Yes - appleinsider has been tracking the same story. Funny thing to - they're 10 bucks less than your troll. (WHAT?! 70 isn't 80? - I'M SHOCKED - I'M FUCKING SHOCKED!)
Don Asmussen did a send up pretty much exactly as you described. Mondo is no longer hosting it so I mirrored it on YouTube with credit to the author his previous host.
I had to convert the ancient.swf file (farmed from an equally ancient link from the wayback archive cache circa 2003) using SnapzXpro - then convert it to Divx to avoid sound synch BS from YouTube and upload the whole 20 meg mess. Fuck RickRolls.
Just because you bought a game and are playing it however you want doesn't mean you can post it on YouTube - because no matter what you make the game do - it's not your content.
At least that's what YouTube is doing right now playing whak-a-mole with all the people trying to post their in-game footage. STOP IT YOU YARD MONKEYS! EULA CONTROLS ALL - TAKEDOWN NOTICES AT DAWN!
Seriously - what the fuck is wrong with Take 2 games? Oh noes - recordings of a nerd playing a game - holy SHIT! STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!
If you want reconfigurable games that combine new players penchant for video and video-based story lines with simpler and easier to maintain playfields they existed with Pinball 2000. I wasn't a fan of Star Wars EP1, but Revenge from Mars was excellent. At recent arcade expos those machines were never idle. But since Williams wanted nothing but gambling Stern has decided to dredge up the same old crap from the 90s which is getting more and more stale. Arcades were where we went to play new games. They died out around the time it was nothing but fighting and driving games (1980-84 was amazing - even Atari's people were forbidden to do the same old thing unless it was a mandated sequel in the late 70s and 80s). Take another dedicated crack at pinball 2000, or pack in the physics because it's tired tired tired.
Ultrapin looks promising because of lack of maintenance but the lame-ass Pinmame engine is not the way to go (physics? terrible. Lag? You bet! Playable? barely). The best video pinball I've been playing have been from LittleWing. Their most recent 2 simulations put Pinmame to shame for the amount of detail and the physics. If it was done right - then that would be it's best bet (the pinball collections from Gottleb and Williams are also far better than pinmame - but Littlewing's are over the top).
Um - no it doesn't "make the radar bounce back". Radar works by bouncing back a signal to detect. Meaning if it did - it wouldn't be invisible at all - it'd be working with radar just dandy. It deflects the radar's signal to produce a much smaller return signal. Meaning it was never "invisible" but had a small enough cross-section to be regarded as a non-threat.
The comments to that blog have turned into a reunion of the former members of the IF culture. It's a fine read into itself - as well as rather heated in places.
When Kent State went down - people were horrified and changes occurred. When the Soviets used tanks against their own people - the people changed the govt. When the PRC uses tanks on it's own - it's "business as usual".
There's several copies that may lack the edit around the turret scene (even with the edit - a Molotov would produce SOME fire and smoke), but I'm old enough to remember it as it was happening (basically the guy was shouting for a long time into the open turret). Aside from the fact that the man has both hands being used to climb the vehicle, which kind of makes chucking a firebomb tricky at best - it's warm and fuzzy to hear the lies from the PRC. Not surprising tho.
Ya the USA is far from perfect (really far with the current administration) but regardless of current and past blunders - there's one key difference. We can - and will - dissent. We can criticize, write, protest - you name it. Doesn't always change things - but it's a nice tool from time to time. I particularly like when the PRC raises US history as if they knew dick-all what they were talking about (Hawaii, the American Indians, the war with Mexico etc*). Was it neat and tidy? Hardly. Does it justify their actions? They'd sure love to think it does - and often tout these examples to support why they can make a pile of dead Tibetans - today.
(*Congressional investigation and orders from the White House to re-instate the Monarchy in Hawaii went ignored - Congressional mandates for an apology followed - not to mention the vote for statehood which of course they could have refused like Puerto Rico. The fact that the American Indians were at war with the US in several occasions but now manage 55 million acres of sovern land (you want to talk about indigenous folk getting screwed - NOW - let's talk Aborigine - they are still getting screwed in Australia right now). The fact that the Southwest was acquired after a mutually declared war with our neighbor to the south - and we didn't come out smelling like a rose from that war either (alamo?))
