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RDR gets smart. I think we can now safely say that Lexicongate is finally over... to everyone's relief and satisfaction. |
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| The Eclipse (Heroes Spoilers) |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|09:34 am] |
Well, the wank presaged here has come to be. If you're a Heroes fan who hasn't seen the latest episode, tread carefully.
( Spoiler. ) |
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| Mini-sized BSG wank |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|10:02 am] |
Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds.
Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm.
However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance.
This goes over about as well as you'd expect.
Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow.
Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined.
Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved. |
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| Caprica series greenlit |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|12:37 am] |
Will start airing in 2010. Link
Also, break open your wallets. The catalog for the BSG auction is up. |
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| Hallo thar |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|01:50 pm] |
There was this one thing on secondlife (at least I'm pretty sure) where this guy pretended to be a female purple bunny(?) and got into an online relationship. There was a very fun fallout after they found out 'she' was a 'he' and I was trying to find this. Does anyone know where to find it? |
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| Girl in custody fight adjusts to life in China |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|03:43 pm] |
Remember Anna Mae?
Ugh, I just find this turn of events depressing. That poor girl sounds so sad and lonely.
For people who haven't heard about the case before: here is a summary. |
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| My word count is pastede on yay |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|07:50 pm] |
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Someone claims to have 'won' NaNoWriMo with 2.5 million words, a feat so fantabulous it apparently requires announcing twice.
Unfortunately, checking out his website reveals that he used a less than conventional technique to reach this count:
In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye.
“The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.”
NaNoers are Not Amused.
Edited to add the best replies from the forums so far:
yukongold: Plagiarizing other peoples' words is not writing. It's plagiarism, pure and simple, contrary to the spirit of Nano.
Not to mention that your pretense is so thick you could stand on it and not worry about sinking for a good three hours.
Sashimisan: Exactly.
I have more respect for someone who struggled to cross the finish line with 50K of their own words than I do for a plagiarist who filled a document with thousands of pages of nonsense.
sniderman: Next year, I plan to do the same thing for my NaNo. I plan to title it "The Stand by Stephen King."
MrHeywire: You, my dear dirtysockface, deserve to have all your clean underwear burned, your washing machine broken and your water cut off. How dare you claim to be an author when not one word was arranged into a sentence by your miserable self this month!
Even without you, those of us who have done this honestly have still surpassed a total 1.5 billion words, so I have no reason to not wish your word count to be retracted from the totals.
Wishing your head to be lovingly placed in a bucket of cement;
--Me
Son of edit:
MrHeywire's post is deleted, but oh, the replacement is STELLAR.
marienbadmylove: Hey MrHeywire, your post is one of my favorites to date. A couple of people have wished violence upon me, but you’re the first who actually wanted to see me dead (in a loving way, of course). Still, I liked this post slightly better: “But you are using other people's words. I feel that the point of NaNo is to write in your own words.” Here is my point: They are my own words! I stole them, and now they belong to me. That’s what I do. I’m an auto thief. I knock out the driver’s side window, hot wire the ignition and take off for the local chop shop. I file off the VIN numbers and strip out the valuable parts. I bolt various body panels together into a stylistic abomination. I re-spray the thing vomit green, add insulting graffiti along the fenders and hang a crap-scented air freshener from the rear view mirror (to cover up the stench of the dead body in the trunk). Twenty-eight days later, I drive it to the local car show and park it alongside the other entries. Look, people are throwing rotten tomatoes at it. What fun! How will I top myself for the 2009 NaNoWriMo? Here’s an idea: steal synopsis and excerpt texts from the “Novel Info” sections of this year’s winners. Already a story idea is beginning to form… A guy in a government post, who has an entirely contended existence, abruptly and lacking reason, packs his vomit green automobile with objects such as his nativity record, crap-scented air freshener and a severed head in a bucket of cement and maneuvers away. |
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| Charitable Schadenfreude |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
So, many of you have probably heard of this or saw last year's, but I thought I'd share it all the same.
Desert Bus for Hope is a charity event for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. It goes like this: They play the most monotonous video game ever, the legendary Desert Bus for a certain number of hours, with the number of hours based on the donations they get. The donations continue while they play, adding more time. Each hour costs more. They have live streams of the bus, the drivers, and a chat where you can talk to them. Every thousand dollars there's a bit of macrospam on the site in celebration.
As of when I'm posting this, they've been playing for almost 22 hours, out of 101 currently paid for with over $13,000 in donations, and have one point, working on 2. Last year they got $22,800 and six points, the world record. They're looking to break both.
It's good fun for us, torturous for them, and hey, if you're going to contribute to the suffering of others, might as well do it charitably.
ETA: Well, they broke the important record. They just broke $25,000 and counting, committed to 110 hours, of which they've played about 64. They haven't gotten more than 6 points though. They keep crashing.
ETA2: So Gabe and Tycho decided to match the next $10,000 that came in after about $25,500. Current count since the announcement? $5000 has already been donated, bringing them up to 30K and something like 113 hours. There will be at least $5000 coming from PA, probably more as more donations come in. The boys almost cried when Tycho called and told them about it.
ETA3: PA's Operation: Infinite Bus has come and gone. The current total is over $51,000 and they're less than $200 away from 121 hours. Their suffering tastes like candy. Delicious, charitable candy. |
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| Does anyone here watch The IT Crowd? |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|02:12 am] |
It's a very, very funny show that's on British TV and is currently in its third season. The second episode aired tonight and I laughed so hard, I nearly broke something.
Here's the link of the new episode.
This has been an incredibly funny series. That there episode? Pushed it into "legendary" status for me. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way. Just wondering if any of my favourite wankas share this special love? |
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[Nov. 28th, 2008|06:50 pm] |
Wal-Mart worker dies in rush; two killed at Toys R' Us shooting
Because cheap stuff is SO worth trampling someone to death and impeding police officers trying to help the guy or shooting them!
(I don't know if people outside the US are familiar with the situation: in short, the day after Thanksgiving is commonly called "Black Friday", and a ton of stores open early and offer deep discounts to the early shoppers. However, some merchandise- expensive things like TVs, DVD players, digital cameras, computers and so on- is in limited quantities, so there's often an insane rush to grab them before they run out. Hence why there was the stampede at Wal-Mart.) |
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| "So long, suckers!" |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|05:49 pm] |
Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce.
As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd. |
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| in case you missed it... |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|11:42 am] |
The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. |
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[Nov. 26th, 2008|09:46 pm] |
A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal.
So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route.
Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK.
Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up.
In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed.
Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face."
The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours.
ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear!
"All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions.
You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc." |
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| CNN.com/live |
[Nov. 26th, 2008|02:46 pm] |
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Haven't found links for it, yet (I'm still looking)
Found a yahoo link: Lori Drew convicted
Apparently, she was only convicted of lesser charges, just misdemeanors, for the Megan Meier case.
( Article )
CNN.com/live reported that there was a mistrial for at least one charge, and their legal expert doubts that there will be any time served.
... I'm very disappointed.
Cnn.com link |
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