With Lord of the Rings on the telly and my dear old aluminium Merrick warming my thighs I embark upon a mission of high importance, a mission of dire beginnings, a mission of great consequence and a mission of practicing the useless. I a stand before you today to try and teach you of the dangers we are all facing – the dangers brought on by the endless hordes of noobs in the world.
But first, a little introduction by Nahtze (Jeremy from Pure Pwnage):
As Nahtzee lovably explains, noobs have ruined the gaming industry, but when you think about it, noobs have destroyed much more than just the gaming industry. Just look at how, for example, noobs have destroyed the music and movie industry. Back in the good old days of radio and television whatever was of the best quality in that it told the best tale or had the best musicians or even just had very awesome character development was what made it to the top charts and gained heaps of money.
Nowadays, however, our televisions are filled with the Big Brothers and American Next Top Models out there. Hell, even the sitcoms and so called education shows are much less about being entertaining and whatnot, but just about … hell, what ARE they about? To be honest, I find it increasingly harder to tell what television is even about, it would seem all the noobs out there just sort of gobble up anything you throw at them and because they’ve been told it’s awesome they also think it’s awesome and love it. So, because of the standardless noobs even those of us who would LIKE something worthwhile to watch, but there simply isn’t anything available anymore.
Or take books for example, a while ago only good authors could become successful, geniuses like Boccaccio, Orwell and similar had a hard time succeeding and proving to everyone that they’re a good read. Nowadays … well, nowadays we have schams like Dan Brown becoming instant best sellers and stories like Harry Potter being thought of as the height of literary creation. Fucking tasteless noobs, you’ve destroyed literature for us so the good stuff doesn’t even make it onto the shelves anymore or tries so hard to be different than the popular stuff it becomes unreadable. If you want to be taken seriously as literature, you must be different than pop, but be too different and yuck, unreadable. So if we could just somehow kill all the noobs and thus give popular literature a better name, the really good books wouldn’t have to try so hard to be artsy and we could actually all enjoy them. Yes yes, chicken and egg problem. Whatever.
So what else have noobs destroyed for the rest of us? Political debates? Most certainly. Education? They’ve destroyed it with all religious campaigning against reason. Well, noobs have destroyed everything, or are on the verge of doing so … it sucks. Go away noobs, please, just all drop off the face of the planet and go live on Pluto or something.
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History of Everything is a song by The Bare Naked Ladies and has been loved by me for the past two years as the theme song of The Big Bang Theory, the best show on earth, but more on that later. This post can only be done justice by your watching the following video.
So as it turns out I'm such an idiot as to forget to mention why exactly I was an idiot in the first place when previously talking about idiocy . What I was going to mention was why exactly it is that Lestat took so long to get fixed up and why he wasn't working in the first place. As it turns out processors have separate power connectors these days and I quite simply didn't connect it and thus … problems.
But let's put all of that aside for now, I'm here to talk about how sexy linux has become, well it's been sexy before but I've never quite tapped into the vast expense of sexiness available to me for one reason or another. Of course I've mentioned some of this before, but this time there's a video and with window decorations all fixed up and sexy as well.
You might notice that there's still a bunch of other plugins I could have enabled, shown even, but I didn't because I either don't know about them or was, for the time being, too dazzled by all of this as it was to think of even more sexy things to find.
Somewhere at around 2:32 in the video you might notice me adding a cup of tea on the desktop. That's my Tea Cooker plasmoid I was talking about making. So far it's had a night's worth of development put in and me basically learning everything I did along the way … SVG graphics, by the by, are bloody awesome things. It's not very useful yet but it's had 23 downloads in what is essentially a single day. That's surprisingly plenty for something that doesn't even half work yet (can't quite stop/start/reset the timer yet) and I do intend on making it a lot better, but am having some trouble with libraries and such so I'm waiting for the final release of kde4.1 in hopes it solves my problems.
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O tem videu ne morem povedati niÄ, kar bi ga bilo vredno, zato si ga poste paÄ morali ogledati.
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Pred nekaj noÄmi sem v temi slišal Äudne zvoke in se jih skoraj malo bal, ampak nisem obupaval, tiho sem se skrival pod posteljo in Äakal konca strašnega vdora v moje domovanje in se Äudil o vzroku strahu.
Nekaj kasneje ob prižganih luÄeh pa sem opazil zabaven prizor in se nenadoma zavedel vzroka nenavadnih zvokov … pogumna maÄka loveÄ vrteÄo eliso mojega Odstranjevalca VroÄine.
