein/52341
(video) Trailer for Wolfenstein; not the art style I was expecting; very madworld-y.
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http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html)
HOLY FUCKING GOD! MechWarrior 5, and it's set during the Third Succession War, no less! AND in the dev interview they said they were aiming for a MW2 feel. HOLY FUCKING GOD!
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http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html (http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/18954/mech-warrior-project/videos/mechwarrior_trl_phoenix_70709.html)
HOLY FUCKING GOD! MechWarrior 5, and it's set during the Third Succession War, no less! AND in the dev interview they said they were aiming for a MW2 feel. HOLY FUCKING GOD!
... ::Faints::
EDIT: Notice thats a Warhammer? Maybe they'll have the rest of the Lost Designs too
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Dude, you didn't hear?
http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/catalyst-game-labs-brings-back-unseen/ (http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/catalyst-game-labs-brings-back-unseen/)
There's some other stuff worth reading at Battletech.com as well. For example:
http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/mechwarrior-to-be-distributed-free-on-battletech-com/ (http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/mechwarrior-to-be-distributed-free-on-battletech-com/)
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I remember playing a little Mechwarrior 2 when I was like 11 on one of my dad's friends computer. Seemed like a pretty stylish game at the time, so I'm actually kinda looking forward to trying this.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aeTzfvEedKpQ
I foresee no problems with this.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098950.html
Fascinating intersection of religious and civil rights.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098853.html
Haaretz is a liberal paper and all, so maybe there's a little bias, but this is one of the scarier news articles I've seen recently. I don't think they're lightly using the language they are to describe Netanyahu.
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Perfect World had a contest for people to make a movie trailer using the game. This is one of the runner ups:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umrNGnwjaHo
And for the Fudos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAMPwl0_PWs&feature=PlayList&p=449AC5867D7A1BDA&index=10
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Speaking of other good things that are being given away for free, it's not just MechWarrior 4 + xpacks. It's also Daggerfall.
If you haven't played Daggerfall you suck, by the way, but now you finally have a chance to fix that!
http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm (http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm)
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Tried downloading, once I click on the actual download link it fails. Not sure what's up there.
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Same as Tai.
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I downloaded it! But then WinRAR failed to unarchive it.
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http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/07/09/a-robot-rise/
Giant robot over tokyo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo&feature=channel_page
(video) United Breaks Guitars.
http://www.retrocomedy.com/2009/07/15-creepiest-vintage-ads-of-all-time.html
15 creepiest Vintage print ads.
http://www.amazon.com/Designer-INCREDIBLE-HULK-TOILETTE-Fragrances/dp/B000LEJ7YU
Now you can smell just like the incredible hulk!
http://vimeo.com/5491897
(video) Well-made trailer; wasn't expecting where it went.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4
(video) Awesome Star Wars acapella.
http://sdmobile.livejournal.com/18969.html
Hardcore Russian LARP
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/ogasm-a-day-campaign-dire_n_230221.html
don't think they really needed the "sparks controversy" part of that headline. I mean, duh?
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Yes yes, kids that practice unsafe sex are known for listening to health messages. Ineed.
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An orgasm a day is good for your cardiovascular health?
Man, I must have terrible cardiovascular health.
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Being ridiculously tall is good for your cardiovascular health. Stupid pressure and having to pump stuff extra far. Should be short, it is way better for being lazy.
Edit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBZGeW3pvU&feature=related
Harmless enough but what.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEv0_Eapwok&feature=haxa_popt00us07
And then his bike and black and your bike is blue. The horror.
Edit 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1W0eS6NxT0
The further down the rabbit hole it goes the more it puts the lotion on its skin.
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I am reminded of nothing more strongly than the Swedish Chef. He talks exactly like him.
EDIT: Curiously, he's perfectly understandable when singing. Also, last video is very Sander Cohen.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/goldman-sachs-in-talks-to_b_235153.html
makes sense.
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/historians-advice-for-dick-cheney/
interesting thoughts on what goes into a good (or bad) memoir.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/picture-this-f-18-buzzes-detroit-apartment/
awesome photo.
or: visual record of a terrible idea that turned out great.
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2009/07/16/putting_the_hate_on_hipsters/
hipster hate explored
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/
and a little primer for folks coming to NYC after the con.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY
(video, NSFW) Bad commercial spoof.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17522_6-new-personality-disorders-caused-by-internet.html
6 Personality disorders on the internet.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html
Aw yeah, spending 23 quadrillon dollas at a gas pump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psfn6iOfS8
(video) Auto-Tune The News #6. They're getting better.
http://www.ea.com/free/mirrors-edge-2d
(webgame) 2D Mirror's Edge.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html
Aw yeah, spending 23 quadrillon dollas at a gas pump.
Shoulda asked for a refund.
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http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/what-is-a-just-physician-income/?hp
a topic dear to some of you, I know.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/frankens-first-time-aroun_n_236141.html
Franken's FIRST judicial confirmation hearing, courtesy of SNL. This is where the strangeness of his situation hits home to me.
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/
Last night, Amazon sneaked into your Kindle library and deleted everything by George Orwell. Can't make this shit up.
Man, this epitomizes everything that worries me about modernization. Cars people can't fix on their own is one thing, but a seller being able to forcibly recall products people have bought and paid for en masse? Yuck.
Great headline, though.
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George Orwell has never been for sale on Amazon. Amazon has graciously decided to gift you with free money roughly of the equivalent value of a George Orwell novel. Amazon loves you.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv-8nwUnlvU
(video) Dancing character from a japanese rhythm game beside the girl it was mo-capped from.
http://www.wimp.com/wildkids/
(video, ad) cute.
http://kottke.org/apollo-11/
(video) Appolo 11 footage re-aired 40 years to the minute after the first moon landing; starts at 16:10 EDT today.
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nice moon landing footage, mc. I like that approach.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article6719191.ece
possibly the most elaborate one-man ruse I've seen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21kaplan.html
a little history on obscenity in the US.
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http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/bill_cosby_portrait_in_jell-o.html
What it sounds like.
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http://saigondaily.net/2009/06/travel-picks-worlds-10-most-legendary-bars/
The bar in Oakland is about 3 blocks away from my apartment. Good times.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-24-white-sox-rays-chicago-jul24,0,6899904.story
Buehrle pitches a perfect game!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ
(video) Cat. Box. Rest is predictable, but cute.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6213618.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3
I guess I'm not allowed to confirm nor deny this >_>
http://tinyurl.com/mk2zk7
Rick Astley mashed up with Nirvana -- surprisingly well executed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193384/What-did-expect-Incredible-face-revealed-man-tattooed-girl-56-stars-asked-three.html
Girl claims she slept through being stabbed with a needle 60 times a second.
http://skymallrev.blogspot.com/
People making fun of dumb skymall products.
http://www.bittenandbound.com/2009/07/22/alice-in-wonderland-trailer/
(video, trailer) Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp as the Madd Hatter.
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Note the follow-up link on the Daily Mail article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1194910/Teenager-Kimberley-Vlaminck-56-stars-tattoed-face-finally-comes-clean.html
Edit: Also note the picture of the guy she paid to stab her with needles 60 times per second. Jesus Christ.
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http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Son-39in-plot-to-kill.5477291.jp (http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Son-39in-plot-to-kill.5477291.jp)
A furry hires another furry to kill his parents. The price? Furry 1 will let Furry 2 bite his cock off.
This is the problem with the internet. Without it this guy would feel like the freak that he is and would have hung himself years ago. Thanks to the Internet he can convince himself that it's perfectly okay.
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That link might belong in IotD instead, upon closer inspection.
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The plot failed and those two will probably be in jail for an extremely long amount of time. Also, that deserves IotD really.
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I'm not sure if it has dawned on people that killing also requires a modicum of skill. Go figure.
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But I already HAD miscellaneous links open.
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We're not saying you even had to - or should - move it! Just that the link was IotD-worthy!
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Man. "Let someone bite off your cock" is a pretty strong level of hate. I can't imagine hating someone that much.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/_globe_photodav.html
Reflections on a famous ad, 40 years later.
“People who know the area say, ‘How’d you hear your mother calling you from Powers Court?’ ” which is nearly a half-mile away. “ ‘What’d you get, bionic ears from eating all that pasta?’ ”
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193384/What-did-expect-Incredible-face-revealed-man-tattooed-girl-56-stars-asked-three.html
Girl claims she slept through being stabbed with a needle 60 times a second.
The "SEXY" belt buckle is pretty much confirmation that she's lying.
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That is a belt buckle? Man I thought that was just a caption and someone was taking the piss...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/h19/910520444/in/set-72157594182549008/
I think this is sweet. No photoshop which makes the ingenuity and ephemeral experience much more impressive.
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http://www.gamefly.com/game/ps3/Star-Ocean-The-Last-Hope/139940/
Looks like Pyro and Tallychu get a chance to buy SO4 again soon!
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Expected/10.
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So, first. A TV show recommendation. If you enjoy detective shows at all, I definitely recommend "Foyle's War." British TV show that basically combines a detective show with World War II England. Hey, crime is way down at least due to all the young men being in the army! And the extreme short-staffedness of the police is an excuse to have women (!!) vaguely sorta involved, shock, horror, along with why Our Heroes are doing so much themselves rather than having lackeys to do it.
One thing about the show is that it has several episodes based off actual incidents from World War II, except somehow all moved to Hastings in order to ruin the cast's day. Even when it doesn't make tons of sense. For instance, one episode involved British testing of anthrax on cattle as part of plans for biowarfare against Germany as well as defense against German efforts. This really happened, but on a remote Scottish island of course, not Hastings. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island if you're interested in more.) I mean, nobody would be dumb enough to locate pathogen testing on the mainland, right?
Right?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/26/AR2009072602857.html
"The Department of Homeland Security relied on a rushed, flawed study to justify its decision to locate a $700 million research facility for highly infectious pathogens in a tornado-prone section of Kansas, according to a government report."
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http://soytuaire.labuat.com/
(video) interactive music video; kinda neat.
http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx
(video, trailer) Trailer for the new Tron movie.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/07/ea-puts-sexual-bounty-on-the-heads-of-its-own-booth-babes.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=arstch&utm_campaign=microblogging&utm_term=Main+Account
-_- How very not classy.
http://vimeo.com/1743331
(video, NSFW) "brief history of videogames".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfMNGf53Kk
(video, Trailer) "Six String Samurai" -- looks highly entertaining.
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/07/ea-puts-sexual-bounty-on-the-heads-of-its-own-booth-babes.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=arstch&utm_campaign=microblogging&utm_term=Main+Account
-_- How very not classy.
Motion for this to be Idiot of the Month.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tfMNGf53Kk
(video, Trailer) "Six String Samurai" -- looks highly entertaining.
I saw that movie about seven or eight years ago. It's good stuff.
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On the EA Dante's Inferno sex ad, as with most pages like this, the comments are some of the funniest things I've seen today.
A lot of the people on there seem to be completely retarded, arguing that the "booth babes" are clearly just desperate and are probably happy to be able to go on a date with a guy.. >.>
Others, apparently, have some sense:
Seriously, if the game sucks so much that they have to literally get gamers to stroke their dicks over it, then they have failed as game developers.
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A lot of the people on there seem to be completely retarded, arguing that the "booth babes" are clearly just desperate and are probably happy to be able to go on a date with a guy.. >.>
...wow, so basically people who know absolutely nothing about women (http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/ecomments/4754/) and/or psychology (http://books.google.com/books?id=2qsKNaqIsuUC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22russell+clark%22+psychology&source=bl&ots=yUVuOozcws&sig=XiUofyhMsN_GC9ztdUzLP4X_mQ4&hl=en&ei=SItvSsyvEpDssQPwjqT7Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3)?
Anyhow...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDbAxhV2ofM&eurl
(video) Awesome little girl.
http://g4tv.com/videos/39899/Best-Superhero-Video-Games-Of-All-Time/
Whoa, a game I worked on made it onto a "best superhero game of all time" list, and ABOVE MvC2.
http://www.guitarpraise.com/home.php
Christian Rock Guitar Hero ripoff. Aw yeah!
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Well of course, Web of Shadows doesn't TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE.
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Seriously, if the game sucks so much that they have to literally get gamers to stroke their dicks over it, then they have failed as game developers.
Well, they don't have to...
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Sports headlines often make puns with peoples' names. Josh Bard is pitching extremely well in the last month for the Red Sox. What does that add up to? (click the link. it's not what the url indicates.)
http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/massarotti/2009/07/the_bard_of_boston.html
I'm still waiting for 'Bard in Boston.'
Best sports headline ever? After David Ortiz hit a game-winning homer in extra innings in game 6 of the '04 ALCS vs. the Yankees, tying the series 3-3 after being down 0-3: 'David, Goliath'
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Well of course, Web of Shadows doesn't TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE.
And this is a point in its favor?
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Now, you people will have to hold a MvC2 tournament in DLC4.
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We don't need to play a game that involves someone that knows the game picking Juggernaut and just yelling "I'M THE JUGGERNAUTH BITCH" for 2 hours. This is the only way MVC2 can be played competitively.
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HEY. I only do that when I'm drunk, which is a lot of the time. Gambit/Some chick to Eiffel Tower/Juggernaut all the way, bitch.
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Do I want to know what kind of horrible slang "Eiffel Tower" is in this context?
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369726
Wild Arms creator leaves Media Vision, creates new developer. Games under development include a new RPG to be announced later... plus a Nanoha game.
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That. Um.
I'll keep an eye on these guys.
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Do I want to know what kind of horrible slang "Eiffel Tower" is in this context?
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/421/eiffeld.jpg
Admin note: changing to link, not direct image. mildly NSFW
But with dudes on the left and right.
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But with dudes on the left and right.
Some people browse at work, I'd make that a little more hidden.
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Some people browse at work, I'd make that a little more hidden.
Problem solved!
http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/421/eiffeld.jpg
Admin note: changing to link, not direct image. mildly NSFW
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It's great how censorship can have the exact opposite effect, sometimes.
Also, UltraDude, if your goal is to keep the image from being as visible, it helps to not quote the entire thing in your post (so that even if Monkey edits his, yours will remain!).
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It's great how censorship can have the exact opposite effect, sometimes.
Also, UltraDude, if your goal is to keep the image from being as visible, it helps not to quote the entire thing in your post (so that even if Monkey edits his, yours will remain!).
THAT IT DOES.
Quotery fixed.
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369726
Wild Arms creator leaves Media Vision, creates new developer. Games under development include a new RPG to be announced later... plus a Nanoha game.