After our blunders we've had public retractions, apologies, changes in process, laws, and even museums dedicated to our past mistakes. I don't see the PRC doing this anytime soon. Does a museum correct past mistakes? Probably not - but I wasn't there at the time, and history is a messy business (If I was being hunted by plains Indians, I'm sure I'd feel differently about the whole mess). But at least we own up to our mistakes. I don't see the PRC doing anything of the kind - ever. Lest they lose face - which of course is easily worth a few thousand - or million - bodies. I still don't see Japan recognizing their role in the rape of Nanking either.
And this isn't some "asian" code of conduct. There's plenty of progressive ones like Singapore and Vietnam. And you want to talk about a country that should hate our American guts - it'd be Vietnam. Instead they've been outspoken in their overtures to us and cooperating with Vets. Vietnam's tact and overt courtesy has impressed even one of our front-runners for the Oval Office - even after serving 5.5 years in their prison camps! (he was one of the most outspoken proponents for the normalization of relations with Vietnam - this isn't an ad for him - but I used to live in Arizona so I might as well put any bias up front. I mostly like him because most far-right wing radio commentators hate him - which is good enough for me. Pity about the age thing tho).
I love the Hawaii argument because it screams "I don't know shit about history".
Lessie -the PRESIDENT OF THE US called for the reinstatement of the Queen, congressional inquiries that called the new govt illegal, apologies by congress etc. Here's the neat part - for every transgression in the US, we can - and have - freely protested it. Didn't always effect the outcome we wanted, (the remote interm govt in Hawaii ignored orders from the US govt to resign for instance) but we CAN protest. Chinese can do FUCK ALL. So do what your govt tells you to do and STFU.
Oh btw - Europe also took a not-insignificant role in Europe - but again Chinese dumbshits haven't known basic history since the cultural revolution. I'd pity them but they seem to enjoy celebrating their festival of ignorance.
Probably because the plight is still under wraps. The information we've gotten to date has really been pretty sparse and it seems to be harder to openly support actions that even the Dali Lama has been outspoken against. I sympathize with the fact that the people reacting today are young and have been detached from the Lama for several DECADES and are living in the thick of it and are not expatriates in another area, but I'm not one to say - "yea - go for it - stick it to the man" - because fuck-all good it did in 1989.
It can be best summed up in the famous tank photo. That photo of a man standing in front of the tanks heading to Tiananmen Square has been oft-touted as a photo that "changed the world". But that's always been bullshit. It didn't change a damn thing and was a harbinger of what was about to happen which was total suppression and annihilation. When the tanks moved against their own people in Russia - THAT was a game-changer. In China - it's business as usual and whether you position yourself in front of tanks or type in blogs and forums - it's not going to change anything. Sorry - but it's not.
Now, it's fun to embarrass them on the world stage, and watch them lose face. Probably why I'm going to watch the protesters in San Francisco when that stupid torch comes through with more than a little glee. It's also fun to bait them online for being such idiots because they have been utterly removed from any and all historical data on their govt on the various forums they have been spamming recently. But I don't think for a minute that it's going to change dick.
I was recently trying to find a link to the classic internet meme Zombo.com. Of course they nuked it. I suppose when something falls out of fashion it'll be gone. We all know that fashion is more important than info.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes - appleinsider has been tracking the same story. Funny thing to - they're 10 bucks less than your troll. (WHAT?! 70 isn't 80? - I'M SHOCKED - I'M FUCKING SHOCKED!)
A priest putting aside logic, studies, science and statistics for pontificating whatever he feels like spouting to control the masses?
I'M SHOCKED! Shocked I say! How could a man of the cloth do such a thing! I ASK YOU!
The best part of that joke? The wiki entry is still accurate.
What? A dork who hasn't done anything but generate PR sheets for 30 years - ISN'T - unveiling technology that is going to change the industry?
Say it isn't so!
Don Asmussen did a send up pretty much exactly as you described. Mondo is no longer hosting it so I mirrored it on YouTube with credit to the author his previous host.
