Websites that make you cheer, do a backflip, or both

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:17 pm

Obama does not have the voice for those lines. AT ALL. It is, of course, hilarious.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:44 pm

Boolean wrote:Speaking of which, about a month ago I think, someone linked a Pride & Prejudice RPG?

Not that one book, but a Regency Romance game. Stats were angst, hatred, and oldness or something...

Characters could fight duels, declare love and slowly go crazy...

does this ring a bell?

That would work amazingly well for an Troll Wars RPG wherein you roleplay as a bunch of nerds arguing on a forum.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:43 am

Sigma, I've played that game. It's quite addictive, if frustrating at times. You don't need rules though, it works well freeform. Here, I'll show you.

SKUB SUCKS

JE: that looks awesome

Frank: Oh, exploitable!

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:48 am

Release The Obamabot.

-Username17

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:32 am

Finding this online made me giddy. {Ok, nerdy}

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:33 am

Koumei wrote:Sigma, I've played that game. It's quite addictive, if frustrating at times. You don't need rules though, it works well freeform. Here, I'll show you.

SKUB SUCKS

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

I'm doing it on the t of g right now. You'd rage too if you knew the topic so I'll keep that a dirty secret, but I'll leave a hint though: an unending crusade against a pervasive subject very dear to much of neckbeardom.

It's fun and some actually give you pointers when you botch, which I didn't. At all.
I scored pretty well, actually.
UFUFUFU

Someone wrote to a failed troll: wrote:Not only that it's too obvious, it's almost too tl;dr (LOL REDUNDANT). It's very in-depth and unnecessary, particularly in reference to the current discussion, and it's too hard to follow. Also, it doesn't insult or offend anyone here directly, which is always a plus with a troll.

If you'd have separated it out into 2 or 3 short paragraphs, it would have looked less tl;dr, but it still wouldn't have gotten the job done.

Anyway.
Ever wondered where Frank and PR get those awesome memes?
Well, not all are scrounged from the anusi of the internets...
Try this on:
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:22 pm

Koumei wrote:Sigma, I've played that game. It's quite addictive, if frustrating at times. You don't need rules though, it works well freeform. Here, I'll show you.

SKUB SUCKS

JE: that looks awesome

Frank: Oh, exploitable!

That's nuttin.

You can get to suit up in your spess mehrine armor for reals, go shoot chaos spess merhines with a laser snot gun while Optimus Prime kills chinese commies and throws nuklear footballs at the chaos merhines, as well as going all Evangellion on the lamer CSM forcefields.

Also, I forgot about the nuklear bomb catapults. Although, it's really more like a nuklear Atlatl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZvtDC-_ ... re=related

Footage since it happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3yJRXpSOQ&fmt=18

HD Footage with uplifting democratic russian background muzak.

I'm 'trying' to get a non-giant flamer and a bolter made, but it's taking time. Since I'm learning this GECK application.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:53 am

If anyone would make a mech like that, it would be the Russians.
I suspect they would go for bigger bulk and moar lazorz though.

Here's an unusual story:
http://www.onemanga.com/Biomega

General Narain is Da Shit.

Although, I prefer Abara more, and BLAME even before either.
http://www.onemanga.com/Abara/
http://www.onemanga.com/BLAME/

Biomega is prequel to BLAME. Abara is standalone (I think).

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:07 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:Grabowski just pointed me towards this open source SRPG design program:

http://www.wesnoth.org/

and the tutorials:

http://catb.org/~esr/wesnoth/campaign-design-howto.html
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/BuildingCampaignsTutorial

I haven't had time to play with it yet, but I'm doing a backflip inside just knowing it exists.

The people who made this are clowns.

I downloaded it, set it to English, and it reverted to Czech anyway. Then I set language preferences in the fucking game to English - and the in-game menus are in Czech anyway.

Who the fucking hell is so rock stupid that they set in-game menus to look up your physical location instead of your game language settings?

-Username17

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:43 pm

Who makes game language settings and then disregards them?

-Crissa

Heath Robinson · Post by **Heath Robinson** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:20 am

Someone thought they were being clever when they decided to make it automatically select language on the basis of your physical location. Submit a bug/feature report along the lines of "make the language setting actually do something".

Or, y'know, the relevant person has no clue that the language setting exists.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:36 am

Or just, well, don't use it.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:42 am

It's actually fixable, and I fixed it.

Wesnoth is a lot like Age of Wonders.

-Username17

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:15 am

I remember Wesnoth. Tried it out a few years ago, but it didn't really catch my interest. Most of the appeal in turn-based strategy games for me lies in making content with the editor, with playing through the main campaign usually coming in second.

I still can't figure out how to script events or place units in the Wesnoth editor, so it takes third place after Age of Wonders 2 / 3 (I count Shadow Magic as an expansion to 2) and Disciples 2. It's very nice to have something OS-X and Linux compatible, though.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:01 am

http://evilatheistconspiracy.org/
Nuff said
The cartoon here is fucking awesome

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:47 pm

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:27 am

Here's one thing that always bothered me.

South Park way back when ran a cartoon about showing tolerance towards Mormons despite believing screwy things because the belief didn't hurt anyone. Ignoring the obvious bullshit of that statement (hello Prop 8, how you doing?), the underlying message of being tolerant towards peoples' beliefs is sound. Fair enough.

But then... South Park takes a bunch of pot shots at Scientology, making fun of the religion and the people who believe in it.

Something went ridiculously wrong here.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:49 am

I though the Mormon episode was critical of them.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:15 am

I though the Mormon episode was critical of them.

It ended with the Mormon boy telling Stan pretty much to fuck off for judging him by his religious beliefs.

Of course, Stan should've just countered by asking why the church is so racist and questioned the divinity of a church whose main figure repeatedly plagiarized, but then the show wouldn't have been able to force its hypocritical moral down our tender, virgin throats.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:45 pm

South Park is about being funny, not being right. Scientology is funny. Mormonism is just... sad. You can't make fun of Mormonism because the people are seriously already suffering enough by swallowing it. Scientology otoh is primarily practiced by the rich and you're allowed to make fun of the rich (especially the eccentric rich like scientology seems to go after) all you want as long as they're not your employers.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:07 am

The mormon episode was much funnier than the scientology. Both were outing the over the top stupidity of both religions.

The fact that the mormon episode also showed that people who follow fucked up religions (catholicism anyone?) can also be perfectly nice and caring people is a worthy point to be made.

The scientology episodes point the Tom Cruise fucking sucks, was equally worthy, just in a different way.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:50 am

Lago PARANOIA wrote:
I though the Mormon episode was critical of them.
It ended with the Mormon boy telling Stan pretty much to fuck off for judging him by his religious beliefs.

And then Cartman called the Mormon guy cool. Thats literally like having Hitler endorse a statement.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:25 pm

DA wrote:And then Cartman called the Mormon guy cool. Thats literally like having Hitler endorse a statement.

I really don't think the point of Cartman saying that was to negate the moral the story was going for--I think it was just Cartman doing his usual thing of being unable to resist any cheap shots.

If that WAS the point of Cartman saying that then the writers of this show are a lot more inept than I thought.

Beth_Naught · Post by **Beth_Naught** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:00 pm

Praise Dagon!

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:45 am

Lago PARANOIA wrote:If that WAS the point of Cartman saying that then the writers of this show are a lot more inept than I thought.

Well they have in the past had Jimbo convince the KKK to vote against changing the flag to make sure everyone else votes to keep it. They know the effect, I doubt it was unintentional.

Southpark is a very blunt instrument both in terms of humor and moral/political message.