I take it no more Wild ARMs games in the future? ;_;
Though I always felt the big, blasty, Magitech setting of Nanoha had a Wild ARMs feel, particularly the later members of the franchise. Now my baseless gut instinct is, uh, something or other. I'm not sure where I was going with this.
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But with dudes on the left and right.
(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8720/eiffeltower.jpg)
SIMPLE AND CLEAN IS THE WAY THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL TONIGHT
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That still looks like an all-girl threeway to me.
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So you know when some people share terrible writing? Found this on the SA forums. It's almost as good as "YOU WILL NOT LAUGH AT ME! and then John Freeman shot a rocket at the next boss because that was his weakness."
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3181523 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3181523)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9u0LxIWJk
(video) Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/the-mandatory-15-second-voicemail-instructions/
Take Back the Beep! Seems worth participating in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz4Ru6J0Quo
(video) "Most threatening tumble ever".
http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Sewer-Monster-Is-Real--(Real-Gross)-1
(video, very gross) Sewer "monster" from South Carolina (basically a pulsing blob).
http://www.sigvatr.com/dmsng/
(NSFW) Metal songname generator.
http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/uploads/monthly_08_2009/post-18263-1249408548.gif
(animated gif) awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W25uK-TETU&fmt=18
(video) Twitter is growing surprisingly powerful.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz4Ru6J0Quo
(video) "Most threatening tumble ever".
I love how politically correct this is: a multi-racial gang of thugs!
ALSO:
(http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090805.gif) (http://"/index.php?db=comics&id=1599")
Feels especially relevant after DL-con.
"buy this game!"
"why? it's not good"
"but it's ranked"
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http://everything2.com/title/Humour%253A+D%2526D+Third+Edition
~Some hilarious mistakes in D&D 3rd edition.
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http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/08/05/coolest-find-on-craigslist-mansion-living-in-seattle-just-650/?icid=main|hp-laptop|dl3|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walletpop.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F08%2F05%2Fcoolest-find-on-craigslist-mansion-living-in-seattle-just-650%2F
Sorry for the long link, just seemed rather interesting and kinda relevant to me personally since I'm currently apartment hunting.
The video might be considered NSFW due to smoking of the questionable legality.
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{url="http://www.url.com/"]Text{/url]
Where { is replaced with [
is your friend.
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http://everything2.com/title/Humour%253A+D%2526D+Third+Edition
~Some hilarious mistakes in D&D 3rd edition.
And this, folks, is why you want a DM who can think outside the books.
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Cracked.com provides us with absolute madness.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17607_5-circles-baffling-web-comic-hell.html
Sure, the first ones are just poor and nonsensical. Not too mad. Page 2, sense starts breaking down, then it's just a downhill slick from there.
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Zombieland (http://"http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/08/zombieland_trailer_zombie_brai.php")
Darth Vader Insta-Win (http://"http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/wrong_darth_vader_dancing_to_m.php")
If you like Tony Jaa, you will like this link (http://"http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/08/ong_bak_2_trailer_ong_bak_vs_a.php")
I linked these in chat earlier. Otherwise, these are the URLs that made my day today. Well. Yesterday. It is officially 12AM.
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http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26044.html
Persona 4 action comics.
http://www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/09/TouchableHolography/SIGGRAPH09-TH.html
(video) Holograms you can touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBxPYhOnKv0
(video) Sound+laser thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZfK8ulOIt0
(video) Cat and Lazer pointer.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/funniest-google-suggest-results/
top 10 funniest Google search suggestions.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917993
(video) "noob boyfriend"
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http://survivingtheworld.net/ - Life lessons that they never taught you anywhere else. And seriously awesome at that.
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Not sure how well known this is or if it's been linked to before, but I'll link it anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig - Trailer for RoboGeisha.
I mean... this has to be an intentional comedy... right?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/family-guy-censored-abort_n_258531.html
live-action version of a family guy episode they won't be airing.
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http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2224932
Fascinating article on the mammalian brain and a reasonable hypothesis as to why humans are driven to like Google, Twitter, or any other service that provides lots of information easily.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4mLGmPMvls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNuT7q1hSA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQSGr3zdbUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtceOLvYHo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFijEEA56E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9FYO328CM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7eLk-FV9qc
(Video) Interview of Richard Dawkins with a prominent proponent of Intelligent Design.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&id=4391631&sportCat=mlb
Heartwarming true story of vampire-esque children.
http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2009/05/are_patients_in_universal_heal.php
Interesting statistics on universal health care vs US system.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&id=4391631&sportCat=mlb
Heartwarming true story of vampire-esque children.
SPOILER WARNING FOR SPORTS FANS: This story sadly does not end with Chris Berman's body being drained of blood after he's sent out to interview the kids.
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But does his body get drained of blood?
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I don't know what that word means. What crazy moon language are you speaking?
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Just-what-every-football-coach-in-America-wants-?urn=ncaaf,183312
Randomly funny
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http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2224932
Fascinating article on the mammalian brain and a reasonable hypothesis as to why humans are driven to like Google, Twitter, or any other service that provides lots of information easily.
So that explains why there's so many RPGs I -want-, but so few that I -like- enough to finish without switching around to a bunch of other games first!
I'd read an article about this before, where psychiatrists were trying to chemically isolate proof that 'the anticipation is often better than the reward', but this is the first article I've read where it appears the experiment was successful and now others are using the research applied to various fields... like Twitter.
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Proof? Feh. What proof do you even need? Nothing is as good as you imagine it unless you're a multi-billionaire who can get things made specifically FOR him.
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http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/How-players-can-avoid-going-broke.html
Interesting column with some hard facts about NFL players going broke. Nothing in here is shocking, but it's a good read even for non sports fans to read.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWi7CLoZ2Q
(video) nom nom nom nom nom in song form with cute animals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU&eurl
(video) dot dot dot. (MMO pop music)
http://translationparty.com/tp/#1847721
Web transations suddenly have a whole new value. Translates stuff back and forth until it stops changing....
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http://translationparty.com/tp/#1847721
Web transations suddenly have a whole new value. Translates stuff back and forth until it stops changing....
I have now lost any shred of productivity I had cultivated.
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That translation party thing is amazing.
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I got it into an infinite loop with Tom Lehrer lyrics.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU&eurl
(video) dot dot dot. (MMO pop music)
I don't remember if I linked these guys before or not, but their episodes are pretty damn funny. http://www.watchtheguild.com/
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=50596218
Highly amusing phenomenon on a poker site.
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http://www.elementsthegame.com/
A pretty darn fun online card game in the vein of Magic the Gathering. Takes just a few minutes to really learn the ins and outs of.
There aren't a whole lot of cards just yet, and they seem to be being added slowly and methodically. I have high hopes for this game.
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Well it's...magic, but with no blocking, and no concept of mixed mana (i.e. cards cost RRRRR or cards cost BBBBB; nothing like 3WW). The HP of creatures seems to not fill a role except when there's a spell that says "deal X damage to target", which in classic magic tradition only a few colours even get. All spells are effectively Sorceries.
I mean, it's obvious why they made the decisions they did. All of the above Magic mechanics slow down online games a lot (waiting for an opponent to respond with instants, waiting for an opponent to choose what mana they're spending, waiting for an opponent to choose blockers). On the other hand, they can also be some of the more interesting decisions so...dunno.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnNsBz0tTjk
The mustache contest.
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Persona 5 information REVEALED!
- you summon personas in this game by drinking STUFF (I dont know what it is some guy just hands it to you) out of huge plastic red cups then shoot yourself in the crotch and symbolically releasing your ego because you're sooo not thinking straight
- the shadow world takes place inside your best friend's mom's vag
- it's a murder mystery about dudes that want to stop having sex and getting laid when they text themselves their cumulative number of sex partners
- the plot takes a stunning twist when you realize you had the power all along
- every s.link level you get laid
- you can get a job hosting some russian transfer students (all female, all hot, you s.link with all of them -- at once)
- your persona is named steve or something, it doesnt matter, there's none of that boring combat in the game at all
- there is a llama
- the velvet room is just your bedroom where you fuse your cock into vaginas (igor's a little creepy being there but he totally rolls with it)
- the whole game is one giant cutscene that can't be skipped or fast-forwarded, only slowed down (during all the s.links, word)
- this all takes place in the middle of shibuya, harumi-cho, tokyo-kun, japan
- you beat the game by going to japan in real life and re-enacting it all; that's the game's final twist, it was all just a simulation to train you to achieve your dreams
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A Persona game that doesn't have any gameplay? And a llama? They've fixed my biggest complaint with the series! Score.
/me preorders.
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A Persona game with realistic Persona names? And a llama? Sounds better than P2, even./me preorders.
...*cough*
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/video-robot-hand-shows-off-amazing-dexterity-speed/
(video) Superfast robot.
http://www.vimeo.com/6270333
(video) Creative short.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2f_1251164989
(video) More random cat videos.
http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level
(webgame) Amusing take on a puzzle platformer.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/blood_blood_everywhere
Random Onion article. I assume everyone here knows of the Onion already. Merely thought this article was more amusing than usual.
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http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/
So...an automated program takes two rhyming lines from twitter and puts them together. Then repeats this ad-nauseum. The results are often highly entertaining.
So sore and so tired this morning... c'mon quitting time!
At night I dress up like a spider and fight crime
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http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/
Haha, that's pretty awesome.
Crashing after a long stretch of buyers, grads and dads.
crazy bitch at walmart screaming tampons and pads
I am going to cook dinner steak yellow rice and corn with red wine
All alone in space and time, there's nothing here but what here's mine
Nice day on the beach. Heading in for showers, dinner and the boardwalk.
I need to get a huge backpack for Europe. That and a Mohawk.
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http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1323&c=1
Elvis Costello and his penis are here tonight.
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So some historians have been translating the graffiti found in the city of Pompeii. The results may surprise you.
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
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Sobering.
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So does Twitter pay royalty fees to all the ancient countries, now, or are they just taking advantage of a lapsed patent?
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Sobering.
No, I think it's a virtual guarantee that a lot of them were still drunk.
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Yes, and that's a sobering thought for me. I'll keep those walls in mind every time I try to ensnare myself into thinking that there might have been a time where mankind didn't fail at base during civilization.
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Oh I don't know, I find them rather comforting. Graffiti is people bragging, lying, and generally giving each other a hard time (about giving each other hard something elses, for the most part). But look at the precise balance you need for graffiti to work: a society stable enough to have durable walls, and lax enough that people can write on them without fear of being, say, thrown in jail for 5 years. In my opinion, that's a damn good balance.
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The cynical might say that this just draws another parallel between modern western civilization and the Roman empire, in turn suggesting that collapse is imminent.
But that involves being really cynical. Any takers?
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I did that a couple posts ago.
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Would require more than cynicism given that the Roman Empire was pretty strong for a few centuries after Pompeii...and Pompeii fell to a volcano.
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The volcano was powered by snark.
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The cynical might say that this just draws another parallel between modern western civilization and the Roman empire, in turn suggesting that collapse is imminent.
But that involves being really cynical. Any takers?
I'd say it's foolish to attribute graffiti to the Romans.
Writing on walls predates writing* and predates walls**.
*written language, that is.
**caves rather than man-made walls
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"Ah, but go home is an invective! How many Romans should go home?"
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http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/
So...an automated program takes two rhyming lines from twitter and puts them together. Then repeats this ad-nauseum. The results are often highly entertaining.
So sore and so tired this morning... c'mon quitting time!
At night I dress up like a spider and fight crime
I guess I don't have long to last... adios, and goodnight...
is finally biting the bullet and watching twilight
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Friday night and my fun just ended. :(
And then the person gets offended
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"Riding my bicycle to and from work - you should too!"
"FUCK YOU AND EVERY MALL SANTA THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU"
Took a few pages to get anything amusing. Still the best use of Twitter since Iran's elections.
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http://www.cracked.com/article/81_6-animals-that-can-get-you-high/
6 animals that can get you high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTfPmN0YEM
(video) Making fun of Microsoft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI
(video) 8-bit trip. Awesome.
http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf
Interesting powerpoint on the future of computer graphics.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumofanimalperspectives/
(videos) museom of animal perspectives.
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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25079
*blink* Well this is pretty low on the list of things I expected to see.
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It kinda figures, after Time Warner bought DC.
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The time is coming where only Time Warner, Disney, Google, and Wal-Mart exist as independent entities.
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Yeah, heard about that early today. Interesting question what the implication for Activision is going to be. On the one hand, we're locked in with a licensing deal until 2017. On the second hand, Disney-Marvel has said that when such deals run out they're going to seriously reevaluate them, which drops the probability of ATVI renewing the deal even lower than it had been (in that Disney Interactive was probably not even on the table for studios Marvel would have considered for game development). On the third hand, Disney's worldwide marketing reach is expected to push Marvel comics into regions of the world they had not previously reached, which is a flat out positive for us until 2017 rolls around.
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It kinda figures, after Time Warner bought DC.
Warner's owned DC since the late 60s, actually.
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Well, what took them so long then?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTfPmN0YEM
(video) Making fun of Microsoft.
Hooray, UCB stuff. This is the funniest stuff I have seen for a few good years. Sopko is the man.
Edit - That is their TV series.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9W7Qo1T6M
(video) Yoga farmer children's show.
http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_learning_from_the_gecko_s_tail.html
(video) Fascinating talk on the value of interdisciplinary communication.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyQao7d7Co
(video) Cute animation ("Voodoo").
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86wKWjvUD50
(NSFW, video) That's...extremely weird.
http://ejump.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/figma-and-meme-billy-herrington/
Some explanation to the above, sort-of.
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On the third hand, Disney's worldwide marketing reach is expected to push Marvel comics into regions of the world they had not previously reached, which is a flat out positive for us until 2017 rolls around.
How many of those places that Marvel hasn't tapped yet have the gaming base to actually make that profitable though?
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Japan.
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-01/adv-films-shuts-down-transfers-assets-to-other-companies
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/2009-09-01/what-happening-with-adv-films
ADV Films is shutting down! Wait, no it's not! We don't know! Oy, this business.
One thing has come out of all the sound and fury, at least: We finally know what the A.D. stands for.
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It's the sort of shutting down where all upcoming products will continue to be released on schedule (http://animecornerstore.blogspot.com/2009/09/adv-films-shuts-down.html), which means I fail to care much.
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http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/
Have fun. My best score so far is 5326 meters.
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6752m
Gameplay's not much--hit the boxes to slow you down, but not too much so only hit a few. Choose whether you do a high jump or a low jump by holding (or not) the button. Stylish, regardless.
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Man, makes me want to dig out the Genesis and play some Flashback.
Games like that are improved significantly by exactly the kind of catchy music that one has.
