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Check this out:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/beautifulcompanions-missbimbo.php

(hope I copied that right from my phone)

Yahoo answers isn't a complete waste. But because you are defending them publicly.. i post this: http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

So how does this beat gary busey meme?

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eroticbitconchat.JPG (source page)

Better than being a RIFTS enthusiasts. the only thing Siembeda has more than law monkey is aspergers. Oh hey, while im at it: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/ ^o.o^ its a section called "WTF D&D" for great reason. This has very little to do with anything, but is neat so yeah.

Mmm. I'm reminded of the Paypal fiasco where somethingawful used paypal for a Katrina fundraiser and Paypal was severe fuckwards by both shutting down the paypal account (LOTS OF MONEY POURING IN, MUST BE A SCAM. NOPE NOT LISTENING TO YOUR CALLS) then when he attempts to just refund everyone, foreign currency had to take "conversion fees" despite, you know, only existing as data.

Fuck the corporations.

I'm started to feel like Nokia is becoming something awful

I guess it's better to have it turn into a robot that shoots out sparks and pushes grandmothers down stairs than having it turn into Microsoft...

Possibly. So far "The Doctor" had failed to come and save us from Microsoft. He always turns up when killer robots push grandmothers down stairs.

I'm started to feel like Nokia is becoming something awful

I guess it's better to have it turn into a robot that shoots out sparks and pushes grandmothers down stairs than having it turn into Microsoft...

I thought the WarMouse sounded familiar. It was also known, once, as the OpenOffice Mouse. Its lead designer, Theodore Beale, is also known as Vox Day. Vox Day is a anti-evolution, anti-feminist, christian writer and blogger who believes -- amongst other things -- that all atheists are sociopaths.

He is the author of a handful of poorly reviewed games, including the tedious looking The War In Heaven.

None of this will affect the quality of his mouse, it should live and die by its merits. But because of who is behind it, I for one, and going to give it a miss...

It is still available on my browser. Got the image from here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3322650&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

right after the "Holding his breath and doing his very best to imagine that the hooker is someone that looks marginally better and smells a whole hell of a lot nicer, Larry dives in. "

If this exhibition is really going to be about "the art of videogames," I hope the curators don't give short shrift to the art on the outside of the game cabinets.

I would also like them to take notice of the retail box art and the catchy music as well. To this end, I nominate MegaMan.

1. 0. The game was very popular and spawned many sequels, cartoons, and tons of merchandise.
2. 1. The simplistic art has withstood the test of time (and palette swapping).
3. 2. The in game music was great, as well as the tribute songs it spawned.
4. 3. The box art is on a totally different level of "art" that can only be described as "special"

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Dear Slashdot: Ordered lists (<ol> tag) now have no numbers. Why?

Thanks for all that elitist bullshit about how stupid the commoners are

Please go read some Youtube comments and Yahoo! Answers! for an hour.

it should be far more difficult for them to arbitrarily hold people's money and/or freeze their account.

Makes me think of this situation.

Where Paypal completely fucked over charitable donations by locking it down, blocked returns for a while, and then...this.

Although it's taken over a day for them to do it, they are issuing complete refunds (except for foreign money orders; anybody who used Paypal to convert foreign currency to US dollars have lost money on the "conversion fees"... despite the fact NO PHYSICAL MONEY CHANGED HANDS. I guess the mere process of adding one of those stupid "£" signs to a series of virtual numbers costs a lot of money).

That great space frontier novel has already been written.

Just not possible to do in realtime:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/make-porn-worksafe.php

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/worksafe-pornmovie.php

(Above links are ONLY TECHNICALLY SFW...)

Just not possible to do in realtime:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/make-porn-worksafe.php

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/worksafe-pornmovie.php

(Above links are ONLY TECHNICALLY SFW...)

For a pithy summary of the game, might I suggest the Somethingawful Goon reviews?
http://frontblog.ffgoons.com/2010/10/01/ffxiv-review
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3353297

Also... CATGIRLS!

Not only that, but your plane crash deaths cover the whole world, or billions of people, vs. Chicago.

Further on the topic of police abuse, there's a great running thread on Somethingawful, "Cops on the Beat 19: Let The Boys Be Boys, SLAM!". Guess what the "19" is for.

This thread on SomethingAwful about Minecraft has almost 22000 posts from July 2nd until today, September 10th, every single one of them about Minecraft. The game is easy to pick up, friendly graphics and is a great outlet for creativity, that's why it's such a roaring success.

Notch (the developer) has been in talks with Valve, it's amazing what just one guy with a knack for programming can do.

Almost exactly five years ago, Paypal froze $30k in Hurricane Katrina charity money raised by SomethingAwful, the story is here. They're still crooks now.

Copenhagen Suborbitals Facebook page

Open Space Movement Facebook page

For anyone wondering, there's another little project in the works, designed to help support existing organizations such as Copenhagen Suborbitals, as well as individuals interested in manned space exploitation. Aka, the Open Space Movement.

