So, in Megaman 3
 | Top Man is gay, and that is why Hard Man's tough fist of metalworking manly toughness kills him quicker than any other weapon kills any other boss? |
| Did it really take me two decades to figure this out? Did everyone else realize this long ago? |
| And is Top Man a reference to top/bottom? |
| Or is "Hard Man" and his fisting another thinly veiled reference? |
 | maybe needleman is also some sort of innuendo |
| AND snakeman |
 | that game was made by perverts |
| why? |
| I am not a high-maintenance pierced hipster. |
| neither am I. but many our age are |
| you also don't live at home |
| Everyone lives at home. Your home is where you live. Using the word "home" to mean "with your parents" is inane. |
| oops, I meant with your parents. |
| I really don't know anyone who is that dependent on their parents |
| Quality journalism here: "it's a miracle that Gen Yers can do anything on their own" |
| you choose one sentence? the entire artice is quality!!! |
| I would like to know any other group in society that an editor would find it acceptable to publish that sentence about. |
| "Its a miracle them negroes can do anything on their own." |
 | Hate! |
| when hateful things are said about pasty annoying people, its a different ballgame. no one cares. |
| Dammit, I got to get me some breasts. |
| People pay attention to those. |
| "Its a miracle warren can get breasts on his own" |
| The last half page (5 paragraphs) are about awesome and quirky the author of the article is. |
| Hate!!!! |
| seems the bar is pretty low for genY |
Hey, when you read Fark, do you read it from the top-down or the bottom-up?
| top down |
| I go top-down, despite being chronologically backwards |
| as do I. making some of the follow-ups confusing.... |
| I find myself frequently assuming something is a refence to an article I haven't come to yet, only to discover it doesn't exist |
| It's been a while! |
It is so sad that many of the best and brighest are working for an ad company
| What a horrible waste |
| they could be building bombs! |
| Like Froogle? |
| heeheh |
| I meant, Manhattan project or something |
| Really, that's all these poor fools can come up with? They have to choose between those? Puh-leese. |
| Lazy fucks and their free food and laundry. |
| I wonder how many people would choose to get paid more rather than have free food |
Delayed Viewing of TV Shows via DVRs Impacting Ad Negotiations
| As I previously predicted |
| Podrazik points out that people are much more likely to watch certain shows later using a DVR than during the live telecast. "The best examples would be 'Lost' and 'The Office.' |
| so nerds have tivos |
| The time is coming when ratings for "Lost," for example, will tell advertisers how the show performed in its original Wednesday time slot; how it did among viewers who watched it via DVR days later; how much it was watched at ABC.com; and how well it did as an iTunes download, Podrazik says. |
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't wait what turned out to be 6 months for the new ATI card
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Mario64, with the lighting and coloring of modern games
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| yes, this woiuld be intriguing |
| I still think the controls were kind of sucky in that game. mario sunshine was better |
| I hated trying to optimally control the waterpack while doing all the other things. |
| what is a better 3d platformer? |
| (Unfortunately, the image in the first entry doesn't seem to be showing up) |
| eeeets a meeeee... mario! |
| Super Mario Sunshine's "dungeons" were the good stuff, no doubt. The skill/challenge levels. |
| god of war is the only 3d platformer I can think of where I didn't have to dick with the camera |
| I think both Morrowind and Oblivion could have been turned into extremely good 3D platformers. |
| I guess RE4 was pretty good with that too |
| How is RE4 a platformer? |
| how would you classify it? |
| Its a first person shooter, from over the shoulder. There are no jumping elements that one associates with a platformer. |
| fair enough. well, god of war definitely would fit the bill |
| Quake 3 platforming deserves mention |
Interesting new PC RPG, due for release in a few months
| Nothing wrong with The Elder Scrolls games, but sometimes a guy wants to gain some freakin' experience points |
| +1 EXP |
| You know, I think items that boost experience gained are one of the finest things in the universe |
You know how when you were a kid...
