Friday Links: Jarts Edition
The Onion strikes again … or should I say ’struck’ considering this gem is from 2000. I thought it deserved a second look. Damn kids and their toys.
Keep reading for Guile being busted for Insurance fraud, the 12 most ridiculous things you can buy on the internet and Macquarie giving all us bankers a good name.
Videogame Links
Interesting
Team Teamwork presents the greatest videogame link you’ll ever find: I guarantee this will never be topped. Vinyl Fantasy 7 and the equally impressive Ocarina of Rhyme. (They were pulled from the original website so this is a mirror that might be taken down at any point for copyright infringement. Catch it while you can!)
Yes – sex box. Beware! You can always count on the news for a paranoid story.
Greatest AI characters in videogames. I concur.
Patrick Stewart doesn’t play videogames because he has an addictive personality and is afraid they will consume his life. Stay strong.
Ghost from Modern Warfare 2 in real life. This man would be hard pressed to be quite as hardcore, however.
Looking good, Ghost. Keep stylin'
7 games from the past decade that have aged well. I think he should really go back and play some of these and realize just how shit they seem today.
Apparently the ending to System Shock 2 was meant to be different. This is possibly one of those situations where they stumbled upon brilliance, if Bioshock (their ‘real vision’) is anything to go by.
Russian Scientific institute that should really be the setting for a Half-Life 2 movie.
Call of Duty performance graphed against beer intake. Apparently there is no effect.
New Ms. America says something along the lines of ‘Videogames are shit and all your gamers are fat slobs who deserve to be burned for fuel.’ I’m paraphrasing here …
Funny
Mega Man rap; definitely nerdy but I loved it.
Guile busted for insurance fraud. Well played.
Guile isn't worried about a little thing like Insurance Fraud getting between him and Bison
Fan-made Final Fight trailer. Not half bad.
I have brought great shame to my family
A video from Duke Nukem Forever surfaces. Let’s just admit it now: the game was going to be dogshit no matter whether it came out or not.
CBS not pleased with Dante’s Inferno’s ‘Go to Hell’ tagline for the Super Bowl. ‘Hell Awaits’ is barely as good.
Sega? My god, how the mighty have fallen.
Yet another in a series of incredible case mods: Kratos. Not so godly now, eh?
Bioware make a damn good game. Allowing gay chat on their message boards … on the other hand …
This Red Steel 2 speed drawing video is far better than Red Steel 2 can possibly be.
Non-Videogame Links
Interesting
The 12 most ridiculous things you can buy on the internet. I own all 12. Check … and mate.
Yet another ridiculous thing you can buy on the internet: laser cut toast
January 1990’s Vogue. Those were the days.
You know how I know I’m racist? Anytime an IP dispute comes from China I laugh to myself. iPad infringes on this thing … seriously China?
These card flourishes are impressive I suppose, but 1) the shirt changing is more impressive to me and 2) who really aims to get good at this as a kid?
Bill Watterson finally comes out of his attic or wherever he was hiding to do an interview.
States ranked by their ‘religiousness’ … and other factors charted against that. What can I conclude from this chart? Nobody is poor in New Hampshire and Maryland. Mississippi, on the other hand …
Apparently liquid glass is going to save us all. One can only hope. Merely melting down normal glass and coating myself with it hasn’t been working.
Heinz finally gets around to updating their ketchup packet designs. No more just filling the bathtub with ketchup and getting in for me … now I’m going to keep it classy.
Funny
Nice job Macquarie banker. Keep improving the finance image for the rest of us worldwide.
Macquarie: Making bankers look bad since 2010
Four impressions … quite good, except for Morgan Freeman, which is pathetic.
Not entirely sure what’s going on here, but I like it. That cow on the right is all ‘que?’ Am I right? *High Five*
Rip Torn sets the bar pretty low for actors acting poorly. Then again, this might finally drop him from C list to D list, his longtime dream.
I have brought great shame to my family
Fun little game called ‘Chain Reaction.’ Fun can turn to annoyance quickly but it’s worth a look.
Giant boat crash. Fail.
All aboard the failboat
Did I miss anything else? Hit up the comments!