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http://www.destructoid.com/new-l4d2-special-infected-the-jockey-is-riding-into-pax-147117.phtml
More L4D2 information. Another new special infected type.
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http://wildammo.com/2009/07/27/unusual-paintings-of-obama-naked-with-unicorns/
Exactly what it says on the Tin. May include Dr. Gregory House.
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unusual-paintings-of-obama-naked-with-unicorns
so...am I to asume there are usual paintings of Obama naked with unicorns?
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The late-night drinking games in the White House as of late are the things of legends, I gather.
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If I wasn't already committed to flying the Jolly Rodgers until February (when they win the Super Bowl) I would av the fourth one.
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I think that in twenty or thirty years, Niu will have moved on from prepubescent boys to the official band of the FOnline Goon Squad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM&feature=related)
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In other news, Rob's latent homosexuality is expressing itself in new, horrifying ways! More at 11.
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... it's like Village People meets Swiss golfing clubs meet the Masons. Embarrassing is one hell of an understatement.
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... it's like Village People meets Swiss golfing clubs meet the Masons. Embarrassing is one hell of an understatement.
Wait, you haven't seen Bearforce One before? It's all over the place in the LGBT community up here. Fun song. Their other videos are entertaining, too.
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It makes a very interesting overlay for Fallout Online's gameplay, I'll say that much.
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... it's like Village People meets Swiss golfing clubs meet the Masons. Embarrassing is one hell of an understatement.
Wait, you haven't seen Bearforce One before? It's all over the place in the LGBT community up here. Fun song. Their other videos are entertaining, too.
I'm not very into the LGBT community in general, so I'm sorta out of the loop.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203887.html
Redskins fans who can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for their season tickets anymore get sued for tens of thousands of dollars by the Redskins front office.
Edit: http://www.the-isb.com/?p=2143
Inglourious Wizerds.
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I hope that this gets around enough to negatively impact the Redskins ticket sales. It's ridiculous to make someone pay $200,000 for tickets 6 years into the future. The Redskin spokeperson sounds pretty horrid, especially in regards to saying the person who had to lay off 20 people just didn't want to pay for his tickets.
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I will just put this in the right topic. Why the shit wasn't that IotD?
"The Washington Redskins routinely works out payment plans and alternate arrangements with hundreds of ticket holders every year," Donovan said. "For every one we sue, I would guess we work out a deal with half a dozen."
Warm and fuzzy.
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It's more assholish than idiotic.
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Signing a 10 year contract for fucking football tickets is though.
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Dan Snyder is a scumbag. He (Along with the Jets and a few other teams like the Patriots) do delightful things like sign players to massive free agent contracts in the offseason and then cry poverty and enforce furloughs and layoffs on office employees.
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For those who don't know, incidentally, teams like the Redskins, who sell enough season tickets to fill their stadium completely, maintain waiting lists of thousands of people who want seats. The odds that they wouldn't have been able to re-sell those tickets for the season are about as high as the odds of me growing wings.
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You don't understand, they are seeking returns on damages and protecting their own interests.
Edit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy7JCOVqys
Lore.
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Ahaha. I was hoping it would lead into that song when he said the opening line. I was not disappointed.
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I was not disappointed.
First time that's been said about anything related to Voyager.
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The upshot to all of this: Fuck Dan Snyder.
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/28/the-menaissance-and-its-dickscontents/
Excellent article on gender roles; worth reading all the way through.
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/news/info/movies/bay_bridge_video_9-07.htm
Time lapse view of bridge construction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOYN-6gdRE
(video) Autotune the News #8.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/
Images of Mars.
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/28/the-menaissance-and-its-dickscontents/
Excellent article on gender roles; worth reading all the way through.
Wait what?
Without even knowing what or why it was, I was heavily influenced by gay culture, which provided me, and many other straight young men, a wide variety of templates for manhood that are at once unmistakably masculine, playfully ironic, aesthetic, emotionally open, and happily sexual. You can be manly and care about shoes!!! I’ll confess that I used to periodically regret my heterosexuality because there seemed to be greater scope for constructing a distinctive and satisfying male identity within gay culture.
THE GAYS ARE EMOTIONALLY OPEN AND NON STEREOTYPED LET ME GO MAKE AN OVERARCHING ASSUMPTION ABOUT AN ENTIRE SUBCULTURE
But most of us have not yet given up on oppressively restrictive, strongly normative conceptions of hetero masculinity. That, I submit, is what stands in the way of a real, um … renaissance for men.
Mmm yes clearly men embrace a standard of masculinity that is completely wrong, clearly these white males suffer greatly and can only overcome their emotional traumas with a dose of 'the gay', as he's implying. What the fuck? *Reads other columns of his*
The challenge that Frey poses to Zengerle is this: Even if it could be shown that citizens legally open-carrying firearms significantly increase the probability of an assassination attempt (I am skeptical), it might not be worth the cost to add resources to increase presidential protection. Indeed, Frey finds that politicians are already overprotected. So the presence of citizens with guns may do nothing more than slightly reduce the extent of overprotection.
....
Anyway, I’m pretty sure this attempt to be rational on the subject of privately-owned guns near the president is in vain. If we make a Venn diagram of the set of people for whom guns are bewitched totems of death and the set of people for whom the president is a majestic, semi-divine symbol of national identity, I think we’ll see a fat overlap.
Clearly any concerns about people carrying high powered rifles near the president of the united states is overstated, our politicans are already overprotected! How can someone be literally so wrong on everything at once?
I’m Will Wilkinson, a Research Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington,
Never mind. Libertarian politican/writers, could you kindly stop being such bad jokes? Thanks!
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Without even knowing what or why it was, I was heavily influenced by gay culture, which provided me, and many other straight young men, a wide variety of templates for manhood that are at once unmistakably masculine, playfully ironic, aesthetic, emotionally open, and happily sexual. You can be manly and care about shoes!!! I’ll confess that I used to periodically regret my heterosexuality because there seemed to be greater scope for constructing a distinctive and satisfying male identity within gay culture.
THE GAYS ARE EMOTIONALLY OPEN AND NON STEREOTYPED LET ME GO MAKE AN OVERARCHING ASSUMPTION ABOUT AN ENTIRE SUBCULTURE
Um, what? There's at least 5 major gay subcultures that I can name offhand, ranging from very similar to heterosexual males to Bears to beefcakes to flamers and so on. I'm only really aware of one or two heterosexual male cultures. So...yes, it seems perfectly reasonable that gay culture would provide a wider spectrum of templates for masculinity, since there seem to simply be more subcultures.
Frankly, I find the fact that you're arguing otherwise kinda weird. When is more selection bad?
But most of us have not yet given up on oppressively restrictive, strongly normative conceptions of hetero masculinity. That, I submit, is what stands in the way of a real, um … renaissance for men.
Mmm yes clearly men embrace a standard of masculinity that is completely wrong, clearly these white males suffer greatly and can only overcome their emotional traumas with a dose of 'the gay', as he's implying. What the fuck? *Reads other columns of his*
Again, I'm confused at your objection here. In the reverse direction I know quite a few women who want to get married, get pregnant, and be a stay-at-home mom and do that with their life. It's actually very common in certain regions, and there's nothing wrong with that template. Where you do get a social problem is if all women are expected and pressured into acting this way (as was the case in the 50s). Quite a few women will be okay with this, but other women will not.
Similarly, not all men are comfortable in the heteronormative definition of masculinity. This isn't calling the heteronormative definition wrong, in fact for a number of men it will still be the right fit; just not all men.
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Again, I'm confused at your objection here. I know quite a few women who want to get married, get pregnant, and be a stay-at-home mom and do that with their life. It's actually very common in certain regions, and there's nothing wrong with that template. Where you do get a social problem is if all women are expected and pressured into acting this way (as was the case in the 50s). Quite a few women will be okay with this, but other women will not.
Similarly, not all men are comfortable in the heteronormative definition of masculinity. This isn't calling the heteronormative definition wrong, in fact for a number of men it will still be the right fit; just not all men.
I have absolutely no objections to the idea of different gender roles, with whatever men and women choose to do. That isn't what makes the column bad. The broad stereotyping that the author engages in sucks.
Many men aren’t angry and confused because they don’t know what women want. They’re angry because they want what their fathers or grandfathers had, and they can’t get it.
His stereotyping of the entire hetero male culture as just wanting a stay at home wife is the problem. He is basing this stereotype off another writer who is quoting such stellar sites as no marriage.com. He backs this breathtaking assumption up by then praising/talking about another large subculture that can only really be labeled by sexual preference and covers a vast array of things.
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I have absolutely no objections to the idea of different gender roles, with whatever men and women choose to do.
The issue there would be with gender roles existing. These are social roles that gender has no merit in determining who should be doing what and who is best at what.
That said the article isn't without its flaws. Splitting Masculinity into 5 subcategories instead of say 2 isn't really an improvement. Gender is naught but a social construct.
Also the comments provide the funnies.
Very good post. I don't understand why asking a woman if she likes getting flowers is considered so anxiety- inducing, while the previous norm of a man being responsible for the entire household's income- and being considered a major loser if he needed to ask for extra income from his marriage partner- should be considered less so.
Because he wants to be fucked tonight and if he gets it wrong it isn't happening. Retard.
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The thing is, straight dudes don't usually conform to subcultures based on what we like to put our dicks in. We find ours somewhere else. A lot of the whole gay subculture thing amounts to "letting your sexual orientation define your entire identity." Then again, "straight dude" is apparently the one social group whose members don't generally think of themselves as a group.
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THE GAYS ARE EMOTIONALLY OPEN AND NON STEREOTYPED LET ME GO MAKE AN OVERARCHING ASSUMPTION ABOUT AN ENTIRE SUBCULTURE
There's some truth behind the stereotype, at least? I mean, if you asked me whether "unmistakably masculine, playfully ironic, aesthetic, emotionally open, and happily sexual" sounded more like an ideal of homosexual masculinity or heterosexual, I would have to say I associate it more with the former (which is too bad, since that sounds great to me). The author is basically saying he is thankful for growing up around such culture, which does seem to have originated from "gay culture".
(As mc observed, it is one of several different "gay cultures" to boot.)
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A lot of the whole gay subculture thing amounts to "letting your sexual orientation define your entire identity."
I really can't think of anyone I know where their entire identity is determined by their sexual orientation. If anything, people's identities seem to be defined more by their job/education than anything LGBT-related.
Then again, "straight dude" is apparently the one social group whose members don't generally think of themselves as a group.
Really depends where you live. I have a friend who grew up somewhere in the south. He wasn't into cars. Several of his peers concluded that he must be gay because he wasn't into cars (after all, all the other boys in the school were into cars).
Though in terms of "group that doesn't think of themselves as a group"--yes most majorities are like that. There's a Black Broadcasting Network. There's no White Broadcasting Network. I've seen people complain about this, to which the response is usually "uh, dude? See those other 66 channels? Those would be the white networks."
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A lot of the whole gay subculture thing amounts to "letting your sexual orientation define your entire identity."
I really can't think of anyone I know where their entire identity is determined by their sexual orientation. If anything, people's identities seem to be defined more by their job/education than anything LGBT-related.
Then again, "straight dude" is apparently the one social group whose members don't generally think of themselves as a group.
Really depends where you live. I have a friend who grew up somewhere in the south. He wasn't into cars. Several of his peers concluded that he must be gay because he wasn't into cars (after all, all the other boys in the school were into cars).
Though in terms of "group that doesn't think of themselves as a group"--yes most majorities are like that. There's a Black Broadcasting Network. There's no White Broadcasting Network. I've seen people complain about this, to which the response is usually "uh, dude? See those other 66 channels? Those would be the white networks."
Eh, maybe it's a byproduct of not being from the South, which is a shithole. Anyway, as far as the subculture thing goes, if you are "conforming to a gay subculture" that is, by definition, allowing your sexual orientation to define you. Just like conforming to any other kind of ______ subculture is you allowing ______ to define you.
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A lot of the whole gay subculture thing amounts to "letting your sexual orientation define your entire identity."
I really can't think of anyone I know where their entire identity is determined by their sexual orientation. If anything, people's identities seem to be defined more by their job/education than anything LGBT-related.
Eh. Thing is, though people's entire identity is formed more by education, their childhood, etc., people also give off a primary identity. Fucking is so ingrained into our biology that it is one of the bits of info that solidifies most easily in other people's minds, and usually in your mind too. The personality displayed in public tends to be that one, which makes people outside of the community think it defines the entirety of said personality.
Not that it isn't still largely just a construct, but it is a damn important one.
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Embracing something labeled "Gay culture" is kind of aligning yourself very strongly with an identity defined by your sexuality. Of course when you know people they don't seem to be all encompassed by it, but when you are actually getting to know someone you are starting to deal with them on a level greater than broad sweeping stereotypes about their culture, so obviously it is hard to see how that is entirely defining someones identity (Of course it generally isn't that all encompassing). The thing to remember here is you are talking about Labelling Theory here, the more precise the analysis of a subject the less generalised the labels have to be, so you give them more labels in a big pile.
You can see it in this very discussion. You start with Gay Subculture, and then you go on to cover how there is multiple ones, Bear, Daddy, Twink, Flamer, Whatevers and so on. And... when you get down to it there is some people that have some overlap there, so they need more labels and there is some of them that have regular day jobs, so you give them another label. Some of them like Ice Cream as well.
But from the distance, the one that stands out is the Sexuality, it might be because the person isn't hanging around and fucking ice cream quite so prominently in their social hours. Pretty much it just comes down to Sex is one of our biggest most widely bandied around Labels and for a good point, it is one of the most easilly determined, so it flows through to sexuality and things related to Sex and Gender. It is a fairly straight line.
It is all still a bullshit social construct and something that needs to be broken down better so that more people can easilly remember that they are talking about people and not a pile of sticky notes.
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http://www.destructoid.com/exclusive-preview-left-4-dead-crash-course-campaign-142570.phtml
Info about the new L4D level. The release date's TBA again, hopefully is soon. Blah to it being more of a versus map than a full one though! They give a pretty good overview of the level there.
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http://gizmodo.com/5352299/i-am-t+pain-iphone-app-is-auto+tuning-genius
I am T-Pain iPhone app.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/09/04/study-violent-game-ads-more-memorable-players
Interesting study--people remembered in-game ads from violent games more than non-violent games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP_hAszQPgk
(video) 100 years of special effects; montage version.
http://kotaku.com/5353779/guitar-hero-the-beatles-clip
(video) Guitar Hero parody "Guitar Hero Beatles"
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/08/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?postversion=2009090813
Silver goes up more than gold, the speculation being that this means we're seeing a legitimate economic recovery.
