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Wasn't he supposed to be in the Test Chamber half an hour ago?

Nah, he's currently working in Geneva.

tetris DS does get to the point where the piece lands nearly as soon as it appears

This behavior is called 20G, and it's also seen in "Death" mode of Tetris the Grand Master 2 and "Shirase" mode of Tetris the Grand Master 3.

however you can keep it from fixing to the stack by rotating it and wiggling it constantly.

This infinite spin behavior has become the standard since 2001, despite reviewers' assertions that "it actually breaks Tetris".

Damnit you beat me to it!

But come on... We all had fun with the high price tag!

Damnit you beat me to it!

But come on... We all had fun with the high price tag!

Remember to tell your friends to +1 you on every comment, too. Don't say "OMG LADY GAGA IS SINGING LIVE!", say "OMG LADY GAGA IS SINGING LIVE! +1 IF YOU WANT TO SEE HER! LOL!"

(Really, I never thought the whole YTMND "VOTE 5" thing would get as pervasively and seriously adopted by big corporations in the guise of "Subscribe us on YouTube! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook!" as it has. It makes the companies sound so very childish and desperate. At least YTMNDers were, or are, mostly playing around; this is the corps' fucking marketing strategy. Ugh.)

Already been done with Jeff Goldblum. If they can cross Goldblum with a yellow lab, a generic TSA agent and golden retriever should be NOTHING.

Problem... Solved.

Oblig. Four more years of douche-bag!

YTMND launched in 2001.

Yourethemannowdog.com opened in 2001, but YTMND.com itself and the YTMND-o-Matic tool didn't debut until April 2004 according to YTMND's about page, and its hosting wasn't stable enough for the site to take off until April 2005.

Somehow, I think a codec provided by Google is one of the safer things you could possibly ask an admin to install -- certainly safer than, say, Flash.

Admins in organizations with locked-down It policies are hired to install what the employees need for doing the work that makes the company money. More web sites use Flash than the features new to HTML5; therefore, it's easier to make the business case for installing Flash organization-wide than Google Chrome Frame organization-wide (for HTML5 sites) or the WebM codecs for IE9 organization-wide (for sites with video, which are mostly entertainment sites that shouldn't be browsed on company time anyway).

It's still a nightmare, HL2 episode 3 is still nowhere to be seen.

Probably because millions of people do not want Episode 3.

yeah... that was a joke, but thanks for playing... http://gates256.ytmnd.com/

... optimized animated .gif server so ytmnd.com could load 5GB loops faster.

You'll get nothing!!! NOTHING!!!

Wonka breaks it down.

YTMND inspired a lot of people to learn more digits of Pi. "Pi" by Hard n Phirm became a minor fad there.

YTMND inspired a lot of people to learn more digits of Pi. "Pi" by Hard n Phirm became a minor fad there.

Watch the hyphen. A "Microsoft free lifestyle" in grandparent's signature isn't the same thing as a "Microsoft-free lifestyle". A "Microsoft free lifestyle" includes the use of free software on Microsoft platforms, and it includes the use of software under the Microsoft Public License or Microsoft Reciprocal License.

I wholeheartedly agree.
 
In other news, here's a YTMND of a goat on a keyboard in space.
 
Cheers!

What about PS3 exclusives? Shooter

There are shooters on every platform since the NES.

Infamous

Infamous is on 360 and PC; it's just called Prototype.

Little Big Planet

WarioWare DIY for DS is close.

Luminez

What is Luminez? Is it anything like Lumines, which I have on my PSP, or Luminesweeper, which I have on my Game Boy Advance?

Some of these are not just exclusives, they are games that raise the bar, shining examples of the medium taken to the next level.

Here's your Shinin' example.

(Obligatory grammer nazi comment:

As in Kelsey?

You cannot capitalize the first word of your sentences but you capitalize the "PS" in "PS3"? Really?

Some languages capitalize proper nouns but not the first word of a sentence. I imagine alen's English is better than your Noeneg or your Toki Pona.

I think you might find this of mild interest.

He was great in this film.
http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/

What's "moore" interesting is this so-called speech that Michael gave in 2005 on YTMND.com.

Obligatory http://ibtfad.ytmnd.com/

I prefer how Captain Picard said it. "We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done"

http://nofurther.ytmnd.com/

As Captain Picard said, The Line Must Be Drawn Here

http://nofurther.ytmnd.com/

Disable javascript and cookies, wipe cookies and then go to the site and reload and reload and reload...
You'll get different rates with the same User-Agent.

It's on random!

http://answersonrandom.ytmnd.com/

http://ladyahhhahhhh.ytmnd.com/ This, with no way to turn it off. Ever.

