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Abstruse Goose: Rite of Passage via inky. I think this is...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:34:51 -0200

Abstruse Goose: Rite of Passage

I think this is pretty much why I dropped out of university. Both times. I didn’t want to program video games, but the situation was the same.

I really wish all of these internet disease 16 year olds would stop following me.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:36:30 -0200

I really wish all of these internet disease 16 year olds would stop following me.

BREAKING: Cannibal Corpse vocalist Corpsegrinder superseded by...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:06:57 -0200

BREAKING: Cannibal Corpse vocalist Corpsegrinder superseded by Cookie Monster.

Rotten Cookie Landslide

via inky.

giodion: THE MARLE TO MY CRONO! ♥ Fuck yeah.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:11 -0200

giodion:

THE MARLE TO MY CRONO! ♥

Fuck yeah.

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:12:49 -0200

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while.

Extinct corals of Order Rugosa: Phylum Cnidaria via...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:49:26 -0200

Extinct corals of Order Rugosa: Phylum Cnidaria

via lastchatwithphontaine.

via dddecember.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:48:41 -0200

via dddecember.

The Abyss: Memory and Amnesia

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:41:13 -0200

The Abyss: Memory and Amnesia:

ontheborderland:

This New Yorker article from 2007 is endlessly horrifying and fascinating to me. The subject, Clive Wearing, has absolutely no memory. He lost his ability to form new memories and also suffered retrograde amnesia due to a brain infection. As far as he is concerned, he has no past and no way to move into the future. He only lives in the present, for two or three seconds at a time. He tried to keep a journal, as a way to document and affirm his very existence, but:

…his journal entries consisted, essentially, of the statements “I am awake” or “I am conscious,” entered again and again every few minutes. He would write: “2:10 P.M: This time properly awake… . 2:14 P.M: this time finally awake… . 2:35 P.M: this time completely awake,” along with negations of these statements: “At 9:40 P.M. I awoke for the first time, despite my previous claims.” This in turn was crossed out, followed by “I was fully conscious at 10:35 P.M., and awake for the first time in many, many weeks.” This in turn was canceled out by the next entry. This dreadful journal, almost void of any other content but these passionate assertions and denials, intending to affirm existence and continuity but forever contradicting them, was filled anew each day, and soon mounted to hundreds of almost identical pages.

Utterly agonizing and disturbing, and he described it as being dead. In his mind, there was no evidence for him having lived at all before. The only remedy for the transience and impermanence of life is our own memory of past events. However, Mr. Wearing is forced to live only in the actual moment, over and over. He is about as unattached to life as someone can be; he literally embodies the cliché of “living in the moment”. He doesn’t take anyone, anyplace, anything for granted. He can’t have an ego.

It’s a lot to think about.

via lastchatwithphontaine.

via aco.

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:54:20 -0200

via aco.

Qualified Yays: Planescape Re-Release?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:09:50 -0200

Qualified Yays: Planescape Re-Release?:

kbkarma:

via Rock Paper Shotgun.
…

OMG OMG OMG *fanboyish squealing*

Holy shit. Preordering this!

via brilliantology.

I want two.

What the hell is with people thinking that the internet is for actual serious business and not being...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:09:00 -0200

What the hell is with people thinking that the internet is for actual serious business and not being an ass to each other lately.
Why the hell is everyone online a goddamn hippie all of a sudden.

Cut that shit out.

I woke up this morning and THIS was the first thing i thought...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0200

I woke up this morning and THIS was the first thing i thought of. Fuck yeah, nostalgia.

VGG Character names. Fuck yeah, version 1.0 graphics.

Video

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:37:59 -0200

Cthulhu by AlMaNeGrA.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:20:00 -0200

Cthulhu by AlMaNeGrA.

