http://holykaw.alltop.com/berkeley-a-cappella-group-covers-lady-ga-gas?utm_source=OM&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_term=Alltop&utm_campaign=HolyKawToAlltop2010&utm_content=Alltop
(video) awesome a capella rendition of pokerface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyjTDiNWT0k
The Final Fantasy theme with lyrics. Several different varieties of awesome.
http://holykaw.alltop.com/berkeley-a-cappella-group-covers-lady-ga-gas?utm_source=OM&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_term=Alltop&utm_campaign=HolyKawToAlltop2010&utm_content=Alltop
(video) awesome a capella rendition of pokerface.
Lady Gaga is in the same "music"al tribe as Britney Spears, Miley Sirus, and Christina Agulera: We'd all be better off if someone slit their throats and every CD they produced was completely destroyed. Making it A Capella doesn't make it suck and less.
http://holykaw.alltop.com/berkeley-a-cappella-group-covers-lady-ga-gas?utm_source=OM&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_term=Alltop&utm_campaign=HolyKawToAlltop2010&utm_content=Alltop
(video) awesome a capella rendition of pokerface.
Lady Gaga is in the same "music"al tribe as Britney Spears, Miley Sirus, and Christina Agulera: We'd all be better off if someone slit their throats and every CD they produced was completely destroyed. Making it A Capella doesn't make it suck and less.
http://holykaw.alltop.com/berkeley-a-cappella-group-covers-lady-ga-gas?utm_source=OM&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_term=Alltop&utm_campaign=HolyKawToAlltop2010&utm_content=Alltop
(video) awesome a capella rendition of pokerface.
Lady Gaga is in the same "music"al tribe as Britney Spears, Miley Sirus, and Christina Agulera: We'd all be better off if someone slit their throats and every CD they produced was completely destroyed. Making it A Capella doesn't make it suck and less.
At the very least, most of the the music in this genre is consumable (Which is to say that it's generally bearable), and generally doesn't pretend it's anything more than that. Hunt down horrid rock bands whose music makes you want to rip out your own eardrums first (Looking at you Phoenix and Silver Sun Pickups).
http://holykaw.alltop.com/berkeley-a-cappella-group-covers-lady-ga-gas?utm_source=OM&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_term=Alltop&utm_campaign=HolyKawToAlltop2010&utm_content=Alltop
(video) awesome a capella rendition of pokerface.
Lady Gaga is in the same "music"al tribe as Britney Spears, Miley Sirus, and Christina Agulera: We'd all be better off if someone slit their throats and every CD they produced was completely destroyed. Making it A Capella doesn't make it suck and less.
At the very least, most of the the music in this genre is consumable (Which is to say that it's generally bearable), and generally doesn't pretend it's anything more than that. Hunt down horrid rock bands whose music makes you want to rip out your own eardrums first (Looking at you Phoenix and Silver Sun Pickups).
What? Phoenix is great. Any music group that takes the bloody time to write their own god damn songs and focus on the music itself instead of stupid ass costumes and marketing gets respect to begin with
I think she may fail on the second half of that statement.
Gaga may also write her own music, but it's fucking awful. Obnoxiously loud (learn some dynamics, cunt) major chords repeated for five minutes while she tries to sound so god damn chic while she's stuttering about a pokerface? That's not music.
I've never heard anything by Lady Gaga, and I'm okay with that.
I'd say before jazz developed, it didn't exist in a form that we would really recognize. Their big thing was this crazy shit called "improvisation" that nobody else did.
Huh. It sounded so overproduced I figured they were just major chords
The chords follow in this order, G♯m—E—F♯—G♯m—E—F♯.
Anyway, trying to objectively analyze something as subjective as how "good" music is is an exercise in futility I'm not even willing to indulge in, so I'll leave that topic alone from now.
Well, that, and I find this brand of music snobishness silly. If I'm allowed to like a Daft Punk song because the DJ did a good job with composition, then I should be allowed to like a Britney Spears song because the DJ did a good job with composition. And (unlike Gaga) I'll happily admit that Britney has no talent.
Well...when I say "allowed" what I meant was "can admit to liking it without being accused of having shit for taste".
Britney Spears is kinda like Mario. She's a mascot who has no real input into the making of her product. That said, if talented people produce a Mario game, it'll probably be good. Similarly, if talented people produce a Britney song, it'll probably be good.
Now, where I will call people idiots is if they start getting "brand loyalty". Just because you like one game with Mario on the box doesn't mean you'll like them all--for god's sake they're made by completely different developers. Similarly, just because you like one Britney song doesn't mean you'll like them all--for god's sakes they have completely different DJs/writers.
[He raises his sword, and smites the car]
This befalleth when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks, Laurence! Understand’st thou? Dost thou attend me? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence, when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks?!
That said you shouldn't really like Britney, you should like her songwriters and musicians. So many good songwriters have their own bands and whatnot...
However, sometimes you don't have a choice. No matter how hard you try, you just can't fucking like some styles of music.
On the other hand, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU) sounds awesome to me, so tastes are fucking weird.
http://www.gearfuse.com/brother-gets-sweet-sweet-revenge-on-sister-by-posting-hook-up-list-on-facebook/
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Over the Internet. Where everyone can see it.
http://www.gearfuse.com/brother-gets-sweet-sweet-revenge-on-sister-by-posting-hook-up-list-on-facebook/
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Over the Internet. Where everyone can see it.
Fucking win. Also love the comments. Hey Brian, if you cut your hair, you're getting a blowjob!
http://www.gearfuse.com/brother-gets-sweet-sweet-revenge-on-sister-by-posting-hook-up-list-on-facebook/
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Over the Internet. Where everyone can see it.
Fucking win.
http://www.gearfuse.com/brother-gets-sweet-sweet-revenge-on-sister-by-posting-hook-up-list-on-facebook/
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Over the Internet. Where everyone can see it.
Fucking win. Also love the comments. Hey Brian, if you cut your hair, you're getting a blowjob!
My personal favourite: "I <3 Facebook like you <3 cock"
On the other hand, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU) sounds awesome to me, so tastes are fucking weird.
Holy shit guy. That is a track from Little Big Planet. Now I need to get the OST for that even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UiwsJn0lfA
Ar tonelico 3 Hymnos preview, for those interested.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?pagewanted=1
America/the industrialized world has, in addition to all its other exports, apparently succeeded in standardizing mental illness.
Both.
Edit for more snark-despair: conservatives are ruled in Orwellian fashion, liberals in Huxleyic.
By contrast, conservatives in the US could be defined by what they love. And of course, the idea that "anyone who messes up my life will have America kick their ass."
Both.
Edit for more snark-despair: conservatives are ruled in Orwellian fashion, liberals in Huxleyic.
As comedic as that is, liberals are significantly ruled by fear as well. Like, when you buy a $200 car seat for your baby--there's basically no real difference between car seats as far as survivability goes. Or when you don't let your kid go to Jenny's house because Jenny's father keeps a gun in the house. (But do let your kid go to Jake's house which has a swimming pool--note that kids are about 100x as likely to die in a swimming pool than to die by firearms left around the house). Or when we redo all our plugs because we're afraid a kid will stick their fingers in and electrocute themselves (I tried really hard to pull that off as a kid; didn't succeed; not sure if it's even possible on a standard well-installed plug).
