For the record: I have no idea of the race of the individual to whom it was addressed (and still don't). It was directed at one of several whippersnappers with nothing better to do but follow me around the Sift "minusing" any and all of my comments---including self-posts at my own siftnook---no matter how benign or unrelated to politics. It was probably one of them that went out of his/er way to be offended and whom reported this non-crime.

Some of the more refined/nerdy will recognize the "spook" line as being from the original Back to the Future. As it was in a PG-rated 'family' film then it's good enough for me. Google it if you wish.

Sorry you had to waste your time on this. As for the complainer, Lincoln's definition of 'hypocrite' is in order: someone who kills both his parents, then begs the court for mercy because he's an orphan.

S/he farked with the bull and got the horns, and is now proclaiming impalement even though the horns were made of Nerf!


In reply to this comment by dag:
So, yeah. What did you mean there?

In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
^ Beat it, spook, this don't concern you.

The indisputable facts of this video...

Some bitch assaulted some guy in Mexico with her drink.
Some macho dude knocked her feet out from under her afterwards.

She initiated the altercation and assault.

Now whether he/they was/were sexist or inappropriate (clearly used way too much force) or she was a dumb American or a victim, is not really knowable in the context of that video. For those saying the leg sweep was a lethal attack, you can't really start down that road. He could have shoved her, or slapped her, or punched her and impaled her, or cracked her skull open, or she could have drowned, or, or, or... That's the tricky part about assault. You are responsible whatever happens after you assault someone.

Dunno if I'd consider that "Rock"...but it's a cool song!

Bonus for stabby Noel Fielding. Before I watched this I had the "Future Sailors" tune in my head, singing "Vlad The Impaler".

@ enoch:

People need to work to make money to eat and live, you know. Don't take it out on the lowly cashiers. Take it out on the policy makers. Go to a fucking town hall meeting.

So the only reason you should go to jail is if you damage someone's property or if you harm someone?

According to this prick, Chester jerking off to kiddie porn he downloaded shouldn't go to jail. The guy the takes pictures up girl's skirts shouldn't go to jail. The the guy going 130 down the freeway shouldn't go to jail. The guy driving recklessly drunk down the road shouldn't go to jail.

Motherfucker, if you break the law, you go to jail. All those "peaceful" people you're whining about broke one law or another. if you don't want to go to jail for disturbing the peace, don't be a pompous ass like this and disturb the fucking peace.

Fine. Don't pay taxes. But you're not allowed to send your kid to school. You're not allowed to drive down the road or walk on the sidewalk. If your house burns down, you're not allowed to have the fire department come to help. If your kid falls out of a tree and impales himself on a fence post, you're not allowed to call paramedics. If someone is breaking into your house, you're not allowed to call the police.

What the fuck do you think taxes are for, dick?

I see a great game in this. It just needs a few more screws sticking out of the front and sides to impale people on.

I do like skinny girls. That first one looks like she could impale you on her hips, though. Ow.

Wow, I've never seen a marlin actually impale prey with its bill before!

>> ^bovan:

I kinda like the definition of levitation... even though he fails on all points..
If you are to suspend yourself against gravity (all gravity).. You would no longer fall towards the earth, and as the earth moves you would simply continue on your on trajectory trough (and your corpse will fly out of) our solar system at roughly 100,000 km/h.
I'm sure if you do it inside, you might be able to stay on earth due to the surrounding walls, but you better hope there's noone around who wanna play a prank on "the floating guy who tries to pick up girls using magic tricks"... I mean.. once you establish how to have gravity not affect you, it might take some time to figure out how to reverse it..


You need to go back to physics 1 and revisit relative motion. In the universe you describe above (100Mm/h bloodstain) you also wouldn't be able to throw a tennis ball straight up while riding inside a train without the ball impaling you as soon as it leaves your hand...

anti-gravity or levitation is simply finding a way to produce and apply a constant force of 9.8 m/s^2 in the "up" direction. ("up" defined as the vector pointing away from the center of the earth).

q.e.d. this guy fails at life.

Awesome!

I tried pole vaulting once at school back in the 90s and almost impaled myself on the most graceful descent ever seen. Left one hell of a bruise that went through all the colours of the rainbow over the course of the following week, hehe.

He fell off a ravine, was impaled on a stick and torn to pieces by animals, or so Fox News would have me believe.

It may be my fantasy background, but this just seems way too silly. Over-glamourized, honeydripping, hearthrobs that are actually really spiritual beings, per se. Bah humbug! Give me a fucking evil Nosferatu that impales people on stakes and eats babies.. there's a fucking vampire movie right there.