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http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/08/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?postversion=2009090813
Silver goes up more than gold, the speculation being that this means we're seeing a legitimate economic recovery.
Fun fact: Silver conducts electricity better than any other metal. Although NASA still uses gold in their circuits for some reason.
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It's probably because gold is more resistant to oxidation? If memory serves anyway, it's about the only conductive metal that doesn't tarnish or rust.
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It's probably because gold is more resistant to oxidation? If memory serves anyway, it's about the only conductive metal that doesn't tarnish or rust.
Indeed. Limited space, so they can't be storing spare parts while they clean them or whatever.
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It's probably because gold is more resistant to oxidation? If memory serves anyway, it's about the only conductive metal that doesn't tarnish or rust.
Indeed. Limited space, so they can't be storing spare parts while they clean them or whatever.
Your solid gold Battlemaster is still excessive, Rob.
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Get out of the 3020's, Soppy. I drive a DNF-4F Defiance fresh off the lines at Defiance Industries of Furillo.
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Bah. Don't know much beyond 3060. A cursory glance at TRO 3060 didn't unearth anything that seemed like you'd be into it (LOLHAUPTMAN). Had to guess something iconic.
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You should get TRO 3075. It's got a whole section devoted to pre-Star League designs. You know, Age of War shit. They've got stuff like the Ymir and Von Rohrs (the second and third mechs ever built, respectively).
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http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm
It is indeed a bad day for the people involved.
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At least they went for the van first?
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/09/04/study-violent-game-ads-more-memorable-players
Interesting study--people remembered in-game ads from violent games more than non-violent games.
That's not surprising to me. Evolutionarily speaking, being able to remember the circumstances and environment in a violent situation could make-or-break you in a survival situation.
Still creepy in a modern context.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that advertisement is more out of place in the violent setting than it is in more non-violent ones that are likely to use it.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that advertisement is more out of place in the violent setting than it is in more non-violent ones that are likely to use it.
The counterpoint would be that when you put violent and nonviolent stuff right after each other, people don't remember the nonviolent stuff. The particular psychological test that proved this effect, they were showing slides, with the occasional gruesome motorcycle accident. Afterward people couldn't remember slides immediately before the gruesome slides.
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The NFL meets the Oregon Trail (http://www.slatev.com/index.html?bcpid=988327350&bclid=29897817001&bctid=38333390001)
Next time, bring less bullets and more Gatorade.
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Golden.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that advertisement is more out of place in the violent setting than it is in more non-violent ones that are likely to use it.
The counterpoint would be that when you put violent and nonviolent stuff right after each other, people don't remember the nonviolent stuff. The particular psychological test that proved this effect, they were showing slides, with the occasional gruesome motorcycle accident. Afterward people couldn't remember slides immediately before the gruesome slides.
Again thought, that is a place where violence is the oddity though and thus stands out.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDfE8f61KE
Whoa lots of clouds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAq3hWBlalU
Dwarves+Accordions=Tejano music. Makes sense.
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A freind linked me to this today, and I have to agree that it may well be the most awesome sport ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
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http://www.animalswithlightsabers.com/
Seems like a classic website in the making.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItxeFoAM8a0
Every Class Is Different (Team Fortress 2)
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Some classes rig the enemy base with explosives.
This Demoman did not. He was too drunk.
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http://jnorad.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html
force analysis on TF2 sentry.
http://kotaku.com/5356726/activision-courtney-love-signed-cobain-contract-for-guitar-hero-5
Okay, while I'm more often than not blasting my own company for how it handles Guitar Hero, I have to say I'm on Activision's side here. Seriously, what?
http://totallylookslike.com/
More internet goodness.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6226758.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1
My evil overlord at work. *kneels*
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To be fair to Activision, it is Courtney Love. No one fucking cares or believes what she says anyway. I even like her music, but yeah, she is so far beyond spectacle at this point it is just laughable..
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Thought this was cute. Fits the moment. http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mgt/lowres/mgtn293l.jpg
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http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6663629
D'awwwww.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDEyLbUSxo
(video) One year after the Death Star. Awesome.
http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_85_if-video-games-were-realistic/
If Games were realistic....
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story
Gamer kills burglar using a Samurai Sword.
http://westkarana.com/index.php/2009/09/04/a-first-look-at-hello-kitty-online/
Hello Kitty Online.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/what-does-urine-look-outer-space
Space Pee.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story
Gamer kills burglar using a Samurai Sword.
My head.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDEyLbUSxo
(video) One year after the Death Star. Awesome.
Saw that the other day. Is it strange that the first thing I noticed was "wait, this should be 3 years later, they mention Hoth and there's a three year gap between New Hope and Empire"?
Still pretty awesome though.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story
Gamer kills burglar using a Samurai Sword.
My head.
I didn't catch the part of the article that called him a 'gamer'...?
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Someone was killed, a gamer had to be behind it, haven't you been following this shit Djinn? Get with the program.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnXYWSa56w
For best results, don't read the video title.
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I really like how the retarded anchorwoman started making the biggest "I wish I could dig a hole on the ground and stick my face into it forever" face I've seen in years.
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Haha, I just got shown this by my dad about 10 minutes ago, typically. I think my favourite thing about it is the awkward response of "Uhm, okay, I will."
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I'm glad I'm not the only person who's watched that particular John Waters movie, clearly.
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I'm glad I'm not the only person who's watched that particular John Waters movie, clearly.
Pink Flamingos, I take it? Know it only by reputation. The worst of his that I've seen was Desperate Living. That was bad enough, thanks.
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I'm glad I'm not the only person who's watched that particular John Waters movie, clearly.
Pink Flamingos, I take it? Know it only by reputation. The worst of his that I've seen was Desperate Living. That was bad enough, thanks.
Yup. In it, a man has a three-way with a woman and a chicken.
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It says a lot about Pink Flamingos is that even people who've heard of the movie might not know that scene, because they only hear about the most disgusting part.
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It's hard to notice the zoophilia when you have one of the ugliest trannies ever eating crap - in the literal sense. I'm glad I never watched anything from John Waters besides Serial Mom, and that was probably too much.
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John Waters had some good, relatively clean stuff. Hairspray was good, as was Crybaby.
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Serial Mom was relatively friendly as well, and it did have its moments (Kathleen Turner killing a hag with a slab of poultry as Annie played off-screen, if nothing else, is very entertaining to watch. Also, I don't think human legs can stretch out like that). Just yeah. Hairspray doesn't look too bad, but eh watching movies.
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Yeah, Serial Mom (and...pretty much anything else he did starting 'round the eighties or so, I gather; that and Polyester are the only other movies I've seen by him, though) is completely tame by comparison.
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http://www.telltalegames.com/
In celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Telltell Games is giving away the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island free for today and today only.
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And if you already own it, TTG is giving you the game of your choice instead. I got Dangeresque 3, since SBCG4AP is the only one of theirs I don't have yet.
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Man, that's like Halloweenmas.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1213892/Ekaterina-threatens-kill-furious-row-Ronnie-Wood.html
One neighbour claimed to have heard Ekaterina scream: 'I'm going to kill myself. You are going to find me dead.' Wood is then reported to have yelled at her: '**** off home, you slut.'
Rolling Stones still fucking hardcore.
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I rarely make software recommendations, but I think I'm definitely using this for any further stat topics I do - might prove useful for others (and in other situations) as well:
http://www.nebulasoft.cn/minipad2/minipad2_en.html
Calculation page keeps everything neat and tidy and on one page so you can just c+p any relevant calculations once you've made them.
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http://kotaku.com/5362259/pissed-off-tea-table-flipping-the-arcade-game
Vaguely awesome arcade game.
http://kotaku.com/5362193/half+life-2-mod-is-all-pew-pew-pew
(video) Hillarious Half Life 2 mod.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/18/koticks-skepticism-pessimism-and-fear-become-custom-classes/
Infinity Ward has a sense of humor.
http://www.parkingday.org/
Wild idea--converting parking spaces into public parks for a day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-db9qgn99o&feature=player_embedded#t=44
(video) Left 4 Teletubbies. Possibly the most horrifying mod ever.
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That table-flipping game is an awesome idea. kinda looks dull to play, though.
http://www.weathersealed.com/2009/09/22/where-the-buffalo-roamed/
the McMap of the United States.
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http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2009/09/15/capcom_vs_insert_idea_here (http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2009/09/15/capcom_vs_insert_idea_here)
Capcom offers to take suggestions for a new Capcom vs. game.
CAPCOM VS. GUILTY GEAR, DAMMIT!
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Needs more Capcom vs. Gummi Bears.
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And here I was thinking Capcom vs. Smash Bros or Soul Calibur just to see how they'd handle the format differences.
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Capcom vs ArkSys would be awesome. But talking it over with Jenna, I think I'd throw my vote down for Capcom vs Nintendo(as much as it'd NEVER happen).
That or Capcom vs Disney. Would cover Marvel as well now! And let us have KH2 Mickey in a 2d fighter!
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Capcom VS Arkham
Capcom VS Jenna Jameson
Capcom VS Wizards of the Coast
Capcom VS Your Mum
Capcom VS My Little Pony
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(http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/yogaflame/kvc.jpg)
This is the way.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo - Winner of Ukraine's Got Talent. Sand artist depicts the German invasion of the Ukraine.
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And we get Kevin fucking Skinner. Way to fail, America.
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http://quizible.com/quiz/movie-posters-101/2921
Tough movie poster quiz.
I got 54 and then gave up. I am a disgrace to my major
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Got 42. A few I'm pretty sure I should have gotten that I didn't.
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78. Some of those were really random choices, though. Ghost Ship? Really? Someone likes Pixar a bit much, too. Three in a row? Points for Hercules in New York, though.
Ones missed, for reference (since I'd like to know what some of these are): 14-16, 25, 37, 38, 43, 49, 63, 66, 73-75, 78, 79, 81, 83-86, 91, 93, 99.
I suck for missing 74. I just watched that a couple months ago.
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Of those I got... 14 - Stepford Wives, 16 - Deathproof, 78 - V for Vendetta.
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I don't think I've even heard of Deathproof. I only wish I didn't know about V.
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For the Cid. I didn't get all the ones he missed, but several. 57 total.
14. The Stepford Wives 16. Deathproof 78. V for Vendetta 85. Sin City
Granted lots of guesswork involved. For example, on #17 I could read the stars of the movie, which was enough to tell me what it was (since the poster otherwise isn't too helpful >.>)
Edit: Deathproof is a Quentin Tarantino movie, released with Planet of Terror as part of Grindhouse.
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60.
37 is Man on Wire, 99 is Pearl Harbor
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Deathproof is a guy killing women with his car with gruesome violence. Then the part that's actually worth watching happens.
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Haha. I even guessed Grindhouse for that because I knew it involved a car in some fashion. Oh well.
What the heck is #38? I don't see how it can be anything other than The Punisher, but apparently it isn't.
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Might be the sequel, of which I have no idea what it's called.
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Punisher: War zone. What the fuck to that choice.
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Missed it, but just chiming in to say you really should watch Deathproof Cid (and buy the soundtrack).
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Despite my noted distaste for Tarantino?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VuIShM5kAQ
(video) How to kiss a woman, by Captain Kirk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
(video) Carl Sagan song ft Stephen Hawking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
(video) Creepy Windows ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudhFVnN2o0
(video) 100 of the most well-known Youtube videos, crammed into 3 minutes.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-09-dead-rising/56719
(video) Wheelchair tank.
http://playthisthing.com/randomness-blight-or-bane
Article on randomness in game design. I'm not sure how much I agree with its conclusions, but it has a lot of fascinating board game examples.
http://www.doublefine.com/site/comments/twenty_years_only_a_few_tears/
Tim Schafer's original job application letters.
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I don't think I've even heard of Deathproof. I only wish I didn't know about V.
V for Vendetta anti-hype? I live in a strange world.
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No, I live in a strange world where people actually like it. I'll hype the book to hell and back, but the movie was just the Wachowskis' adolescent power fantasies marauding all over a story they apparently didn't understand.
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Th Wachowskis got one thing completely right - the jail, especially Valerie's letter. Everything else was a fine movie (which I don't regret paying for) but also a textbook example of missing the goddamn point.
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Pretty much.
Also Cid, yes. You might learn to love him (I maintain that even if you don't like Tarantino his movies are worth watching just to remember that movies like that can still be made these days).
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PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN LEFT 4 DEAD:
Because of the new DLC Left 4 Dead is half-off (15 bucks). Now would be the time to get it if you want it.
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Finally.
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Yeah, that's actually a reasonable price on the thing.
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Strangely translated movie titles = hilarity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/lost-in-translation-the-f_n_303747.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1998/04/27/editorial1.html
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• "Air Bud," a charming kids' movie about a lovable basketball-playing golden retriever named Buddy, was distributed in Chinese theaters as "Our Supper Was A Sports Enthusiast."
Nothing more needs to be said.
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Th Wachowskis got one thing completely right - the jail, especially Valerie's letter. Everything else was a fine movie (which I don't regret paying for) but also a textbook example of missing the goddamn point.
I wouldn't say they missed the point, because they refrained from explaining who V was, so they got the idea that ideas can be bigger than people. They also KIND OF got the message across that absolutism was dangerous, mostly by presenting a non-violent counterpoint in the variety show host's passive resistance, and how even though the government were assholes, the world was going to shit and England wasn't falling apart like everywhere else we see, so maybe sticking with them was better than V's alternative of blowing things up.
No, the major fault of the movie is that they felt the need to soften V to make him more appealing to audiences. That might have been executive meddling combined with Hugo Weaving's voice, I dunnow. But with him being nicer than he was intended to be, it defangs the message that he is just as dangerous as the Norsefire regime, but in different ways, and that forcibly imposing "freedom" upon the people via anarchy is no better than forcibly imposing order through a police state.
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Yeah, that's the point I meant. Even before the movie came out, they were quoted talking about V as a superhero who saves the country from the evil Norsefire villains.
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http://www.thewingless.com/planetfall/
Random piece of science fiction Rat threw at me. Pretty neat.
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http://www.yourworldoftext.com/rpgdl
...Just... Just go there and see for yourself what TERROR I have unleashed upon the DL.
22:22:34 (tainjo) Hm, Trance?
22:23:00 (TranceHime) Interesting thing where you can pretty much type anything you want there. And it'll stay. Something like a virtual wall for graffiti.
22:23:05 (TranceHime) Except instead of graffiti it's text.
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Trance was later promoted for his initiative in promoting this chaos.
