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Do not imagine for a second that the people who create images of Michelle Obama that make her look more monkey like are doing it simply because they noticed the striking similarity between humans and monkeys. They are doing it because they are racists.

They are doing it because they are racists? It appears the photo came from celebrityapes.com, and they did this same treatment to a number of famous people. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/celebrity-apes.php

I suppose it was racism that drove them to turn the photo of Sara Palin into an ape, right? Yep...those fucking racists, always using derogatory terms like "monkey" whenever they see a white person.

You did get one thing right....racism is still alive in this country/world, and unfortunately it will always be there, especially when people like you are right there to jump on the bandwagon and cry "racism" before you've even seen what has really happened. Good job stirring the pot up for no good reason.

Not likely as the Michele Obama picture is still available. If you go to Google images and search for Michele Obama Monkey it's the second picture that showed up for me. It looks like the picture comes from a site that modified celebrity images to look like apes and it looks like this image was made months ago. As it looks like the original site, celebrityapes.com, is off the net you can see other images that have had the same modification made to them here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/celebrity-apes.php So while the image may certainly be seen as offensive to a lot of people it doesn't seem to have been meant as a racist act or particularly aimed at the Obamas as many politicians, actors and other famous people have had the same photo manipulation done to their images.

Really? When I searched for "Michelle Obama Monkey" on google image search, the pictures I got was of George Bush.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm157/cin2008_album/bush_monkey3.jpg

http://www.globalpov.com/images/bush-monkey.jpg

And a monkey that got to first base:

http://klog.imjustsaying.org:81/files/images/monkey.preview.jpg

Another was of Palin being compared as an Ape

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/apepalin.jpg

The only Michelle Obama photo was from a site called celebrity apes (a site which now seems defunct http://www.celebrityape.com/).

This furor over the photos shows a double standard in the media when liberals are concerned.

Maybe it's a homage to the first Mega Man box art: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/video-game-article/mega-box-art.php

(But I doubt it.)

Wikipedia should ban people for being murderers like Something Awful does

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Andrew_Allred#Public_Reactions

Also I just permabanned this guy because he murdered two people: http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=84611

Now the question I have here is that, in the rules, it doesn't explicitly state you will be permabanned or punished in any way if you murder people. Does this make the user terms of conditions unclear?

They need to do way instain mother

Flat Earthers are quite real.

http://www.google.com/search?q=flat+earth

For your entertainment:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/flat-earth-society.php

You win five Internets, sir!

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

The Dreamcast is the correct choice!

Because the syst...
The games are cheap
And Sega is a developer who I respect
And arigato
And you can play Sonic
And Sonic loves us all
And Sonic saves animals
And he doesn't care that Tails is gay

In other news, Eve Online players around the planet immediately associate bees with Goonswarm hailing from the something awful forums and run away screaming at the thought of Little Bees inside their bodies.

Pfft...Bitboys had them beat 9 years ago.

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

oblig link to Something Awful flash animation (safe for work with headphones) http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

Soon enough, there won't be a single, simple, answer to the classic question

how is babby formed

Well, you might say, who cares? If cap-and-trade succeeds, won't we all be saved from the catastrophe of global warming? Maybe - but cap-and-trade, as envisioned by Goldman, is really just a carbon tax so that private interests collect the revenues. Instead of simply imposing a fixed government levy on carbon pollution and forcing unclean energy producers to pay for the mess they make, cap-and-trade will allow a small tribe of greedy-as-hell Wall Street swine to turn yet another commodities market into a private tax-collection scheme. This is worse than the bailout: It allows the bank to seize taxpayer money before it's even collected.

"If it's going to be a tax, I would prefer that Washington set the tax and collect it," says Michael Masters, the hedge-fund director who spoke out against oil-futures speculation. "But we're saying that Wall Street can set the tax, and Wall Street can collect the tax. That's the last thing in the world I want. It's just asinine."

Cap-and-trade is going to happen. [Ed. note - this was published yesterday.] Or, if it doesn't, something like it will. The moral is the same for all the other bubbles that Goldman helped create, from 1929 to 2009. In almost every case, the very same bank that behaved recklessly for years, weighing down the system with toxic loans and predatory debt, and accomplishing nothing but massive bonuses for a few bosses, has been rewarded with mountains of virtually free money and government guarantees - while the actual victims in this mess, ordinary taxpayers, are the ones paying for it.

