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dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:36 am Post subject:

maybe its the translators having a little bit of fun?

or maybe japan is the end of all human dreams?
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Brass Eye is a mini-series spoofing sensationalist news documentaries. It manages to be subtle in its humour while still being utterly confrontational and in-your-face.

It caused a lot of controversy, especially in tabloid press, as it was accused of being immoral, even though its jokes served to highlight how exploitative and manipulative journalism was. Even funnier though, and to further illustrate the point, many of the sketches involved known British celebrities, politicians and other talking heads, who not knowing any better and not bothering to research the subject matter brought up, got shown for the fools they were. Later, of course, they'd claim they were tricked, when it was their fault they wanted some screen time. Memorably enough, one sketch in the Drugs episode led to an MP wanting to pass a bill against it at the House of Parliament, even though the drug never existed. In a sense, the series was essential to satirise the hysteria of modern journalism.

I've found a few full episodes on occasion, so here they are in chronological order: Animals, Drugs, Science, Sex and Decline. I couldn't find it in full, but here's a sketch or two from Crime and the full 2001 Paedophilia Special (Which raised loads of controversy as you might expect) divided in three parts.

Don't worry if you don't recognise the celebrities or politicians; neither do I. The point of their untrustworthiness is made either way. Chris Morris also worked on a similar show called The Day Today a few years beforehand, but I think Brass Eye is better personally.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Paul Barnett explains what will make Warhammer Online awesome.

Do I want to play this game? Not likely. But Hell, this guy is raving awesome.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I'm sure that would be funnier if I was brittish, but I love his attempt at imagination/immersion.

Uhh... what?

Anyways, I felt like he was trying to convince me to get involved with a pyramid scheme.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Warhammer is quintessentially British.

Which is why it's so horrible.

Some of the books are okay, though.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

BBC's End Day is a docu-drama which tentatively explores five scientifically credible doomsday scenarios in under an hour.

"XBox 360 - More than just a computer game"
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

LASER Tag

Holy shit.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

that's neat.

http://www.antiadvertisingagency.com/wp-content/video/lightcriticism.mov

similar vein from the same site: (bounces you to another one) this is clever, though the whole "sees x amount of ads" fails the so fucking what test pretty badly. (but i have no love for graffitti so i may fail to see the distinction between unwanted eyesores and their unwanted eyesources)

semi-related: i remember when shopdropping was called droplifting - an old tymey way to get fliers for shows and small label comps into stores by "accident." i may be older than i think.

edit: la lakers + anti-drugs + mid 80s rap
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http://www.santasm.net/

HEY GUYS, WHAT'S UP?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtPkDdvkBU

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

http://www.stereogum.com/videos/grizzly_bear.html

Alice: This video is kind of creepy
Elaine: I KNOW RIGHT
Elaine: but in that fucked up awesome way
Elaine: not in that
Elaine: fucked up aphex twin way
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I thought the Aphex Twin way was the awesome way.

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:42 am Post subject:

this is pretty cute and i think i would hug the people who made it.

(disclaimer: naughty.)
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Folding T-shirts has never been this AWESOME

I've known about this for a while, but I first got around to actually trying to learn how to do it tonight after I finished putting my dresser together and wanted to put all my shirts away. Normally it takes me 15-30 minutes to fold all the shirts I have, using this method it took less than ten!

Edit: I am retarded and cannot write simple HTML.`
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

By "folding t-shirts" do you mean "jumping to the top of the page?"

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Whoops! The correct link is:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fvNUdcDtTwo
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Iraq: The Hidden Story

A documentary by journalist John Snow about the limits of journalism in the country. I'm not one to much care for any of the emotionally-charged commentary, or even most of the footage as it is, but it's an interesting enough feature on the use of and exposition to media that's worth watching on those grounds alone.
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Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision

In 1978, the BBC attempted following cheap yankee motherfucker Hunter S. Thompson across the American landscape. This is the result. Allegedly part of the special features on certain DVD printings of Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also the first time the plans for Thompson's funerary cannon were revealed publicly.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Jesus Camp, Brazil just called. It's gonna be a rumble out behind the schoolhouse during recess.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I thought she sounded like a screeching crone and then I saw it was just a child and theI'M A GOD WARRIOR!

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Video of some of the in-media material in Children of Men.

Basically, all the visual media playing in the background, from adverts to computer GUIs.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I love the Quietus commercials
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

This guy is an epic comedian if I've ever seen one.

No offence intended, but it's ever so rare to encounter an American with such a massive sense of sarcasm and irony in the realms of black humour.

Start your way from the first and work your way up.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/DaxFlame
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I found this on a cover CD for an old gaming magazine I had. I am expecting to see it linked from Kotaku and Joystiq while i'm at GDC.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Fuck me in reverse, they're doing a Harlan Ellison movie.

Also, the music video for Nine Inch Nails' Survivalism has been "leaked". I've uploaded it to GoogleVideo.

Surprisingly enough, contains topless Asians, gay sex and Trent wearing a cheich.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

yeah, that was pretty bad. I mean, dude needs to have a sit-down with Peaches and learn a thing or three about agit-electro.

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:41 am Post subject:

the video wasn't bad, actually, though the song is pretty high school.

but peaches? why not just ask a pile of horseshit what it thinks of algebra?
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So far, I've found it to be the weakest track from the leaked ones. I'm not surprised it's used as a single.

simplicio, I don't know what you're on about.

I actually like the video somewhat. The only thing that struck me as ridiculous was the scarf, so often associated with facile socialist "revolutionaries".

Anyway: http://www.godtube.com/
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ApM · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:

Jeff Minter talks a bit of Llamasoft history and pimps Space Giraffe at Google.

In which it is revealed that Neon PC will probably come out around the same time as Space Giraffe, and that Atari fucked up Defender 2000.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Reminds me, I forgot to link to this ealrier:

A Peter Chung lecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Shares his ideas about visual literacy to a better, fuller comprehension of today's media and its potential convergence.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

ApM · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

You were at Google?

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

maybe i was!

okay actually it looked a lot like his presentation at gdc and was dated march 6. i'm pretty sure this is the same speech i got to witness, just with boring google people in the audience instead of cool indie game people.
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ApM · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:

Google people are cool too ;_;

Even if the guy who got to play it at the end played it like Tempest.

Also:

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ApM · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:

Tell me you don't read Steve Yegge's blog, Alice.

TELL ME YOU DON'T.

(Actually I have no idea if you do or not, but you should! It's pretty good. Though I think the stuff he wrote at Amazon is more interesting, if only because you get a nice picture of a guy who has hit the Java wall and is looking for a better way.)

ApM · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

Jonathan Mann sings to Miyamoto at GDC.

EDIT! Mega64 has another excellent Miyamoto-related video.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Winged Assassins (1984)

Boyz Are Gonna Rock, hilarious!
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Peter Christopherson of Coil fame boasts material from his new project, The Threshold HouseBoy's Choir, at the Club Red in Saint Petersburg.

Are albums even out at this stage?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

A Bill Burroughs documentary, circa 1984.

Dodgy quality, but fine viewing regardless.

EDIT: Story trailer for the upcoming The Darkness game by Starbreeze Studios.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject:

finally, a definitive refutation to creationism.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Mrs. Mouth has a snack, and it is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

At first I thought it was stupid. Then I laughed at the second half.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Buster Keaton's One Week
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Monzy performs Kill Dash Nine at Stanford
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