While we're on the topic

I like this bloke

Watch this hissing, mischievously cunning snake interview an empty minded, misinformed, oblivious tortoise.

Also into poop.

Carosse

Whiskey in a Jar...i Maenpaa

The snow started falling this weekend so, obviously, I broke out the Wintersun. I listened to the eponymous album, then I listened to Time I. Then I thought, hey, we're in the future, so Time II must be coming out. But some quick searching woefully led me to this: http://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=24138

It's fucking long. I read the whole thing so let me summarize certain key points. Jari is not satisfied with Time I, nor anything he's ever done. He states being underfunded by Nuclear Blast (the recording company) and hints at crowd funding, though he seems to refuse it. Shit, if i can afford it, I'll gladly contribute. I know Time I has it's issues but, since I got into it, I can't even listen to the first album anymore. It's that good to me. And it's 3 goddamn songs that were drowned in digital wankery! He justifies Time I sounding like a Pro Tools clusterfuck to the guitars sounding so shit that he had to hide them. In the end, he says that if he can't make albums his way (in his own studio), he won't make them at all. I don't care what it takes, I want to hear what is in this guy's head.

All this to say that I am torn. I get that this guy, at least in my esteem, really is a musical prodigy who seeks perfection at his own expense. But dammit, then I heard this:



It's a live rehearsal played over the album... and it's bloody perfect. Are those guitars shit? Really? Fuck you Jari, you magnificent bastard!

True genius is accidental.

sniff...

HUMANITY HAS LANDED ON KARDASHIAN'S ASS

and its fucking fat.

http://giantgreasyass.com/

and greasy.

HUMANITY HAS LANDED DUMB & DUMBER 2

and it sucks.

hteeteepees://www.retardednostalgia.org/

still gonna see it though.

Humanity has landed a spacecraft on a comet.

Here are the highlights on the landing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gou-JxryOHQ

Also I started at MSFT at around the time this project winding down. I miss it.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/229941/Looking_back_at_Xbox_Live_Indie_Games_The_doityourself_console_marketplace.php

More random shit.

BSG/Danger Zone
http://vimeo.com/111244563

What is this I don't even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53KpSKm4eHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJm7aLLrMo

Speaking of tim and eric this is totally legit and completely mental comercial they made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAalGQ5LSpA

So it's not just me...

Recently, I've been trying to better understand the startup world as I felt out of touch and needed some schooling on the current happenings in the tech world. I've been reading a lot and I'm now going to various events and doing some more in-depth research. Don’t ask why, I have my reasons.

I gotta say though, so far, it's not sitting right with me. I can list my reasons but I think that this article does a far better job than I ever could.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-dawn-of-the-startup-douchebag-san-francisco-locals-disturbed-as-google-facebook-apple-and-ebay-professionals-move-in-8845193.html

This one is about the dire situation in San Francisco which I can only assume is what the rest of us are quickly heading towards. You can probably guess that I found it by simply googling "startup douchebags".

The same goes for this image:

The really scary part, though, is how the author mentions that things were bad before the 2000 crash and that they are now worse. This does not bode well for us, does it? Of course, history doesn't always repeat itself due to varying parameters but you’d think we’d still heed its warning. Is the current crop of tech magnates too young to remember that far back?

I’ll stop here because my head is overflowing with bile on this subject, head bile, I guess. Shut up.

I Can't Get Enough of These Guys

< Tim and Eric FTW!

Justrage.com

I just discovered this site. Its an idea I actually had a few years ago, mine would have been called, incidentally, "Hatred.com".

(remember? I wanted to buy the domain but it cost something like 4000000$)

I find it very relaxing to read. As if all of my own rage was syphoned through a pressure differential created by all the preteen ravings.

Anyways, I found this gem:

I was coming home from work, a good day, but a hard day, A real man's kind of day, that kind of day on which America was built because of men like me and our attitude of Can do and by God, will do. You know? Yeah, you know. Anyhoo, I was cruising home, decided to get some Ice Cream, so whipped by the store and got 2 half gallons, NP, in and out in 5 minutes. Was once again on the way home, Ice Cream on the floorboard because it was on the seat until I had to hit the brakes suddenly due to some some 100 year plus senior citizen attempting to manuever their RV in a U turn, but I digress... So I was cruising down the 60, tunes blaring, a balmy 110 degrees, windows down, AC broken, when ahead of me, a young man decided to choose that time and place to end his life and jumped from the overpass and into oncoming traffic, of which I was a part. Needles to say, traffic came to a screeching halt and was tied up for several hours, so by the time I finally got home, I was hot, tired, oddly aroused, and my Ice Cream was liquid and beyond salvation. Why do bad things always seem to happen to me?

Family Fun

I have a semi daily series of work threads where we get together and share links of random things. I kept meaning to start doing that here so I now will.
Behold my brain dump and all it contains therein!

Nintendo Announces Majora's Mask 3D. I guess now I should go and finish OOT 3D
http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/11-05-2014/#/video-1ndirect (also some new DLC for MK8)

South Park on Freemium games
http://kotaku.com/south-park-craps-all-over-free-to-play-games-1655328455

Interstellar gets a 74% on RT. Still seems like my kind of movie though
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interstellar_2014/?adid=home_list1a

Neogaf does bad game shirts, hilarity ensues.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=922837

What does water in space do? Awesome things apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEdApyi9Vw

Picard to Enterprise
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/05/onyx-communicator/

Subreddit of the day
http://www.reddit.com/r/birdswitharms

ENJOY!

The Universe

Some Italian Dude Did This Too