SignorSuperdouche

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  1. Ridiculous

    Liking Lilly Allen directly finances terrorism. Fact.
  2. Idle Thumbs 9: The Confestabaloo

    An all out homoerotic sequel to Army of Two would be awesome. Army of Tutu.
  3. New people: Read this, say hi.

    Good, but it needs more cock-a-doodle-doo, it is an alarmcock after all. Also installMalware() doesn't seem to install any malware, you should fix that.
  4. Don't worry, you'll be dead soon too

    Hang on, the song Lola reminds this person of their mother? I'm fairly sure that song is about transvestites.
  5. A lovely christmas story!

    There are so many priceless headlines there I'd love to quote them all, but I'd like to draw particular attention to this one: MYSTERY OF WHEELCHAIR LEFT IN SHOREHAM PUB Now I've left jackets, wallets, phones etc in pubs before, but how drunk do you have to be to forget your fucking wheelchair.
  6. A lovely christmas story!

    I have to disagree. The guy resigning was the angle, but the story itself was the (allegedly) fraudulent advertising. I'm not convinced that some bloke deciding to quit has any relevance to the story at all but, even if I was, I don't think we really know more about the story for having that level of detail. What do we actually learn from all being given all the juicy details that we wouldn't have gotten from the sentence "One security guard has resigned over his concerns that the park was being fraudulently advertised."? I feel like I must be coming across like a crazy person. When this many people disagree with you you do tend to be wrong. Am I completely off the trolley here?
  7. A lovely christmas story!

    Well if nobody else is noticing it then I suppose that does lend credence to the grumpy old man theory. To the above article as an example though, does nobody else think that the parts about a family with terminally ill mother and a gentleman resigning are just there to provoke an emotional response? These facts don't really have anything to do with whether or not fraud was committed do they? Anyway, get off my lawn! EDIT: OK I've just been watching the 9 o'clock news on bbc news 24 and I was completely and entirely wrong. I don't know if I happened to keep tuning in at a weird time of day when they catered for a different audience or what, but I stand very much corrected.
  8. A lovely christmas story!

    It certainly used to be, but recently it's budget and staff have been slashed and the emphasis is far more on getting ratings than good journalism. Whenever I watch BBC news now 90% of it is human interest pap. celebrity gossip with sycophantic interviews or a daily update on who's been voted off some vacuous reality show. Or it may have always been like this and I'm the one whose changed. Changed into a grumpy old man shaking his fist and bemoaning how much better things were "In my day". I just can't tell anymore.
  9. A lovely christmas story!

    The bbc's video really pissed me off. I hate it when journalists just turn up at someone's home, hammer on their door as if they're owed an interview and then somehow suggest that it's further evidence of how much of a bastard this person is when the door is slammed in their face. It's such a cheap and easy way to paint someone as the villain.
  10. This is my favourite song of all time

    I think using one the most famous and highly regarded composers of all time is cheating a little bit.
  11. This is my favourite song of all time

    Actually that sounds pretty rock and roll. This was edging more into the 90's, but the theme to Prince Valiant is truly epic. It was so epic they later made a live action film version with Ron Perlman!
  12. What if we plot this on a graph and extrapolate the curve as much as we can? Then what pattern emerges? Well looking at the data we have so far: Week - Praise 1 - 10 2 - 10 3 - 6 4 - 5 5 - 8 6 - 5 7 - 6 Plotting that with weeks on the X axis and praise on the Y looks like this: xx----- ------- ----x-- ------- --x---x ---x-x- ------- Starting at a peak of 10 the values curve down to a trough of 5 at week 4. Week 5 shows a spike in praise before returning to it's otherwise sinusoidal pattern with weeks 6 and 7 mirroring weeks 4 and 3 respectively. Assuming this trend continues, weeks 8 and 9 should mirror weeks 2 and 1 with praise quotients of 10 each. Plotting this gives: xx-----xx --------- ----x---- --------- --x---x-- ---x-x--- --------- Clearly a smiley face is forming. I do not know what this means for sure, but it must mean something.
  13. This is my favourite song of all time