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/466307/betrayed-once-more-2nd-edition-is-now-a-go
Betrayal at the House on the Hill: 2ND EDITION, MOTHERFUCKERS! Also with a Create a Scenario contest!
I like Sons of Anarchy too much not to vote for that, even if it's throwing my vote away.
I'm annoyed "Return to The Simpsons as a writer" was not on there.
Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're an NBC executive), the actual cost of that segment was next to nil, because they only borrowed the car and have a standing licensing deal with the Stones' label that allows them to use Satisfaction without paying per individual airing.
Huh?Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're an NBC executive), the actual cost of that segment was next to nil, because they only borrowed the car and have a standing licensing deal with the Stones' label that allows them to use Satisfaction without paying per individual airing.
Using that Super Bowl footage, though? They had to pay through the ass for that.
Huh?Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're an NBC executive), the actual cost of that segment was next to nil, because they only borrowed the car and have a standing licensing deal with the Stones' label that allows them to use Satisfaction without paying per individual airing.
Using that Super Bowl footage, though? They had to pay through the ass for that.
*rewatches clip*
...what superbowl footage? (And at any rate, being a comedy show, wouldn't they get parody protections?)
If you don't feel like watching a documentary, you should at least check this part out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ZZ6n2DMOU&feature=PlayList&p=664F2AE1160FF884&index=5
Just watch it. The information starts at 1:20, and the crazy starts around the 3 minute mark.
The philosophical and historical context the documentary puts each of these discoveries into is absolutely fascinating, yes. It isn't as fascinating as basically being shown evolution in progress, but then again I'm not a programmer.
The philosophical and historical context the documentary puts each of these discoveries into is absolutely fascinating, yes. It isn't as fascinating as basically being shown evolution in progress, but then again I'm not a programmer.
But it's just micro-evolution, and personally there's micro-evolution examples that I find a lot more interesting, like dog breeding. (Besides, I've seen all that footage before; it's a middleware ad).
The philosophical and historical context the documentary puts each of these discoveries into is absolutely fascinating, yes. It isn't as fascinating as basically being shown evolution in progress, but then again I'm not a programmer.
But it's just micro-evolution, and personally there's micro-evolution examples that I find a lot more interesting, like dog breeding. (Besides, I've seen all that footage before; it's a middleware ad).
Show me a video where macroevolution happens before my eyes and then that'll be relevant to me. 'Til then, "Whatever still awesome."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4
How to report the news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4...Too much win.
How to report the news.
Did you know? The internet is made of cats. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM)
Pilgrim Batman. (http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2010/02/batmanrobw02cvr.jpg) I'm pretty sure art has now reached its zenith.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/02/9yearold-girl-gives-birth_n_446034.html
Not that shocking, the female age for puberty's been pushed back in the past several generations. The ovulation cycle just needs the hormonal trigger to start, as the female body is born with all of it's oocytes in Meiosis I already. The record for the start of puberty in females is... oh hell, toddler age IIRC. It's pretty bad.
Can't get more official than that.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-11/nis-america-licenses-toradora-as-its-first-anime
Wait wait what
Jumped on what fast? Toradora is from a year ago, almost two. Thats not fast. Pandora Hearts is newer.
http://kafkaskoffee.com/junk/Platform.html
Uh....yeah.
http://squallsdead.com/
An alternate interpretation of FF8's plot which posits that Squall died at the end of disc one when Edea sent an icicle through his chest and everything after that point was just his dying fantasy. It's actually a pretty interesting possibility (mostly because it involves 100% more Squall death).
I refuse to give the creators credit for that.
The truth is, I don’t think there is a substantial amount of evidence to conclude whether or not the writers intended for the audience to interpret the game in this fashion. I choose to believe that this is how the game was intended to be understood because, to me, the game makes no sense otherwise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8529605.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8529605.stm)
I don't understand what Argentina thinks is going to happen by trying to start another Falkland Islands war.
Tore Vikingstad (http://www.nucksmisconduct.com/2010/2/20/1319554/saturday-afternoon-tea-his-name) is officially the manliest name ever.
Tore Vikingstad (http://www.nucksmisconduct.com/2010/2/20/1319554/saturday-afternoon-tea-his-name) is officially the manliest name ever.
http://www.synthgear.com/2010/strange-weird/richard-james-spectrograph-face/
http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1259170103804RA76
Upload a picture of yourself and watch as you become a hero to the Swedish nation.
But perhaps death is the most fitting punishment for Hummer. One regrets the lost jobs and the lost opportunity, but before you get to feeling too sorry for the brand's demise, remember that when they went after civilians with the Hummer, the corporation and its dealers had invested in a machine which unashamedly appealed to the least altruistic, angriest elements of the American motoring public and their psyche. They spent billions promoting a machine that took the SUV's anti-social tendencies to previously uncharted depths. In short, Hummer was a cynical bet on the worst in the American character, and, for once, the cynics lost.
God Bless America.
Yes, there is little doubt you did the wrong thing. Although she was’ “legal” and sought you out for the encounter you had a responsibility as the older partner to say no, not to mention your responsibility as a friend to your old mate. But you know that.Seriously. Note to everyone, you should never have sex with legally consenting adults who want to have sex with you when you are not in a monogomous relationship. THAT IS WRONG.
Edit - Oh my gods the comments. THE COMMENTS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD. This is an article about a 40 year old dude doing the sideways twist with a 16 year old and everyone is all judgemental and angry about it. What the fuck happened?Well, a few things. In most places 40 on 16 is illegal. Not in Australia from what you're saying, but commentators can be international (like, y'know, us).
So just to reiterate: People fuck. All kinds of people fuck other kinds of people. So long as it is consenting of both parties and they are legally over the age of consent then there should be nowhere near that level of violent rejection to the act.
The point is that I am stunned that there is a giant pile of people being that kind of douche and not one other person for at least a page just being a disgusting male human being going "You got with a 16 year old? Nice."
- 27th May 2010
- Nintendo DS
- 6090yen
- Not done in SD, real robot sprites like the original
- Brand new high quality attack animations
- Arrangement of gameplay systems based on the original game with refinements of more recent SRW games
- Retains all the feel of the original title
My wife is 26 years older than I am. :P
http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Dolphins!
http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Dolphins!
This did the lap around the CBT forums last week. My high score? 45,000.
http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Dolphins!
This did the lap around the CBT forums last week. My high score? 45,000.
Single game or all three?
http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Dolphins!
This did the lap around the CBT forums last week. My high score? 45,000.
Single game or all three?
All three. 45,000 on one life? I don't think that is humanly possible.
There was someone at GameFAQs with about 60k in one life.http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Dolphins!
This did the lap around the CBT forums last week. My high score? 45,000.
Single game or all three?
All three. 45,000 on one life? I don't think that is humanly possible.
Q: Will this just be some crappy emulated version of the game?
A: What? No! How dare you! TF2 will run natively on OSX, like a big boy game for adults.
...
