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| Harveyjames wrote: | | I guess it's a stunt that got people talking about it, though, which in the end is the important thing. |
It would help if they actually talked about anything of note. As it stands, spouting "This is horrible" is unhelpful, patronising and doesn't address any of the issues at all.
I found that thing via Reason. This is what they had to say:
| Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online wrote: | | Mia Farrow in Second Life talking about Darfur: It's not my favourite video of the year. But in capturing the naked narcissism of celebrity activism, it's one of the most startling. Mia Farrow's young-looking, sexy avatar addresses a virtual audience of students, activists and lizards in Second Life. Like most Save Darfur activists Farrow says precisely nothing about the politics driving the conflict in Sudan; instead she describes horrific occurrences and shows photos of distressed Darfurians. As Mahmood Mamdani wrote in the London Review of Books (Essay of the Year), activists like Farrow "obscure the politics of the violence and position [themselves] as a virtuous, not just a concerned observer." It's fitting that Farrow's speech takes place in the cartoon world of Second Life, since the aim of Darfur activists is not to get to grips with the reality on the ground in Sudan but to create a virtual plane of moral superiority that they can occupy. Darfur is a "defining moment for the human family," says Farrow. She's so vain she thinks somebody else's war is about her. Watch this vid to glimpse Kipling's colonialism updated: the Web Surfer's Burden. |
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Hey, neat. The next logical step, of course, is a gun that makes you believe that you are drowning. |
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It's not torture if it's done by patriotic rednecks.
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| That is pretty extraordinary. |
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Dammit I posted that like two pages back dammit.
Roll on you bears, etc. |
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Harveyjames
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It's really good sound quality considering all the performers are in the middle of a football field. There's a flat horn which is like right in my ear on that recording. I figured maybe there was a second, smaller orchestra next to all the sound equipment, or maybe only some of the performers are miked up. They're really good arrangments! The drums are wicked.
Really though, I'm amazed that Nintendo theme tunes are a mainstream enough subject for a show like this. It's pretty great they they ever managed to get so so many people to agree to this, since if I was put in charge of something like this in the UK and presented this idea I'd get shouted down by people going 'no, we're doing Robbie Williams covers'. |
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Well, this is the UC Berkeley marching band, and they're pretty much gigantic nerds. Berkeley is still an engineering school and as such, this kind of thing is pretty normal (there are parking spots reserved for Nobel Laureates on campus and there are a lot of them). I remember when I was in high school right next to the campus, the big thing for the marching band was that they had a Devo medley.
There's another video of them performing at Stanford, which is possibly the only school with a geekier band than Cal. Unless MIT has a band. |
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Ah, ok.
I didn't realise it was a university thing, I thought this was the nationals or whatever you call it. |
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At first I thought they were going to do Space Invaders, then I thought Pong.
Galaga would have been truly amazing.
Ship Capture, double gun mode, bonus round.
wooo
Having the alien ship break up from a hit would have been so cool to see.
(Guys running in compass directions from their alien-ship formation.)
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Good Lord, that is amazing.
EDIT: A Day in the Life of a Turret is basically Portal with swearing. This manages to amuse me somehow.
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Patrick Alexander
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Jesus christ.
I guess they're hooked up to lie detectors? And it seems to be yes-or-no questions, right, so... if you lie, people are gonna know the truth anyway, so why would you lie? Do you lose by just refusing to answer?
And I guess any confident, relaxed person who applies to be a contestant will get screened out somehow, 'cause none of those questions seemed horrible to me. I guess they might if I were dishonest with my friends and family.
How do they get the questions in the first place? They must interview the contestants beforehand, right? Or do they have private detectives or something?
It's an interesting concept I guess, but ordinary people are very, very boring, so who would watch this shit? Other ordinary people, I suppose. It seems to target the same part of the brain that makes people gossip, and follow LiveJournal dramas, and so on.
So, yeah -- looks tedious and desperate. But that's TV for you. Also, the host doesn't have a very good speaking voice, does he? Like he has to put a lot of effort into his enunciation; like he's constantly in danger of becoming tongue-tied.
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It's especially funny considering the mass scientific discreditation of polygraphs.
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PS. YES, FATTY FAT FATSO, YOU REPULSE ME. Oh no I said it to your face, how can I live with myself now.
Man, it might be a good show if they exposed people's fetishes. Like they get some slick, flashy, Wall Street jock with a playboy reputation and a trophy wife, and they ask, "Do fat women turn you on? Like really obese fatties with smelly, sweaty vaginas -- the smellier the better? And also they're dirty whores?"
I might watch that bit on YouTube. ARE YOU LISTENING, FOX?
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"Does this look.... moé to you?"
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"Have you ever wished you had been born into a different family?"
What? Is there anyone who hasn't ever wished that?
REAL HUMAN DRAMA!
Did you ever wet the bed, as a child?
Did you experiment sexually, in your college years?
Do you find this 20-year-old bikini model more attractive than your wife?
Do you... HATE YOUR JOB??
Sorry; I'll shut up now.