It's not always easy to accept the reality of what we now routinely allow these people to get away with; there's a kind of collective denial that kicks in when a country goes through what America has gone through lately, when a people lose as much prestige and status as we have in the past few years. You can't really register the fact that you're no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you're no longer above getting robbed in broad daylight, because like an amputee, you still sort of feel things that are no longer there.

But this is it. This is the world we live in now. And in this world, some of us have to play by the rules, while others get a note from the principal excusing them from homework until the end of time, plus 10 billion free dollars in a paper bag to buy lunch. It's a gangster state, running on gangster economics, and even prices can't be trusted anymore; there are hidden taxes in every buck you pay. And maybe we can't stop it, but we should at least know where it's all going.

-- THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE, Matt Taibbi

He's even more corrupt than the previous guy folks (no mean feat) and he's inherited the worst parts (wars, torture, gulags) and has made few changes. I wish the presidency were more than a job interview for a no-work/no-show job at some hedge fund...

Encyclopedia Dramatica "article" and Flash (*shudder*) animation.

Another three hundred derivative and mostly unoriginal versions of 2Fort, including at least one where every texture is porn.

Ooh, I know this one! We'll get 2forts in Hell: Reloaded! It's 2fort! But it is in Hell!

Yeah, 2forts is such a famous map that it has been subject to talentless duplication since the original Team Fortress came out, so this release doesn't really change anything. =) It just redefines talentless duplication. Yeah. Porn textures. That would be one way to duplicate talentlessly.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/hentai-game-reviews/rapelay.php

It's not Slashdot's fault.

The mainstream media picked up the "RapeLay controversy" some time in early 2009 when some focus-on-the-family groups in the US noticed it and started complaining about it.

But the game is years old, and I think it was mostly a popular Bittorrent target after this 2007 Something Awful review.

Ah, 2007. George W. Bush was president, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was above 12,000, credit was cheap and homes were expensive, and no one but forum goons knew about RapeLay. Those were good times.

If you don't see what the appeal is of a game that lets you do whatever you want, I'm not sure I can help you.

Can you kill your family? Can you fuck your dog? Can you construct an atomic bomb and detonate it?

Not really. but the sims 2 did allow for a lot entertaining sadism. In all honesty, comparing it to an RPG is going a bit too far. I like to think of it as a micro-management less-god-game, where you don't really have a lot of freedom (because you're stuck with the "dialogue" options/careers/whatnot the programmers made for you), but it has a lot of a meta-game aspect to it.

A woman I once dated for a while really enjoyed the sims 2. She probably had a dozen or so families in her own little town, with meticulously designed houses and carefully balanced schedules heading for that maximum on the career ladder. She was quite the control freak when it came to the game, making sure that most sims stayed the same age as other sims, so she would switch families every time she played for a while. At some point I found myself alone at home with her laptop and the irresistable urge to introduce a little chaos into that perfectly ordered world.

After taking a backup of the savegames I created a character named Eugene Frankensausage, carefully crafted to be a bald bearded fat man wearing worn out jeans and what looked to be a dirty shirt. His house was a concrete square block adorned only by the mailbox in front of it and a single pink flamingo ornament in the yard. In the first few hours he got to know the neighbours, had sex with them which resulted in a fight, asked one of them to move in, then set the house on fire. This unfortunate process repeated itself quite a few times until he finally learned how to cook at which point the game became a lot more dull. By the end of a boring evening the neatly and carefully organized world had a lot of separated families, widowers, and people generally being in distress. There were also 3 people maneuvering through a small labyrinth in the yard with the end point being aforementioned pink flamingo lawn ornament.

Now, waiting for her to discover that Eugene Frankensausage had moved into town and not mentioning you had a backup, that was the fun part.

It's a whore when I'm posting from work. And here's some links for which I likewise didn't want my daring googlation appearing in company logs... (unsurprisingly NSFW)

Sound advice.

The people who write these articles seem to have a tenuous - if any - grasp of the concept of value for money.

Maybe you should write a piece on this and submit it here as you plainly know your ass from your elbow, unlike the article writer. (Budget quad core gaming PC? picard.gif)

There's also a thread full of good advice on the Something Awful forums, here. If anyone is building a PC right now, check out this thread first.

