I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults in some ways. This is like the worst commercials ever made -- the etrade commercials -- on crack.
And this is the worst Slashdot story that has be posted to the front page in a long time.
Re:Lame
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It's essentially the same thing as people who dress up their pets. It only looks amusing to the owners (read: parents) who have an investment in that being.
On second thought, most dogs are actually far more interesting than a (retarded by comparison) human baby.
Yeah, I don't really get the idle section. There are tons of good sites for material of this kind. I come to slashdot for the tech stuff and discussions. Also, when using the new index I haven't even found a way to turn the idle section off... just look at the amount of comments on idle stories, can't we just collectively admit this isn't what slashdot is good at at let it die now?;)
Normally I have no time for all the cynics who rail on Idle. But for once I have to say that Idle really has hit a new low. I can't condone this tripe on the front page and neither should anyone else.
2 seconds out of one day to block all idle for the rest of eternity.
Click the "edit" icon on the "Idle" section of your sidebar, then click the "hide" button.
Stories can't be filtered out of the RSS feed, nor can you even tell what section they're under if you're using a Firefox live bookmark.
Re:Lame
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Anonymous Coward
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It's essentially the same thing as people who dress up their pets. It only looks amusing to the owners (read: parents) who have an investment in that being.
Hey, some of us don't do it to "look amusing". Some of us put a coat on our dog in the winter because we live in the bloody cold north and have a short haired breed that originates in the desert. Some of us put boots on our dog in the winter because otherwise she gets blisters on her paws from walking on the ice (again, we live in the bloody cold north), and besides, we don't want wet paw prints all over the house after she returns from her walk. And some of us put sunglasses on our dog in the summertime because she has a degenerative eye condition that requires UV protection to keep her from going blind.
The sunglasses in particular cause many people to laugh when we walk past, and for some reason it also causes a few, mostly grumpy old men, to scowl, presumably because they assume we're just trying to be cute. We're not. We'd just rather have a dog who looks silly than a blind dog.
I must admit, the editors of Slashdot have done a good job filtering the irrelevant Idle stories from the front page over the last few months. I think maybe 20% of the Idle stories on the front page are actually interesting enough to warrant a click. And I'll even say that it's nice to see "Idle" and know that I can let my brain go on vacation for 15 minutes when one of those stories that piques my interest does come up.
Yeah, I totally agree. Babies aren't cute at all without hand cannons and state of the art metal suits to shoot machine gun wielding bunnies in the third world. Seriously. Who the hell do they think they're fooling?
That made so much money it pulled John Travolta out of obscurity
Yes, one of that film's many crimes.
... and made Bruce Willis a culture icon.
No, it didn't.
Even so, a decent sequal
... never existed. A sequel more horrific than the original did happen, though.
The roller skate commercial for avionics water put to MJ's Billy Jean is already classic.
"Classic" in the sense of "one of the most awful things ever."
If everyone else likes it, you don't.
Nonsense. I like baseball and football. I like the Red Sox and Celtics and Patriots. I like The Beatles. And so on.
Talking dogs, fish, animals and moons will always be around along with talking babies.
To the detriment of all humanity.
Get over it an move on.
People who dislike things, and say so, will always be around. Get over it and move on and grow up. (Yes, I am pointing out the fact that you are a hypocrite.)
I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults
This is, presuming your are male, because you have no children of your own. If, amazingly, you do have children, then you are Very Bad Man, who deserves his testicles chopped off.
That is, in fact, irrelevant to what I said. Calling someone a "sad, sad person" is not a statement relating to anyone's emotional state.
However, I will note that if you think making random children act like adults is cute, that makes you even sadder than the fact that you inanely think that anyone else should. There's nothing "cute" about it, especially since -- inevitably -- it is someone trying WAYYYY too hard.
Kids are cute on their own. They don't need moronic adults screwing it up.
Look. I know this is idle. I'm aware of that. But of all the literally hundreds of awesome stories in the Firehose to put on the front page, you chose this?
