Someone's come up with an RTS game that incorporates time travel as a game mechanic. My brain falls apart if I even try to comprehend the kind of strategies one could come up with for this :D
(Actually I think the term 'RTS' might be inadequate for describing this game)
Look! It's Mark Lamarr all silvered up!
The treadmill with wheels.
It seems to be real, because it has a website.
Play Dwarf Fortress
Ignore the crappy-looking website and download the game, then spend thirty minutes smashing your face against the learning
Build a fortress for your dwarves, have them make all kinds of useful things, hope they don't starve, then get invaded by goblins or giant spiders or elephants and have all your dwarves killed, the build a new fortress and start again but with more traps :D
www.blurrrville.com
www.blurrrville.com
Many of the others are better than this one. Everyone should read them.
A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world."
Comic books are immensely popular in Japan, with some fictional characters becoming celebrities or even sex symbols. Marriage, meanwhile, is on the decline as many young Japanese find it difficult to find life partners.
Taichi Takashita has launched an online petition aiming for 1 million signatures to present to the Government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.
Within a week he has gathered more than 1,000 signatures through the internet.
"I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world," he wrote.
"However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?"
Befitting his desire to be two-dimensional, he listed no contact details, making it impossible to reach him for comment to explain if his campaign is serious or tongue-in-cheek.
But some people signing the petition are true believers.
"For a long time I have only been able to fall in love with two-dimensional people and currently I have someone I really love," one person wrote.
"Even if she is fictional, it is still loving someone. I would like to have legal approval for this system at any cost," the person added.
Japan only permits marriage between human men and women and gives no legal recognition to same-sex relationships.
The reasoning behind this is... unfathomable to me.
( Poem )
I'm still hunting down the table/chair slashfic I promised too - expect more soon (hopefully).
Maybe not.
Fortunately,
Head, meet desk.
That one got deleted, so here's something random:
www.wondermark.com
Quoted below, verbatim, is my response to this entry in Camo's journal. If anyone else thinks I was too harsh, please let me know.
lol wut?
Dude, seriously, you need to remove your head from your arse and get over yourself. Failing at job interviews is not a big deal, and it is not personal. I've had more horrible interviews than you've had heated debates, I know how you feel but taking it personally is not going to help.
With that out of the way, do you mind if I make a few constructive comments?
1. When an interviewer gives you feedback after an interview, it is a good thing. It is supposed to help you be more successful in the future. The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - by getting feedback, you are able to change your behaviour and therefore change the outcome (ie. have a successful interview). In any case, it's likely that you probably gave quite a good interview and the interviewer thinks that if you take the feedback on board, you will probably be successful next time.
2. Appearance is important because first impressions are important. People make judgements about you from the first moment they see you, and you will get very little opportunity to correct them. Wear a bigger shirt. If you don't have one, buy one. If you can't afford to buy one, borrow one from a friend. If you can't do this, leave your top button unbuttoned and tie your tie loosely below it - that way it doesn't look like you are trying to conceal it. On an unrelated note, is you hair long enough to tie back? If so, do - it looks neater and less imposing.
3. All that talk about first impressions above is practically irrelevant anyway. What you gave when you met the interviewer for the first time was a second impression - your first impression was the phone call where you told her you would be late. Next time, find out where you are going and be ludicrously early. In this case, you made two bad impressions before you even opened your mouth, and that's hard to come back from.
4. One of the first questions you will be asked in any interview is "what do you know about the company?". The answer to your question "was I supposed to go straight to google and research the company?" is HELL YES YOU WERE. Especially with 18 hours notice and internet access at home. There is no excuse for fucking that question up at all. So you turned up late, shabbily dressed, for an interview with a company about which you knew nothing. How well did you really expect that interview to go?
5. You should at least pretend that you want the job. You know, and the interviewer knows, that this is not necessarily the One Chosen Path that your career will take. The fact that you turned up to the interview suggests that you want the job, for whatever reason, and if you don't at least behave like you want the job then you are wasting your own time and the interviewer's time. Of course, sometimes during the interview it becomes clear that it isn't the job for you, but that's normal and not a problem.