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And also from that:
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/Y05h1k3n/DjinnRequest.jpg)
Djinn, care to meet this request? ;p
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(http://www.thejokerblogs.com/images/wantedposter.jpg)
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And also from that:
Djinn, care to meet this request? ;p
Are my talents really necessary to get a drawing of Kirby with thread and scissors? >.>;;
^ ^
<(O.O<) (O.O) (>O.O)>
Although... I have to wonder what kind of hat Clotho et al would wear...? Maybe I have to draw a one-eyed set of Kirbae?
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They need to be based on the MegaTen art, of course. Use the SMTN artwork on Dokuganryu to get references~
And this is why I'm here. ^_^
http://dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/kanekoIII/491.jpg - So, Atrokirby has cardboard wrapped round its head.
http://dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/kanekoIII/492.jpg - Lachekirby has really big hair and a basket on its head.
http://dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/kanekoIII/493.jpg - And Clokirby has smaller hair but still a basket on the head.
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http://kudodouche.wordpress.com/2009/
Kudo is a Douche, the blog (Kudo being a famous producer in the videogame industry that everyone I know hates).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8H7zZ4SCyY
(video) While we're on the subject of Kudo...hmm, how is it that he understands the question, but replies in English....
http://kotaku.com/5369827/paper-boy-the-movie
(video) Paper Boy, the Movie.
http://hacknmod.com/hack/incredible-r2d2-hack-has-8-consoles-projector/
Neat console conglomerate.
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http://dod.vgmix.com/ - Yet another VGM remix site, this one centered around monthly themed duels.
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/10/05/super-social-networking-comic-book-character-facebook-status-u?71
This may have been linked to in chat as well, I dunno. Doesn't hurt to put it here too, I guess.
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Okay, that's pretty funny. What the fuck is a Red Bee, though?
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Possibly the lamest superhero ever created. Originated somewhere in the depths of the Golden Age, I believe. He kept a swarm of trained attack bees in his belt or something, and let them out to go after criminals.
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I don't see how someone who uses bees as an offensive weapon could be lame.
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Golden Age.
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Golden Age.
I was aware of the irony, yes.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/memes-strike-back-gerbils-gay-blood-elves-and-glenn-beck.ars (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/memes-strike-back-gerbils-gay-blood-elves-and-glenn-beck.ars)
Glenn Beck gets taste of own medicine, tries to fight back with international body. Defendant's Lawyer uses term YOU GAY BLOODELF in argument to hoity-toity European council and gets away with it.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catholic-relief-services/sumatra-quake-man-amputat_b_315907.html
Story about a survivor of the recent earthquake in Indonesia. Not for the faint of heart, but the smile on that guy's face...that's really something. Bolsters my faith in humanity, that's for sure.
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http://inboxinsanity.blogspot.com/2008/11/bee-hive-under-barbeque-its-huge.html
Man sees bees going in and out of his BBQ grill, so he decides to smoke them out. Little did he know...
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/10/12/cb.digital.trail.job.search/index.html
This entire story makes me want to punch someone in the face.
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It's a lamentable trend. I still don't want to acknowledge that Facebook and the like exist, much less have to use them to look good for an employer. However, this is the part that really got me:
Of course, during a job hunt you should consider your overtly controversial activities such as political, religious or social movements, Merritt says.
It's all part of the online picture of you, so make sure it is the most accurate and flattering view. And it sounds obvious, but travel tips, book reviews and online gaming advice might not paint the picture of a "nose to the grindstone" kind of person, Merritt says.
Yes, because if you don't live to work, you are doing it wrong.
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Well, if you want to go by the still mainstream puritan work ethic intrinsic to America since it's inception, you are doing it wrong.
To quote about half the people I met in England: "There's a reason we sent those twats across the sea."
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Well, if you want to go by the still mainstream puritan work ethic intrinsic to America since it's inception, you are doing it wrong.
To quote about half the people I met in England: "There's a reason we sent those twats across the sea."
So you take the nation that conquered all the major hubs of the spice trade but declines to season their mutton and you ask them if they know what the point of work is? Uh huh.
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So you get the richest most powerful nation in the world and they spend all day working harder to earn more money so they die at the age of 65 just before they retire and ask them how to enjoy themselves? Uh huh.
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http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-YAOIZONE&Category_Code=QC-SHIRTS
This is the kind of stuff I'd wear t-shirts instead of polos for.
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So you get the richest most powerful nation in the world and they spend all day working harder to earn more money so they die at the age of 65 just before they retire and ask them how to enjoy themselves? Uh huh.
That. Also not even what I was saying at all--Only brought up England because I thought one of my friends' quotes was hilarious and appropriate to this.
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Protip: don't listen to work counselors who tell you employers are all looking for very specific things not related to work performance. I've been told having facial hair is a bar to employment in NY, and I just saw another article by a well-respected one saying goatees remind prospective employers of the devil and must be shaved. These things have no basis in reality.
This (http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/08/10/why-facebook-is-sooo-gonna-get-you-fired/), however? Totally believable.
So you get the richest most powerful nation in the world and they spend all day working harder to earn more money so they die at the age of 65 just before they retire and ask them how to enjoy themselves? Uh huh.
By eating goddamn good food on the way, that's how.
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You... have made me unable to refute that point. Goddamn you and your pizza.
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We didn't invent vegemite, we don't put mayonnaise on everything (at least, theoretically), and we're not responsible for the mass abortion that is British cooking.
I'm pretty sure American cuisine wins out in the Anglosphere.
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British food is fucking amazing, if only because we steal all the best foods from everywhere else. (So, uhh, a lot like the Americans really!)
Except we have much more tea instead of coke. Hence, better.
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Having seen british/scottish food recently, I am going to have to violently disagree.
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Tea is not a food. That said, you both eat disgusting food largely. Only Jim and his devillish Brooklyn and Manhattan island can get away with the good food card (And well... Canada outside of Poutine and Mayonnaise on chips)
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Okay, correction for Super: English food is good.
Besides, can't beat a good roast dinner. Or, if you're feeling lazy, fish and-- DAMMIT. Now there are two topics on the forums that make me hungry. -.-
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Blood pudding still exists so you're not off the hook Yoshi. the Belgians know beer, the french know food. Doesn't leave the UK with much!
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The French know food? Hell, they didn't 10 years ago. >.> French food was god-awful. If you want -real- food, you want the German stuff.
But anyways. English food is amazing because we steal the best from every other country. Blood pudding is some odd exception that I can only blame the Welsh for.
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Suuure ^_~ Also we refer to it as black pudding, I don't go into the chippy and ask for blood pudding >_> I only order for mum/sis however.
I prefer the Haggis which us Scots are apparently responsible for. Also I doubt we're entirely responsible for whisky but that is also a big thing here. Whisky + Irn Bru ^_^
Also I thought the meals that we had at the pub and the cottage were just fine super ^_^ We only ate black pudding once *EYES*
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POUTINE IS AN ABOMINATION.
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MAYONNAISE ON CHIPS IS?
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Poutine is cheese + gravy + chili + whatever crazy people imagine (like one girl I met had all that with peppers, tobasco sauce, and ketchup).
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English American food is amazing because we steal the best from every other country.
And you know it's only a matter of time before people start speaking American, too.
Neener neener.
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Suuure ^_~ Also we refer to it as black pudding, I don't go into the chippy and ask for blood pudding >_> I only order for mum/sis however.
I prefer the Haggis which us Scots are apparently responsible for. Also I doubt we're entirely responsible for whisky but that is also a big thing here. Whisky + Irn Bru ^_^
Also I thought the meals that we had at the pub and the cottage were just fine super ^_^ We only ate black pudding once *EYES*
That was generic food for the most part. The actual local cuisine was... something else. I see why they needed to invent Scotch now.
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English American food is amazing because we steal the best from every other country.
And you know it's only a matter of time before people start speaking American, too.
Neener neener.
And now it's time for Super to sing the American national anthem... IN AMERICA!
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Allow me:
"AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!"
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POUTINE IS AN ABOMINATION.
I am so glad you have been exposed to this stuff so quickly.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_chinese_drywall
Crazy China's done it again...
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This is honestly closer to IotD material.
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This is honestly closer to IotD material.
More like 'collect articles about buying poison from China, make Idiots of the Decade'
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If there was chile on it, it wasn't poutine. Poutine, better known as Ambrosia, or food of the gods, is quite simply fries, cheese curds, and gravy, typically a type of turkey gravy for best results, though I haven't been in a place where you get the true poutine gourmets in many a year.
As for mayonaise on chips... that sounds utterly disgusting, and I have never actually seen anyone do so. So, I'm kinda thinking that's a myth.
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Both of those ideas sound rather foul, but less horrifying than ketchup on ice cream.
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It may have not had chili, I was too busy throwing up to care.
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/me checks what the fuck is gravy anyway.
... what in the flying fuck makes you maniacs think that adding -that- to something as greasy as cheese is a good idea!?
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Gravy is sickening and I only ever use it in one dish I cook, period. That being shepherd's pie, because it helps the stuff coalesce.
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Canadian winters. -30C makes the ability to produce a lot of internal heat very appealing.
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Swallowing lit candles sounds more appealing than that, though.
EDIT:
Not to mention you could, just, you know, make a warm, steamy soup or something, which would actually be edible.
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Don't even go deriding gravy guys.
Just... don't go there.
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Eh, like I said earlier. Food of the gods, and a delicacy like few others.
... man, we totally got the wrong kind of cheese in the house right now. And used up all the potatoes.
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Eh, like I said earlier. Food of the gods, and a delicacy like few others.
... man, we totally got the wrong kind of cheese in the house right now. And used up all the potatoes.
I totally need to make sure we have leftover gravy after Thanksgiving so I can make this. Fries + gravy is already good, so hey, adding something I've never had (cheese curds) totally can't be a bad idea.
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As for mayonaise on chips... that sounds utterly disgusting, and I have never actually seen anyone do so. So, I'm kinda thinking that's a myth.
Actually, that's because you misunderstand. In American/Canadian, Chips refer to those sliced-and-fried potatoes that are really greasy and salty. In British, chips refer to what Americans call French Fries. They call American chips "crisps."
The more you know~
(Note: This makes putting Vinegar on "chips" acceptable but mayonnaise is still really weird. Saw people eating that in France. Not so much England.)
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I'd say eating mayonnaise with anything (or eating mayonnaise at all) period is really weird~, but hey.
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Gravy is sickening and I only ever use it in one dish I cook, period. That being shepherd's pie, because it helps the stuff coalesce.
If there were any justice in the world, you would have been kicked in the head by a horse afterwards for typing this.
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Meanwhile I consider it justice that I wasn't.
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Huh, never actually tried gravy in sheperd's pie. Mostly because the potatoes are what I use to jam everything together.
As for Zenny, I realise there is a difference in what is meant. However, they both sound equally unappealing to me.
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British food is fucking amazing, if only because we steal all the best foods from everywhere else. (So, uhh, a lot like the Americans really!)
Except we have much more tea instead of coke. Hence, better.
Food you steal doesn't count as your food. I could go into most first-world countries and find sushi. Doesn't mean sushi belongs to that country.
When I think British food, I think of the kind of food I get if I sit down in a British...well pub/restaurant would probably be a more accurate description than restaurant (god forbid there be a place where you can't buy alcohol). They tend to be focused on stuff like Steak and Kidney Pie, Fish and Chips, Yorkshire Pudding, Scones.
I don't have a high opinion of it in general (though I'll give a nod to the Scots--Haggis done right is actually quite good).
Anyway...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/the-11-creepiest-unintent_n_316963.html
11 creepiest unintentionally sexual ads.
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/
photoshop disasters.
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Those are just gold.
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Food you steal doesn't count as your food. I could go into most first-world countries and find sushi. Doesn't mean sushi belongs to that country.
America, in large part, takes other people's food ideas and unashamedly makes them our own. I mean, California rolls, anyone? (Chesesteaks are all us, though. Go team!)
British food is fucking amazing, if only because we steal all the best foods from everywhere else. (So, uhh, a lot like the Americans really!)
Except we have much more tea instead of coke. Hence, better.
I agree that more tea = better, but the UK (and Ireland especially) mangles tea leaves to such an extent that you NEED milk in it because it's so damn bitter. So there's room for improvement.
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People don't like gravy? Huh, we eat it quite a bit here. Goes on chicken-fried steak, or on biscuits for breakfast. (and that's the bread-type biscuits, not cookies you Brits)
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Most regions of the US, in my experience, have some variety or other of gravy it favors. Disliking it is more an individual thing.
(Like most other things in the "high-fat goop" catagory, I don't mind it incorporated into cassarols or the like but never add it directly to food)
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People don't like gravy? Huh, we eat it quite a bit here. Goes on chicken-fried steak, or on biscuits for breakfast. (and that's the bread-type biscuits, not cookies you Brits)
Gravy on cookies: Bad.
Cookies for breakfast: GENIUS.
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Don't think I've had gravy for breakfast, but now that you mention gravy and biscuits, I want some. Bad, Cap.
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Hell, you could have an entire meal with gravy on all of it. Chicken-fried steak, with a side of hash browns (country-style, which is the shredded kind) and a biscuit.
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Hell, you could have an entire meal with gravy on all of it. Chicken-fried steak, with a side of hash browns (country-style, which is the shredded kind) and a biscuit.
You can get that with an egg to boot at Denny's. It's pretty much my standard order if I end up there with friends at 1 AM when I'm not doing anything the next morning.
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Regarding poutine: It really depends if you get the good stuff (as in, actually made in Quebec or locations closely bordering Quebec) for quality. I personally don't like cheese curds period, so I'm not a poutine fan, but...
Regarding gravy: Never had gravy on Shepherd's Pie. Gravy is the best food liquid you don't (usually) put in a glass. It's also the one thing that is still really good from KFC.
Regarding mayonnaise (on fries and in general): Only in moderation.
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Gravy is a travesty that you do to your body. I still eat it, but fuck it is disgusting (remember, I hate my weak fleshy being). No argument will make this a good thing. Liking it is just another form of suicide. The same thing goes for Poutine except it is even more disgusting.
Australian food is shit, just saying since everyone seems to be defending their country's filth meals.
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Go have a Foster's with some kagnaroo burgers and don't sweat it minion. You deserve it.
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I will rape you to death with a rake.
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All food is trash except Chinese, and half the time that stuff's bad too.
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*Just finished eating chopped up bits of chicken swimming in gravy... USED TO TOP BISCUITS AND MASHED POTATOES.*
Can you see the kind of regard I have for my eating habits?
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All food is trash except Chinese
Disturbingly close to my mantra, seemingly.
