Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance (Read 142180 times)

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #75 on:** January 22, 2009, 11:24:16 AM »

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Illinois-Lottery-reconsiders-contest-after-Chica?urn=nhl,135899

Illinois state lottery starts a contest in that a randomly chosen fan has a chance to win 1 million dollars if the Chicago Blackhawks score a goal at the exact 10 minute mark (not one second over or under) in every home game. It takes 5 days to pay out.

metroid composite · « **Reply #76 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:37:04 PM »

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA&eurl=
(video...sorta) Youtube Streetfighter.

http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html
(not 56k friendly) Japanese Obama toy....

http://c6.going.com/obama/inauguration_headlines.html
(not 56k friendly) newspaper front pages from Jan 20.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/mall.satellite/
(not 56k friendly) satellite images of DC on inauguration day.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/21/thomas-fuchs-and-fel.html
Parodies of the GOP symbol.

http://www.designs.valueinvestorinsight.com/bonus/pdf/T2_Housing_Analysis.pdf
Craploads of graphs about subprime mortgages.

Ultradude · « **Reply #77 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:02:14 PM »

... is it bad that I want to drop giant popsicles on that satellite view to see if they'll swarm it?

AAA · « **Reply #78 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:04:41 PM »

The amount of time and effort put into Youtube Street Fighter staggers me.

Grefter · « **Reply #79 on:** January 26, 2009, 01:28:22 PM »

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21876

Decent Gamasutra article on how to make successful PC Games. Nothing shocking to anyone with half a brain, but still a nice read. Stupid as article title though.

metroid composite · « **Reply #80 on:** January 26, 2009, 06:44:23 PM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1126582/Schoolgirls-banned-lessons-headmaster-blonde.html
Schoolgirls banned for being too blonde....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5cInmK6LQ
(video) NBS Nightly News, March 11 1970.

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
(not 56k friendly) massive image of the innaguration speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TEc17j5GF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7dFmxqb60
(videos, ads) Crazy Cadburry Ads. Worth watching.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/42310
*facepalm* wrong direction....

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #81 on:** January 26, 2009, 07:48:33 PM »

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html

SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.

Captain K. · « **Reply #82 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:35:44 PM »

Quote from: metroid composite on January 26, 2009, 06:44:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TEc17j5GF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7dFmxqb60
(videos, ads) Crazy Cadburry Ads. Worth watching.

So that's what happened to my luggage...

Also, believe it or not, my kid can manipulate his eyebrows even more than those kids can.

metroid composite · « **Reply #83 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:43:34 PM »

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on January 26, 2009, 07:48:33 PM

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html

SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.

So...after decades of making Lunar, Grandia, and Wing Commander games, someone decides to outsource an SSB game to Game Arts, sticking a few senior Nintendo designers in charge of the project. Apparently this makes Game Arts an internationally recognized fighting game developer who can sell their games through name recognition alone. I hope Nintendo asks my studio to do SSB4 if it can generate that kind of name recognition. Also: I predict we won't be seeing any new Grandia/Lunar games for a loooooong time.

Shale · « **Reply #84 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:46:22 PM »

Wait, Game Arts did SSBB? I did not know that.

Well, at least they're not going under anytime soon.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #85 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:55:58 PM »

Quote from: metroid composite on January 26, 2009, 11:43:34 PM

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on January 26, 2009, 07:48:33 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203662.html

SSBB developer to make a Smash-style game based on TMNT. The release is to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Ninja Turtles. I will probably buy this regardless of reviews, I'm not going to lie.
So...after decades of making Lunar, Grandia, and Wing Commander games, someone decides to outsource an SSB game to Game Arts, sticking a few senior Nintendo designers in charge of the project. Apparently this makes Game Arts an internationally recognized fighting game developer who can sell their games through name recognition alone. I hope Nintendo asks my studio to do SSB4 if it can generate that kind of name recognition. Also: I predict we won't be seeing any new Grandia/Lunar games for a loooooong time.

Or maybe they'll have the capital now to take the chance on a new Lunar/Grandia? Just hoping. You know the game industry better than I do.

metroid composite · « **Reply #86 on:** January 27, 2009, 12:30:49 AM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on January 26, 2009, 11:55:58 PM

Or maybe they'll have the capital now to take the chance on a new Lunar/Grandia? Just hoping. You know the game industry better than I do.

It's possible, but you probably wouldn't like the result. As an analogy, in 2005 Neversoft with all their extra capital from Tony Hawk decided to make a game they've always wanted to make: generic old west game (called GUN). All the top people in the studio wanted to work on GUN. So...they had a bunch of talented skateboarder programmers working on a shooting/GTA game, and a bunch of inexperienced programmers simultaneously working on a skateboarding game. Result: THAW sucked, and GUN was...okay, but not really a hit with fans of the shooter/GTA genre.

