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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #600 on: September 03, 2008, 05:50:53 PM »
I think Pyro may be the last nerd on Earth to hear about Dr. Horrible (no offense, but it was pretty huge when it went live in mid-July), but it bears mentioning that the soundtrack finally went up on iTunes yesterday. For some reason it costs two and a half times as much as the series itself.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #602 on: September 04, 2008, 02:42:16 AM »
Remember, kids, the Mayan calender ends in 2012!

So does the term of America's next president.  Coincidence?  I THINK NOT!

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #603 on: September 04, 2008, 11:11:05 PM »
http://www.palinfacts.com/
* Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin bout
* Ben Linus does Sarah Palin’s bidding
* Jesus has a bracelet that says, “WWSPD?”
* Sarah Palin drives a Zamboni to work.
* Sarah Palin is actually Kaiser Sose.
* Sarah Palin can divide by zero.
* Sarah Palin can read EBCDIC.
* Sarah Palin poses more danger of creating world-destroying black holes than the Large Hadron Collidor.
* Sarah Palin got Tom Brady pregnant, and then left him.
* Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s war against the machines.
* Sarah Palin is the “other” whom Yoda spoke about.
* If placed into Schroedinger’s experiment, both Sarah Palins remain alive.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/113810/3053/686/582073
A slightly more politically slanted set of facts on Sarah Palin.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4sOM4tpno
(video) Someone forgot to turn off their mic (Sarah Palin related).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/31/eaarctic131.xml
The North Pole is now an island.

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Comic for Google's new browser.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20076
Fallout 3 interview on writing...that...actually sounds fairly competent and sensible.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #604 on: September 05, 2008, 02:37:35 AM »
Haha, Dailykos? Really, Metroid? Why not just link to the democratic underground instead, that's about as credible.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #605 on: September 05, 2008, 09:15:19 AM »
Emil always has talked a good talk Met.  He talked a good talk about Oblivion before it came out and before there were hints of the reality of its pathetic shallow void of worth as a game.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #606 on: September 05, 2008, 04:02:48 PM »
Haha, Dailykos? Really, Metroid? Why not just link to the democratic underground instead, that's about as credible.
You act as if I recognize any of the websites my coworkers link me to >_>

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #607 on: September 05, 2008, 04:11:36 PM »
This one's just funny:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/5/4637/55116/272/587548

(Yeah, Kos again, but you can ignore the commentary and not lose any of the humor).

Apparently the picture of a building that McCain used as a backdrop during his speech was Walter Reed Middle School, in North Hollywood. If anybody has an explanation for that other than the McCain campaign trying to find Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Google and failing hilariously, I'm all ears.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #608 on: September 05, 2008, 07:03:14 PM »
Did Not Do the Research seems like the McCain campaign's running theme, yeah.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #609 on: September 06, 2008, 03:16:26 PM »
http://exiledonline.com/sarah-palins-big-sleazy-safari/#more-687

Well since it is the done thing, some more stuff on her burning cripples and stuff.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #610 on: September 06, 2008, 03:28:32 PM »
A rather amusing study. (Look at who sponsored it)

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #611 on: September 10, 2008, 04:56:16 AM »
http://tsumi.wordpress.com/

Well now. I'm impressed.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #612 on: September 10, 2008, 08:43:40 AM »
News that good deserves like an actuall annoncement of what it is.

So like Persona 2 Innocent Sin getting a full translation release is impressive.  Finally another long awaited SMT game that I can play for 2 hours going HOLY FUCKING AWESOME AESTHETICS and remembering why SMT gameplay is always a bottomless pit of fail.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #613 on: September 10, 2008, 09:05:38 AM »
They'd be much better as... whatever you call those crazy Japanese CYOA-type games, that's for sure.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #614 on: September 10, 2008, 11:00:51 AM »
They'd be much better as... whatever you call those crazy Japanese CYOA-type games, that's for sure.

Because clearly all visual novels are full of trashy plots.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #615 on: September 10, 2008, 11:15:11 AM »
What?  He was saying SMT gameplay is bad as well, they would be better as purely plot based entities.

Edit - Unless you are saying SMT plot is trashy, which is fine.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #616 on: September 10, 2008, 11:37:36 AM »
Thank you, Grefter. Perhaps I should began including liner notes so people won't have to infer through context?

SMT gameplay is an exercise in self-flagellation, and would be much improved by removing the combat portion of the game entirely.

...Which is actually an intriguing idea for a console RPG, though it would never sell.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #617 on: September 10, 2008, 11:57:24 AM »
Oh, definitely.

...Seriously, that was me just being retarded because I care a lot about my visual novels.

Sorry about that :|
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #618 on: September 10, 2008, 02:49:39 PM »
http://serebii.net/index2.shtml

New Rotom forms and Sinnohdex.  Pre-aftergame Houndoom, fuck yeah.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #619 on: September 10, 2008, 07:16:44 PM »
Just in case there was any question about it, a helpful reference.

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

EDIT: Check the source code, too.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #620 on: September 10, 2008, 07:51:46 PM »
*Sets that page to auto-refresh*

You can't be too careful, I say.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #621 on: September 10, 2008, 10:27:19 PM »
While we're waiting for Hurricane Ike to GREAT AETHER final smash us, please enjoy these pictures of Hurricane Celia in 1970.

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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #622 on: September 11, 2008, 12:47:24 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/user/WhistleBlowerZero

Some Gamestop employee has made a bunch of (terrible Zero Punctuation ripoff) videos talking about their practices and shit. The guy tries really, really hard to be Yahtzee and fails miserably, mostly because Yahtzee can actually talk fast and still make sense while this guy sounds like he just gargled a jar of peanut butter mixed with marbles. There is some interesting stuff, however, like how apparently Gamestop doesn't give out paychecks, but instead gives you your own personal debit card that the money gets put on (and charges you a bunch of fees) or you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it direct deposited into a bank account

Edit-Oh, and I guy I know from high school works at a Gamestop and when I asked him about that he said that also you can only use it once per pay period without getting additional fees. So once every two weeks. Also, apparently you get a better discount at Barnes and Noble instead of Gamestop for some reason.

You can also pretty much just skip the last 5 videos, they're all about working at Gamestop and it's mostly the same 'bitching about customers and bosses' Clerks routine that everybody who has ever worked in retail has given at one point or another.
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Re: Miscellaneous Links 2 - The Vengeance
« Reply #623 on: September 11, 2008, 01:37:11 AM »
That debit card thing is actually pretty common in large companies now.  They try to discourage paper checks to save costs - they want to just do electronic transactions (either direct deposit or the debit card).

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« Reply #624 on: September 11, 2008, 09:11:18 AM »
The fuck?  That kind of shit is common?  Fuck you.  Direct deposit I can understand and am pretty fine with (what with it being the only legal way to pay people in Australia), while you have to put up with bullshit bank charges, it at least is not you being constantly owned by your company.  Society is fucked if you have to pay to buy things with your company owned specific currency.
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