Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links for the Miscellaneously Inclined: 2011 Edition!!! (Read 65139 times)

metroid composite · « **Reply #275 on:** May 24, 2011, 07:45:26 PM »

http://www.cracked.com/article_19216_9-words-youve-used-today-with-bizarre-criminal-origins.html
Interesting origins of modern words.

http://www.atlus.com/persona2/
After more than a decade, they're finally releasing it!!!!!
No, I'm not talking about DNF, I'm talking about Innocent Sin.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #276 on:** May 24, 2011, 08:10:55 PM »

YESSSSS. I've been checking the P2:IS gf board intermittedly to see if/when they finally announced release.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #277 on:** May 24, 2011, 08:42:36 PM »

Expected/10, but still welcome. Another 2011 game worth buying!

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #278 on:** May 25, 2011, 04:34:38 AM »

At this point, I'm not really sure that I ever have the expectation of RPG's coming over at all myself.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #279 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:00:21 AM »

Agreed, but in this case Atlus gave us a really obvious teaser last week, so it was just a matter of WHEN they'd do a formal announcement. Speculation ran rampant in fact that we'd get it June 23 (the date on the teaser, corresponding to 'the day before the original release'), but unless they're yanking us around a bit with "Fall" apparently not. Ah well, considering my purchasing list for the rest of the year was "1. Disgaea 4 2. ... oh god", still.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #280 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:34:24 AM »

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

Not sure if old, but My Little Pony physics.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #281 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:00:48 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDIStA5VWe4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5zOJnxBHc

So apparently, there actually are Kingdom Hearts fans who eschew "waaaah we want Kingdom Hearts 3!!!" and instead make awesome fan speculation on how awesome the music can be.

Second one doesn't sound much like the original aside from the chorus, but it DOES sound uncannily like something Yoko Shimomura would make for an epic showdown in Kingdom Hearts.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #282 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:40:06 AM »

Quote from: Cmdr_King on May 25, 2011, 05:00:21 AM

"1. Disgaea 4 2. ... oh god", still.

I was indeed wondering what other games existed that could possibly make the list.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #283 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:49:29 AM »

Tales of Graces was on there, but that's been pushed back to 2012. Nintendo by all evidence has no interest in putting out anything but 3DS games (which isn't getting anything relevant this year except maybe Paper Mario), and it's getting less and less likely we'll ever see FE12, Xenoblade, or The Last Story, so... yeah. The morrow was barren of promises so to speak.

Mind, the early half of 2011 had a perfectly busy release schedule, but going the remaining 9 months of the year with one release I intended to buy was rather a sobering thought.

Fenrir · « **Reply #284 on:** May 25, 2011, 11:22:15 AM »

Xenoblade's going to be released in English in Europe. You'll have to mod your Wii but relatively speaking I guess it's a small price to pay.
(I'm mostly hyped for Dark Souls and ME3 myself. And Half Minute Hero on XBLA)

metroid composite · « **Reply #285 on:** May 25, 2011, 01:57:46 PM »

Quote from: Cmdr_King on May 25, 2011, 09:49:29 AM

Nintendo by all evidence has no interest in putting out anything but 3DS games

Well...except that the Wii2/Cafe/whatever has a probable 2011 release date, so they've probably got stuff in the works for that. (There's already rumors of SSB4).

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on May 25, 2011, 05:34:24 AM

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

Not sure if old, but My Little Pony physics.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Although, it strikes me that at least two of these could be explained by "pegasus ponies are lighter". Certainly birds manage to have hollow bones, and thus have considerably lower density. Also, I think his calculation of filly-Fluttershy's weight is just off in the first place; he calculates her as being a cylinder of 11 inches by 7 inches...but also pulls out the number 275 kg. A cylinder of 12 inches by 7 inches is going to be like...5 kg, assuming it's of standard biological density. Yes, this makes my little ponies considerably smaller than horses, but that seems reasonable given their measurements relative to other animals in the show.

Shale · « **Reply #286 on:** May 25, 2011, 02:29:27 PM »

Yeah, but that just makes the first one even worse. There's a reason butterflies don't do supersonic acceleration well.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #287 on:** May 25, 2011, 02:43:57 PM »

My biggest problem with the video is that the class actually enjoyed it. Screams fake.

Yoshiken · « **Reply #288 on:** May 25, 2011, 02:47:09 PM »

In a Physics class that's.. presumably at a relatively high level? (At least a level here they're actively choosing to do Physics.) Wouldn't surprise me if they enjoyed it.
...I know I sure as hell did. >.>

metroid composite · « **Reply #289 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:49:34 PM »

Quote from: Shale on May 25, 2011, 02:29:27 PM

Yeah, but that just makes the first one even worse. There's a reason butterflies don't do supersonic acceleration well.