Mac and PC users will all play together, on the same servers. We're not creating two separate universes. We're all going to be one big, happy family with guns locked in a bloody, never-ending struggle for cap points.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article7052392.ece
This. So, so very this.
http://www.neillcameron.com/A_to_Z/A.html Swiped from Brandon Sanderson's FB. O is pretty great.
http://crushedglass.livejournal.com/803161.html
One man's quest to get drunk, read Twilight, and liveblog it on Twitter.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24917/ (http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24917/)
An orange dwarf star is headed on a COLLISION COURSE WITH OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Fortunately, we have approximately 1.5 million years to prepare, which means we need to immediately begin a selective breeding program using the casts of Armageddon, Deep Impact, and every other movie to use that idea. Over time, we will have created the greatest space drill nuke planets the universe has ever known, and they will be able to drill a hole in to the core of that star and blow it up from within.
Hey - what's going on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWw5YdW57Es#
Eh, just get the guys from Gurren Lagen, they're into drills.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/816969-police-hunt-the-midnight-knitter-wool-graffiti-bandit
...I don't even know.
For you people in NYC:
Free Macarons on March 20 (http://www.gadling.com/2010/03/15/free-macarons-in-nyc-on-march-20)
Posted by Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel
Each leader has a personality made from a combination of several different 'flavors' along a ten point scale, each game the impact that a certain flavor has over this civ can be +/- two points , allowing for a different experience each game. For example Russia may have a score of 8 for their expansion flavor but at the start of the game the actual score could be any where from 6 to 10.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=355156 (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=355156)
Basically the most complete Civ5 news thread I have found. Among some more awesome features:
-You no longer need to construct separate transports for your units. A unit can move on to a water square and turn in to an improvised, unarmed era-appropriate transport. This means that navies will be way more important.,
-No stacking, which fixes so much about Civ.
-Losing a battle no longer automatically means that a unit is destroyed (which can still happen)
One of my favorite changes:QuoteEach leader has a personality made from a combination of several different 'flavors' along a ten point scale, each game the impact that a certain flavor has over this civ can be +/- two points , allowing for a different experience each game. For example Russia may have a score of 8 for their expansion flavor but at the start of the game the actual score could be any where from 6 to 10.
she has to carry him with her in a jute bag
Most of this is pretty well known as videogame psychology goes, but worth a skim.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_design.php?page=1
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2850497&kw=2850497&f=Taxonomy/TRUS/2254197&sr=1&origkw=2850497
Best toy ever. I wish stuff like that was around when I was growing up.
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/03/18/tse-riff-theater-gamecrazy-training-video/
This is the whitest thing ever.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/23/brizendine.male.brain/index.html?hpt=C1 Nothing much shocking here, but some neat informationa bout the gender differences in brains.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/23/brizendine.male.brain/index.html?hpt=C1 Nothing much shocking here, but some neat informationa bout the gender differences in brains.
...shame on me for reading comments on the article. What did I expect other than a bunch of people taking it as offensively as possible - in different, even opposite ways!
I think I'd prefer heroin overdose
I think I'd prefer heroin overdose
I thought Jesus kept stealing yours
Edit 2 - xckd of course has a fucking AMAZING one. I would honestly use that for weeks if it was available. http://www.xkcd.com for anyone who uh doesn't have it on ready access at any given moment.
Edit 3 - http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/01/ferris-buellers-day-off-review/
Okay, Blizzard has spent way too long coming up with April Fool's gags this year.
http://us.battle.net/matchmaking/index.html
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/
http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gps/index.xml
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/science-nature-team-up-on-new-jo.html <-- Awesome. My favorite April Fools joke.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810070753/video/18829085
Trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. It's pretty damn cool, though a shame that the movie couldn't possibly be as awesome as the trailer.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/science-nature-team-up-on-new-jo.html <-- Awesome. My favorite April Fools joke.
Anyway the funny thing is that a bunch of nerds are being sponsored by the company that max Axe deodorant.
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/40236/halo/videos/halomovie_trl_040110.html
Not gonna lie, I would watch the shit out of this movie.
Dunno if these have made the rounds here or not. In case they haven't, I figure a number of people here will appreciate these. Extremely exhaustive reviews of everything that is wrong with Phantom Menace and the Star Trek: TNG movies. Also hilarious. "Star Wars: the Phantom Menace is the most disappointing thing since my son. And while my son eventually hanged himself in the bathroom of a gas station, the sad truth about the Star Wars prequels is that they will be around forever." Note: all reviews are multipart, sometimes half as long as the actual movies (vastly more entertaining than them, too.)
Phantom Menace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&feature=related
Generations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06WKYFYdlo&feature=PlayList&p=459F6BB4FE51FC1D&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1
First Contact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Lr8cdZwHQ&feature=related
Insurrection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlV3bsafkq0&feature=related
Nemesis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjkHUrEuHc&feature=related
Y'see we once set up a naval blockade around Cuba to stop the Russians from building launch sites there. It was a little event you might have heard of. It wasn't a big deal, but you might have heard of it. It was called WORLD WAR 1!
And, Attack of the Clones is up: http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/14/CfBhi6qqFLA
"In the words of Sigmund Freud, sometimes a cigar is just a giant vagina in the desert that swallows men whole." Yes.
The one complaint that hadn't jumped to my mind was the complaining about actually putting Yoda in a fight, when it goes against the "strength doesn't matter" speeches he gives in the original movies--but honestly I thought the Yoda fight scene was the high point of...well...honestly the prequel trilogy; I don't really feel there's an inconsistency in "you must learn to be calm and not rely on strength to master the force" alongside the image of Yoda fighting.
The one complaint that hadn't jumped to my mind was the complaining about actually putting Yoda in a fight, when it goes against the "strength doesn't matter" speeches he gives in the original movies--but honestly I thought the Yoda fight scene was the high point of...well...honestly the prequel trilogy; I don't really feel there's an inconsistency in "you must learn to be calm and not rely on strength to master the force" alongside the image of Yoda fighting.
Eh. I thought the Yoda fight was just stupid and ridiculous. Which I'll grant is a step up from the rest of the movie, which is merely stupid and boring. But the thing is, all that jumping around? It doesn't really serve to do anything but put Yoda at the normal height for a fighter, which is silly and pointless. Just hack his legs off and be done with it! But this is movie fighting and the point isn't to hit your opponent. It's to hit your opponent's weapon. This ultimately just comes back to the reviewer's ep. 1 complaint of "lightsaber duels are so minutely choreographed as to be boring."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv
(video) the short film titled "pixels". Rather awesome, actually.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=960099&topic=54152536 (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=960099&topic=54152536)
Glitch in HGSS allows you to get nearly any move for nearly any Pokemon without resorting to an Action Replay/Gameshark/hacking. Posted here for the heck of it.
http://teapartyjesus.tumblr.com/
http://teapartyjesus.tumblr.com/
The funny part, is that some of these are more absurd in-context.
The one about dragging your politician out and beating him into a pulp? That was a response to dishwasher detergent regulations.
The one about "I like women, I just think feminism has led women astray"? That was Rush Limbaugh defending his judging of the Miss America pageant. And he followed it up by saying "This is miss America, and if there's a Mister America, it's me!"
This is nothing like the sacrilege that was Fallout 3.
Eh I dunno, might be background and the company you keep? Or amount of times I have had to spend away from music while more and more often being unable to listen to music while I work?
I studied a Science at University (lolpscyhology=science) where you started with Music and went on to English. I live with two people who although listen to music and like it do not embrace and completely envelope themselves in it and refuse to take it to the art fag level I do. Whenever I try to explain to people why I need music to sleep well or why it helps me think or how even ultra aggressive music calms me (or focusses me at least) and just plain makes me happy I can never really put it into words. It is just music, that is what it does, that is how it feels.