    Does anyone else think it must be a really surreal experience to go into a studio and record the theme song for a children's cartoon? I cannot imagine ever doing that as a job.
  14. Kinetic typography in games

    For me I'd say that Fringe is a prime example style over substance, and cheap imitation style at that. The characters are all kooky in lieu of having an actual personality and, from what I've seen, the plots are the same tired old tripe that similar shows have been churning out for years (and they were almost certainly cribbed from elsewhere back then). On the typography front I'd like to compare this to the X Files. On the X Files the location would come up as if written on a typewriter, as if it was part of a report, as if you were actually reading an actual X File. This makes sense thematically and adds something to the show as a whole. Fringe, on the other hand, has giant floating letters. What the hell does that have to with the rest of the show? Beyond being weird and as a substitute for depth, very little.
  15. Bootleg copies on eBay

    You're probably supporting terrorism by not reporting this guy. Next time some innocent people get blown up just remember: You could have averted the whole thing.
  16. 911 Call Transcripts

    Another fun fact is that just 99 connects to the emergency services too. The reason is that in most offices and the like you need to dial 9 for an outside line, but in an emergency people would get flustered and forget to add the extra 9.
  17. 911 Call Transcripts

    Historical reasons I expect, 112 and 911 both work though.
  18. 911 Call Transcripts

    Holy. Shit. I would never be able to cope with being one of those operators; I feel sick just reading that. Good to know video games haven't completely desensitised me yet I suppose.
  19. Kinetic typography in games

    I thought the Lord of War sequence was an excellent, well executed, idea that sat well with the rest of the film. Whilst it's more along the lines of "motion graphics", rather than specifically the typography, I really liked the titles to Carnivale http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/04/21/carnivale/
  20. Idle Thumbs 7: Stop Doing Interviews

    That looks great, stellar in fact. I can't wait to see some hot scoops in action. Has anyone made a level with Noah Heller pulling shit out of his ass yet?
  21. Kinetic typography in games

    This technique seems to be very much in fashion at the moment, in a similar way to how every film managed to shoe horn in some bullet time after the Matrix came out. Just like bullet time, as much as I like the asthetic, I just feel so over exposed to it at the moment it's really starting to turn me off. I'm not saying that it has no value beyond it's novelty, but I think that that is much of it's current appeal. Once that has worn off and people are using it sparringly and only where it is appropriate I'm sure I'll warm to it again but for now, for me it's
  22. New gaming podcast: Hatchet Job Show

    To take the thread back towards the podast for a moment, I've just listened to the episode on multi sensory stimulation and I'm hooked. They had on a fascinating chap from Oxford University, who was great on his own, but then the hosts came up with some really interesting questions for him too. The questions were really the most impressive part for me because I can never think of anything to ask someone like that until it's two weeks or so after the event. I have no idea where these guests are being pulled from but they are astonishingly good.
  23. New gaming podcast: Hatchet Job Show

    I'm not sure if this came across in my first post so to clarify: My problem was not with the techniques described by NLP, but rather the language used to describe them. The use of scientific language implies legitimacy and that the speaker has authority on the subject. I can't help but feel that this is calculated move designed to extract money (self help books, seminars etc) from vulnerable people in exactly the same way that scientology and it's pseudo-scientific jargon does. At the same time I recognise that it can be useful and clearly works for a lot of people, much in the same way that the four humors were a fairly good basis for medicine before science came along.
  24. New gaming podcast: Hatchet Job Show

    Did anyone else think that was the biggest crock of shit they'd heard since dianetics? Clearly NLP has no basis in science whatsoever.
  25. Idle Thumbs UK Episode 1: Fireside Chat

    Aside from making me giggle childishly, I also agree with the above. I think 3 is probably a good number, but how the group interacts depends on other factors too so experimentation is good. Beyond that I don't know what else to add to what's already been said. You guys know what you're talking about and are consistently interesting. Of course you're also consistently upstaged by little girls so, y'know, there's room for improvement