I Had A Random Thought...

[miffy495]

I love that I have a job where a slow day still involves reading a test where a little girl has interpreted "This is where this animal's prey breeds" as "a great place for this animal to eat babies." Kids are pretty rad.

[Brannigan]

Well, I'm jealous.

[BadHat]

eat up martha

 

Heh, it's always neat to come across jokes from the Simpsons I'd seen when I was too young or oblivious to get the reference.

 

Relatedly (from youtube related even), I had no idea this character was voiced by Johnny Cash. The joke at the end is one of my all-time favourites.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMR53zHrdzg

[Ucantalas]

Old Christmas cartoons can be really sad.

Case in point: "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" makes me cry every time I see it, and has done so every year I've watched it since I was a little kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjWvUntFLME

[tegan]

Oh shit, I haven't seen that in years. It definitely makes me cry though.

[miffy495]

Fuck, I don't even need to watch that to have trauma flashbacks to it.

[SecretAsianMan]

Tegan and I came up with an Idle Thumbs greeting (ok fine, she came up with the whole thing herself, I didn't do shit).

 

You open with "What's new, baboo?" and the response is "Nothin' puffin".

[dibs]

Is there a gang sign to flash at the same time?

[TychoCelchuuu]

probably a thumbs up?

[tegan]

three thumbs up

 

(for Killzone 2)

[Dewar]

I love that I have a job where a slow day still involves reading a test where a little girl has interpreted "This is where this animal's prey breeds" as "a great place for this animal to eat babies." Kids are pretty rad.

 

That's fairly accurate.

[Zeusthecat]

When I was a kid there were a lot of questions about God I never thought to ask:

1. If we were created in God's image then does that mean God has a digestive system?
2. If He does have a digestive system then does he get hungry and have to eat heaven food?
3. Does God digest his food and poop it out or is heaven food so perfect that there is nothing left to poop out once His body has taken all the nutrients out of it?
4. If God does poop does he go in a toilet? And is there a sewer system in heaven?
5. Does God have a blood pressure and if so what is it?
6. Does God's hair grow and if so does he have an angel barber?

[Roswell47]

What's up with fire? It's weird. Like what is it even trying to be?

[Dewar]

It's trying to take over the world.

[tegan]

Last night I realized that the Lego "Arctic" line is clearly based on The Thing, being about a bunch of be-parka'd arctic explorers finding alien life inside of frozen meteorites.

 

 

[Roswell47]

Playing 'Luchini AKA This is it' by Camp Lo on repeat is a good way to alleviate a lot of the frustration that is debugging javascript.

[Blambo]

Cricket is a complicated, intriguing game, even though its core mechanic is an extremely simple attack/defend contest.

[dibs]

SO, someone on my FB just posed from an exercise app that will read her the comments and likes that people leave on the post while she cycles around. I just posed the opening page of Emma. Tempted to post the rest of the chapter.

[Brannigan]

Post a EULA for any software.

[clyde]

I think I would benefit from going through a utopia-phase. I've been obsessing about potential distopias for a while now. I was standing here thinking "What is good subversive art?" and then I thought "What is worth subverting" (subversion is largely defined by the power-structure it is undermining). Then I thought about how I need to have a more compassionate power-structure model in mind in order to have a confident motivation. Then I thought "Oh, that's what fictional utopias are for." And then I realized that fictional utopias are inherently subversive because they encourage imagining a better way to do things. I'd like to go through a utopia phase.

[Ucantalas]

I love to watch video game "review" shows online. Things like AVGN, Spoony, JonTron, PBG, Continue?, I eat it all up. I devour these shows. 

But it was today as I was watching one about Red Dead Redemption, that I thought about something... How weird is it going to be in a like, a decade, when the games being reviewed will look like shit (in theory), but everyone has old videos talking about how everything looks "fantastic" and "beautiful" and "some of the best graphics I've ever seen". 

On the other hand maybe its not that big of a deal, and I guess something like this can be seen by reading old gaming magazines....

[tegan]

The textures everywhere are beautifully detailed--even up close. No more polygon smears. Every single itty-bitty pool tile is accounted for. The eyeball pool in Burnside is eerily realistic. Rock looks like rock, concrete looks like it would rip you to shreds to bail on--and does. It is also deep, deep, deep. There is no fog to speak of. Like the cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane (this game's motion picture counterpart), every single shot is set to deep focus and delivers. Everything in the frame is crisp as a fresh-picked apple.

[elmuerte]

Being humane is letting people suffer needlessly even though the rather end it on their own terms.

[Gormongous]

Being humane is letting people suffer needlessly even though the rather end it on their own terms.

 

Being humane is abhorring death to comical extremes despite it being one of two universal events in the life of every human.

[elmuerte]

The other one is stupidity?