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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14843244 times)

Bauglir

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47295 on: April 13, 2014, 02:36:12 pm »

It's a webcomic featuring time travel, pop culture (especially Internet and video game) jokes, inter- and intra-species teenage romance, lots of meta-textual elements, and (at one point in time) an update schedule so erratic, yet frequent, that it was its own kind of joke ("It could have updated right now!"). It also did a lot to take advantage of the Internet's particular qualities as a medium, such as using flash animations (not possible in print) and incorporating banner ad space into the comic.

Essentially, if you go down the list of things the Internet is stereotypically known for liking, other than bigotry, it pretty much checks all the boxes.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47296 on: April 13, 2014, 02:38:20 pm »

Oh.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47297 on: April 13, 2014, 02:39:52 pm »

Also, conversation is in a format that has been infused with the ability to drive people mad by some elder god.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47298 on: April 13, 2014, 03:56:45 pm »

Also, conversation is in a format that has been infused with the ability to drive people mad by some elder god.
Wait, that's NOT how you're supposed to talk to people? Because that would explain a lot.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47299 on: April 13, 2014, 05:29:20 pm »

Hosting Forum Mafia in another forum~
I can't believe the tactics they use to prove themselves as town.
So...ugh.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47300 on: April 13, 2014, 05:30:05 pm »

Hosting Forum Mafia in another forum~
I can't believe the tactics they use to prove themselves as town.
So...ugh.
Like what? I can't imagine that it would be anything too bad unless it was rule breaking.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47301 on: April 13, 2014, 05:32:19 pm »

I'll just say 'it's bad' and I carry a ton of contradicting feelings towards it now.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2014, 05:35:49 pm by Tiruin »
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47302 on: April 13, 2014, 05:39:11 pm »

I'll just say 'it's bad' and I carry a ton of contradicting feelings towards it now.
Can you linky? I want to watch the horror unfold.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47303 on: April 13, 2014, 05:40:26 pm »

So I had just finished watching Freeman's mind when I came upon this. Someone completed Half Life in 42 minutes and without the Hev Suit.

It will not take long before you realize you just witnessed a bearded suitless God of war in action.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47304 on: April 13, 2014, 06:38:53 pm »

So I had just finished watching Freeman's mind when I came upon this. Someone completed Half Life in 42 minutes and without the Hev Suit.

It will not take long before you realize you just witnessed a bearded suitless God of war in action.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47305 on: April 13, 2014, 10:02:03 pm »

Remember my last bit about Kanye "I Am a God" West? I heard another one of his newer songs, "New Slaves".

The main "body" of the song isn't anything out of ordinary, but the end is something truly special; that is, special in the sense of special education. It spontaneously cuts from Kanye ranting about private prisons to some other guy singing a really high-pitched part about "can't get too high", backed by violins which are apparently sampled from a 60s Hungarian rock song, ending with the actual Hungarian lyrics from that song.

I have not heard weirder song production or composition for some time.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47306 on: April 13, 2014, 10:07:56 pm »

I'll just say 'it's bad' and I carry a ton of contradicting feelings towards it now.
Can you linky? I want to watch the horror unfold.
Seconding this. I'm curious as to what it is now.

Is the forum mafiascum?
« Last Edit: April 13, 2014, 10:11:33 pm by Elephant Parade »
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47307 on: April 13, 2014, 10:30:26 pm »

Hosting Forum Mafia in another forum~
I can't believe the tactics they use to prove themselves as town.
So...ugh.
Like what? I can't imagine that it would be anything too bad unless it was rule breaking.
Hmm. Maybe they have to admit terrible things they've done. Maybe they publicly humiliate each other. Maybe it's like a game of truth-or-dare gone wrong (how? Someone asks "who here do you like least", or "Who here is an asshole?").

Why, in a game where everyone has roles and the number of each type known, does town never just establish a public records system? Everyone must list who they are, and anyone who doesn't gets lynched as an obvious undesirable element. Then, the discrepancies are dealt with, and the house eventually wins. That's how the IRS gets you after all/
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47308 on: April 13, 2014, 10:54:15 pm »

Although there might be some really advanced games of mafia where there is a mathematical solution to the issue, in a vast majority of it the bad guys claiming to be good guys isn't a thing that's going to be disproven by anything that happens. Everyone stating their roles, with the bad guys claiming generic good guy roles without powers (as almost all the good guys will do because that is what they are) will ether lead to nothing, or to the good guys losing whatever power roles they have during the night when the bad guys kill the now outed good guys.

Also yeah. I don't understand what people could be doing to prove they are town so long as it works and it doesn't break that rules that could be a bad thing.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #47309 on: April 13, 2014, 10:57:57 pm »

Something, distasteful. But what? All I can think of now are Joe McCarthyisms and the Salem Witch Trials.
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