Someone successfully putting that into a comic astounds me, especially with how bady the medium handles music, it abandons tryig to emulate music and succeeds in just plain showing how music feels.
Those things together astound me. It also helps that the first comic is probably the weakest of the 6, Penny is shallow, but she is a good centrepiece to set the stage for the stories around her.
Fallout only had Fallout Tactics, which was not that bad (Better than X-Com Apocalypse, also third game in the series and still pretty aright) and still functioned largely the same as Fallout. It just shifted the TB RPG into a TB Squad based tactics game. The difference there is like the difference between a good Pen and Paper table top RPG and straight up table top war gaming, which is a fine jump. Not one that I consider a great idea, but you are talking to pretty much the same audience.
Interceptor is really bad and Enforcer is absolutely laughable. But comparing Fallout 3 to the equivalent jump (Interceptor) I will give Interceptor this, it actively tried to keep some of the old core gameplay, it still has base building and fairly freeform gameplay for your overall strategy (even if actua individual missions are spoon fed to you), it actively tried to keep the same macro gameplay the series has had in one form or another the whole time. Fallout 3 has HEY GUYS WE HAVE SPECIAL WHICH IS FUCKING USELESS AND NEUTERED LOL. Interceptor embraced the canon and tried to progress what had become a plot line spread over a few hundred years at that point. It didn't do everything perfectly, but it really tried and didn't outright retcon the fuck out of it (OH GODS I JUST REALISED I HADN'T BEEN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT BOS EXISTING). Okay so see those last aside. You are right. You are totally right.
Sooooooo I am going to look at it differently. Fallout 3 was the follow up to an abomination that should have never existed and all it took from that abomination is that the fans are douchebags who won't give a shitty game a chance, so they just straight up ignored the fans and made a shitty game with no respect for the canon.
This on the other hand is the follow up to an abomination that had no respect for the canon and it is being made by people that are at least competant at making the kinds of games they are. So totally different kind of sacrilege because 2K Boston have talent where Bethesda has design by comittee >_>
Edit- Posted for the funnies since the realisation that I had successfully completely blanked the community trolling effort that is Brotherhood of Steel out of my mind completely just made me laugh.
I am gushing over the entire mini-series, not just the first comic.
Frank West was announced for Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
No sexual encounter can compare to the feelings of delirious delight that I am currently experiencing.
Frank West was announced for Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
No sexual encounter can compare to the feelings of delirious delight that I am currently experiencing.
Seriously? I was afraid he wouldn't return with the reveal of Chris Redfield, cause it felt like the reason they didn't use any RE characters in TvC was cause they ended up going wtih Frank West (who took the whole "Summons Zombies" gimmick), but if he is in, kick ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEojI5-IueI
Probably old but... "Apologize to the ducks you shot so a dog wouldn't laugh at you~"
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php
Requesting Hal make the DL Main Page look like what it shows up as when put it through this website
Probably helps considerably that George R. R. Martin was doing writeups for him.
http://www.robertsinclair.net/comic/asshole.html
Christ, what an asshole.
Man, why have I been researching Power Rangers so much recently? Anyway...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1926078
I have been resisting the urge to spam Misc. Links with dozens of Pokemon-related things now that it's tourney time, but this one is too good to pass up:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71455
I would hazard a guess that Gira-O isn't usable in this format due to being link battles?
http://www.smogon.com/dp/moves/trick_room
Notice the presence of Dialga and Palkia on this list, but not Kyogre or Giratina? Yeah, that's why he used the former two.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-20/news/posner-plagiarizes-again/
Yay plagiarism.
/me hits Super over the head with Justin.
/me hits Super over the head with Justin.
/me hits Super over the head with Justin.
I love the part where he says, in 1983, that Batman: Arkham Asylum would be a pretty neat idea.
http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html
I support ranking this, now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I
http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html
I support ranking this, now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I
WARNING: Should be watched on mute. Otherwise awesome. If you want to fast forward to the awesome, it starts at 1:40 and then again at around 3 minutes.
http://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/norwegian-boy-saves-sister-from-moose-attack-with-world-of-warcraft-skills/
Boy saves sister from Moose using World of Warcraft skills.
I was a raid leader and I needed to know what to tell them to stop doing.
Edit - I am serious, fucking turn off growl, I know you just hit level 80. Turn off Growl. You have it on. I don't care if you say you turned it off. Turn it off properly this time.
I was a raid leader and I needed to know what to tell them to stop doing.
Edit - I am serious, fucking turn off growl, I know you just hit level 80. Turn off Growl. You have it on. I don't care if you say you turned it off. Turn it off properly this time.
Seriously. Because his pet was busy growling, I got distracted and stood in the whirlwind/fire/void zone/death spot.
Yeah.
That's the ticket...
http://www.jimspancakes.com/
Awesome pancakes website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rae-ntplV54
Scott Pilgrim vs. Lucas Lee. I can't wait for this movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rae-ntplV54
Scott Pilgrim vs. Lucas Lee. I can't wait for this movie.
Recoded is a mobile phone game, IIRC. Any idea what that last one is? All I can make out are Holliswood(?) Manor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk&feature=player_embedded
If this is real, we might get another good Mortal Kombat movie... for different reasons than the first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk&feature=player_embedded
If this is real, we might get another good Mortal Kombat movie... for different reasons than the first.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/11/
EDIT: http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/14078553/American_on_mission_to_kill_bin_Laden_arrested
And nobody noticed he was carrying a 3 foot+ sword around?
Play Bayonetta, Borderlands with the three people I know who have it for 360, Brutal Legend, Super Street Fighter IV, Scott Pilgrim, etc?
NAMCO BANDAI Games
* Super Robot franchise (name not final)
•BOKUJYOUMONOGATARI 3D (name not final)
Quote•BOKUJYOUMONOGATARI 3D (name not final)
Name not final? Come on, that just rolls off the tongue!
3DS gamesFuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I hope that isn't a trend. I don't know how I would cope with the possibility of losing movies and games.
Final Fantasy Tactics comes to a new system - the iPhone.
I think what happened is that a bunch of developers walked out of Avatar convinced that the 3D was the next big thing and wanting to hop on the bandwagon ASAP.
Remember, the PSP had 30 launch titles in the US (which I think might be a record for any US system launch?)
I think what happened is that a bunch of developers walked out of Avatar convinced that the 3D was the next big thing and wanting to hop on the bandwagon ASAP.
That's only 6 months of development time, so probably not. The more likely explanation is that developers just think the system will do well. Remember, the PSP had 30 launch titles in the US (which I think might be a record for any US system launch?) If you're developing a game, obviously you get a choice of "do we make this a DS title, or a 3DS title?"--and while DS titles will hit a wider install base, early 3DS titles will get a lot of mindshare from, say, people on the internet reading a "games in development" list. (Kinda like how Monkey Ball hit fairly mainstream purely because it was a GameCube launch title, whereas Monkey Ball was an obscure non-seller before then).
And developers can be wrong; developers had more faith in the PSP than the DS. 3DS feels like a pretty safe bet, though (new Nintendo portable successor to the best-selling system of all time. Main update this system is that the graphics are shinier. Yeah, feels pretty safe).