There is a land past fail, where the failure whose name we dare not speak waits resting, waiting for the end times. This thread is but a whisper from that place. Pray more such do not escape.
-- "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I'm not sure I can discern any difference in quality whatsoever between the stuff kdawson posts and the stuff the rest of the "editors" post. Looks like the exact same kind of crap across the board to me.
What's not to like?
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This. Idle. kdawson.
Please get rid of this.
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snarfies
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I have Idle specifically blocked in my preferences. That seems to have ceased to function as of a few months ago, so I blocked all stories by samzenpus. Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
Re:Please get rid of this.
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RingDev
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Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
You haven't already?
-- "Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Apparently I'm the only guy on slashdot who likes babies, super heroes, and parodies.
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You can't take the sky from me...
Re:Whoa, hatefest!
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jdoverholt
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Seconded. I love those eTrade commercials, too. They're better than actually having kids because I only have to deal with them for 30 seconds at a time and they're always cracking wise.
Seconded. I love those [redacted] commercials, too.
Ah! You've been spammed with something similar to this... THERE's your problem. The only regular exposure I have to those ads is you people, propagating their brand capitalization of your own free will. I just lol'd at the terrorist bunnies and thought the production values were sharp without cringing at the memory of spam at the first sign of a CGI'd baby.
Wait... I thought those television CGI babies talked? I remember that because it annoyed me.
for 30 seconds at a time and they're always cracking wise.
Riiiight, that. I'm not a fan of that, I think it's creepy. Then again I thought the movie Cars was creepy... who built those machines? And what happened to them?
Nope, you are not. I thought this vid was funny and cute. I would have had him fighting some more realistic villain, such as the ever evil Nanny. Oh and had him getting it on with some milk-a-holic floozy at the beginning of the clip.
Then again I thought the movie Cars was creepy... who built those machines? And what happened to them?
Obviously they are the descendants of the Autobots a couple millennia after they finally defeated the Decepticons and eliminated the annoying human inhabitants of this planet.
My goodness, the only thing worse than lame articles on/. is the people whose time is way too important to read lame articles, but not, apparently too important to whine about lame articles.
I liked the video. I thought it was funny. But even if I hadn't, if I took the time to complain about all the things on/., or anywhere else, I thought were pointless, I would have any time to do anything but whine.
-- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
You see, there is a very popular movie sequel out this summer called Iron Man 2 based on a comic book of the same name. It's about a rich guy who builds a suit that flies and beats up bad guys.
In an attempt to parody the movie, some people replaced "Man" with "Baby" and made a short clip that resembles the movie in many ways, including the suit and fighting bad guys.
But with a baby.
If you are still confused, try google.
-- The world is made by those who show up for the job.
I hate this garbage with a passion. I guess I'm supposed to believe it's cute, but it just looks awkward and creepy. A baby is cute because it does baby things, not because it runs around doing things an adult would do. This is even worse than those obnoxious Etrade commercials but admittedly not quite as bad as Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
It's For the Children?
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LifesABeach
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This could have been more interesting if it was discussed as to how the movie was made, or a web site on how one could do it themselves? And, I think I'll stay with Ameritrade.
I disagree. Slashdot editors need to be free to try new things, experiment, see what works and what doesn't; however, idle shit needs to stay idle, and if you think the editors have messed up, you should give them the needed feedback.
-- Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Sense of humor = 0
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Nitewing98
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Geez, you guys are grumpy in the morning. Get a cup of coffee (or stop drinking coffee). This is funny. Anyone that can't see that is suffering from a severe lack of humanity.
Hey, IRON BABY! You're welcome to come to my house and take care of that stupid dog next door any time. Rock on!
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Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
Re:Sense of humor = 0
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rotide
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This site isn't about funny video clips someone found. There are tons of sites devoted to compiling funny video clips.
This "article" was nothing more than kdawson enjoying a video and posting it to the front page. There was no commentary/summary included besides "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.". This tells me nothing about it. This tells me nothing about why it's on the page. I have no information as to why it's _any_ type of "news".