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Gravy is a travesty that you do to your body. I still eat it, but fuck it is disgusting (remember, I hate my weak fleshy being). No argument will make this a good thing. Liking it is just another form of suicide. The same thing goes for Poutine except it is even more disgusting.
There's an important difference here. Gravy is awful for you because it just turns out that way. It's its nature. And the things you put gravy with are meant to mitigate the grossness and, because gravy IS delicious when you get down to it, accentuate the good points. Poutine is something else. It's the way it is because people made it that way. And there's just no excuse for that.
All food is trash except Chinese
Disturbingly close to my mantra, seemingly.
Not worth dignifying with a response.
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The reason I eat things is closer to Grefter's justification for gravy than actual pleasure. The tastiness/healthiness ratio of things meant to be eaten (and the tastiness/healthiness ratio of things that -weren't- meant to be eaten, but we eat anyway because our body's potential for dumpstering is yet to be fully harnessed) is a critical unbalance that would make Kotori fanfic blush and the main thing keeping us all from living in eternal hunger strike is that we all would die if we didn't eat.
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People don't like gravy? Huh, we eat it quite a bit here. Goes on chicken-fried steak, or on biscuits for breakfast. (and that's the bread-type biscuits, not cookies you Brits)
I like white gravy a lot with mashed potatoes and chicken fried steak. I am fine with this other weird gravy on some things but not french fries.
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...and the main thing keeping us all from living in eternal hunger strike is that we all would die if we didn't eat.
That's total rubbish. I know that, if we didn't need to eat, I'd still eat a hell of a lot (assuming I had the money to spare). Personally, I think eating is hideously under-rated. >.>
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...and the main thing keeping us all from living in eternal hunger strike is that we all would die if we didn't eat.
That's total rubbish. I know that, if we didn't need to eat, I'd still eat a hell of a lot (assuming I had the money to spare). Personally, I think eating is hideously under-rated. >.>
I wasn't counting the suicidal. >_>
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That's total rubbish. I know that, if we didn't need to eat, I'd still eat a hell of a lot (assuming I had the money to spare). Personally, I think eating is hideously under-rated. >.>
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I totally enjoy eating, excellent tasty stuff. Though if we didn't need to eat I'd probably eat about as often as I'd go out to the movies. Which is to say, yeah I love it, but I'm frugal with my money and lazy about going out if I don't need to.
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That's total rubbish.
That really being the underlying point, I overexaggerate everything. The issue I have with eating is that, for something that's absolutely necessary, the nearly suicidal implements we added to it are quite a turn-off, and the more natural things tend to err on the side of the depressingly bland. And then, to circumvent the bland, the simplest solution often ends up being dipping it in utterly disgustingly poisonous junk to disguise the cardboard texture/taste (which makes me honestly not bother eating the things -at all-). Doesn't help personally that the few things I'm utterly passionate about regarding food (elaborate/artistic or industrial sweets, particularly) are the ur-poison to your organism, but that's just my meager experience.
EDIT:
HOWEVER, water is the best drink to ever grace the surface of the Earth, and that is final.
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HOWEVER, water is the best drink to ever grace the surface of the Earth, and that is final.
Sure is, if you put some tea leaves in it and boil it.
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HOWEVER, water is the best drink to ever grace the surface of the Earth, and that is final.
Sure is, if you put some tea leaves in it and boil it.
That's a fine alternative.
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Tea is acceptable, good water is better but a great tea is comparable.
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Tea is the fourth reason reality is allowed to exist.
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Tea is the fourth reason reality is allowed to exist.
What are the other reasons?
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Music, philosophy (math is a philosophy) and books.
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Music, philosophy (math is a philosophy) and books.
I could get behind this.
I suppose you consider videogames to be an amalgam of music, math, and books?
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Math and books at least anyway, yes.
Edit - And of course science is Math/philosophy and Music.
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Math and books at least anyway, yes.
Edit - And of course science is Math/philosophy and Music.
See, I would have pegged Science as Math/philosophy + Books. Then again, I tend to think of music as a subfield of math anyway, so...yeah, not seeing exactly what it adds to Math/Philosophy.
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Science is a thing of beauty in ways that pure Math doesn't quite describe and Music is nothing but such beauty.
Edit - Oh yeah of course structurally Music is a kind of applied mathematics, but there is something else to it. That something else is pretty important to me.
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http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).
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http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).
I might have a nightmare about him now.
Those eybrows!
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Now I know where the character design for Rock Lee came from.
(Or maybe here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8koptoXSLz4)? Gotta respect the eyebrows.)
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http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is viral marketing for a movie coming out. The site's owned by guerrigliamarketing.it.
http://assme.org/2009/10/16/thisman-org-viral-something-or-other-sure-movie-maybe/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17minute.html?hp
speaking of tricks played on the general public...
trains leaving New York = your alarm clock.
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Reasons why Incredible Hercules is awesome, vol. 1:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/8436/incherc136page010011.jpg
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so cruel.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091017/wl_time/08599193082200
Russia promises to make sure it doesn't snow in Moscow this year. Clearly it's the right time for the Nazis to invade.
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The best Japanese game show ever (http://www.break.com/index/terrifying-sniper-prank-on-japanese-tv.html?matchid=)
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what.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/glenn-beck-slams-obama-en_n_326632.html
Go ahead, hear him out.
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IotD thread is over thatway, Miki.
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I didn't want to put it there because Beck's right in exactly one sense: the idea that this push for volunteerism is somehow completely unrelated to the Obama administration is dubious (now, the charity says they conceived of the idea about a year ago, so it's certainly possible they were influenced by Obama's volunteer-loving ways rather than being explicitly asked by the administration. They ARE lefties, after all.)
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Glenn Back is a walking IotD thread already anyways.
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He has a point. Volunteering is UnAmerican (How the fuck does anyone ever seriously say that? It hurts me to type it and I rape the English language every single day).
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It's un-American because there might be liberals doing it. QED.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix69Q-E_T_g
I don't know what this is, but I love it.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32632923/ns/health-fitness/
Drinking has been correlated to living a healthier lifestyle, yeah.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8321967.stm
Silly socialist Germans think that taxing the rich is a good idea to raise money for their country. Idiots! Don't they understand how the free market works!? The aristocratic upper class will never go along with this.
...
Oh.
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...
Okay, that's actually pretty cool/impressive if it works out right, and props to them?
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Yeah, here's hoping they pull it off, and good on them for making the effort even if it doesn't.
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http://www.starwarsuncut.com/
Star Wars: A New Hope cut into segments of fifteen seconds each and parceled out to a wide variety of reenactors who can present their scene in whatever manner they choose. Not completed yet, but there's plenty of ridiculousness on display already. While plenty of the scenes are the expected amateurs reveling in the silliness and trying to keep a straight face, other participants got more...creative. Varieties of animation to be found, scene #57 probably being the most amusing of these. Grefters, of course, can just skip ahead to segment #245. Also, "Bacci, motherfucker, do you speak it?"
My favorite may be the one where the stormtroopers are Jim Bean bottles with helmets pasted on.
(I was linked to this via Darths & Droids, which all gaming nerds should be reading already.)
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Reality no longer has a reason to exist. Perfection has been reached.
Edit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/facebook_memorials/
Goddamn that is creepy.
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http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/
My reaction is best summed up by my comment to chat.
By the way, if an entire dark forest full of hanged corpses wasn't bad enough, a few years ago some people noticed that a lot of the dead in Aokigahara probably had cash or jewelry on them. Thus began the proud Japanese tradition of Aokigahara Scavenging where people are running around the Death Forest, looking for dead guys to loot. <- man. Maybe living in Japan IS like an live action RPG
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http://www.cracked.com/article_17379_6-real-islands-way-more-terrifying-than-one-on-lost.html
#4? Totally where they hold the Hunter's Exam from Hunter X Hunter.
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I find the Fiji bottled water ad at the bottom of page 2 most amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhB0kWu0R-o
Obscure short film made by Michael Jackson in 1996. Pretty standard stuff for him, but watch the credits at the end of part 4. You'll see something very surprising.
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The writers of Castle are aware of Firefly. (http://www.comicbycomic.com/2009/10/little-captain-mal-for-you.html)
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Forget TV Tropes, Cracked is the place that always eats up my free time.
Curse you both for your highly entertaining, if utterly disturbing, links!
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Cracked ate more time at work for me tonight than the DL, let alone actual work.
I'm impressed.
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I've had entire days devoured by Cracked. The place is worse than cocaine.
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The Snake Island thing was sufficiently disturbing enough to haunt my nightmares. Why does their venom have to rot your flesh!? ;_;
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Because Necrotic poisons stop anything from ever going near you again.
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The Snake Island thing was sufficiently disturbing enough to haunt my nightmares. Why does their venom have to rot your flesh!? ;_;
Because Necrotic poisons stop anything from ever going near you again.
Couldn't say it better myself.
Also, if we ever go to war, that's how we're winning any battle.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/nevada.car.crash.home/
Kristin Palmer and Trent Wood were asleep in their home last week when a motorist allegedly drove into their bedroom around 4 a.m., mistakenly believing it was his ex-girlfriend's home.
Awkward.
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Something similar happened to a dude Kevin and I knew back in Ithaca. He's working at Taco Bell, and a car pulls into his mezzanine, through a glass wall. Guy gets out and orders a taco. Needless to say, the man gets his taco. The cops show up to take care of things before he's done.
911 call went something like this:
Smilner: "Hi, there's a car in my mezzanine."
Operator: "There's a car in your mezzanine? Could you repeat that?"
Smilner: "Yes, there's a car in my mezzanine."
Operator: *muffled laughter*
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Who was this and when was this?
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Oh yeah, guess you wouldn't've been around for this one. This was Sean Milner back when I was a sophomore.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-M_OLvchk
Boom, Intervention, bitches
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OK, what you do with your spare time should be kept between you and God... if you haven't killed God already
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That link is a pretty good argument that God is dead.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P4_YCFtkQ
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super wasn't asking for more proof about God being dead, you dick. =(
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-dj-hero/58264?type=flv
Huh, for once a game I've worked on is getting good reviews.
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Double post but...OMG!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/
TF2 for $2.49. Yeah, that's right: less than 3 dollars.
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That's only for the next half hour, the Halloween stuff is through the 2nd.
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That's only for the next half hour, the Halloween stuff is through the 2nd.
Yeah, good catch--edited.
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super wasn't asking for more proof about God being dead, you dick. =(
I was just telling Super, "Fuck You"
In song form.
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"Even Detrol cannot stop my sick flow!"
I laughed. Having done tons of pharmacy inventories, I actually got most of those jokes.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-dj-hero/58264?type=flv
Huh, for once a game I've worked on is getting good reviews.
You mean other than Web of Shadows right? I thought the overall response to it was pretty strong? Other than maybe a bit to much fighting I thought critical response was fairly alright.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-dj-hero/58264?type=flv
Huh, for once a game I've worked on is getting good reviews.
You mean other than Web of Shadows right? I thought the overall response to it was pretty strong? Other than maybe a bit to much fighting I thought critical response was fairly alright.
WoS reviews were reeeeealy mixed. Generally they were either 60 or they were 80 (the 80s included Gamespot, the site notorious for being hardasses; also, Zero Punctuation didn't hate it). Averaged about 70 in the end, which may well make it the second lowest reviewed game I've worked on. Ironic >_>
But uhh, yeah, DJ Hero's getting lots of 90s and stuff.
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DJ Hero is Guitar Hero with a disc-scratcher?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-dj-hero/58264?type=flv
Huh, for once a game I've worked on is getting good reviews.
Awesome. ^.^
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DJ Hero is Guitar Hero with a disc-scratcher?
Kinda. I guess I'll assume that since reviews are being posted that the NDA period is up...
There's three major selling points: first, it's a completely new instrument. Second, the music is pretty unique--it's all mashups (playing two songs simultaneously overtop of each other, perfectly on-beat so it actually sounds good) and it uses a lot of audio recordings that Guitar Hero would never touch. Third, the audio is all tied directly to player control; which is to say Easy, Medium, and Hard are actually completely different audio tracks because the user input is different in each mode.
I'm not sure how much of a future it has from a franchise perspective; price point could shut it down at the shelves ($120) and the fact that you need to re-mix separate audio tracks for all difficulties makes it much harder to pump out gobs of content like ATVI has done with the Guitar Hero franchise. Though I'll admit: I never really thought about how the gaming press would react to it.
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Hmmmm. Sorta wish this was available for the PS2, but then, the reason I don't play GH games is because I'm not yet willing to shell out over $150 for a toy guitar that I'll use to play a game, and DJ Hero wouldn't be any difference in that regard. Sort of a pity, since I like rhythm games, and I found what I played of GH1 quite good.
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When MC says "completely new instrument," she means it, too. Reading hands-on reports about DJ Hero, the input is completely different from...well, anything I've ever done, video game or otherwise.
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/me grumbles about kids these days and their new-fangled alternate controllers, and how in his day a DDR pad was all the alternate controller one would need, uphill both ways.
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/me randomly beats NotMiki with Steel Battalion.
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We've been getting alternative controllers since -Duck Hunt-, old man. >.>;;
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Which raises the question of where all the wiimote-as-lightgun games are...
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Which raises the question of where all the wiimote-as-lightgun games are...
Aren't there a bunch of these already?
I just got the RE railshooter and that's all the wiimote-as-lightgun action I need, but I imagine there's a ton of shovelware and mini-game collections that do this.
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When MC says "completely new instrument," she means it, too. Reading hands-on reports about DJ Hero, the input is completely different from...well, anything I've ever done, video game or otherwise.
If you've ever done actual DJing with actual DJ record decks, it's a fair bit like that (ignoring the coloured buttons on the record part of the controller >_>). To be a truely authentic experience it needed two record turntables, and to remove the buttons, but instead it had this system of "this button is the left record, this button is the right record, and this button is the sampler" which nobody who's not a DJ will figure out on their own. Granted, two turntables would jack up the controller cost even more, so I understand why they didn't do it....
We've been getting alternative controllers since -Duck Hunt-, old man. >.>;;
You do realize there was a home console on the market with a light gun 13 years before Duck Hunt, right? (Also: 3 years before the home version of PONG, but that's a different story).
Which raises the question of where all the wiimote-as-lightgun games are...
They uhh...already exist. Hell, one of the games in Wii Play is effectively Duck Hunt 2 (it really plays like it too).
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Well, yeah, I believe that, but I've never DJed so it's still true. I'm just saying that from what I've seen it's very much not Guitar Hero with a new controller.
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We've been getting alternative controllers since -Duck Hunt-, old man. >.>;;
You do realize there was a home console on the market with a light gun 13 years before Duck Hunt, right? (Also: 3 years before the home version of PONG, but that's a different story).