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| Patrick Alexander wrote: | | but ordinary people are very, very boring. |
That's like the least true thing in the world. Karl Marx said total understanding is total love. There's something relate to about every single person on earth, if you look hard enough. Every single human being has the capacity to fascinate on some level or another. Possibly with the exception of Patrick (HA HA BURN) |
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Both of you, stop it with the platitudes.
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I don't like your platitude.
It's what I truly believe, I'm sorry if it comes across as cliched or annoying or boring. |
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| Harveyjames wrote: | | Every single human being has the capacity to fascinate on some level or another. |
I think you're right, actually. But they also have the capacity to bore, as reality TV amply demonstrates. I guess it depends what you draw out of them.
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| In the past I've usually watched Big Brother because no matter how shallow or annoying the housemates seem at first, when you stick real people in a house together real relationships will form, for good and for ill, and those are always fascinating to watch. Of course the person I was saying this to a while back replied with 'but they're not real people! They're all trannies and queers!' so I guess there's no accounting for taste. |
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And George Galloway.
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| That was amazing, he's such a cunt. See I'm not saying I really like everyone on the show despite being an exponent of Marx's total understanding = total love tenet. Also the other guy had a dead bloke in his swimming pool. |
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And cocaine instead of catnip?
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| Swimmy wrote: | | And cocaine instead of catnip? |
That or cocks.
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| That video exists. |
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Deer Crossing1
and another, possibly even more hilarious.
Deer Crossing2
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Immigrant Song spoof
Hit pause a lot to read the funny
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That second one has spoilers for the end of Portal :(
I love that shit, though |
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Love me some propaganda
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Marty Chang has the best advice.
Also: lol jews
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Der Volk
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TOKYO CRYSTAL MEW: EP 1
Voice actors in episode:
Toya:Mojocrystaltokyo
Mina:Mewfushi
Ichigo:My mom
Masaya:crypt375
Ryou's Cousin:Mojocrystaltokyo
The guy at the door of the cafe:mojocrystaltokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t676i9FOPVE
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Deadwood Pancakes.
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Nip PT
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SEE YOU IN HELL NAZI TEARDROPS
From the Axe: We are holding Jesus ransom.
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Weiner Poopie!
Hasbro funny.
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Everything dhex hates.
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goddamn
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Bulkor: uh
Thom: yeah
Bulkor: "I went out buck naked, found a poison mushroom, and ate it"
Thom: that's the text?
Bulkor: yeah
"finally found a 'benitengu' mushroom"
"Wotaken recommend cooking benitengu mushrooms as follows:"
"1. boil"
"2. season with onion (watch the amount!)"
I want to know what this music is
Thom: it's Final Fantasy VI, isn't it?
Bulkor: oh, hey, maybe
Thom: oh man, what's step 3?
Bulkor: sorry, hadda look that up
"3. grill"
Thom: no worries
aha
Bulkor: "Onion: 'I want to fuse with the mushroom' "
Thom: in case you're wondering, i am following along as you continue to translate
Bulkor: yeah, we're liveblogging this shit
"time to eat! *savor my skillful food arrangement"
I love how average this guy looks
Thom: aside from being pretty damn skinny
Bulkor: yeah, aside from that
"preview for (what might be) our next installment, pt.1: I tried dancing (Michael Jackson's) Thriller buck naked"
Thom: oh man
is (what might be) the part with the carat/roof over it?
Bulkor: yea
"difficulties:"
"1. moonwalk had nothing to do with Thriller"
"2. it was cold out when I recorded"
Thom: lollercaust
Bulkor: "intense rehearsals currently underway"
"preview for (what might be) our next installment, pt.2: I tried performing Hatsune Miku's 'Para-zen Theme' in the studio buck naked"
Thom: btw this conversation is totally getting posted on TGQ in the video thread
Bulkor: "paradise gate"
ha
shoulda cleaned this up
Thom: no, it's better this way
oh man more text
Bulkor: "difficulties:"
"writing and composing a song requires perserverance"
"it's important to maintain a posture properly facing miku"
"I ain't gonna break her in! you do it!"
Thom: fuuuuck, he's really piling it on now
we can get through this though
Bulkor: yeah
so hatsune miku is this software which will "sing" a song if you input the lyrics and notes
Thom: think of me as your crusty old Mick-Jewish trainer
Bulkor: yer a bum!
Thom: aha
Bulkor: Miku's sort of A Thing on Youtube and the like
Thom: that's right, i'll have you conjugating frozen verbs in a warehouse
Bulkor: "preview for (what might be) our next installment, pt.3: I went skiing buck naked"
Thom: is that next one just a date?
Bulkor: yeah, "photo taken Feb 2007"
Thom: yer always gonna be a bum!
Bulkor: "difficulties:"
Sent at 10:21 PM on Friday
Bulkor: "buck naked during record-setting -5 C. that'll make you hyperventilate."
"had to use paid leave to visit the ski slopes on a work day"
"LATELY I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FIRST SNOW TO FALL"
"reflections on this movie (six hours after filming)"
"we at Circle WM await your FUNKY opinions, requests and criticism"
"refer to my profile for the address"
and that'sit
Thom: aaaaaand going to post
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