So, I totally made this as a response to Ryans post but didn’t get a chance to post it because of the great kindercore.com pwnage of 08 (thanks hacker jerks! you guys are buttheads!) and because uh… I’m lazy. So, old joke, I know, but here it is now:
Also: apparently there’s this site out there that gives away free indie games? Right now, they’ve got a pretty great, bombastic, totally metal, old-school shmup called Jets n Guns. The website claims that developers get paid for featuring their game on the site, though I have to wonder how good the deal is for them. I guess it must be, though, because I don’t know why devs would take part in it otherwise. Where does this giveawayoftheday.com get their revenue I wonder? There’s only a couple ads on the page, so it seems unlikely it’s entirely from that. Maybe I’m being too cynical about this and should just enjoy it, but it just seems kinda too good to be true. Indie game studios are totally rad, and I would hate to see someone taking advantage of their unique and potentially unstable place in the industry.
One independant dev studio that has a nearly rock solid place in the industry these days, however, is also giving away giving away one of it’s biggest games, albeit temporarily: Team Fortress 2 is free again this weekend, in honor of the new Pyro update. Seriously, dudes, if you are even sort of into online games, try TF2, it’s so freaking awesome it’s not even funny. Well, it is actually pretty funny, but it’s level of awesomeness is serious business.
As some of you know I spend a few hours a day designing tombstones and catalogs full of tombstones… Today while working on our new catalog I was editing a photo and noticed the scariest monument I have ever seen in the background.
Cropped for your pleasure:
It looks like some kind of evil Nazi propaganda statue for a fascist army of giant birds!
Keep in mind that our monuments are made in China and as such, this statue is in a warehouse somewhere in the Chinese mainland… someone call Lou Dobbs, I think the Reds might finally be ready for world domination!
And we thought the bird flu was the scariest avian threat coming from Asia.
If you aren’t the pop culture obsessed TV/Web nerd that I am you might have missed this rant from a “fan” in response to people dogging on Britney Spears for her outfit and performance at the MTV Awards. Peep it now as it’s the necesarry set-up for the payoff in the next video. If you have already seen it then feel free to skip right to the next jam:
Magic, right? Anway now lay your eyes on this slice of gold from comedian Phillip Wilburn:
Ah, the confluence of retarded pop culture and deadly serious government warmongering. Only in the good old U.S. of fucking A!!!
In a move reminiscent of Kitty Pryde sending her consciousness back in time to warn the X-Men of impending doom in the classic “Days of Future Past” story arc, Dick Cheney apparently attempted to warn us (by sending his future brain back to his 1994 body) of what would happen if we invaded Iraq. Perhaps the Dick will be overcome with guilt somewhere around 2009 when he realizes that his actions as VP sent the country hurtling towards the brink of destruction and in a final attempt to make good on a life of evil, he will use experimental science (perhaps a future pacemaker) to send himself back in time to undo what he had done.
So now we are the assholes for not listening.
Or perhaps he is just a dangerously destructive and criminally out of touch old-timer determined to take the whole world out with him.