Actually, no, I wasn't aware. Is it common knowledge? What console?
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I had one actually, though for the life of me I can't remember the name. It was my uncle's really but he left it at the grandparents' house. It was a box with a couple dials on it that picked what games you were playing and it had stuff like pong and skeet shooting. Probably not the one mc is talking about since this had Pong though. Man, now that name is going to bug me...
I'm not sure how old it was but I know he had it before the Commodore 64 so it was at least close to as old as me.
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I am just disappointed this didn't lead to a massive splurge of research into House or Ambient music like Gun minigame did with poker MC. You could have broken into the wonderful worlds of Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. APHEX TWIN.
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Sorry, I should have specified: the history of alternate controllers starts with the one I care about and everything after that is crap in comparison by default.
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I am just disappointed this didn't lead to a massive splurge of research into House or Ambient music like Gun minigame did with poker MC. You could have broken into the wonderful worlds of Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. APHEX TWIN.
Seconded. Not that I'm completely super familiar with them, but I know enough to at least second this with gusto.
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We've been getting alternative controllers since -Duck Hunt-, old man. >.>;;
You do realize there was a home console on the market with a light gun 13 years before Duck Hunt, right? (Also: 3 years before the home version of PONG, but that's a different story).
Actually, no, I wasn't aware. Is it common knowledge? What console?
Magnavox Odyssey by Ralph Baer. Developed in 1966-1968, and the first videogame to be played on a retail television screen (as opposed to a university workstation screen or oscilloscope). Though due to a whole bunch of corporate people sitting on their hands, the console was not actually put onto the market until 1972 (which is to say, a console could have beaten all arcade videogames to the market). Instead, to the best of my knowledge, two arcade games were mass marketed before the Magnavox Odyssey--Computer Space in 1971 (which was shamelessly copied off of Spacewar) and PONG in 1972 (which was shamelessly copied off the Magnavox Odyssey Tennis game when the Odyssey had been shown at a tech demo early in the year).
I am just disappointed this didn't lead to a massive splurge of research into House or Ambient music like Gun minigame did with poker MC. You could have broken into the wonderful worlds of Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. APHEX TWIN.
Oh I did get into different music because of DJ Hero. Though most of the house/ambient stuff I got into was on the preceeding unreleased music project (<3 JUSTICE ...and, well, I already liked Daft Punk). No, the music that DJ Hero got me more into was more Mashups:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRHfd9Yto0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCsMnF34wns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWCclOqUHw
And also hip-hop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxBHRDyniI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsrN3qxX2Yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFknBy7F2R8
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More AWESOME medicine-related Youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXROnzpsrlg
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Oh I did get into different music because of DJ Hero. Though most of the house/ambient stuff I got into was on the preceeding unreleased music project (<3 JUSTICE ...and, well, I already liked Daft Punk). No, the music that DJ Hero got me more into was more Mashups and Hip Hop
Fair enough. Mashups have potential for either total awesome (see Alive 2009) or to be totally hilarious (See Cake Song/Closer for poorly done funny, see Smells Like Teens Spirit/Never Gonna Give You Up for well done and actually quite good but still funny). Hard to pull off well though.
Hip Hop is as Hip Hop is. Not my cup of tea but fair enough.
Edit - Token fucked up Aphex Twin video link goes here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatccHVfuhA
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http://member.square-enix.com/na/features/dq5/04/index.php
Dragon Quest 1/256 rates. Fun read, glad it's not me spending 50 hours, but the article was actually kinda gripping.
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http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26484.html
Another Hiimdaisy comic.
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Team Fortress 2 is back on sale for 2.50 if you missed it the first time.
http://www.teamfortress.com/
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Wasn't that yesterday...? Says $19.99 for me.
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It was earlier today. I bought it for Magetastic.
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I really need to learn to get with the program and get nice things for the price of milk.
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http://member.square-enix.com/na/features/dq5/04/index.php
Dragon Quest 1/256 rates. Fun read, glad it's not me spending 50 hours, but the article was actually kinda gripping.
I have a 1/256 Bomboulder. It's rare *and* sucks!
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You also probably have a Shiny Butterfree though.
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Nope, Beautifly. And Parasect!!111!!!1
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http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1224860.html#cutid1
Features Hideo Kojima, Twilight, and fanboys wailing and gnashing their teeth. I was tempted to put this in IotD, but there isn't enough concentrated stupidity from any one individual on display.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ABhatAfsA
Quick! Someone get Fnorder one of those "Will sue 4 food" signs.
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I want to play Torchlight...
http://i37.tinypic.com/2h535n9.jpg
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Dare I ask what that's a reference to? Or is it just awesome?
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Apparently it's one of their artists.
+ 2 Noodle Arms in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXmB0MIEfM
EDIT: There are no women on the internet:
http://nofirstdate.com/
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... glorious.
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EDIT: There are no women on the internet:
http://nofirstdate.com/
Good thing too, what with this kinda stuff floating around.
I wonder how many women on the internet pretend to be men?
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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project
Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck, with sexy results.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/brazilian-ademir-jorge-go_n_345817.html
beats the alternative!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/brazilian-ademir-jorge-go_n_345817.html
beats the alternative!
And more common than you'd think!
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"Before long, the walking dead appeared at the funeral. It was a relief."
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Yeah, I had heard of that one. Sorta funny in a deranged sense.
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http://www.smbc-theater.com/?id=180
there's internets in dem woods!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/james-cap-paralyzed-man-c_n_353912.html
with his breathing tube. that's badass, man.
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http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/his-facebook-status-now-charges-dropped/
Rodney Bradford asks what could be the most important question of his life: "where's my pancakes?"
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Wow. That's amazing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KorhvVQRUM
The original pitch video for the Muppet Show. Somehow this failed to get picked up by any US television network.
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I kinda miss that show.
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And they have bolstered employment cases: an employee who said he was too sick to work at his desk was found to have been well enough to add numerous and long posts to his personal blog, nearly every day, Mr. Browning said. And postings by a probationary sheriff’s deputy Brian Quinn, 26, of Marion County, Florida, on his MySpace page led to his firing in June 2006 for “conduct unbecoming an officer.” Among other things, Mr. Quinn had posted a picture of himself in uniform, along with comments about his job, women’s breasts, binge drinking and nude swimming.
Seriously, Nude Swimming is unbecoming of an officer? Also I am sure for some people out there that is EXACTLY what they want their policemen doing and doing so with their uniforms involved.
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http://www.slideshare.net/vgsummit/zhan-ye-what-us-game-developers-need-to-know-about-freetoplay-in-china-2408412?utm_source=Virtual%20Goods%20Summit%20and%20Virtual%20Goods%20Summit%20University%202009%20-%20All%20Attendees&utm_campaign=d6cbf6d080-Virtual_Goods_Summit_All_Attendees11_2_2009&utm_medium=email
Interesting article on game design of free-to-play chinese MMOs.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25955
Epic provides the PC version of the Unreal dev kit for free. If you're looking to get into game development, UE3 experience is pretty damn valueable. If you're looking to make a hobby game, UE3 is a good engine (there's competition now, but UE3 is still the most-used in the industry, which says good things about it, and has been used to make everything from shooters to jRPGs, which says good things about its flexibility).
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ultra_realistic_modern_warfare
(video) The Onion on CoD8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2guQYivZ6w
(video) I assume everyone's already seen the Christopher Walken rendition of Poker Face....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4T_QtiepG8&feature=related
(video) ...but this Walken/Gaga/Southpark mashup is awesome.
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Hasn't it been proven by now that anyone on the face of the Earth could be Lady Gaga?
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Have I mentioned we really need laws that say, for example, "employers cannot legally look at employee Facebook pages"? Jesus.
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And they have bolstered employment cases: an employee who said he was too sick to work at his desk was found to have been well enough to add numerous and long posts to his personal blog, nearly every day, Mr. Browning said.
And since typing on a computer is the most strenuous activity known to man, obviously that means he was fit for work.
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I think the blog post thing was probably missing an important element: what the blog posts said the guy was doing with his time. If it was the case that he blogged about his strenuous workout sessions or the long drives he takes, I don't think it'd be unreasonable to side with the employer.
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That would be good grounds, but "well enough to add numerous and long posts to his personal blog" isn't ambiguous. If it's accurate, they fired him not for the content of the posts, but for writing anything at all while home sick.
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Yeah, I dunno. The article doesn't confirm the truth of the situation, and I haven't turned up anything to that effect on google.
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I thought half the reason you stayed home when you were sick was not to infect your coworkers with it. But hell if that's not an excuse, all those chef jobs I had probably should have had a lot more people getting sick from eating there.
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http://www.slideshare.net/vgsummit/zhan-ye-what-us-game-developers-need-to-know-about-freetoplay-in-china-2408412?utm_source=Virtual%20Goods%20Summit%20and%20Virtual%20Goods%20Summit%20University%202009%20-%20All%20Attendees&utm_campaign=d6cbf6d080-Virtual_Goods_Summit_All_Attendees11_2_2009&utm_medium=email
Interesting article on game design of free-to-play chinese MMOs.
Thanks for the link. It was very popular on the Perfect World forums. Although I do have to say that PW doesn't skimp on the graphics. I guess that's their "hook" to get you to play for two weeks.
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Hasn't it been proven by now that anyone on the face of the Earth could be Lady Gaga?
No? She writes her own songs, designs her own incredibly wacky clothing that she wears, and actually comes across as natural at acting the Lady Gaga part (which very, very few people would).
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_as/as_china_obama_oba_mao
Chinese artist creates a flaming "Oba-Mao" statue for his arrival. Woo. Way to help his credibility. Didn't know where else to put it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qST5eVLudrQ&feature=related
Full version of Cartman's Pokerface. Still the best version out there. How bad is it when Cartman outsings you?
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Warning: not as cool as Oba-Mao, which is pretty cool.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/15price.html?8dpc
Brief history of cellphone pricing plans in the US, which economists apparently think are weeeeeird.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/the-11-craziest-japanese_n_360856.html?slidenumber=rtZjY1j887U%3D
Apparently the Persona series drew its inspiration from Japanese PSAs. Or something.
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SMT draws its inspiration from the fact that Japan is fucking crazy. By a staggering coincidence, that fact also inspires everything else about its popular culture.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM
50 worst voice acting moments in videogames.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM
50 worst voice acting moments in videogames.
Missing the epic voices from Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road opening.
Some of those weren't that bad though.
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The front page of YouTube recommended me this bad ass Day Man remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8n72MICR28&feature=related) about an hour ago.
Which is to say, it's been on repeat for an hour.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lFkXFqHc9E
I would totally buy L4D2 if it looked like this.
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/in-elmhurst-im-hurt-equals-u-r-hurt/?hp
Best unintentional message ever?
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http://www.teamfortress.com/
64-pages of Gorilla Stabbing
(scroll down a bit to see what I'm talking about)
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http://midnight-riders.com/
People who play L4D2 should click on this link.
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http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/11/18/new-lufia-game-details/ (http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/11/18/new-lufia-game-details/)
The good news: Lufia 2 is getting a from-the-ground-up overhaul for a DS release.
The bad news: It is now a 3D action-adventure Zelda-type game and Maxim is some kind of fantasy biker (http://www.true-gaming.net/tgupload/images2/09111920456cd4ed0e378d3009.jpg).
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There is nothing about what I read in that article that I don't love. Especially the fantasy biker shit.
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I dunno, reading the article it does make sense as to why they went this route. Curious to see how the final product turns out.
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Looks promising. They've been making ARPGs for a while now, so it's not like they're bumbling into this format with no clue what to do.
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Maybe this will be a Lufia game worth playing. It's still hysterical, but at least it's worth a look.
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Looking at it, holy fuck either they made Guy an enormous muscleman or that's Scott Steiner.
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I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs that some subsidiary of SE makes is a fucking ARPG.
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I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs that some subsidiary of SE makes is a fucking ARPG.
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I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs made these days are ARPGs, and the other half are SRPGs.
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Lufia 2 had a good core combat system in place. No idea how that'll translate to the ARPG setting, but we'll see.
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I lack words.
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No seriously, WHAT? Why does Maxim look like Luke?
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Honestly, it's an improvement in quality.
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Yeah, though I was skeptical at first, those pictures don't look half bad. So I suppose my reaction is the exact opposite of Rob's.
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What's this? More Nostalgia on the DS? yay.
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http://opus-xero.com/contents/music.html
Remix site. Haven't gone through all of them yet, but what I have gone through has generally been good so far.
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I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs made these days are ARPGs, and the other half are SRPGs.
There's FFTA series and VP:DS. What else?
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SMT:DS, WAXF (WA4 and 5 for that matter take heavy inspiration from the SRPG mold), Valkyria, N1 and FE of course are still making them pretty much exclusively, nevermind some of the turn-based games that still have some random elements focusing on positioning (Persona 1 remake, Annie) ... while an upswing in remakes and nostalgia-based games on the DS has brought more standard turn-based affairs there, I distinctly remember a period in 2008 where pretty much every game I could play was either action or strategy.
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Time to throw on Metallica - One because Pyro linked some totally awesome news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html
Real life Johnny Got His Gun shit. Goddamn. Not something going to stop me from supporting Euthanasia though.
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The Daily Mail is a tabloid. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
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Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that story. He doesn't seem damaged enough, psychologically. People who are in solitary even a few months start having the social centers of the brain restructure themselves. 23 years of not being able to interact in any way and you'd be fuuuuuuucked up.
That said, I'd rather they kill me off a bit before 23 years go by. Preferably in an awesome way, and afterwards maybe mixing my bones in the coffin with a dinosaur's so that future archeologists will be confused as hell.
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I just like to take any chance to link anything with song I like and literature.
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Eh. The thing with the DailyMail is that, unlike the Onion, it's not obvious that it's a tabloid. Plenty of plausible things get published and for a while I didn't pick up that it was a tabloid, until someone pointed it out to me.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34109227/ns/health-more_health_news/?GT1=43001 AP and MSNBC are running with it, for what it's worth.
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http://opus-xero.com/contents/music.html
Remix site. Haven't gone through all of them yet, but what I have gone through has generally been good so far.
moAbi stuff is usually pretty good.
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http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Games/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A3028216&dgc=CJ&cid=24471&lid=566643 L4D2 for 30 bucks at Dell. Get it, slackers.
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Like hell I'm falling for that again. It's a trap!
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Ugh. I can probably get my roommate to pitch half since he plays more than I do anyway, but I'm not entirely sure I even have 15 bucks.
EDIT: Re: Coma guy
So! It turns out the scenario was real, in as much as the guy exists and the claim was made.