.swf file (farmed from an equally ancient link from the wayback archive cache circa 2003) using SnapzXpro - then convert it to Divx to avoid sound synch BS from YouTube and upload the whole 20 meg mess. Fuck RickRolls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ8a-1z2cQE
I had to convert the ancient
Enjoy.
Oh noes - pitty the best comments on earthquakes in China come from it's own. Here's a fine one from Madame Mao in 1976:
There were merely several hundred thousand deaths. So what? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake
So what indeed.
Not sure about the power. Size reports are about the same for the 2. Of course the amount of time that shaking took place is another matter.
Just because you bought a game and are playing it however you want doesn't mean you can post it on YouTube - because no matter what you make the game do - it's not your content.
At least that's what YouTube is doing right now playing whak-a-mole with all the people trying to post their in-game footage. STOP IT YOU YARD MONKEYS! EULA CONTROLS ALL - TAKEDOWN NOTICES AT DAWN!
Seriously - what the fuck is wrong with Take 2 games? Oh noes - recordings of a nerd playing a game - holy SHIT! STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!
No workie on OSX Intel. Too old. Mine however is a little newer and has a classic table design.
If you want reconfigurable games that combine new players penchant for video and video-based story lines with simpler and easier to maintain playfields they existed with Pinball 2000. I wasn't a fan of Star Wars EP1, but Revenge from Mars was excellent. At recent arcade expos those machines were never idle. But since Williams wanted nothing but gambling Stern has decided to dredge up the same old crap from the 90s which is getting more and more stale. Arcades were where we went to play new games. They died out around the time it was nothing but fighting and driving games (1980-84 was amazing - even Atari's people were forbidden to do the same old thing unless it was a mandated sequel in the late 70s and 80s). Take another dedicated crack at pinball 2000, or pack in the physics because it's tired tired tired.
Ultrapin looks promising because of lack of maintenance but the lame-ass Pinmame engine is not the way to go (physics? terrible. Lag? You bet! Playable? barely). The best video pinball I've been playing have been from LittleWing. Their most recent 2 simulations put Pinmame to shame for the amount of detail and the physics. If it was done right - then that would be it's best bet (the pinball collections from Gottleb and Williams are also far better than pinmame - but Littlewing's are over the top).
upwards = deflect
reflect thin lines = small cross section
Thanks for saying the same thing.
Um - no it doesn't "make the radar bounce back". Radar works by bouncing back a signal to detect. Meaning if it did - it wouldn't be invisible at all - it'd be working with radar just dandy. It deflects the radar's signal to produce a much smaller return signal. Meaning it was never "invisible" but had a small enough cross-section to be regarded as a non-threat.
The comments to that blog have turned into a reunion of the former members of the IF culture. It's a fine read into itself - as well as rather heated in places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJBnHMpHGRY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyj-3S_ulvI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9T10WLF3w
Or worse - typical.
When Kent State went down - people were horrified and changes occurred. When the Soviets used tanks against their own people - the people changed the govt. When the PRC uses tanks on it's own - it's "business as usual".
They do have a flight simulator. Perhaps someone enterprising could come up with some middleware to make a shooter.
I recall the video - in fact if you're not behind the great-firewall, you can You Tube it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ&feature=related
There's several copies that may lack the edit around the turret scene (even with the edit - a Molotov would produce SOME fire and smoke), but I'm old enough to remember it as it was happening (basically the guy was shouting for a long time into the open turret). Aside from the fact that the man has both hands being used to climb the vehicle, which kind of makes chucking a firebomb tricky at best - it's warm and fuzzy to hear the lies from the PRC. Not surprising tho.
Ya the USA is far from perfect (really far with the current administration) but regardless of current and past blunders - there's one key difference. We can - and will - dissent. We can criticize, write, protest - you name it. Doesn't always change things - but it's a nice tool from time to time. I particularly like when the PRC raises US history as if they knew dick-all what they were talking about (Hawaii, the American Indians, the war with Mexico etc*). Was it neat and tidy? Hardly. Does it justify their actions? They'd sure love to think it does - and often tout these examples to support why they can make a pile of dead Tibetans - today.
