Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links from 2013 (Read 34970 times)

Grefter · « **Reply #50 on:** February 11, 2013, 10:32:02 AM »

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/11/michelin_guides_url_slip/

You know what I love? Businesses getting rolled by cheap jokes.

In other things, we are covered for domain registration this year yeah?

Captain K. · « **Reply #51 on:** February 11, 2013, 05:37:05 PM »

I wouldn't call it cheap, some of those photoshops were pretty good!

Yoshiken · « **Reply #52 on:** February 14, 2013, 05:06:34 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbqiiY_Pam8
WBC dating site parody. The best part is that the domain name they talk about has been bought since... and turned into a gay dating site.

Captain K. · « **Reply #53 on:** February 15, 2013, 03:23:52 AM »

Remember Haloid from several years back? That guy has a new series coming out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYW2GmHB5xs

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #54 on:** February 15, 2013, 08:49:58 PM »

https://twitter.com/_floridaman

Every news tweet that uses the words "Florida man." It is as gloriously trashy as you would expect from denizens of America's biggest festering boil.

Captain K. · « **Reply #55 on:** February 16, 2013, 01:54:50 AM »

And yeah I'm upset that Texas dropped to 3rd biggest festering boil this year. Fuck you Colorado we want our spot back!

metroid composite · « **Reply #56 on:** February 16, 2013, 05:25:05 PM »

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on February 15, 2013, 08:49:58 PM

https://twitter.com/_floridaman

Every news tweet that uses the words "Florida man." It is as gloriously trashy as you would expect from denizens of America's biggest festering boil.

How? How is it that every single one of these is hilarious? Do florida men never get arrested for anything normal?

Grefter · « **Reply #57 on:** February 16, 2013, 10:06:27 PM »

Not for anything that gets published and posted on Twitter.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #58 on:** February 17, 2013, 08:23:06 AM »

"Guy shoots dude" might get ink in Connecticut but in Florida you have to do something weird, because if you are a Florida Man it's expected you'll kill someone.

metroid composite · « **Reply #59 on:** February 19, 2013, 04:24:51 AM »

http://www.themarysue.com/academic-study-game-harassment/

So...academic study of harassment of female gamers. Females get harassed on XBox live--no surprises to anyone here. What is surprising is the following: while gender is a factor in getting nasty comments online, skill is NOT a factor. Skilled males and sucky males get about the same negative comments. Skilled females and sucky females get about the same negative comments.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #60 on:** February 19, 2013, 04:48:49 AM »

I wish I could say I was surprised by that.

Grefter · « **Reply #61 on:** February 19, 2013, 06:37:04 AM »

Everyone sledges everyone on X-Box Live is pretty much the thing I take from that. This aligns to everything I have seen in online gaming (competitive or not).

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #62 on:** February 19, 2013, 08:20:59 AM »

Every time you post one of these I want to find out how people manage to get paid to do a study that tells people something they already know. My study will conclude that pizza is delicious and fat people in fedoras and anime t-shirts are made of ham.

metroid composite · « **Reply #63 on:** February 19, 2013, 09:11:17 AM »

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on February 19, 2013, 08:20:59 AM

Every time you post one of these I want to find out how people manage to get paid to do a study that tells people something they already know. My study will conclude that pizza is delicious and fat people in fedoras and anime t-shirts are made of ham.

Speak for yourself, but I find the skill aspect of these results at least somewhat surprising. I figured, say, low-skill males would get yelled at more than high skill males, for example.

Females at least I can think of reasons why there's less of a skill correlation. With low skill females you get some males who are going to react "must defend helpless female". With high skill, some males freak out if a girl is better than them. So sure, I'm not too surprised that there's no skill correlation for females, but I really would expect a skill correlation for males.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #64 on:** February 19, 2013, 09:22:31 AM »

We have previously established you don't know anything about being a dude, so there you go. Being good just means you get people yelling about how you cheat/hack/are cheap and are, thus, gay. Whereas if you are bad the yelling is that you are terrible and need to get off live forever and you suck a thousand ducks and are, thus, gay. There is a sizable amount of people who use it as an Internet-enabled console-facilitated yelling service wherein as much of the world as possible can be informed of the reasons and severity of their own specific gayness.

Grefter · « **Reply #65 on:** February 19, 2013, 12:36:19 PM »

If you are good you are often yelled at for being shit even as you stomp the opposition or outperform.

Pretty much it is just yelling or trolling while a bunch of other people try to playing the goddamned game.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #66 on:** February 19, 2013, 03:01:13 PM »

Pretty much. The fact that the term tryhard is used unironically by large swaths of the gaming community as an insult is kind of indicative.

But yeah. If you're worse than me, you are a shit player and should kill yourself. If you are better than me, you are a cheater/hacker/tryhard and should kill yourself.

metroid composite · « **Reply #67 on:** February 19, 2013, 03:29:45 PM »

Quote from: Rob the Stampede on February 19, 2013, 09:22:31 AM

We have previously established you don't know anything about being a dude, so there you go.

XD, yeah, fair.

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If you are better than me, you are a cheater/hacker/tryhard and should kill yourself.

Oh that's true: I have been called cheater and/or tryhard from time to time, typically from people who don't know my gender. (Although once funnily enough from a friend I skype with fairly regularly, who likes me and knows I don't cheat, but just doesn't handle losing that well and says stuff as a coping mechanism).

metroid composite · « **Reply #68 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:13:21 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1d6z4QoyQE
So papa, how do you like the iPad we got you?

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #69 on:** February 21, 2013, 05:42:19 PM »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/shfke/briangalindo/25-cereals-from-the-80s-you-will-never-eat-again

Yet another reason to miss the 80's and early 90's

metroid composite · « **Reply #70 on:** February 21, 2013, 05:54:05 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on February 21, 2013, 05:42:19 PM

http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/shfke/briangalindo/25-cereals-from-the-80s-you-will-never-eat-again

Yet another reason to miss the 80's and early 90's

I actually don't remember most of those existing, and don't remember wanting most of the ones that do remember. Exceptions being ice cream cone cereal, and Nerds cereal (I don't think I actually ate either of those, but I remember wanting to).

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #71 on:** February 21, 2013, 07:51:54 PM »

A general announcement: if you don't remember C-3P0's then you are a clownshoes-wearing knuckle-whuffing Chumbawumba. You probably ate a bowl of poop instead.

Captain K. · « **Reply #72 on:** February 21, 2013, 10:09:09 PM »

I pity the poor fool who don't eat my cereal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1RlO87O4

Grefter · « **Reply #73 on:** February 21, 2013, 10:28:24 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on February 21, 2013, 05:42:19 PM

Americana you want to put in your mouth but can't.

I will stick with porridge like a good Comrade thanks.

metroid composite · « **Reply #74 on:** February 22, 2013, 01:15:13 AM »

>_> <_<

I'm just going to leave this here; 2v2 SC2 game I played...

http://drop.sc/306255

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Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links from 2013 (Read 34970 times)