Well, there's a completely different issue with Ranbow Dash: where the hell does her acceleration come from? She's not flapping her wings. The only thing she seems to be doing is making herself more aerodynamic, which would make her maximum acceleration g. Unless she's actually like superman and able to fly by force of will (making the wings mostly for show and turning/gliding).

Quote from: Yoshiken on May 25, 2011, 02:47:09 PM

In a Physics class that's.. presumably at a relatively high level? (At least a level here they're actively choosing to do Physics.) Wouldn't surprise me if they enjoyed it.
...I know I sure as hell did. >.>

I'd guess grade 12 high-school, just based off of a few clues (like there's an american flag in the classroom, which makes me think high-school and not university. But also the material and equations used strongly suggest either grade 12 or first year university; And...first year physics classes tend to be too large to let every single student do a presentation on something goofy). And yeah, Grade 12 physics is usually optional.

Shale · « **Reply #290 on:** May 25, 2011, 08:06:35 PM »

I don't want to alarm anyone, but Miike Takashi may be directing Phoenix Wright: The Movie.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #291 on:** May 25, 2011, 08:07:13 PM »

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Well...except that the Wii2/Cafe/whatever has a probable 2011 release date, so they've probably got stuff in the works for that. (There's already rumors of SSB4).

Which is even worse, really. More advertising thunder stolen from existing platforms, lower odds of good games with actual effort behind them (This gives them two year-one platforms simultaneously, year one == suck for all systems).

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Xenoblade's going to be released in English in Europe. You'll have to mod your Wii but relatively speaking I guess it's a small price to pay.
(I'm mostly hyped for Dark Souls and ME3 myself. And Half Minute Hero on XBLA)

Hm. I haven't heard that. Looking through wikipedia, though, I think this information may be outdated, because it wasn't on more recent release lists that I've seen. I guess we'll know for sure next month though.
(I know of Dark Souls, Demon Souls didn't sound appealing and I have no reason to believe the sequel will be any better. I have about as much interest in Mass Effect as I have in drowning trapped beneath a sheet of ice.)

Yoshiken · « **Reply #292 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:53:32 PM »

http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/05/25/street_fighter_ii_sounds_played_out_by_one_dude

Street Fighter fight where all of the sounds are being done by one person.

Fenrir · « **Reply #293 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:32:03 AM »

Nah, Xenoblade's pretty much confirmed. The name's changed to Xenoblade Chronicles for Europe, there's an official site http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/xenoblade_chronicles_32583.html and a "Choose the cover art" contest was started about 10 days ago.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #294 on:** May 26, 2011, 03:40:46 AM »

Odd. Well, either Nintendo has decided to toss a bone to more dedicated gamers at long last, or NoA are much bigger douches than the company at large.

Granted, assuming they aren't for whatever reason skipping over the largest region, they may well miss out on 2011, hard to say at this stage.

Grefter · « **Reply #295 on:** May 26, 2011, 08:37:55 AM »

Quote from: Shale on May 25, 2011, 08:06:35 PM

I don't want to alarm anyone, but Miike Takashi may be directing Phoenix Wright: The Movie.

This is going to be the fucking scariest Phoenix Wright shit ever. Oddly I think it could totally work if I didn't only know him from ze ultraviolence and distrurbing concepts. He totally works in batshit lazy land though.

metroid composite · « **Reply #296 on:** May 26, 2011, 07:10:21 PM »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam
Prisoners in China...forced to play WoW...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/25/disney-withdraws-navy-seal-trademark-application/
Disney withdraws its Seal Team 6 trademark application.

http://www.vampiremob.com/
(videos) Indy TV: Vampires as mob members.

Xeroma · « **Reply #297 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:00:46 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on May 26, 2011, 08:37:55 AM

Quote from: Shale on May 25, 2011, 08:06:35 PM
I don't want to alarm anyone, but Miike Takashi may be directing Phoenix Wright: The Movie.

This is going to be the fucking scariest Phoenix Wright shit ever. Oddly I think it could totally work if I didn't only know him from ze ultraviolence and distrurbing concepts. He totally works in batshit lazy land though.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/05/27/ace_attorney_movie/

It's real.

metroid composite · « **Reply #298 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:03:01 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/05/buffalo-buffalo-and-mathematical-induction.html
So...someone figured out how to get arbitrarily long sentences of buffalo, without even needing to refer to Buffalo, NY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJOmCPmVSc
(video) Japan. Horse racing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVgsBLzHMM
(video) Super hearing!!1

Talaysen · « **Reply #299 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:01:54 PM »

Quote from: metroid composite on May 27, 2011, 04:03:01 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/05/buffalo-buffalo-and-mathematical-induction.html
So...someone figured out how to get arbitrarily long sentences of buffalo, without even needing to refer to Buffalo, NY.

I had to do that for one of my undergraduate CS courses. Pretty amusing.

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Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links for the Miscellaneously Inclined: 2011 Edition!!! (Read 65139 times)