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General Discussion / Confusedly Impressed

« on: November 24, 2015, 02:03:21 am »

Clannad, one of the iconic visual novels from Key... over a decade old...

Just went on steam at 50$ price tag and leapt to top 3 in sales in the same day.

Wow. Finally a VN on steam worthy the title. Pricey, but there is ~80 hours of story to it, so figure from there. On sale as well at the moment.

In absolutely unrelated news, it's a good time to buy stocks in tissues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYfldm73tWI

Only video could find that didn't spoil. Though if you insist on knowing the lyrics, have a translation
*amusingly by the comments seems common to tear at hearing the opening notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PkbqdAFIRU

「…パパ。ママのうた、うたって」

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Flotsam and Jetsam / 双十一~

« on: November 11, 2015, 05:04:26 pm »

The 'Bare Sticks' (11/11) Holiday just did over 14 billion dollars in sales =D 1 billion in the first 8 minutes alone. This is *just* the Alibaba company =D

Eat it Valentines! Fade out Black Friday. Single's Day is best day =P

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Guns don't kill people

« on: October 29, 2015, 07:20:54 am »

Dogs with guns kill people

Think of that when you next name your dog Judas.

[Though does this mean cats are more loyal, too stupid to work the safety, or just plain apathetic?]

inb4 mandatory dogs getting certified for firearm safety

Addendum:

Quote

03:18 AM - Jaise: great, now we have to worry about raticalized poodles
03:21 AM - 殺してあげる: ...
03:21 AM - 殺してあげる: no, that would be cats
03:21 AM - 殺してあげる: poodles would be more about going anti-postal

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Flotsam and Jetsam / "I was hit by lightening and bite by a cobra and blacked out..."

« on: June 01, 2015, 06:40:45 pm »

Kickstarted throwback movie, released on youtube. It's...painfully bad that it's awesome in that ..yeah.

Kung Fury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

Warning: language..stuf f typical of an 80s action flick.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE

« on: August 20, 2014, 07:49:08 am »

大嫌いよ!!!

Teamspeak updates.
Steam Updates.
Add in active dossier running...

system tray looks like this:

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Flotsam and Jetsam / April Fools on the web...

« on: April 01, 2013, 06:29:02 pm »

Yeah...

Pirate Google Maps
https://maps.google.com/maps?t=8

Includes authentic telescopic view...
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.083422,-80.443525&spn=0.033116,0.132093&t=8&z=14&layer=c&cbll=25.083424,-80.459885&panoid=67mfuf9Uq-lLK3QPQde8hQ&cbp=11,0,,0,0
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On the other hand, you can go to youtube... where they've announced the entirety of Youtube was just a season of 'World's Funniest Videos'...
and they are now announcing the nominees...
for twelve hours a day...
for the next couple of years...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGeMGqVKD6A&feature=etp-pd-jke

...and then are shutting down.

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Then over to N Korea where Kim J..oh wait, that one is serious nm

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Twitter is removing vowels for free accounts (you can pay to have them returned)

http://blog.twitter.com/2013/03/annncng-twttr.html

...didn't they already do that years ago?

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http://scopemouthwash.com/bacon/?utm_source=scopebacon&utm_medium=bacon&utm_campaign=bacon%2Bmouthwash

...April Fool's or not, there is likely a market for that.

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Obama's Kickstarting the debt...

http://www.crowdfundthedebt.com/

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Likely a bunch else out there of various degrees of humour with their own niche targets. Google has several others as well.
As always, no promises links work later than the day

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Douglas Adam Google Doodle

« on: March 11, 2013, 06:48:54 pm »

You know how google on their search engine has art or such representative of the current day?

Well were he still alive, it's the 61^st birthday of Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series fame).

So today's doodle is an interactive view of the Heart of Gold's bridge.

Click around on it, cycle through the HGttG's variation animations etc.

It's rather worth a few giggles if you liked the books (and can catch all the references).

*When the doodle goes away, just hit up Google Doodles to find it again, it's will be the March 11th, 2013 one

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General Discussion / Meteor go Boom

« on: February 16, 2013, 12:37:24 am »

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html

The videos and screenshots... er, photographs are just phenomenal.
(Seriously need a long break from computers: i've actually wondered what filters a sunrise was using)

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