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Vi Hart: Twelve Tones

Crazy Impressive Breakdancing Kids

mikeydamonster says...

The heyllll you talkin' bout, can't flow together? The entire basis of "power moves" in breakdancing is being able to sustain rotational momentum while nearly seamlessly chaining them together. I would be of the opinion that is one form of flow.

Not trying to be a dick, but if you're really saying that nothing new has been invented in the past, I think you have to regain some perspective, and you're also missing a lot of nuance. 15 years ago people doing straight windmills would be somewhat impressive. It wasn't much more than five years ago that air tracks (0:38) became common. People were not doing that shit in the 90s. And certainly not doing it on just one elbow, while grabbing their other leg and sipping a cold Coke all at the same time.

People do moves, and then other people figure out ways to add a little something on top of those moves, and so on and so forth. I think there is definitely an artistic aspect to it, in that there's an exploration there of the limits of the human body, and dancers have taken things much further over time.

I think to some extent breakdancing has been played out, when it kind of resurged in the 2000s. It's also frequently taken out of its larger context of hip hop dance, where it's just one aspect of many different styles.

Anyway, yeah, I guess I'm kind of defensive about breakdancing.
/former breakdancer

LiquidDrift said:

I'm sure there is other dancing that has a more limited vocabulary, but breakdancing feels particularly limited in that many moves can't flow together...

Star Trek TNG - Test Footage

Fastest Way to Drink Water

Why Soldiers Seem to Fire when They Can't See Their Enemy

mikeydamonster says...

Regardless of if it's correct in combat (I too would feel safer spraying down the dark corners with molten streams of hot death), the amount of munitions in general that are laid down blindly in modern warfare still amazes me.

http://nation.time.com/2012/04/02/bullets-by-the-billions/

Dats a lot o' shootsin'! Not to mention the environmental impact of throwing tons of lead into random shit, and the safety impact of unexploded ordnance. Kinda crazy.

Only Lads Will Get This

Romney Fakes Storm Contributions for Photo Op

mikeydamonster says...

Alright, the captions for this are so funny it's ridiculous. Some choice "quotes":

"who uh... praise them significant not mit romney yesterday it was an ohio, who's got a new campaign event, but he can't anymore does it doesn't look good so, they totally genius idea, to instead call it, icestorm relief event well all day on install e_l_(?!) gag. now solo."

"i'd love that okay. so let's figure out a way to be created an opportunistic without looking like, and that's all they did so they it's racist signs around they put away the campaign signs Edison long tables."

I pity any deaf person who can't read lips.

Trump Gets Trumped by David Letterman

Jumping into an ice covered pool... What could go wrong?

Julian Assange Hit Piece In New York Times

mikeydamonster says...

Yup, toooooootally ignorant to link the article the video is bashing. /sarcasm

Really? Am I the one confusing news with commentary? If people are reacting to TYT being like, "OMG, so true!" I would hope they just kinda try to inform themselves before agreeing. Have ya read the article? Would you also say it's a straight-up hit piece?

The vast overgeneralizations that come out of TYT (oh so similar to ones espoused by every conservative talk show I've ever heard) are what piss me off. Check out this other story from the NYT. They straight trolling' Assange! http://nyti.ms/P7jQC7

Julian Assange Hit Piece In New York Times

mikeydamonster says...

Find it super funny that ppl are ripping on an article because they saw a five minute video featuring totally biased bullet points of said article. When a journalist (see: Cenk) uses a whining baby voice to describe his subject (NYT), well, I tend to take that shit with a grain of salt. How can people talk about "crap" news when the source their citing is know for constantly berating their opponents and literally can't go one minute without calling someone stupid?
In summation, if you didn't read the article and formulated an opinion on it by this sensationalist clip, you are, by definition, ignorant.

If anyone's interested in the "smear piece": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/ecuador-to-let-assange-stay-in-its-embassy.html?smid=pl-share

Fan Gives Advice On How To Beat Djokovic At Wimbledon

You sneaky, sneaky bastard!

mikeydamonster says...

Not offsides. Once the goalie has the ball like that, it's his bad. That only time offsides would be even in question is when the first shot was taken. And as it was taken by the player furthest towards the goal, it's impossible for that to have been offsides.

The scorer really just is a sneaky, sneaky bastard.

Cenk Turns off Peter Schiffs Mic, Gets Pissed at the 1%

mikeydamonster says...

Yay for talking heads yelling at each other.

But seriously, I feel like they were arguing different points, and Cenk couldn't listen enough, out of the need to tell his opponent he's wrong.

And then Schiff kept talking... and talking...

Transformers in 1-D

mikeydamonster says...

>> ^rottenseed:

Not to split hairs, but it's a 1-dimensional represented in two dimensions. When I draw a line—let's say a number line—it's technically 2D since it has width but the action is restricted to 1D...in this example the movement was only left and right...
I hope I pissed you off
This is true.



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