Yeah, but then you have the problem of the "ball" jumping up and biting into some poor guy's head. The next thing you know you've got a casino full of zombies running around and eating the cocktail waitresses - and have you ever tried to bludgeon a zombie with a croupier's rake? It's no crowbar, that's for damned sure.
You know what, I agree. Rape isn't funny. And yet every morning when I wake up to an inbox that has a 99-1 ratio of spam to real mail, all I can think about is hitting Alan Ralsky (or Bubba, or Scott Richter, et al) in the face with a sock full of nickels. And you know what? I'm not exaggerating. I'm a fairly well-adjusted guy, I'm not prone to violence, haven't been in a physical altercation in 15 years, but I'd beat the living shit out of a spammer in a minute. Wouldn't feel badly about it afterwards, either. Being a spammer is lower than the people who park in handicapped spaces. They know we don't want the mail, they know we don't want the products, they know we've taken measures to block their messages... so they work around it - again and again and again. Spammers are like someone who rings your doorbell once a minute, 24 hours a day, and then when you open the door there's a sign on the porch that says "Hi! I'm a thoughtless asshole!" I hate them, I despise them, I wish savage violence upon all of them, and I'm specifically posting this as non-AC in the hopes that one of them reads this message and realises what they're turning regular, happy people into. And even more than that, I'm wondering how I'll react when a major spammer's home address gets published on the net and then the place burns down... 'cause there'll probably be giggling involved, and I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad person.
Not at all. First off, there's the matter of chemical contamination of the "sample" we're trying to dislodge from the comet. Secondly, it would deprive us of the following conversation.
NASA tech #1: So what are we launching at that comet? NASA tech #2: Golden bathtub. NASA tech #1: THEY BOUGHT IT? NASA tech #2: Totally. NASA tech #1: So what do we try next? NASA tech #2: Golden bust of Paris Hilton having sex with Wilt Chamberlain. NASA tech #1: Awesome...
"Oh wait, I just got another sixty five messages asking if I wanted to buy a R0L3X. I'd kick Alan Ralsky in the nuts if the fat bastard was standing in front of me."
...that uses the phrase "Killographic Entertainment."
Seriously.
Reading their website makes my brain shut off as fast as any game that promises to be "extreme" and "in my face with an attitude!" I'm betting that most of their supporters are people who would really like to have children of their own to protect, but can't figure out how to do it without subjecting themselves to all the nudity and squishy wetness that making babies requires.
Riiiiight. Show me a DM that looks like that and I'll show you a game with 67 guys packed into a basement, each one of them trying to roll a d20 and look sexy at the same time.
"Soooo, lady DM - what'cha doing after I slay this gelatinous cube? Want to come over for some Cheez Doodles and the latest Next Gen DVD?"
And it's also pretty telling that I just deleted Doom III after playing it for two days. After the 653,000th time I walked into a room, the lights went off, and forty things I couldn't see beat the crap out of me I finally realised that I was bored out of my skull. The only thing that kept me going as long as it did was the fact that everything in D3 is just so damned (heh) beautiful! I can't wait for games/mods based on the engine, but the actual Doom experience left me disappointed. All that time and money, and... feh.
So what am I playing now?
The Infocom "Hitch-Hiker's Guide..." game. What was the budget on that one?
Sure, I'm doing it while downloading Half-Life 2, but you see my point.
> Pushing a movie back due to competition means your movie sucks.
Unless, of course, your competition is the last(?) installment of Star Wars. Who in their right mind is going to open another sci-fi movie against that? This way they push Serenity back a few months until Star Wars has run its course and everyone's hungry for a good space movie. And with only a $40M budget, I think Serenity is going to turn out to be a solid hit at the box office that goes on to an even better life on DVD.
Depth, maturity, characterization, you name it. It has an epic storyline that isn't just padded out for the sake of making the series longer. It has believable, interesting, flawed, and layered characters. It might be the best job ever of creating a world with superheroes and villains that still seems like it could be happening right around us. Seriously - go read it. And while you're at it, pick up the X-Men graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills." I still read that once or twice a year.
The bastardized DVD release of "E.T." was digitally edited. The government agents who storm the house to find E.T. now carry walkie-talkies instead of handguns. Spielberg had his Lucas moment and we're all worse off for it...