The gist of this project is something akin to "sourceforge.net" for aerospace engineering, although that would be a gross oversimplification. The OSM operates on the principle that public involvement is the key to large-scale manned spaceflight in the near future, and operates as a service and organizational platform to help rally public interest, and direct their efforts towards a series of public space ventures.

The site is nearing completion, and should be ready for a beta test in the next week or two. When we begin operations, the first thing we have planned is providing a grant towards Copenhagen Suborbitals. We have raised ~1500 out of 5000$ so far. Having talked with Kristian von Bengstrom, this amount is roughly equivalent to the cost of the propellants used in the HEAT-1X motor. More importantly, providing a 5000$ grant now makes it possible to provide a 50,000$ grant in the future - since the primary incentive behind our donation model is to show exactly what we've spent money on, and what advances have come out of it.

(we intend to spend money on in-house user-submitted projects as well, but a grant is easier to perform at this stage)

OSM and Copenhagen Suborbitals thread here

FUN FACTS:

FY2010 NASA budget: 18 billion dollars
2005-adjusted cost of Apollo Program: 170 billion dollars.

Gross sales of cell phones in 2008: 38 billion dollars
sales of cell phones in a recent 6 month period: 65 billion dollars

We are currently spending more money on cell phones in one year, than the Apollo program spent in a decade.

Very rough estimate of Copenhagen Suborbitals' operating costs over past 2 years: 200,000$ to 300,000$

Sales of ringtones in the US market for 2008: 750,000,000$

Sales of "5 dollar footlongs" in Subway franchises in 2008: 3,200,000,000$

The public has more disposable income than the budgets of all space agencies and for-profit corporations combined. The OSM wants to put that to work.

After all, we already bought the Internet.

Or use this link to only display posts by that one user.

I caught this story on Fark, and they linked to a really good thread over on the Something Awful forums with posts directly from these people.
We've made the world's amateur largest space rocket

If you don't want to read all 17 pages, just skim through looking for posts by user frumpykvetchbot.

This is completely awesome, and I wish them the best of luck with the test launch this weekend. :D

Maybe you're joking but that's not really a good comparison.

SomethingAwful memberships are a one-time fee of $10. One payment, for life, unless you get yourself banned (and if you're facing a ban for making a shitty thread, you may be able to get out of it via the Moderator Challenge (NSFW)).

If it wasn't, 95% of the posters here wouldn't post (I sure as hell wouldn't), and /. likely wouldn't even exist.

Thankfully the newspaper is relying on dead trees to make money.

Charging money to post on an internet site is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of. I can see why they are doing it (Verifying identity using the CC/banking systems) but that doesn't mean its not a stupid idea. I would never, ever, pay any amount of actual money (And, IMHO, anyone that would has a mental defect and has no idea the value of money) to be allowed the privilege of commenting on news stories. Why the fuck would I pay for that when there are so many free options out there its mind boggling?

Even still, if everyone required money before allowing posting rights, I still wouldn't pay. The idea is ridiculous.

Gee, I don't know, paying a one-time registration fee seems to work for some sites (see Something Awful). Charging someone actual, real money keeps out some of the riffraff that would just get banned, register a new account, and repeat ad nauseum. It also means that if you do something boneheaded and get banned your dollars are gone. It's an actual tangible loss, which will lead most people to follow the rules and not be disruptive. Plus it helps defray the costs of setting up and maintaining the server and paying for bandwidth. Which, as it turns out, isn't actually free.

I'm not sure what the downside is, other than a minor inconvenience.

I don't know. If this is any indication, it might be able to work not only in 2D, but in 8-bit as well.

--Flash video of a Yahoo! Answers question.

It's confirmed, The Internet Makes You Stupid.

The Internet Makes You Stupid

ALWAYS USE THE WIZARD!

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/wizard-flash-cartoon.php

Reminded me of this:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/wizard-flash-cartoon.php

Good thing that its posted AC. It's not an original work. But it has also been passed around a lot, minor refinements made, and without attribution since it was authored. The short essay is apparently originally titled I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL

It's at least as old as September 09, 2009.

Found an older reference at reddit around August 08, 2009.

And somebody attributed that likely the original author posted to the Laissez Faire subforum on Something Awful (Jul 24, 2009) as randomnoise. Some attribution also to a 4chan post (but nothing older than SA post was found)

But seems to be more less plagiarized or inspired (depending on your P.O.V.) by a short rant in July 2004. Also found at michaelmoore.com August 2004, by John Gray, Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican. But, I think the original author is generally unknown.

And then there's the Libertarian response in October 2004 to THAT titled Statist Joe by Gil Gullory, a Halliburton employee.

I'm sure you'll be more than happy with your new robotic overlords, too.

I thought this would be a good place to post this for anyone interested.

