Jars of Clay's "Flood"

The original version I saw—kinda like this—took place in a featureless, nightmarish, muddy brown hellhole. Basically, New Jersey.

La Roux - "Bulletproof"

( suddenly, lyrics! )

FATAL, the worst Tabletop RPG ever. (Links NSFW)

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Ever.

First, the review/MST from two poor saps at RPG.net.

If this is the first time that you've ever heard of FATAL, you're in for a fun ride. Well, let me rephrase: You're in for a "fun ride" if you consider a fun ride to be, say, hitting your nutsack with a tack hammer. For about four hours.

Sartin: The nutsack/tack hammer thing wouldn't be a fun ride, but it is preferable to actually playing FATAL.
( horrible mental image, right under here )

I think it says something about how long I've been on the Internet that I didn't even form a mental image at that last bit.

Anyway, the guy in charge of this abomination eventually decided to try and rebut the review, using the same two-man MST format. I say "try", because he failed utterly. Imagine an eight-year old boy in an insult comic battle against, oh, Chris Rock. Rock goes first, and after the boy has had his looks, his skin color, his intelligence, and his mother insulted, all he can come back with is "oh yeah? Well...your face is stupid!"

It's worse than that.

Hall keeps going on about how "emotional" and "unprofessional" the reviewers were, accusing them of personal attacks while frequently directing his own ad hominems at them. In response to their snark about the purported "realism" of the game—the game that depicts a good portion of European history without the Church, for example—Hall keeps babbling about how "difficult" it is. From what's presented, that's strictly correct. It is difficult like an eight-year's time in an insult comic battle against Chris Rock.

What makes FATAL especially fun is the droning, obsessive tone of its rules sections - for example:

Finally, observe that when these sub-abilities and abilities are determined initially for a character, the abilities are determined for young adults. After the sub-abilities are described and the tables presented, aging effects are illustrated which must be referenced throughout the character's life. The last chapter details how two abilities, Physical Fitness and Strength, may be increased through persistent exercise, and also, an alternate rolling method is presented.

And there's that not-English again; where, when you rewrite it for a review, you find yourself restructuring the way that you speak English. Sure, you may have been able to write and/or speak it before; but then you read something like this, and you find yourself taking sentences out into the shed at midnight, butchering them, burying parts of them in the backyard and then redistributing what's left over the original document as a warning to any other proper use of the language in the book.

That was a lengthy way for Darren to say he dislikes my prose (especially since there's little, if anything, grammatically wrong with it, while both Darren and Jason commit split infinitives, dangling prepositions, etc. throughout their review).

Oooh! Split infinitives!

Give it a read, if you like to read horrible, horrible things being made fun of. I haven't even quoted the part about the magic items that turn you into racist caricatures. Incidentally, homosexuals and non-whites don't exist in the FATAL-verse. And fumbles can cause clones to come out of one's penis.

Pleasant dreams!

Massive Attack - "Splitting the Atom"

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

HD recommended.

See also; this Philips Carousel ad, this CSI Season 10 opening sequence.

Aggressive feminist makes young girl cry

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/01/jessica-valenti-makes-a-young-girl-cry/

his morning at St. Louis Community College Valenti spent the better part of an hour telling college students that trying to promote chastity — or simply being vocal against the dangers of casual sex — is a scare tactic conservatives use to hold women down and keep them virginal.

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With strong emotion, tremendous confidence, and a lot to say, the girl tells Valenti she is “very disappointed.” As a virgin, she thought a talk on the “purity myth” was going to support her choice to remain abstinent. She talked about her reasons for not having sex and about her mother insisting she carry a large pack of condoms despite the girl telling her mother she doesn’t want to have sex. She said she thought Ms. Valenti was going to assure her it was okay to wait.

The girl was crying.

Dance, white people, dance!

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