I'd rather wait for Abada - http://abadachameleon.ytmnd.com/

http://seriesoftubesmovie.ytmnd.com/

No, dead is correct. However, the robot's name is Linguo, not Lingo. So get out! You're banned from making corrective posts on Slashdot! You, and your children, and your children's children -- for three months.

1. Buy game: "Tetris Worlds".
2. Put disc in GameCube.
3. Play.
4. Find that I can turn the pieces forever. (This incidentally was one of several official rule changes, but it wouldn't be fully understood until half a decade later when Tetris DS had the same rule.)
5. Thinking the game is broken, I want to fix it. But I can't because consoles don't have mods.
6. Remember that I can't write my own game for the console either because unlike PCs, consoles don't have a public development kit.
7. Go back to PC, where indie games and mods still proliferate.

PHP is better than any .net crap.

Only this can express my reaction.

Apache is better than IIS
Linux is better than MS Server
MySQL is better than SQL Server
C++ QT is better than .Net

Point taken.

Eclipse is better than Visual Studio for multiple languages

Eclipse is very shitty. You're on full ROFLcopter mode today.

Git is better than VSS

Should compare it to TFS not VSS - it's deprecated. Have you ever compiled git from source? See the number of dependencies? It can't have a Windows client without puting a shitload of mingw32 dlls in the PATH. And since gcc can't behave itself when on Windows there are no manifest files anywhere and you can broke other applications compiled with a different version of mingw32. Install QtCreator and later install TortoiseGit to replicate this.

Mac OS X is better than Windows for programming

Huh? Subjective. Give me IBM OS/370 and XEDIT any given day. The glow of a 3270, the computer room with it's stale cigarette smoke - oh, glory days!

Anything is better than IE

IE9 is faster and better than most. Check out the developer preview.

And other people think the changes that The Tetris Company has required over the past decade have destroyed the challenge of the game.>

Tetris: The Grandmaster 3: Terror Instinct still seems difficult to me, especially with invisible blocks.

I'm talking about things like Tetris DS and Tetris Party with their infinite spin mechanic (explained on this Hard Drop Wiki page) and a bag randomizer that allows for a play pattern that can provably continue forever. TGM3 lets the player turn these off, but it's licensed only in Japan.

Let's get the patents that MPEG-LA claims might affect VP8 out in the open.

The last article linked to an analysis of VP8 that pointed out its striking similarity to H.264 Baseline. So I guess you can start with the H.264 patent list on mpegla.com. Removing these patented parts would turn it into Theora, which is closer to DivX (MPEG-4 Part 2).

There's pictures spread all over the web of a guy who I believe had conviction(s?) for sexual assault. If you know the photos I'm talking about, they don't look like a real person. He appears to be very, very short, with an oversized head, crooked teeth and a completely bashed-in-looking face. Doesn't actually look real.

Google Image Search brian peppers to find this guy.

you're doing it wrong

We Require More Vespene Gas.

Office prank: when co-worker forgets to lock PC (big no-no!), turn on their speakers and go to that website. Everyone will know what they did ;)

http://matlabmadness.ytmnd.com/

A thingy I can draw on and watch movies with?

You can do those things with just about any electronic device on the market in the past 10 years...

interactive

WRONG. These devices are all about consumption, not creation.

Hey, Lex, chill out and look at the first thing I would buy for an iPad: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=6848332

http://cry-me-a-river.ytmnd.com/

"They blew up Congress!! Hahaha!"

I guess you haven't heard of Doug E. Fresh then. Creepy song link here.

http://dontfingussthisweek.ytmnd.com/ (Note: The music is NSFW)

Feel free to send this to the CA Legislators!

Yeah, exxxxxxxactttlllyyyyy

Extreme Close-Up?

http://excloseup.ytmnd.com/

Disney, turning out new material

I'm not one usually to reference YTNMD on /., but this is appropriate.

However, if you look at the whole issue from a broader perspective, you begin to wonder if this sort of thing isn't deliberate, by which I mean people must understand the Streisand Effect by now and maybe people are trying to exploit it. The first thought of a lot of people on the internet when they hear 'x is being banned/censored/removed' is 'wow, I need to both satisfy my curiosity AND stick it to The Man!' Maybe some companies are pulling things like this not in a pure bid just to get them removed (since that doesn't work), but really to make them the center of a controversy such that their (albeit hijacked) IP reaches a broader audience that otherwise wouldn't hear about it without free press from places like /. getting upset about stuff being removed.

Or maybe I'm getting paranoid and seeing conspiracies...

Don't worry Sir, I'm from the internet!

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A forum for Anonymous Protests against Scientology Signed appropriately, Anonymous We do not forgive, We do not forget, Expect Us.

its a fun term, but not as fun as "bob loblaw's law blog"

Bob Loblaw's Law Blog

Now with Vitamin R!

Malk