Friday Links: Yakuza Edition
This week opens with Mega64: A Yakuza 3 Short Film. Rapier wit (if you’re aware of the cuts that were made to make a Western version of Yakuza 3).
Keep reading for antiquated manly slang, chatroulette piano improv and the one, the only, the Bill Paxton pinball machine. All hail Billy P.
Videogame Links
Interesting
How Jeff Bridges prepared for Tron. Apparently he’s quite a videogame fan. The dude abides.
Designing Shadow Complex. These guys know how to zig when everybody else zags, how to move forward not backward, upward not forward and always twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Super Mario Bros. on an 8×8 grid. Impressive for a final project.
Creating 87 bazillion guns for Borderlands. We’re going to need guns … lots of guns.
Zelda reorchestrated. Yet another fun remake of a great soundtrack.
Mario pieta. Would be more impressive if it was carved entirely from marble.
Sorry Michaelangelo, you've been replaced
Making a Portal 2 test chamber. Valve does the most iteration of any game developer, with the possible exception of Blizzard. Impressive.
Funny
Mega64 strikes again with this parody of Beatles: Rock Band. Added bonus is that they get Gabe Newell involved towards the end. This appears to be becoming a meme post the Kojima video.
Something from my childhood. Something that could never hurt us. The Bill Paxton pinball machine.
How the mighty have fallen ... you were once so proud Mr. Stay Puft
Bad Company 2 lampoons Modern Warfare 2’s controversial video with this F.R.A.G.S. public announcement.
I have brought great shame to my family
The God of War smooth R&B music vidoe starring Kratos. Thank god this was made specifically for G4, because my god it’s an embarrassment.
Women in games conference canceled due to ‘low delegate numbers.’ They were all too busy playing Farmville and Bejeweled.
Super Smash Mario smash brothers animation. I like the way they threw in the Mario 64 Bowser music as the soundtrack.
Non-Videogame Links
Interesting
Hyper realistic acrylic body painting. I had one of these a few weeks ago, but I like the contrast with real people in this one.
The most alien-looking place on earth. Admit it: we all knew it was going to be Yemen.
Bees legalized in NYC. God help us all.
The new Wicker Man: the greatest bee related film in history
The future of publishing video. I have to admit this is pretty clever, and not something I saw coming.
David Attenborough (of Friday links fame) lays down the law on evolution. His voice is so smooth, he’s a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus.
19th Century manly slang. That’s the best you can? That’s a bunch of fimble famble. Good day to you, sir.
The oldest trees in the world. Some of these are barely 2,000 years old. Pups!
The entertainment industry is going to discourage the use of the word ‘pirate’ for those who download media as the word is too sexy. They’re going to go with ‘thief’ now. What about Robin Hood, prince of thieves? He was pretty sexy.
Join him. You know you want to
Funny
Chat Roulette piano improv. This is pretty funny and also extremely impressive. Rumor that this might be Ben Folds was going around on the internet; I don’t know what Ben Folds looks like so I guess you can tell me.
Apparently this is Ben Folds. I can see the resemblance
Same sex parody version of Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me video.
Hilarious official NASA posters to promote missions. Clearly this is why government is inefficient, there’s somebody on staff at NASA who is just good at Photoshop and only does this crap. Still, gold.
Children’s drawings painted realistically. I had no idea that children had such a twisted and depraved imagination. These are the things nightmares are made of.
The hidden meaning of Lady Gaga’s telephone. I’m just going to put this in the funny section even though I’m not sure it was meant to be a joke.
I have brought great shame to my family
Prisoner convinces several female guards to sleep with him. How smooth do you have to be for that? Baller … shot caller.
I don’t know why exactly you’d need to attach a gun to another gun, but if so this is the thing for you.
Ok so this is the guy who needs the gun connectors. It's all so clear now
Congratulations, you are the weakest link. All aboard the failbus. At least you saved money on an aptitude test; you already know the results.
This man draws the Bushmaster ACR in MS Paint. Those of you who have used Photoshop and MS Paint know just how ridiculous this is. MS Paint is the worst program ever.
The history of the honey trap. This would be a great job, if the chances of being murdered were lower.
Woman aims to become the world’s fattest. She pays for her monstrous food bill by charging people to watch her eat. It’s a brave new world out there.
Photos taken at the same location and at the same time of day as famous car crashes. Just without the actual car crashes.
That’s all for this week. Did I miss anything? Hit up the comments!