This front page "article" was nothing more than what I typically find in a humorous work email where a co-worker found a video he thinks I might enjoy.
Slashdot, last I checked, was about news or something resembling it. It's about intelligent (at least respective to other sites) discussion about the article/summary/information/technology. Slashdot is not about posting a cute video you want to share with people.
If you want to do that, that's fine, but find a "news" angle with it. Maybe this was made by a college kid with free software. Maybe it's a project to raise awareness about something, I don't know. But if the editor merely wants to post a video with the text "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.", submit it to Ebaumsworld or another "joke" site.
We're "grumpy" because this was a sheer and utter waste on Slashdot. Ya, Slashdot can be considered a waste of time on someones scale of relevancy to life, I get that. But Slashdot is a site we go to to learn, not have "cute" videos pushed to the front page. The problem is that now we have precedent that a cute enough video with no summary will be front page material. Why not cut to the chase and just have every other "article" be a funny picture, say a lolcat that kdawson found amusing and then later they can put up the video of the redneck rollercoaster because they thought that was hilarious.
No, you're right, it's not about RANDOM video clips. This, however, involves both comics (a known geek-related item) and some high-tech wizardry (also within geek purview). This isn't "Aunt Linda drops the potato salad." There are relevant aspects to this post that speak for themselves. Seriously, not sure what prompted such a backlash. It's not like/. is going to become YouTube.
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Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
There is no link, no movie
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Culture20
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How am I supposed to watch a baby superhero parody without a link? There wasn't even movie or a summary. it's a one sentence page. kdawson needs a severe reprimand. Sic 'im Taco.
Re:There is no link, no movie
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hesiod
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The "Watch Video" link seemed pretty clear to me.
Re:There is no link, no movie
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Culture20
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The "Watch Video" link seemed pretty clear to me.
Not to me; I'm looking at it from a different computer now, and it still has no "Watch Video" link. FF 3.6.3
This is what I see:
Idle: Iron Baby on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
Posted by kdawson on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
from the energizer-bunnies-beware dept.
I see a lot of baby hating going on here. I think it's cuz it reminds slashdotters how babies are made and how they don't do that activity. So chill and remember: The babies of today will bury you tomorrow.
-- I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Re:Stup The Hell Up, Haters
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aicrules
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And if you don't like his comment about you commetning about not wanting this crap posted, then don't read his comments about you commenting about not wanting this crap posted. And if you don't like me commenting about you commenting about him commenting about you commenting that you don't like this crap being posted on slashdot....then divide by zero
Re:Stup The Hell Up, Haters
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pudge
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The short film is directed by Patrick Boivin, and it seems to have nothing to do with the original movie. It is amazing how a small team can make such high quality film that look almost the same as the real movie.
Re:Stup The Hell Up, Haters
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aicrules
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You obviously meant to reply to the parent of my comment, since he was the one putting himself above other people. I was merely poiting out his obvious hypocrisy in doing so. Try again!
telling someone to stop polluting the comment section whilst telling someone they don't have to participate is not hypocritical.
Correct.
However, telling someone to not whine, while whining; telling them to not watch and comment something they don't like, while reading and commenting on something they don't like; etc.... that obviously is hypocritical. Let's be adults and not pretend otherwise, mmmmkay?
if you don't like idle...
I never implied, in any way whatsoever, I didn't like idle. Indeed, I read idle often, and thus it is entirely analagous to the comments. I can't know a particular idle story/video/link/etc. will be dumb until I've read/watched it.
Nor did I even imply I didn't like this particular story. What I said is that I didn't like the movie the story linked to. I think the story is fine, as it gives me the opportunity to say how much I hate the movie.
The little movie is technically proficient, and of very good quality. But it's DUMB and ANNOYING. Babies doing adult things is stupid. Look Who's Talking is the most evil film of all time because it gave us talking babies and the rebirth of John Travolta.
