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Doom - Did You Know Gaming?
Missed musical rip-off/homage: 'Rise' by Pantera (E1M4).
Bonus fun fact: the main level designer for Doom 1 and Doom 2 was Sandy Petersen, the author of the classic Chaosium RPG "Call Of Chulhu" (which is a pretty big deal if you're into that sort of thing, as I was back then.)
Perturbator - She is Young, She is Beautiful, She is Next
A Cyberpunk music video that got a thumb up from God himself.
Different Country, Different Kind of McDonald's: Hong Kong
Who in their right mind, while in Hong Kong, goes to McDonald's?
At least go and try some local snake soup you pussies!
Facebook quizzes are stupid
Ho my, Maddox is alive and well!
*Screams like a pre-teen at a One Direction concert.*
Rick Rubin: Punk Rock, Hip-Hop, Advantage of Big Companies
Of course, you can name a record producer who said such thing.
Do you never get tired of using the Straw Man fallacy? Or maybe you don't know what it is and can't tell the difference between what liberals actually say and what you fantasize they would say?
But, of course, the envy-fiends have their "reasons" as to why they think they should be paid that kind of money and/or deserve (like mobsters do) to have a a piece of his pie.
How Sony's Betamax lost to JVS' VHS Cassette Recorder
Yes, but if even John Carmack admitted that programming a VCR was too complicated for him, we might as well consider that this kind of feature was not available to the layman. :-)
BetaMax cassette was 1h with the short play (and better quality), 2h with long play (later over 3h). Even on that machine he demonstrated..
How Sony's Betamax lost to JVS' VHS Cassette Recorder
I for one gladly endorse anything that would fuck Sony over.
(@ant: small typo in your summary, JVS -> JVC.)
The History of Le Mans
Probably because this is a *Commercial.
On a funny-but-not-haha-funny note, this race had enough accidents and casualties that there is a Wikipedia page dedicated to this topic:
List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatal accidents.
And yet no mention of the crash in the 1950s that killed more than 80 people.
*engineering
The World's Smallest Nation Is For Sale - Sealand
Back on topic: this is not "the World's smallest nation". It's a micronation, i.e. it has not been recognized by any sovereign state, ever. There are fishing boats with more people and room than that, and they don't issue passports.
The World's Smallest Nation Is For Sale - Sealand
You'll be glad to hear that such attempts actually happened with other micronations, and multiple times.
My favourite was the tiny Pacific island of Minerva (my only grief: they didn't call it 'Aynrandia'), which libertarians with too much money built up by pouring a few boatful of sand on top of the underlying reefs.
But being libertarians, the had no taxes. Having no taxes, they had no security forces. And having no security forces, a patrol boat from Tonga arrived, reclaimed the place, and told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off. The end.
There were other attempts, none as comical, but all of them equally doomed.
Teabagger wannabe ex-patriots take note, here's your chance to create your libertarian free market utopia.
An Honest Liar: official trailer
Youtube backup/alternative for those of us who can't deal with PoS Vimeo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYaddaNQH5s
Star Wars - I Am Your Father - 20 Languages
That does not really add up to 20.
That being said, Czech and Hungarian do sound pretty DarthVaderish.
If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say
Badly acted and not very inspired dialogue-wise.
...But deserves an upvote for the thumbnail alone!
oritteropo (Member Profile)
206? Ouch.
But my comment was more general: things I think won't make it may skyrocket (HR Giger, scary robot), while others I consider a slam dunk will stutter or tank (Black Sabbeth, Manborg).
Due to The Sift's community size, I suspect a lot of it as more to do with timing than anything else, tho.
I'll second that... and cite the 206 music sifts in my pqueue as examples!
That said though, if the video is interesting they can also do quite well... and besides, many of us enjoy seeing them posted here even if they don't shoot to the top of the charts.
Black Sabbeth
It looks like I'm definitively tone-deaf when it comes to predicting which videos will get easily sifted. But it looks like I'm not the only one so that's a bit reassuring :-)
Thanks @lurgee and @ChaosEngine for pushing this.
*beg
Beth Gibbons + Metal = *quality