| ... And you thought how great it would be when you were grown up and could do whatever you wanted |
| Like going ahead and spoiling your appetite with cookies? |
| Yeah, I'm totally going to do that right now, and we should all induldge our prior selves with such behavior more often |
| I feel like eating cookies instead of a proper dinner, so fuck it, cookies it is! |
Super Mario Kart TAS, you don't want to miss this
| Man, this is great. If you ever played Super Mario Kart, you must watch this movie. |
[H] Enthusiast - XP vs. Vista - A Tale of Framerates
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| Sad, since the DirectX 10 overhead improvements were supposed to offer a 10%-15% advantage on everything |
| Yeah, and that graphic kinda busted outside of the Pants fixed-width content column |
| you asked for fixed width, you got it |
| Not complaining, just noting that my flawed post. |
| is it just bad drivers? |
| or does DX10 have better graphics? |
| This recent article provides good information and performance from newer drivers |
| Vista and DX10 are both still lame. |
| I have been using vista for quite a while with no problems. although, system shock 2 required a lot of time when I hit ESC to get to the menu |
| In theory, DX10 reduces the overhead required for rendering many objects, this increasing performance or allowing more objects for the same performance. It dosen't really increase image quality or add render effects, but it does allow more complex scenes for the same performance. |
| Yes, but you don't have a DX10 video card. |
| I probably don't even have a darn DX9 card |
@What is the accepted lore/canon for why Dr. Wily comes back in each Megaman game?
| Not an easy thing to search the web for... |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it "wailing" and not "whaling"?
 | yes, it's "wailing" |
| unless the dorm students were whales |
| If he was using a spear, it might be forgiveable, but with nunchuks you cannot "Whale" |
| not very well, anyway |
| It would take a vast many ninjas with great strength and endless stamina to beat a whale to death with nunchuks |
| Especially underwater. |
| or on the moon. |
We had a "scale cubicle walls and leap between them for money" session today at work
| Yeah, management was out. |
| I think I tweaked my hip a little. |
| pix |
| I think nothing less than moving pictures would do it justice |
| vidz |
| Yeah, taking video cameras to work is generally frowned upon. |
| Suck it. |
Hey, do either of you guys feel like it is later in the week than it really is?
| Like "Really, its only Wednesday? Seems like its Thursday or Friday" |
| I'm right on schedule |
| Does that phenomenon ever happen to you? It just isn't affecting you right now. |
| Yeah, it happens all the time. |
| I asked five people at work today and we all felt the same way |
| And sometimes in past when this has happened, I would find other people would be sharing the experience as well |
| Despite being the skeptic I am, some part of me likes entertaining the idea its a byproduct of a Dark City-like phenomenon |
| I'm sure I'd be more likely to share that perception if I were also working with you. |
| True, hence my little survey here |
| it varies. sometimes I think its tuesday when its thursday, other times I'll think its thursday when its tuesday. damn days starting with 'T' |
| last weekend, I thought it was sunday when it was only saturday |
| dude, same here. no joke. |
| I blame Tivo. |
| and the lack of football |
| Nope, its the Strangers. |
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New Fark Sucks
| Fixed column width? Fucking shit, I usually stretch it out so that every headline fits on a single line |
| They did the same sort of shitty new-age Web 2.0 bullshit layout that SomethingAwful did |
| That mouseover effect pisses me off too. |
| yes. I am able to click with precision |
| I need not the crutch of hovering text clickability |
| nor the crutch of 1/2 my screen being whitespace |
| I have 1920 horizontal pixels, and they're limiting it to, what, less than 700 pixels? |
| I think its like 480 |
| width:665px; |
| But the actual headline has to fit in much less than that... 400 indeed. |
| (i read their stylesheet) |
| the width of the headline is 443 pixes |
| 665 - 120 - 38 - 64 |
| god, you guys are nerds |
| er, less than that... stupid cellpadding too |
| listen, warren is now using about 1/5 of his monitor width. that is enough to make anyone a raging nerd |
| On the plus side, the horrible animated GIF Fark TV ads (unblockable since they are sourced the same as all other page images) |
| They seem to be gone |
| maybe they're just upgrading them so they fit in the rest of the page |
| I could probably make a greasemonkey script to widen it. but that would take effort |
| and get rid of that damn mouseover crap |
| Would rather use a mobile browser version of Fark than this, but that doesn't seem to be available |
| I'm working on the greasemonkey as we speak |
| Foiba found the mobile version |
EETimes.com - Google surpasses Microsoft as most powerful brand
| What does this even mean? |
So I made this awesome mix CD of various piano and guitar covers of video game songs
| What can I say, I like it |
| However, I didn't realize what kind of odd looks I would get from people sitting next to me at a stop light, while I'm playing a jazzy piano rendition of Super Mario Bros 2 |
Question: How much money should a man carry around with him?
