I'm still a bit indecisive.... He's obviously (for some reason), lip-dubbing himself, but still it's quite magnificent...

Magnificent, and utterly captivating. Those who find the early bits too dreary, just skip ahead and follow his step by step deconversion and its effects on the mind. Although, by doing so you will to some extent skip the "character investment" part of the story.

Best thing dystopianfuturetoday ever sifted? Yes. And that's saying something.

The only downside to all of this is that he's lost that magnificent mane of hair. I think he should have gone the full Don King.

>> ^harry:

>> ^kceaton1:
...There could be magnetism involved...

That confirms my theory that this is powered by MAGIC.


As long as MAGIC stands for: PHOTON. Ta Da!!!

No really that about covers it. Although in that picture I'm unsure why they plug in "graviton" as it doesn't exist yet nor does the understanding of how the fundamental forces/mass combine (Higgs boson/ Higgs field).

Then just figure out dark matter (which could be gravitons for all we know)... Then dark energy... Etc...


/I know it's a joke You magnificent Juggalo/ette.

I know I've seen this thread before, what's up with the date? Did I loop back in time a week?

P.S.- I'm not kidding you. This is the weirdest feeling. I've even voted people up! Senility already? WTF? I need to go to sleep holy sh8&...
Merry Christmas, you magnificent bastards!

I am a product
I am a symbol of endless hopeless fruitless aimless games
I'm a glossy package on the market shelf
My contents aren't fit for human consumption
I could practically injure your perfect health
My ingredients will seize up your body's functions
I'm the dirt that everyone walks on
I am the orphan that nobody wants
I am the stair that everyone walks on
I am the leper that nobody wants to touch (much)

I am a sample
I am a scapegoat of useless futureless endless mindless ideas
I'm the number on a paper you file away
I'm a portfolio that you stick in the drawer
I'm the fool you try and scare when you say:
"We know all about you of that you can be sure"

Well I don't want your crazy system
I don't want to be on your files
Your temptations I try to resist them
Because I know what hides beneath your smiles

I am a topic
I am a subject for useless futureless endless mindless debates
You think of ways that you can hide me from the naive eyes of your figurehead
But don't you find that it ain't easy?
Wouldn't you love to see me dead?
Your answer is to give me treatment for crying out when you give me pain
Leave me with no possible remnant
You poke your knives into my brain

I'm an example
I'm no hero of the great intelligent magnificent human race
I'm part of the race that could all spare possesions
Part of the race that's wiping itself out
I'm part of the race that's got crazy obsessions
Like locking people up not letting them out

I hate the living dead and their working factories
They go like sheep to their production lines
They live on illusions; don't face the realities
All they live for is that big blue sign that says:
"Ford"
I'm bored, bored, bored

I am a product
I am a symbol of endless hopeless fruitless aimless games
I am a sample
I am a scapegoat of useless futureless endless mindless ideas
I am a topic
I am a subject for useless futureless endless mindless debates
I'm an example
I'm no hero of the great intelligent magnificent human race
(The great intelligent magnificent human race)
The great intelligent magnificent human race

Pretty cool cover, still like the original better, the whole album is magnificent I might have to listen to it now. BTW this is off Dusk not Mindbomb

Magnificent!

Not being a biologist, I feel free to say that this creature's strange magnificence is purpose enough to flash like fire in the seas. For me, at any rate.

Sweden-Paraguay 2006 was one of the most awesome sports experiences in my life, and that game ended 1-0, and it's a fun game to look into even though it's not really relevant to this world cup.

I feel sorry for people who can't enjoy a game where the players don't score a goal every other minute, because football to me is highly enjoyable for the strategy involved, the individual players' skill and the magnificent plays that are preformed in each game. To dismiss it as an exercise in boredom is doing yourself a disservice. Not that I think this video does that, because I don't. Instead, it does seem like the video makes fun of American preconceptions of the game.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


You will love Mafia 2.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


Wow. Did you even play the game?? The story is phenomenal (practically the entire internet agrees, even Yahtzee), the cutscenes are solid, and the list of films you cited is pretty much the exact list that they DID crib from.

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.

>> ^harpom:

I think Joe Strummer was one of the most talented musicians ever. I started listening to the Clash in 1977, and still listen to them on a regular basis. If i were on a desert Island i would be happy with, the clash discography and also the Ramones for good measure. Joe Strummer RIP.


Agreed. As a musician Strummer is my #1 musical influence, hands down. Followed by Lennon and McCartney. I crank up "4 Horsemen" on the way to work and sing along until I'm hoarse.

This is the best way to show that your consciousness, soul, psyche, perception, etc... Is not the core of your mind to say. There is no inner cluster that we "exist" at then grab information and use it. We are more like a connection of various information and inputs/outputs that float on top of a giant constantly idling, shifting, turning, braking, etc... engine.

Our "averaged" perception is the norm. If your brain runs, tuned differently, then the human being floating above has no chance to modify it's ability to change any information you use. This is what makes it hard for some of us to grasp these concepts. Because, by definition our perception and continuity of thought are a delusion. This why acid and associated drugs bend and sway reality, perceptually.

We can only do so much with chemicals as most of the problem is underlying within the engine. How it retrieves memory for you, what comparisons it makes, and what chemicals it orders or re-actively orders for any given input and output; by the brain or our psyche.

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The brain is a magnificent machine. Even when it seems to spout out insanity you know it is doing a large amount of comparative study, memory consolidation, and giving active personalities/ai to illusions that are very much real to the person involved.

I wonder if we will find a connection one day between our "true perception" or awareness being linked to the ability for the mind to compare data from dream states to input/outputs. Perhaps, our ability to make that final leap is to be able to break the dream barrier from the none. Leading to our first true self measurement of self and comparison to the rest.

Fiction vs. reality? Could it be that simple.

/My rant for the week, have at it you neuroscience geeks.