Good Clean American Fun
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Somebody did this in their spare time? I say pretty impressive, even if it is silly. The comments would probably be more favorable if it was Jedi Baby, or Star Trek Baby.
Iron Baby yer my hero! Now please go blast my obnoxious neighbors out of the galaxy!! And to all of you whining in the closet rabbit lovers to heck with the lot of ya!! Iron Baby ROX!! LMAO!! Where the hell is yer sense of humor you gaggle of insensitive clods??!!
-- Sig?! Sig?! We don't need no stinking sig!!
Production quality
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ok so it IS a joke without a punchline and another weird-baby thing... but this is not a baby's face plastered on existing scenes.
Ok, it was clever in a sort of averagey way, not massively funny or amusing. No Iron Nappy being changed or the kid being sick in the suit or anything that would cause it to go viral in the way that bodily fluids do.
Maybe it was just a part of someone's college project or something.
Should have known straightaway that this was made by Patrick Boivin, he is quite the artist. Check out his Stopmotion work on Youtube, it's very well done!
Re:Stup The Hell Up, Haters
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couchslug
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If you like that shit go elsewhere to wallow in it. This is a geek site, that bullshit doesn't belong here. Go to Ebaumsworld where you belong.
-- "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
This video is not available in your country.
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roman_mir
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In Germany here is what shows when you try to watch the video: This video is not available in your country.
I don't think too many proxies would be to happy to have to pump youtube videos through.
This whole 'you cannot watch it in this country or in that country' is ridiculous.
Slashdot Mirror
I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults in some ways. This is like the worst commercials ever made -- the etrade commercials -- on crack.
Look. I know this is idle. I'm aware of that. But of all the literally hundreds of awesome stories in the Firehose to put on the front page, you chose this?
Fail. Epic fucking fail.
Living With a Nerd
This.
Idle.
kdawson.
I have Idle specifically blocked in my preferences. That seems to have ceased to function as of a few months ago, so I blocked all stories by samzenpus. Do I now have to block kdawson as well?
Idle or not, this is a waste of electrons to include on /.
My other sig is clever.
to have /. show only things posted on /. that aren't a complete goddamn waste of time, and it redirected me to "about:blank"
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Apparently I'm the only guy on slashdot who likes babies, super heroes, and parodies.
You can't take the sky from me...
My goodness, the only thing worse than lame articles on /. is the people whose time is way too important to read lame articles, but not, apparently too important to whine about lame articles.
I liked the video. I thought it was funny. But even if I hadn't, if I took the time to complain about all the things on /., or anywhere else, I thought were pointless, I would have any time to do anything but whine.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
What I said in the title, WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!
I hate this garbage with a passion. I guess I'm supposed to believe it's cute, but it just looks awkward and creepy. A baby is cute because it does baby things, not because it runs around doing things an adult would do. This is even worse than those obnoxious Etrade commercials but admittedly not quite as bad as Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
The slashdotter tears, they are delicious.
This could have been more interesting if it was discussed as to how the movie was made, or a web site on how one could do it themselves? And, I think I'll stay with Ameritrade.
Babies don't need to build a suit to unleash the ultimate weapon.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Really this is the worst thing I've ever seen posted on this site in the over 10 years I've been a daily visitor.
It's funny. Laugh.
I disagree. Slashdot editors need to be free to try new things, experiment, see what works and what doesn't; however, idle shit needs to stay idle, and if you think the editors have messed up, you should give them the needed feedback.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Geez, you guys are grumpy in the morning. Get a cup of coffee (or stop drinking coffee). This is funny. Anyone that can't see that is suffering from a severe lack of humanity. Hey, IRON BABY! You're welcome to come to my house and take care of that stupid dog next door any time. Rock on!
Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
How am I supposed to watch a baby superhero parody without a link? There wasn't even movie or a summary. it's a one sentence page. kdawson needs a severe reprimand. Sic 'im Taco.
If you don't like it, don't frickin' watch it, and don't whine like little bitches in the comments.
