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Re:there goes any real qualityThere may be lots of info on the net but half of it is outdated, and a quarter of the rest is just plain wrong.
I have no idea what you might be talking about. The information that I've found on the internet has always been well researched and intelligent.
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Did anyone else not find it particulary funny?
Now, I admit it -- I usually can't stand humor sites, because when they're not funny (to humor-impaired me), they're really not funny. There's no accounting for taste, which goes double for humor. This book, though, has spurred me to finally bookmark SatireWire and forced me to hand the book over temporarily to friends and family members prompted by my maniacal laughter to ask what I was reading. I look forward to the next round.
So why did he post about this site?
It's really not that funny.
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I am building a space robot.."Lowtax - I misprogrammed it. I tried to do good, but the robot jumped up and pushed grandma's head and she started spitting and her teeth flew out and the robot shot sparks and grandma fell down the stairs onto my uncle.
It was the worst Christmas ever.
Corn_Boy - oh no! sparks, did anything catch on fire
Lowtax - Grandma did, but I got a Pusher robot to shove her outside into the snow."
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Re:Maximum Velocity? (Not Spin)
Gee, back when we played Revolution Xwe thought a CD-shooting gun was a dumb idea but now it seems totally cool.
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FF XXI requirementsFFXXI requirements:
* Broadband, 8 Idle PS3's
* "Fantasy Freak" status in one or more of the following areas: - LOTR - D&D - Materia Magica or similar MUD
* No Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Wife (Recomend: Squaresoft FFXXI Divorce Kit). Note: Internet Boyfriend/girlfriends are OK
* Star Wars fanatic status (jar jar sucks) - Star Wars Stratego game owners +10 HP
* Active dislike for star trek fans
* Fanatic status for atleast two Anime series, one of which must involve robotic suits.
**** Requirements waved for The Dragon Master
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it's already been done
Rich, "Lowtax" Kyanka and The SA LinuXbox Team has acquired the proverbial powerup and won the game. Now, the SA LinuXbox team is eagerly awaiting their $200,000 paycheck for their monumental achievement.
Instructions for installing Linux on your very own Xbox can be found at Project: LinuXbox.
This isn't too surprising, however, given that the Xbox has been around for centuries. I submit my proof of that fact with Exhibit A and Exhibit B -
it's already been done
Rich, "Lowtax" Kyanka and The SA LinuXbox Team has acquired the proverbial powerup and won the game. Now, the SA LinuXbox team is eagerly awaiting their $200,000 paycheck for their monumental achievement.
Instructions for installing Linux on your very own Xbox can be found at Project: LinuXbox.
This isn't too surprising, however, given that the Xbox has been around for centuries. I submit my proof of that fact with Exhibit A and Exhibit B -
it's already been done
Rich, "Lowtax" Kyanka and The SA LinuXbox Team has acquired the proverbial powerup and won the game. Now, the SA LinuXbox team is eagerly awaiting their $200,000 paycheck for their monumental achievement.
Instructions for installing Linux on your very own Xbox can be found at Project: LinuXbox.
This isn't too surprising, however, given that the Xbox has been around for centuries. I submit my proof of that fact with Exhibit A and Exhibit B -
Advertising in games
I like a little advertising, it can enhance the realism. But it's very easy to take it too far (see MAC and Me for a good example of when a movie takes it too far), or to pander to the company.
Imagine how cool it would be to drive the weinermobile in GTA3, but Oscar Mayer probably would make it so you couldn't run over pedestrians in it. -
Re:Now we've got to be careful...
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Re:Try Morrowind
There is also a 3d game construction set available from a small company, saw it in a gaming magazine- I ordered it and it seemed okay, but was more than I wanted to commit to at the time
I believe what you're referring to is the Game Creation System from Pie in the Sky software. To their credit, they've upgraded it over the years, but it's still a pretty crappy little system/game engine that's always been years behind whatever curve there is in graphics. As a result, while the gimmick is supposedly that you can make a game to sell with it, pretty much no one ever does. Even the Christian games that get made with it never sell for money. The one game I've seen using it that actually looked interesting was Pencil Whipped , which used all pencil-drawn graphics to good effects. Still, it was hindered by the engine's quirks if not its abilities. They would have been better off using NPR Quake. :)As for the mod issue, the one thing that mods of course don't afford you is the ability to send your mod as a standalone application to someone else - they have to own Morrowind or Quake or whatever. This GCS gets around that - the catch being all the bad stuff (lack of graphics, etc.) it brings with it, which wouldn't be bad were it not for the $70 price tag. An alternative is the Torque engine by GarageGames. I've got it - it's damn good. Not only does it have what most systems lack (online play, top of the line graphics, multiplatform) but the price is right - for $100 you can make what you want with it and give it to whomever you want. If you want to sell what you make its a different affair (games have to be sold through the GG.com site) but for free games you can do what you want with it. GCS lets you sell it however you like - provided you can get someone to pay for it.