That horrible wasting-mind disease known as nostalgia. On average, the same percentage of platformers were good as, for example, the percentage of first-person shooters that are good. The thing is, people still play the good platformers-- like Mario 3 or Sonic 2, and as a result, they completely forget about the thousands of crappy platformers out there.

If you want a more even perspective, take a look at Something Awful's ROM pit: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/rom-pit/ They review the bad platformers you've forgotten.

Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?

Hmm, I always thought it was contagious and this was how it was contracted:

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/july07/aspergersdefinition.gif

I want to give this anonymous coward the stupid reply his stupid question deserves:

>>>Shouldn't you be masturbating to posters of Ron Paul or something? ...unf unf unf oh Ayn Rand oh yes Ayn...

Those old farts? No way. Give me some nice, fresh roses that are not wilted/wrinkled. Like the Jonas Brothers. Or the Disney women - mmmm Emily Osment: http://i.somethingawful.com/m3imgs/streetlamp.gif http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/11hawkdown/ChrisHanson.jpg

If you're looking for pointless forums, you should start here.

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/dickandjane/Splangy_candy.jpg
Are you kidding? That google search was AWESOME!

Would someone let me know when this product is available in the form of an X10 camera that will NEVER catch any naked girls in my house, spy on evil relatives, and see who dropped that toilet-clogger at my last party.

Original Reference

Interview with X10 Creator

Graphics cards are cheap. You can get one that plays every single available game nicely for 130 dollars (the 8800GT/9800GT for example).

Stop getting your ideas from stupid guides like this and check out a thread full of advice from people who aren't insane.

If the new Javascript engine is turned on, does this mean that the new Firefox beta gives a larger e-penis than Chrome or the latest Safari?

Seriously, I am thinking it might be time to start learning Javascript (to a higher level than just being able to copy and paste snippets to autoscroll the page and other simple effects). It's not perfect but it has wide support and mindshare, which is more important than any technical criterion. What I want to do is display simple graphs in the browser of things like stock prices, based on information fetched over SOAP (yeah I know SOAP is a bit clunky, but it's the interface I have). Can more experienced programmers recommend Javascript tutorial sites (at a higher level than 'copy and paste this snippet of code to get cool smilies!') or a good set of libraries?

...The creators must have taken their notes from this http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/video-game-skills.php

What if it turns out they are just like us?

I wouldn't worry about that too much. At this very moment, there are several millions of Neanderthals among us, both male and female.

CJ

Having played the PC version of GoW, I can confidently say that they can keep this thing contained to the consoles. It's not Legendary-bad, but more like Halo\d?-bad, sans the whole cloned levels thing.

Your description of the merits of GoW is laughable. What are the advanced tactics are you talking about? Surely it's not how you have to take cover behind an obviously placed obstacle, pop up, shoot a whole mag into an enemy, duck down to infinitely regenerate health, then repeat until everyone is dead, all while suppressive fire is as effective as shouting insults in Esperanto. I guess you can use your brave immortal teammates for cannon fodder in a variety of ways, which would be a nice idea if they didn't behave like Dreamcast players on a PC Q3 server. GoW isn't tactical. At best, it just might be tacticlol. At least it'd look pretty good if it weren't for the whole "grey is the new brown" theme.

I'm sorry, but the situation is completely opposite of what you're describing. Although I can see how you could get that impression if you only played PC games for a while somewhere during 1993 or just this year, now that all the main franchises have been bastardized^Wconsolized. But PC games are where all the tactical (and other genres which require a nonzero amount of brain activity) games originated, and have been successful. Have you heard of Rainbow Six? If your immediate thought was "oh yeah I played Vegas" then I guess I shouldn't be surprised by your post, or the others like it.

It's also interesting how in your journal you say that PC game makers aren't leet enough to make console games, and use UT3 as an example. Yet here's Epic, the dumbfucks of the UT3 fame, making a super polished game which is waaay to good for us PC players to be able to appreciate. Yeah, ok. I'll quit now, before I start foaming at the mouth. I'm not going to be asking for a port.

P.S. "This comment is not a troll" is about as credible as "I'm not a crook", though I'm not claiming you're trolling right now.
P.S.^2 Also, Dead Space sucked and they should not have bothered with a port.