"You've been served" is a combination reference. "To be served" is to receive formal notice that you are being sued. "You got served!" is a rarely used phrase in the American hip-hop community that basically means "You got shown up in public!" or "I bet you feel stupid for bragging that you're the best, since that six-year-old girl just made you look like an idiot!" It's a rarely-used phrase because there was a seriously embarrassing movie released with the same name. It's even funnier because the movie was supposed to make a major star out of the lead actor Omarion, who quit his mediocre R&B band B2K on the assumption (and reassurances of his manager/father) that this movie would make him a breakout singer/actor/astrophysicist multimedia talent. The movie came out, tankality ensued, and now "You got served!" is pretty much a punchline.
Could be worse - they could have followed the tech industry model and outsourced everything to India.
"Coming this summer to a theater near you, 'Mission Impossible 3' starring Tom Cruise!! (as portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan). Costarring Star Wars' Jake Lloyd! (as portrayed by a bowl of warm curry.)"
BOY! I sure want ONE of those! I wonder if the headphone WIRE is colored - if not, I'll have to PAINT IT BLACK. If I had a black iPod I'd sure take PRIDE in it. I wonder if it comes in 40 gig? Y'know, I got a white iPod once and it was a LEMON. Now that I think about it, I guess an iPod isn't really what I want. Great... I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
(Go ahead. Mod me down. I'll still laugh at it... WITH OR WITHOUT YOU!)
...using Steam to get HL2 vs. buying it retail? If I recall correctly you can only get the package that includes the Source rework of HL1 via online purchase and I *really* want that, but I still don't like the idea of dropping $50 or so on a game and not getting anything physical to hang on to. I know it's old-fashioned, but I still like having a backup copy to hang on to just in case my drive dies or something.
...please allow me to pimp two of my favorite anti-spam projects. First is the Unsolicited Commando squadron. UC is a happy little Java app that sits on your desktop and spends its days merrily filling out forms on spamvertised sites with perfectly real-looking (and yet completely bogus) data. Run one on your machine and help drive another mortgage spammer out of business! The second place I'd like to point you to is a spam vampire site. This is a webpage (IE only for now, but source is available and hopefully being ported to MozFireOperaSafariFox soon) that attacks spamvertised sites and reloads their graphics over and over and over and *over* again all day long. Basically it's the Slashdot effect put to good use. Burn up a spammer's bandwidth and... well, hopefully you'll have their children out on the street and doing vile things for money before long.
Enjoy!!
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but then you have the problem of the "ball" jumping up and biting into some poor guy's head. The next thing you know you've got a casino full of zombies running around and eating the cocktail waitresses - and have you ever tried to bludgeon a zombie with a croupier's rake? It's no crowbar, that's for damned sure.
Oh... wait.
"Hermit" crab?
Never mind...
You put it in your sig? Awesome. We need to get more people to do that...
This is close to what you're looking for. (It's IE only, though.)
You know what, I agree. Rape isn't funny. And yet every morning when I wake up to an inbox that has a 99-1 ratio of spam to real mail, all I can think about is hitting Alan Ralsky (or Bubba, or Scott Richter, et al) in the face with a sock full of nickels. And you know what? I'm not exaggerating. I'm a fairly well-adjusted guy, I'm not prone to violence, haven't been in a physical altercation in 15 years, but I'd beat the living shit out of a spammer in a minute. Wouldn't feel badly about it afterwards, either. Being a spammer is lower than the people who park in handicapped spaces. They know we don't want the mail, they know we don't want the products, they know we've taken measures to block their messages... so they work around it - again and again and again. Spammers are like someone who rings your doorbell once a minute, 24 hours a day, and then when you open the door there's a sign on the porch that says "Hi! I'm a thoughtless asshole!" I hate them, I despise them, I wish savage violence upon all of them, and I'm specifically posting this as non-AC in the hopes that one of them reads this message and realises what they're turning regular, happy people into. And even more than that, I'm wondering how I'll react when a major spammer's home address gets published on the net and then the place burns down... 'cause there'll probably be giggling involved, and I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad person.
This isn't a screensaver, but it's close. (It's also non MozOperaFox compatible, but if it costs Ralsky money I'll live with IE for this one task.)
Not at all. First off, there's the matter of chemical contamination of the "sample" we're trying to dislodge from the comet. Secondly, it would deprive us of the following conversation.
NASA tech #1: So what are we launching at that comet?
NASA tech #2: Golden bathtub.