RPGs are probably easier to develop these days than many other genres. Don't have to worry about fine-tuning your controls or ironing out bugs with your physics. Particuarly jRPGs, where you don't have to worry about the player breaking sequences or anything like that. Trying to find all the physics/terrain glitches and such eat up a ton more time than writing out non-interactive cut scenes.
http://kotaku.com/5571557/see-the-trailer-for-ghiblis-ps3-game
Level 5's new game; this is how you do cell shading.
http://kotaku.com/5571557/see-the-trailer-for-ghiblis-ps3-game
Level 5's new game; this is how you do cell shading.
Holy crap. I'm almost unable to tell the difference between the drawn animations and the in-game graphics. And if there are no animated portions then holy crap.
Too bad the game doesn't look that interesting otherwise.
http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/team-fortress-2-hot-girl-backstabs/346076?playlist=featured
(video NSFW) Amusing use of TF2 sprays.
Hey, you know what hasn't been linked in a while?
http://supermariobroscrossover.com/
On a note of relevance, they have recently just released Version 1.1.
This comes with a new character, Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, along with a bunch of upgrades and tweaks for the other characters.
Apparently SMB2 Luigi (lost levels version) and SOPHIA the battletank are slated to be added at some point in the future.
Personally, I'm hoping for Kirby.
Adventure gamers, specifically Sierra fans, rejoice. The Silver Lining is back (http://www.postudios.com/blog/?p=69).I'm confused. Activision not acting in the most dickish way possible? Are you sure it's not fake?
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/06/elizabeth_breeden_mean_ass_ska.php
dot dot dot.
Adventure gamers, specifically Sierra fans, rejoice. The Silver Lining is back (http://www.postudios.com/blog/?p=69).I'm confused. Activision not acting in the most dickish way possible? Are you sure it's not fake?
http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php (http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php)
A bullet storm shmup that goes back to the old, old school. This game is a goddamn labor of love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVYOCMpJRY&feature=player_embedded
(video) when AT-ATs are puppies.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6268691.html (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6268691.html)
Dragon Age 2 confirmed for next February. Unfortunately that means I will have to turn all my attention to it to complete all the various game branches in time for SW:TOR.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6268691.html (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6268691.html)
Dragon Age 2 confirmed for next February. Unfortunately that means I will have to turn all my attention to it to complete all the various game branches in time for SW:TOR.
I wouldn't worry too much about the "various game branches," since it's also been confirmed that you can only play a human who survived the Blight in Lothering. Oh, and your surname is "Hawke." And there's even been some gesturing at how the game will have a focus on "gathering allies."
I sure can't wait to play Dragon Effect!
Then Justin Wong gets knocked out of SSF4 completely by a Zangief player and an Adon player. Both characters are considered to be subpar. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZtDJBPFuc
Wrong topic, IotD for godblock is over thataway.
Replace godblock with athiest block, and it's just as stupid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCI1klu7f90
Tool Assisted Speed Run of Brain Age for the DS, but not in a way you expect.
To be fair on the "subpar character" comment, Zangeif has an advantaged matchup against Rufus, and Justin Wong stuck with Rufus:
A summary of why Activision Blizzard's Robert Kotick is basically Satan.
23/90.
I fail for missing 8:53-9:00. I kept saying, "Wait, what? They already used FFT."
I'll brag in the obscura / nostalgia category of nabbing (Bubble Bobble, Faxanadu, and Kid Icarus) as well, though some of their picks seemed a bit TOO obscure for my tastes.
Your mum is pretty damn obscure, though I imagine a number of DLers picked up on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdZAkA4VpA
(video) Crazy music video.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/
Counter-Westboro-Baptist-Church protests at Comic-Con.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/amaranth/clip_game
Sporcle has posted a 90-track video game music test. Have fun.
I got 38 out of 90, which...isn't bad, I guess. Naturally, I'm kicking myself for missing several that I should have known.
Huh, creepy Pokemon hack? Found this article kind of entertaining.
http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack
Verybored says:
July 29, 2010 at 9:56 am
Thats called a bowcaster, it is like a crossbow but it is not a crossbow. It fires laser bolts. Theres a difference.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html
How to surf the web in 2025.
If [McFarlane] really wanted to differentiate the new Hellspawn, why not make him a Portuguese explorer in the 16th century; an officer of the Royal Navy in the 18th century, an idealistic recruit of Simon Bolivar in the 19th century, a companion of Odysseus on his voyages, a Roman gladiator, a younger brother of Emperor Nakamikado in the early 18th century, a Spanish conquistador, an aristocrat in the Qing dynasty, an American Indian warrior or a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/08/the-triceratops-never-existed/
Triceratops was apparently never its own species. It was just a baby form of Torosaurus....
More details about Criminal Girls are leaking out. Brace yourself this is about to get bizarre. The tagline is a girls punishing RPG. Players can punish girls by spanking them, locking them up, and giving healing massages. Hell in this game is an actual place and these “punishments” are designed to help the girls move back into the real world. The seven girls (Kisaragi, Arisu, and Tomoe were revealed) embody different deadly sins. Kisaragi, for example, represents greed. Arisu is pride.
lends itself more easily to comedic exploitation.
With such revolutionary ideas like stealing a done to death GF poll, no wonder I haven't visited Gamespot in like...a decade. Man, I seem to remember it at one time being a useful thing too?
With such revolutionary ideas like stealing a done to death GF poll, no wonder I haven't visited Gamespot in like...a decade. Man, I seem to remember it at one time being a useful thing too?
I enjoyed a poll from last week: "Do you or have you had a significant other?"
Like 65% responds "No, and I never have."
As a few people in the comments point out, elemental affinities and Doom resistances are nothing like RPS. (Also if you're guessing elemental affinities in most games, you're doing it wrong. Scan more if it isn't obvious innately.) That's more a matter of "using what works best".
There's a bit of padding here as well, but due to ammo considerations, none of the weapons (except the handgun and fist) ever become irrelevant.
http://www.ufunk.net/en/web/la-carte-du-monde-des-communautes-en-ligne-version-2010/
Map of the internet, 2010 version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NATeU-r0GDU
The real story of Star Wars. This is Rob bait.
Also: Girl quits her job in hilarious fashion:
http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/
Also: Girl quits her job in hilarious fashion:
http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/
Turns out that was a hoax (still totally worth reading, but yeah):
http://thechive.com/2010/08/11/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506
Interesting study: know the whole argument that people should keep guns in the home to protect against home invasion? Turns out that keeping a gun around is statistically linked to higher homicide/suicide rates of the home's occupants; go figure.
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/6825/fuck-me-ray-bradbury
(video) "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6sWJOotZA
(video) Bull fights back.
I admit to a predilection for certain female attributes—to put it precisely, yet with due regard for delicacy, the buttocks. You other fathers shan't deny it.
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (suspect PW1 will be the bandwagoned one, but meh)
A clear attempt to keep OoT and FF7 out of the contest. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Board 8 is talking up FFX and Melee as favourites, probably based on the 2004 contest (though there was that more recent contest I don't remember the results of), but I dunno. Should be pretty wide open.
http://www.telltalegames.com/adventurebundle (http://www.telltalegames.com/adventurebundle) - Do you like charity? Do you like getting adventure games for cheap? Do you like me? If you answered "yes" to at least the second of those questions, click the link. Telltale has bundled six adventure/rpg PC titles for under $20. 25% of proceeds go to your choice of five charities or divided between them. Site says this offer ends on the 10th.