This is what twitter has been doing to Slashdot for most of the year:

http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377

Advocacy in action:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1014837&cid=25591469

Disagree with the troll and find yourself in his troll list, where
he also documents death threats for the win.

Bragging with buddies about how "M$" monitors the way he creates accounts on Slashdot:

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/08/irc-log-07112008/#tNov%2007%2021:19:07

Treatment of people who revealed what he was doing:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=993447&cid=25494651

Trascending Slashdot and bringing everyone down by association:

http://www.osnews.com/conversation/483454a1/Do_you_get_tired_of_the_Web_Hype_
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-August/154926.html
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2933313#post347878554
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/06/5924058.aspx#6051569

Original submission, with original puerile style:

"Analysts at Bloomberg noticed the tumble in M$'s traditional software sales last quarter and blamed it on netbooks:

The devices, which usually cost less than $500, are the fastest-growing segment of the personal-computer industry -- a trend that's eating into Microsoft's revenue. Windows sales fell short of forecasts last quarter and the company cut growth projections for the year, citing the lower revenue it gets from netbooks. When makers of the computers do use Windows, they typically opt for older and cheaper versions of the software.

Equipping Linux on a computer costs about $5, compared with $40 to $50 for XP and about $100 for Vista, according to estimates by Jenny Lai, a Taipei-based analyst at CLSA Ltd.

This is why, M$ declared war on the segment last year and palm top computers in previous years. While they may have successfully tamed the Asus EEE PC but, they can't hold back everyone who wants to make a buck on cheap hardware and free software. Analysts have predicted the fall of M$'s business model when computers break below $250/unit retail. We are there now, and it has shown in the bottom line."

Welcome to the trolled by twitter club, timothy.

This should be a boon for the warez groups (mostly in the legitimacy department) and will be yet another thing for the anti-DRM guys to latch onto to try to get more of the public on their side. If EA's going to go DRM-crazy let them, it'll only be another step toward (hopefully) the reform of the industry. Disenfranchises legitimate buyers, but EA doesn't really deserve legitimate buyers at this point.

One poster on the SA forums got banned for 37 days from Spore for saying someone's creature was "badass". Want your MP fix? Start downloading Hamachi, gentlemen.

You bastard. I just found out about the How is babby formed meme, was about to use it as the basis of an excellent first-post troll, but you beat me to it.

Curse you, sir!

If you're worried about bricking, the safest way is with a 'pandora battery' (a service-mode battery, really) and a memory stick. You can get a tool from Amazon that changes batteries from normal to service batteries for about 12 euros; otherwise you need a specialised service battery, or risk hardmodding your own and possibly damaging it.

I opted to use the tool, it's extremely easy and it only takes a few minutes. Check out this thread on SA for very helpful instructions and some homebrew links.

It's from a quasiliterate conversation on Yahoo! Answers. A nice dramatic reenactment is here (flash warning): http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

. . . JeffK is attending the local community college and not Harvard.

By using Chrome as your preferred browser, your E-Penis will increase by a whopping 74%.

Blackwater is a great company. If Google really is going to use them for their floating datacenters, then it would be worth it to take Blackwater's online application.

lunix has built-in anti-hacker tarball support

For those who didn't get it:

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/How_is_babby_formed%3F

I was hoping your homepage was this one.

We may be electing a president that has significant ties to the "progressive" community. I see a few comments sprinkled in from such people on Slashdot every once in a while.

Here is an especially telling example: Sean Penn.

Personally, I think such idiocy needs to be called out, shown for what it is and make sure the author gets some education. The part the troubles me is Mr. Penn is hardly in the minority among celebrities. Lots of people that got rich off doing almost nothing seem to feel this way.

Walkthroughs don't constitute creative expression? Watch the series of videos linked from this thread. It's the best look at a terrible game you'll ever see. Sometimes funny, often insightful, and very informative about a interesting and influential chunk of game history.

And then all these fish die because of too much acid in the water! Epic Fale.

How is babby formed?

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

How is babby formed?

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/radiohead-sucks.php I always enjoy it when other people wittily smash other people! Thats entertainment.

I guess this takes the concept of Wikigroaning to a whole new level.

Rob