NASA tech #1: THEY BOUGHT IT?
NASA tech #2: Totally.
NASA tech #1: So what do we try next?
NASA tech #2: Golden bust of Paris Hilton having sex with Wilt Chamberlain.
NASA tech #1: Awesome...
"Oh wait, I just got another sixty five messages asking if I wanted to buy a R0L3X. I'd kick Alan Ralsky in the nuts if the fat bastard was standing in front of me."
- M.K. Gandhi
Seriously.
Reading their website makes my brain shut off as fast as any game that promises to be "extreme" and "in my face with an attitude!" I'm betting that most of their supporters are people who would really like to have children of their own to protect, but can't figure out how to do it without subjecting themselves to all the nudity and squishy wetness that making babies requires.
Riiiiight. Show me a DM that looks like that and I'll show you a game with 67 guys packed into a basement, each one of them trying to roll a d20 and look sexy at the same time.
"Soooo, lady DM - what'cha doing after I slay this gelatinous cube? Want to come over for some Cheez Doodles and the latest Next Gen DVD?"
And it's also pretty telling that I just deleted Doom III after playing it for two days. After the 653,000th time I walked into a room, the lights went off, and forty things I couldn't see beat the crap out of me I finally realised that I was bored out of my skull. The only thing that kept me going as long as it did was the fact that everything in D3 is just so damned (heh) beautiful! I can't wait for games/mods based on the engine, but the actual Doom experience left me disappointed. All that time and money, and... feh.
So what am I playing now?
The Infocom "Hitch-Hiker's Guide..." game. What was the budget on that one?
Sure, I'm doing it while downloading Half-Life 2, but you see my point.
> I'm in two minds
Zaphod? Is that you?
> Pushing a movie back due to competition means your movie sucks.
Unless, of course, your competition is the last(?) installment of Star Wars. Who in their right mind is going to open another sci-fi movie against that? This way they push Serenity back a few months until Star Wars has run its course and everyone's hungry for a good space movie. And with only a $40M budget, I think Serenity is going to turn out to be a solid hit at the box office that goes on to an even better life on DVD.
Depth, maturity, characterization, you name it. It has an epic storyline that isn't just padded out for the sake of making the series longer. It has believable, interesting, flawed, and layered characters. It might be the best job ever of creating a world with superheroes and villains that still seems like it could be happening right around us. Seriously - go read it. And while you're at it, pick up the X-Men graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills." I still read that once or twice a year.
The bastardized DVD release of "E.T." was digitally edited. The government agents who storm the house to find E.T. now carry walkie-talkies instead of handguns. Spielberg had his Lucas moment and we're all worse off for it...
Keith? Keith Emerson? Are you in there?
You like me! You like me at an improbability level of three to the power of 326,000-to-1 against! You really like me!
"You've been served" is a combination reference. "To be served" is to receive formal notice that you are being sued. "You got served!" is a rarely used phrase in the American hip-hop community that basically means "You got shown up in public!" or "I bet you feel stupid for bragging that you're the best, since that six-year-old girl just made you look like an idiot!" It's a rarely-used phrase because there was a seriously embarrassing movie released with the same name. It's even funnier because the movie was supposed to make a major star out of the lead actor Omarion, who quit his mediocre R&B band B2K on the assumption (and reassurances of his manager/father) that this movie would make him a breakout singer/actor/astrophysicist multimedia talent. The movie came out, tankality ensued, and now "You got served!" is pretty much a punchline.
Could be worse - they could have followed the tech industry model and outsourced everything to India.
"Coming this summer to a theater near you, 'Mission Impossible 3' starring Tom Cruise!! (as portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan). Costarring Star Wars' Jake Lloyd! (as portrayed by a bowl of warm curry.)"
BURMA!
Not always.
BOY! I sure want ONE of those! I wonder if the headphone WIRE is colored - if not, I'll have to PAINT IT BLACK. If I had a black iPod I'd sure take PRIDE in it. I wonder if it comes in 40 gig? Y'know, I got a white iPod once and it was a LEMON. Now that I think about it, I guess an iPod isn't really what I want. Great... I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
(Go ahead. Mod me down. I'll still laugh at it... WITH OR WITHOUT YOU!)
So what happens - he disappears ten minutes into the game and never comes back?
Good thing you AC'd that, since you've just hoisted yourself on your own "retard".