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Just remove the space Slashdot puts in posts
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Re:Cut-and-paste.
Go masturbate to cartoons, you sexless freak.
Best fucking reviews of JAPanese shit games is here:
http://www.somethingawful.com/hentai/
Something awful. He describes anime "classics" for what they are, stupid, childish pathetic rantings of sexless small penis-ed men who live vicariously inking cartoons rather than getting pussy.
Fuck off PFY loser FUCK YOU.
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Let us not forget other great appliances
like the eNetiConAppliance
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It is nessasary to report
that this is what we are heading for...
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Re: Bleh
And the third choice here is part pro wrestling (they have an ex-wrestler for an announcer) and it is the LAMEST...SHOW...EVER!!!
That third choice is, of course, the American version of Robot Wars. The early episodes were filmed in the UK using Mick "Mankind" Foley, who is just terrible as an announcer.
On the other hand, the UK version has one of the actors from "Red Dwarf" hosting. Geeks love his silly English accent and bad puns, but it's not for everyone. -
FAA
The FAA won't clear them to fly. Why? To protect them from the The Terrible Secret of Space!
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Still...
Still.. at least Doom III hasn't won E9, the new, super elite trade show. Very few people got in, I hear.
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Woohoo
Nice to see a JeffK fan!
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Re:Page Whitening PostWow, i feel whitened already.
this isnt a racist thing though is it?
You want us to become whiter? Fuck off nazi. you can take your stalanitism and go fuck a goat or something.
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Re:Why do people keep believing this?
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Re:Why do people keep believing this?
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Re:Heh..
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Re:Old news
Alrighty there, Mr. One-Up..
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E3 is passe...
E3 is passe, especially when there's (Supposedly) an E9
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Re:new game cube controller
> jeffehobbs wrote:
>courtesy of Something Awful:
> http://www.somethingawful.com/news/8-28-2000/ninte ndo/controller.jpg
# cp goatsecx.jpg controller.jpg
Overwrite controller.jpg? y
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new game cube controller
courtesy of Something Awful:
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/8-28-2000/ninte ndo/controller.jpg
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Eh. I'll wait.
I think I'll wait until the ideas in This article about the future of video cards come to munition.
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I think I'll wait
I think I'll wait until The guy who wrote this hardware report writes on this issue.
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Re:segway
Well you'll have to wait to ask the tyke at the bottom of this page to see if he thinks Segway is a killer app....then again, maybe you won't.
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New disasters?
Perhaps it's because I've just been reading SomethingAwful,
but I want to know if the 'disasters' menu will include 'Terrorist Attack'...
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Re:Robert the BemusedWell then, you obviously haven't tried this game yet.
Ref:
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Re:Of course RedHat is going to fail
2. Make a GOLEM sell your product from door to door.
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Anyone Have a Mirror?
I was lucky enough to see that particular feature before it was pulled. It wasn't the best Photoshop Phriday, but it was rather large and had a few gems. My favorite? A reworked Dirty Harry poster starring The Sweedish Chef. "Do yoo veel looki, POONK?!"
So anyone got a mirror? I hope I can't get sued for describing or asking for a "copyright-infringing image." I probably can. -
Damn!!1
First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!
What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux! -
Damn!!1
First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!
What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux! -
Damn!!1
First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.
The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!
What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux! -
Warning, Heson's company has *EVIL* LawyersA warning to all slashdotters, Henson's company is very much into this DRM/IP anti-fair-use anti freedom of speech thing.
The other day something awful had to remove a parody of Muppet movies, with funny things like "DAS BERT" instead of "DAS BOAT," etc. Kyanaka received a letter, which is shown here.
Needless to say I was shocked to see that someone who was making no money form parodying the Muppets, which are simply carpeting glued to wood, was asked to remove parody content.
I would be very careful if I was RedHat. Its funny how companies like the Church of Scientology (The cult I mean) have more lawyers after the leader dies, in the SOC case, Hubbar croaks, and people are marauding around using racketeering and extortion on "worshippers." Such is the case, to a smaller degree obviously, with Henson. Because the magician, the creator, the worthy one is dead they assemble a cabal of lawyers to viciously and rabidly attack anyone "using" the franchise because they now are charge with protecting against something that is non-Novel, replaceable, duplicateable, old. On another note, Tolkein's son, who tries to "continue" the LOTR franchise by printing his father's notes, was against the move LOTR. JRR's grandson was for it. Its time to let go, and let more creative people take a stab at things sometimes - we are all glad that JRR's son wasn't able to stop the movie. Excerpt - I think some stories are meant to be read, not to be seen. Before seeing this Oscar-nominated movie, Tolkien's son Christopher said, "My own position is that The Lord of the Rings is peculiarly unsuitable to transformation into visual dramatic form." Filmmakers disagree. Two sequels based on Tolkien's Rings characters, filmed at the same time as The Fellowship of the Ring, are scheduled for release in 2002 and 2003. Ah, yes. The franchise cometh.