Avmakt

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:26:01 -0200

Avmakt:

An excellent word that English badly needs. From dailymeh:

The word is avmakt, which is Norwegian for “the opposite of power”. I went through a thesaurus and none of the antonyms of “power” captured the precise meaning of this word. It’s being powerless, but not any old powerlessness. […]

Avmakt is more the peculiar feeling of being part of a system you are powerless to direct or change, and knowing it. It’s not about being on the fringes of society or lacking in basic liberties or facilities, it’s rather about being stuck squarely inside the system, with various symbols and signs of wealth and nominal power, forced to watch how money, position and “democratic rights” still leave you powerless to change or direct the system. The feeling of being a cog in the machinery, of powerlessness in the face of the Man, of being unsure what exactly you want or how to achieve it or even if it can be achieved, but knowing that whatever it is you want it’s not the status quo. The feeling that the system humiliates you: it swallows you whole, it gives you a host of privileges and then forces you to watch as each of them prove to be worthless when it comes to effecting actual change. On top of that, you get to feel guilt ‘cause you’re part of the system after all and so infinitely better off than billions of other people in the world…

via inky.

Spanish could use this word too.

How the Aliens’ animatronic mandibles work (1:03) via...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:24:00 -0200

How the Aliens’ animatronic mandibles work (1:03)

via zsommand

via aliensandpredators.

Awesome. No inner jaw though?

CARICATURE MAP OF EUROPE 1914 From Leviathan by Scott...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:07:19 -0200

CARICATURE MAP OF EUROPE 1914

From Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld.

The Clanker Powers:

Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one.

Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border.

The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses.

The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out.

The Darwinist Powers:

Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.

France’s elephant beast (wearing the French kepi they started the war with before adapting their firefighter helmets) is influenced by the Elephantine Collossus built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris (later it ended up going to the Moulin Rouge.)

Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots.

Serbia’s imagery is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they’ll find themselves subject to.

Norway and Sweden are both Scandinavian trolls in the style of John Bauer, an inspirational illustrator from the era who produced a lot of phenomenal work during the war.

Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war.

Ireland looks askance to Britain and brandishes a shillelagh. An indicator of their very rough relationship at the time, and of their upcoming involvement with the Central powers.

Italy is a clutch of snakes with intents on the Central powers despite existing agreements. A foreshadowing of their arrangements at the secret 1915 Treaty of London where they were promised land in exchange for involvement. It was heavily influenced by Italian Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra’s open policy of serving Italy’s “divine self-interest.”

Source

via lastchatwithphontaine.

kcalder: so the game I've been playing a lot on iPhone (Defender Chronicles) was updated to 1.3

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:59:35 -0300

kcalder: so the game I've been playing a lot on iPhone (Defender Chronicles) was updated to 1.3
kcalder: and there was apparently a big bug, so even though it was approved by Apple it was pulled from the store
kcalder: by the developer
kcalder: and then they submittted 1.3.1
inky: cool story bro
kcalder: which was approved, and I just downloaded it
kcalder: and it has a huge bug that basically undoes your progress in the game, and doesn't allow you to play the one new level in the game
kcalder: So now they're working on 1.3.2
kcalder: What a disaster.
inky: I wish I could go one day without reading about the iPhone app store
kcalder: The developer screws up with major bugs that undermine the very point of the release, and Apple approves them anyway.
kcalder: And there's no way that I know of to un-upgrade to 1.2
ckolderup: that's why I upgrade stuff on the phone
nostrich: this is an excellent story
ckolderup: if I discover a bug, I can delete it and re-sync the version that's stored on my Mac
ckolderup: p.s. sarcastic comment about your story
kcalder: good idea, ckolderup
inky: what ever happened to "copy files from source folder to destination folder"?
inky: damn iPhones

Vidar: so basically, kcalder, you're trying to say that you just lost the game, right?
kcalder: I lost the game?
Vidar: yep, you just did
kcalder: no, I'm saying that I will stop playing the game until the next update comes out.
inky: gggg Vidar

Tattoo art, Regino Gonzales via arsvitaest.

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:37:34 -0300

Tattoo art, Regino Gonzales

via arsvitaest.

Photo

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:22:22 -0300