In 2000, the World Wide Fund for Nature (also WWF), an environmental organization, sued the World Wrestling Federation. The Law Lords agreed that Titan Sports had violated a 1994 agreement which had limited the permissible use of the WWF initials overseas, particularly in merchandising. Both companies used the initials since March 1979.
http://www.telltalegames.com/adventurebundle (http://www.telltalegames.com/adventurebundle) - Do you like charity? Do you like getting adventure games for cheap? Do you like me? If you answered "yes" to at least the second of those questions, click the link. Telltale has bundled six adventure/rpg PC titles for under $20. 25% of proceeds go to your choice of five charities or divided between them. Site says this offer ends on the 10th.
What does WWE even stand for? How long ago did it change? Who is the big popular wrestler these days so I can name-drop to a Japanese kid and seem like an awesome teacher who cares?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxPeod8pvY&feature=player_embedded
King of Fighters - the movie. Are you ok?
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-world-verse
World vs grandmaster chess match. Kinda neat.
In fact, it’s probably impossible not to reflect archetypes in storytelling. I’m sure they’re there in The Way of Kings. But I found in working on it that I didn’t want to intentionally build a story where I relied upon reader expectations. Instead, I wanted to look for themes and character concepts that I haven’t approached before, and that I haven’t seen approached as often in the genre.
There’s a distinction to be found. It’s much like the difference in humor between parody and satire. (As I define them.) In the first, you are funny only if your audience understands what you are parodying. In the second, you are funny because you are innately funny. Early Pratchett is parody. Mid and late Pratchett is satire. (Not to mention brilliant.)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=54028
For anyone who's dealt with bug reports in software development: read the comments, they're great.
He theorized, "If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences for whom we have their credit card information as well as a direct relationship and ask, 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?', my guess is that ... you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever."
Kotick noted that unlike film studios that are stuck with a model that requires costly theatrical distribution that cuts in on margins, Activision Blizzard could go directly to its consumers via online. The CEO mentioned a possible $20 or $30 price tag for such a film, but at this early stage, it's all speculative.
He theorized, "If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences for whom we have their credit card information as well as a direct relationship and ask, 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?', my guess is that ... you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever."
Probably because it's a short step from that to selling gameplay and cutscenes separately for $40 each.
Yet another reason I'm never buying anything directly from Activision ever.
EDIT: Instead, you should buy something directly from Telltale Games. Like the complete Tales of Monkey Island, for five fucking dollars (http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-669). Jesus Christ.
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/grefter/littleriddler.gif)
That is a lot of words for saying what I have been saying for a while.
DO
IT
PUSSY
I mean like of all people you ARE the one that does what they want to do fairly decisively.
That is the hottest, most impractical invention I've ever heard of.
That is the hottest, most impractical invention I've ever heard of.
Orgazmo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/) wants a word with you.
In completely shocking news, Japanese people aren't keen on foreign things! (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/western-games-japan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Gamelife+(Blog+-+Game|Life)&utm_content=Google+Reader)
Seriously, though, it's an interesting article on how Western games are kind of being pushed in Japan because the industry there is stagnating. Interesting in part because they're pushing some of the more mainstream American games, which is a stagnant industry in different ways. Also fascinating because it highlights how the differing cultures has lead to differing types of games: America's an individualist society with an emphasis on class fluidity (in theory anyway) and guns; Japan is more collectivist and group-oriented and emphasizes finding and fitting into your place in society. One culture is now tending to produce open-ended sandbox games where you shoot people, or games where your decisions affect the ending in some way and you shoot people. The other culture has tended toward producing very linear games where you may or may not shoot people.
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Well I thought it was fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3YrEMlmE9E
(video) so...apparently CFL lightbulbs suck? No idea how reliable this is, although the reporter is apparently from the CBC.
Psychology in general is a far harder science than he seems to believe, but such is life when you are basing it on secondary sources that are honestly bordering on pop psychology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Wsf31WIdY
(video NSFW) First World of Darkness trailer. View the FMV that I've been exposed to like...200 times in the past few months.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/09/27/bob-harras-dc-comics-editor-in-chief
Fellow comics dorks: The guy who ran Marvel in the 1990s is drawing a paycheck again. I'm as confused as you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Wsf31WIdY
(video NSFW) First World of Darkness trailer. View the FMV that I've been exposed to like...200 times in the past few months.
* Use relationships with fan organizations to allow players to play their LARP characters and vice versa.
http://kotaku.com/5650027/man-builds-computer-inside-computer-gameHe intends to build a memory, but I wonder how big that computer can be. How far away from the player can those red wire thingies transport a signal until Minecraft considers it to far away to bother process it?
A man is building a fully working computer... inside a video game. Seems really interesting, maybe one of our programming savvy members can put this in perspective?
If you don't have Planescape Torment now you do, no excuses. (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/planescape_torment)
If you don't have Planescape Torment now you do, no excuses. (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/planescape_torment)
The fact that this game did as poorly as it did and Dragon Quest sells is proof of two things.
First, there is no appreciation of quality. If shit is familiar people will buy it even if it is terrible.
Two, Japan deserved those nukes.
...Introduce?
Perhaps surprisingly, this kind of thing is not uncommon among women at all. They seem to love ratings systems. Once, I found the "little black book" belonging to one of my stepdaughters. She had details and some kind of three-axis rating system for every guy she'd ever slept with. And there were over 80 of them...
I am reasonably sure it wasn't women who came up with the 1-10 ratings. Just sayin'.
Not all that sure what the big issue is with this. I reaaaaaally hope that graduate does well off the purported book contracts because, damn, if anyone figures out who she is, she's going to have one hell of a time finding a "real" job.
Her name's already been posted on one site (Deadspin).
Life Magazine has assembled photographs of...guys on motorcycles looking cool.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/StarWars-the-baroque-version/146136
See URL....
http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=1490
Extensive fan-made DOOM mod that retools the engine into an online multiplayer FPS... using MM1-6 as the template, complete with 8 bit 3D graphics[??!?!], over 50 weapons, tons of stages, multiple game modes, and more. Very cool stuff, and you don't even actually need Doom to play it.
http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=1490
Extensive fan-made DOOM mod that retools the engine into an online multiplayer FPS... using MM1-6 as the template, complete with 8 bit 3D graphics[??!?!], over 50 weapons, tons of stages, multiple game modes, and more. Very cool stuff, and you don't even actually need Doom to play it.
http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=1490
Extensive fan-made DOOM mod that retools the engine into an online multiplayer FPS... using MM1-6 as the template, complete with 8 bit 3D graphics[??!?!], over 50 weapons, tons of stages, multiple game modes, and more. Very cool stuff, and you don't even actually need Doom to play it.
John Edgar “Eddie” Jordan, 52, of 4 Avon Court, Smithfield, leads Faith Baptist Church on Ricks Road in Selma. He also owns Second Amen-ment Gun Shop in Smithfield. According to his arrest warrant, Jordan went to his neighbor’s home on Sept. 21, used profanity to threaten the man with a beating and later hit him in the face.
http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=1490
Extensive fan-made DOOM mod that retools the engine into an online multiplayer FPS... using MM1-6 as the template, complete with 8 bit 3D graphics[??!?!], over 50 weapons, tons of stages, multiple game modes, and more. Very cool stuff, and you don't even actually need Doom to play it.