BUT!...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31388323/vp/34111007#34111007
So, just watch from about 0:12 to about 0:35. This is what convinced people that he was still conscious and capable of communicating.
Someone else typing on a computer for him.
People are fucking stupid, far too apt to buy into these deluded fantasies that their lost loved ones are still around. The fact that the media picked it up and ran with it is only slightly less depressing because I expect that nonsense.
EDIT2: It would also be less depressing if this "phenomenon" didn't ALREADY have a name ("Facilitated Communication") and hadn't ALREADY been largely discredited by the scientific community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVJGRuHA8k
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga. With SMW.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
(video) Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVJGRuHA8k
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga. With SMW.
Was posted years ago. I was still living in NYC actually. Still awesome.
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Impressed by that? I dunno if it's the same guy, but watch this one. It becomes more impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL40IS5Ebg
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Impressed by that? I dunno if it's the same guy, but watch this one. It becomes more impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL40IS5Ebg
I was like
"Two at a time, pretty cool.
Oh hey, three wo- "GO"
...niiice."
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Heads-up for PC gamers: www.gameagent.com, a digital-download store, has an open coupon, ASPYRTHANKS (case sensitive) for $15 off any game. Their selection is pretty terrible, but it does include Puzzle Quest Galactrix for $20 and Stubbs the Zombie for $10 (do the math on that one).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeYscQUHWnc
Lufia DS remake trailer.
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The gameplay bits of the trailer remind me, at least superficially, of early Wild ARMs games. This is a good thing.
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Because it's too goddamned funny to not share, plus it's Cracked. Seriously, though, Let's Play Holocaust Day? You'd think getting a lobotomy is a prerequisite for teaching at elementary schools or something. (http://www.cracked.com/article/211_the-6-most-horrific-lessons-ever-taught-in-elementary-school/)
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Because it's too goddamned funny to not share, plus it's Cracked. Seriously, though, Let's Play Holocaust Day? You'd think getting a lobotomy a prerequisite for teaching at elementary schools or something. (http://www.cracked.com/article/211_the-6-most-horrific-lessons-ever-taught-in-elementary-school/)
Cracked is just such a good website. One of my favourite lists on that site is 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html
It's -so- intense.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEj3XZqEmE
Only real men destroy test tube babies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeYscQUHWnc
Lufia DS remake trailer.
Game looks kinda like Dark Cloud-style ARPG character switching. I don't see all the party members on the field at once, at least. Looks fun. Probably unrankable, but at least the characters can get new prettier art.
Also, noticed that if you look at some of the screens flying through the background you can make out a shot of a girl with Orange hair and goggles. I managed to read a textbox and it pretty clearly says it's Tia. Good to know she's at least in the game, and the new look is... well it's completely new at least.
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http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoafYtDe.html
As we sit down to our decadent meals and terrible, terrible Lions games, let us not forget the true meaning of the holiday.
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Game looks kinda like Dark Cloud-style ARPG character switching. I don't see all the party members on the field at once, at least. Looks fun. Probably unrankable, but at least the characters can get new prettier art.
I'd imagine the fact that the characters look like completely different people whose only resemblance to their former selves is hair color (And sometimes not even that) would make this game even useless for that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTo-wFfIXKo
Some more Automatic Mario awesomeness.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_VZ2TdIgk
For anyone who enjoys a nice, firm, round, aesthetically pleasing ass in motion, please focus in on the time in the video around :43 seconds. Yes. Insta-orgasm. Men with nice asses are like a fine wine.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4he79krseU
For anyone who enjoys a nice, firm, round, aesthetically pleasing ass in motion, please focus in on the time in the video around :43 seconds. Yes. Insta-orgasm.
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THE PROBLEM WITH DESCENDING POST ORDER:
I saw Grefter's link. Clicked it. Was very confused. Wondered if this was some sort of obtuse joke. Shrugged, clicked around the other tabs I opened, came back to this one, got confused again, THEN scrolled up to Idun's post.
As always, the mystery tied back to feminine sexuality.
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My favorite part is how well the joke works though since 00:43 in the film clip is STUFFED.
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THE PROBLEM WITH DESCENDING POST ORDER:
I saw Grefter's link. Clicked it. Was very confused. Wondered if this was some sort of obtuse joke. Shrugged, clicked around the other tabs I opened, came back to this one, got confused again, THEN scrolled up to Idun's post.
I did something similar...although I had an extra step of confusion at the end because I've been living in San Francisco too long (it took me a while to realize "oh, wait, Idun is straight").
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/01/when_the_cia_tried_its_hand_at_magic/?page=full
makes a lot of sense when you think about it: back in the day, the CIA hired stage magicians to help them come up with better techniques.
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My favorite part is how well the joke works though since 00:43 in the film clip is STUFFED.
Hence why I was convinced that you were just being very obtuse.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/3107522/Latest-Twilight-fad-pale-make-up
Goth has metastasized. Goodbye, western civilization.
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If there was ever a cue to start hunting humans, it's probably now. Anyone else interested? We'll sit around with guns and get wasted while we look for targets.
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http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?ZeldaMajorasMask_SS_20304
Majora's Mask speedrun. Mind-blowing. Not tool assisted, just O_O you can sequence break like that?? The whacky starts around the 27 minute mark.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/3107522/Latest-Twilight-fad-pale-make-up
Goth has metastasized. Goodbye, western civilization.
I will be worried when there is a new Skinny Puppy world tour that sells out days after announcement.
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The Secret of Monkey Island is $2.50 on Steam. If you do not buy it I will kill your families.
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Try threat that will motivate me.
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I'd use broken Brigandine discs.
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Thanks for the heads up Shale. Hadn't bothered with Steam before, but Monkey Island for three bucks? That is so mine.
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*curses silently* Damned credit economy. Although I suspect a download above 25 megs here which is sorta "no" for dialup. DAMN.
(Obviously I should just pirate the original SCUMM engine versions~)
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Already bought it for my 360 a while ago. Hah!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHJUrcVdJk
The Adventures of Lil' Cthulu.
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1-315-329-6673. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZF6Kx88LM)
We're all invited. But ONLY call it if you really need to.
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http://picasaweb.google.com/brooks.dagdamor <- awesome collection of art. Flip through it if you get the chance.
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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1925555
Logic v. Mortal Kombat.
EDIT:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009
Man, I hate all Juice.
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...so Kanye meme has reached protest signs.
EDIT: Also, this.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-04/new-code-geass-project-launch-revealed
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009
Man, I hate all Juice.
Youth in Asia will kill your Grandma!
*eyes Djinn*
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Well, his grandma IS dead... </cancerchildjoke>
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...so Kanye meme has reached protest signs.
Which one was that? I don't even know what this "Kanye meme" is, so.
Anyway, #28 for the win. If only that was within the president's power.
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At a music awards ceremony, he ran onstage grabbed the mic from a winner during her acceptance speech and said something like "I'mma (sic) let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best music videos of all time." Mimicking this was briefly a thing.
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While we're in the subject of the signs, the "[citation needed]" one was gloriously tongue-in-cheek.
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xkcd happening, it does that.
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...so Kanye meme has reached protest signs.
Which one was that? I don't even know what this "Kanye meme" is, so.
http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/
http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzuy0GkDt1qa3i8uo1_400.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzuyli2YK1qa3i8uo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1260118561&Signature=j7i3gayxrnRIv%2F88bMcmWTEHGFo%3D
http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzvhs4ieu1qa3i8uo1_500.jpg
http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzw2jJNb11qa3i8uo1_500.jpg
http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzvwsg37a1qa3i8uo1_400.jpg
http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzw7dzRGK1qa3i8uo1_400.jpg
http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzwzwLqCJ1qa3i8uo1_500.jpg
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http://www.kongregate.com/games/noanoa/elona-shooter
This is incredibly fun and frustrating. Everyone must play.
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That is fun. Don't use the Ragnarok item though...
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Probably does the same thing it did in the Roguelike, doesn't it? (yes this game is based off a roguelike. no I don't get it either)
I remember you had to make damn sure no enemies got into the town with the guy carrying that sword or otherwise you were liable to see "Let's Ragnarok!" in your chat window and then hordes of really nasty shit. <_<
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http://mysterytopia.com/2009/11/stonehenge-how-is-it-built-answer-is.html
I love watching what people do when they get bored. For instance, this guy figured out how to move 19,000 pounds using primitive tools.
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Looks like that blue guy gots himself another game.
http://nintendopower.com/images/NP250_DLmega.jpg (http://nintendopower.com/images/NP250_DLmega.jpg)
And though we can't be sure about androids, I can say for certain that tonight I'll be dreaming of electric sheep.
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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1924722
The Tetris God.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_study_reveals_most_children
Proving what most of us knew all along.
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I object! Kids are awesome!
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Warning: NSFW. Will also stick in your head for hours.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/silence-of-the-lambs-lego-musical
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I object! Kids are awesome!
It's not uncommon to find those without morals or restrait fascinating. It's pretty well ingrained in western culture to do so, in fact.
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~ccat02015%23%230%23%231du5~~f472||416e696d65~~f383||4f6e2053616c65~~nf535||445644&list=y&nrp=15&sc=movieSP&ks=960&usc=cat02015&sp=-bestsellingsort+skuid&list=y&iht=n&st=processingtime%3A%3E1900-01-01
(if the above link doesn't work properly try http://tinyurl.com/5ns52s)
Best Buy sale for Media Blaster DVDs. Contains deals like Giant Robo for $7.50, Berserk for $15, and Gaogaigar for $27 combined.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/aef3/
One of my friends told me today that there's an alarm clock that wakes you up with the voice of an English butler saying things like, "It appears to be morning. Very inconvenient, I agree. I believe it is the rotation of the Earth that is to blame, sir." I mentioned that the only way to improve on that idea would be to have Stephen Fry playing the butler.
Well, funny story about that...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWKIXX_BzRM
makes me smile.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWKIXX_BzRM
makes me smile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0&feature=related
Me too.
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Flute-beatboxing. That is awesome.
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I'll see your flute beatboxing and raise you a badass ukulele.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqaYmQZgrB4&feature=fvw
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/15/oral.roberts/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/15/oral.roberts/index.html)
Guess who finally died? Now I've got to find someone else I can use as a well-known example of how god clearly doesn't care about his own rules.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/george-flint-nevada-broth_n_391213.html
Breaking news: Men finally shatter glass ceiling, ascend to world's oldest profession. But look out, guys! Some people are willing to stand up for the traditional meaning of prostitution - after all, God created Joe and ho, not Joe and Joe (or Flo and Joe, for that matter).
...
(OK, technically the new law isn't all the way approved yet, but let's not let those boring details get in the way)
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Finally, my suggestions for ways people can move away from home and have an income are legal.
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Well how bout that? Today might be the most important day of the year.
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The last line of the article amuses me. They don't know what to charge for the guys' services.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8414124.stm
Cancer genes cracked. Very promising news.
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http://www.verticalfarm.com/designs.html
There's actually a pretty cool article about this idea in the recent Scientific American (done by the same guy); the idea seems pretty sound, at the least (set up farms vertically in effective "tall" greenhouses for 24/7/365 farming potential, freeing up a -ton- of land to return back to its natural state).
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8414124.stm
Cancer genes cracked. Very promising news.
Wow, that's one of those things that cause revolutionary changes in medical treatment.
In other medical news...
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/805430-loud-bass-music-killed-student-tom-reid (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/805430-loud-bass-music-killed-student-tom-reid)
Apparently there's a heart disorder, sudden arrythmic death syndrome, that can be triggered by overabundant bass. So yeah, keep an eye out for that. Apparently it kills twelve people in their late teens, early twenties a week.
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That is fucking scary.
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Scary AWESOME.
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I can only hope that it kicks in on the guys who drive through my neighborhood with their rap music bass cranked to maximum. Shakes my whole house.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1AWVLnl48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdQwKPVGQsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOlG4T1S2lU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvp1r2UpiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWPCCzSgu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWKMgJs_Gs
(video) 7-part review of the Phantom Menace. Amusing, although NSFW and disturbing.
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Yo, someone help me out!
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1683/househousehousehouse2.gif
What show is that from? I'm drawing a blank, but it looks like a show I would watch.
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It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
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It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
Huh. Never actually heard of it.
...is it any good? I'm tempted to start watching it just because of that link. ;p
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It's fucking hilarious.
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The last line of the article amuses me. They don't know what to charge for the guys' services.
Whatever the market will Bear.
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Boooo! Get off the stage!
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Not enough of your mom/10.
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http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/news20091208/index.html (http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/news20091208/index.html)
Star Wars: the shoe collection, by Adidas.
I'm digging the Stormtrooper shoes.
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I like the orange Rebel Starfighter ones
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My feet are TIE Fighters, your argument is invalid.
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Wonderful. Shieldless flying targets. You do that.
If they were TIE Defender shoes now...
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It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
Huh. Never actually heard of it.
...is it any good? I'm tempted to start watching it just because of that link. ;p
I've only watched the first season thus far, but it seems decent enough. I look forward to seeing NIGHTMAN in its original context (avatar fad is what kicked me into watching it, yes)
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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1924722
I'm not even sure what it is about this video, but I just can't stop laughing at it. That, and Tetris is the awesomest game ever made. ;p
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Lance linked to that a few days ago, and yes it is awesome. LINE PIEEECE.
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It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
Huh. Never actually heard of it.
...is it any good? I'm tempted to start watching it just because of that link. ;p
I've only watched the first season thus far, but it seems decent enough. I look forward to seeing NIGHTMAN in its original context (avatar fad is what kicked me into watching it, yes)
Season 3, Episode 9. "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Guy." One of their best episodes ever.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I
Mathematics have never been so entertaining.
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http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7975
Global Frequency lives. Holy shit.
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http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas09 (http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas09)
Now on sale at GOG: Everything.
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For the hell of it, my favorite Christmas song. 12 Days of Christmas, as sung by a drunken Faye McKay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9X8CJkklI
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http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/cas/1500976791.html
Sounds like a reasonable request to me.
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http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/cas/1500976791.html
Sounds like a reasonable request to me.
O_o
I'm a little... dumbfounded that I live in the same city as that man. I mean, I've seen some weird shit here, but that's...
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http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/cas/1500976791.html
Sounds like a reasonable request to me.
I love the power glove. It's so bad.
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You'd get cramps just using the Power Glove to play games, using it for a handjob would cause massive trauma to your hand.
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I'm pretty sure it would cause even more trauma to the other party. It is best used for the smiting of ones enemies.
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I assume that is what is happening here. The guy is just into S&M.