Give me necromancy and real death, not this "Ooh, he's such at dark loner.. he must be a vampire". Goddamn pop-culture's gotten away from me.


And pull up your damn pants.

Unfortunately for some of you, I must point out that part of the reason things have been shitty is because of how crappy the MK games have been. Ever since MK3 and beyond, ALL of the fatalities have been SHIT.

I mean it. MK:DA has some fun gameplay and they tried to go back to their roots, but they still failed to make blood look good in 3D. However, having it stay was definitely fun, but they should have removed it at the beginning of every fatality.

Midway just can't make a Mortal Kombat game anymore because NO ONE REMEMBERS WHAT MADE MORTAL KOMBAT A GOOD GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE!

If they'd just do some really thoughtful, unique, shocking gore with some similarly non-cookie-cutter combat along with stage fatalities that aren't all boring bullshit like the new ones, such as re-doing impalement and adding realtime interaction with making the opponent get impaled, decals for entry wound/exit wound, arterial spray and blood gobs spraying out on contact with a new graphic of blood dripping out through the exit wound, blood smearing on clothing/spikes/etc, animated decals for bleeding wounds from impalement, actually decent blood splat animations for contact with the ground similar to the way it used to be in the 2D days).... and much more... I think people would actually be interested again.

Basically, THIS level of detail is what is LACKING in these new games! It's all cookie-cutter crap that's just recycled over and over, like some bullshit yearly football game!

I once had an idea of mine get implemented into a game. It was called Blood, and was developed by Monolith Software.

Initially their blood didn't make any contact with the ground, and just disappeared. I hate that. I was in the closed beta, and I sent them an email telling them the importance of having blood always make contact with the ground. I gave them an example of how shitty it is when that happens by mentioning Primal Rage and it's console ports. I also mentioned that due to it being developed on the Build engine, they'd have to match or exceed Duke Nukem 3-D's gore in order to be successful.

They then actually did it. It looked good. Unfortunately, sometimes in the game there's an arterial spray when you shoot someone and the way it worked wasn't compatible with such animations. Some higher-up scrapped it. It would have been better to have just dropped it on the arterial spray, but oh well.

They also implemented the ability to kick a decapitated head around in multiplayer due to my suggestion. I told them that Hexen had set a precedent that they had to live up to. It involved actually programming some kind of scripted physics-like behavior for the head being kicked/rolling, but they actually did it.

Back then you could actually talk to developers and maybe even get your idea heard. These days, all that ever happens is a large group assembles, money is the goal, artists have really gay ideas about how thing should look (in MK's example, at least), designers don't notice things like how shitty it looks when Scorpion's spear goes into someone's throat in the next-gen Mortal Kombat game, and it seems like no one ever actually says anything about how shitty the game they're working on is.

instead of the billbooard, they could've used that money to open a shelter for people to stay who have no home. it would have a steepled roof to quickly drain the rain, and colorful windows for the sun to shine through and inspire people. then we could have candles lit to give thanks for such a place existing, and maybe other people who weren't homeless could come once a week too, and give some money to help support the place. and then we could have one person, let's say a guy, in charge of the whole thing... kinda like an inspirational speaker. and he'd have to wear a special kinda suit or clothing so that everyone knew who he was. he could read from books, or even the same book if he found it particularly meaningful to himself, and this might get other people similarly inspired!

oh yeah, and then we'd have a fake dead guy impaled on spikes in the corner too.

Call it what you will, he appealed to the marginal lowest common denominator rather than the majority.

Obama extended the invite to everyone, even those who despised him.

It's pure ignorance to go in to an election after the 8 years you've had (particularly the last 6 months) and appeal to a small slice of the voters. Not sure which staffer (or McCain himself) had that synaptic misfire, but c'est la vie.

Or mebbe it was the harpy on the side... =)

Either which way, I don't think he could deliver a bad speech at this point (it would just be crass and tasteless, and we know people who aspire to the role of President of the USA don't do that sort of thing... ; D.

I think the thing that would have made me buy it as genuine would have been to actually rebuke the yahoos in the audience booing, to at least not be a bunch of sore losers.

Speaking of which...

>> ^quantumushroom:
There'll be no more blaming of Bush and FOX news for the many, many, many fugazis to come from the Empty Suit and his band of kleptocrats. You will be impaled on reality like a bug on a card.


The ship is sunk, the rescue boat is gone, the life vest has a leak and the shark is chewing on his leg, yet QM will not admit defeat...

And it's still funny...

There'll be no more blaming of Bush and FOX news for the many, many, many fugazis to come from the Empty Suit and his band of kleptocrats. You will be impaled on reality like a bug on a card.