Friday Links: Nocturnal Edition
What’s the first rule of branding? Deliver what you promise. ‘First I dress up like a bat, then I scare the living bejesus out of you.’ Whoever wrote that description is the Hemingway of the internet. He rules the internet SuperHemingway? The Old Man and the Sea(rch engine)? A Firewall to Arms? For Whom the Dell Tolls? No, no, none of this makes any sense.
Read on for more exciting examples of hip hop butchering (the remix), obscene surfing tricks and the first sign of the impending apocalypse. Who else thought Ethiopia would be the one to bring us all down?
Videogame Links
Interesting
While many commentators went berserk over Infinity Ward’s F.A.G.S. video, the Brainy Gamer as usual had the best and most reasoned response. Anecdotally, bad week for Cole Hamels, amirite?
The artist of the DOOM box cover, Don Ivan Punchatz, has died. While official reports said ‘heart attack,’ eyewitnesses claim a fiery rift to hell opened up and he went out wildly firing his trusty plasma rifle, Betsy.
The Escapist explores the history of war games. From chess to roshambo, they’re all valuable ways of teaching battlefield strategy.
Here is the newest trailer for Darksiders, a game that is looking increasingly badass. How can nobody be excited about a game that is Zelda reskinned with this incredible visual style?
In a move that essentially guarantees Rare’s next game will continue the company’s swift decline towards Suck-town, they want to implement Natal technology in their next FPS.
In a move practically guaranteed to give the final advantage to Steam, competing digital retailers stop selling MW2 until Steam functionality is removed from it. Really, you want to take a stand on the highest selling videogame of all time?
Carmack holds the line on dedicated servers. Stop whining PC community, the battle is lost. Also could DOOM 3 run on the iPhone 3GS? The wizard claims it can.
Legends of the early days of Bioware, such as how it began with $100k of capital. Anybody want to start a game company with me?
Goodnight, sweet prince
Funny
Ok, I’ll admit – this is pretty good. Still, it hardly compares to what my friends and I (ok, just me) did for Halloween: we reenacted the scenes from Sixteen Candles where I sit sobbing in my room, alone.
The guitarist from Queen was very concerned over his lego avatar’s hair. Looking good.
I have brought great shame to my family
What is the only thing that was missing from Street Fighter 4? That’s right: car punching. Well, it’s back and better than ever. Still, it’s arguable whether anybody will, or *can* top this guy.
The videogame alignment chart. I can’t tell if this is stupid or interesting, hence it goes down here at the bottom, with the dregs.
Venezuela to jail merchants who sell violent games. You tell ‘em Chavez! Somebody had to take a stand. You think America has freedom?
Non-Videogame Links
Interesting
Video of woman discussing the art of butchering meat. I don’t know what I find fascinating about it, but I do know a few things: 1) Meat is delicious. 2) Butchers deal with meat. 3) Therefore … butchers are delicious? Wait …
Henry VIII: Don’t fuck with him. The man had a gun mace. I guess we know now what happened to wife 3.
Henry VIII: Eat your heart out Van Helsing
For some reason this man got a lot of coverage for having a ‘big head papercraft halloween costume.’ Unfortunately, his site is to raise awareness of his horrible and rare genetic deformity, but NOBODY WOULD LISTEN
This is the most ridiculous surfing maneuver I have ever seen, and I’ve seen plenty. Just when you think people had pushed something to the limit …
A giant crack opens up in Africa in just DAYS! 2012 COMES EARLY! Repent, sinners, REPENT
Rifts opening up in the earth. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
Funny
I’ll bet Christians would be annoyed by this epic venn diagram, but to be honeste it makes me *more* interested in religion.
First off, is this man wearing a sweater with his legs in the sleeves? What’s going on at Mjolk headquarters? Thankfully, the reviews are up to fine internet standard.
It doesn’t look like that Child is with anybody. I wonder if we can just take him, and EAT HIM
Independent trailer commercial. I’m not even in the market for trailers and if I lived nearby I’d totally go buy one. Keeping it real.
I thought they smelled bad on the outside.
I have brought great shame to my family
First photos ever of a sinister Scientologist ritual, taken by an insider who risked their safety to sneak these out. THE HORROR!
The army takes their next big step forward with unmanned warfare. This time with a remote controlled bear.
Is this real? Are they high? What is going on here?
Where is this gondola going? What, exactly, are the Chinese up to on top of a mountain? If anybody needs me, I’ll be building a fallout shelter in my back yard.
Anything I missed that is worth a look? Hit up the comments! Or not, I don’t care.