| In cash, say after your average ATM visit |
| I usually pull out $50 when I deposit a check |
| And do you deposit checks with roughly the same frequency you spend $50 cash? |
| I haven't deposited a check in like 3.5 years |
| yeah, $50 a month in cash usually does it. Most of my purchases are on the debit card. |
| I also don't use cash very frequently, but I pull $200 out of the ATM when I go |
| Seems like in the movies, dudes always have an incredible amount of cash on them |
| I probably only average carrying $20 |
| I might hypothesize that married men typically carry less cash |
| I just prefer electronic methods |
| Well obviously, but that is a seperate issue |
| indeed |
| Prior to this question, did you think of yourself as carrying an average amount? |
| no. I definitely carry below average |
| unless children are included |
| and even then. |
| The question is about men. |
| that was supposed to be a joke. |
| yeah, dudes in movies are always able to drop a couple hundred in cash for any reason. |
| Yeah, seems like $1000 is the average movie-dude cash on hand. |
Lead Designer of Civ IV, Soren Johnson, leaves Firaxis Games to join EA and work on Spore
[H] Enthusiast - Top 12 Vista Tweaks
| Any thoughts or additions, Tony? |
| I use vista as a web browser and ssh client. works fine for those :) |
| Well then. |
| its jazzy |
| I think it just might be awesome |
| Or it could be incredibly stupid |
| Its stupid awesome |
| For Tony |
| Make sure and grab the AVI of it (the torrent link) |
| On second thought, maybe its glad I never realized my alternate universe fantasy of being a game designer |
| maybe it's glad, maybe it's not |
| Its the little details that make it funny |
| I always wondered why they were throwing away so many giant poles on the detention level |
| too flimsy? |
| I wondered why they threw away the cool monster |
Recent Gaming
| After Oblivion, there was Darkstar One. After that, there was The Movies. |
| That lead to some SimCity 4, and then some Syndicate, and then some rather inexplicable Castlevania II. |
| And now I'm on Galactic Civilization II. |
| have they patched SimCity4 significantly? |
| I recall some pretty buggy gameplay |
| Not really. Having a computer that has 10 times more performance than the computers had when it was released helps. |
| There is an expansion, but I just played the original. |
| TEH AWESOME |
Wow, I didn't actually expect them to pick this # 1
| I'm totally going to be taking time off from work to play the remake |
| guess I should try half-life 2 at some point |
| no |
Grand Duchy of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Positively ridiculous tricks at 4:30, 6:36, 10:25, 10:55, 12:52 |
| This is almost up there with Dragorn's run for trying impossibly hard things in a single-segment run |
Random Zoidberg emoticon
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| I was sort of expecting some ascii zoidberg |
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Question for you guys
| If someone referred to you as a "cracker-jack engineer", how would you take that? |
| if my name was jack, I would be offended |
| Are you aware of any intrepretation of calling something a "cracker-jack" version being a good thing? |
| cracker jacks have lots of ingredients... |
| engineering them is probably difficult |
| cracker jacks are a delicious consistent food product. a miracle of modern science |
| My Tony-clone friend referred someone to me and told them I was one of the cracker-jack engineers, when he probably meant to say "crack team of engineers" |
| I'd certainly be proud to engineer cracker jacks |
| When confronted with this, he said, "but I like cracker jacks! and the toys! I thought it was a compliment!" |
| we tony folk think alike |
| yeah, he probably meant it along the lines of "crack team" |
| Yeah. Constantly infuriatings my folk. |
| honestly, i thought you were just some outer space potato monster |
| Spare me your space-age technobabble, Attila the Hun! |
| a game where everyone gets to be a single block would be cool |
| but probably not fun |
This site needs to be an Awful Link of the Day
A Great Combination of Domain Name, Logo, Article Picture, and Content
| despite knowing better, continue to make this mistake and use superfluous ats |
Pigdog Journal (Mr. Bad's List) -- Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument
| 52. Um, hello? We're using VON NEUMANN MACHINES HERE. |
| I can't wait to use that kiddy porn one on someone |
Chocolate Wii Controller on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Needed Vista gadget for Tony
| A death clock |
| A completely untapped market |
| wonder if it goes negative |
| Should just hang at 0, basically "you should die at any second" |