I've seen this scenario multiple times. "We have a lot of money; lets just hire more people and work on two games at the same time. That way we don't have to abandon our long-time fans." Usually fails.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #87 on:** January 27, 2009, 12:35:27 AM »

In all fairness, we haven't seen a new Lunar game in a long time anyways (Hell, you could argue that there hasn't really been one since like...the Sega Saturn?).

superaielman · « **Reply #88 on:** January 27, 2009, 12:36:11 AM »

Lunar DS! How quickly people forget.

hinode · « **Reply #89 on:** January 27, 2009, 12:44:46 AM »

That was outsourced for development, as was the GBA port of Lunar SSS. EBC was the last time Game Arts themselves actually did programming for a Lunar game.

metroid composite · « **Reply #90 on:** January 27, 2009, 11:33:35 PM »

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&cbp=12,312.1532246414401,,2,8.883983621637116&ie=UTF8&ll=40.457662,-80.007541&spn=0,359.999415&z=21
Google Maps: big brother

http://bacolicio.us/http:/www.rpgdl.com/
Theory: everything is better with bacon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
(video, ad) Microsoft Songsmith ad. Horrifying.

http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful-music
(videos) Stuff made by Microsoft Songsmith.

http://androiduniversity.com/
See url.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/
One of the best complaint letters ever written.

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-worst-box-art-of-2008/a-20081211141414769068
Worst box art of 2008

http://www.destructoid.com/the-videogame-bosses-guide-to-success-115601.phtml
Videogame boss' guide to success.

Ryogo · « **Reply #91 on:** January 28, 2009, 05:06:06 AM »

Quote from: metroid composite on January 27, 2009, 11:33:35 PM

http://bacolicio.us/http:/www.rpgdl.com/
Theory: everything is better with bacon.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/
One of the best complaint letters ever written.

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-worst-box-art-of-2008/a-20081211141414769068
Worst box art of 2008

1. Theory is accepted into law.

2. This man, whoever he may be, has become my idol. I could not stop laughing the whole way through.

3. AIR TRAFFIC CHAOS - COMING TO YOU NEXT 9/11

superaielman · « **Reply #92 on:** January 28, 2009, 01:55:23 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcfWsj9OnsI&feature=dir Time Lapse of the northern lights. Very pretty. (Tonfa is this five or ten miles north of you geographically?!)

Taishyr · « **Reply #93 on:** January 28, 2009, 11:09:02 PM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27well.html?_r=1&em

Don't think this was posted here. Anyways, PANIC PANIC TEENAGE SEX WILL RUIN THE NATI- what do you mean, the percentage rate has dropped?

Captain K. · « **Reply #94 on:** January 29, 2009, 11:51:48 AM »

Sometimes hackers do something helpful:

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2009/01/28/sign_hacker_broadcasts_zombie.html

One of the signs also advised running for colder climates. Apparently the outbreak isn't as bad up north.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #95 on:** January 29, 2009, 11:54:34 AM »

Quote from: Taishyr on January 28, 2009, 11:09:02 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27well.html?_r=1&em

Don't think this was posted here. Anyways, PANIC PANIC TEENAGE SEX WILL RUIN THE NATI- what do you mean, the percentage rate has dropped?

So it's not that more people are doing it, the ones that are are just dumber about it? Makes sense.

Mad Fnorder · « **Reply #96 on:** January 30, 2009, 03:42:23 AM »

http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980/ [NSFW]

You have to get out of here.

Veryslightlymad · « **Reply #97 on:** January 30, 2009, 05:52:27 AM »

http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps

Pretty self-explanatory.

Cotigo · « **Reply #98 on:** January 30, 2009, 06:04:30 AM »

Quote from: Mad Fnorder on January 30, 2009, 03:42:23 AM

http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980/ [NSFW]

You have to get out of here.

....Yessss

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #99 on:** January 30, 2009, 07:11:22 AM »

Okay, so my students (the Japanese equivalents of 10th graders) just completed an activity in which they were given a blanked-out comic strip and were told to make their own jokes... in English.

For the Net-savvy, I'm sure you know something like this has already appeared on Penny Arcade (with older children, and as a result, funnier comics). But I was hoping that some of you could take the time to read these anyway, as they are pretty cute and occasionally amusing.

Also, I want my students to get some feedback from people who speak this language so that they can feel like they aren't just learning English to take tests, but so that they can actually communicate with it! So please enjoy and comment on these comics! (I've been in Japan too long...)

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=449484959&albumId=287248&authKey=TXL64FZFdeqM8E5fuobqNrdizAv%2fSc8ZTiCG22H%2bEbi%2brefg3CorRbRP42p2D1Ad0Fi4A7P8bKByTPJStBI043%2fc74MQPrDJt19fxPCe%2br0%3d

My students will be able to see the comments, and even if they don't understand them, they'll be happy to see their comics got any comments at all.
I really appreciate any time you can spend on this.

-Djinn

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Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance (Read 142180 times)

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