6. There is no easy way to say this, and others will probably phrase it better than me: society is not designed solely to accommodate you. There is no Paul-shaped hole into which you will easily fit if only you could find it, and even if there is, you're not going to find it by turning up to interviews for office jobs screaming (metaphorically) "take me as I am or not at all!". Nor are you so awesome that anyone is going to overlook the fact that you turned up late, looked scruffy, hadn't done the bare minimum of research, and made no effort to even appear to care about the job. Nobody will say "this guy gave the worst interview ever, but on the off-chance that he *might* be really good, let's give him a job anyway". Sorry. Had to be said.
7. The fact that there is no Paul-shaped hole in society made specially for you does not mean that society has no room for you. You have friends who are prepared to help you and hate to see you fuck yourself up like this.
I hope you're still reading this, I really do. I hope that hearing this from someone who is not a 'faceless suit' will give you some perspective on the matter, and that you will take what I said and what the interviewer said to heart. She isn't a heartless bitch, she was genuinely trying to help. Keep picking yourself up, keep learning from your mistakes and eventually you will succeed.
Dude, seriously, you need to remove your head from your arse and get over yourself. Failing at job interviews is not a big deal, and it is not personal. I've had more horrible interviews than you've had heated debates, I know how you feel but taking it personally is not going to help.
With that out of the way, do you mind if I make a few constructive comments?
1. When an interviewer gives you feedback after an interview, it is a good thing. It is supposed to help you be more successful in the future. The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - by getting feedback, you are able to change your behaviour and therefore change the outcome (ie. have a successful interview). In any case, it's likely that you probably gave quite a good interview and the interviewer thinks that if you take the feedback on board, you will probably be successful next time.
2. Appearance is important because first impressions are important. People make judgements about you from the first moment they see you, and you will get very little opportunity to correct them. Wear a bigger shirt. If you don't have one, buy one. If you can't afford to buy one, borrow one from a friend. If you can't do this, leave your top button unbuttoned and tie your tie loosely below it - that way it doesn't look like you are trying to conceal it. On an unrelated note, is you hair long enough to tie back? If so, do - it looks neater and less imposing.
3. All that talk about first impressions above is practically irrelevant anyway. What you gave when you met the interviewer for the first time was a second impression - your first impression was the phone call where you told her you would be late. Next time, find out where you are going and be ludicrously early. In this case, you made two bad impressions before you even opened your mouth, and that's hard to come back from.
4. One of the first questions you will be asked in any interview is "what do you know about the company?". The answer to your question "was I supposed to go straight to google and research the company?" is HELL YES YOU WERE. Especially with 18 hours notice and internet access at home. There is no excuse for fucking that question up at all. So you turned up late, shabbily dressed, for an interview with a company about which you knew nothing. How well did you really expect that interview to go?
5. You should at least pretend that you want the job. You know, and the interviewer knows, that this is not necessarily the One Chosen Path that your career will take. The fact that you turned up to the interview suggests that you want the job, for whatever reason, and if you don't at least behave like you want the job then you are wasting your own time and the interviewer's time. Of course, sometimes during the interview it becomes clear that it isn't the job for you, but that's normal and not a problem.
6. There is no easy way to say this, and others will probably phrase it better than me: society is not designed solely to accommodate you. There is no Paul-shaped hole into which you will easily fit if only you could find it, and even if there is, you're not going to find it by turning up to interviews for office jobs screaming (metaphorically) "take me as I am or not at all!". Nor are you so awesome that anyone is going to overlook the fact that you turned up late, looked scruffy, hadn't done the bare minimum of research, and made no effort to even appear to care about the job. Nobody will say "this guy gave the worst interview ever, but on the off-chance that he *might* be really good, let's give him a job anyway". Sorry. Had to be said.
7. The fact that there is no Paul-shaped hole in society made specially for you does not mean that society has no room for you. You have friends who are prepared to help you and hate to see you fuck yourself up like this.
I hope you're still reading this, I really do. I hope that hearing this from someone who is not a 'faceless suit' will give you some perspective on the matter, and that you will take what I said and what the interviewer said to heart. She isn't a heartless bitch, she was genuinely trying to help. Keep picking yourself up, keep learning from your mistakes and eventually you will succeed.
Sorry for the small text etc.
EDIT: I should probably point out this link too, in the interests of balance
EDIT 2: Link here http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/spre
I encourage everyone to download a live CD here and play about with it, and eventually install and use it. You can even run certain Windows programs in it, if you absolutely must (but don't ask me how, I'm still figuring that bit out :D.
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