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| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ hallidae ] |
5:23p | We can haz fucking awesome scene composition, plzthnx? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this bit of awesome: Genndy Tartakovsky joins crew of Iron Man 2 as a storyboarder. |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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otf_wank [ ladylauren ] |
7:50p | My word count is pastede on yay 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 my favourite reply from the forums so far: 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. Current Mood: Fan-Fucking-tastic Current Music: The Format -- 'One Shot, Two Shots' |
| Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ jkefka ] |
3:36p | Charitable Schadenfreude 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. |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ napalmnacey ] |
2:12a | Does anyone here watch The IT Crowd? 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? Current Mood: Amazed |
| Friday, November 28th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ onyxnoir ] |
11:26p | Nooooooooooooooooo WTF? Why would you do this to Batman? |
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fandom_wank [ wtf ] |
5:49p | "So long, suckers!" 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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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
6:25p | Welcome to the "Least Intelligent Student Union in the Country" The student council at Carleton University in Ottawa has made a shocking discovery*: Cystic Fibrosis only affects white men, and is therefore not an "inclusive enough" disease to raise money for. Needless to say, this causes a leeeetle backlash. In response, the person who originally made the motion to remove CF from their charity list is "currently not able to live happily." How sad. :( ETA: *And by "shocking", I mean "completely false". Current Mood: S-M-R-T |
| Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ luthe ] |
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fandom_lounge [ supersyncspaz7 ] |
11:42a | in case you missed it... The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Current Mood: Spiffy |
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puipui |
12:21a | looking on the bright side The last couple of weeks have been absolute shit, they really have, and I am having a very hard time finding things for which to be thankful besides, y'know, "roof over my head (for the time being)" and "food (at the moment)" and that sort of thing, but there is one thing for which I am unabashedly thankful without any sort of parenthetical statements attached at all, and that is this: Today is George W. Bush's very last Thanksgiving in office. He will never pardon another stupid fucking turkey (even though he will likely pardon a whole lot of actual criminals, joy) and in less than two months, he will be gone forever. Finally. *happy sigh* So it's sort of like today can be everyone's Thanksgiving, in a way. Happy Thanksgiving, World! We got you a Barack! And we totally love you, even though we've done a pretty shit job of showing it these last eight years. Big group hug! Oh, and I'm also thankful for Twilight getting it's own cornfield-esque sort of Lounge comm, and also Fishie's post full of mostly naked men. I take my joy where I can get it. Yays! |
| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_wank [ gusty ] |
9:46p | 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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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
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fandom_lounge [ jar ] |
6:49p | LJ appears to be down. Or is it just me? Right when I was doing something important, too. (Comment fic is important, it really is). [ETA]: It's back for me! |
| Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ esclaramonde ] |
9:39p | Twilight I see that there have been many posts about Twilight lately! I'd just like to point out that I created a comm a little while ago, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} sparklefield, which is not part of the F_W network and is therefore not mandatory, but might keep people from getting fed up from an overload of Twilight-related posts. |
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the_hms_stfu [ chienne ] |
6:22p | A game the whole family can play! There's Doctor Who shipping bingo, FPB bingo, Ginmar bingo, Twilight fangirl bingo, and now there is also... Slytherfen bingo. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  sleepy |
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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
10:03a | Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. A rocket scientist over in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.Good times. |
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fandom_lounge [ caito ] |
11:20p | His hair is like an anus that way 'Twilight' vampire Pattinson considers stakes of fame Q: What is all this talk about you not washing your hair for months on end? |
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fandom_lounge [ mariem_1 ] |
7:55a | SVA gave a new interview, in which he spoke about Lexicongate in details and claimed that he had been misled, misrepresented etc. - Steve Vander Ark wants an agreement with J.K. Rowling. |
| Monday, November 24th, 2008 | ||
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otf_wank [ beejium ] |
1:07a | The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams! Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.) Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page: "This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image. I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche." Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down. Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET. Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing. ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH." |
| Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ heartsalliance ] |
8:23p | With only hours left until the offer expires, Dr. Pepper's website is down/crashing and I don't have my coupon yet. I even called the number they have on the site and all I get is a busy signal. >:( ETA: From the website - "Everyone in America has until 6 PM EST on Monday, November 24 to get a free 20 oz. Dr Pepper"
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fandom_lounge [ hypno_jango ] |
5:14p | Shonen Jump has streamed and subtitled the three anime specials: Dragon Ball Z, Romance Dawn, and Letter Bee. They missed a golden opportunity to have Vegeta's little brother yell the 9000 line. I am disappointed in their lack of internet meme knowledge. |
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fandom_wank [ annepackrat ] |
11:02a | It was sweet, and then the beak fell off. I think the theory that Meg over at Cute Overload occasionally posts questionable content just to fuck with her viewers maybe true. Yesterday, Meg posted this video which tells the touching story of a dog who comes to a farm as a puppy and the duck (a male duck named Sheila) who adopts him. Unfortunately, Sheila eventually dies of old age. That's where it gets weird. Sheila's owners decide to get the duck embalmed and present the stuffed results to the dog, who is very happy to see his friend again. So happy, in fact, that he knocks her fake beak off. The video ends with one of the owners dragging Sheila's corpse so the dog can chase after it. ( And of course, all hell breaks loose in the comments. ) ( You're all horrible people and I'm never coming back here again! ) And then someone reveals that the video was fake, made as commercial for an Argentinian Internet Provider. Their tagline translates to "Internet you talk about." ( This commercial is animal cruelty! ) There's more to the thread, including discussions on the merits of giving ducks wheels, people quoting sketches about parrots who are pining for the fjords, and the vegans also weigh in toward the end. I'll leave the parting shot to Sara here: If dragging my preserved body around the yard made my friend that happy, I'd be fine with it. ETA: Link to commercial fixed, sorry. ETA 2: The Duck Drags Back: We have more angry flounces! ( Apparently these people missed the comments about how the whole thing was staged and that the whole McKenzie / Sheila friendship was made up. ) Current Mood: Dramatic |
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fandom_lounge [ candy ] |
11:37p | New community announcement - for players of girl pups/characters in RPGs - <lj comm="girlpup_central So I've been thinking for a while about playing girl pups in RPGs and the issues that they can have - good and bad issues. I just really think playing girl pups is different to playing boy pups and not only in the ways one would think. And because I know a lot of other people have thought about this, I've certainly talked to enough people about it, I thought I'd create a community. This is for discussion of any aspect of playing girl pups, whether in games on JF or somewhere else, it's open to everything, RPS, FPS and anything in between, and anyone is welcome to join. It's for people who play girl pups, are potentially interested in playing girl pups, or people who would like to play with girl pups in any kind of story, femslash, het, or non sexual friendship - even family related storylines are under the umbrella of the comm. It's pretty much anything goes as long as it can be tied back to playing with girl pups. There is also potential to find playing partners interested in or already playing girl pups. So come join us if you have any interest in any aspect of playing girl pups in RPGs. I'll approve memberships asap. girlpup_central |
| Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ insanitys_place ] |
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fandom_lounge [ seraphtrevs ] |
2:27p | Looking for Twilight article I remember reading an interesting lj entry about the parallels between Twilight and Mormonism - does that ring any bells for anyone? It was linked at one point in the comments of one of the Sparkledammerung posts, but that's all I remember. |