Haha, youtube je potemnil video … škoda.
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SinoÄi sem se sreÄal s še eno odliÄno pesmijo za katero se je izkazalo, da je v resnici priredba pesmi iz 80-ih, electropop, synthpop, electronica ali katerikoli žanr je že paÄ bil … preveÄ preveÄ podobnih žanrov v 80-ih, zelo nadležno.
Kar se mi zdi Äudno je, da vse moderne priredbe electropop pesmi, ki jih najdem, zvenijo neizmerno bolje od original, za razliko od rock priredb, ki so ponavadi slabše kvalitete in jim manjka neko Äustvo.
Vzamimo za primer Sweet Dreams banda Eurhythmics, prav fajn pesem, dober zven, ampak neskonÄno nadležna v svoji izvedbi. Sedaj pa poglejmo Marylin Mansonovo izvedbo in opazimo, da vsebuje veliko veÄji obÄutek, zveni bolje in preprosto bolj pristoji besedilu. Fear for Tears – Mad World je podoben primer, v originalu popolnoma neprimerna za besedilo in deluje skoraj kot parodija, medtem ko Gary Jules/Michael Andrews priredba odliÄno pristoji besedilu, poÄasno depresivna in preprosto odliÄna.
Najzanimivejša razlika, ki jo opažam je, da moderne priredbe praviloma zmanjšajo tempo originala, uporabijo globlji bolj Äustven glas in veliko preprostejšo glasbeno ozadje. Se tako moÄno spreminjajo le Äasi ali se globalno spreminja glasbeni okus poslušalcev, ali pa je electropop preprosto slaba glasba?
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OÄitno je spletno nasilje nekod po svetu postalo dovolj velik problem, da se je nekdo odloÄil posneti nekaj oglasov na to temo, se pravi Äivkanje proti temu. ÄŒudim se kako je to za nekatere sploh lahko tako velik problem in zakaj so izbrali tak slogan, da opraviÄi neupoštevanje le-tega tako veliko ljudem.
Bodimo natanÄnejši, slogan pravi: "ÄŒe tega ne bi rekli v resnici, zakaj potem reÄi na spletu?" in prepriÄan sem, da vas veliko vidi kje je tu problem. Prvo kot prvo predvideva, da so vsi opazovalci oglasa hipokritiÄne barabe, ki nikoli ne povedo kaj mislijo in se Äloveku raje smehljajÄkajo v obraz in ga potem zabodejo v hrbet. To je narobe. Celo tako zelo je narobe, da bi moralo postati javni problem in biti Äivkano proti. To bi lahko rešilo veliko ljudi iz prijateljstev z ljudmi, ki jih v resnici sploh ne marajo.
Lahko bi se povedalo še veliko o napaÄnosti hipokritiÄnosti, ampak posvetimo se raje temi. Poglejmo zakaj je spletno nasilje sploh problem, ker preprosto ne morem odkriti razlogov. Ko ti na spletu nekdo govori stvari, ki jih noÄeš slišati lahko zapreš pogovorno okno, lahko greš na drug forum ali pa preprosto na drugo temo in lahko Äloveka celo blockaš, da ti nikoli veÄ ne more niÄ reÄi. Zakaj je torej to tak problem, ko pa imamo toliko možnosti? Sploh pa, zakaj bi kogarkoli brigalo kaj nekdo pol sveta stran pravi in misli, ker to preprosto ni pomembno v nobenem pogledu.
KonÄujem z mislijo, ki sem jo nekoÄ slišal od modre uÄiteljice matematike: "ÄŒe je resniÄno, potem ni žaljivka in ne bi smelo žaliti."
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VÄeraj sem se malÄek igral z Getrude, mojim LEGO trebuchetem in se odloÄil posneti kratek video bedne kvalitete. Moral bi bil to spraviti na blog že vÄeraj pa mi je nekak ušlo iz misli.
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S pogledom v Medeninasta OÄala sem našel tale lušten filmÄek. Ne vem kaj me na njem privlaÄi bolj, izjemna privlaÄnost nenavadnega stila ali prijetna tekoÄnost same pesmi. Verzijo z angleškimi podnapisi lahko najdete tu.
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Tole je video avstralke, ki bere pravljico, ne vem zakaj, ampak zdi se mi neverjetno smešno.
Tole pa je uprizoritev obsesivno-kompulzivno ciste osebe.
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