(*Congressional investigation and orders from the White House to re-instate the Monarchy in Hawaii went ignored - Congressional mandates for an apology followed - not to mention the vote for statehood which of course they could have refused like Puerto Rico. The fact that the American Indians were at war with the US in several occasions but now manage 55 million acres of sovern land (you want to talk about indigenous folk getting screwed - NOW - let's talk Aborigine - they are still getting screwed in Australia right now). The fact that the Southwest was acquired after a mutually declared war with our neighbor to the south - and we didn't come out smelling like a rose from that war either (alamo?))
After our blunders we've had public retractions, apologies, changes in process, laws, and even museums dedicated to our past mistakes. I don't see the PRC doing this anytime soon. Does a museum correct past mistakes? Probably not - but I wasn't there at the time, and history is a messy business (If I was being hunted by plains Indians, I'm sure I'd feel differently about the whole mess). But at least we own up to our mistakes. I don't see the PRC doing anything of the kind - ever. Lest they lose face - which of course is easily worth a few thousand - or million - bodies. I still don't see Japan recognizing their role in the rape of Nanking either.
And this isn't some "asian" code of conduct. There's plenty of progressive ones like Singapore and Vietnam. And you want to talk about a country that should hate our American guts - it'd be Vietnam. Instead they've been outspoken in their overtures to us and cooperating with Vets. Vietnam's tact and overt courtesy has impressed even one of our front-runners for the Oval Office - even after serving 5.5 years in their prison camps! (he was one of the most outspoken proponents for the normalization of relations with Vietnam - this isn't an ad for him - but I used to live in Arizona so I might as well put any bias up front. I mostly like him because most far-right wing radio commentators hate him - which is good enough for me. Pity about the age thing tho).
- Europe also took a not-insignificant role in Hawaii -
Got to stop speed typing before coffee...
I love the Hawaii argument because it screams "I don't know shit about history".
Lessie -the PRESIDENT OF THE US called for the reinstatement of the Queen, congressional inquiries that called the new govt illegal, apologies by congress etc. Here's the neat part - for every transgression in the US, we can - and have - freely protested it. Didn't always effect the outcome we wanted, (the remote interm govt in Hawaii ignored orders from the US govt to resign for instance) but we CAN protest. Chinese can do FUCK ALL. So do what your govt tells you to do and STFU.
Oh btw - Europe also took a not-insignificant role in Europe - but again Chinese dumbshits haven't known basic history since the cultural revolution. I'd pity them but they seem to enjoy celebrating their festival of ignorance.
Probably because the plight is still under wraps. The information we've gotten to date has really been pretty sparse and it seems to be harder to openly support actions that even the Dali Lama has been outspoken against. I sympathize with the fact that the people reacting today are young and have been detached from the Lama for several DECADES and are living in the thick of it and are not expatriates in another area, but I'm not one to say - "yea - go for it - stick it to the man" - because fuck-all good it did in 1989.
It can be best summed up in the famous tank photo. That photo of a man standing in front of the tanks heading to Tiananmen Square has been oft-touted as a photo that "changed the world". But that's always been bullshit. It didn't change a damn thing and was a harbinger of what was about to happen which was total suppression and annihilation. When the tanks moved against their own people in Russia - THAT was a game-changer. In China - it's business as usual and whether you position yourself in front of tanks or type in blogs and forums - it's not going to change anything. Sorry - but it's not.
Now, it's fun to embarrass them on the world stage, and watch them lose face. Probably why I'm going to watch the protesters in San Francisco when that stupid torch comes through with more than a little glee. It's also fun to bait them online for being such idiots because they have been utterly removed from any and all historical data on their govt on the various forums they have been spamming recently. But I don't think for a minute that it's going to change dick.
AT&T broke themselves up dumbshit.
You forgot technoviking! For shame!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsntHcWiy4
Fab - oh wait - Comcast blocks that. Oh well - too bad. So sad.
I was recently trying to find a link to the classic internet meme Zombo.com. Of course they nuked it. I suppose when something falls out of fashion it'll be gone. We all know that fashion is more important than info.
THIS IS ZOMBO.COM!
http://www.zombo.com/
you can do anything....anything at all....