This has become a hit around the office. I think it's actually getting more play than TF2 at the moment.
So I would be committing assault wot a deadly weapon for no reason.
Oh my god, how did I not find this on Hulu before now?
http://www.hulu.com/super-mario-bros-super-show (http://www.hulu.com/super-mario-bros-super-show)
Oh my god, how did I not find this on Hulu before now?
http://www.hulu.com/super-mario-bros-super-show (http://www.hulu.com/super-mario-bros-super-show)
Also, the Spaceballs animated series.
http://nisamerica.com/games/prinny2/contest/panties.html
Best. Contest. Ever.
Courtesy of the Kappa
http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/10/plastic-bags-can-we-live-without-them.html
And so the wasting away of games as a story telling medium in favor of social gaming achieves its next stage.
You say that only because you aren't familiar with the other mediums.
Pleasant pulp lasts and has its place. Lovecraft is pulp, Conan is pulp. Doc Savage was pulp ahhhh Doc Savage. A String of Pearls was a penny dreadful, the definition of pulp and you know it eventually became a fairly successful musical and then a movie (Sweeney Todd).
The difference was that these pulps didn't cost millions of dollars to make.
Those loathed "Social games" are following that market style, they are entirely consumable.
Of course they are also an entirely seperate market from our own, so not really something to get your panties in a twist over. The biggest effect this will have is lowering the overhead of traditional computer games, something I believe most of us have been arguing needs to happen to maintain viability for a long time anyway.
http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/1409697870/thirty-ish-things-evil-rape-face-woody-he-is-the-law
(NSFW, not 56k friendly) Toy Story Woody is creepy. These pictures realize his potential.
Edit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/02/teen_hack_suspect_charged/
Now here is an interesting question. Is this over reaction or not?
From reading the comments apparently the kid had tried to let the school board know that the security was horrible before multiple times and got no response.
Edit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/02/teen_hack_suspect_charged/
Now here is an interesting question. Is this over reaction or not?
From reading the comments apparently the kid had tried to let the school board know that the security was horrible before multiple times and got no response.
I don't think it's an overreaction to charge him with something; breaking into someone else's computer should be a crime, shouldn't it? This is the computer equivalent of breaking into a house and saying you committed no crime because you only looked around and didn't take anything, but left a note on the coffee table saying that they need new locks. The fact that he did it for what he sees as a good reason doesn't change the fact that he did it.
So no problem charging him, but the important question is how serious the charges are (serious) and what kind of alternatives he's offered for a plea bargain (or alternately what kind of punishment the prosecution seeks). It should be very light, probation for a year or two I'd say, compared to what he could get for the offense (10 years), for two reasons. First of all, he seems to have done this for a good reason, and does not seem to have messed around with anything. That should weigh heavily in his favor. Second of all, the crimes he's charged with are serious, probably because in the vast majority of cases the invasion of the computer system is the damage whether the person messes around or not, like when a person who sees, but does not alter, credit card numbers. So while he violated laws, those laws are aimed at a different kind of perpetrator.
http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/11/using-genetic-algorithms-to-find-starcraft-2-build-orders/
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=160231
First link explains the original 7-roach rush build in terms understandable to non-SC2 players. The second goes more in-depth and apparantly has further refinements, but I haven't had time to read the whole mammoth thread yet.
Edit: Someone used the algorithm to generate a new build that gets the seventh roach out in 4:32 instead of 4:40 like in the original, assuming perfect control.
10 years? Dude, it's juvenile court in Canada. IIRC the maximum imprisonment is 5 years. For anything. (Including murder--granted, murder cases sometimes get bumped up to adult court, in which case all bets are off).
http://www.weirdconverter.com/lengthheight.php
Ever wondered how many T-Rexes are as long as a football field?
http://www.weirdconverter.com/lengthheight.php
Ever wondered how many T-Rexes are as long as a football field?
I object to any list of nonstandard units of measure that does not include the Smoot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot).
P.S. has anyone outside the greater Boston area actually heard of Mr. Smoot before? If there were an award for "most ironic job based on personal history" he would have blown away the competition.
http://alligator-sunglasses.com/post/390543309/1938-dating-guide-for-single-women
1938 dating guide.
"Once again you see the relief on Daigo's...wait, no, he's actually an emotionless robot."
This move about a talking vagina MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE
http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/11/10/chatterbox.aspxQuoteThis move about a talking vagina MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/11/11/burn-notice-bingo/
BOO YEAH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCbiCxBd2M
d'awww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCbiCxBd2M
d'awww
http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/160-man-drops-record-setting-335-000-on-virtual-game-property
Over 500% return on investment...
EDIT: She-Hulk in MvC3. Now we really need Phoenix Wright to be revealed so we can have LAWYER KOMBAT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHHkeWynHn4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.supermariobrothers.org/smbx/
Not sure if this went around already; I'm losing track of Super Mario Bros mods at this rate, but this looks fairly shiny. Super Mario Bros X. Has multiplayer, level editor, Link, and Metroid levels.
http://bluesundaycolts.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-peyton-manning-is-doing-and-how-to.html
Peyton Manning is likely the greatest QB of all time in the NFL. This article's worth reading (If you can power through the jargon) to see how he runs it. Short version: He is a freak of nature who obsessively studies opposing players/coaches, to the extent of being able to tell what the next play is based on simple gestures.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother
Interesting article about how Israel does airport security much better than the US.
As an aside, one thing I occasionally see people asking why the US (and Canada) can’t run airports more like Israel does. I don’t pretend to know enough to give a genuinely sufficient answer to this, but I will hypothesize that one reason may be that the Israeli way is possibly not scalable from a small, militarized country of seven and a half million to a large and largely civilian country with 40 times the population. Israel has 11 airports (two international and nine domestic); the US has 376 which have regularly scheduled airline service. This isn’t to suggest the US couldn’t do its airport security better or less invasively. Just that I don’t know if we could do it like Israel.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Legally, yes, the right to not be searched doesn't apply because you are entering private premises. This is why they can, for instance, insist on X-Raying your bag--whereas a police officer can't walk up to you on the street and say "you have to let me x-ray your bag."
In the United States and Canada, commercial airports are generally operated directly by government entities or government-created airport authorities (also known as port authorities).
Many US airports still lease part or all of their facilities to outside firms, who operate functions such as retail management and parking. In the US, all commercial airport runways are certified by the FAA under the Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Part 139, "Certification of Commercial Service Airports"[3] but maintained by the local airport under the regulatory authority of the FAA.
If they want to pat down my junk, I'm charging a baggage handling fee.
Airports are private property? I thought they were run by the state/government, or at the very least accepted federal funds. I mean, I know the airlines themselves could enact their own security measures, but I'm pretty sure airports are not private property, unless there is some crazy loophole I'm missing.
I am honestly intensely curious about the place of airport security weighed against the fourth amendment. Is it possible that by merely being present at the airport with an intent to travel, we are giving up our right to be secure in our persons, papers and effects? Are we undermining the "reasonable expectation of privacy" (the Katz v. US refinement) by just going along with it? Is it really just that the fourth amendment hasn't been applied to personal privacy? We seem to be missing a lot of that "immediate need" and "probable cause" stuff that's supposed to filter exceptions.