Open Space Movement

It's basically a movement to collaborate all related and unrelated development environments toward human space exploration.

that made me think of something i hadnt seen in years. i think the first time i saw this photoshop i about died.

it's sfw.

original:

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg05252004/Djarum.jpg

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg05252004/Almost-Smart.jpg

It's amazing how many people remember that powerup, it was only in 1 single level of 1 single Mario game.



Ontopic: I can't help but think that adding video games to libraries is a bad idea. Libraries are sort of one of those last refuge places in the USA to find calm, mindful, mentally mature people (at least, the ones I've been to). It's sort of like offering low alcohol content beers at AA meetings to soften up potential newcomers to the idea of coming on in. Or like the myriad of churches trying to look more accepting by striking compromises with the world around them to bring in more people, etc.

I remember being shocked one day when a friend of mine called me up and said, 'Hey, I'm going to the Library, want to come?'---- this was a little shocking to me-- first, because I thought he was talking about a local bar called "The Library", and it was noon, but then second, I was almost entirely nonplussed when I realized he was talking about the actual Library. So... I hadn't been in town for awhile and things had changed, turns out, they have all sorts of trashy DVDs (not explicit adult stuff, but like... trashy action movies like 'crank'.. Ugh).... So.... That's why he was going.

that made me think of something i hadnt seen in years. i think the first time i saw this photoshop i about died.

it's sfw.

original:

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg05252004/Djarum.jpg

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg05252004/Almost-Smart.jpg

It's amazing how many people remember that powerup, it was only in 1 single level of 1 single Mario game.



Ontopic: I can't help but think that adding video games to libraries is a bad idea. Libraries are sort of one of those last refuge places in the USA to find calm, mindful, mentally mature people (at least, the ones I've been to). It's sort of like offering low alcohol content beers at AA meetings to soften up potential newcomers to the idea of coming on in. Or like the myriad of churches trying to look more accepting by striking compromises with the world around them to bring in more people, etc.

I remember being shocked one day when a friend of mine called me up and said, 'Hey, I'm going to the Library, want to come?'---- this was a little shocking to me-- first, because I thought he was talking about a local bar called "The Library", and it was noon, but then second, I was almost entirely nonplussed when I realized he was talking about the actual Library. So... I hadn't been in town for awhile and things had changed, turns out, they have all sorts of trashy DVDs (not explicit adult stuff, but like... trashy action movies like 'crank'.. Ugh).... So.... That's why he was going.

MM I can just see the chaved up hot hatches in this game and the daily mails outrage.

and it definatly needs this Renault Clio as one of the rides

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3282687

TWOCKING is an abreviation of "Taking Without Owners Consent" what car theft is normaly refered to by the Police in the UK

For those needing help explaining that kind of speed to layperson friends, I recommend a handy Guide to Understanding TV Metrics

Kudos photoshop. You know that you've done well with a piece of software when it turns into a verb.

It's more than a verb, for some people it's a tradition and art form*. Had there been no Photoshop, something would have probably filled the void but it's definitely one of the (expensive) standards around.

*Yeah, I know you see a link to Something Awful and are thinking "not gonna click that!" but it's just the Photoshop Phriday main page, a site like the Onion that briefly brightens my week.

I'd suggest watching something awful's "let's play" for mass effect 1 (they play through the entire game - ~30min video by video, with explanations of the what and the why, they speed up past boring parts, etc), and also to pick up a savegame from mass effect 1 to go with it. Once you understand the first game, the savegame you select and it's rammifications, it'll make the second game more fun.

As a note: lets play for mass effect 1 costs you $0 to watch. So you're "picking up" the first game, in a sense. Also you can get mass effect 2 on PC via demonoid quite easily if you want to see if it's worth the buying. I'd say that it kinda is, except that you get shafted on having to buy DLC either way.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/antarctica-living-working.php

The most hilarious review of a game ever, probably :)

outsourcing our drug use (and sex, apparently)

It's actually sex, drugs, and rock&roll.

Look, I'm all for making robots and AIs do work, but outsourcing our drug use (and sex, apparently) is just going too far! Leave at least something for us puny humans to enjoy!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3231219

77 pages of discussing the loonies of the Twilight fandom.

Here goes: Sensational news.

No mention of the publicly available AOL search logs? I thought that was fantasticly funny. Stupid, but funny.

they've put in an anti-Slashdot referer rule on those images - was there an original article so we don't have to copy & paste?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3238877

According to Wikipedia (which I suggest you avoid for fear of contracting the disease) symptoms of Asperger's include:

        * Impaired social interaction.

        * Inability to read expressions or make eye-contact.
        * Lack of empathy.
        * No sense of humor.
        * Inability to cope with criticism.
        * Hyperfocus on tasks and rituals.
        * Logical patterns of thought.
        * Clumsiness.
        * Really good at videogames.
        * Furry artwork.

From here

While I don't deny Asperger's is a real illness and those who suffer it deserve any help they can get, I've yet to met someone who claims to suffer it and actually do.