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[Johuotar]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131131/video_games_are_dead_a_chat_with_.php

I read this and tried to figure what Crawford would classify as "innovation" but I just can't.

[miauw62]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131131/video_games_are_dead_a_chat_with_.php

I read this and tried to figure what Crawford would classify as "innovation" but I just can't.

He needs to play some more indie games.
Its general knowledge that AAA titles arent epicly creative.

[lemon10]

http://www.macromeme.com/dog/use-the-human.html
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/cat-lays-keyboard.html

On the subject of awesome pictures from that website (although they aren't actually WTF's really):
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/mordor-levels-shower.html
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/time-travel-troll.html (although I don't know if it really happened, if it did he is totally awesome).
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/hoth-freezer.html
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/smart-dog-trick.html
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/parking-note-funny.html

I'll stop now, since if I keep going, I will put like a billion links here.

EDIT:
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/stop-sign-sticker.html
WHAT?
They have fake stop signs? Very interesting to know.

[Lagslayer]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131131/video_games_are_dead_a_chat_with_.php

I read this and tried to figure what Crawford would classify as "innovation" but I just can't.

He needs to play some more indie games.
Its general knowledge that AAA titles arent epicly creative.

It seems he wants games to have more complex interactions between yourself and the environment. I like this idea, but it becomes very apparently daunting once you realize exactly what that entails. All these interactions need programming to back them, and a computer to process the data. To make this feasible would require an actual thinking computer.

Then he starts talking about how the games industry should start acting more like Hollywood. I kept reading and thought to myself "but Hollywood is doing horribly! Everything he's saying about them is wrong!". Hollywood has no innovation anymore. Hell, they are falling back on the 3d gimmick again, something they've only done several times before. Maybe it's because this was published back in 2006, but that still doesn't really excuse a lot of what he said.

[RedKing]

Overheard in the lobby at work:
Woman 1:"And this is a corn plant." (I thought this was WTF too, but later determined that there is in fact an ornamental tree species known as a "corn plant", Dracaena fragrans)

Woman 2:"Oh...I thought corn grew underground?"

  I know urban dwellers are kind of disconnected from the food supply, but COME ON....SRSLY?

[Bauglir]

She's clearly just mistaken corn for cave wheat.

[Aklyon]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131131/video_games_are_dead_a_chat_with_.php

I read this and tried to figure what Crawford would classify as "innovation" but I just can't.

He needs to play some more indie games.
Its general knowledge that AAA titles arent epicly creative.

It seems he wants games to have more complex interactions between yourself and the environment. I like this idea, but it becomes very apparently daunting once you realize exactly what that entails. All these interactions need programming to back them, and a computer to process the data. To make this feasible would require an actual thinking computer.

Then he starts talking about how the games industry should start acting more like Hollywood. I kept reading and thought to myself "but Hollywood is doing horribly! Everything he's saying about them is wrong!". Hollywood has no innovation anymore. Hell, they are falling back on the 3d gimmick again, something they've only done several times before. Maybe it's because this was published back in 2006, but that still doesn't really excuse a lot of what he said.

YOu forgot the part where Hollywood is trying to legislate the internet into a broken yet TV-like state.

[Akura]

Woman 2:"Oh...I thought corn grew underground?"

Fun fact: Corn plants ARE bred and genetically modified under a mountain, at least according to what I saw watching Modern Marvels. It was more convenient for creating a controlled environment for modifying them than building an entire above-ground facility, apparently.

[RedKing]

She's clearly just mistaken corn for cave wheat.

I was heavily tempted to pipe up and say, "Oh, that's a potato tree."

[Bauglir]

At least she didn't think it was a plump helmet.

[miauw62]

Overheard in the lobby at work:
Woman 1:"And this is a corn plant." (I thought this was WTF too, but later determined that there is in fact an ornamental tree species known as a "corn plant", Dracaena fragrans)

Woman 2:"Oh...I thought corn grew underground?"

  I know urban dwellers are kind of disconnected from the food supply, but COME ON....SRSLY?

Somebody in my class once asked during the biology lessons:

"do animals have blood vessels too?"

._.

[Akura]

the seven most ridiculous cases of misplaced priorities.
 

this is just... the fuck?

Following that has led me to this.
Now I'm tempted to go shopping for a new avatar.

[ChairmanPoo]

Maybe she thought it was a tubercule, like potatoes.

[Darvi]

Tuberculosis?

[Truean]

a.) This is not shopped. Go to google maps; it's straight from there. Copy and paste: "Holy Cross Cemetery, Brook Park Ohio."
b.) These have been the original boundaries of the cemetery pretty much forever.

Seriously, somebody just.... Whoever laid those cemetery roads.... Wow.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How did nobody catch this in the planning phase? It's not the most efficient, or cheapest road scheme Somebody pretty much just got away with drawing that on the earth and probably got paid for it.... That doesn't look like  a church steeple to me or anything....