Let's not forget daily volume (in the U.S., 1 million-2 million passengers flying every day) and personnel logistics. And, you know, the difference in government. The US and Canada can't run airports more like Israel does because the US and Canada are not Israel.
Legally, yes, the right to not be searched doesn't apply because you are entering private premises. This is why they can, for instance, insist on X-Raying your bag--whereas a police officer can't walk up to you on the street and say "you have to let me x-ray your bag."
Airports are private property? I thought they were run by the state/government, or at the very least accepted federal funds.
First, the Katz reasonable expectation of privacy does not apply where courts say that the American people can not objectively believe they will have the ability to keep their persons and effects private. In other words, because everyone in America knows that you have to go through a security check to get on a plane, it's probably not a "4th amendment search" for the government to look at your stuff (assuming it is the government doing it and not a private party). Since it's not a search according to the 4th amendment, it doesn't have to be reasonable or need a warrant. It can be completely unreasonable without violating the 4th amendment.
First, the Katz reasonable expectation of privacy does not apply where courts say that the American people can not objectively believe they will have the ability to keep their persons and effects private. In other words, because everyone in America knows that you have to go through a security check to get on a plane, it's probably not a "4th amendment search" for the government to look at your stuff (assuming it is the government doing it and not a private party). Since it's not a search according to the 4th amendment, it doesn't have to be reasonable or need a warrant. It can be completely unreasonable without violating the 4th amendment.
Okay, unless I'm missing something, that logic is intensely scary. It's legal to search everybody who enters an airport because everybody who enters an airport gets searched? That works?
Okay, unless I'm missing something, that logic is intensely scary. It's legal to search everybody who enters an airport because everybody who enters an airport gets searched? That works?
a lot of these reasonable expectation of privacy standards are highly subjective and situational.
My understanding is that I can publish/distribute stuff that is privacy violating if I can demonstrate clear public interest (or rather, can convince the company's lawyers that we can defend the decision as in the public's interest if we get sued); a relatively well-known example here in BC a few years back was a reporter who took video through the window of police officers trooping through a prominent politician's living room carrying boxes of documents.
Canada's way stricter than the US in that area; you can get in a lot of trouble for publishing anything being kept from the jury (prior charges are the big one, as well as evidence stuff, pretty near anything from a prelim or bail hearing, etc. etc.)
I don't see how a slightly more invasive groping need be more legally problematic in terms of privacy; a search is a search, right? No matter how perfunctory or thorough.
Also, I would opt for the X-Ray. If someone wants a picture of my naked self, let them have it. If they want to pat down my junk, I'm charging a baggage handling fee.
Okay, unless I'm missing something, that logic is intensely scary. It's legal to search everybody who enters an airport because everybody who enters an airport gets searched? That works?
Quote from: Wikipedia, "airport"In the United States and Canada, commercial airports are generally operated directly by government entities or government-created airport authorities (also known as port authorities).
Many US airports still lease part or all of their facilities to outside firms, who operate functions such as retail management and parking. In the US, all commercial airport runways are certified by the FAA under the Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Part 139, "Certification of Commercial Service Airports"[3] but maintained by the local airport under the regulatory authority of the FAA.
So... whatever that means. >_>
Also, the argument that you're entering private premises and thus lose your right to not be searched does not make much sense to me. I get the point you're making, m.c., though I don't know anything about the relevant laws.
In fact, that's kind of scary, isn't it? No one seems to be sure who owns/controls the airport, what laws apply or do not apply, what you give up by going there, etc. (In general, that is - I know someone knows that, or at least several someones, but it's not widely held knowledge, which is a PR problem to the nth degree given the current brouhaha.)
RE: 4th amendment validity of invasive pat-downs, the Supreme Court hasn't head about them yet, but there are legal challenges on the horizon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/business/19security.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
if it does stop, what are the chances it ever goes to the Supreme Court for a decision that will define personal privacy in the face of these newly wide-spread invasive technologies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chjL4t_mkvc
So, uh. How am I only just hearing about this?
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-bumper-stickers.html
"It's not a grope, it's a freedom pat."
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/11/29/the-pokebra-is-pushing-it-even-for-me/
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/rejection_letter_cash4gold_is_mad_as_hell_/
looked at the pop songs covers mix and I didn't recognize a damn one. I know who the artists are, but I'm about 5-10 years out of date for pop music, apparently.
http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/united-states-google-autocomplete/
The US, according to autocomplete. Mostly a collection of newspapers and sports teams, with a couple TV shows and hot legal topics thrown in. (Also: Missouri Compromise? really?)
So, I've ranted about Metroid: Other M's terribad plot before. Others have pointed out how sexist the plot is without really going in depth into it.
So, I've ranted about Metroid: Other M's terribad plot before. Others have pointed out how sexist the plot is without really going in depth into it.
http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/gaming/metroid-other-m-the-elephant/article.html
This essay does an excellent job of highlighting the details of why this game's writing is awful, enunciating quite clearly WHY the game is offensively sexist and why it cannot really be attributed to hackneyed writing. Great read, and although I was really stoned when I played through it I feel kind of ashamed for not noticing how abusive the Adam/Samus relationship was until reading this.
I have not slept in 40 hours and I approve of everything said here.
Really great read. That's pretty fucked.
Geez, I was planning to eventually play the game and just ignore METROID PLOT, but unskippable cutscenes? You assholes.
Unskippable cutscenes doesn't bother me too much--Metroid Fusion had unskippable text scenes, and during development Other M sounded like Metroid Fusion's bigger brother.
Well, I guess it goes to show you how you probably shouldn't give an external director a free hand with a long-running series where the main character was never extensively developed, and then approve his idea for a plot-driven game based entirely on his personal conceptions. He's gonna get all up his own ass with his terrible ideas.
Retro Studios knew enough about where to focus the plot and what audiences wanted so as not to step on toes, which is like square one for doing "someone else's series" and they didn't even get THAT far.
e: Also, anyone with unstoppable cutscenes is a pretentious douche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttv-gvOzaPw <-- The trailer for the movie 'The Beaver'. I'm really not sure how I am supposed to respond to this. >_>
Interesting game design article--I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's interesting.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027883
Warner Bros updates Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
employee who co-created the Metroid series in the first place.
Still, it's hardly surprising that a long-time Nintendo worker sucks horribly at writing, or that a veteran Japanese salaryman has deep-rooted sexism. The end result's still worse than I would've anticipated.
In fairness, the director in question here isn't some external guy, but a Nintendo
Other M was directed by this guy, Yoshio Sakamoto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Sakamoto
Team Ninja just helped with the programming.
DLC for Blazblue CS on sale:
http://shoryuken.com/content/blazblue-continuum-shift-dlc-sale-2832/
leader of a prominent local Buddhist Temple not stressing.
In another interest story related to this, there was a study done recently by a local university that said that obvious reminders of Christmas tended to stress out non Christians.
Ran across this great short story, figured I'd link it here.
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html (http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html)
Hey Djinn, just in case you missed it, check out this totally awesome dancing baby image! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY It is hilarious!
It isn't boring dude, it is just oooooooold is all.