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Behind the Faked Revolution Video
1up.com has an interview with the guy who faked the beautiful Nintendo On video prior to this year's E3. The faked video raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark. From the article: "The Nintendo community is famously excitable when dealing with leaks and rumors - the uproar over recent comments insinuating Revolution's downloadable classics would be free sent shockwaves - and this instance was really no different. Still, there were plenty of skeptics and cynics. To many, the presence of the esteemed Virtual Boy, the company's infamous portable blunder from the mid 90s, tipped the scales. 'The Virtual Boy isn't something Nintendo should ever use to promote a new revolutionary product,' said Jeffery Van Camp, editorial coordinator at Nintendo fan site N-Sider. Even the visionary behind Nintendo On admits 'Nintendo would never make another reference to a console that didn't comply with their expectations, but in this case, it wouldn't be a mistake, but a correction.'"
"Save for a brief glimpse at a city for Metal Gear, however, all was lost in the hard drive crash. Had the scenes been completed, however, Solid Snake would have been seen hopping into Metal Gear Ray, going head-to-head against an all-new menace, Metal Gear Mantis. "It is better not to think about the loss now," he says."
There are two kinds of computer users (or sysadmins). Those that backup religiously, and those that have never had a hard-drive crash.
RAID1 is pretty cheap when you can get 2 200GB HDs for about 300$ CDN.
raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark
Wait, wait... from here all the way to FARK?
That far? Really?
Wow.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Really? Literally?
"That word... I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
As the person who pulled off the Christmas Lights/Webcam Hoax let me just say Well Done Pablo Belmonte - the world needs more levity like this! ;-)
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The idiocracy of slashdot readers never fails me. Why didn't you hit STOP on the video that was playing? Did you happen to notice the article was discussing the video?
Oh but wait! An opportunity to drop the name of a web browser you have probably used twice your life! What you should really do is download the file in lynx, then read it in pico. Then you would really have my respect.
Hell only literally breaks loose when a bunch of demons roam the Earth torturing and killing humans and preparing for the end of the world. Contrary to popular belief there demons are not Americans and not currently roaming the Earth
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
"according to my grandson who posts there."
:)
I hope I am not alone among Slashdotters when I say "your what?"