I really hate when opportunists feed on the carcasses of things. This sort of activity as displayed by the Muppets franchise is so completely wrong. Its not as if Disney was slandering Henson, or parodying and making money off the parody. This company will go so far as to harass independent site owners on the web, they have lawyers trolling to make trouble. I cant say how upset I am at the Henson franchise.
My letter to Henson:"Henson" is a completely wrong for making www.somethingawful.com remove your "intellectual property." [http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/muppetmo
v ies/index.htm]
There are those who search for medicines, cures, new technology, more fuel efficiency and try hard to make things for the betterment of humanity. There are those who comfort me, who engineer better things in life. There are those who make my life better.
Then there are those who piss and whine about intellectual property rights and wont even allow a fair use parody of their stupid stuffed animals whose creator is DEAD. You are a puppet company. C'mon, is there that much gravity to all this?
You are un-American. He wasn't making money off your "beloved" puppets, he was making fun of it without even being NASTY about Henson or Muppets.
Read up on Thomas Jefferson, Madison about "copyright" and realize the Henson's are now representing COMMUNISM.
I'll never solicit Henson garbage again. Or Disney, until these disgusting companies realize copyrights are for those who have things worth protecting, not for a puppeteer with stuffed animals or Mickey Mouse.
This is going to promote piracy, fueled by Asia, and create RESENTMENT in your potential consumers, by trying to squeeze blood from rocks. The RIAA, SSSCA, CDPTA, DMCA, BSA and all the other Gestapo Waffen SS goons for the corporate elite will be resisted, and WE THE PEOPLE will win over time. IT only takes time. Its just funny that a bunch of Asians who pirate and knock off you "intellectual" property will teach you the most American lesson of them all, if you don't do new and innovative , YOU GO AWAY, YOU LOSE MONEY, its that simple. Do something NEW and INNOVATIVE for once instead of invoking a cabal of lawyers to screw with our first amendment.
You dishonor Henson's memory. "Sam the American Eagle (C)(R)TM" should get a HAMMER AND SICKLE to CRUSH THE LIFE out of the American public.
- Extremely upset
Mna mna nah - do do doo doo. Mn my money mna ma - I'm a money grubbing goon. Mna mna nah. Sh sh shylocka a nah. I want my pound of flesh. Mnah mnah. -
Who's got the crack?The moderators, that's who. Obviously, no-one will see this post as the parent's been modded down, but whoever thought it was 'flamebait' clearly doesn't know a well constructed troll when they see one. It's got the classic combination of provocative statements and ludicrous inaccuracies - About how difficult it is for 'Linux Assembaly Programmers' to find out low-level information, the hilarious line about neo-nazi memorabilia, the misspelled, misattributed quote.
Oh, and anyone who crafted a well-reasoned rebutal might like to check out this article.
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How to filter out 90% of your spamI got this tip from Something Awful's Lowtax:
Just put a filter that moves any email that doesn't have your name (or server, in some cases)in the To: header field. So if it doesn't have geek.com or whatever in the headers, it goes to the spam box. I've been using that for a month, and it's only filtered one email that I was supposed to get into the spam bucket. (That was a newsletter that I subscribed to, and I quickly fixed that by adding an exception.)
Hope this helps!
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Re:Good for them
start blackmailing governments the world over by claiming to "0wn j00r 1nt4rw3b!"
Or, in the immortal words of Jeff K., "HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH HOW DO YUO LIEK THEM APPALS FELLOWS?!? GRABUALsA!!!!"
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Linux reviewed
At last an objective reviewer has compared Linux to some of the more professional operating systems out there. Read Truth Media's article here.
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Dirty hippie
Shut up you dirty hippie.
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Lowtax has been doing this for a while now...
Check out Lowtax's spam page...it's half way down...while you're visiting the ICQ pranks are great too...just look out for the pusher bot...
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You are born free, of Christ, not a DUMBY!!
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Re:You call that a hack?
Aces, not another awful Jeff K. ripoff!
-Ando -
Re:They don't care?
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Large ads?
I would just like to thank you, slashdot, for reminding me to install Junkbuster.
No offense, but those giant monster ads are just too much for me. Banners I can deal with... I might buy a subscription at some point, after you have some of the issues like "What else can we give you for your subscription" worked out. I hope you'll use it as an opportunity to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. It worked extremely well on the SomethingAwful Forums. -
Re:Post alternative sites belowSweet merciful crap, I'm famous.
I actually spend most of my time at The Awful Forums, which are now $9.95/account. The admission fee is very useful for keeping the signal/noise ratio high, although not as high as
.5e. It seems that trolls and retards don't like having to pay $10 to get their login back after they get banned for being an idiot.