Back at you: if you don't like our comments, don't read them, and don't whine like a little bitch about them in the comments.
You'd think you could find a better way to compensate for your shitty lives without dumping on someone who actually has talent.
You'd think you could find a better way to compensate for your shitty life without dumping on someone who actually has a thoughtful opinion.
Leave the ansty, I'm-so-cool shit to the emo teenagers. It's getting tired.
Leave the ansty, I'm-so-cool shit to the emo teenagers. It's getting tired.
I logged in just for the reason that I want to block kdawson and idle. How can I do this?
I see a lot of baby hating going on here. I think it's cuz it reminds slashdotters how babies are made and how they don't do that activity. So chill and remember: The babies of today will bury you tomorrow.
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and certainly not "stuff that matters"
But definitely well-done.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
And if you don't like his comment about you commetning about not wanting this crap posted, then don't read his comments about you commenting about not wanting this crap posted. And if you don't like me commenting about you commenting about him commenting about you commenting that you don't like this crap being posted on slashdot....then divide by zero
I'M JUST KEEPING IT REAL, YO
The short film is directed by Patrick Boivin, and it seems to have nothing to do with the original movie. It is amazing how a small team can make such high quality film that look almost the same as the real movie.
No joke, keep on keepin it
eot.
Get off your high horse
You obviously meant to reply to the parent of my comment, since he was the one putting himself above other people. I was merely poiting out his obvious hypocrisy in doing so. Try again!
For reals.
telling someone to stop polluting the comment section whilst telling someone they don't have to participate is not hypocritical.
Correct.
However, telling someone to not whine, while whining; telling them to not watch and comment something they don't like, while reading and commenting on something they don't like; etc. ... that obviously is hypocritical. Let's be adults and not pretend otherwise, mmmmkay?
if you don't like idle ...
I never implied, in any way whatsoever, I didn't like idle. Indeed, I read idle often, and thus it is entirely analagous to the comments. I can't know a particular idle story/video/link/etc. will be dumb until I've read/watched it.
Nor did I even imply I didn't like this particular story. What I said is that I didn't like the movie the story linked to. I think the story is fine, as it gives me the opportunity to say how much I hate the movie.
The little movie is technically proficient, and of very good quality. But it's DUMB and ANNOYING. Babies doing adult things is stupid. Look Who's Talking is the most evil film of all time because it gave us talking babies and the rebirth of John Travolta.
Somebody did this in their spare time? I say pretty impressive, even if it is silly. The comments would probably be more favorable if it was Jedi Baby, or Star Trek Baby.
Want to try something new?
Wanna try removing kdawson from slashdot?
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
Wow, you just regurgitated his post back you him. That's bloody brilliant.
"Brilliant" is the wrong word. "Sufficient" is the correct one.
Iron Baby yer my hero! Now please go blast my obnoxious neighbors out of the galaxy!! And to all of you whining in the closet rabbit lovers to heck with the lot of ya!! Iron Baby ROX!! LMAO!! Where the hell is yer sense of humor you gaggle of insensitive clods??!!
Sig?! Sig?! We don't need no stinking sig!!
ok so it IS a joke without a punchline and another weird-baby thing... but this is not a baby's face plastered on existing scenes.
This is very impressive production quality.
Ok, it was clever in a sort of averagey way, not massively funny or amusing. No Iron Nappy being changed or the kid being sick in the suit or anything that would cause it to go viral in the way that bodily fluids do.
Maybe it was just a part of someone's college project or something.
Should have known straightaway that this was made by Patrick Boivin, he is quite the artist. Check out his Stopmotion work on Youtube, it's very well done!
If you like that shit go elsewhere to wallow in it. This is a geek site, that bullshit doesn't belong here. Go to Ebaumsworld where you belong.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
In Germany here is what shows when you try to watch the video: This video is not available in your country.
I don't think too many proxies would be to happy to have to pump youtube videos through.
This whole 'you cannot watch it in this country or in that country' is ridiculous.
You can't handle the truth.
pampers...?
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