Oh Cheezburger, why are you stupid?

[theweaselking]

"Meet the 12 Gods of the Internet"

The women: "Bitchy", "Slutty", "Bossy", and "Sidekick".

The non-white people: ZERO.

Yup. That's The Internet all right.

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[kjn]

Also, check the way the descriptions are phrased. Herabel is noted as making others "tune out" due to the way she makes her points, while Commentares "is the fire fed by the ignorance and confidence of man" (read, it's not his fault, really; others made him do it).

Also, to be a pedant, Herakles, Hades, and Kronos are not twelve gods of the Olympos. The proper list should refer to Zeus, Hera, Ares, Afrodite, Hephaistos, Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Poseidon, Demeter, and Hestia.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Also, that's the Greco-Roman all right.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, but knowing better than bronze-age assholes is something we can do.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I hit the adjective in "needlessly angry" and... well, I'll be over here being unsurprised at pretty much everything.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! "Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt." (Horace, c. 20 B.C.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

See also: "bronze-age assholes who we know better than."

(I'm always amused that you can find "the world is going to hell in a handbasket! Ruin is coming because of THOSE DAMN KIDS" quotes dating back for all of recorded history. )

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

If you're talking about "needlessly" which I think you are because it makes more sense that way and you italicized it and all, that's an adverb.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I am, and you're right. Sorry. Pre-coffee posting. :-)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I remain amused that you can find counter-quotes for nearly as long. Something about "if everyone was right, we'd have devolved into bears by now". Should look up the original.

Also love the fact that people have been complaining about how the ungovernable flood of information will overwhelm us since daily newspapers were introduced.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

[pedanting intensifies]

Well... technically, College Humor is to blame. Since Cheezburger just reposted it...

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Shame. Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

It's compound stupidity.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Worse still - the use of terms like "frontpage" and "upvotes" and the sexism and homosocial crap makes it clear that it was "the gods of reddit", so idiocy [CUBE]d

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with that. :)

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Annnnd can't argue with that, either. Yeah, there's couple of graphical suggestions that it is indeed about Reddit.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

No. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

*spends two seconds weeping in abject shame, goes on to look at magic shows and listen to happy music[1]*
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[1] For values of "happy music" heavily weighted towards "rewatching the Fallout: New Vegas trailers a lot".

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Aww, too bad Horace was slightly too long-winded for Tweeter.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting to ask Mr. Weezil, so since you mentioned it I might as well ask you both here. I loved the first two Fallouts, but couldn't get into 3, and hated the terrible running animations in New Vegas. I'm also horrible at FPS aiming. I think I remember the two of you liking New Vegas, what were your experiences with the various non-Tactics Fallouts?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you asked! (Seriously. I am. It's been a frustrating day on several levels and this is a chance to geek out on a happy topic.)

Fallout was the first computer game I ever played, and I loved it very much. It is hard for me to be objective about it. Looking at it now, the interface is a bit clunky (what idiot decided you would only ever need to be able to put down 999 bottlecaps at a time? Did they not think about how long it would take to buy things from the Gun Runners at that point?), but I more than happily forgive it that. It was... I mean, it was Fallout. It is beautiful and it is strange and it is a pulp-bright image of what the 50s thought the world might be like after nuclear war, and the world is not kind and the people cannot all be helped and it never promises you different. War. War never changes.

Fallout 2 I found a bit annoying in its jokiness; the random encounters were the worst for that, with the crashed alien, the "I get the feeling I'd better save my game in a whole new slot", etc., etc., and the Fearguses. I still liked it very much, though; it seemed like a reasonable progression for the world, if that makes sense, although I never really got into the Reno subquests. I was occasionally frustrated with the AI on the companions, but since I am the kind of person who will never not reload saves for Dogmeat, I was already prepared to deal with the companions screwing up. The shoutouts to what the Vault Dweller had done in the first game honestly made me really happy. (Oddly, I did not finish it. I got out to the oil rig, and then my computer died, and there was backups and switching and I didn't have my saved games on my new computer, and... Life happened, I guess. I am currently, slowly, working my way through Fallout 2 again on Steam. The graphics occasionally go on the fritz, and the interface feels clunky. I don't care. I'm gonna see it through. And Frank Horrigan needs to die.)

Neither of these were games that I didn't die in, for the record. On the flipside, neither of them were games where I felt I had to lock down against a challenge I couldn't handle, kept dying, and got frustrated. I have never been a very good twitch gamer, so the old-school turn-based stuff was really good for me. They were both games where I loved the open-world feel, cared about the stories, swore about the bad guys... I don't think I could have had a better introduction.

Fallout 3 I had trouble getting into as well. It just felt like the tone was off, in a way that's hard for me to pinpoint. It matches the Fallout story-beats perfectly, the setting seems like it should be right, and yet... eh? :s

For F:NV... look, I will just say that it took me a year to get to the point where my primary non-VATS combat tactic was not "hold down the S key to run backwards while clicking frantically on the Left Mouse Button to fire and making a high-pitched squeaking noise" so I feel you on being terrible at FPS shooting! I really do. The VATS system is very helpful with that, and I still use it by preference; it feels more like the old-school turn-based combat.

I can't speak to the running animations, since I play first-person rather than third-person POV; I will say that when I see something running at me I am usually too busy squeaking to think anything like "my, that deathclaw looks unrealistic," although the bounding rats are occasionally silly-looking. They're the only ones that strike me so, though.

(If you are playing F:NV on the PC, you can use the console to give yourself twenty extra AP or so--it makes combat a lot more survivable. If you would like to be playing F:NV on the PC, I have three spare copies of the game sitting in my Steam inventory. I give it away to people, because it is the best game of its kind that I have ever seen, and it makes me happy, and when it goes on sale I pick up copies so I can give them away.)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I try to play in third person whenever I can, both for the FOV increase (humans generally have fairly good peripheral awareness beyond the ~90 degrees first person gives you) and because I feel more immersed when I can see the ground around me, see my character, etc. Also I like seeing what gear I have outside of inventory screens. Unfortunately I can't find any video examples of the animations I mentioned, though I remember finding a lot of mods that claimed to improve them.

And I already own both as physical copies and Steam-sale copies, but thanks!

And and you might enjoy this.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Advantage of playing on a PC: Set the FOV as wide as you want. Doesn't help with "see your character", though.

And yeah, as soon as I saw that Awkward Zombie I sent it to her. Awkward Zombie is brilliant.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I change FOV to the extent I can in most games, but I really like not vomiting on my keyboard as higher settings tend to make me want to do.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Yes! Have seen it, but it is so damn true.

Have you seen this t-shirt?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I have now!